Telos (DC)
Telos is a male comic character who features in DC Comics.
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Biography
Origin
He looked to be a warrior but his father the king wished for Arak to be a shaman. Arak at first refused as he wished to follow the path of war and attempted to pass the burden to his younger brother. However, the duty could only be inherited by the first born son with him having no choice but to follow the way of the shaman. In that time, he came to marry his love Valda who became his wife. (Telos v1 #2)
Their world was then visited by the god-like Brainiac where his tribe rallied against the gigantic invader. In the battle, Arak's father had used the power of the mother earth against his foe but was unable to best him. Ultimately, he came to be killed with his power passing onto his son Arak who unleashed the great power against Brainiac and fought him to a standstill. However, he feared that the power unleashed in their battle would destroy his people which would have included Arak's family. As a result, he decided to make a deal with Brainiac where he offered his Earth and his own life in exchange for the safety of his people. The Collector of Worlds agreed leading to Arak's saying his farewell to his love and their children whereupon he was taken by Brainiac. Secretly, Arak had intended to sacrifice himself to destroy his foe but Brainiac was aware of this and had his memories wiped after which he was transformed into a cybernetic being called Telos who became a servant of the Collector of Worlds. (Telos v1 #2)
Convergence
In the wake of Brainiac's absence, Telos came to the conclusion that since Brainiac is unique, so it must be unique. Based on this premise, Telos decided to judge that Brainiac intended to have the captive cities of the Multiverse into fighting each other to deem the survivors worthy. To ensure the cities' inhabitants of their cooperation, Telos threatened to have them destroyed. Telos enacted his competition when several denizens from Earth 2 unprecedentedly arrived on his world. (Convergence v1 #1) After briefly capturing the Earth 2 natives, Telos was confused by their sudden appearance until he was temporarily weaken by Green Lantern Alan Scott and allowing his prisoners to escape. Telos soon recovered and attempted to locate the Earth 2 natives in which he found and rescued the Earth 2 Dick Grayson. (Convergence v1 #3) He eventually located his wards in Skartaris, where the evil sorcerer Deimos had absorbed the powers of the time travellers that Brainiac had imprisoned. (Convergence v1 #4) Deimos took the opportunity of summoning Brainiac, who is trapped in a T-Sphere, and peered into his mind to reveal the shocking truth to Telos's identity: he was not a planet created by Brainiac, but rather he was once a man - a man with a family. In the past, his world was threatened by Brainiac and then forced into eternal servitude for him in exchange for the lives of his wife and children. The revelation deeply traumatized Telos and at this moment of weakness allowed Deimos to take control of the Blood Moon. (Convergence v1 #5) During the duration of Deimos' takeover, Telos retreated and remained at a complete loss over the life that he once had. He was soon tracked down by Dick Grayson, who convinced him that he is freed from Brainiac's conditioning and that he can make his own decisions to correct the mistakes he had wrought, and the possibility of using his powers to finding his family. Compelled, Telos agreed with Grayson to help stopping Deimos and saving every captive on the planet. (Convergence v1 #6) Telos joined Grayson's group of heroes from disparate worlds in battling Deimos and fully regaining control of the planet from the sorcerer. However, Parallax killed Deimos and unwittingly released the unstable temporal energies the sorcerer acquired from the time travellers and causing the imminent destruction of the Multiverse. (Convergence v1 #7) Telos was not powerful enough to undo the damages, but foresaw who can: Brainiac. The hero Waverider summoned Telos' master despite vocal oppositions from his former captives. Brainiac, regrettable of his actions, helped in saving the Multiverse by sending a group of heroes to prevent the First Crisis and returning the captive cities and its inhabitants back to their realities. With this task finished, Brainiac relinquished Telos' bondage and vanished. Telos transported the Blood Moon to the Earth 2 reality and granted the planet to the Earth 2 survivors as their new home world. Soon afterwards, he departed for parts unknown in search for his family now that he fully remembered his past. (Convergence v1 #8)
In the aftermath, Telos sought to be re-united with his family but found nothing on the world Brainiac claimed he had left them on. Concluding they were dead, he decided to kill the one responsible for all his misery. Thus, he sought out the weakened Brainiac on-board his skull ship and attacked where he easily came to break through his creators weakened defenses. On the verge of kill him, Telos's hands were stayed when Brainiac revealed that Arak's family were still alive. However, the world they were on was lost to him due to that knowledge being gone after Brainiac shed some aspects of himself. The Collector of Worlds claimed that he too wanted to return home and offered to help Telos be reunited with his family but they needed to work together. Brainiac claimed that the knowledge needed for them was stored in a back-up that was located deep in the new reality's Colu. However, Brainiac himself was unable to get it as the world had been taken over by an artificial intelligence the Collector had left behind. Thus, Telos was to go to the planet and fight Computo in order to access the hidden backup located deep in the world. (Telos v1 #1)
Overview
Personality and attributes
After being given boundless power, he claimed that he came to fear no one. (Telos v1 #1)
Powers and abilities
Originally, Arak was an ordinary human who inhabited a more primitive era on Earth. By adulthood, he trained to be a warrior but instead was forced to follow the path of the shaman. Thus, he came to learn magic that provided him a link to the mother earth herself. This power came to grow even further following the death of his father where he inherited his magical power as a result. By inheriting the powers, he became one with every living atom around him. For the same reason, he felt his senses explode. Arak, Son of Thunder, gained the power to create and manipulate lightning. (Telos v1 #2)
Since Telos did not have a physical body, he used the various materials the Blood Moon is composed of to create bodies for himself to use when interacting with the inhabitants on the various realities that currently reside on the Blood Moon. Usually he'll take on the form of the Brainiac that is native to that reality. Following his encounter with the Superman of Earth 0, Telos now assumes a form that is an amalgamation of the Superman and the Brainiac of Earth 0.
Brainiac had awarded him a shard of his ultimate self thus gifting Telos the power to freely travel throughout the Multiverse. (Telos v1 #1)
Notes
- Telos was created by Dan Jurgens, Jeff King and Ethan Van Sciver where he made his first appearance in Convergence v1 #0 (June, 2015).
- As noted in a preview, Telos was named after the Greek philosophical term for end or goal, where he was born of Brainiac and this mysterious planet — even taking on traits of that world — "but becomes a character unto himself," says Dan DiDio.
- The characters origin was similar to that of the Silver Surfer in Marvel Comics.
- In an interview on Comicbook.com, King said:
- "Absolutely. One of the profound differences is, obviously they're very different characters. At this point, where Telos is going is where no man has gone before. He's going to the outer planets, he's not coming to Earth. They're very different characters in that way.
- And of course at this point, he's no longer tethered to Brainiac. He's free to choose, and that was not the case. There's no Fantastic Four on this planet. What I want to explore is that relationship between Telos and eventually the people that he left from, and specifically his wife, who's going to become eventually a major player in it -- but not before he has a brush with Hal Jordan as Parallax."
Appearances
- Convergence v1: (2015)
- Telos v1:
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