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Real Name: Zala Dane Occupation: Queen of the Savage Land Identity: General populace of Earth is unaware of Zaladane's existence Other Known Aliases: Polaris II Place of Birth: Unrevealed Marital Status: Unknown, but presumed single Known Relatives: Lorna (sister) Base of Operations: The Savage Land Past Group Affiliations: Leader of the Savage Land, Queen of the Sun People, former ally of Garokk and the High Evolutionary Present Group Affiliation: Known Powers: Magical Power: Not all of her mystical abilities have been revealed at this time. Her powers seem to be linked to the Savage Land, indicating a sort of specific nature magic. The following skills have been displayed:
Magnetism: Amazing control over a range of ten areas. With the Magnetism powers stolen from her supposed sister, Lorna Dane (a.k.a. Polaris I), Zaladane has exhibited the following Power Stunts:
Flight: Excellent air speed. For each person
carried, air speed drops by one rank to a minimum of Feeble. Equipment: Zaladane has used a wide variety of items in the past. They include the following: The Black Lotus: A plant with a scent that has a Monstrous stunning ability. Fire Bombs of Remarkable fire damage. The High Evolutionary's air car, capable of Amazing air speeds, with Excellent Control, Excellent Body, and Good Protection. Pteranodon capable of flying at Excellent speeds, with the following stats:
Talents: Martial Arts D and E, Leadership, occult Lore (Savage Land), Genetics, Devices of ancient races such as the Atlanteans and the Deviants). Contacts: High Evolutionary, Savage Land Mutates. Role-Playing Notes: Zaladane is obsessed with Garokk, the Petrified Man, and the conquest of the Savage Land. She is an extremely ruthless villainess, enslaving the citizens of the Savage Land to do her bidding. It is difficult to predict her strategies, as her motives and history are very vague, which gives her an advantage over the heroes who choose to oppose her. History: Zaladane's early history remains a mystery, but she claims that her real name is Zala Dane, and that she is the sister of the mutant Lorna Dane. How she came to be in the Savage Land and how she became the Sun People's queen and high priestess is still unknown. Zaladane was the high priestess of the Sun God of the Savage Land, Garokk. She declared that the time of the Sun God had arrived and that the armies of the Sun People must go to war to honor their god. Five centuries previous to this, a British sailor drank a strange liquid while in the Savage Land. This liquid conferred on him immortality and superhuman powers and transformed him into Garokk, the Petrified Man. The upcoming war was revealed to Garokk in his dreams and he contacted Ka-Zar to help prevent the war. When they arrived in the Savage Land, Garokk proclaimed himself, destroyed all of Zaladane's weapons, and stopped the war. In an attempt to control Garokk, Zaladane infuriated the now-mad Petrified Man, causing a battle. Garokk ended up being immersed in the liquid that gave him his powers originally, which killed him. Months later, Zaladane began her conquest of the Savage Land again, by resurrecting Garokk within the body of a different man. She painted the chest of a prisoner named Kirk Marston with oil made from the ashes of the Petrified Man. Garokk was reborn and Zaladane was his chief advisor, as they tried to bring peace to the Savage Land by forcing everyone to live in a city of Garokk's construction. Ka-Zar and the X-Men wrecked the plans of Garokk and Zaladane. Garokk was lost, last seen falling down a seemingly endless pit. Zaladane disappeared. She resurfaced again much later, this time as an aide to the High Evolutionary, as he restored the now destroyed Savage Land to its former state. He was using Zaladane for his own purposes even as she was using him to gain power once again in the Savage Land. She came face to face with the X-Man Havok during this time, who found her strangely familiar looking. This adds support to Zaladane's claim of being Lorna Dane's sister, because Havok may have been noticing a family resemblance to Polaris. Zaladane remained out of most of the action fighting the being Terminus, content with the power that had become hers as the High Evolutionary's second in command. She began her association with the Savage Land Mutates at this point. More recently, Zaladane had her sister, Lorna Dane, captured and brought to the Savage Land, where Zaladane stole Lorna's superhuman powers of magnetism and infused them into her own body. Her army of natives were being controlled for her by the mutate known as Worm. Once again, Ka-Zar and the X-Men battled Zaladane and rescued the Savage Land's citizens from Worm's powers. Zaladane rebuilt her army and set up six towers, each located above a primary nexus of the earth's magnetic field. They were to be used as amplifiers, so she could tap into the Earth's magnetic field and become one with it. It would wreak havoc across the globe, and would also cause catastrophic damage to the biosphere. Nick Fury, Ka-Zar, Magneto, and Rogue teamed up to stop Zaladane's plans. She managed to capture Magneto and drain some of his power away before the others broke into her citadel. During the ensuing battle, Magneto managed to re-hook himself to the machine that had leeched away his and Lorna Dane's powers. Zaladane lost and paid the price for failure. Magneto made sure that she would never be able to attempt world conquest again by impaling her with multiple spears of metal and killing her. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||