Arion the Immortal, Lord of Atlantis

"Know, dog of darkness -- pawn of Garn -- that never before in my two lives have I known such a rage which now burns through my veins like liquid fire"

"Now… will you leave… or shall we fight?"

Long ago, long before the fall of the mighty civilization of Atlantis, two gods fell in love. Caculha, Atlantis' sorcerer-king and God of Light, and Dark Majistra, Goddess of Darkness, bore twin sons, Ahri'ahn and Garn Daanuth. However, their opposing nature soon caused them to separate, with Calculha taking Ahri'ahn to raise and Majistra taking Garn. Under his father's tutelage, Ahri'ahn grew to be a powerful mage, never suspecting that his father's fierce political rival was actually his mother, and her son his brother. Ahri'ahn sacrificed himself to stop Majistra from using the powerful Zodiac Crystals to create an Age of Magic in which Darkness and Chaos would reign supreme, which resulted in his body being transformed into pure energy. In order to save his son, Caculha transferred half of Ahri'ahn's transformed body into the heart of a star and the other half into the Crystal Heart of Darkworld, the dimension from which Atlantean mages drew their power. In Darkworld, Ahri'ahn's energy reconstituted into the form of a child. Cared for by Jheryl, Goddess of Truth, Ahri'ahn spent years in Darkworld learning additional magic as he aged into adulthood. Thousands of years later, Caculha managed to regain his strength and resurrect Ahri'ahn. Reborn, Ahri'ahn, having amnesia and remembering neither his first life nor his time in Darkworld, took the name Arion and traveled to Atlantis. There he became Lord High Mage under King D'Tulluh. Taking the Atlantean warrior Lady Chien as his wife, Arion had many adventures, even surviving the sinking of Atlantis and living into the modern day.

Source Key

Handbook Entries: Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe | Who's Who in the DC Universe Update 1993 | The DC Comics Encyclopedia

Magic

General

• Arion shares kinship with the very cosmos, being made of the same primordial stuff^WL58
• Even when Arion's magic was waning, he was described as magic incarnate^WL56
• Defeats Garn Daanuth^AL8
• [Weaknesses] As a Lord of Light, Arion draws his power from stellar energies, so being completely cut off from light weakens him, and the metal orachalcum is resistant to magic^AL4
  • However, even a small amount of light restores his power^AL5
• After sacrificing his magic to prevent an ice age, Arion becomes much weaker, needing to absorb magic from outside sources like the sun-gem^AL21 to perform more powerful spells
• Arion eventually gets some of his magic back after summoning Weaver, an Atlantean God^AL28 and regains his full power when Weaver reweaves the fabric of magic within his soul^AL33
• Claims that if he had his full power, he could break the protection spell that Phantom Stranger placed on Superman^{SM Annual 13}

Eldritch Blasts

• Destroys the Sun-Spirit, a living star that is described as one of the most powerful beings in the cosmos^AL1
• Matches a blast from Garn Dannuth^AL18
  • Garn's blast shook Anuleous (Earth's second moon)^WL60
• KOs Post-Crisis Wonder Woman^WW108
• Blasts Garn into a building hard enough to collapse it^AL24
• Matches a blast from Kr'rth who destroyed buildings with blasts^AL27
• Blasts Post-Crisis Superman across Metropolis hard enough to make a trench in the ground and wreck cars^SM663
• Destroys a large stone column^AL30
• Shatters giant blocks of ice^WL57
• Fires multiple blasts at once to destroy robots^AL30
• Blasts a building^JT
• Reduces a giant monster to sludge with blasts^AL32
• Shoots through a giant monster^AL35
• Burns and destroys demons^AL32
• Blows up a demon^AL32
• Blasts Tiamat, making her drop Power Girl^AQ25
• Blasts Chaon, Lord of Chaos, back into a pentagram^DP75
• Chases away an army of neanderthals^WL55
• Melts iron bars^AL7
• Melts a tank shell in mid air^AL3
• Shoots multiple bolts at the same time to intercept energy bombardment^AL2

Defense

• Blocks a blast from Chaon, Lord of Chaos^AS
  • Chaon says that he has enough power to destroy Earth^AL15 and destroyed Atlantis with a blast^AS
• Creates a magic shield to block a blast from Garn Daanuth, who causes Anuleous to shudder with his next blast^WL60
• Blocks a blast from a Hunter/Gatherer ship that makes Power Girl cry out in pain^AQ24
• Creates a shield around Atlantis to block energy bombardment^AL2
• Blocks a blast from Kr'rth who destroyed buildings with blasts^AL27
• Blocks shots from anti-Superman weapons^SM664
• Makes a shield to block a wave sent at him from Altana the Sea God^AL21
• Creates a barrier that stops a tank^AL3
• Creates a shield that reflects energy blasts back at the shooters^AL3
• Deflects blasts from a demon^AL7
• Swords break against an invisible shield^AL9
• Shields King D'Tilluh from arrows and blasts^AL3
• Blocks gunfire^AI4
• Creates a shield around the king while he's being held hostage^AL29
• Makes a shield that blocks acid rain^AL7
• Makes a shield that blocks Dark Majistra's soul expelling all of her evil^AL33
• Makes a shield around him and Chian to prevent another mage from spying on them^AL10

Magic Constructs

• Collects groups of people from across Atlantis as it sinks^AS
• Binds an evil mage^AL35
• Wraps up some demons^AL32
• Creates a trail of magic that tethers some neanderthals together^AL6
• Creates a cloak out of magic^AL7
• Creates giant sails to turn a citadel into a flying boat^AL7
• Creates a gag on Bill Knightly^{SM Annual 13}

Elemental Magic

General

• Caused several different natural disasters: a massive earthquake, flooding, lightning storm, and causing a volcano to appear in the middle of a city^SM667

Fire

• Turns Etrigan's fire back on him^WW108
• Blasts Garn Daanuth's astral form with a blast of fire so powerful that it lights up the landscape as if it were daytime^WL60
• Destroys several tanks^AI4
• Melts a metal door to slag^AL5
• Burns a group of demons^AI1
  • Incinerates more demons^AI6
• Incinerates an alien soldier^AS
• Makes a sword of fire that melts ice monsters^AL9
  • Lights a sword on fire and uses it to launch fire blades that kill demons^AI4
• Burns a crystal in Atlantis from another colony^AL18
• Lights a man's robes on fire^AL29
• Creates a ring of fire to wall off some soldiers^AL9
• Lights up a dark cave with fire in his hand^WL56
• Garn Dannuth's spirit in Arion's body incinerates neanderthals^WL61

Water/Ice

• Destroys an ice mountain^AL5
• Encases a soldier in ice^AL3
• Kills a dinosaur by causing a scalding geyser to erupt underneath it^AL6
• Transforms the snow beneath some neanderthals into slick ice^AL5
• Creates an ice bridge^CI1
• Created ice and snow^AL2

Air

• Creates a tornado^AL34
• Kills a dinosaur by flinging it around with winds^AL6
• Shoots a blast of air at some neanderthals and sweeps away others^AS
• Sends flaying wind at Superman^{SM Annual 13}
• Creates a cushion of wind to soften Chian's fall^AL3

Earth

• Opens the ground underneath a dinosaur then closes it to trap it^AL6
• Turns the ground beneath horses into quagmires^AL9
• Entraps Superman with rocks^{SM Annual 13}
• Flings rocks at Chaon^AS
• Drops trees on dinosaurs^AL6
• Makes a piece of Earth with some heroes on it extend high into the air^TF16
• Makes a flower grow out of frozen ground^AL5

Light Magic

Light Burst

• Blows apart a shadow creature from the inside with a burst of light^AL35
• Banishes creatures with a flash of light^AL7
• Uses a burst of light to dispel Chaon's, a Lord of Chaos, illusion^WL57
• Uses a burst of light to blind Kr'rth^AL27

Illusions

• Makes two men think they are apes who run away from him^AL26
• Makes an illusion of himself to trick a pirate into attacking a fake^AL20
• Makes a woman think a knife has started melting in her hand and burned her^AL26
• Disguises himself as a guard^AL24
• Creates an illusion of a giant monster to scare off soldiers^AL3
• Creates illusions of creatures to scare away some bandits^AL14
• Creates an illusion of a sea monster to make a ship turn away^AL21
• Creates an illusion of a plain to calm down an angry mob^AL17
• Creates an illusion of fire to divert stampeding elephants^AL19
• Creates an illusion of fire to hold back some animal men^AL30
• Uses an illusion to make a woman think she's making out with him^AL27

Transmogrification

• Transformed two New Gods into sea monsters under his control^{SM Annual 13}
• Turns a statue of himself into a symbol of worship that looks different to everyone^AL9
• Transforms lime into corrosive acid to melt his chains^AL5
• Transformed the rope binding his hands into snakes^AL6
• Transforms soldiers' swords into vipers^AL9
• Transmutes a soda can into solid gold^DP75
• Transforms demons into flowers^AI5

Many-Colored Threads

• The Many-Colored Threads were metaphysical manifestations of the abstract concept of magic used by Atlantean sorcerers. Mages could tap into a thread to perform a spell, and the best mages could control the threads themselves^AL4
• Traps Garn Daanuth^AL5
• Binds two soldiers to their horses^AL9
• Creates a tightrope with a magic thread^AL7

Eye of Ra

• Conjures the Eye of Ra to scope out the area^AL2
• Sends the Eye to search a dimension for a way back home^AL35
• Sees possessed Chian sneaking up on him^AL6
• Can look into souls to see if they are good or evil, though Garn Daanuth tricks it^AL23
• Looks through rubble to find a trap door^AL30

Necromancy

• Revives a dead soldier and holds his soul hostage to compel him to answer his question^AL2
• Grants Caculha true release after he dies^AL5
• Traps Garn Daanuth's astral form with a necromantic web^WL60

Sensing

• Senses danger in Atlantis, waking him from his sleep^WL55
  • Senses that Atlantis is still in danger ever after he blocks energy bombardment^AL2
• Senses an incoming telepathic attack^AL2
• Senses approaching bandits^AL14
• Senses oncoming foes^AL15
• Senses Garn Daanuth's astral form approaching^WL59
• Sensed the aura of a powerful mage on approach^AL10
• Senses a shaman's magic^AL13
• Senses darkness within Harbinger^CI2
• Senses psychic emanations from a cave^WL56
• Senses that a spaceship is not powered by magic^AS
• Senses that Atlantean colonies are positioned across Earth to make a magical circuit, though he can't sense to what end^WL59
• Senses a door at the top of a flight of stairs^AL7
• Knows that he is safe because he senses no danger^AL21
• Uses his sensing ability to fight off some foes while trapped in an illusion^AL12

Travel

Offensive Teleporting

• Lobs a spell that shunts Scarabus through different dimensions^JA94
• Makes Altana disappear^AL21
• Shunts Kr'rth off into another dimension^AL27
• Forcibly teleports away a Blonnjuu^AI5
• Teleports Hawkman away from him^HM32
• Teleports Subjekt-17 away^SM656

Misc Teleporting

• Teleports from New York to the Middle East^AI3
• Teleports behind Garn Dannuth to get him in a chokehold^AL19
• Teleports from a conference to outside the building^AL34
• Teleports Hawkman to the Hawk God's realm^HM33

Portals

• Opens a portal to Darkworld^AL24
• Opens a portal for a creature to return back to its native dimension^AL35
• Creates a portal to Darkwold in the modern day then uses it to go around the timestream to travel back into his own time^DP75
• Makes a portal through time to the modern day^SM655
• Opens a dimensional rift to the void^AS
• Creates a portal that draws a demon out of its human host and back into his own dimension^AI2
• Creates a portal in his bathroom to a French villa^AI5
• Reaches through a portal to grab his pickle from Chaon^JQ13

Misc

• Can fly^AL2
• Creates a mystic sphere that carries him and Caculha from Anuleous back to Earth^AL1
  • Creates another sphere^AL32
• Creates a sphere around Power Girl and her son and brings them down to meet him in Atlantis^JA93
• Had a return spell prepared to send him back through time when Superman defeated him^{SM Annual 13}

Astral Form

• Astral projects^WL60
• Flies to Anuleous^WL60
• Enters a neanderthal's body to exorcise the demon possessing him^AL6
• Explores an entire citadel^AL7

Conjuring

• Conjures the Chain of Deedra to bind Garn^AL18
• Conjures acid rain^AL7
• Conjures fog that makes snakes fall asleep^AL7
• Conjures a sword^AI2
• Conjures insects onto peoples' food^AI3
• Conjures razor-winged bats that sever Weaver's threads^AI6

Mental

• Mind controlled some young New Gods to cause chaos in Metropolis^SM663
• Tries to mind control Superman, though he breaks the spell^SM664
• Telepathically speaks to Superman, which Superman says feels like jagged teeth in his brain^{SM Annual 13}

Misc Magic

Offense

• Tears Dark Majistra apart^AL33
• Turned Garn into energy and absorbed him^AL16
• Performs a spell that makes Darkworld swallow up Garn^AL24
• Combines Garn with Darkworld's consciousness^AI6
• Tore Bedlam out of Garn and trapped him in a crystal chamber^YJ
• Shapes his magic into a sword to slice off a giant monster's hand^AL32
• Grows giant to match Altana^AL21
• Transforms himself into a giant sea monster to fight Superman, though Superman beats him^{SM Annual 13}
• Shrunk a demon and encased him in crystal^WL121
• Traps a tank in a crystalline shell, though Garn breaks out of it^AI4
• Trapped Bill Knightley in a sphere^SM663
• Creates shadow creatures that regenerate and resist Zatanna's magic^SM667

Other

• Removes his bonds with a thought^AL33
• Dispels Garn's magic vortex^AL19
• Contacts the Oracle of Choloh^WL55
• Makes a man float^AL29
• Telekinetically floats a piece of crystal in Atlantis from a different colony^AL18
• Turns intangible^AL27
  • Turns himself and Chian intangible^AL30
  • Walks through a door^AI3
• His magic guides him to where he needs to go^AL6
• Filters oxygen from water to get a breath^AL18
• Cast a spell on his tower to keep out intruders, which also kept out the sea when Atlantis sunk^DP75
• Casts a spell of comprehension on earrings that allow him to speak and understand English^DP75
• Heals Wyynde after he had been surgically turned into a animal man^AL33
• Heals Dolphin^AQ25
• Sees through the glamor that made a demon appear as a man^AI2
• Enters Power Girl's dream^JQ13
• Casts a spell that lets Power Girl breathe underwater^JZ
• Awakens Devilfish from his magically-induced hibernation^JT
• Looks into the future through a crystal ball^SM655
• Shows Superman and Lois Lane visions of the future^SM657
• Hides himself from the Phantom Stranger and Green Lantern and the Justice League^SM667
• Cast a spell on a tower that hid it from Superman and prevented him from coming in^SM667
• Casts a spell on Bill Knightley that makes people see him as Arion^{SM Annual 13}

Physicals

Strength

Blade

• Hurts Pre-Crisis Superman^DP75
• Slices through an Atlantean's gun^AL24
• Kills a dinosaur^WL55
• Runs through a frost giant^AL10
• Stabs a monster^AL11
• Slices through a creature's tentacles^AL25
• Cuts down some creatures^AL12
• Kills a warrior^AL2
• Slices through a wood lever^AL5

Other

• Throws his sword through a man's arm to embed it in the wall^AL29
• Throws a sword to cut hanging icicles off of the roof of a cave^AL11
• KOs pirates^AL20
• KOs a gladiator^AL23
• Breaks a lion man's neck^AL18

Durability

Blunt

• Takes a punch from Scarabus, who breaks one of his magic shields^JA94
• Hit by a dinosaur that broke through a massive stone wall^WL55
• Hit by Aries, who broke a tower in half^AL3
• Launched through a concrete wall^AI2

Magic

• Blasted by Tynan, Balancer of Chaos and Order^WL58
• Takes a blast from Garn Dannuth^WL59
  • Garn's blast shook Anuleous^WL60
• Takes another blast from Garn while he is destroying the rubble of a building that collapsed on him^AL24
• Takes another blast from Garn while he has been robbed of his magic^AL18
  • In the same issue, Garn blasted Wyynde into a block of stone hard enough to break it in half^AL18
• Blasted with necromantic magic^AL35

Other

• Hit by lightning summoned by Garn^AL24
• His and Chian's love melts the ice he's trapped in^AL10
• Seemingly unharmed by the psychic clash between Aquaman and Kordax that affects every Atlantean and sea creature across the world^AQ23
• Resists a mage's mental spell^AL27

Speed/Agility

• Melts a tank shell out of the air just before it hits a soldier^AL3
• Catches an arrow just before it hits Chian^AL5
• Dodges a blast of magic at the last moment^AL26
• Dodges several blasts of magic^AL29
• Dodges an Atlantean energy gun^AL3
• Dodges Wyynde's sword swing^AL23
• Dodges a sword swing^AL2
  • Again^AL14
  • Once again^AL21
• Scales a cliff face^AL13
• Leaps off of a ship sail to stab a sea monster in the mouth^AL22

Skill/Misc

• Despite having never formally trained in sword fighting, Chian says that he will soon be a master^AL11
• Fights off a horde of extradimensional warriors^AL25
• Duels Atlantis' former general^AL16
• Beats a pirate captain in a knife fight^AL20
• Beats up the king's guards^AL23
• Throws his sword to pin a man's arm to the wall^AL29

Gear/Relics

• Arion wears the Mantle of Many Threads, which is made of the Many-Colored Threads^AL4
• Has a sword made of magic^AL13
  • Requires a sound to activate^AL15
  • The sword creates a portal to attack a shaman from far away^AL13
  • Slices through another sword^AL14
  • Stabs a giant monster in the eye^AL15
• After losing the magic sword he just uses a regular Atlantean sword^AL30
• Has a flying platform^WL55