Mongul

*"As you rain fire down upon the streets, take care in understanding that you may come face-to-face with new brethren. But they will not be found in those who run. In those who submit rather than stand their ground. Those must be swatted down without remorse! Without hesitation! They are not worthy of their lives! But keep in mind those who fight back or, better yet, those who may even strike you down! Be they frail or monstrous, they have fought and they have won their lives. They are to be welcomed into the life their strength has earned them! They are your brothers! Your sisters! So says he who rules the Warworld!"*
―Mongul
***Ruler Of The Warworld***

## Biography

### Origins

#### The Strongest

Mongul was the eldest of two brothers, born on a primative and hellscape like planet orbiting a red sun. Both had lost their parents at an early age to disease and illness. For their weakness, the tribe that Mongul and his brother were apart of abandoned them, presuming them to be just as weak in body and will as their now deceased parents. Growing up having to fend for himself and brother, Mongul naturally grew skeptical and untrusting of the world around him. His younger brother, Geigan, was far more optimistic and the only one Mongul ever seemed comfortable with opening up towards. Though Mongul often saw his brother as naive, he found his kindness in the face of such an awful world to be the result of a strong resolve and something worthy of admiration.

However, that changed when the two brothers came across a wounded animal. While Mongul suggested they put it out of its misery, Geigan instead tried to show kindness and nurture the animal back to health, an action that resulted in the animal ripping out Geigan's throat, causing Mongul to slay the animal in a violent outburst. Within time, Mongul viewed his brother's death as a cautionary tale of tragic foolishness, gleaning from it that everything is a potential enemy and that to show kindness is the be suicidal. Though, deep down, Mongul resented the fact that he was powerless to save his brother.

Mongul spent the next few years tracking down his old tribe and once he found them, he challenged their leader to combat. Fueled by the rage behind his brother's death, Mongul emerged victorious after a grueling and bloody battle. Immediately, the tribe hailed Mongul as the strongest amongst them and made him their leader. Disgusted by their fickle nature, Mongul began personally executing them on a whim, before getting other members of the tribe to off their own family members, before ceasing the executions. This caused Mongul to come to the conclusion that those who served under him and carried out his orders were weak not just in body, but in the mind as well. So, in an attempt to weed out the weak in his tribe, Mongul arranged tournaments amongst the members and families, offering the "lives they deserve" as their prize. The members of the tribe fought and those that made it the farthest would face Mongul himself. None emerged victorious against him.

By the time he was done, only a quarter of the tribe remained, but it was now composed of the strongest and only those whose strength Mongul acknowledged. For these who remained, Mongul instilled them with an unshakable and fanatical sense of loyalty to him, while also giving them his respect in turn. However, knowing their numbers had dwindled, Mongul sought to find more tribes and expand his numbers.

#### Expansion

Mongul and his tribe traversed the land. Though small in number, Mongul's tribe was unstoppable and everywhere they went, Mongul would subject those there to the same combat trials he had subjected his own tribe to. Occasionally, Mongul would hold more tournaments amongst his followers, so only the strongest would continue to serve. Within a few short years, Mongul had ruthlessly culled 35% of his world's population, amassing an army of only the strongest of his kind, one he lead as the strongest. Mongul's reputation of strength and being undefeated made him a dreadful legend across the planet and a god to his followers. Through his singular vision, the technological progress made by his Imperium were plenty and frequent, that by the time Mongul had culled another 12% of his kind, Mongul's Imperium was the most advanced on the planet.

It did not take long for cities to surrender after the mere mention of Mongul's arrival. Mongul would never let these cities live and would instead order the slaughter of them all, viewing them as too weak in spirit to be worthy of joining his cause. Within time, Mongul had conquered the entirety of the planet with the last 8% hiding behind the thick city walls of Len'star. When Mongul made his approach to the city, he opted to instead surround the city and prevent any form of escape. He then issued an ultimatum to those inside: if half of the inhabitants were not dead in two days time, he would kill them all, but should they succeed, he would spare the survivors. By the end of those two days, the inhabitants had slaughtered half of their people. Mongul welcomed the survivors into his empire, commending them for their strength and will to survive.

Now with the entire planet under his thumb, Mongul basked in the glory that was his empire. Every uprising was swiftly crushed, often personally by Mongul, with corpses and heads put on display as a testament to his power and glory. Despite uniting his people, Mongul still held tournaments amongst his followers, to sharpen their minds and abilities. Mongul still remained undefeated.

#### The Loss of a Home

It was a day just like any other when the dark clouds of ash blotted out the red sun of Tyreina. Mongul watched and planned his assault as he watched the Apokoliptian war ships descend from the sky. Unshaken by the scope of his opposition, Mongul led his people in a glorious assault on the Apokoliptian invaders, mounting an impressive display until the being known as Darkseid descended into the battlefield and easily turned the tide of battle to his favor, slaughtering Mongul's forces by the hundreds in mere minutes. Though Mongul continued to fight on, more and more he was ready to accept his own death. However, it was when the battle was over, when he was no longer able to stand that Mongul learned that Darkseid sought not to decimate and destroy his empire, but to subjugate and corrupt it.

Darkseid saw Mongul's strength and resolve and considered the extinguishing of Mongul's life to be a waste of a good servant. The undying loyalty which Mongul's people pledged to him had also gained Darkseid's attention. So instead of killing Mongul, Darkseid attempted to break Mongul. Over the next few months, Mongul was forced to watch as his people were slaughtered by the thousands without dignity and his world was razed again and again. Though Mongul never broke, his sense of being was slowly shredded away until the once proud dictator oozing bravado could barely whimper a single word.

That was until Darkseid subjected Mongul to one final treatment: The Omega Sanction. Trapped within a cycle of increasingly hopeless and degrading lives and deaths, Mongul was finally confronted with something that could break him. Over and over, Mongul was confronted with visions of his lost brother, of the lives he could've had, all before being ripped from him with increasing brutality. No matter how much Mongul fought, he could not flush out the synthetic lives implanted in his mind. Mongul, however, would gain salvation due to the arrival of the Green Lantern Corps. Mongul was freed from his prison and to be escorted off world. Mongul, however, protested, demanding he fight for his world, only to have his protests ignored. As he was evacuated from his home, transported in a field generated by a Lantern's ring, Mongul watched his world physically crumble in the battle between the Green Lanterns and the forces of Apokolips. His mind still stirred from his time in the Omega Sanction and as he watched his world burn to a cinder, he could not help be relive the same emotions he felt the day his brother died and how he had failed to be strong.

### The New Imperium

*"Amongst their massive numbers, not a single face looked similar to another. What I saw was the strength of a thousand worlds. I knew. My empire had been laid to ruin and my home had been taken. But it would not be the end. What I had done here, I could do again, only this time I shall see the bigger picture. I would reclaim my home and I would forge a new imperium atop its bones. An imperium boasting the strength of a thousand worlds."*
―Mongul
#### New Strength

Taken to a medical facility, Mongul, for the first time experienced the glow of a yellow sun, which granted him strength he had never known before. As his body began to heal its wounds, Mongul observed the members of the Lantern corps, noting their variety and thinking back to how such a thing had aided them in fighting back Darkseid's forces. Inspired, Mongul sought to create a new empire in the vein of the Green Lantern corps, one that boasted "the strength of a thousand worlds" and one that he would use to reclaim what he had lost.

Empowered by the power of the yellow sun, Mongul lay waste to the facility, before stealing a vehicle that he would use to search the cosmos for new additions to his empire. During this time, he was declared an enemy of the Green Lantern Corps and dealt with their kind for many years until he found himself facing off against their replacements, the Manhunters, instead. As Mongul began to amass a small band of loyal followers, Mongul began to hear musings of an abandoned weapon created by the Warzoons: a weaponized satellite capable of leveling entire worlds. Halting his plans of expanding his empire, Mongul began to pursue the whispers of the supposed WarWorld.

Eventually, Mongul was brought to a system that was once home to a peaceful race known as the Largas, who had kept watch over the WarWorld, building in failsafes and countermeasures should anyone try to enter the battle station without its crystal key. Mongul and his followers tore up the system in search of the key and clues, before eventually finding it across the galaxy, deep under an uncharted planet's surface. Mongul thought the Largas foolish to leave the key in such an unsecure location, before coming across scores of corpses of thieves and would be conquerors who failed to obtain the key. While reeling in shock, they were attacked by the seemingly harmless plant life, which latched themselves onto Mongul and his followers and proceeded to trap them within a dreamlike trance.

#### He Who Rules the Warworld

*"My brother is dead."*
―Mongul
Mongul found himself plunged into a world tailored to his desires. Though Mongul himself would've expected a universe drenched in the blood of his enemies, Mongul instead found a reality where he brutally slaughtered the beast that had slain his brother. From that point, his brother joined him in his conquest and, having been been inspired by his brother's actions, grew to be just as wretched and brutal as Mongul. The two scoured the universe, butchering entire worlds before reaching Darkseid and torturing him, both physically and mentally, for centuries. He was content.

However, Mongul couldn't shake off a lingering suspicion. Though he had gained all that he wanted, the world he lived in reminded him of his time in the Omega Sanction. He approached his brother and made vocal his doubts. The longer he spoke with his brother, the more certain he had become of his doubts. He looked his brother in the face and expressed his joy at seeing his brother again before ripping out his brother's heart, lamenting that his brother has always been dead. As the dream world crumbles around him, Mongul looked at his brother's heart in his hand and crushed it.

Free from the grasp of the plant that ensnared him, Mongul had discovered that he and his legion of followers had been trapped for years, with him being the first to escape. Remembering his goal, Mongul went and claimed his prize: the crystal key of the WarWorld. Though, before he left, Mongul observed the plants that had trapped him for so long, before electing to bring a number of them with him, dubbing them "Black Mercies." Before Mongul left, he gazed upon his still ensnared followers and was disappointed by their inability to let go of their desires and escape. He deemed them too weak in spirit and will to continue being his followers and left them all to die.

Mongul returned to the WarWorld with the crystal key in hand. As the WarWorld came to life, Mongul knew that his conquest had only begun. With his sights on the rest of the universe, Mongul began to rebuild his empire, stronger than it had ever been and perhaps one of the strongest the universe had ever seen. Mongul's name became known across the cosmos and to many, it meant "strongest", but to most, it would come to mean "death."

## Personality

Mongul values strength and power above all else and believes that those with the power deserve to take their destiny into their own hands. To him, subjugating the weak is a meaningless gesture that speaks nothing of power, but to be able to subjugate the strong is a true sign of might.

### Likes

* Strength
* Battle

### Dislikes

* Weakness
* Submission