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Tanya Trask (Earth-4935)

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Real Name
Tanya Trask
Current Alias

Identity

Affiliation
Clan Askani, Askani Sisterhood

Relatives
Dr. Bolivar Trask (father, deceased), Unnamed mother (deceased), Larry Trask (brother), Donald Trask III (cousin)

Universe

Base Of Operations
Ebonshire

Characteristics
Gender

Hair

Status
Citizenship

Marital Status

Occupation
Askani leader

Origin
Origin
Mutant

Place of Death
Unknown


First appearance

Contents

History

Tanya Trask was the daughter of Bolivar Trask, the first creator of the Sentinels, and sister of Larry Trask. Her mutant powers of time travel caused her to "disappear" one day. She learned to control her telepathy and telekinesis from Rachel Summers, whom she met while floating in the timestream. Together, the two of them formed the Clan Askani 2000 years in our future. As a young woman, Sanctity tried to change the past so that her father's creations wouldn't destroy mutantkind. Rachel tried to stop her, but their battle itself prompted Bolivar Trask to push his project to completion. However, Sanctity did upload the identities of the Twelve into Master Mold's core programming, hoping that by having the twelve destroyed, she would prevent the rise of Apocalypse. After the death of the Mother Askani (Rachel), Sanctity was the most powerful Askani left. However, her experiences had left her severely traumatized and her sanity was under strain. She Aliya and charged her with training the Askani'Son. She captured by Stryfe, who faked her death, during the fall of Ebonshire, and agreed to train him, as she recognized the power signature of her messiah in Chaos-Bringer.

She was responsible for sending Ch'Vayre to our time and for sending Cyclops and Phoenix to the nineteenth century to stop Apocalypse from destroying the world. Recently, she was detained by the chronologists of the Maximum Secret, a way-station between timelines, in order to get Cable to realize his true destiny as well as the fact that he can't change his future.

However, Sanctity's entire history is now suspect, as she was seen as a child in the Askani future, and that future as a whole has now apparently been negated by the defeat of Apocalypse in our present.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Telepathy: can read minds and project her thoughts into other minds within a vast, potentially limitless radius. Her notable powers include:

  • Telepathic Cloak: Can mask her presence from being detected by others. Her abilities can at times go undetected or be counteracted by other more powerful telepaths depending on their level of skill in using their own psi abilities. She can extend these defenses to others around her as well.
  • Mind Control: ability to control the minds of others upon mere concentration.
  • Mind Possession: ability to possess the mind of another, and use that beings body as her own.
  • Mind Alteration: ability to alter the minds of others by force of will, changing their personality partially or entirely.
  • Psionic Shield: ability to erect a psychic shield for protection of herself and of others minds.
  • Telepathic Illusions: ability to create illusions to make herself seem to be invisible, look like someone else, or make others experience events that are not truly happening.
  • Mental Paralysis: ability to induce temporary mental or physical paralysis.
  • Mental Amnesia: Can erase any awareness of particular memories or cause total amnesia.
  • Psionic Blasts: can project psionic force bolts which have no physical effects but which can affect a victim's mind so as to cause the victim pain or unconsciousness and turning someone brain-dead.
  • Astral Projection: can project her astral form from her body onto astral planes or the physical planes. In the physical plane she can only travel in astral form over short distances. In the astral plane, she can mentally create psionic objects and manipulate the aspects of her environment.
  • Mind Transferal: able to transfer both her mind and powers into other host bodies should her own physical body be somehow killed.
  • Mental Detection: can sense the presence of another superhuman mutant within a small but as yet undefined radius of himself by perceiving the distinctive mental radiations emitted by such a being.

Telekinesis: Possesses telekinetic abilities enabling her to manipulate matter with the energy of her thoughts, create force fields and fire concussive psionic force blasts. By using her telekinesis to levitate herself, Sanctity can fly at incredible speeds. She can sustain shields that can withstand Jovian atmospheric pressures, and even repel nuclear weapon attacks.

Time Travel: Possesses the psionic power to displace herself and others at almost any specific point in the timestream and then reemerging in the physical world from as much as a few minutes to years by generating chronal energies. She could apparently travel in astral form as well. She could also travel to points in the future.

Notes

Sanctity's fate is unknown, she was last seen agreeing to train the young Stryfe

Trivia

The origin of Sanctity poses a continuity issue caused by an error. Uncanny X-Men #minus 1 depicts her as Tanya Trask, Bolivar Trask's teenage daughter. However Phoenix #3, written by John Francis Moore, shows a little girl named Sanctity under the care of the Order of Witnesses. This is not the only continuity issue caused by the Phoenix limited series.

One possible explanation is that during her childhood, Tanya's powers activated and she travelled all the way to the Earth-4935 timeline and remained there for a short time.

The other possibility is that the child Sanctity and Madame Sanctity are two separate characters.

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