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Issue 1 (Freedom Five #801): Unity, Argent Adept, Visionary
Unity:
In order to help the heroes in their herculean task, RevoCorp has sent their newest star-employee, Unity, to act as liaison with the company’s own efforts to rebuild the city. Unity left the employ of Dr. Meredith Stinson (aka the hero Tachyon) and joined RevoCorp as part of the company's campaign to distance themselves from their shady history. They’re under new ownership and are now dedicated to being a source of positive change and progress in the world. As a result, the heroes Unity and Benchmark are heading up a team called The Paradigms and helping the world rebuild. Benchmark is helping out in Rook City right now, and Unity is excited to be working with her old friends in Megalopolis.
Argent Adept:
Anthony Drake is the magic hero known as Argent Adept: the latest Virtuoso of the Void in a long line of Virtuosos of the Void that goes back beyond recorded history. He is a magical musician, or perhaps a musical magician. Either way, he uses his mastery of both music and magic to keep reality from falling into the Void, and to keep the Void from creeping into our reality.
Visionary:
Visionary is the Vanessa Long from another reality in which the future was terrible. She used her powers to tear a hole in the fabric of timespace to try to go back in time and fix her world, but instead, she ended up in this reality. However, she was able to save this world’s Vanessa Long from her fate. Or so she thought. The Vanessa Long from this reality also manifested powers
as a young child, and the intensity of them put her in a nightmare-flled psychic coma, with her psychic projections wreaking havoc in the real world as she slept. But that was many years ago. Now, Visionary fights to protect this world from dangerous foes, and this reality’s Vanessa Long is growing up with hopes to be a hero in her own right.
Issue 2 (Freedom Five #802): Visionary
Visionary
The hero Visionary is Vanessa Long from an alternate reality where she grew up training to be a living psychic weapon. Hating this existence and living in a world of danger and fear, she saw an opportunity in the shattering of timelines to use her power to go back in time and save herself. Or so she thought. Instead, she ended up in another reality—this reality, in fact—and was able to save this world's younger version of Vanessa Long. Now, she uses her powers and skills to fght evil, especially threats from beyond our physical plane.
Issue 3 (Justice Comics #740): Proletariat , Fanatic and Ra
Proletariat
Aleksandr Tsarev was a Russian soldier who, just after World War II, entered into a secret Soviet project to create the perfect soldier. He was irradiated with energy from an ancient shard of dangerous power and miraculously survived. After recovering, he began to display powers of self-duplication—he could copy himself and control those copies. Each copy was still him, and the more copies he made, the harder it was to control them, let alone think. During the Cold War, he was literally put on ice— cryogenically frozen to be thawed out in the case of all out war. A war that never came.
Years later, Baron Blade found him and freed him. Giving Tsarev the name Proletariat, Blade convinced the soldier to fght on his villainous team against the capitalist government lapdogs, the Freedom Five. Later, Proletariat came to realize that Baron Blade was no champion of the people, and Tsarev disappeared into the frozen Siberian wastes to contemplate his existence
Fanatic and Ra
At the end of the Multiverse, the hero Ra sacrifced himself to destroy OblivAeon’s otherwise impenetrable shield, and Fanatic witnessed his heroic end. Ra and Fanatic had squabbled a good deal during their interactions as heroes; after all, Ra was an incarnation of the Egyptian God of the Sun, and Fanatic was an Angel of the Lord.
Their worldviews did not really line up. However, since the death of Ra and his powerful dying words to Fanatic, “I always had faith in you,” Fanatic has been in an alternating state of grief and rage.
Issue 5 (Tomb of the Bizarre #86): Miss Information, Anubis
Miss Information
Aminia Twain was the faithful and hard-working secretary and assistant to the Freedom Five for many years. However, when she was killed in another timeline, her consciousness from that timeline traded places with the mind of this reality’s Aminia Twain, the process twisting her dedication to the team into hatred. They let her die, after all. Over years, she began secretly sabotaging the team, until she was fnally revealed as a villain in her own right: Miss Information. Initially, she had no powers other than the impressive amount of intel she had about each of the heroes and their allies. However, in a later conflict, she was doused with dangerous chemicals that should have killed her. Instead, she gained reality-twisting powers and puts them to good use fghting against any so-called heroes who would attempt to pull the wool over the eyes of those around them.
Miss Information is critically deranged, and will jump at any opportunity to lay low her former employers.
Anubis
The hero called Ra was actually the archaeologist Dr. Blake Washington, Jr, but transformed by the ancient Staff of Ra.
Unfortunately, Ra perished at the hands of OblivAeon, as did The Ennead (nine villains with the power of Egyptian gods) and Anubis (a demi-deity from ancient Egypt who somehow survived to that day), leaving their relics behind.
After the death of Ra, Martin Adams—a student of Dr. Washington—hunted down any information on his old mentor, as well as
the Egyptian deity that he could turn into. In searching the wreckage of the OblivAeon battle, Martin Adam was unable to locate any trace of Dr. Washington or the Staff of Ra. However, he did locate the Rod of Anubis. Upon touching it, he transformed into the avatar of Anubis, gaining knowledge and power. Now, he seeks even more knowledge of all things, most especially life and death, and the barrier that separates them.
Issue 5 (Prime Wardens #67): Insula Primalis, Tempest, Haka, Nexus of the Void
Insula Primalis
A large island in the Arctic Circle, heated by an active volcano and populated by prehistoric fauna and flora, Insula Primalis is the site of many confrontations in the Sentinel Comics. It is the former home of the Citizens of the Sun—Citizen Dawn and her super-powered followers left their base there long ago. Since OblivAeon, the island has been more dangerous than ever, with trees
coming to life, and the land itself shifting. Though the source of these changes is currently unknown…
Tempest
When the few remaining Maerynians fled their planet in the face of Grand Warlord Voss’s attack, M’kk Dall’ton led them safely to the planet we call Earth. The Maerynians have now established their own island on this planet and mostly keep to themselves there, but M’kk Dall’ton still works with the heroes of Earth to protect the planet under the name Tempest. Tempest is able to control the weather and attack with lightning, but the alien is also an accomplished ambassador and is always eager to fnd
nonviolent solutions to problems, where able.
The heroes known as Haka
In this timeline, there was a mountain of a man named Aata Wakawarewa. He lived for hundreds of years, only relatively recently taking the hero name Haka. He was a proud and powerful Maori warrior, and though his tribe exiled him centuries ago, he still fought as a protector of all people in all lands as he walked the Earth.
Then, during the OblivAeon conflict, he ended up stranded in another reality. Simultaneously, the only other Haka in the entire Multiverse found herself in this reality.
When the doors slammed closed across all spacetimes, Arataki Wakawarewa was the only Haka in this reality, and Aata was gone from this realm. Arataki has a similar backstory to Aata, though some heroes in this reality were villains in her reality, and vice versa.
Now, this Haka could be a valuable ally and is certainly eager to return to heroism, but she must be stopped before she trounces Tempest!
The Nexus of the Void
During the OblivAeon event, the former Nexus of the Void was destroyed entirely by OblivAeon. The Nexus was an important part of magical nature—the connecting point of the physical plane and the Void. The VoidHeart in Issue #2 was attempting to create a new Nexus of the Void, and it had centered on the roiling energy in Ravenwood.
That would have been a dangerous place for the Void to intersect with our world. However, Insula Primalis is a much more contained place. With the creation of this new Nexus of the Void, the heroes have made a great stride towards putting their world back together.
Issue 6 (Freedom Five #803):
