SAVAGE
GODS AND HEROES IN COOPER’S TALES!
A
Companion Glossary Edited by Kirk Trigon
The role gods, demons and other
dark fantasy elements play in Mineternia is what sets this fandom apart from
mainstream MOTU interests. To know and appreciate its heroes, one must
also understand the forces that shape their world. This is a rough (very
rough) glossary of Eternian gods and spirits featured in Cooper's TALES and
loosely based on characters/images created (copyrighted and trademarked) by
Mattel Corporation and artists licensed by Mattel. Most were mentioned in
the lost “T. F. Brooks” stories, but you’ll recognize a
few from Tale of Teela and forthcoming fiction.
All-father, The
The Norse phrase for the supreme god is also the Vulnarian name for the Master of the Universe.
Gods, heroes, sorcerers and wise persons, whose spirits guard the cosmic secrets of Castle Grayskull. "... Until the Keldoric Age, the inheritors of Grayskull's secrets used them to uplift mankind ..and were believed to guide Eternia's destiny long after their deaths. These were your ancients..." The Ordeal of Man-E-Faces, 2004.
Best known as Point Dread; in Vulnarian mythology, the rock upon which the gods must sit to bleed their outrage into the world. If their fury is righteous, a great, golden hawk eats of their rage, takes to the sky and vomits it down upon their transgressors.
Avion
Living horizon and supreme goddess of ancient Eternians, from the Golden Isles to the Fertile Plains, Icer Mountains and Sands of Fire; goddess of the kingdoms of the sky and mother of Targa the Hawk God of the Vulnarians.
Realms of the dead; innumerable astral worlds or dimensions, which exist beyond the physical plane and Oblivion. The Celestialics believe the noblest and most pious souls of the dead are called to this place by the Master of the Universe.
Beast Man
One of the four priest-kings of Infinitias; savage ruler of the Gorre Jungles, who possesses the ability to command the beasts of all Eternia. He shared in Skeletor’s incarnation by giving the demonking his mystical Havoc Staff, which he pulled from the swamps of the Vine Jungle.
Boa-Na
Immortal
sorceress of the
Fortress of mystery and power in which Eternia's Ancients concealed their Hall of Wisdom to keep its secrets out of evil hands. It also conceals other halls – those of Harmony, War, Science, Fate, Time and Nature, whose secrets are equally powerful. Before its capture by the first Warrior Ancients, the castle served as seat of power to Clan Grayskull, a bloodthirsty tribe of alien-human hybrids, who conquered and ruled all of Eternia.
About Clan
Grayskull:
"Thirty-thousand years ago, a raider clan of alien-human hybrids, masters
of sciences beyond mortal knowledge, conquered and enslaved the tribes of the
Catra
Vine Jungle goddess of destruction and plunder.
Church
of the
Ceril-Nar
Chief
scientist of the Vulnarians, who left Vulnar's Valley to wed Princess Lenore of
Elshimere. When Sijanus Trap-Jaw transfigures his wife
and sons into cyborgs, he returns to Vulnar's Valley. He is later condemned by
Mighty Teela to sail the
Colossor of Titanos
Giant, one-eyed statue of disfigured Emperor Hyperius Rex of Titanos, once brought to life by Skeletor.
Council of Elders
a council of cosmic beings and deified spirits of heroes and monarchs, who guard Castle Grayskull and Eternia's other powerful secrets. They are King Zoras the Skyfather, Queen Avion, Mighty Teela, Miro, Procrustus the Many-Handed One, Heuay the Divine Sorceress, Eternos, Gnarlos, Tytus, Targa the Hunter and Gharychon the Dragon.
Crystal Castle
A citadel
formed of the uppermost halls of the mystical Crystal Caverns, hidden in
the
Ill-tempered, man-eating, giant beaver, inhabiting the woodlands and jungles; ritually hunted by the Vulnarians for their pelts and meat. The largest are found in the Vine Jungle and have purple fur.
Divine Sorceress
The name many ancient Eternian civilizations give to Heuay, who is the guardian of destiny and truth. In Vulnarian myth, she is Teela's sister and sits at Vulnar's side in Heaven.
Dragons
The ice dragon, Frigranamyr, Meranamyr of the Oceans, Dunamyr of the Deserts, Vulcanamyr of the Mountains and Sheenamyr of the Jungles.
Enemies of Man
Epitaph commonly given demons and gods presiding over suffering, terror, misfortune and dread. Skeletor is recognized as one of these beings.
Eodwar
Brother of Vulnar; warrior spirit, who inspires genius.
Youthful, green-skinned god of time, wisdom
and of love; called the Brother of the Fertile Plains, he is the oldest of the
plains-peoples' gods. The
Broad mountain range bordering the
Infinitian goddess of slaughter, who
presides over the
Excalibur
Mystical, god-slaying sword conjured from the Beyond Realms by the sorceress Boa-Na for young Adam of the Vulnarians. Originally created by Grayskull's ancient scientists to destroy extra-dimensional phantoms, no deception may confound whosoever wields it. After Adam slew the fire god Val-Kun with Excalibur, it was pulled into the heavens and, eventually, to Earth.
Fangs of Dunamyr
Enchanted weapons of the warrior goddess Teela, with which she opens the veins of Oblivion. The Vulnarians believed it was a living entity with fierce winds for blood and darkness for a heart. When their goddess, Teela, opens its veins, the force of the winds there draw the unrighteous into its body.
A pyramid
weapon built by Eternia’s ancient, alien conquerors to siphon off the planet’s
living magic and turn it into demonic energy; called ‘the Magic Stealer’ in
Vulnarian legend. It first appeared in the ancient
Freenorn the Strong
Warrior-king,
who liberated Eternia from the tyranny of the Beastmen Dominion. The duchy of Frenornia, whose
capital is the
Friend of Man
A loving epitaph of the warrior goddess Teela.
Frigramyr
Ice dragon of legend believed to have caused the first Eternian Ice Age. Frigramyr was slain by King Vulnar the Bold, wileding the Sword of Power. Baroness Frosta of the Ice Lands realm of Frigramyr traces her bloodline and powers back to the legendary dragon.
Gar-Gan (or Garn) of Tuwa
Ebon-skinned
Vulnarian warrior, called 'Garn’
by his lover, Princess Rana of Targa, and by He-Man--once, his rival for
Rana’s love. He has the mystical ability
to increase his size and to manifest two, extra arms that give him strength,
even greater than He-Man's. He is son of
Queen Valeena of Tuwa and of Procrustus; half-brother of the wizard, Lodar of
the
Gharycon
The
Divine Dragon of the Council of Elder Gods. He is worshipped by the She-Ra warriors of
Etheria as the guardian of the Crystal Castle; once, the lover of the warrior
goddess, Ishteuray. His heart, the
Giant Tiger
Large, green-and-gold-striped, jungle cat native to the Golden Isles, but rare. Giant tigers are recurring features in Eternian legend.
Glimevere
Violet-haired, vrgin warrior-princess of Myzargard, also called Glimmer; daughter of Queen Angella and the hero, Simyran of the Vulnarians and granddaughter of Val-Kun; fated by Heuay to be a future queen of Eternia. Her mother, Angella, did not tell Simyran of his daughter’s existence, as the hero was fated to murder his children. At birth, Glimevere was betrothed to Prince Adam of Eternos, believed killed in infancy. When Heuay told her Adam was alive, she chose to remain so betrothed.
Glorm
Savage and powerful, four-armed monsters, believed to be the eldest children of Procrustus and the sun goddess, Hyperia, created when Procrustus's seed fell to Eternia from their mother's lap. So strong are the glorm that a few even surpass He-Man in strength. Triklops shared in Skeletor’s incarnation by slaying a glorm and giving the demonking its heart.
Granamyr
Lord of All Dragons, who sits in judgment over dragons living and dead. Through Granamyr's wisdom, an uneasy peace was made between dragon and humankind. In myth, Granamyr is the master of the powers of the sky. His half-brother is Morgonymyr, the dragon of Oblivion.
Hall of War
Mystic hall concealed in Castle Grayskull’s flying outpost, Point Dread, from which the Warrior Ancients attack their enemies. The vibrations, which emanated from the Hall of War threatened to corrupt the power of the Ancients; so, the Ancients sent it into Eternia’s orbit, engineering it to return to Grayskull every twenty years, carried by the Talon Fighter. Called Areopaguay (Rock of War), by the Vulnarians.
He-Man
Most Powerful Man In the Universe; Avenger of Mankind and his Ancients (gods and spirits). Presently, Lord Adam of Vines, lost son of King Randor and Queen Marlena, raised by the Vulnarians; the name given to he, who endures the Heuthalan and is awarded the Sword of Power; he, who lies with Heuay; also Heuay Man or Heuay’s Man.
How King Simyran found Adam: "Some thirteen years ago...[I, Simyran] came upon two Horde troopers pursuing an old woman, [Lady Mira], through these Evergreen Forests. After slaying these alien scum, ...I saw that she was dying ...she begged me to take the baby at her side. The boy's father, she told me, had been a great warrior and had named his son Adam, after the wild, Vulnarian god of the hunt ..." Adam and Sword, 2004.
Sorceress
of the Vulnarian gods; sister of Teela; green-skinned warrior goddess of the
Vine Jungles, who presides over the sky and the emerald fires of truth and
destiny. Amongst the
Vulnarians, truth and destiny are one and the same. Her touch is reserved for
her champion (or He-Man) and, through it, he attains divine wisdom. That one
maiden could bear the divine weight of Dunamyr's hide as easily as Teela did,
insulted the dragons. To avert a costly war with the dragons, Vulnar directed
his sons to craft a portion of the hide for Heuay to wear, and the honor and
burden of the Dunamyr Crown was shared between the two sisters. In the
Heuthalan
A brutal tournament ritually held by the Vulnarians to determine who is fit to know the secrets of Heuay, the goddess of destiny; means Tournament of Truth.
Holy Warrior
The
Hyperia
Sun goddess, upon whose upturned feet the weight of Eternia's crust once rested. Once the wife of Procrustus, she fled her husband's embrace, when the arms of his devoured twin brother burst from his sides, and became the Sun. As she fled, Procrustus's seed fell from her lap to Eternia and became the four-armed Glorm, while the seed that did not fall became living starlight, the celestial Semini warriors. Another of her progeny is Hyperius Rex, one of the emperors of Titanos and the original master of Tri-Klops's three-eyed helmet.
Isle of Shame
When Vulnar
the Bold struck down the ice dragon, Frigranamyr, ending Eternia's eight
million years-long Ice Age, his victory brought great misfortune to the ancient
hero's people. Frigranamyr's fellow dragons, Meranamyr of the Oceans, Dunamyr
of the Deserts, Vulcanamyr of the Mountains and Sheenamyr of the Jungles tore
apart Vulnar's
Infinitias
A
barbaric country in the Dark Hemisphere (Shadow Lands), which encompasses the
Ishteuray
Warrior goddess, who presides over the winds and inspires the honor of Vulnarians; Vulnarian name for She-Ra. [See She-Ra.]
Inspired cry: “Crown of Ishteuray!”
Jaws of War
Pincer weapon mastered by Lord Ogun of Clampes (Clamp-Champ); ancestral weapon of the Earls of Clampes.
Jondar
Brother of Vulnar; warrior spirit, who inspires Strength.
Inspired cry: “Jondar’s Beard!”
Keldor the Conqueror
Keldor (or Keld-Thor,
meaning 'the Keld head’ or 'Great Keld') was a tribal chieftain of the brutal
Kelds of ancient Etheria, who worshipped Evil-Lyn; ancestor of King Randor and
He-Man’s, for whom the savage Keldoric Age is named. He used the Sword
of Power to unite the Light and Dark halves of Eternia and to conquer and
enslave the people of eastern Etheria, but was slain himself by Queen Ishteuray
of the Vulnarians. His decaying body, once entombed at
Keldor (Duke of Evermore)
Born of the Queen of Evermore’s seduction of King Miro, he was named ‘Keldor’ as a gesture of peace toward Evermore’s warlike Keld rulers. Elder half-brother of King Randor, who released the spirit of Destruction from imprisonment in the Infinita dimension, but was killed, when he claimed the dark half of the Sword of Ancients. Hated from birth by Miro, who sensed his evil nature, Keldor was given to his mother, the Queen of Evermore, to be educated and became Duke Regent, after secretly murdering his mother, stepfather and half-brother.
Kobar
Dark-skinned brother of Vulnar; warrior spirit, who guards the Deserts.
Inspired cry: “Sands of Kobar!”
Kobol
Now a string
of small, barbarous lands separating the southernmost Vine Jungles from the
Krom
Brother of
Vulnar; warrior spirit, who guards the Mountains.
Lenon, Isle of
Surrounded by
a ring of undersea mountains, Lenon
is an island in the
Lodar of the
A
powerful sorcerer, who is guardian and high priest of the
Magic Stealer
Also called ‘the Fearamid’. [See Fearamid.]
Malik, Wizard of
Seeking
eternal life and power, Prince Malik of Rakastan uses the Spider Gem to bind
Mighty Teela to his fortress on
Man-E-Faces
Sergeant
Menifakles of the Royal Guard is a shape-shifter and the last of the
alien-human hybrids of Clan Grayskull. Thirty-thousand years ago, a warlord
clan used alien technology to conquer and enslave the tribes of the
Mer-Man
One of the four priest-kings of Infinitias; despotic ruler of the undersea Moratain Empire, who possesses the ability to command the creatures of the deep. He shared in Skeletor’s incarnation by bringing him the enchanted Sword of Chaos, which he pulled from the oceans of Earth.
Mi'Cah of Brightmoon (The)
Royal title for the husband of a Queen of Myzargard and of the supreme commander of the Queen's armed forces. Shortly before Princess Mira entrusted infant Adam to the Mi'Cah Simyran the Vulnarian, he fathered Glimevere with Queen Angella of Myzargard.
Mira (of Elshimere)
Heroic warrior-princess and elder half-sister of King Randor, who saved Prince Adam from a bloody Horde attack on Eternos, but died, shortly after entrusting Adam to King Simyran of the Vulnarians. Daughter of Miro, who fathered her with the Queen of Elshimere, when he was barely fourteen years old.
Miro (King)
Father of King Randor, Prince Keldor and Princess Mira; one hundred and forty year old heroic warrior-king, who disappeared during the Great Horde War. He fathered Mira with the Queen of Elshimere, when he was barely fifteen years old (a man by Elshimere customs).
Morgonymyr
Shape-shifting
dragon, who guards Oblivion; father of Morningstar and half-brother of
Granamyr. Unaware of
Morgonymyr’s true nature, Simyran of the Vulnarians admits the dragon,
disguised as a boy, into the
Myzargard
Small
country in the
Nanoc
Brother of Vulnar; warrior spirit, who inspires Courage.
Inspired cry: “Nanoc’s Stones!”
Netossa
A huntress-warrior and noblewoman of Clampesh, a country ruled by the family of Ogun the Clamp Champ. Spinerella, guardian of the Spider Gem, is one of her friends.
Norgnaval [See Isle of Shame.]
The mythical lost country from which Vulnar and his brothers came; the Isle of Shame.
Oblivion
The dark, stormy dimension commonly perceived to lie between the mortal plane and the Beyond Realms. Demons thrive here and only dragons can freely travel between the three realms.
Ogun
Brother of Vulnar; warrior spirit, who guards the forge. Prince Ogun, the Clamp Champ of Clampesh, is named for him.
Inspired cry: “Ogun’s Forge!”
Orin
Brother of Vulnar; warrior spirit, who guards the Oceans.
Inspired cry: “Brine of Orin!”
Plains of Perpetua
The Golden
Plains, Sleeping Plains and Whispering Plains, which lie side by side, between
the Vine Jungle and Whispering Mountains of Myzargard. The westernmost region of the Golden Plains
and
Point
Dread (and the Talon Fighter)
Castle Grayskull’s flying outpost, which conceals the lost Hall of War. The vibrations, which emanated from the Hall of War threatened to corrupt the power of the Ancients; so, the Ancients set Point Dread into Eternia’s orbit, engineering it to return to Grayskull every twenty years, carried by the Talon Fighter.
Priests of Infinitias
Four warlords, through which Skeletor rules the Dark Hemisphere.
Procrustus
God, whose
four arms bear up the weight of Eternia's crust and keep it from collapsing on itself. When the arms of his devoured twin brother burst
from his sides, Hyperia fled his embrace and became the Sun. As she fled,
Procrustus's seed fell from her lap to Eternia and became the four-armed Glorm,
while the seed that did not fall became living starlight, the celestial Semini
warriors. In the
Inspired cry: “Grails of Procrustus!”
Randor (King)
Heroic
warrior king of the Great Horde Wars; called Randor the Mad, during his
campaigns against the Evil Horde. He is the father of He-Man, son of Miro,
husband of Queen Marlena, brother of Diana and a descendant of Keldor the
Great.
An
American-styled democracy located in the Golden Plains, it is bordered by the
Ocean Gnarl to the west, the Vine Jungle and
Screech, Lady
Evil sorceress and, once, the lover of Keldor the Conqueror. The Lord of Destruction used her to gather his scientist-priests to engineer his unholy incarnation.
Origin: "...In the legends of Ban-Shei Island, an amorous young queen fell in love with a wandering barbarian, Keld'Thor, and bewitched him to lie with her in the Temple of Yog. Unknown to him, Queen Scierce was already betrothed to her god, and when Yog came upon them making love, he roared such that the island beneath them split apart! Outraged, the Priests of Yog drove her and her savage lover from Tahrin, the rich capital of Ban-Shei, and beyond the Plains of Perpetua, ..ten hundred thousand years ago..." Priests Of Infinitias, 1998.
Semini
Youthful, celestial warriors born from the semen of many-armed Procrustus, when their goddess mother, Hyperia, abandoned him and became the Sun. As Hyperia fled, the Semini fell from her lap and scattered onto the cosmic winds, becoming starlight. Their brothers fell to Eternia and became the four-armed Glorm. In legend, the Semini guide lost or endangered ships to safety and are guardians of the Isle of the Four Grails. When their brother, Hyperius Rex of Titanos, used his three-eyed helmet to enslave them, Granamyr blinded the helmet, and the Semini broke free of its spell and destroyed his kingdom.
She-Ra
Guardian of
the Crystal Caverns of Etheria; Vulnarian warrior goddess, who presides over
the wind; daughter of Vulnar the Bold and the goddess Ursa; known among the
Vulnarians as Ishteuray. In life, she liberated the desert people from
slavery under Keldor the Great and founded the ancient
Shokoti
An evil
sorceress queen, worshipped as a living goddess of darkness by ancient tribes
of the Sands of Fire, Shokoti once was a valued ally of the Vulnarians and the
lover of their King Simyran, coming to their aid against powerful desert
enemies. Humiliated by Simyran’s refusal
to marry and join forces with her, the sorceress determined to destroy
him. Under the pretense of forgiving
Simyran’s rejection, Shokoti gave him a tree, which, after a great celebration,
his brother warriors planted in the capital of their country. While the Vulnarians slept, a powerful army
of warrior-demons grew from the planted tree and attacked the men, slaying many
in their sleep. When Mighty Teela
commanded the Vulnarians to set the tree ablaze and uproot it, as it burned, many Vulnarians died in
the effort, but, the tree was felled and the demons, swiftly defeated,
thereafter.
When Shokoti attempted to conquer Eternia by covering it in darkness, Simyran and his brothers joined mankind in defeating her and destroying her desert kingdom. Eternians often make pejorative references to ‘Shokoti’s bush’ in moments of anger, vulgarity and exasperation.
Simeyria
Mother
of Boa-Na and King Simyran; a She-Ra warrior-priestess, seduced by Val-Kun and
made pregnant with a burning stone.
Driven out by the Elders of Etheria, she wandered the world, until falling into
the
Simyran
Last king of the Vulnarians and former king of Ancient Frenornia; son of the Infinitian fire god, Val-Kun, and of the She-Ra warrior, Simeyria; father of Princess Glimevere of Myzargard; liberated the southern Fertile Plains from Serpentis oppression.
During the
Great Horde War, Simyran fought at the side of Queen Angella of Myzargard and
turned her women into soldiers, when the men of that realm were all butchered
by the Horde. After the war was won, he was named the Mi'Cah (or lord) of Myzargard, and Angella's army vowed that they would suffer
no lords, but him, and would take no husbands. When the goddess Heuay told him
he was fated to murder his own children, he left Angella and returned to the
Skeletor
Demonic Lord of Destruction, ruler of Infinitias and Fear Incarnate; master of the Havoc Staff.
About Skeletor: ".. many years ago, four Infinitian scientists gathered in the tomb of Keldor the Great, the first king of Eternia to unite the Light and Dark Hemispheres under one crown. There, in exchange for great power on the Dark Side, they unleashed from the collective, sentient minds of Eternia, an abomination - an unspeakable horror born of the mortal brain's most primitive chambers and incarnated him within Keldor's mummified body. Through these four scientist-priests, he ruled the Dark Hemisphere of Eternia. His sole ambition - universal domination, ..through the conquest of Castle Grayskull. Known by many names throughout the ages, he was incarnate destruction and the shameful, yet inescapable fear of it..." Tale of Teela, 2004.
Ancient
citadel fortress of the snake man empire, the Imperium Serpentis, located in
the desert wastelands of Infinitias; now, the residence of Skeletor. It was abandoned after the fall of the
Imperium Serpentis, until being commandeered by the Evil Horde in the War. Keldor the Conqueror was entombed there, .. once.
Spinerella
For eons,
Nerella the Spinner, has used the mystical Spider Gem to guard an
extra-dimensional gateway, behind which monsters wait to invade her mystical
realm. When Prince Malik of Rakastan
steals the Spider Gem to bind Mighty Teela to his fortress on
Sword of Power
The legendary sword of kings, through which Eternian heroes conjure the collective power of the Ancients.
Sy-Klone
A cybernetic
clone of King Simyran the Vulnarian, created by the ancient alien rulers of the
island Anwat Gar, once an outpost of Castle Grayskull. He uses his speed and
cyclone-creation powers to guard their powerful secrets.
Talon
Fighter
[See Point Dread.]
Targa the
Hunter
Winged,
hawk-headed cosmic predator and Divine Hunter of the Council of Elders; son of
Avion and Zoras the Skyfather, and brother to Mighty Teela. To
save mankind from his wild hunger, Zoras imprisoned him in the circuitry of the
Talon Fighter for many eons. He is the
chief hunter god of the Vulnarians and of the kingdom, Targa. Before the
death of his friend, Gar-Gan of Tuwa (later resurrected by a wizard), and
subsequent devotion to Teela, He-Man worshipped Targa above all gods, but,
Vulnar.
Heroic
warrior goddess worshipped throughout the Light Hemisphere, who presides over
the land, mankind and justice; sister of Heuay; believed the Holy Warrior of
the
Teela of Targa was the ancient, red-skinned warrior-queen,
who led mankind in rebellion against the evil, alien masters of Castle
Grayskull and was worshipped as a goddess, after her death. Teela, herself, was named for the River Teela (a Targan word for ‘mother
spirit’) that runs between the
Teela of
the Plains
1,114 feet
high statue erected to the warrior goddess, Teela.
The
lower, secret halls of the mystical Crystal Caverns, hidden in the
Terrahedrons
Flowers
sacred to the warrior goddess Teela, which are burned in sacrifice to her. They became so, when Ishteuray's blood fell
upon them, as she fought Keldor the Great in the Sands of Time. On one day of
every year, the flowers turn red, thought to mark the day of Ishteuray's battle
with Keldor.
Tom-Stone
Tomas Ruinzo,
or Tom-Stone, is a heroic, young cleric and youngest member of King
Randor's Royal Guard at Eternos. When he suffered fatal injuries fighting in
the War of Silence, the goddess Teela transfigured him into a being of living,
stone. He is the younger brother of Teela's deceased lover, Roberto Ruinzo, and
Roberto's stone heart beats in his chest.
Trap-Jaw
One
of the four priest-kings of Infinitias; soulless cybernetic master of
subterranean Sybronn, who commands the living dead of the Dark Hemisphere. Sijanus Trap-Jaw (full name) shared in
Skeletor’s incarnation by forging the demonking’s indestructible armor from
enchanted ore.
Tri-Klops
Prince
Triklopaeus of the mountain
kingdom Titanos is master of the three-eyed crown of Emperor Hyperius Rex and
one of the four priest-kings of Infinitias. Through his cruel sons, he is the
brutal commander of the barbarian tribes of Infinitias. He shared in Skeletor’s
incarnation by slaying a glorm and giving the demonking its heart.
Ursa
Warrior
and female twin of Zor; daughter of Heuay and mother of Ishteuray (She-Ra). When the Enemies of Man commanded Ursa to
slay her brother, she threw herself on Vulnar’s Sword of Power and killed
herself. From Vulnar’s sword, Ishteuray was born, and Ursa sent Ishteuray back
to Eternia.
Val-Kun
Golden smith
god, who uses the souls of the damned to fire his forge.
Son of Koas, the king of the Infinitian gods, brother of
Evil-Lyn; father of King Simyran of the Vulnarians and of the sorceress Boa-Na.
He was slain with the sword Excalibur by a young Adam of Vines. Once the god of fire and conquest in ancient Etheria, before the
manifestation of Light Hope in the Crystal Caverns of Gharycon.
Vul-Nar
the Bold
Also called
‘Vulnar’, he is the god-king and brother of exiled warriors from Norgnaval, who
are the forefathers of the immortal Vulnarian warriors. In Vulnarian myth, he is the fierce,
personified Will of All-father. From
Vulnar the Bold’s acknowledged position as king of his brothers and their sons,
the title of ‘King Brother’ was given to Vulnarian kings, who succeeded
him. [See
Vulnarians.]
Vulnarians
A race of
superhuman warriors, rendered immortal and eternally youthful by the magic of their
Warrior Goddess, Mighty Teela. Though
not born superhuman, through training
in Teela’s martial secrets, the sons of Vulnar and of his brothers, became
stronger, faster, more agile and virile than mortal men, but, not invulnerable
to injury or death. While they passed
training down through their bloodlines, they also shared their secrets with
adopted sons and, very rarely, with men welcomed into their valley, as
spiritual brothers. Only the Vulnarian
warriors, who are direct descendants of Vulnar and his twelve brothers, are
immortals.
Origin: Vulnar the Bold, struck down the ice
dragon, Frigranamyr, ending Eternia's eight million years-long Ice Age.
Frigranamyr's fellow dragons - Meramyr of the Oceans, Dunamyr of the Deserts, Volcanamyr of the Mountains and Sheenamyr of the Jungles -
tore apart the mountain kingdom and set it adrift on the
The brothers
survived their expulsion and founded another kingdom in their grandfather's
native Vine Jungles, near
Vulnarian
Cosmology
At the center
of the cosmology, reigns Vulnar The Bold, ..the
fierce, personified will of the All-father. At his sides, sit two wise warrior
goddesses, Teela (Order and Justice) and Heuay (Truth and Destiny). His eight
brothers govern various aspects of the cosmos. Vulnar's daughter, Ishteuray
(Honor), is the only one he entrusts to enforce his code in the world of men.
Vulnarian
Sons
In his
travels, He-Man has met many Eternians, who were trained by the immortal
Vulnarians, lived with them for a time or were the offspring of these
warriors. Among them: Ceril-Nar the
Deathsailor of Hell, Fisto of Evermore, Gar-Gan (Garn) of Tuwa, Gharychon the
Dragon of Etheria, Jitsu of Infinitias, Ogun (Clamp Champ) of Clampesh,
Sy-Klone of Anwat Gar, King Xartagama of Targa.
Vulnar’s
Valley (
Legendary
home of the Vulnarian warriors, hidden by enchanted mists in the Vine Jungles,
near
War of
Silence
The war
fought to drive the Priests of Infinitias from the Light Hemisphere, when
Skeletor attempted to use Point Dread to attack Castle Grayskull. During Mighty
Teela's battle to wrest Point Dread from Skeletor, her oracles went silent all
over the world - hence, the name.
Warrior
Ancients
“…Bold,
iron-thewed Vulnar, ..falcon-headed Zoar, ..dragon-winged Giro, ..Xango the Thundermaker, ..Koron the Armored Titan, ..the
fiery Heuay and her sister, ..Mighty Teela…,” from Tale of
Teela. Warrior spirits, who gather at Point
Dread to defend the secrets of Castle Grayskull and to destroy enemies of
cosmic order.
Webstor
A handsome, human warrior, once charged with the protection of the Spider Gem, a mystic talisman stolen from the sorceress, Spinerella, by his wizard master, Prince Malik, to bind the warrior goddess, Teela. When Spinerella seduces Webstor and reclaims her gem, and Mighty Teela escapes Malik’s mountain, the outraged wizard transforms Webstor into a hideous spider-like monster and banishes him to the Shadow Lands. He is a feared bounty hunter.
Wild Adam
Brother of
Vulnar; warrior spirit of the hunt, who guards the Jungles; the youthful and
immortal protector of lost boys, for whom Adam of the Vulnarians is named.
Inspired cry:
“Wild Adam, guide my aim!”
Zodac the
Enforcer
Fiercest of
the Mallorine cosmic enforcers; one of many space-faring sentinels charged with
maintaining order in the universe. Under the demonking’s temporary control, he
shared in Skeletor’s incarnation by bringing him the nigh omnipotent Mask of
Living Death from deep space.
Inspired
cry: “By Zodac’s Black Gun!”
Zoar
A
name referring collectively to the twin children of Heuay, known individually
as Ur’Zor (female) and Zor (male). Zoar
is the first He-Man, whose spirit was changed into an immortal falcon,
upon his death. Teela’s fighting falcon is named for him.
Zoras the
Skyfather
Supreme god
of ancient Eternian kings, from the
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