Lorna Dane (Earth-616)

## Lorna Sally Dane

**Parents:**

* Max Eisenhardt (father)
* Suzanna (mother, deceased)
* Arnold (step-father, deceased)

**Siblings:**

* Anya Lehnsherr (paternal half-sister, deceased)
* Zala Dane (alleged sister, presumably deceased)

**Other Relatives:**

* Erich Eisenhardt (paternal great-uncle, deceased)
* Ruth Eisenhardt (paternal aunt, deceased)

**Polaris** (*Lorna Sally Dane*) is the mutant daughter of Magneto who inadvertently killed her mother and step-father when her mutant powers manifested. Nearing her twenties, Polaris was controlled by Mesmero until she was rescued by the X-Men.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

Polaris is an Alpha mutant with both a primary and secondary mutation. After Scarlet Witch's M-Day, Polaris lost all of her mutant powers. Polaris then became Pestilence and had Celestial technology grafted to her spine by Apocalypse, which has somehow reactivated her X-Gene and her powers from her primary mutation.

**Magnetism Manipulation:** Polaris has the ability to manipulate magnetism. Although she has the potential to exercise all of the powers that her father has, she has thus far only demonstrated the manipulation of magnetic, electrical, and gravitational fields. Moreover, she has yet to summon as great of an amount of energy as her father has. The exact limits on the amount of weight that she can magnetically lift at present have not been measured. Since she has, in the past, preferred to not use her powers in combat situations and has decades of less experience with them, she is not up to par with her father's level of experience. As with her father, it is unknown if her powers are purely psionic in nature or whether they derive from her physically.

The main feat made possible by Polaris' ability is the power to lift and manipulate metal in a telekinetic manner. She has shown such fine-tuned skills to nearly liquefy, mend, and reconstruct metallic objects and has some level of influence on the ferrous metals that reside in everything, including the iron within the blood of living organisms. She once mended and reconstructed silverware and metal plates into a suit identical to that of her father's costume.

* **Force Field Generation:** She can protect herself and other from harm by erecting protective barriers. She can stretch these fields to protect larger groups and use them to suspend others in the air.
* **Flight:** She can suspend herself in the air by riding on the Earth's magnetic field.
* **Energy Perception:** By concentrating, Polaris can perceive the world around herself solely as patterns to magnetic and electrical energy. SHe can perceive the natural magnetic auras surrounding living beings as well.
* **Energy Blasts:** Polaris can focus her magnetic energy into powerful concussive blasts. She can also overload or short-circuit electrical systems. She has been shown destroying Shi'ar warships with a single magnetic pulse.
* **Energy Absorption:** Polaris has been shown absorbing some forms of energy through her magnetic force fields to temporarily boost her own powers. Early in her career with the X-Men, she absorbed Storm's lightning blast, Cyclops' optic beams, and Havok's energy blasts at the same time, giving her enough strength to propel an entire island from the earth into space.
* **Geological Link:** Polaris is closely tied to the Earth's electromagnetic field, As it is affected, so is she, and she instinctively knows all that happens to it. She draws strength from this connection subconsciously.

#### Former Powers

Polaris developed a latent secondary mutation that manifested when her powers were stripped and taken by Zaladane. This mutation was later deactivated by the Scarlet Witch's M-Day.

**Empathic Absorption:** Polaris was able to absorb negative emotional energies to transform herself into a virtual powerhouse.

* **Empathic Augmentation:** Her power allowed her to release the absorbed negativity back into her environment at an enhanced level. This caused others to act more violent, selfish, and bloodthirsty.
* **Superhuman Strength**
* **Superhuman Stamina**
* **Superhuman Durability**
* **Size Augmentation**

**Disease Manipulation:** As Pestilence, Polaris has the ability to ingest and synthesize new plagues without suffering harm to herself. She was able to control the virulence and particular genetic markers of the plagues she created and absorbed. She could then release these new viruses and plagues as a combined/mutated strain or as the various separate plagues they originally were.

### Abilities

* **Geophysics:** Polaris possesses expertise in geophysics. She has earned a Master's and Doctorate degree in this field.

### Weaknesses

**Mental Illness:** Polaris appears to have inherited her father's propensity for mental illness and depression. She has, at various times, suffered mental breakdowns, episodes of mental illness, and severe depression.

## Equipment

**Cybernetic Nanobot:** Polaris was grafted a cybernetic nanobot in her right eye by Serval Industries that allowed Harrison Snow to see what she saw at any time.