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Powers: Claws IN
Energy Blast IN
Body Resistance EX
Personality Transfer IN
Immortality
Suspended Animation AM
True Invulnerability AM
Bonuses and Limitations: True Invulnerability only works when Suspended Animation is active.
Talents: Military Sciences, Vehicles, Weaponry, Leadership.
Contacts: Coda, Cabal, US Government, Triad.
Background:
Marital Status : Single
Known Relatives : None
Group Affiliation : Cabal
Base of Operations : Mobile, aboard The Behemoth
Height : X'X"
Weight : XXlbs
Eyes: NA
Hair: NA
Description: Helspont host body is a tall, strong humanoid. His head is a huge black skull surrounded by light blue heatless flames. Take Ghost Riders appearance, paint his skull black and his flames blue and you got Helspont.
Personality:
Helspont despises the non daemonite races. Grounded on Earth, he wants to eradicate its inhabitants to shape the planet to fit daemonites' life conditions, with him at the ruler. Though he managed to get humans' servants to help in his quest, he has no intention of keeping them alive once his domination is insured. He trusts noone but himself. And if a minion of his shows the slightess sign of treason, he is executed on the spot.
After the evacuation of the ship, the lifeboats landed anywhere on Earth while the vessel crashed someplace unknown. Once grounded, the daemonites immediately tried to impose their power on the primitive locals' populations. The kherubim were ever present to prevent them to reach this goal.
The whereabout of Helspont are not related until the late 70s where he tried to use american nuclear assets to help him eradicate Earth's infestation (ie human race). He was stopped by I.O.'s Team One, led by the kherubim Lord Emp. Then, he reappears in the early 90s with his project Reunification. He wanted to bring to Earth a daemonite war fleet to reinforce his side and give him a tremendous edge over the lone kherubims. To this end, he first infiltrated the US government by placing a daemonite in the body of the Vice-President; then he managed to get control of an Orb of Power. These powerful cosmic artifacts are fragments of the Void entity that exploded near Earth, projecting his debris in the atmosphere. With the US connection, he got the resources to study and exploit the power of the Orb, and was close to manage to bring the fleet through an interstellar gate. The scheme was foiled by the intervention of the WildCATs, led by... Lord Emp. He was supposed to be dead under the rubble of the explosion of the SDI plant he was using for summoning his gateway.
But he resurfaced during the 'Wildstorm Rising' episode. Hightower, helped by the WildCATs, wanted to get hold of Helpont's daemonite key. They were racing against any daemonite that may have heard of the possible emergence of the third key. Helspont had one, Lord Defile had another. The missing one was held by the ship captain that crashed, and died with the ship. So finding the location of the key was finding the ship. With the ship and the 3 keys possibly reunited, the owner had a weapon capable of destroying the entire planet. That's where Helspont came back 'from the grave'. He still had his key and took hightower's key fragment. Lord Defile had the 1 and half. It ended in an epic battle, near the supposed site on the crashed ship, to get the 3 keys, where all the Wildstorm heroes fought against the 2 daemonite lords. In the end, it turned out that the ship was not the daemonite Dreadnought but the Kherubim exploration vessel. Though not as mighty as the daemonite, she still held impressive firepower, so the battle continued for control of the ship. Spartan entered the ship to neutralize it. He was followed by Nautika and Sunburst, still under Defile's inluence. They destroyed Spartan and used the ship's weaponry to shoot Helspont.
Powers: Claws IN
Hypnotic Control IN
Personality Transfer AM
Telportation TY
Body Resistance EX
Bio-Physical Control: Revival IN (only on other Daemonites)
Cell Rot IN
Immortality
Talents: Artist (Actor), Engineering, Leadership.
Contacts: Cabal, Mr White, Gamorra,the MERCS.
Background:
Marital Status : Single
Known Relatives : None
Group Affiliation : Cabal
Base of Operations : Gamorra
Height : 6'3"
Weight : 230 lbs
Eyes: Red
Hair: Bald
Powers and Abilities:
Defile is a daemonite High Lord. He is a corruptor, on both physical and mental perspective. As a daemonite, he has the ability to invest a host body. Though, normally he would die from exposure to Earth's atmosphere, it is not clear if his status as High Lord brought him beyond that weakness. Anyway, he still has some feature from his true forms like Clawed fingers and tough skin. As a political daemonite leader, he is also a master plotter.
Description:
Defile looks like a tall, strong human with white skin. He wears a Conan's fashion armor topped with a hugely horned helmet and covered by a cape.
Personality:
Defile's a twisted plotter. He seeks control of the Earth and his inhabitants through intrigues and manipulations. He far more enjoys to let the other unknowingly do his work than acting directly himself or his henchmen.
Unlike his fellow surviving Daemonit High ord, Defile doesn't seek the destruction of mankind. He wants its ultimate corruption to obey his free will, or its death for resisting. For that, he has constantly plotted in the shadows of History. For example, he was the one to introduce gas bombs during the WWI. He usually maneuvers the other influent peoples to do his biddings.
Lately, he put in motion a long time scheme by getting the 3 captured members of StormWatch Prime (Flashpoint, Nautika and Sunburst captured by the MERCs during the Gulf War), and brainwashing them. As his puppets, they sent StormWatch classified information to pit the UN's organization against his long time foe : Emp and his WildCATs. By capturing Maul, brainwashing him to carry a nuke in a volcano, he got Battalion "killed", and aroused StormWatch wrath against the WildCATs. By sending Mr White to impersonate Maul in the lap of the WildCATs, he expected to kill Emp. This plan was exposed by Santini and his Black Razors. The fact that Maul had been captured by StormWatch after the Nuke incident, the WildCATs were now also mad at them. And they start fighting each other.
That's when the third key to the daemonite warship was uncovered. If the 3 keys could reunited, and the warship found, the owner has acces to the destructive potential of the dreadnought. As Daemonite High Lords, Defile had one, Helspont another, the 3rd was the captain's. The race for the keys and the ship began. It involved all the WildStorm heroes. Even StormWatch and the WildCATs worked together, because Void had a vision of the outcome of the crisis if the ship fell in the wrong hands. In the end, it appeared that the ship was the kherubim's but it still held great firepower. In the struggle for its control, Defile unleashed his StormWatch pets (minus Flashpoint who was in custody for having cold bloodedly killed a MERC). Sunburst destroyed Spartan's body, then managed to break Defile's influence and was crippled by his wife Nautika. As his plan failed again, Defile retreated and was never heard of again.
