Profile: Black Knight

Additional Information

Sir Percy of Scandia(ancestor, deceased); Lady Rosamund (ancestor, deceased); Eobar Garrington(ancestor, deceased); Sir Henry (ancestor, deceased); Sir William (ancestor, deceased); Nathan Garrett (uncle, deceased).

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The curse of the Ebony Blade: The link between blade and wielder means that evil acts committed by the wielder can taint the blade. If used to spill too much blood in evil acts, it will begin to crave blood, and induce the wielder to kill even more. If enough blood is shed the wielder becomes the Bloodwraith. Only a worthy person can resist it. Dane Whitman once cleansed the blade of the taint accumulated over the years by casting it into the Brazier of Truth, but it could become tainted if used for evil again.

Weapon Specialist: Sword: Dane through his vast experience as a LARPer has amazing fighting with a sword and may make 3 attacks around when engaged in combat with such a weapon. He also receives a +1 to all initiative rolls when using a sword.

Weapon Specialist: Sword: Dane through his vast experience in the crusades the Black Knight has amazing fighting with a sword and may make 3 attacks around when engaged in combat with such a weapon. He also receives a +1 to all initiative rolls when using a sword.

Horsemanship: Dane has training in the equestrian arts and knows how to handle a horse with Excellent Agility and Reason when taking care of one.

Genetics: Dane has Excellent Reason in the field of Genetics; this is a branch of biology dealing with hereditary and variation of organisms. Genetics allows the recognition of signs of genetic tampering, ability to note genetic abnormalities, and conduct genetic experiments or projects.

Physics: Dane has Remarkable Reason in the field of Physics; this is a study of the electromagnetic spectrum of energy and research into new power sources.

Repair/Tinkering: Excellent Reason when attempting the modification of existing machines or equipment.

Leadership: Dane has a good rapport with people and is a natural leader if put into such a situation, any group that allows him to function in this capacity gains an additional 50 karma points to their collected karma pool.

Dane Whitman is a man who has dealt with the impossible on a regular basis. He is a scientist who went back to the time of the Crusades and fought for a protracted period of time. Despite his unusual life, he is one of the most "normal" people in the Avengers, at home in the 20th as well as the 18th Century.

The Black Knight has had many different pieces of equipment over the years, Currently he is back to the original equipment, but should a player want to mix and match here is a listing of some of the various pieces.

Original equipment:

• Chainmail and pothelm: The Chainmail provides Good Protection vs. Physical and the pothelm lessens damage to the head (-1CS to all attacks).
• The Ebony Blade: Unearthly material, inflicts 10 points Edged damage or 16 points Blunt damage with the flat of the blade. The Sword’s anti-magical properties allow it to deflect spells and energy as if it were a shield of Unearthly strength, as well as cut through mystic barriers and enchantments as if they were normal materials.
  • The sword contains a mystic booby trap. If an enemy picks up the ebony blade, or makes a successful grab attempt, the sword inflicts incredible damage each round the villain holds the blade.
  • Through complete concentration (red psyche feat roll) the Black Knight may summon his sword to him or teleport himself to the sword with Class 3000 ability crossing time and space to do so.
• The Atomic Steed: This device taken form the High Evolutionary and was used by the Black Knight as his mount. The vehicle's stats are:

Additional Equipment:

The Black Knight decided that it would be cooler to wear a jacket, forgo the cape and flying mounts and use a lightsabre. This was known as 'the 90's', it was the dark time, before the Empire...

The Avengers; Dr. Strange; any of the former Black Knights; Excalibur and Captain Britain.

A descendant of the medieval heroic Black Knight (Sir Percy of Scandia) andnephew of the modern-day criminal Black Knight (Nathan Garrett), Dane Whitman inherited the paraphernalia of both men and used it to become a modern-day, heroic Black Knight. As the Black Knight, he became a frequent ally to his uncle's old foes, the Avengers. After rescuing the team from Kang, Whitman was made a full member but opted for reserve status since he resided in England at the time, having inherited his family's ancestral castle, Garrett Castle. Whitman later fell under the spell of the wicked Enchantress, who turned him to stone after she no longer considered him useful. His spirit was somehow cast back to the time of the Crusades, where he inhabited the body of his ancestor, Eobar Garrington, the Twelfth Century Black Knight, and fought on behalf of King Richard. When Garrington's body finally died in battle years later, Dane's spirit returned to his present-day body, which was restored to its normal state by the wizard Amergin.

A descendant of the medieval heroic Black Knight (Sir Percy of Scandia) andnephew of the modern-day criminal Black Knight (Nathan Garrett), Dane Whitman inherited the paraphernalia of both men and used it to become a modern-day, heroic Black Knight. As the Black Knight, he became a frequent ally to his uncle's old foes, the Avengers. After rescuing the team from Kang, Whitman was made a full member but opted for reserve status since he resided in England at the time, having inherited his family's ancestral castle, Garrett Castle. Whitman later fell under the spell of the wicked Enchantress, who turned him to stone after she no longer considered him useful. His spirit was somehow cast back to the time of the Crusades, where he inhabited the body of his ancestor, Eobar Garrington, the Twelfth Century Black Knight, and fought on behalf of King Richard. When Garrington's body finally died in battle years later, Dane's spirit returned to his present-day body, which was restored to its normal state by the wizard Amergin.

Dane rejoined the Avengers as a full-time member, serving until a curse on his ebony blade (which he'd inherited from Sir Percy) petrified him again. He was restored to normal through the combined efforts of his friends Victoria Bentley, the caretaker of Garrett Castle, who purchased the Castle herself during Dane's years in the Crusades to prevent the British government from seizing the property for failure to pay taxes; Sean Dolan, a young Irish orphan to whom Dane became a guardian and mentor; and Doctor Strange, an old ally of Dane's who had used his sorcerous skills to purge a curse from the ebony blade once before. Following his restoration to human form, Dane rejoined the Avengers as a reservist. He soon took on full active membership again, and abandoned his ebony blade since he felt it was too dangerous to use. Sean Dolan was later possessed by the blade and transformed into the demonic Bloodwraith, killing Victoria Bentley and becoming one of the Black Knight's most bitter foes.

Dane has never had much luck with women; the Enchantress used him as a pawn and threw him away when she was done; he had a longtime crush on Avengers founder the Wasp, but she didn't share Dane's feelings; he shared a mutual attraction with sometime Avengers foe and one-time honorary Avengers member Yellowjacket (Rita DeMara), but she died before they ever spent much time together; Bentley, too, died before her own potential romance with Dane ever had a chance to develop; and Dane's second active membership stint with the Avengers was complicated by a love triangle involving himself and two of his teammates, Crystal & Sersi. Dane was in love with Crystal, the estranged wife of longtime Avengers member Quicksilver, but was also strongly attracted to the mentally unstable Sersi, who was madly in love with him. When Quicksilver returned to the group and seemed prepared to reconcile with Crystal, Dane unselfishly renounced his feelings for her and devoted himself to Sersi, accompanying her in her exile to another dimension when her mental instability made her too dangerous to remain on Earth.

During their adventures in other dimensions, Sersi regained her emotional stability and Dane spent some time with a super-team called Ultraforce, even becoming its leader. He and Sersi eventually decided to return to their own Earth, though, and managed to do so after an accidental side trip to the Crusades, during which Dane earned the friendship and enmity of Bennet du Paris, a power-mad knight who survived into modern times as the super-powerful mutant terrorist Exodus, leader of the Acolytes. On returning to present-day Earth, Dane and Sersi split up. The Avengers were temporarily disbanded at the time, so Dane found a new home and new employment at Oracle Incorporated, joining the company's new super-team, Heroes for Hire. At about the same time, Dane was contacted by the Lady of the Lake, who informed him that he was fated to be the champion of Avalon, the mystical Celtic realm Dane had been allied with during his time in the Twelfth Century. The Lady of the Lake gave Dane a new magical winged steed and mystical weapons to better battle evil in Avalon's name.

Dane continued to battle evil as a member of Heroes for Hire and as an inactive member of the Avengers, until Heroes for Hire’s disbanding. In one of the team’s final missions, they encountered on Mount Wundagore the humanoid animals created by the villain known as the High Evolutionary. The Black Knight elected to stay on Wundagore to lead these "New Men."

Dane had converted Garrett Castle into a museum. Dane suddenly switched bodies with the original Black Knight, Sir Percy of Scandia. The investigating New Excalibur found an ancient scroll in Percival's tomb showing the team as the saviors of Camelot. Traveling back to the era of King Arthur, Whitman met Percy and helped his ancestor, King Arthur, and Merlin defeat the dragons plaguing the kingdom (revealing the "dragons" to be Makluans in the process) and returned to the present. After assisting Excalibur in tracking down Juggernaut in Korea and returning him to the team, Whitman left in search of his real Ebony Blade.

Recently returned to England, Whitman appeared to be wielding the original Blade again, using it to slaughter invading Skrulls. During the Invasion, Dane made his way through London protecting innocents and in doing so saved the life of civilian doctor Faiza Hussain. Faiza fought alongside Dane against the Skrull army and their Champion, Super Skrull until Dane was incapacitated and a newly resurrected Captain Britain came to their rescue. While Captain Britain fought Super Skrull, Faiza attempted to heal a dying Black Knight with her newfound abilities, and Dane - under the belief that he was on his deathbed - dubbed her his steward. Captain Britain was able to defeat the Super Skrull, Faiza healed Dane once magic returned to England and the Skrull Invasion in England came to an end; but not without revealing the new wielder of Excalibur: Faiza Hussain.