Powers
Body Resistance: Excellent resistance to Physical and Energy attacks
Invulnerability: Class 1000 defence against Fire, Heat, Cold, Radiation, Toxins, Corrosives and Disease within Niffleheim and Hel only. Unearthly Resistance to these anywhere else.
Retarded Aging: This power grants Unearthly immunity to the ravaging effects of time. Hela only physically ages one year for every 100 years. She will age, just very slowly. They may still be killed normally.
Death-goddess Powers:
Hela is the Asgardian goddess of Death and is one of the most powerful Asgardian gods. Her province is the dead of Asgard and she rules over the deceased spirits of Niffleheim and Hel (but not the "honorable dead", they dwell in Valhalla and are the province of Odin). As death-goddess, Hela has the following Powers:
- Class 3000 control over the dead of Niffleheim and Hel. Power rank Mind Control.
- Class 5000 Illusion Powers, including masking the true nature of Niffleheim and Hel.
- Unearthly ability to fire mystical blasts of Power rank intensity.
- Death Touch: Target must make an Endurance FEAT vs Class 1000 intensity or begin losing Endurance levels.
- Aging Rays: Unearthly intensity rays shot from hands that age the target 100 years per hit. Sustained combat could even eventually destroy long-lived Asgardian gods.
- Hand of Glory: Unearthly intensity Edged attack. Can scar even Asgardian gods.
- Flight and Levitation with Unearthly ability.
- Astral Projection with Shift-Z ability. Hela retains all her Powers even in astral form.
- Raising the dead with Unearthly ability. Asgardian Gods only. Spirits must still be in body.
- Regeneration with Class 1000 ability. Niffleheim and Hel only.
Equipment
Hela rules Hel and Niffleheim, two of the Nine Worlds of Norse mythology. The two realms lie on the same dimensional plane, which is different from that of either Earth or Asgard. Mystical conditions are such in both realms that the spirits of the dead become tangible there, and live a quasi-physical existence. It is in Niffleheim, the land of eternal ice, that the souls of the dishonored dead, the greatest evildoers among the deceased, dwell. Niffleheim, along with Muspelheim, are the oldest realms of the Nine Worlds. The Spirits of the dead who were neither great evildoers nor heroic warriors dwell in Hel, a grim dark, barren realm. There Hela lives in her great hall, Eljudnir. There is a cavern, about 300 miles southeast of the city of Asgard, called Gnipa Cave, which serves as the entrance to the underground road from Asgard to Hel, known as the Helway. This road is a passageway through and interdimensional nexus connecting the two realms. Gnipa Cave's entrance is guarded by the immense Helhound, Garm, who is held to his post by mighty chains (Shift-Y material strength). Garm, who is capable of speech, allows the living to enter the Helway, but will attempt to prevent anyone from leaving Hel by this route except his mistress, Hela. It takes nine days and nights riding by horseback, with stops for rest, to
travel from the opening of Gnipa Cave to the bridge of Gjallerbru over the river
Gjoll, which serves as the entrance to Hel. (By unknown mystical means, Hela can
greatly compress the amount of time it takes to travel this distance.) The
bridge is guarded by the silent, black cloaked goddess, Modgud, who, like Garm,
will allow individuals to enter Hel but will attempt to prevent anyone except
Hela from leaving. See seperate entries for Garm
and Modgud.
Limitation
Hela preserves her own life force by means of her cape and headress. Depriving her of this results in her Strength and Endurance being reduced to Feeble and she is unable to use any of her Powers. It is unknown whether she herself can die, or if this would occur, whether Death itself (or perhaps Odin in both cases) would claim the occupants of her realms or assign a new Asgardian death-goddess.
Hela's Class 1000 Endurance is tied to the dimensions of Niffleheim and Hel and drops by -1CS to a minimum of Unearthly every day spent away from those dimensions. While away from Niffleheim and Hel, but still in the dimension of Asgard, Hela's Endurance only drops to Shift-Z.
Talents
Sharp Weapons, Occult Lore (Hela has vast knowledge of Death, Asgardian, Occult and Mythological Lore)
Contacts
Volla, Loki, Death
History
Hela was born ages ago to parents whose names have not yet been revealed. Legend has it, however, that Hela was born in Jotunheim, the otherdimensional land of the giants, one of the "Nine Worlds" of Norse mythology, and that she is the daughter of the Asgardian god of mischief Loki and the sorceress giantess Angrboda. The three Asgardian goddesses of fate, the Norns, are said to have warned the Asgardian gods that Hela would prove to be a great danger to them.
It is known that Odin, ruler of the Asgardian gods, decreed that Hela become goddess and ruler of the spirits of the Asgardian dead on the day of her maturity. These spirits dwell in the otherdimensional realms of Hel and Niffleheim, two more of the Nine Worlds, both of which Hela rules. However, Odin himself directly rules the souls of Asgardians and their human worshippers who died in battle as heroes, and had the palace of Valhalla built in a distant section of Asgard, also known as Valhalla, to house them.
Hela has sought for ages to bring more Asgardian souls under her control, and especially longs to possess the souls of Odin and his son Thor. In recent years, when Odin's attention has strayed from the rule of Valhalla, Hela tried to annex that realm to her own, hoping to consolidate her power over all of Asgard's dead. Eventually Odin grew aware of her ambitions and opposed them. Hela finally withdrew to her own realms, and Odin reestablished his control over Valhalla. Asgard continues to rule Valhalla to this day. For untold ages Hela had directed the construction of a gigantic ship, Naflgar,said to be made of the fingernails of the dead. Hela planned that when Naflgar was finished, she would send an army of the dead to Asgard to destroy the gods. However, Naflgar was destroyed by the Executioner as it neared completion.
Goddess of death and ruler of the Shadow-Realm of Niffleheim. Mysterious in aspect, supreme in power, she is not content to reign over the shades of those who do not die a hero's death. Hela longs to usurp Valhalla, Odin's hall of honored heroes. A sometimes-adversary of the mighty Thor, Hela is the one being in all the nine worlds of Asgard whom even the All-Father Odin must obey.
It is said that should the forces of evil in the Nine Worlds ever succeed in destroying Asgard, Hela and her army of the dead will be at her side.
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