God Tempest (Earth-616)

God Tempest
Name	Unrevealed
Aliases	God Tempest, Mother of Thunder, Mother Storm
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Cosmic storm
Living Status	Alive
Reality	Earth-616
Personal Information
Identity	No Dual
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Jason Aaron, Frazer Irving
First	Mighty Thor (Vol. 2) #12 (March, 2012)
First	Mighty Thor (Vol. 2) #12 (March, 2012)

History

According to the records of Omnipotence City's Halls of All-Knowing, the phenomenon known as the God Tempest, or the Mother of Thunder, was a cosmic thunderstorm that existed since the dawn of time, and grew gradually in size each eon that passed. The worst of its wrath was reserved for those who truly deserved it, which made people believe it had a mind of its own.

On its path of destruction, the God Tempest eventually reached Asgard. The All-Father Odin confronted the storm and fended it off for days with the power of the Odin-Force. Once the storm grew tired and weak, Odin struck it with a nugget of Uru which had been gifted to him by the Dwarves of Nidavellir. Through means of dark and primal magic, the storm became entrapped inside the Uru.

Odin subsequently took the piece of Uru back to the Dwarves so they could forge it into a weapon through which Odin could wield the storm's power. After seventeen weeks of forging, during which the Dwarves had to use the power of a star to reshape the metal, the piece of Uru was transformed into a hammer, which Odin dubbed Mjolnir. However, the storm still raged inside the mallet, and Odin failed to contain it, forcing him to enchant it to prevent anybody else from lifting it. Mjolnir was then left to sit in the weapons hall of Asgard for ages. According to the Lord Librarian, the God Tempest eventually died, and only its power remained within Mjolnir.

The hammer would become the weapon of Odin's son Thor, who proved himself worthy to bypass the hammer's enchantment. Many ages later, the hammer appeared to have regained its sentience. After Thor lost its ability to wield it, the hammer also rejected Odin's grasp. Mjolnir found a new owner in the form of the mortal Jane Foster, and even temporarily took her appearance and impersonated her to protect her identity as the new Thor, an action the hammer expressed to be unable to replicate without a century of rest or so.

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Powers

The God Tempest was a cosmic storm the size of a galaxy. According to the Halls of All-Knowing, "its winds blew comets off course, ripped worlds from their orbit, and snuffed out stars like flickering candles." Its lightning was capable of turning moons into dust, and its thunder made black holes tremble. It took Odin all of his forces and days to contain it.

See Also

• 11 appearance(s) of God Tempest (Earth-616)
• 3 minor appearance(s) of God Tempest (Earth-616)
• 19 mention(s) of God Tempest (Earth-616)
• 2 invocation(s) of God Tempest (Earth-616)
• 5 image(s) of God Tempest (Earth-616)
• 1 victim(s) killed by God Tempest (Earth-616)