Mind Stone

### Abilities

Allows the user to alter minds and grants them a plethora of near-limitless psychic powers.

## Possessors

### Formerly

Loki (Temporarily)
Ultron (Temporarily)
HYDRA (via S.H.I.E.L.D)
Tytaneion Royalty (Thanos)

**Mind Stone**, also known as the **Jewel of Intelligence**, is one of the six Infinity Stones. It has the power to manipulate minds and grants whoever controls it a plethoral of powerful psychic powers.

## Summary

The Mind Stone is one of the Infinity Stones, six primordial crystals of immense power created by the Four Great Seraphs that can be considered singularities in their own right. Sometimes after the Big Bang, Gabriel caused the Stones to be scattered across the growing universe, causing the Earth-based deities to lose track of some of the most powerful artifacts in existence.

At some point in time, the Mind Stone came into the possession of the alien pantheon of gods on the distant planet of Tytaneion, who used it to strip the free will of its original inhabitants. However, a great champion was blessed by a "foreign god" - Heavily implied to be Raphael - and used her new powers to break the gods' thrall on the rest of the planet. She then led the Tytani to rebel against their creator and eventually became the new ruler of Tytaneion.

After the champion's death, the priests of Tytaneion sealed the Mind Stone into a vault near the planet's core. Millions of years later, after the planet doomed itself due to a combination of overpopulation and apocalyptic natural disasters, courtesy of being uncontrolled by any divinity, the exiled Tytani prince Thanos returned and discovered the vault where the Mind Stone was kept.

Through the Mind Stone, he gained the knowledge of the Infinity Stones and began his quest to gather all six of them so he could erase half of the universe's population, believing that it will save the world from an evitable destruction due to overpopulation.

In 20XX, Thanos gave the Mind Stone - Now contained by a medium scepter - to Loki alongside an armada of Chitauri infantry troops and J'umborsi daemon, under the condition that Loki invaded Earth to obtain the Tesseract and plan absolute subjugation under his reign.

After Loki was defeated by the Avengers, the scepter was taken into the possession of S.H.I.E.L.D. While under S.H.I.E.L.D's possession, it was used by HYDRA agents to experiment its power upon the rioting population of Sokovia, killing thousands of people with only a pair of twin wizards, Pietro and Wanda Maximoff, survived and even gained supernatural powers from the Stone. However, after the research base was assaulted by the Avengers, the scepter was retaken from HYDRA.

While the original plan was to have the Mind Stone taken to Asgard until further notice, Tony Stark was able to convince Thor into allowing him and Bruce Banner to study it. Upon analyzing it, they found inside the Stone on the scepter a net of neurons which could be configured into artificial intelligence, eventually resulting in Ultron's creation. Later on, Ultron turned on the Avengers and used the Stone to enthrall a group of scientists into creating him a new and superior body from vibranium.

When the Avengers attacked Ulton's new base in Seoul, the synthezoid body embedded with the Mind Stone was taken back to the Avengers Tower where Tony Stark and Bruce Banner reprogrammed its code and Thor imbued it with his divine power, giving it sentient life. The newly-created android, dubbed Vision, was then taken in as a pseudo-member of the Avengers.

## Appearance

The Mind Stone appears as an unpolished yellow-colored crystal the size of an adult's fist.

## Abilities

The Mind Stone is the Infinity Stone that represents and governs over the fabric of mind, thus making it among the most powerful artifacts in the world. At its core, it has the power to grant whoever holds it complete control over the mind of over, as well as imbuing them with a plethora of psychic powers such as telekinesis, telepathy, etc.

At its core, the Stone contains a highly advanced intelligence framework, akin to an incredibly powerful supercomputer operating similarly to a sentient mind. Its intelligence is powerful enough to enhance and spontaneously grant sentience to the artificial beings Ultron and Vision. As implied by this intelligence, the Stone itself also possesses a form of sentience, with the Stone directly communicating with Vision to warn him of coming dangers... or putting ridiculous memes and playing Christian rock music in his mind at random moments.

The sentient and intelligent nature of the Stone also allows it to operate independently of a host to a degree, allowing it to subtly compel and manipulate minds without the presence of a wielder. By itself, it radiates an invisible aura that unconsciously enhances the strongest emotions and desires - Often negative emotions such as hatred or envy - of any sentient being near it until it completely takes over the being's mind.

It is capable of granting great knowledge and greatly increasing the intelligence of whoever it is used on, "opening their eyes to the greater world", though their common senses would often decrease as a side effect. Depending on whoever is using it, the Stone would show them visions and grant them special knowledge they can use, but not always what is useful for them.

While having its power harnessed by Loki's Scepter, the Stone's power can dominate the minds of others on contact, placing them under the control of the wielder and loyal to their commands indefinitely. Upon making the commands, the Stone releases a special energy which would seep into the person's brain through their body, turning their eyes a fluorescent blue color. People put under the Stone's control will often regain their individuality after receiving a significant blow to the head, since a temporary loss of consciousness will allow their normal mental state to "reset" and return.

The Stone is also able to project the consciousness of its wielder to mentally view and communicate with beings in faraway places. When used in conjunction with other Infinity Stones, the Mind Stone can link the wielder's consciousness with every sentient being in the mortal world simultaneously, though according to Khaos, "only fools would do such a thing".

## Forms

### Loki's Scepter

**Loki's Scepter** (ロキの笏, *Loki no Shaku*) was a special scepter wielded by Loki during his failed invasion of New York City and a medium to harness the powers of the Mind Stone. Estimated to be around 10-millions years old, it was believed to be the former weapon of the God-King of the Tytani Pantheon, which the nameless Tytani champion later claimed and used to end his life, putting an end to the Tytani gods' tyrannical reign.

The scepter was a divine construct created using alchemy and the transformed corpse of the Mother Goddess of Tytaneion, which gave it a pseudo-core similar to that of a Mother Earth Goddess. According to Ajuka, the scepter was a creation of Blood Magic of the highest order, as in addition to the Mother Goddess' corpse mentioned above, it also bore the divine signature of the unnamed God of Wisdom, God of Kingship, God of Protection, and the God of Light. As a Fertility God, Thor could sense the "aura of death" radiated from the scepter.

The scepter was later taken by Shalba Beelzebub in 20XX, during the Rupture of New York City, in an attempt to gain the Mind Stone. However, as the Stone was already used to create Vision, his plan failed and he destroyed the scepter in a fit of rage.

## Quotes

**Tony**: "*The jewel appears to be a protective housing for something inside, something powerful.*"
**Bruce**: "*Like a reactor?*"
**Tony**: "*Like a computer. I believe I'm deciphering code.*"
— Tony Stark and Bruce Banner

## Trivia

* In Tytani murals, the stone was portrayed as a glowing green-colored jewel.