Ancient One (Earth-1010)

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 * Quote              = My loyal disciple cannot battle Mordo and Mordo's new ally alone! He needs help -- Eternity! Eternity!
 * Speaker            = Ancient One


 * Image                  = Ancient One.png
 * ImageSize              = 250px
 * RealName               = Unknown
 * CurrentAlias           = Ancient One
 * Aliases                = busan Saa, the Master, the High Lama, the Mystic, the Spirit Leopard
 * Identity               = Secret
 * Alignment              = Good
 * Affiliation            = Teacher of Doctor Strange, Baron Mordo; an unnamed order of sorcerers whose elder members are known as the Ancient Ones.
 * Relatives              =
 * Universe               = Earth-1010
 * BaseOfOperations       = Kamar-Taj, Himalayas, Tibet


 * Gender                 = Genderfluid
 * Height                 = 5'11
 * Weight                 = 160 lbs
 * Weight2                = (material form)
 * Eyes                   = Green
 * Hair                   = Bald
 * UnusualFeatures        =
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 * Citizenship            = Tibetan
 * MaritalStatus          = Single
 * Occupation             = Mystic mentor; formerly apprentice doctor, village protector, farmer, sorcerer
 * Education              = Prolonged study of sorcery, 15th-century medical training


 * Origin                 = Powerful sorcerer & magician
 * PlaceOfBirth           = Kamar-Taj, Tibet
 * Creators               = Stan Lee; Steve Ditko
 * First                  = TBA

The Ancient One was born in the 1430's, in the mystic city of Kamar-Taj, a village in the Himalayas area now known as Tibet. Originally, the youth was a peaceful farmer, like her fellow villagers, but encountered an older villager named Kaluu. Kaluu shared with the youth his knowledge of magic, and they began exploring the secrets of sorcery together, even learning the secrets of immortality.
 * HistoryText            = ===Early Life===

The youth wanted to use her magic to help the village, but Kaluu wanted to build a vast empire, and organized the men of Kamar-Taj into an army by magically controlling their minds. The youth attempted to warn the village, but Kaluu used his magic to incapacitate her, paralyzing her and setting her on public display. Kaluu began his conquests, and the youth called upon mystical forces while in her paralytic state, ultimately banishing him to the dimension of Cyttorak. Kaluu's spell on her protected the youth from the full effect of the mystical backlash -- instead of being immortal, she would merely age at a very slow rate.

The youth decided to seek out an order of ancient magic users known as the Ancient Ones in order to devote her entire life to their goal of combating evil sorcerers. The youth eventually became even more skilled than her colleagues, and grew in power so great that she was the first Earth mortal to meet with Eternity, the sentient embodiment of the universe, who presented her with the Amulet of Agamotto and charged her to become the Earth dimension's first Sorcerer Supreme. The Ancient One remained in this capacity for countless years, outliving almost all other members of her order.

Finding a Replacement
During these wanderings she discovered the temple of Cyttorak in Korea and fought Dormammu for the first time to a standstill. During their final fight in London she succeeded in banishing Dormammu and shielding the Earth against his evil influence. She finally settled himself in Tibet where she met Doctor Anthony Druid. Posing as the High Lama, the Ancient One tested her abilities to pass on her powers to a successor by granting powers to Dr. Druid.

The Ancient One was sought by Baron Karl Mordo who desired to be her pupil. The Ancient One realized her need for a successor, and agreed to tutor Mordo. Although she recognized Mordo's evil ambitions in his mind, she decided that she could do her best convert Mordo to the service of good, or at least keep him in check.

Sometime later, Doctor Stephen Strange sought the services of the Ancient One for his own purposes, but soon tried to save the Ancient One from a plot by Mordo. The Ancient One dismissed Mordo but explained that she had used this as a test for Strange, who agreed to stay as the Ancient One's new pupil. Strange remained with the Ancient One for many years, eventually becoming the new Sorcerer Supreme and leaving to set up his own residence in New York.

Modern Age
By the modern age of heroes Doctor Strange had become a well known mystic operating from his Sanctum in Greenwich Village. He occasionally required the help of the Ancient One as of one his earliest recorded cases was in assisting a corrupt businessman who was plagued by recurring nightmares. Strange soon discovered that the man was being haunted by the being known as Nightmare, ruler of the Dimension of Dreams and entered this dimension to fix it. Nightmare attempted to trap him there, leaving his physical body undefended while the man, afraid that the secret of his crimes had been found out, would try to kill Strange. Strange managed to escape Nightmare's dimension with the help of the Ancient One.

Baron Mordo soon resurfaced and used his powers to try and eliminate the Ancient One. Baron Mordo controlled the Ancient One's assistant to poison the Ancient One, sensing his master in trouble, Strange battled Mordo in his ectoplasmic form, preventing Mordo from ending the Ancient Once's life.


 * Powers                 = As Sorcerer Supreme of Earth, the Ancient One possessed a greater knowledge and mastery of the mystic arts than anyone else on Earth. She was born with a great talent for sorcery, and she has fulfilled that potential through extremely long years of study and training, living for more than 500 years.

The Ancient One has the ability to tap this universe's infinite store of ambient magical energy and manipulate this to a variety of effects. The skill derives from three major sources: personal powers of the mind/soul/body, powers gained by tapping the universe's ambient magical energy and employing it for specific effects, and, finally, powers gained through the tapping of extra-dimensional energy by invoking entities or objects of power existing in tangential mystical dimensions. (The latter means of power is usually gained by reciting incantations.) Some of these effects include:


 * Forming magical energy bolts with a high degree of potency and control and erecting energy shields or screens with a high degree of durability to both physical and magical damage.


 * The art of astral projection, the mental ability to separate the astral self-the sheath of the soul, or life essence from her physical self, and in this form traverse through space unbounded by physical laws but fully retaining human consciousness. The astral form is invisible, intangible, and incapable of being harmed except by the most rigorous of mystical means. The astral form only possesses those magical powers residing in the sorcerer's mind: thought casting, psychokinesis, etc. She has such mastery that she can remain in astral form for up to 24 hours and even more before there is corporeal deterioration of her physical form. The physical form is quite vulnerable to attack when the astral form is absent. If harm were to befall the physical form while in astral form, the astral form would be stranded in the wraith-like state. While the astral form is absent, the physical form remains in an inert death-like trance.


 * Thought-casting over short or vast distances in a manner virtually identical with telepathy. The entire Earth was within the reach of the Ancient One's mind, providing she knew where to contact the specific mind she is seeking. She could simultaneously communicate with more than a dozen minds at a time.


 * Utilizing local magical energy to teleport across the face of the Earth or into a mystical dimension (certain higher dimensions beyond height, width, depth, etc. where the physical laws can be based on magic rather than science). Oddly enough, teleportation within a dimension is more taxing than teleportation between dimensions. Such expenditure of energy leaves all sorcerers mystically debilitated for a varying length of time, making teleportation a dangerous and seldom used ability. Physical teleportation across time rather than space is the most power-draining feat of them all.

The Ancient One had a vast knowledge of mystical spells and incantations invoking the names and aspects of various extra-dimensional objects and beings of power. Through these incantations the Mage is able to call upon these extra-dimensional power sources for very specific effects without taxing the personal abilities.

Aside of the above mentioned manipulations she has been known to use such spells capable of opening dimensional gateways, levitating, creating life-like illusions, mesmerizing others, and casting a spell of silence, preventing subjects from speaking of certain matters or subjects.


 * Abilities              = Skilled magician
 * Strength               =
 * Weaknesses             = Her old age


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 * Notes                  = * The Ancient One's sprite was made by User:WoodandTime.
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