CODEX OMNIVERSA

PART 1

In his time he was called Edwald Olafsson, an elder in his clan. Edward displayed what we might call cyrokinesis…

For a time, it was a gift. But with no one to train Edwald, to help him understand or control his power, the gift became a curse. The sun did not return. Crops failed. Winter was unrelenting. 

Edwald despaired. And in turn, his despair further fueled the ceaseless winter. When his clan could suffer no more, they moved against him, thinking to end the fimbulvetr… by ending Edwald…

Who can say when a man ends… and a monster is birthed? What tragedy?

Edwald’s own clan fled their homes, setting out for the Norse southern stronghold… hoping to withstand the onslaught from within its walls.

PART 2

Teth Adam, who had been sealed within a tomb, punishment for his arrogance and misuse of the wizard’s gift. But we needed his power…

An Amazon queen, a Norse prince, one from the desert who was practically a god, even an elemental, charged with restoring the Earth’s balance.

The Viking Prince was hit with an axe in his back, but his invulnerability was his blessing and his bane.

Odin will not let me ascend to Valhalla until I die a heroic death, and that was not it.

The Elemental, though, was destroyed… and so was any hope for winning the war. They fled to the south to make their stand… and protect as many as they could.

Meanwhile, Adam found the Frost King’s family among the refugees and put them in the path of the monster. Then…

We wanted to extend an open hand. But Black Adam turned it into a closed fist.

When his wife and children fell into a crack in the glacier…

The Frost King dealt the Viking Prince a fatal blow…

My death… *ghh* is supposed to be a heroic one…

Black Adam sealed the blighted place forever…

With the ice receding, the Green’s avatar, thought lost, was able to return. Combining their strength, Hippolyta, the Avatar, and the Wizard Shazam were able to force Black Adam into a tomb and lock him away, despite his struggles.

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