N'astirh

N'astirh is a male demonic supervillain who features in Marvel Comics.

Biography

N'astirh was a male demon sorcerer native to the realm of Limbo. (New Mutants v1 #71)

At some point, N'astirh was scorned by Belasco for apprenticeship as Belasco wished a human student and thought demons only good for servants. (New Mutants v1 #71)

Later on, a group of X-Men traveled to Otherplace and ultimately were trapped there while sending the young Illyana Rasputin home. This resulted in a divergent reality where Storm became Belasco's servant. (Uncanny X-Men v1 #160) A young Illyana Rasputin of Earth-616 would later be trapped in the demonic limbo realm Otherplace. At this point, a resentful N'astirh decided to target her after knowing through his precognitive magic that Illyana would become and that she would prove useful to him in the future. This also led to him attacking Belasco's principal demonic servant the demon S'ym in order to prevent him from killing Illyana where the two battled fiercely. N'astirh then traveled into the past and used his natural affinity for magic to master all of the spells in the book. Via precognitive magic, N'astirh summoned the modern day Magik and the New Mutants through Otherplace to his side. He told them of S'ym's massing an army to invade Earth, and he advised Magik to reclaim the Soulsword -- which he noted she had rejected as it was the darkest, most powerful piece of her soul -- and accept its dark power, using it to save her friends and then to return to and save Earth. N'astirh further suggested that someday in the future, Magik might return to him as his dark bride. After Magik teleported away to confront S'ym, Crotus asked why he was helping Magik, who rivaled his power, N'astirh smacked Crotus away, noting that he like S'ym lacked understanding. While S'ym sough to kill Magik, N'astirh sought to use her and to benefit from her need to choose good over evil. (New Mutants v1 #71)

Within Otherplace, Magik overthrew Belasco, but as she spent more time on Earth, Otherplace fell under S'ym's control, aided by his infection/transformation by the transmode virus. (Magik v1 #4) Within Otherplace, S'ym summoned N'astirh regarding his plot to use the Soulsword to access Earth. (X-Terminators v1 #1)

Using rituals based on the notes of 15th century mystic Belasco -- to which his anti-mutant organization, the Right, had access -- commander Cameron Hodge contacted limbo demon N'astirh via a sub-basement of an immense Chicago skyscraper. Appearing to Hodge via a computer screen, N'astirh noted how unusual was a summons from the Earthly plane, and he acknowledged Hodge's explanation of using Belasco's notes. When Hodge offered N'astirh his sould in exchange for power to use against his enemies, N'astirh told him that they already had his soul. N'astirh counter-offered power in exchange for Hodge's aid in gathering infants of power and purity, which he had been ordered to acquire by the one he served. When Hodge told him of an orphanage specializing in mutant children, N'astirh agreed to protect Hodge from total destruction at his enemy's hand in exchange for the orphange's location. (X-Factor v1 #32)

Having captured Katie Power and Rebecca Littlehale, the Bogeyman Douglas Carmody communicated with N'astirh via his computer, offering to sell him the two children. N'astirh agreed to pay their weight in gold if they were children of power, but that they must be both pure and infants. N'astirh noted that the dark-haired one named Rebecca was too old, but that the blonde (Katie) was of some small interest, as his N'asteris had informed him that they had utilized her before. As the rest of Power Pack and some of the New Mutants battled Carmody and his robots, Carmody asked if N'astirh was interested in them, and the amused demon asked if he might consider holding a surplus sale. After Magik banished Carmody to limbo, N'astirh considered that, as the young heroes were too old for his purposes, he would have to travel to Earth to personally oversee the collection of the infants if S'ym's plan was to succeed, and his own through S'ym. (Power Pack v1 #40) In limbo, N'astirh greeted Carmody, mockingly asking if his arrival meant that he was unable to acquire the children as per their bargain and noting that they would need to make alternate arrangements. Noting his goals of ruling limbo, N'astirh offered that Carmody could aid him by becoming one of his minion but first he would have to chew away anything human. As Carmody screamed, N'astirh admitted that he did taste rather greasy. N'astirh mutated Carmody into grotesque demonic form and power. (Power Pack v1 #42)

Overview

Powers and abilities

Vast magical powers grant him the ability to manipulate the forces of magic for various effects, generate mystical energy as force bolts and protective shields, increase his size and strength, regenerate his injuries and tap into the innate evil of humans and turn them into demons with a touch. He also has the ability of flight due to his natural leather wings.

Transformation by the techno-organic transmode virus allows him the ability to alter his own shape and can rebuild his body from a single cell when destroyed or injured, and he can infect others with the transmode virus, converting them into "techno-organic" beings and absorbing their life energy. The virus also granted him a computer like mind allowing him to cast spells and process them almost simultaneously.

N'astirh has a gifted intellect, and possesses extensive knowledge of black magic gained through study of Belasco's principal book of sorcery.

Notes

• N'astirh was created by Louise Simonson and Jon Bogdanove where he made his first appearance in X-Factor v1 #32 (October, 1988).

Appearances

• X-Factor v1: (1988)
• New Mutants v1:

External Links

• Marvel Database Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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