ARCANUS
REAL NAME: Unknown
AGE: Indeterminate-appears to be over 50
POWERS: Master magician, with demonstrated spells for attack, defense, invisibility, mind
control, and the summoning of "demons." Summoning spells often require a ritual and sacrifice.
APPEARANCE: An older man in robes, height and weight indeterminate, but appears tall and
slender. His face, when seen, is hawkish. His most prominent feature are his piercing blue eyes.
FIRST APPEARANCE: Guardians #1
BACKGROUND: No one knows for sure where Arcanus was born or when he began his
study of magic. When the Black King was beginning to form the Shadow Empire, Arcanus
approached him about a "partnership." The Black King agreed, but his mistrust of magic left
Arcanus a marginal quality during the rise of the Shadow Empire. Arcanus used the free time
well, however, developing a network of covens dedicated to him and the study of black magic, as
well as a large number of women enslaved to his will. Only the coven in Dallas has seen much
work, but with Arcanus's escape after the Battle of Washington, that may soon change.