I heard reworked canon. [hider="The Magic of..."][center][img]https://i.imgur.com/nCLJy1u.png[/img][/center] [b]Name[/b] Teth-Adam of Canaan [b]Alias[/b] Shazam [b]Age[/b] Approx. 3,500 years (Actual) [b]|[/b] 12 years (Teth-Adam) [b]|[/b] Mid/Late 20s (Shazam) [b]Personality[/b] Courageous, Judgmental, Overconfident, Selfless, Ashamed [b]Powers[/b] [list][*][b][i]Homo magi[/i][/b]: As a descendant of Jebediah of Canaan, Teth was born with the ability to use magic. Even when not empowered, his connection to the Rock of Eternity marks him as the current Wizard and one of Earth's foremost magic users. [*][b]Magical Empowerment (SHAZAM)[/b]: When invoking the ancient magic, Teth is transformed into a demigod-like figure. Beyond the physical changes to his appearance, the effect imparts abilities associated with the heroes and gods of his native Ancient Egypt: • The Stamina of Shu (invulnerability) • The Speed of Horus (heightened reflexes, flight) • The Strength of Amun (super strength) • The Wisdom of Zehuti (genius intellect) • The Power of Aten (magic, immortality) • The Courage of Mehen[/list] [b]Weaknesses[/b] [list][*][b]Electricity[/b]: As the use of the word SHAZAM is associated with lightning, if Teth receives a strong enough jolt of electricity while in his empowered state, he will revert to his normal form. [*][b]Earth's Champion[/b]: Teth's powers are inextricably linked to the Rock of Eternity, the focal point of Earth's magical leylines. He was chosen to be the Earth's protector, and a consequence is weakened the further from the Earth that he travels. Beyond Earth's moon, he is sufficiently weakened as to be unable to use magic or transform into Shazam. This means that he is fully mortal and can experience both aging and death. [*][b]Will and the Word[/b]: Spellweaving requires two elements; mental concentration and vocal utterance. Anything which interrupts or prevents one or both of those aspects will prevent Teth from being able to use his magic, including to transform himself into his empowered state.[/list] [b]Background Hero[/b] Swamp Thing [b]Appearance[/b] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/zGIs6Q8.png[/img][/center] [b]As Teth-Adam[/b], he presents as a young "tweenage" boy of Semitic heritage whose bronzed complexion marks him as ambiguously Greek, Arab, or Hebrew. Small, by modern standards, his back still bears the scars from his time under the lash of slave taskmasters. He has wavy, black hair and green eyes (a trait once associated with Northern Egyptian people). [b]As Shazam[/b], he presents as a herculean figure in physical prime, approximately mid-to-late twenties. His color, hair, and eyes are the same, with the figure seemingly the avatar of Teth's future self. A towering 6-foot-5-inches and 240 lbs, the black-and-gold clad figure is imposing even without his demigod-like abilities. [b]Potential Storylines[/b] [list][*][b]The Orb of Ra[/b]: When archaeologists in Egypt unearth a relic of the ancient world, they unleash the very evil that Shazam was created to stop... [url=https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Ahk-Ton_(New_Earth)]Ahk-Ton[/url]. [*][b]The Un-Men[/b] (Swamp Thing tie-in): Modern military research has succeeded in achieving [url=https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Un-Men]a classified experiment from Nazi Germany's past[/url]. With the elemental balance thrown into chaos, Anton Arcane and the Black return to threaten the world with the Rot. [*][b]Of Gods and Men[/b]: Seeking a return to the mortal world, the Demon Sabbac manipulates [url=https://comicvine.gamespot.com/ibac/4005-24471/]a once small time crook[/url] into selling his soul for power, becoming Shazam's equal in a race to stop Hell on Earth. [*][b]Powerless[/b]: Teth finds himself on an alien world and has to overcome a challenge as a boy without his magic or powers. [*][b]Boulevard of Broken Dreams[/b]: Someone from the League learns of Shazam living homeless on the street.[/list] [b]BRIEF Bio[/b] Teth-Adam was taken into slavery at a young age, the victim of Egyptian raids on the nomadic Canaanite tribes of the region known as the Fertile Crescent, sometime during Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty. While still a child, he stood up to the task masters, earning himself a death sentence. Meanwhile, the balance of power in the Ancient World was disrupted by the appearance of a demonic artifact which the Egyptians had dubbed [i]the Scepter of Ra[/i], which corrupted the soul of a priest named Ahk-Ton and created what may have been the Earth's first supervillain. One of Earth's earliest heroes, the Wizard Shazam, found that he could not both fight the forces of Hell and stop the threat of their avatar in the mortal plane. Seeking a champion who could stop Ahk-Ton while he dealt with the unseen evil manipulating events from the shadows, the Wizard chose Teth for his demonstrated bravery and courage... though the fact that Teth is the last survivor of the Wizard's tribe may have also factored into that decision. Rescued from death and given the power of the Rock of Eternity, Teth-Adam not only defeated Ahk-Ton but inspired a slave revolt that led to the creation of one of the wonders of the Ancient World, the founding of Khandaq -- the slave's kingdom. If Ahk-Ton was one of the first supervillains, then Shazam was one of the first superheroes, his exploits and adventures spreading across the globe to inspire many stories that followed, from Heracles to Gilgamesh to Beowulf. And, for a time, Teth was everything that the Wizard expected him to be, but being showered with praise and celebrated as a hero soon turned to worship and Teth spiraled into hubris in buying into the belief that he was a god above men. Chosen to be Earth's champion, his thirst for more power and glory led to his becoming the nemesis of the Ancient World. This led to a confrontation with the Wizard that led to Teth unleashing a spell that sundered his amassed kingdom, destroying its most ancient cities and forming divisions that still exist in the founding and borders of modern day Bialya and Khandaq. Seeing his kingdom destroyed by his own hand, the gravity of what he had become sank in, and Teth accepted exile in the Rock of Eternity, where his removal from the mortal world would prevent his giving in his thirst for power. He became the Wizard's apprentice and, eventually, his successor. Thousands of years later, he is still working on himself. As such, he had no plans for leaving the Rock of Eternity, afraid of inviting temptation to return, but recent events and the removal of many of Earth's modern defenders have left its ancient champion no alternative but to say the word once more. [b]Notes[/b] [list][*]Theme: [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYed5whEf4g]Imagine Dragons [Bones][/url] [*]In his "alter ego" as 12-year-old Teth Adam, he lives on the street in Fawcett City, using an abandoned section of subway as a hideout and sleeping in an old railcar.[/list] [b]Sample Post[/b] [hider]Thunder rolled in the distance. Above the cityscape below, the clouds were illuminated by the flashes of light that momentarily lit up the sky at dusk. There was a bright bolt of lightning, the clap of thunder echoed across the atmosphere above. In the momentary flash, a solitary figure appeared in the sky. Static crawled up and along the black and gold ensemble that covered the hovering enigma. As he turned his gaze below, the timeless magi found his mind already working out the points of orientation. The message had been routed by watchtower. A break-in reported at the S.T.A.R. Labs in Jump City. Descending down through the dark clouds, the raven-haired figure found himself floating over a structure that looked like it had been hit by a bomb. Or worse. Someone had wanted to get into S.T.A.R. Labs rather badly, it seemed... The sound of sirens -- police, fire, and ambulance -- could be heard in the distance. The building seemed to tremble, as though the foundation had been disturbed. Moving quickly, the ancient warrior began moving through the building looking for anyone who might still be in there. What he found, two layers deep, was ground zero. A strange, reddish-purple ooze seemed to coat the ceiling, walls, and floor around where some kind of containment unit had been blown apart. And some rather large, messy footprint made clear that something -- or someone -- had walked away from this. Bringing one hand up to the communicator recessed into his ear, Teth said, [color=gold]"I'm at S.T.A.R. Labs, but this wasn't a break in... it was a break out."[/color] As the man followed the mucky trail, a decidedly squick squish drew a look of disgust that was instanteous. Looking down, his boot was now gummed up in whatever slime or sludge had re-decorated the interior of the place. [color=gold]"Wonderful..."[/color] the child-hero murmured, floating up off the group as he moved through the air on the trail.[/hider][/hider]