Lords of Order (DC)
The Lords of Order are a group of beings that feature in DC Comics.
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History
Origin
The Lords of Order were the first sentient race that evolved in the universe that emerged on the planet Cilia. (JSA v1 #42) It was said that they were created by the Presence. (Spectre v3 #14)
The forces of order and chaos were engaged in an unending struggle throughout the Multiverse. Nabu became an exiled Lord of Order who descended to take human form as he became a guardian condemned to Earth for eternity. (DC Special Series v1 #10) Long ago, the Gemworld was a new sector and not deemed significant to warrant a very powerful Lord of Order with one of their number dispatched to the mystical planet. Contained with a gem, he took host bodies to serve as his vessels but came to fall in love with Citrina and used the mortal form of Lord Amethyst to consummate their relationship. Citrina became pregnant with her child being a Lord of Order who would be known as Amethyst. (Amethyst v2 #13)
In Ancient Egypt, Nabu after clothing himself in flesh came to serve as the magical court advisor to the Egyptian Pharaoh who served as a force of order in the world. He helped to moderate the new Pharaoh who had begun to persecute the Hebrew people. Around this time, the Spectre was summoned to punish the Pharaoh for his actions with Nabu challenging the entity at first before coming to realise the nature of his foe. Despite his efforts, he was unable to stem the acts of vengeance perpetrated by the Spectre against the Pharaoh and his followers. (Spectre v3 #14)
During the Invasion, the alien Alliance attacked the Earth in an effort to control the Metagene. In this time, the Spectre looked to intervene on behalf of humanity but was called by the Lords of Order who warned against taking part in this matter in the mortal world. This was because the invasion was not a creation of chaos and that any action by the Lords of Order would result in their counterparts in the Lords of Chaos siding with the alien Alliance thus disrupting the balance. (Invason! v1 #1)
By the modern day, the Lords of Order intervened in a battle between Doctor Fate and Typhon where they took Nabu along with his host away. They believed that the current cycle was lost to chaos and that their foes should be allowed to win whereupon they could triumph in the following age. Nabu pleaded with them to reconsider as such a path led to the death of billions but the Lords of Order had made their decision. (Doctor Fate v1 #1)
When Dream returned to the Dreaming, the event created a change in the balance of the cosmos with the Lords of Order deciding to send one of their own to represent them. It was decided that Kilderkin was to be dispatched so that he could bargain with Morpheus to gain something that they had coveted. Thus, they were among the many attendees who journeyed into the Dreaming in order to meet the Dream King. (Sandman v2 #24)
Through the efforts of Eclipso, the Spectre came to be driven insane and made to believe that magic was evil. As such, the Spectre went on a rampage bringing about the destruction of mystical sources of power and resulting in the end of the Ninth Age of Magic. This saw many of the Lords of Order and Chaos who were massacred as a result leaving Nabu their last surviving member. By this point, the helmet of Doctor Fate no longer required a host with Nabu manifesting his power as he battled the insane Spectre. Unable to stop him, Nabu provoked the Spectre into further acts of evil to the point that the Presence took notice of the Spirit of Vengeance's actions and bound him to a new host. Thus, the rampage of the Spectre was stopped but Nabu was critically wounded and dying though he came to herald the start of the Tenth Age of Magic leaving his helmet behind though now deprived of his power. (Infinite Crisis Special: Day of Vengeance v1 #1)
Post-Flashpoint
Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.
It was said that their origins were traced to the dawn of man in more primitive and wild times when a group of explorers, scientists and philosophes sought to bring about order to the world so that it could be in harmony with its elements. This led to them finding a power that they dragged into the world with this becoming the first magic which they used to reshape themselves as the Lords of Order. The power was too great, however, and their bodies could not hold it which was why they bound it to artifacts to contain it without it spreading out into the world. Despite their measures, magic came to spread among mortals leading to the Lords of Order teaching the means to control it and prevent its handling in its rawest form. Thus, they were said to had been the authors of the first books of magic under the belief that it could benefit the world. (Justice League Dark v2 #2) During the dawn of humanity, the Lords of Order created an ancient rite that convened the forces that infused the natural world with power thus convening the Parliaments of Life. This led to the creation of the Green, the Red, the Rot, the Grey and the Divided. (Justice League Dark v2 #20)
At some point, the Lords of Order had encountered a being known as the Might Beyond The Mirror and were barely able to combat it. In Vanity, the Might Beyond The Mirror was granting the wishes of the town's inhabitants thus upsetting the cosmic order. As a result, the Kingbutcher was dispatched to Earth to that town where he undid the wishes leading to a confrontation with the Justice League. (Justice League of America v5 #10) He was defeated by the Justice League where he returned to the Lords of Order in their realm who chastised him for his loss and decided that someone else needed to be sent to deal with the Might Beyond the Mirror. (Justice League of America v5 #11)
After the Source Wall was damaged, Nabu of the Lords of Order ultimately concluded that magic was a corruptive and chaotic presence in the universe. Thus, he determined that it needed to be purged and the cosmos remade again in a more orderly fashion. To that end, he forcibly took possession of his host Kent Nelson and summoned the other-dimensional beings known as the Otherkind to consume all magic. He then assembled four other Lords of Order to join him on this grand plan where they forcibly took over the bodies of Madame Xanadu, Ibis the Invincible, Extrano and Prince Ra-Man as hosts for their essence. They then worked in concert in removing all resistance to the Otherkind so that the entities could consume magic as the Lord's unwitting weapon. The Lords of Order confronted the Justice League Dark on the otherdimensional realm of Myrra in order to end their efforts in stopping their plan. (Justice League Dark v2 #9) They began to slowly strip that realm and expose it to the void as they intended to destroy each of the mystical lands such as Gemworld before making their way to Heaven and Hell. The ultimate goal was to shatter the Sphere of the Gods thus destroying all magic in existence. (Justice League Dark v2 #10) To spare magic users, they offered to strip them of magic and their memories of it allowing them to live ordinary lives with them conducting this at the fallen empire of Kor. However, the Justice League Dark empowered themselves with chaos magic and used it to challenge the Lords of Order whereby Nabu was trapped within his helmet and another of the Lords was stripped from her host whilst the other two fled. (Justice League Dark v2 #12)
Overview
Members of the Lords of Order were not human and were in fact energy beings. (JSA v1 #42) These burning energy beings were created full developed and knew no childhood. (DC Special Series v1 #10) In order to manifest, a Lord required a host body which wore an artefact linked to the entity. (Justice League Dark v2 #9) These were referred to as the Amulets of Power and served as the means for them to interact among the lower planes. (Justice League Dark v2 #10) They were beyond sex or form thus such identifiers was pointless with them. (Doctor Fate v2 #2) The Lords of Order did not believe in the use of emotion as it was a pathway towards chaos and similarly did not wish to leave events to possibilities. (Justice League Dark v2 #10)
They were god-like beings that carried out a never-ending struggle against their evil opposite numbers in the Lords of Chaos. It was said that they never fell in love and never procreated with such a thing being seen as a sign of weakness. (Amethyst v2 #13)
Known Amulets of Power included:
- Cloak of Cyra :
- Cloak of Destiny :
- Boots of Dalphi :
- Gauntlet of Myrath :
- Breastplate of Hoku :
- Helmet of Fate :
The Lords followed true order as dictated in the Cosmic Logs that followed the pattern set out in the Book of Souls. (Justice League of America v5 #10) On the mortal planet, they once created the Towers of Order that had not risen in millennia. (Justice League Dark v2 #10)
Members
Lords
- Nabu :
- Amethyst :
- Deedra :
- Gemimn :
- Jheryl :
- Kilderkin : a Lord of Order who took the form of am empty cardboard box that contained his essence and interacted with others via his servant that carried him around. He was among the attendees at Dream's gathering within the realm of the Dreaming. (The Sandman v2 #26)
- Kismet :
- Shazam :
- Terataya :
- Peace : a female entity referred to as the goddess of peace who sat opposed to War and empowered both Doves. (DC Universe Presents v1 #0)
- Shat-Ru :
- Ynar : a golden skinned masculine Lord of Order who was regarded as the first renegade member of his kind. He grew weary of the eternal conflict between order and chaos where he found a kindred spirit in a Lord of Chaos named Vandaemon. The two left their respective factions in order to operate as individuals and embarked on their own schemes in the universe. (The Flash v1 #313)
- Pantagones : a male Lord of Order held to be the weakest of their kind who was sent in his form as an amulet to Gemworld to protect the new sector. Once there, he fell in love with Citrina and used Lord Amethyst to consummate their relationship leading to her being pregnant with Princess Amethyst who was his child where he later died in a battle against Vanadaemeon. (Amethyst v2 #13)
- Amethyst : a blonde haired female who was the first Lord of Order born in human form where she had been unaware of her origins that her father was one of their kind. (Amethyst v2 #13)
- Sister Sentry : a female Lord of Order who was responsible for saving Kid Eternity from the Lords of Chaos. (Teen Titans v3 #68)
- Myrath : manifested through the Gauntlets of Myrath and had possessed Prince Ra-Man where he took the name Brother Pattern who aided Nabu in purging the world of magic. (Justice League Dark v2 #9)
- Cyra : manifested through the Cloak of Cyra and had possessed Madame Xanadu where she took the name Sister Symmetry as she aided Nabu in purging the world of magic. (Justice League Dark v2 #9)
- Hoku : manifested through the Breastplate of Hoku and had possessed Ibis the Invincible as he aided Nabu in purging the world of magic. (Justice League Dark v2 #9)
- Dalphi : manifested through the Boots of Dalphi and had possessed Extrano where he aided Nabu in purging the world of magic. (Justice League Dark v2 #9)
Agents
- Djinn :
- Kent Nelson :
- Eric Strauss :
- Linda Strauss :
- Don Hall :
- Dawn Granger :
- Gray Man :
- Kid Eternity
- The Champion : an empowered version of the mortal Jack Small that was transformed into an agent of the Lords of Order to test Doctor Fate. (Doctor Fate v2 #2)
- Kingbutcher : a male formerly known as Roland Loop who was turned into a being of energy by the Lords of Order but whose crown allowed him to act in the mortal plane. (Justice League of America v5 #11) As an empowered agent, he was tasked with jobs of vile necessity and was dispatched to Vanity on Earth to stop the cosmic imbalance as a result of the Might Beyond The Mirror granting wishes to the towns inhabitants. (Justice League of America v5 #10)
Notes
In other media
Television
- In Batman: The Brave and the Bold animated series, the Lords of Order make an appearance with them being led by Nabu where they appeared alongside their chaotic counterparts to reveal the history relating to Equinox. Nabu along with his fellow Lords of Order would be defeated by Equinox who absorbed their power along with the Lords of Chaos.
- In Young Justice, the Lords of Order appeared in the setting of the animated television series. They were said to had formed as a result of the formation of the universe when the forces of order and chaos began to manifest. The great Lords of Order were concerned with maintaining the balance and prevent the destruction of the universe which had been the fate of the prior universe. It was said that they like the Lords of Chaos could not act directly on the mortal plane but needed an anchor to hold them with Nabu investing his essence in the Helm of Fate.
Video Games
- In DC Universe Online, the Lords of Order were mentioned as one faction supporting the Justice League by offering equipment to players.
- In Injustice 2, the Lords of Order appeared in the setting of the fighting video game with Doctor Fate being one of their agents. They sought to preserve order but the conflict between Superman's followers and Batman's heroes caused chaos. As a result, when Brainiac arrived they sought to ensure his success as they believed he brought order. Doctor Fate warned that unless the chaos was stopped then it mattered not if Brainiac was defeated as the Lords of Order would intervene in other ways.
Appearances
- DC Special Series v1:
- Doctor Fate v1:
- Amethyst v2:
- Spectre v3:
- The Sandman v2:
- Infinite Crisis Special: Day of Vengeance v1:
- DC Universe Presents v1
- Justice League Dark v2:
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