Arion, High Mage of Atlantis Respect Thread

A small respect thread for Arion, High Mage of Atlantis!

First we’ll start with his depowered era, in which he either has no magical abilities or has to use spells, natural psychic ability or objects of power to act.

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Arion’s brief origin.

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Retold in a different way…Arion’s father moves a STAR.

Depowered

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A depowered Arion (shorn of his natural magical abilities, using only trickets and spells and knowledge) senses a great disturbance in the universe, then looks years into the future to see what is causing it.

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Looks through time to the events happening 400 years in the future, then travels to the future. Again, all very casually.

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Casually banishes the amazingly powerful Subjekt 17, an alien on par with Superman in destructive ability (and arguably even more versatile).

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Easily captures the mage masquerading as Arion. This mage was apparently powerful enough that no one noticed that he wasn’t Arion, and helped out during Day of Vengeance.

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More imprisonment of fake Arion (who is apparently from Arkon Ohio).

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‘Seizes control’ of the minds of a number of young New Gods, gets them to play in Metropolis, just to make a point to Superman.

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Knocks Superman down with a magical blast and creates a spell to take over his mind (which, thanks to help from Zatanna, doesn’t actually work).

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Arion shows Superman, Lois, Perry and Jimmy a post apocalyptic future that will occur if things aren’t changed.

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Casually defends against the Science police, then flies away. Shows natural shields around him.

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Shields himself from the prying eyes of the science police and from Superman’s Super Senses.

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Creates a magical energy shield that is totally impervious/impermeable to Superman, but allows water to flow through it freely.

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Unleashed a few Darkness creatures against Zatanna and Superman which cause them immense trouble, and says that he could unleash many more throughout the city if he really wanted to cause damage.

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Lots in this one. Battles a Superman who has a protective shield created by the Phantom Stranger, protecting him from magic. Arion makes it clear that his attack SHOULD flay the skin from Superman’s bones, that if he had his full power he could casually remove that shield, transforms New Gods into ancient water demons capable of giving Superman a bit of trouble, transforms himself into a incredibly large and powerful Lovecraftian horror capable of giving Superman serious trouble, threatens to pull Superman’s soul from his body, and then it’s revealed that he’s been keeping the underwater Atlantian city together the entire time as well. And then, once Superman removes his talismans, he teleports back to his own time and reveals that he used disguise spells on the guy from Akron Ohio to make everyone think he had been captured.

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Pretty much totally devoid of magical ability, he still can conjure illusions without spells.

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Calls down the power of a God, the weaver of the threads of magic and fate that flow through the universe then, once the power has been weaved back into him (it gives him back his connection to the magic, but only for a while) he knocks the god down and threatens to destroy him.

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Still without his normal abilities, spells allow him to call down an Eye of Amagetto type power.

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Can still destroy a bunch of powerful future tech with his spells.

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Even without his magic, he still has natural psychic abilities that he can use to mind probe people and devices and even occasionally see into the future.

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Again psychic abilities.

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Drives back an army of primitives that all the armies of Atlantis can’t beat.

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Arion calls down power from his ‘dead’ father, a being around since the beginning of creation. This leaves him more powerful than he normally is, but still limited in the amount of magic he has. Still, he defeats Garn (who continually has his magic), imprisoning him in powerful magical chains from which he can’t escape.

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The battle is renewed, each calling upon the power of their patron gods. Arion counteracts Darth’s spell, and teleports.

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Totally without his magical powers, he battles a pirate hand to hand, weapon to weapon, demonstrating his physical skill.

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Totally without powers, he demonstrates his skill with a blade.

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Has psychic abilities, shows them again.

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Again calling upon the power of his father to help him out, he battles Gareth across dimensions, and actually commands the stuff of one dimension, Darkworld (from which all magic originates at this point) to eat him up.

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He faces off against the Dark God who once ruled the earth, and plans on doing so again. Banishes him quite nicely.

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Parts time to talk to his dead father.

Fully Powered

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Zatanna describes him as a being with access to nearly limitless magical energy before he was depowered.

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Gets his magic back, destroys a bunch of demons.

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Turns a bunch of people into apes with a thought.

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Creates a permanent inter-dimensional portal in his home (after teleporting everyone there).

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Darkworld houses some of the most powerful magical creatures in existence. It exists as kind of a limbo. Darkworld itself is throwing these beings at Arion, and he casually destroys them.

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Arion was Sorceror Supreme, “king of the world” basically the most powerful sorcerer of his time. He has the power to prevent or cause the resurgence of ALL of their type of magic in the entire DCU.

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Gets free from magical shackles, the stuff of the universe, then faces down the weaver and teaches him a lesson.

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Arion EASILY defeats both his brother Garn AND the source of all ancient magic to save the world. Then he teleports him and power girl away.

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The power of the Dark God Chaon is enough not only to destroy the planet, but to bring about the destruction of the universe (this will become important in a bit). Moreover, he represents the Chaos portion of a cosmic trinity, without the existence of which all of creation would unravel. Here we see that he’s stopped (but not killed, since all of creation would be destroyed) his two counterparts (order and balance), trapped the god of the threads in his own webs (those threads are the fabric of the universe) and pretty much stopped/killed all gods that are benevolent.

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If Chaon and his sister touch, the entire universe will be driven to madness…such is the depth and breadth of their power.

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Here is what happens when they do touch – planets go spinning out of control, suns nearly go nova, etc. Also, Arion’s father mentions that he’s destroyed entire dimensions. His father is less powerful than he is.

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A brief skirmish with Chaon, and Arion demonstrates intangibility.

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Arion saves every surviving person on quickly sinking atlantis, and destroys Chaon’s physical form as well.

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Destroys a mountain, leaving a pillar intact for he and his friends.

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Causes an acid rain to get rid of some undead monsters.

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Exorcises a powerful demon, destroys the beings the demon sent against his friends.

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Creates sail constructs and talks to his brother garn from a great distance.

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Arion creates a shield for the entire city of Atlantis, energy blasts to intercept some of the blasts coming at him, follows his mystical senses to a place of danger and uses a spell to reveal his enemies.

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Arion brings a guy back to life, and then makes it clear that he can keep his soul for as long as he wants, refusing to allow it to go to the afterlife until after he’s said all he wants to know.

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Destroys the embodiment of an entire sun (his mother).

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Converts a stationary citadel into a flying ship to sail through Darkworld.

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Was summoned by Kara’s dreams.

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Creates a kind of dark magic energy double of Power Girl.

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Weakens Mordru while in spirit form.

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Casts a spell to allow Kara to breath under water.

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Arion’s anger manifests as both physical creatures and as an energy that rips people’s souls out of their bodies.

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His mother, already an accomplished Dark Mage, gains control of The Mystic Eye, the heart of Darkworld. Arion still destroys her with ease.

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Having just recouped his magical abilities, he battles a bunch of Darkworld demons and pretty casually defeats them, impressing his demon friend who had lived there for millennia.

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Arion faces off against a being made from the magic of Darkworld. His demon buddy makes it clear that you can’t fight the magic of Darkworld WITH the magic of Darkworld, which SHOULD make his attacks essentially useless. But Arion, as Arion says, no being has ever fought Darkworld with his level of power and he does the impossible – Blasts the creature to smithereens.

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Big battle with a creature made from Darkness which threatens to destroy Atlantis, and then with the guy who summoned it as they battle across dimensions.

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Arion ‘grapples with true gods’, has the power to excise all the souls held within Katar Hol and teleports Katar away.

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Takes control of Martian Manhunter.

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Astral battle between Garn and Arion has to be taken to another world due to collateral damage, their blasts shake the world, etc.

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Casually stops Etrigan.

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Hurts Diana a bunch, and outreacts her as well.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v58/Desaad/Arion/?action=view&current=WonderWoman108-09.jpg

Puts down Diana with a single (sucker) shot from behind.

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When Arions best friend is turned into a half man/half animal hybrid but super science, Arion puts him right back to normal.

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Summons a very powerful Atlantian monster (and implies that he subdued it before).

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His mystical knowledge/senses far outstrip even those of the sorcerer Atlan (father of Orin).

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v58/Desaad/Arion/?action=view&current=Aquamanv325-12.jpg

Gets Tiamut, mystical dragon, to let go of Power Girl.

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v58/Desaad/Arion/?action=view&current=Aquamanv325-21.jpg

Heals dolphin (off panel, but you can see the implication here).

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v58/Desaad/Arion/?action=view&current=Aquaman24p07.jpg

Creates an energy shield to block some energy blasts.

Any contributions greatly appreciated.

Next comes a small one for Johnny Sorrow.

Where are the ones with Superman from?

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Where are the ones with Superman from?

Superman: Camelot Falls.

Collected in two TPBs, or assorted issues (ending in Superman Annual 13, I believe).

I'd give you more exact issue numbers but due to fill ins/delays it's difficult to recall. They are very scattershot.

nice thread. this character seems pretty powerful.

this guy seems pretty cool,i only love one figure of atlantis though. 😄

Super good thread ! Keep up the good work !