Atlanna

* Biography
* Threat Assessment
* Trivia and Notes
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### Atlanna: 1953 - 1981

Atlanna was the eldest daughter of Queen Lorelei ta' Atlan and Lord Nuidis Hansu, eldest son of Nuada Silverhand, daimoness and leader of the Tuatha Dé Danann.

Princess Atlanna spend most of her youth in training, learning to become a sorceress, a ruler, and warrior. Following the death of her mother, Atlanna became Queen of Atlantis. She was married to Lord Trevis in an attempt to keep the Lemurians from engaging in a civil war (as the Lemurians often did following the death of a monarch). Atlanna was kept from the battlefield by the counsel of her father who still held on to most of the royal power until Atlanna's coronation - which could only be held when the kingdom was in peace.

Though Trevis was not half the warrior Atlanna was, he was sent to keep the peace in Lemuria so Atlanna's coronation could be held. While he was addressing the Lemurians, ill-informed separatist assasinated Trevis - assuming he was a royal messenger and unaware he was a Lemurian noble. New of Trevis' death by their own doing sobered the Lemurian leaders behind the uprising and secured peace.

Atlanna remarried, marrying the Venturian Lord Orvax of House Marius. This was another political marriage, but unlike Trevis, Orvax was a cruel and scheming man. Atlanna did not love her new husband, but she married him as it was what her father assured her would be best for Atlantis.

The newlyweds went on a diplomatic trip. While attending court in Themyscira to foster a strong alliance between their kingdoms, Atlanna took notice of her new husband's wandering eye. She shared her concerns with Princess Diana. Hoping to comfort Atlanna, Diana shared her own tale of abandoning her people.

Returning from Themyscira, Atlanna met with Cetea, the Reverend Mother of the Widowhood. She explained she was still grieving the loss of Trevis and Cetea declared Atlanna was in need of a spiritual journey before she could be coronated.

After leaving Atlantis, it did not take Atlanna long to realize she was truly alone for the first time in her life. Taking advantage of this, she went ashore.

### Atlanna: 1981 - 2005

Atlanna adopted the alias Andrea Waters. She spent time in many places - England, Greece, Turkey, Markovia, Corto Maltese, but it was while visiting Amnesty Bay that she met Tom Curry, a lighthouse keeper that found her at a county fair. Tom introduced Atlanna to deep-fried foods, won her a ridiculously large stuffed animal after spending too much money at rigged games, and stole a kiss from her at the top of a ferric wheel. Atlanna fell madly in love with this lighthouse keeper and soon almost forgot all about the home she had left under the water.

Atlanna had a child with Tom. They named their son after the titular character of "The Once and Future King" which Tom had read to Atlanna to help her with her English. For years, Atlanna was happy.

The passing of Atlanna's father left the throne without a steward. Before Orvax could usurp the throne, he had to make an earnest effort to find Atlanna. Agents were sent out to find the queen. Scouts from Xebel found Atlanna on a sailboat with her son. Unaware of the significance of the boy, the ship was scuttled by the scouts. In the process, mother and son were both knocked unconscious. Atlanna was claimed by the scouts while Arthur was left behind as a presumed human casualty.

After she was properly coronated, Atlanna had a child with the abusive Orvax, another son she named Orm. Shortly after the birth of Orm, Orvax disappeared. Atlanna heard about the massive destruction on the surface world and assumed her husband had been killed in one of the many explosions while philandering with drylander women. Her minimal efforts to discover Orvax's fate and her unwillingness to share the truth of Orvax's behavior would be a matter that kept her son Orm angry with her for decades. The tense mother-son relationship would lead Atlanna to have Arthur brought to Atlantis to be legitimatized as Orin. It was a costly decision.

After the marriages of her sons to wives chosen by Atlanna, Orin was the first to father a child. Atlanna used this as her justification to name Orin as her successor. Years later, a jealous Orm plunged Atlantis into civil war by killing his mother.

## Threat Assessment

### Resources

* **Royal Atlantean Physiology:** Atlanna was an Atlantean of remarkable heritage, believed to be descended from Poseidon and Triton, as well many of the Great Kings of Atlantis. She was considered to be a 'pure Atlantean' without magical mutation. She also has some daimon heritage which only makes her all the more powerful.
	+ ***Amphibious Nature:*** Atlanna can breathe both water and air. When underwater, she breathes by extracting oxygen from the water through the gills on her neck.
	+ ***Cold Resistance:*** Atlanna bloodstream was filled with an amino acid that keeps her body from freezing in the ocean depths. Her own temperature is naturally high.
	+ ***Enhanced Hearing:*** Atlanna's hearing was several times more acute than human's.
	+ ***Enhanced Nightvision:*** Atlanna's ability to see in the murky depths of the ocean gives her exceptional night vision while on land. She had excellent close range vision and she can see particularly well in low light.
	+ ***Enhanced Durability:*** Atlanna body was conditioned to survive the ocean depths. This made her remarkably more resilient than the average human.
	+ ***Enhanced Stamina:*** Atlanna does not tire quickly, particularly underwater. She could swim for hours at supersonic speeds without tiring or suffering from muscle fatigue. She could go two days without sleep. Her daimon heritage also gave her delayed aging, meaning she was still in her prime when she died at almost age 52.
	+ ***Enhanced Strength:*** Atlanna could lift approximately 2 tons. This would be classified by ARGUS as being in the Class II Enhanced Strength category.
	+ ***Enhanced Swimming:*** Atlanna could swim at supersonic speeds, maintaining cruising speeds between Mach 2 and Mach 3 with little effort for several hours.
	+ ***Gift of Kordax:*** Atlanna had the Gift of Kordax. In addition to giving her blonde hair, it gave Atlanna much more powerful psionic ability. Atlanna could probe the surface thoughts of individuals, project her thoughts into the minds of others, and gave her incredible insight that made her an incredible duelist, diplomat, and leader. This ability also allowed her to command sea-life.
	+ ***Telepathy:*** Atlanna had a node in her brain allowing short-range telepathic reception and transmission to other minds with similar developments.
* **Politics:** Atlanna was a master diplomat, politician, and world leader.
* **Multilingual:** Atlanna spoke Atlantean, Themysciran, English, Latin, Greek, and most of the other romance languages, as well as many African dialects. She had a gift for learning new languages due to her Gift of Kordax and would quickly develop fluency after being in close proximity to speakers over the course of a few days.
* **Sorcery:** Atlanna was a skilled hydromancer and was adept in other types of magic.
* **Trident of Atlan:** Atlanna was the rightful wielder of the Trident of Atlan, gifted to her house by the god Poseidon before his departure from this plane of existence. Forged from aurichalcum and adamant, it serves as a symbol of the rightful ruler of Atlantis.
	+ ***Energy Transference:*** The trident can absorb, distill, channel and redistribute magical energy both from it's host and outside sources.
	+ ***Eldritch Blast:*** The trident can discrage potent blast of raw esoteric power which can destroy fortifications, kill armored foes, and smite ephemeral beings.

### Weaknesses

* **Dehydration:** If Atlanna does not immerse herself in water periodically, she will begin to suffer from severe dehydration. In particularly humid environments, she can go 48 hours without full hydration. In arid environments, she might dehydrate in less than 24 hours. In average dry land environments, she must hydrate regularly and submerge himself in water at least once per day.
* **Vice — Gluttony:** Though she is dutiful to her kingdom and people, Atlanna was a habitual pleasure-seeker when stressed or able to postpone her royal duties.

### Analytics

* **Physicality:** 5 — Master / Remarkable
* **Occult:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
* **Weaponry:** 6 — World-Class / Superb
* **Expertise:** 6 — World-Class / Superb
* **Range:** 6 — World-Class / Superb
* **Strategy:** 4 — Expert / Enhanced
	+ **TOTAL:** 110
	+ **RANKING:** Elevated Threat

## Trivia and Notes

### Trivia

* After Atlanna's ship was scuttled Arthur was later rescued by his father, washed up on the shore, injured but alive. Unable to find Atlanna, Tom and Arthur held a funeral and mourned their loss.
* After she was coronated, Atlanna chose to abandon the province of Frad on'Bern after it fell into a civil war, using Atlantean soldiers to cordon off the province until sliz'Zath turned himself over to the authorities for his crimes. As Zath refused to surrendered his ill-gotten land, the son of the rightful rulers, Garth ta'Idyl, was raised in the Royal Palace of Poseidonis and became her favored page and pupil.
* Her husband Orvax was killed by Andraste of Themyscira after he dismissed the Amazon's concerns of their affair being discovered, threatening to abuse his wife until she got over it. Upon hearing that, Andraste grabbed a hand full of sand and stuffed it in the gills of the king-consort, choking him before she began to kick and strike him, only stopping when she realized he was dead. Panicking, Andraste put the Atlantean in a shallow grave on the island and began swimming for land.
* Garth ta'Idyl viewed her as a surrogate mother. Atlanna told Garth stories she learned during her time on the surface, including the tales of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. These stories greatly inspired him and when he learned her son's name was Arthur he asked her to be his squire.
* The sisters Mera and Hila were selected to serve the Queen as her Royal Attendants, a great honor for the sisters and their father’s House alike. For reasons unknown to Mera at the time, Queen Atlanna took a special liking to her, often trusting her to secrets and tasks that Mera would need to keep secret, even from her sister. One such secret was the Queen’s first son Arthur, who she would send Mera to the surface world in disguise to check on. One day, when Mera returned to bring back reports that Arthur’s father, Tom, had died in a boating accident, Atlanna asked Mera to escort her to the surface world to comfort her son.
* She had arranged for Orm to marry Debbie Perkins to curb the Prince's hostile opposition to the drylanders. The two were married mere months before Orm kicked off the Atlantean Civil War.

### Notes

* Her appearance is based of the actress Nicole Kidman who plays Atlanna in the Aquaman film.
* Her costume is a nod to her appearance in the Post-Flashpoint continuity.
* Lorelei and Trevis are characters from from *Atlantis Chronicles*.

## Links and References

* Appearances of Atlanna

1. ↑ Network Files: Atlanna
2. ↑ Oracle Files: Garth ta'Idyl (1/3)
3. ↑ Network Files: Tula 1
4. ↑ Network Files: Garth ta'Idyl 1
5. ↑ Oracle Files: Mera
6. ↑ Network Files: Debbie Perkins 1