Athena (Calypso Maragide)

### Relatives

Demokrates Maragide (Adopted Father)(Deceased)Agamede Maragide (Adopted Mother)(Deceased)
Eteocles Maragide (Sibling)(Deceased)
Thrasymedes Maragide (Sibling)(deceased)
Althea Maragide (Sibling)(deceased)

### Occupation

Superhero group LeaderGoddess Athena (former)
War Leader (former)
WW2 Medic (former)
WW2 Soldier (former)

## Origin

### Debut

Anthem Comics: Hurricane #17

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> "The long years of my life have taught one thing, that humanity is seeded with good and evil." - Athena
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> **Athena** (real name **Calypso Maragide**)
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## Origin

### Birth

Athena was born within the town of Darathan within Kreece roughly 2300 BC. She was named Calypso, but after a lot of events, in some time she would she forgo that name in favour of Athena, the goddess she was associated with.

Her mother told her that her father was ‘A man from the stars’, and that he was a ‘blessing to us’. However, she did have an earthly father who adopted her as her own.

She grew up within Ancient Kreece as an Darathian woman, so she learnt most of her ideals and morals from the time and people of the era. She was devout in her beliefs, and she mostly prayed to the goddess Athena who she was named after. She wished for wisdom, and protection of her father in war. She was never really a fighter, and never wanted to fight, she was always trying to avoid fights in general, and always wanted peace.

However, as time went on, she got married to a young man named Monoecus, and they tried to have children, however, every child she bore was deformed, and twisted, they never survived birth, for all of them were still born. She was considered cursed, and so she would pray to the Kreece gods continuously. There was a dramatic explosion of an earthquake, the temple collapsed, and she was engulfed within stone. However, she managed to survive, by suddenly gasping awake, seemingly unharmed, without any bruises or cuts or broken bones despite her leg was cursed under a pillar. She was soon rescued and taken home. Her father, Demokrates, declared she was saved by the gods.

### The Goddess Athena

Over the following years she became known as a wise woman, who had a youthful age too her, never aging nor seemingly dying. Unlike those around her, including her husband, brothers, sisters, and parents. It was soon that she would find out that her brother was killed in war. She was distraught, and so she prayed to the gods. It was then that an assassin came to kill Monoecus, who had come from war telling her the bad news, the assassin came after him but she jumped in his way, and the sword went right through her gut. She gasped, seeing the sword in her chest. But she didn’t die. She collapsed on the ground, and saw the blood spilling out of her chest, and as she passed out, she soon suddenly gasped awake, without a scar on her. Her husband said she was a goddess.

This soon grabbed the attention of the local officials, and others around her, including her withering family who were confused as to her youthful nature. She was then heralded, and even tested to see if the theory was correct. She was beheaded, only for her to suddenly gasp awake again, alive and well. During this people began to proclaim her as a goddess, and for her wisdom, they said she was a goddess of wisdom. She didn’t like the attention.

She soon gathered a cult like following, and some people didn’t like this. They tried to come in and attack the temple she was living in, and they ended up killing her mother and were about to kill her husband, but, in a fit of rage and grief, she summoned a sword of energy and killed the person. As she looked over the corpse, the people around her turned to her, seeing the energy sword in her hand. She gasped and stepped backwards, ‘dropping’ the sword which suddenly disappeared when she loosened her grip. She was then proclaimed as Athena, and since then, took on the name of Athena.

She was then prayed too, her father, husband, brother and sister all prayed to her, thinking she was the goddess Athena, which she continuously said she wasn’t. She was then forced onto the battlelines, in the Darathian armour ready to fight Sstarta. She was on a horse, a spear in her hand, a shield in the other.

She fought in the battle, and was killed.

She gasped awake, took off her helmet, blood and mud upon her, the world around her covered in blood, smoke and ash. She screamed out for her husband, only to see him a few corpses away, coughing up blood. She rushed over to him and wept over him. He died, at age 68, an old man, unlike Athena. Sstarta had won the battle. So, she fled back home.

She was presumed dead, but when she returned, everyone was shocked to see her, and continuously pushed her up into the limelight. She was proclaimed a goddess for ‘She survived war’.

### The Years of Vrome, and War

After her husbands death, she was continuously thrown onto the top mantel as the warrior goddess Athena, and throughout it all she hated it. But she was a symbol for her people, and helped them win wars, but she didn’t fight within them, as she was devested and distraught about it.

She was given a pet owl, which she called, Herakretis. But it soon died, as with everyone else she knew, her brother, her sister, her nephews her nieces. Time went on, people died, but she didn’t. She kept on living. She was NOT supposed too.

She was approached by a mysterious man named, Adelmo, who, like her, was immortal, but unlike her could not rescurrect himself. He was the first to approach her and he assessed her. He discovered that her DNA was corrupted into an everlasting loop, that her body is stuck in the same day cycle, forever. That some kind of "entity" managed to manipulate the time upon her, possibly to use her as a kind of symbol against Adoheem and his proclamation of everlasting life.

She followed Adelmo to his hold, known as The Great Library , and met other "immortals", as she understood them, but, she didn’t stay with them as she always felt inclined towards humans, as she was a human, but with corrupted DNA.

### The Long Years of her Life

Since then, many hundreds of years passed. She lived through the conquest of Kreece by Vroma. She lived through the empire, and emigrated throughout it. She spent most of her days secluded, alone. Many times she was suicidal and even tried to kill herself, however, this didn’t work. Even when she used the energy weapons it would not kill her. So she accepted her life, and tried to fit in. She tried to have a normal life, but, without a husband, or anyone to travel through time with her. However, she did meet an immortal named Cylan, who was the son of Tevel. He was a good man, and they married, allowing her to have a husband through most of the years of her life. They blended in with Vroman society, and after it fell, she emigrated west to the regions of Despania.

She lived there for hundreds, to thousands of years. She tried to avoid war, death, and making friends with others and spent most of her time with her immortal husband. However, one day there was an invading force, and her home was raided and sacked. Her husband tried to protect her and fought back against them, but they killed him, and they killed her.

She was thrown into a ditch, and when she gasped awake, they were going to burn the bodies, but she quickly escaped out of there before they found out. She went to the side and wept for her husband, and with rage building within her, she then summoned the energy weapons, copying the same weapons they did and she slaughtered around twenty people before she was stopped and killed again.

She then gasped awake and ran away from the scene.

The years went by, she was alone. News of the New World came to her, and so she managed to find money and a space on the boats and sailed westward with the Despanian ships.

She began a new life in the new world, and emigrated further north to where the soon to be United States of Ardermia would happen. She lived amongst the people, helping them out and protecting them from the wildlife, but mostly kept her powers and abilities to herself. She did meet many immortals in the days going by, but she wasn’t willing to open her heart out to any of them again.

### The Time of Torture

Due to religion in Adoheem spreading, but under a weird guise, people began to see witches in everything. And during the Varalem Witch Trails she was seen as a witch because she wasn’t aging and didn’t have a husband. She was panicking, telling the people not to do this to her, but she was tied up onto a pole, and then burnt at the stake. As her body charred, the people thought she was dead, but then she gasped awake, and she was perfectly unharmed.

They tried to kill her multiple times, even drowning her, and burying her under dirt, she was saved by Talon and Ethani, as they dug her up. Nothing worked. She managed to live through it all, enduring the pain, but she did see that not everyone liked it, and wanted to save her.

She still had hope, despite her past and circumstances.

Time went on, she managed to escape more death and torture against her, she lived with Talon and Ethani for a long time, but soon she left and managed to settle down in the northern areas of the United States of Ardermia.

### World War Two and Beyond

Then came a time of world war. The United States of Ardermia entered World War Two, and hearing of all the suffering and chaos overseas, she wanted to do something about it. She wanted peace. She wanted to help people. So, she enlisted as a medic, and soon joined the medical teams and was shipped over to WW2 where she helped dying soldiers. She was there during their last breaths, and seeing how terrible things were becoming, she knew, that with her abilities that she had to change that. She disguised herself with mud, and a helmet, and a uniform, and left with a battalion of troops into a battle. Using her energy weapon ability, she managed to copy the guns of other men, and use the energy bullets to slay others. She was killed multiple times on the field, but learnt battle strategy, warfare, and medical knowledge along the way.

She was distraught seeing the death and destruction, and was taken away from the battle by Ethani, who she stayed with for a long time, as Ethani treated her like a daughter.

She lived with them for a while, and slowly but surely with therapy from Ethani and Talon, she managed to overcome the trauma of war and her long, long life.

Soon society evolved, war began to die down, and she lived through the late 1900s well. She was more at peace, and was much more relaxed and sure of herself. This was when Vortex became the main stage in the United States of Ardermia.

She was approached one day, as Vortex had classified documents of her actions, of her abilities and the fact she could NOT die, and she was asked to join a team. She was tested on, but without torture, as Talon made sure of that, accompanying her until he knew she was safe. But through the tests, they gained some knowledge about her and her abilities.

And as society continued to evolve, so did more happenings of superhero like beings emerged. A group was formed, and she was asked to be its leader. She accepted. And she soon found a new family with the Vortex Superhero Group. She was finally happy, as she was not the only ‘superhero’ like being around.

## Paraphernalia

* Energy Weapons:

* + Spear and Shield.

* + Bow and Arrows.

* + Swords.

* + Pistols.

* + Rifles.

* + Automatic Rifles.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Infinite Resurrection**: Athena acquired the ability to resurrect whenever she dies. It is unknown how or why, but whenever she dies, a few minutes to hours later she gasps violently awake. No matter what happens, even if her entire body is destroyed, she will return.

* **Energy Constructs**: From swords to guns, depending on what Athena has seen, she is able to replicate it as an energy like construct which she can use against her enemies. Only SHE can use it. She is able to use swords, spears, bows and arrows, and a multitude of guns.

### Abilities

* **Weapon Proficiency**: Athena is able to understand and use any weapon she observes, able to use it like that if she were a master, only when using her energy manifested weapons.

## Trivia

* Athena created the order initiative.
* Throughout Athenas life she died 886 times.