Eliphas (Earth-616)
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Some two thousand years ago, Eliphias was once a promising soldier before being injured in battle. He later tried to be a poet until he met Aurelia, who granted him a seat in the Senate. Unfortunately, he was only a puppet for Aurelia to sell his seat of Mascius, a high ranking general, who she was having an affair with. Eliphias was forced out of his wife's home, with only two ruby earrings in his hands. He gave them to a slave girl named Claudia.
With his entire life in shambles, Eli wandered the streets of Rome, when he met a woman named Selene, who knew a lot about him. She offered him a ride in her carriage. At first, Eliphias presumed that she was in Rome for Senate business until she offered him eternal life and her love if he helps her sacrifice every soul in Rome. Eli soon agreed to when Mascius acquired his seat in the Senate without his knowledge and Aurelia burned all of his possessions. All what Eliphias had to do was smear five runes around Rome in his own blood that will enact a spell that will allow Selene to reap the tens of thousands of souls for her to gain immortality. However, Eliphias spotted Claudia and warned her of what was going to happen and instructed her not to tell anyone but her family. Unfortunately, his little act of kindness would seal his fate, as Claudia's father warned Mascius of the plot and Eliphias was captured before he could initiate the spell as well as Selene. They were taken to stakes outside the city to be burned. Selene awoke quickly and turned the flames against their would-be executioners. Furious at Eliphias for his failure, with her lifeforce withering away from use of her magic, she absorbed his, denying him death or even herself to him. This made him a vampire-like mutate
Seven hundred years later, a farmer discovered Eliphias' body in a field and was swiftly killed through a swift bite to the jugular. He returned to his former house, learning that it has been centuries and the people living there are descendants of Mascius and Aurelia. Furious, Eliphias slaughtered the entire family, before causing plague in Rome so he could reobtain the dagger he was intending to use centuries ago.
Desperate for Selene, Eliphias, still in love with her, traced her tracks and causing death everywhere he went. Eventually, he changed his name to Eli Bard and followed Selene's trail to the New World. He encountered a tribe of Apache who recognized him for what he was but were unable to kill him. He massacred the tribe for sustenance, which was blamed on diseases brought by the Europeans. By the 20th century, he had found Selene in Nova Roma but was too scared to approach her. He needed an offering to appease, meaning that he would enact the same ritual he did two millennia before. He eventually joined the the Purifiers, figuring that the religious mutant haters would be perfect sacrifices for Selene.
In the aftermath of the Coopertown massacre, Eli assisted Matthew Risman in recovering Bastion's head from a S.H.I.E.L.D. base and attaching it to the body of Nimrod. The android soon began enacting plan for the extermination of mutantkind, involving the recovery of an offspring of Magus. However, Bastion didn't trust Eli, as he had no record of him, future or present in his databanks. Only Matthew's vouch kept him from being killed, promising to find more about Bard later.
Eli later accompanied Matthew and his newly assembled Choir, willing and unwilling Purifiers inject with the techno-organic virus form Angel's wings to grow their own, to destroy Bastion, considering his resurrection of William Stryker through the Technarchy unholy. But as Archangel interfered, seeking vengeance on those who took his wings, Eli broke the casing around the spawn of Magus, absorbing the transmode virus onto his left arm. Matthew came in, ready to destroy the Technarch and was shocked at what he was seeing. Eli soon revealed his truth nature and was about to suck Matthew dry but his friend was killed by X-23. Furious that he was robbed of Matthew's blood, he moved on X-23, planning on feasting on her healing factor and then resurrect her, only to be stabbed in the back by James Proudstar. Bard then fled.
Bard dug up the graves of the Apache tribe he slaughtered, and reanimated their corpses with the transmode virus. He also corrupted the animal gods with his dagger, poisoning them with dark magic and creating the Demon Bear One interesting prospect was Caliban. He presented Caliban to Selene, as he would be able to find all dead mutant so that he could resurrect them as his offering; she was very pleased. Bard then went on to reviving many deceased mutants, including the Hellions, Cypher, Destiny and many more, so that Selene could exact her revenge on the people who failed in her in her quest for godhood. Eventually, Bard resurrected the countless mutants on Genosha.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
- Immortality
- Intangibility - Somehow, Bard can become intangible, able to allow solid objects to pass through him.
Abilities
Strength level
Superhuman typeWeaknesses
Requires human sustenance to replenish himself
Paraphernalia
Transportation
Plane
Notes
- His current alias, Eli Bard, is likely a shortening of his real name, Eliphas, and the word "bard", which is a synonym for poet, his original profession.
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