Last Updated on Sunday, February 08, 2004

Dominus was originally a mortal priest on a distant world. One of the five highest of their order was destined to become Kismet, the Illuminator of the Ways. He, Tuoni, was believed by most and by his lover, Ahti, to be the most devoted and deserving. However when ascension came it was Ahti that the universe picked. Angered Tuoni unleashed terrible magic against his former lover, he would have been destroyed had Ahti, now Kismet, not placed his non-corporal form in the Phantom Zone. There he remained alive on some vague level. His wraith like form was found by the holographic Kem-El who used Kryptonian science to give him a physical presence again.

When the Eradicator opened the Phantom Zone to get materials to build the Fortress of Solitude Dominus escaped and destroyed his former homeworld, casting the souls of its inhabitants into the Phantom Zone. He then went after Kismet. She was nearly destroyed before escaping. Knowing Superman's link to her Dominus began to manipulate his dreams throwing him into four divergent realities before being defeated by Superman and the Lois Lane and Lex Luthor could Superman cast Dominus back into a Phantom Zone.