Nora Darhk

**Secondary:**
Palmer Estate
534 West Street
Ivy Town, CT

## Background

### 1990 - 2012: Nora Darhk

Eleanora was born the only child of Damien Darhk & Ruvé Adams. They were constantly moving as she was growing up due to her father's criminal ties. They never stayed in places for long, leading to Nora never making much friends. After finally having enough of the constant uprooting of their lives, her mother decided they were to move to Tevat Noah, a safe haven city used by HIVE for people them deemed worthy enough. Though the neighborhood appeared perfect, it was of an altered reality & surrounded by a dome. But Nora became used to the place, calling it her home.

By the age of 16, Nora was extensively trained by her father in combat & the mystical arts. As his heir & formidable component, Nora was officially brought into HIVE. Though above the foot soldiers, she was not at the rank of the inner circle. Her position led to her frequently working with the Fearsome Five. When not with them, she did her father's bidding & never questioned it.

### 2012 - 2015: Nora Darhk

Throughout her life, she's watched various men come & try to kill her father though they never succeeded. He was always better than them, thinking two steps ahead so they found a new way to get to him.

During one of their sparring matches, her mother was taken hostage by former HIVE foot soldier Alex Davis. He was once an ally of her father but felt that Damien had since betrayed him so he went out to train & become an elite assassin. Her mother was held in the power supply & demanded that her father surrendered or he blew up Tevat Noah. Nora believed him to be bluffing as it would cause Alex's own demise but Damien disagreed. As Damien thought of a strategy, Nora decided to take care of the issue herself. She was able to free her mother but not before Alex hit the switch. As Nora tried to defuse the bombs from the computer, Alex stabbed her mother in the heart, killing her. In her rage, Nora subsequently threw one of her daggers at Alex, landing in his neck & he bled put to death.

She was able to escape the coming explosion & upon her departure, immediately went to find her father. After explaining what happened & her mother's death, Damien decided he would cleanse the world of their sins. Nora took a slightly different route & ended up going after everyone who was associated with the murder of her mother.

Along the way, she met Helena Kosmatos, another woman who had left her home. She was seeking revenge on Man's World & its male species for their corrupt desires. She decided to put that on the back burner as she helped Nora with her mission. Together, the two went on a killing spree & even started a romance.

The more that Nora killed, the more she desired to spill more blood. She came to realize that she was actually possessed by a demon entity known as Mallus since a young age, who fed upon her rage. As time progressed, she lost more & more control. For two years, the two of them stuck together & became known across North America & Europe for their killings. After one of their kills, Nora & Helena ended up separated. As Helena made a run for it, Nora was captured by the new team, Legends, on one of their first missions. They kept her in one of their special holding cells. The cell had mystical properties (set by Constantine & Zatanna) so that she could not use her powers & Mallus could not take form while she remained in there. Various members of the team kept watch but her favorite became Ray Palmer. Their interaction led to a mutual affection that came to an end when Nora escaped by subduing a guard after overhearing the members mention her father being dead.

### 2015 - Present: Valkyrie

After spending months searching, she eventually found her father. Though overjoyed to see his daughter again, he told her that she had to leave as HIVE would punish her for abandoning them. Knowing her father was right, she left but not before her father exorcised the demon from her. Nora then began her way back to the Legends Headquarters. Upon entering, she ran into Ray first, who was startled by her arrival. He knew there was no other reason she would be there but to turn herself back in. He begged her to run away again after confessing his true feelings for her. She told him that she was tired running & as they became surrounded by agents, she squeezed his hand one last time before letting the agents take her away.

Due to her escape last time, only senior level agents were permitted access to Nora's cell. One of the agents put in charge was Nate Heywood. He did his best to make her feel comfortable because he knew his best friend Ray cared about her. She was stuck there for a few months before eventually being free by the Legends at the request of Ray & Constantine. Both noted that she could have escaped before due to the amount of magic she possessed but she didn't, which should tell them something. After being released & having nowhere else to go, Nora subsequently joined the Legends in their mission of being a proactive team.

## Romantic Relationships

* Helena Kosmatos: Girlfriend (2012 - 2014)
* Ray Palmer: Boyfriend (2015 - )

## Personality

As a child, Nora was kind, caring, polite, cheerful & innocent. Despite her parents' affiliation with HIVE, she nonetheless loved them deeply. She adopted her parent's worst traits as she got older, becoming cold, arrogant, ruthless, manipulative & sadistic to name a few. She used people's emotions against them & revel in other people's misfortunes. Though occasionally taking pleasure in other people's misfortunes, she does not quite take her cruel sense of humor as far as her father.

As a prisoner of the Legends, Nora grew to have appreciation towards Ray for continuously going out of his way to show her kindness & proclaiming that she can be an ultimately good person from what he's seen in her. She credits his love as the reason behind her personality change.

## Powers & Abilities

* **Dark Magic:** After Mallus merged with her soul, Nora became able to access much of its powers. Even after Mallus left her body, she still remained capable of wielding dark magic.
	+ ***Energy Projection*:** Nora is able to project powerful dark energy, purple in color & is concussive in nature. Her blasts can be used as waves or beams & are powerful enough to knock three powered beings down.
	+ ***Invisibility*:** She can become completely invisible.
	+ ***Life Force Absorption*:** Nora can siphon the life-force from people & kill them through physical contact. She has even used electricity to substitute for another life force to save John Constantine.
	+ ***Telekinesis*:** Nora can move & otherwise exert force on objects & people with her mind. This notably allowed her to stop & launch multiple projectiles without physically touching them. She can also use her telekinesis to rip things out of one's body. However, her powers are ineffective against a stronger telekinetic being.
	+ ***Teleportation*:** She used this ability after she to escaped from the Legends cell. She also used to teleport herself back there. However, she is not extremely skilled in teleportation & has only done it a handful of times.
	+ ***Thermokinesis*:** She is skilled in pyrokinesis, cryokinesis, photokinesis & electrokinesis.
* **Learned Intellect:** Nora is intelligent with sharp intuition & a vast knowledge of mysticism.
	+ ***Computer Operation*:** She once hacked into the Legends' security systems with ease.
	+ ***Deception*:** She is an exceptional liar & has great improvisation skills.
	+ ***Interrogation*:** Nora is a talented interrogator & accomplished torturer, having once taken pleasure out of harming her victims.
	+ ***Multilingualism*:** Nora can fluently speaking English, German & some Russian. She can speak the first two at a native level, effectively changing her American accent into a thick German one
	+ ***Occultism*:** Because of her father, Nora has acquired extensive knowledge of the supernatural. She has shown knowledge of rituals & when the right time is to perform them.
* **Hand to Hand Combat/Martial Arts :** During her time at Tevat Nah, Nora became a highly trained hand to hand combatant. She regularly uses krav maga, able to swiftly evade punches & grabs, even using a scarf to strangle a guard unconscious.
* **Magic Sensitivity:** Nora is able to feel the presence of Demonic beings with her body vibrating and reacting violently to their aura of dark magic.
* **Stealth:** She can quickly vanish from sight after disorienting her enemies with her magical energy blasts.

### Ratings

* **Intelligence:** 4 - Trained / Learned
* **Strength:** 3 - Average / Basic
* **Speed:** 4 - Trained / Learned
* **Occult:** 7 - Master / Elite
* **Weapons:** 4 - Trained / Learned
* **Range:** 6 - Expert / Advanced
* **Strategy:** 5 - High / Exceptional
* **Combat:** 5 - High / Exceptional
* **TOTAL:** 143 - Threat Level 3 / General Threat

## Trivia

* She began going by Nora at a young age because she felt the name would make it easier for her to fit it as Eleanora sounded "dorky."
* Her mother's death has greatly changed her life trajectory. She ended up leaving HIVE, woke up the demon Mallus inside her & eventually joined the Legends.
* Nora has proven to be quite shameless & enjoys doing strip teases for Ray. Which is ironic because she's very inexperienced with romance & is terrible at flirting.
* Though skilled in torture, she has since refrained from doing so.
* Mick once said Ray & Nora were her personal version of Ross & Rachel but she thinks they're a much better couple than them.
* Ray once shrunk himself & hid in a napkin so Nate could sneak him in during Nora's lunch time. She told him that he was stupid but the gesture was sweet.
* Nora appreciates Ray as he continuously went out of his way to show her kindness.
* Mick Rory has given her the nickname Death Witch & Bitch Witch.
* She is close friends with John Constantine & Jacqueline Pemberton.

## Notes

* Nora is an original character of the *Arrowverse.*
* Her codename comes from when she traveled to 1000 AD with her father & the the two posed as a Odin & Valkyrie.