Ancient History
3,200 Years Ago
Olympian goddesses Hestia, Aphrodite, Demeter, Athena and Artemis create the race of warrior women known as the Amazons to help spread their ideals. Feeling threatened by the mission of the Amazons, the Greek god of war, Ares, guides Hercules into attacking their city. Defeated and enslaved, the Amazons were later freed by the goddesses that had created them. The goddesses decreed that the Amazons had failed in their mission and provided them with a new home on the hidden island that the Amazons named Themyscira, after their former city-state. Most Amazons followed their queen, Hippolyta, to Paradise Island, but one group instead refused and followed the Amazon's second-in-command Antiope in search of a new purpose. These Amazons would settle in Egypt and become the Amazons of Bana Migdhall, forsaking the immortality granted to their sisters who went to Themyscira.
In Nineteenth Dynasty Egypt, Prince Khufu Kha-taar rules with the aid of the mysterious Nth Metal, recovered from a chariot of the Hawk God, in reality the wreck of a crashed Thanagarian spacecraft. Khufu and his lover Chay-ara would be murdered by the High Priest Hath-Set, who uses a dagger forged of Nth Metal, but the dagger was cursed and would lock the murderer and his victims into a cycle of reincarnation that lasts into the modern day, when incarnations of Khufu and Chay-ara would be the heroes Hawkman and Hawkgirl.
Contemporary to Prince Khufu were the wizard Nabu, in reality an incarnated Lord of Order who would later empower the hero Dr. Fate; and Teth-Adam, the chosen champion of the wizard Shazam. Teth-Adam would turn to evil and be imprisoned by Shazam in the tomb of Ramses II, where he would remain until the present day when he would be freed, reborn as Black Adam.
2,000 Years Ago
After rebelling and running amok, threatening to destroy the world, the Spirit of Wrath is imprisoned in a giant black diamond called the Heart of Darkness. The Spirit would remain imprisoned until the 19th Century, when it would become known as Eclipso. A fallen angel seeking redemption is transformed into the new Spirit, now the Spirit of Vengeance. To temper its judgment so it does not lose control like its predecessor the Spirit would be bound to a human host. These hosts would become known as the Spectre.
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