Ahri'ahn

**Ahri'ahn** (also spelled **Arion**) was a Atlantean demigod whom served as the High Mage of Atlantis and a Lord of Order.

## History

### Origin

* *Note: To see the original origin of Arion, please see Ahri'ahn/Retconned Origin*

Falling in love with Dark Majistra, Calculha and the sorceress mated with one another and produced twin sons Ahri'ahn and Garn Daanuth. When their relationship ended due to being of different affinities and their union unbalance, Ahri'ahn was taken by his father and his brother with Majistra. Calculha raised him to to be on the follower of the light.

At a young age, he would accompany his father to one of his meetings, having now met Majistra and Garn for the first time, unaware of their familial connections with both of them. He witnessed his father and mother, fierce rivals, argue on the fate of the Zodiac Crystals after his father sensed a coming dilemma with an individual tampering them and bringing forth calamity upon Atlantis and the world. His father argued to strengthen it's power while Majistra argued to unify all the crystals into a new age of magic. She is unanimously opposed by Calculha and the rest of the Council. Despite this, she later goes ahead with her plot and undoes their protection spells with Garn at her side, gaining power from the Zodia Crystals and spelling doom everywhere.

Despite Calculha's power and Ahri'ahn's efforts, both he and his father is unable to stop Garn and Majistra after she absorbs the power of the Zodiac Crystals. Weakened, he asks his son to sacrifice himself to stop Majistra despite his age. Ahri'ahn willing accepts and intercepts Majistra as she uses the crystal's power. This causes a reaction in which self-destructs her into the Darkworld and converts Ahri'ahn's body into energy. Calculha save his son by having his body merge with a star and his soul moved into the Heart of the Darkworld. While in the world in the Heart of the Darkworld, he meets Jheryl whom becomes his new teacher in magic and mother figure. While studying the arcane arts under her tutelage, he also befriends a dark imp named Ghy. Ahri'ahn spent two decades within the Heart while 100 centuries passed on Earth. Upon completing his training, he's given a piece of the gem by his mentor. Shortly after this, he is abruptly taken back to Earth by his father. In doing so, his memory of his time there is blocked.

### Protector of Atlantis

#### Trial of Arion

Arion is called upon by the nobles of Atlantis to deal with the invading Sub-Men, barbarians whom have already outnumbered and defeated Atlantean forces prior. With the use of his magic, he quickly dispatches them though finds him spent and takes out his irritation on the nobles concerning his condition. While resigning himself to his room and musing over his lost master, Chian interrupts and attempts to speak to him on his problems though he instead rebuffs her attempts. He is then summoned by D'Tilluh, given the task of reading the Oracle of Choloh despite his spent strength. When he attempts to read the Oracle of Chohloh, he instead see's a vision of his former master, Calculha. When questioned by D'Tilluh on what he saw, he claimed nothing and that he will try again the next day. Later, dinosaurs attacks Atlantis and Arion senses their arrival. When he attempts to alleviate the situation with his magical power, he finds them gone and instead relies on his swordsmanship to slay the dinosaurs. When Chian arrives and asks why he didn't use magic, he asserts that they're gone for reasons unknown but registers them as a sign of seeking out his former master.

Following his psychic emanations with Wyynde and Chian at his side, they come across an ice cave and although he regains some of his his magic, they ambused by the Sub-Men. As they fight, Arion finds his magic once again disappeared and is knocked out and taken by the Sub-Men to be offered as a scarifice to their gods.

While unconscious, he finds himself in a unknown realm on the psychic plane. There, he meets those that represent the balance, Chaon, Gemimn, and Tynan. Unaware of his location, he asserts them to answer where he is and proceeds to attack them. Though Chaon and Gemimn attempt to subdue the mage, they are instead pushed back by his efforts much to their surprise. Combining their powers, they unleash the power of the cosmic balance onto Arion, forcing him to wake up in reality and unleash the might of his magic and thus, undid their sealing.

#### Camelot Falls

In 1659, when Arion is awakened from a night of debauchery by visions of a cataclysmic future centered around the presence of Superman. Cut off from his natural magicks, Arion employed certain artifacts to propel himself forward to Superman's present. Arriving in Metropolis, Arion subjected Superman and his friends at the Daily Planet to a vision of a possible future where Superman and other alien heroes' involvement in humanity caused people to become dependent on them and ultimately produced an apocalypse. Arion hoped to force Superman to retire and prevent the predictions from coming true.

Superman was given two weeks in which to decide how he'd deal with Arion's request, during which Arion illustrated his point by magically steering a "field trip" of adolescent New Gods, chaperoned by Lightray and Fastbak, to come crashing into Metropolis and go wild with their divine powers, causing untold havoc and general interference with the populace. Superman defused the situation with Lightray's help and deduced Arion's involvement. At roughly the same time, Arion kidnapped Bill Knightley from outside the Oblivion Bar, interrogated him, and nearly killed him. The only thing that saved Knightley was his knowledge of the recently begun "Tenth Age of Magic", a tumultuous change in the world's mystical equilibrium. Knightley claimed to be studying the shift and Arion decided he might have some value alive.

At the end of the two weeks, Arion and Superman met again; the Kryptonian hero chose to remain active as part of Earth's defense and deeply involved with humanity. Arion's vicious response was to cast a powerful mind manipulation spell, with the intent of using Superman as a weapon to remove the threat of other alien heroes, like Superman's ally, the Martian Manhunter. Superman resisted the spell and tracked Arion to his base in Atlantis, Superman confronted him once more, protected from Arion's magics by a mystical shield given to him by the Phantom Stranger - who told him that, while Arion's vision of the future *could* come to pass, the loss of life and experience that humanity would suffer as a result meant that Superman *had* to try and find another way - disarming Arion of his magic rings. Now defenceless, Arion retreated back to his time, where he began to plan his next move against Superman.

## Powers and Abilities

A immensely powerful sorcerer, Arion possesses a direct line to the source of Atlantean magic, Darkworld. He can cast spells based on spoken incantations or the more powerful kinds that comes from the magical fires burning deep within those attatched to Atlantean magics.

At his prime, he possessed nearly limitless power and was unmatched in power. He was powerful enough to have fended off both Chaon and Gemimn, both of them being a Lord of Order and Lord of Chaos respectively.

During his time as Atlantis's High Mage (after sacrificing his magic to end the Ice Age) and for 50,000 years, his magical abilities were severely limited and forced to tap into a source of energy to perform magic such as fire or an earthquake. Among his abilities, he can increase his size, create energy forces, create tidel waves, and create othe natural disasters.

He is also an accomplished swordsman and fair hand to hand combatant, having been train in such ways by Lady Chian.

### Known magics and spells

* Powers of Light

* Light of Xytlth

* Mystic Chains of Deedra (invoked)
* Psychic Magick

## Equipment

* **Mantle of the Savior**
* **Fire-Blade**
* **Staff of Arion** (Former): A staff used by Arion in the past. Eventually, the staff would be lost to him.

## Notes

* Arion's parentage and being was changed throughout his history, His mother was originally stated to be Star Spawn in the *Warlord* series and *Arion, Lord of Atlantis* #1, coming to being from a unique combination of stellar energies. However, after the revision of his origin in *Arion: Lord of Atlantis* #4 and beyond, this is changed to that of Dark Majistra and Calculha (originally simply his mentor) being his natural-born parents. This also changed him from being an embodiment of stellar energy to being a Atlantean (Homo Magi) Demi-God, his divine heritage originating from his father.

## References

1. ↑ *Superman* (vol 1) #655
2. ↑ *The Atlantis Chronicles* #1 (1990)
3. ↑ *JSA* #48 (July, 2003)
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 *Arion: Lord of Atlantis* #4
5. ↑ *Arion: Lord of Atlantis* #32
6. ↑ *Arion: Lord of Atlantis* #33
7. ↑ *Warlord* #55
8. ↑ *Warlord* #56
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 *Warlord* #57
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 *Who's Who in the DC Universe* (1993 Update)
11. ↑ *Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe* #1
12. ↑ Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; no text was provided for refs named `WWDD`
13. ↑ *Blue Beetle* #16 (2006)