The Oblivion Knight

Amanthi Abesuriya’s early life was marked by sickness and turmoil. Her parents fled Sri Lanka when she was a child. Though an advanced nation, the civil war between the Tamil Tigers and the militaristic government had already cost Amanthi a beloved uncle and two cousins. Soon after the family emigrated to Canada, she developed a rare brain cancer. Not expected to live, her parents and doctors continued her care regardless and Amanthi survived the experience. Afterward, she told tales of a glorious being who visited her during her illness, granting visions of “a perfect, orderly world without struggle and pain.” She called this being Mistress Obliv­ion, a bringer of “ultimate peace, the great stillness.” Her stories were dismissed as hallu­cinations brought on by her illness and she was told not to speak such nonsense.
But the girl knew her visions were real.
After graduating college, Amanthi floundered, with no clear aims or career goals. Though discouraged from doing so by her family, she joined the armed forces, drawn not by the pay or benefits, but the discipline and physical rigor.
Her service was uneventful until Canada suffered a paral­lel world incursion: desolate laws of physics descended, toxic rain fell, the landscape twisted, hideous vegetation blossomed. AEGIS responded, coordinating with the army on containment, search, and rescue. But the terrestrial forces were no match for the alien war-machines which occupied the terrible terrain. AEGIS technology and su­perhuman support prevented a total rout, but Amanthi’s squad took heavy casualties, leaving her the sole survivor.
She would have died save for the intervention of an AEGIS-affiliated superhero. As they wandered the twisting hellscape, Amanthi felt her childhood cancer return, spreading through her body—she said nothing, but knew she was dying. She felt no fear but instead renewed purpose because she could hear Mis­tress Oblivion again. The pair linked up with other personnel and reached the invasion’s center. In pitched battle, Amanthi spotted a mummified figure lying atop a palanquin— an armored warrior bearing a pulsing gem­stone. The stone called to Amanthi, and she walked in a daze through the conflict and claimed it. She then used her new powers to mercilessly slay her fellow soldiers and the superhero who’d saved her. As soon as she had picked up the gem, she knew her purpose. Amanthi donned the dead fig­ure’s armor and began walking back toward civilization with two of the remaining robot soldiers that were previously part of the invasion marching in step behind their new commander. The rift in space-time healed when Amanthi was reborn as the new Oblivion Knight.

Physical Description

Special abilities

The Oblivion Knight’s physical prowess is greatly aug­mented by the nature of the mantle she’s taken up. She can draw on the knowledge and insights of counterparts across parallel worlds and timelines.
The Oblivion Gemstone issues forth beams which can disrupt living tissues, rapidly age targets, negate super­human abilities (but cannot nullify abilities gained from knowledge, training, or gear), and cause inorganic matter to crumble to dust. The Oblivion Knight’s armor and sig­nature weapon, her Cold-Staff, make her a powerful force on the battlefield. She commands a small paramilitary cult and twin Oblivion Trooper droids.

Mental characteristics

Intellectual Characteristics

The Oblivion Knight is a zealous acolyte of Mistress Oblivion, a different aspect of Entropy that’s also vener­ated by Omega and The Annihilists. She plans to remake Earth-Prime into the new Terminus throneworld through mystic corruption and targeted violence, rather than wholesale destruction. Her commanding personality is able to sway others to her cause, and she now com­mands a dedicated cult.
Despite her faith, Amanthi is haunted by the memories of previous Oblivion Knights. She finds solace with her lover Petka, a traumatized Iraqi War veteran who gained meta-human powers during Emerald City's Silver Storm.

Social

Contacts & Relations

The Oblivion Knight’s closest allies are her Oblivion Cult­ists, including her girlfriend Petka and her twin, robotic Oblivion Troopers.
The Oblivion Knight opposes Omega and his servants as apostates, because they worship a different aspect of Entropy.