Rachel Roth (Ultimate Earth)

**Raven**, also known as **Rachel Roth**, is a superhero with dark magic powers. Her strong personal motivations and desire to see good conflict with her heritage, as her father is a powerful demon named **Trigon** who wants to enslave the planet. Her mother is a human woman named Arella who was living on Earth at the time of conception, later to relocate to the mystical realm of Azarath.

At all times, Raven must keep her emotions in check lest she risk unleashing the terrible might within. Despite this, she has still managed to find a second family in her friends who love and accept her regardless of her troubled past. Her demonic-inherited powers from her father, Trigon, are a significant asset to the team, but when not in combat, she generally prefers to keep to herself.

## History

### Origin

A dark, moody character, Raven is the half-breed daughter of a human mother named Angela Roth (also known as Arella) and the demon overlord Emperor Trigon. She was conceived when her mother ran away from home and joined a cult, which then summoned the demon lord Trigon, who raped her.

Angela Roth, going by Arella, retreated to an alternate dimension where Raven was born and raised in the pacifistic reality called Azarath. Fearing that the child would bring evil among them, Juris, a magistrate of Azarath, attempted to cast the infant Raven into Limbo, only to be destroyed himself. Azar, the spiritual leader of the temple, then took the young Raven under her personal tutelage, instructing her in the truth of her parentage, and in pacifism, meditation, and the submergence of her emotions to resist Trigon's influence, while perfecting her powers of teleportation, astral projection, and empathic healing.

### Teen Titans

Later, after Azar's death (in which she entered another plane of existence), when Raven was plagued by prophetic dreams of Trigon and, defying her teachers, she confronted her demon father in Limbo at his bidding. Trigon spared her and Arella after satisfying himself that, upon his return when she reached adulthood, he could seduce Raven into becoming his ally. When Raven turned sixteen/eighteen, she sensed Trigon's power returning and fled to Earth. Raven arrived at Jump City, where she met several super-powered youths fighting a rampaging alien girl (Starfire).

Raven managed to discern the girl's true reason for her demolition work and convinced the others into a more peaceful approach, which won them the alien's friendship. Despite Raven's obvious insecurity, the others invited her to join them in defeating the truly hostile aliens the Gordanians, who had attempted to enslave the girl and her presence proved ultimately essential to the motley crew's triumph over the Gordanians. Afterward, the group decided to stay together and formed the second iteration of the Teen Titans. Though Raven, still feeling alienated from her new friends, remained distant to them, the other Titans soon came to learn more about her origins.

## Powers and Abilities

**Transcendent Cambion Physiology:** Inherited from her atrocious father Trigon, Raven's demonic abilities make her an extremely powerful Titan, but also an unstable one. By saying the incantation *"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!"*, she can do almost anything imaginable; in fact, it was noted by her father Trigon that she only uses a small potential of her power, and if she lets out her full inner demon, she may reach near-infinite power.

### Cambion Physiological Abilities

* **Soul-Self:** The basis of almost all of Raven's powers are derived from her soul-self. Raven can manifest her "Soul-Self" through astral projection. It normally takes the form of either her human shape or a giant raven. Although she can like increasing her size or making her face hideous. She is able to project her soul-self into the minds of others to communicate, facilitate calm or to force people into submission with a devastating mental attack. Though normally composed of energy that is colored black, Raven's soul-self can change color depending on her emotional state, manifesting as red or white.
	+ **Astral Projection**: Through the use of her soul-self, Raven can project her consciousness into the mind, for therapeutic purposes (to aid in her own meditation, or to help calm an agitated ally), or for offensive attacks, rendering her enemies unconscious.
	+ **Darkness/Shadows Control:** Raven has the power to create and control the element of pure darkness and shadows and bend it to her will; often using it in conjunction with her telekinesis.
	+ **Advanced** **Telekinesis**: Raven can merge a small part of her soul-self into objects in order to take control of them, with the object essentially becoming an extension of her soul-self.
	+ **Telekinetic Construction:** Building upon the previous ability, Raven can construct items from nothing. A few things she has created in the past are:
		- a giant fist
		- multiple hers
		- a zipper
		- an umbrella
		- some trash cans
		- a pair of scissors
		- shields and domes
	+ **Telekinetic Force-Fields:** She can erect unusually strong shields of sheer telekinetic and dark energy around herself and others for protection.
	+ **Telekinetic Teleportation**: In conjunction with her telekinesis, Raven's soul-self is able to envelop her (along with a max of four other people) and travel to other dimensions, primarily Azarath. She can use this technique to travel vast distances on Earth or to teleport by momentarily displacing herself and then re-appearing in another location.
	+ **Flight**: Raven can levitate off the ground and fly, without visible projection of her dark energy as is shown when she utilizes telekinesis.
	+ **Levitation**: Raven can levitate off the ground and hover, without visible projection of her dark energy as is shown when she utilizes telekinesis. Her power is also sufficient to enable her to counter the gravitational pull of other planets.
	+ **Psychokinesis**: Using her Soul-Self, Raven can telekinetically manipulate, arrange and alter matter and energy at the atomic level.
	+ **Chronokinesis**: Using her Soul-Self in conjunction with her demonic abilities she can force herself through the time-stream and even bring passengers.
* **Empathy:** Raven has the psionic ability to sense the emotions of others, allowing her to gain insight into their thoughts and intentions, and even experience their own feelings. This also enables her to sense the mental state of others, as she has stated that she would know if someone's mind had been tampered with.
	+ **Emotion Negation**: She can also use her empathy to steal emotions from others, rendering them emotionally "numb".
	+ **Empathic Healing:** Raven can absorb the pain of others into her own body in order to induce rapid healing for them, and can heal herself by going into a trance of emotional calm.
	+ **Empathic Precognition**: She can receive precognitive flashes of the future when exposed to extreme emotion. She can receive flashes of extreme clarity which often helps her predict the future when exposed to extreme emotion.
	+ **Force Emotion**
	+ **Psychic Link**: By using her empathic-based powers, Raven can enter another person's mind allowing her to see, feel and hear what they encounter. By using her empathy to guide her, she can track others with her soul-self.
* **Illusion Casting**
* **Psionics**: Raven is able to read thoughts, project and broadcast her own thoughts, as well as scan and alter the memories of others.
* **Size Manipulation:** She can enlarge or shrink items to a suitable size.
* **Time Manipulation:** Raven can make time go backwards. It is conceivable that she might also be able to make time go fast-forward, too.
* **Darkness Manipulation**: Raven can generate darkness from herself and project it forward to attack her enemies. This darkness normally takes the form of a giant raven.
* **Dark Element Manipulation:** Raven as a half-demon, can manipulate the dark/destructive aspects of the elements.
	+ **Dark Elemental Attacks:** Building upon the previous ability, Raven can use dark elements to various attacks.
* **Disaster Manipulation:** Raven as a half-demon, can create, shape and manipulate all forms of natural disasters, including avalanches, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, hydrological disasters, meteorological disasters, wildfires, health disasters, space disaster, violent thunderstorms, hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, and floods, etc.
* **Demonic Energy Manipulation:** Raven as a half-demon, can manipulate demonic energy.
	+ **Demonic Energy Generation**
	+ **Demonic Infusion:** Raven can infuse demonic power into objects, beings or powers.

* **Demonic Matter Manipulation:** Raven as a half-demon, can manipulate matter of demonic origin.
* **Malefic Force Manipulation**
* **Morality Manipulation:** Raven can manipulate morality, making people ethically good or immorally evil by psychically kindling the targets’ minds so that they succumb to the voice of truth or to the urge of sin.
* **Sin Manipulation:** Raven can sense and manipulate the sins and vices of themselves and others, whether increasing, decreasing, causing or otherwise chancing envy, even manifesting the emotional energy to physical level.
	+ **Sin Empowerment:** Raven become stronger, faster, more durable, etc. by sins, vices, etc. (Pride, Envy, Lust, Wrath, Gluttony, Sloth, Greed, etc) of others.
	+ **Sin Constructs:** Raven can create objects, weapons and creatures out of emotions.
	+ **Pride Manipulation:** Raven as the avatar of pride, can manipulate the pride, arrogance and hubris of others.
		- **Pride Empowerment:** Raven can be empowered by the pride of others.
* **Effigy animation:** Through a small piece of her power, Rachel brought a gargoyle to life, although she was unaware of it and has no control over the gargoyle as it killed a street thug despite letting him live previously.
* **Replication:** Raven can duplicate herself and/or other objects.
* **Life-Force Absorption:** Raven can devastatingly drain the life-force out of any living organisms.
* **Limited Precognition**
* **Purification:** When Raven becomes her true demonic form, she can purify herself and other evil forces with the help of lost souls.
* **Transformation:** When Raven's anger gets the best of her, she can transform into her half-demon self, usually with four glowing red eyes (a trait inherited from her demon father, Trigon) and sprouting black tentacles from under her cloak. She has little control over her actions in this state, shown when she was attacking a terrified Doctor Light even after he was begging for mercy.
* **Cambion Vitality:** As part-demon, part-human, Raven is capable of withstanding more damage than either particular race alone.
* **Fang Retraction:** In addition, she's gifted with deadly, retractable sharp fangs.
* **Meteorite Summoning**
* **Useless Powers:** These include opening a walnut perfectly, turning something into a normal human and more.
* **Healing:** N/A
* **Future-Telling:** N/A
* **Life Creation:** She can grant life to any object or in other words, create a living being.
* **Reversion:** She can simply turn herself back to her normal appearance no matter what she has dressed herself up.

### Abilities

* **Meditation**
* **Martial Arts**: Raven has shown to defend herself in battle against armed cultists and even managed to best her brother Envy in one on one combat.
* **Occultism:** Though only occasionally used, Raven has displayed a wide arcane knowledge, possessing a vast library of mystic tomes, spell books and ancient scrolls. She has been shown making potions, using mystical objects like charms and talismans, and has performed elaborate magical rituals.
* **Multilingualism**: Raven is a skilled polyglot, capable of fluently speaking English, German, Latin, Romanian, Koine Greek**,** Akkadian, Ancient Sumerian, Assyrian, Aramaic, Hebrew, and Sanskrit. She can even speak the language of her own people, Azarathian.
* **Chakra Balancing**: Raven is shown to have this ability, but she doesn’t use it often. She also has a red jewel on her forehead, which has a spell that balances and imprisons her inner demon.

### Weaknesses

* **Emotions:** Raven's main weakness is letting go of her emotions, especially rage. Terra learned it from Beast Boy and took advantage of it in the judas contract to using it to finish her off. Even though her rage seems powerful, it could potentially corrupt her, leaving her very vulnerable to attacks with more power than her own. It also seems she can keep perfect control of her powers while exhibiting her emotions, as seen in "Spellbound". Raven is radiant with happiness and love, yet she is still able to control her powers with ease. If Raven suppresses her fear, she is unable to connect with her powers until she admits she is truly afraid.
* **Anger Management:** Her ultimate weakness is her anger. Other emotions aren't as Earth trembling as Raven's temper. Her anger is in the form of Trigon inside her mirror in Nevermore, then after defeated (to a point) the anger turns to another one of her, with her father's four red eyes and a red cloak. Anger is what changes her from her regular self to her demonic side practically every time.
* **Mnemonic Incantation**:  Another weakness of Raven's is her dependence on her incantation, *Azarath Metrion Zinthos*. If a gag is placed over Raven's mouth and she cannot recite her incantation intelligibly, she cannot connect with her powers until the gag is removed.

## Paraphernalia

### Equipment

* **Chakra**: The Chakra helps her to control the darker passions of her soul-self.
* **Spellbooks:** To aid in her magic, Raven has a vast assortment of spell books filled with all kinds of incantations. She can also read runes, which is the written language of magic, and cast increasingly powerful spells inside certain spell books she has in her room.
* **Book of Azar:** an ancient book from Azarath having some connection to the peacefully pacifist monk Azar, which came into Raven's possession and was carelessly used by Larry to fly around the living room of Titans Tower, to Raven's displeasure and her angry claims it was not a "toy."
* **Raven's mirror:** Raven has a sinister-looking hand mirror, which is a portal into her own subconscious mind.