Vine (Valiant)

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Vine warrior in X-O Manowar v3 #12.

The Vine are an extraterrestrial species that features in Valiant Entertainment.

History

The Vine were a race of bipedal extraterrestrial beings that were native to the planet Loam. Eons ago, during the earliest moment of their existence, the Vine homeworld was said to had been a paradise and they had lived a peaceful existence. However, long ago, the Torment came to their world and were noted by the Vine for being a tyrant race. These beings of incredible power enslaved the Vine who were forced to tear down their world as they became slaves to these entities. The slaves were worked brutally by the Torment who tortured and devoured the race to the point that they would have been driven to extinction. During this time, a lone member of their kind who had escaped the Torment where he wandered to find any trace of the paradise that once was on Loam. The invaders brutal devastation had ravaged Loam leaving much of it barren but the wanderer eventually found a sole plant that was the Hara vine. Though the wanderer was content to pass away, the vine formed an Armor that saw him desire to fight off the invaders and bonded with him. It became a suit of battle armour was named Shanhara that provided him the knowledge and means to which he used to route the Torment from Loam. Thus, the species were saved and the warrior had given a name to his race which he named 'The Vine' after the Hara vine that provided him the armour. He gave them a shared purpose with Shanhara seen as a sacred relic that they revered and worshipped. Through it, they learnt to enter the gatherings that was an area from which all Vine could meet one another in the mind. (X-O Manowar v3 #11)

For the next sixteen centuries, the Vine had nurtured humanity and had done so secretly. (X-O Manowar v3 #9)

The Vine agents at MI-6 were killed by XO-Manowar and Ninjak who departed as reluctant allies to stop the coming invasion. Alexander attempted to get further information from a Vine gathering but was banned from ever returning to it again. (X-O Manowar v3 #8) Through Shanhara, Aric was able to also pierce the collective gathering of the Vine which furthered the danger he posed to them. By this point, part of the Vine's invasion forces had arrived with Commander Trill leading a squad of X-O Commandos that attacked the Manowar armor. (X-O Manowar v3 #9) Trill and his X-O Commandos failed in their mission leading to Admiral Xylem launching the invasion fleet to attack Earth. During this time, Aric's friend Gafti had bonded with Shanhara and decided to sacrifice his life to destroy the invasion fleet. The XO-Manowar Armor then returned to Aric who decided to make his way to the Vine homeworld. (X-O Manowar v3 #10) Upon arrival, he immediately started attacking any Vine present with a large military force assembled to stop him but they were ruthlessly slaughtered. A priest later revealed though that members of Aric's Visigoth people still survived on Loam and would be killed if he continued his rampage on the planet. (X-O Manowar v3 #11) Unable to destroy the armor, the army decided to wage constant attacks in order to tire its host with an exhausted Aric collapsing causing Shanhara to return to its original state. The armor was recovered but Aric was taken to safety by Vine devotees of Shanhara who believed that the Visigoth was a religious figure in their prophecies and thus sought to shelter him. (X-O Manowar v3 #12)

Overview

When leaving their offspring behind, the Vine took specimens of the native species with them on their colony ship with some being infants and others fully grown adults. (X-O Manowar v3 #12)

To the Vine, the collective was everything to them as it was akin to a virtual meeting place for their kind with these divided into numerous gatherings. There physical bodies remained in their location whilst their minds go into the gathering. From there, they were able to share knowledge with other members of their people across the universe with these being considered a private space for their race. It was used by their ruling council to govern their species and any breach of it by an outsider threatened their powerbase as it allowed them to communicate in secret. Physical confrontations or attacks were not possible within the collective as strikes simply passed through the 'body' manifestation of an individual. (X-O Manowar v3 #9) It was possible to ban a Vine from the Gatherings by declaring it verboten with the individual no longer being able to return to that space to meet with the others of his kind. (X-O Manowar v3 #8) Those banished from the collective could not reconnect with it and only sensed a void. (X-O Manowar v3 #9) Knowledge of the gatherings was achieved through the armor Shanhara itself which taught the Vine to access that spiritual plane from where they could share knowledge and memories. (X-O Manowar v3 #11)

The Hara Vine on Loam was considered the most holiest of sites for the Vine who worshipped at the foot of its roots. (X-O Manowar v3 #11)

They had their own language that was also known as Vine. (X-O Manowar v3 #12)

Travel was done through ultralight travel allowing their vessels to go over great distances in space. (X-O Manowar v3 #8) As a result of time dilation, the crew could experience years of travel whereas normally entire centuries would pass the rest of the cosmos. (X-O Manowar v3 #12)

Members

• Xylem :
• Trill :
• Axil : a male General that commanded the military against the X-O Manowar Armor when it came to Loam. (X-O Manowar v3 #12)
• Pith :
• Dalgan : (X-O Manowar v3 #12)
• Alexander :

Notes

• The Vine were created by Robert Venditti and Cary Nord where they first appeared in X-O Manowar v3 #1 (May, 2012).

Appearances

• X-O Manowar:

External Links

• Valiant Wiki Entry

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