Hawkman

Prince Khufu (Former Alias)

Sir Brian the Silent (Former Alias)

Hannibal “The Nighthawk” Hawkes (Former Alias)

Jim Wright (Former Alias)

Thomas Larson (Former Alias)

Hawk (1) and Dove (1) (Brothers, Deceased)

Warhawk (Older Son)

Hawkboy (Middle Child/Younger Son)

Hawkgirl (Daughter)

Birds of Prey (Member)

Rough Bunch (Former Member)

Seven Soldiers of Victory (Former Member)

## **History**

### **Carter Hall: Prehistory - 2500 BC**

Before we get to Carter (or “Hawkman,” if you prefer), we need to tell the tale of the Thanagarian named Kol. Thanagarians are an ethereal Avian-like race from the planet Thanagar. In order to prevent dying with the rest of their doomed planet, Kol took to the stars with his mate, Thal. On Earth, they met an ancient sorcerer, Nabu that brought them into the material plane by fusing their bodies to the souls of a pair of Nabu’s apprentices. Prince Khufu, the son of a Pharaoh of ancient Egypt, was made the first host of the Thanagarian Kol.

As a fusion of both Thanagarian and human, Kol/Khufu was greater than the sum of his parts. He was stronger, faster, and could even sprout wings to take to the sky. It was little surprise that he and his mate were worshiped. Using his human host’s royal lineage, Khufu ruled Egypt for a short, but prosperous time, with his mate at his side.

But their rule had offended the status quo and so the Egyptian gods sent a crazed priest named Hath-Set to remove the Thanagarians from power. In order to do so, Hath-Set tricked Nabu into creating weapons using the ethereal substance of the Thanagarians’ own ship and fusing it with more mundane Earth weaponry. Hath-Set claimed that he would present the weapons as gifts for the Pharaoh and his queen; but instead Hath-Set used a dagger made of Nth Metal to literally stab the Thanagarian monarchs in the back.

However, though their material forms may have perished, the Thanagarians still lived as ethereal beings which Nabu then gave the ability to fuse with other willing hosts to spite Hath-Set for his past trickery. When Kol and Thal returned to life in the bodies of new hosts they were understandably upset with Hath-Set and sought retribution. Armed with the other weaponry Nabu had created as gifts, Kol and Thal chased Hath-Set all over as he fled from Thanagarian pursuers. But when they finally killed him, Hath-Set was not rewarded in the afterlife as the god had promised, instead he was cursed to return to life until he finished the task he had been give: the death of Thal and Kol, thus tying the fate of these three beings for all time.

## **Personality**

Carter Hall is a man who carries on his shoulders all the wisdom and the pain of dozens of past lives, lives that he always lived as a champion of justice, as a strong, honest and determined man. His soul is deeply bound to Earth and to the one of his beloved Chay-Ara: the two of them never truly die, but they reincarnate time after time, driven one to another by an immortal, tragic love, that will see them always reunited, but always doomed to witness one the death of the other. Sometimes brutal and violent, but always rightful and heroic, Carter Hall/Khufu has known many ages, many places, many people… but there is always one single constant in his neverending cycle of lives: his everlasting love for his wife.

## **Powers, Abilities, Equipment, and Weaknesses**

### **Powers**

**Thanagarian Human Hybrid Physiology:**

* **Magic:**
* **Reincarnation:**

### **Weaknesses**

**Host:** The soul joining cannot work if the host rejects it on some intrinsic level or if the host turns out to a hugely different person than the Thanagarian expected them to be. There has to be some innate compatibility of their personalities, hopes, ambitions, and desires for this thing to work. The Thanagarians cannot just possess anyone and often when they die, they search for days, weeks, or months to find the right pair of hosts. But before the joining becomes permanent, there is a long "trial" period where either the human host can reject or the Thanagarian can object to the joining.

## **Trivia**

* Hawkman joined the Justice League in 2004 nominated by Superman.
* Other examples of Carter Hall's rich with magic potential bloodline are his brothers Hank Hall and Don Hall.
* Carter and Dawn Granger accepted the posthumous honors for both Don and Hank after Infinity Incorporated's assault on the White House.
* For Carter and Shiera, every death, their previous lives' memories dull a little due to the shock of dying and the process of joining a new host is also jarring. The longer they are in a host, the more they remember about their past lives... especially if they do something to jog their memory... like visiting a place they've been before or reclaiming their weapons for the first time as a new host... and so on.
* As king Khufu he used the True Blade of Khufu, an Nth metal sword forged by Nabu. The sword is now in possession of Khufu's third son Aten Khalis.
* Socrates was his friend. Carter was there when he drank the hemlock.
* As Hannibal Hawkes he killed Jim Craddock by hanging him. Jim later came back as a ghost and became a rival of the Hawks.
* As Jim Wright he adopted Charlie Parker after he impressed him. Years later he reunited with him.