Powers
Flight: Remarkable (225 mph) in air; Class 5000 (lightspeed) in space.
Light Generation: Class 1000
Heat Generation: Class 1000
Plasma Generation: Class 1000
Absorption Power: Class 1000 ability to absorb the powers and Abilities of each of Atum's victims. The victim's FASERIP scores are added to Atum's own ranks. When the first such act occurs, Atum is transformed into the Demogorge.
Alter Ego: Upon the use of the Absorption Power, Atum udergoes a physical transformation into Demogorge. In this form he has wings, grey skin, and increased power. Initial transformation takes 3 turns. When the battle is won, Demogorge casts off his excess power and reverts to his original form. This takes 3 turns as well.
| Fighting |
Shift-Z |
| Agility |
Unearthly |
| Strength |
Shift-X |
| Endurance |
Shift-Z |
| Reason |
Excellent |
| Intuition |
Monstrous |
| Psyche |
Class 3000 |
| |
|
| Health |
1250 |
| Karma |
3095 |
| Resources |
Not Applicable |
| Popularity |
30 |
Talents
None
Contacts
Gaea
History
The primordial being now known as the Demiurge was the first being to appear on Earth, the physical manifestation of the potential lifeforce that would someday arise on Earth.The Demiurge seeded the still-cooling planet with fragments of its life energies, fragments that developed independently into the beings now known as the Elder Gods. Foremost among them were Gaea, also known as Mother Nature, Chthon the mystic, and Set, the great destroyer. The age of the Elder Gods lasted for millions of years as they wandered across an otherwise barren world.
Gaea spent her time watching the slow development of the animals and plants that evolved naturally from protoplasm. While she spent her time acting as the primeval lifeforms' protector, the other Elder Gods were busy in more hostile activities. Set discovered murder; the other Elder Gods rushed to follow his example and a civil war ensued. During the war, the Elder Gods' powers and abilities degenerated until they became the beings known as demons. Only Gaea refused to join the mad warfare. Horrified, she feared that the war would wipe out the fragile lifeforms under her care. She called upon the Demiurge to engender within her a new kind of being. She formed a womb within herself to nurture the being who now grew within her and descended deep within the Earth to await the birth of her child, Atum, first of the second generation of gods.
She gave birth to Atum, who arose from her womb fully formed and in possession of awesome powers. Wielding the powers of the sun itself, he attacked and began to slay the demons. As he killed them, he absorbed their power into himself. In addition, his form mutated; he grew wings and a duplicate of each demon's face. Now he was Demogorge the God-Eater. Eventually Demogorge slew and absorbed all the demons save for Chthon and Set. Chthon left the original Darkhold behind as he fled into another dimension, literally escaping the jaws of his doom. Set, too, planned an escape into another dimension; he and his offspring Sligguth and Damballah cast off their original, physical bodies and transformed themselves into invisible, ethereal bodies. The Demogorge then annihilated the cast-off shells. Content that he had accomplished his mission, Demogorge reverted to Atum's original form and flew upward where he merged with the sun itself.
Now alone, Gaea was free to oversee the development of the new life on Earth. Ages passed and the dinosaurs evolved to dominate the planet. Set had secretly used his powers to assist the dinosaurs' development, in a way evolving in his image. Gaea realized sadly that the dinosaurs were a dead end, incapable of complete evolution. She turned from the dinosaurs to nurture the newly-evolving mammals. Set refused to acknowledge his failure and reached into the minds of every dinosaur and filled it with the command to kill all mammals. All over the Earth, the massacre of the mammals began. Gaea was appalled when she realized that Set was responsible and dared Set to confront her. He replied by sending three enormous dinosaurs thundering toward her, their eyes glowing with demonic power. The dinosaurs physically fused together into the physical form of Set himself, only now he was unimaginably more powerful than he had been ages before. He intended to slay Gaea and seize control of the Earth.
Gaea, although still more powerful, was not a warrior. She summoned Atum from his long sleep within the sun. Faster than light, he flew to Earth and charged into battle with the demon. He severed Set's head with a single bolt of power and as before, he absorbed the demon's power and form. Once again he was Demogorge. However, Set was far from slain. The demon grew larger as he regenerated two heads to replace the lost one and the battle was joined. Over the weeks and months that followed, Elder God and god-eater fought. Set grew more powerful as each beheading produced two new heads. Likewise, Demogorge continues to absorb power. The Earth was less fortunate. The vast forces expended in the battle laid waste to the planet. Ironically, the dinosaurs were rendered extinct in the carnage. Gaea protected the far smaller and more defensible mammals, thus insuring the chain of evolution that eventually produced humanity. When the battle reached its inevitable conclusion, Demogorge proved victorious and drove the energy-drained Set back into otherdimensional exile.
Demogorge reverted to Atum once more. The battle has been costly for him as well. He would never again be able to come to Earth unless he was helped by other sentient beings. Atum returned to the sun, where he remained until the modern epoch.
Most recently, Atum was contacted by the Asgardian god of thunder, Thor, to aid Earth's heroes in a battle against Set. Thor fought Atun and forced his transformation into Demogorge. The God-Eater joined the battle and defeated Set once again. Atum has once again returned to the Sun.
|