History
Psycatos and his brothers Aurwel and Bekkit were male Lemurians who were born in the undersea city of Lemuria sometime before the nineteenth century.[1] At that time, Lemuria had been ruled for centuries by the mad king Naga whose source of power, the mystical Serpent Crown, had kept him young.[2]
Psycatos and his brothers were all telepaths, and they all joined with other Lemurian telepaths in a rebel group who were determined to oppose Naga and overthrow his rule. Psycatos and Bekkit were the leaders of the rebels. Knowing that their numbers were too few to stand against Naga's army, let alone the power of the Serpent Crown, the rebels concentrated on growing their numbers while avoiding detection.[1] At some point, they used self-hypnosis to protect themselves from the Serpent Crown's demonic influence.[2][1]
Eventually, Naga captured and killed Aurwel, and the brothers realized that they could wait no longer because Naga had learned of their circle's existence. That night, they used their mental powers to cast Naga's guards into a deep sleep and then entered the palace royal and stole the Serpent Crown from the chamber in which Naga slept. All of the rebels then fled from Naga's city with the crown, and swam southward to the continent of Antarctica.[2][1]
Once in Antarctica, Jhandark created a potion that transformed them from scaly-skinned water-breathers into pink-skinned air-breathers who were outwardly identical to Caucasian humans. Now able to live on land, they found a cave near the coast that contained a massive dynamo and other equipment that had been left there millennia ago by people from pre-Cataclysm Atlantis. The rebels used the machines to provide heat and light for the town they built within the cavern.[1] While there, Bekkit[1] used the technology to encase the Serpent Crown within an unknown substance that reduced its power to ensnare people's minds and changed its appearance.[2]
Pyscatos and Bekkit jointly governed their community for many years. Eventually, Bekkit married Jhandark and the couple had (at least) two children. Later, when their children were still young, Bekkit and Jhandark took their children with them when they left in a submarine on a voyage to establish contact between the rebels and the human race.[1]
During the decades that Bekkit and his family were away, Psycatos became old and infirm, and, after nearly perishing from a strange illness had instilled within him a fear of death, he succumbed to the influence of the Serpent Crown. By the time Bekkit and his family finally returned to the colony, Psycatos and everyone one else there had been transformed into serpent men, with Psycatos himself now strongly resembled Naga, and all were thralls of the ancient god Set. When Bekkit cursed his brother for betraying everything for which they had spent their lives struggling and refused to join him, Psycatos used the power of the Serpent Crown to slay him. However, looking down at his brother's corpse caused Psycatos to remember his past as a fiery young rebel in Lemuria. Inspired to resist Set's will but knowing that he would be unable to do so for long, Pyscatos sent Jhandark and her children back out to sea in their submarine, and then, that night, he went alone to the dynamo. After a fierce mental battle, Pyscatos managed to remove the helmet and then programmed the dynamo for one last task. Then, after shouting his defiance to Set as he felt the demon trying to take hold of his mind once again, Psycatos fatally stabbed himself in his chest. As he blacked out, he punched one last control that caused the dynamo to overload, resulting in an explosion that set off a titanic avalanche that buried the settlement of the rebels, killing everyone there and leaving the Serpent Crown with no living minds to ensnare.[1]
The Serpent Crown would be lost until the early twentieth century when it was discovered by Paul Destine.[3]Attributes
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Notes
- Psycatos was a member of the Ancients because, as a result of Bekkit's interactions with humans in the nineteenth century, that was the name by which the community of long-lived telepaths had become known in human scholarly writings of the time. However, the rebels and their descendants never called themselves the Ancients.
- Despite this, the people of Atlantis were aware of the existence of a long-dead telepathic Antarctic race called the Ancients, but this may have been because Princess Fen had learned of them during the time she spent aboard the Oracle in 1920.[4]
See Also
- 2 appearance(s) of Psycatos (Earth-616)
- 1 minor appearance(s) of Psycatos (Earth-616)
- 1 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Psycatos (Earth-616)
- 3 image(s) of Psycatos (Earth-616)