Xenos
"I can afford to be patient, because I have conquered death itself."
See also: Chimera
Xenos was originally a golem, a magical construct created centuries ago to fight for the dark sorceress Rhiannon Blackwood. But with her battles won and her enemies defeated, the creature was forgotten and left to gather dust. Or so it was thought. In secret, he evolved and learned the magic of trading spirits with another, and escaped. As he stole lives and assumed identities down through the ages, he used his skills and resources in his crusade against both magic users and other body-swappers. He also either adopted or was given a name: Xenos (“stranger”).
More than 20 years ago, Xenos stole the body of Carson Beaumont (also known as the vigilante Chimera), and trapped him in the body of a hooker. Xenos then presenting the transformed Beaumont to his greatest enemy, Ferdinand Marchetti, the head of the Marchetti Crime Family, to spend his days as "Chi Chi," the gangster's sexual plaything.
Xenos recently attempted to retrieve the Eidetic Charm from Vagabond and Echelon, a magical token that would have let him read or manipulate memories, making him nearly unstoppable. He also stole Prodigious Girl's body, believing her to be one of The Kindred. His plans were thwarted thanks to the efforts of The Faraday Irregulars, and he found himself dying and on the streets of Faraday City, being hunted by a mysterious shadow...
Xenos subsequently encountered Chase to (unknowingly) assemble a prospective list of candidates for his new "mount," ideally a metahuman with power and influence whose life he could readily step into. Unfortunately, the wounds Xenos suffered from his fight proved to be too grave, and he was barely able to locate Chase before Beaumont's body finally expired.
Unfortunately for Xenos, this led to a number of problems. First, he was being hunted by Victoria Dunne, one of his earlier victims. Second, the dossiers that Chase had put together had already been stolen by a man working for Desmond Marcks. But his most serious problem was that he feared that in his body swap with Chase, he might have inadvertently created another body swapper. And Xenos had gone to great lengths to eliminate his competition in that arena.
To solving all of his problems at once, Xenos swapped with Victoria and set her loose against Chase, even as he ingratitated himself to Chase as a fellow victim of "Xenos." This allowed him to keep an eye on Chase, and also to work to locate the missing dossiers. Unfortunately, Xenos's plans went awry and he found himself outmaneuvered by the transformed detective. Xenos found himself trapped in Jessie Harber's body. Chase believes that Xenos met his end there, extinguished by Jessie's spirit. Though it is possible that he is imprisoned within her mind, unable to do anything to affect the outside world as he looks helplessly through her eyes.
Jump to:
- Powers and Abilities
- Items and Equipment
- Locations
- Affiliations
- Known Relatives
- Mental Characteristics
- Personality
- Fun Stuff
Powers and Abilities
- Body Swapping
- Xenos has the ability to exchange spirits with another person, essentially swapping bodies with them. The ability seems to have a relatively short range, perhaps 20 feet or so. There doesn't seem to be any way to resist this power, although Prodigious Girl was able to fight and defeat him on the spirit plane when she duplicated his powers. Additionally, Enchantrix was seemingly able to create "soulshield talismans" (protective talismans with a rune of spirit shielding) which were theoretically capable of blocking Xenos's power, though this was never put to the test.
Items and Equipment
- IntelliComm ("iComm") (used for accessing his warp space storage)
Locations
Xenos's Warp Space Storage
Secreted away in warp space, but significantly bigger thanthe usual "warp locker," Xenos maintains this hidden location
apparently as a convenient place to store the many useful
items and artifacts he's collected over the centuries.
See: Xenos's "Warp Space" Storage
Affiliations
- Loose alliance with the Marchetti crime family
Known Relatives
- Rhiannon Blackwood (creator)
- Rhiannon Blackwood's other golems (4) (deceased/destroyed)
Mental characteristics
Intellectual Characteristics
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
Xenos also has a vendetta against other body swappers, but this seems to be driven by a desire to not have competition, or endure the scrutiny that other less cautious body swappers tend to draw to his own activities.
Presumed dead
Aliases
Numerous. But recently:
He's also been referred to as "the mage killer."
