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Powers: Cosmic Awareness AM
Dimension Travel MN
Detect Magic AM
Magical Power Simulation CL. 5000
Stats for an individual Lord of Order may vary by plus or minus 1-7 ranks.
Powers: Cosmic Awareness AM
Dimension Travel MN
Detect Magic AM
Magical Power Simulation CL. 5000
Stats for an individual Lord of Chaos may vary by plus or minus 1-7 ranks.
Both the Lords or Order and Chaos exist as abstract constructs; neither possess inherent physical forms. Whenever they wish to appear on one of the physical planes, they magically create physical forms. If a body created by the lords is killed, the lord inhabiting the form does not die, but is incapable of creating a new form for the next 1-10 years. A lord inhabiting a form that is knocked unconscious is treated like any other unconscious character.
F- RM (30)
Powers: Claws MN
Dimension Travel GD (Claws can tear open space itself leaving a rift large enough to step through.)
Life Detection UN
Personality Transfer MN
Regeneration GD
Hyper-Running EX
Teleportation IN
Limitations: Life Detection only works to find Hawk.
Talents: Acrobatics, Thief.
Contacts: Lords of Chaos.
Kestrel can switch back and forth between its Kestrel form and its host form by simply speaking a command word. In host form, the only Kestrel ability it retains is the Life Detection power.
Should a Personality Transfer attempt ever fail, Kestrel is immediately dispelled unless there is another host in the vicinity.
In Kestrel form, the spell creature is a rampaging, maddened assassin. When it is operating in the guise of its host body, the Kestrel maintains a great deal of the host's personality, but adds its own sinister veneer.
Name: Ren Takamori
Height: Unknown
Weight Unknown
Eyes: Blue, White as Kestrel
Hair: Black
Family: Unknown
Residence: Mobile
Occupation: Photographer
Group Affiliation: Lords of Chaos
1st Appearance: Kestrel II - Hawk & Dove v3 #14/Kestrel I - Hawk & Dove v2 #1
Post-Zero Hour Fate: The current whereabouts of Kestrel, whether he still exists or left with the Lords of Chaos has not yet been recorded.
The original Kestrel was sent by the Lords of Chaos M'Shulla and Gorum to extract information from Hawk and turn him fully over to Chaos. Eventually Kestrel found Hawk and sent his demonic minions and Shadowblade after Hawk & Dove but failed. Kestrel lured Hawk and Dove into a realm of chaos were they fought Kestrel's demonic hordes. In this realm, Hawk was becoming more chaotic and almost killed Dove which is what the Lords of Chaos wished. However, Kestrel asked Hawk to become "blood brothers" which brought him back to his senses and released Dove. Kestrel had failed and the Lords of Chaos seemingly destroyed Kestrel. However Kestrel reappeared in Hank Hall's girlfriend Ren Takamori, and became the new Kestrel.
Ren Takamori used to be an quite weird student at Georgetown University. She worked at "Suds" grill to pay for her studies. She liked to take pictures. She also liked men big and stupid. That made her the perfect girlfriend for Hank "Hawk" Hall when he was transferred to the university. Ren followed oblivious Hank until it was obvious even for him that they were dating. Initially, she was jealous of Dawn "Dove" Granger, but she grew up to believe they had a brother-sister kind of relationship. Kestrel is a creation of the lords of chaos M'Shulla and Gorum. He is quite similar to Hawk, but cruel and murderous. Kestrel was created to team up with Hawk when the original Dove died. He started to search for him, but the new Dove found him first. At the time, Kestrel used a man as a vessel. He tried to talk Hawk into accepting him as a new partner and he almost made him kill Dove. However, Hank rejected him and he was destroyed by their masters. They found out, however, that it would be easier to seduce Hank into the ways of chaos if Kestrel occupied the body of a woman. Thus, after the essence of Kestrel was released by a cleaning party in the restaurant where he had massacred all clients, it searched for Ren and, eventually, got her.
Ren started to act even weirder than usual, but most her friends thought it was just one more of her eccentricities. Only Dawn got worried, but she was to busy to completely figure out what was happening. Hence, when Kestrel made his appearance in the body of Ren, it was a big surprise for the group. This time, Kestrel wanted Hawk and Dove to follow her to Druspa Tau, her homeworld. She expected to seduce Hank into chaos over there, but Dove kept him attached to his human self. In Druspa Tau, Ren could change to her human self at will much like Hawk and Dove. When she was human, she had no trace of Kestrel in her. Thus, she played a sort of double rol. Hank and Dawn eventually defeated M'Shulla, but they came to a shocking conclussion: the entities that made them Hawk and Dove were in love and supposed to have a child. They decided to keep themselves apart, though. Ren helped Barter, the business man who traded with virtually anything, while she was in Druspa Tau. Barter felt bound to give her something in exchange. Hence, he removed Kestrel's essence from her and bottled it. In exchange, he returned her to earth. Ren was glad with the deal. For a long time, Hank and her kept dating and even spoke of marriage. However, Hank was turned into the Monarch before they could marry.
Powers: Kestrel is quite chaotic and has superior strength, hand-to-hand combat and the ability to cut through almost anything with her talons. The original Kestrel could bestow power onto others and use birds to prey on his victim. Whether Kestrel II had this ability is not yet known.
Powers: Cosmic Awareness IN
Dimension Travel MN
Detect Magic IN
Magical Power Simulation CL. 1000
Talents: Occult.
Contacts: Lords of Chaos.
Lords of Chaos are wild and unpredictable. Their entire existence is a non-sequitur. The Lord of Chaos who visited the Dreaming during the Season of Mists chose to appear as a small child in clown makeup. Unlike their counterparts, the Lords of Chaos prefer to speak for themselves, though they rarely make sense to outsiders, who are easily astounded by their speech and actions.
HISTORY: Two elemental forces struggling for supremacy, Order & Chaos were born during the creation of the universe. The beings that served order were the Lords of Order and Light while those that served chaos were the Lords of Chaos and Darkness. The Lords of Order during the Crisis decided to abandon the battle and allow Chaos to triumph to allow a new universe to be created in which Order would rule once more. In the last issue of Fate (#22), Nabu returned to the realm of man to claim the power of Fate. Nabu convinced the spirit of Kent Nelson to find the half helm that he used in the 1940's as a item of power, so that with the help of Raina, Nabu could became Doctor Fate again. Nabu would now have enough power to defeat Fate and reclaim some of his former power. Unfortunately, in all those years of trying to defeat Chaos and controlling the Nelsons, Nabu slowly became corrupted by his own power. Fate defeated Nabu thats allowed the Lords of Order and Chaos to summon Nabu for judgement. The Lords passed their judgement and found Nabu guilty for his crimes. As a punishment, Nabu was transformed into a Lord of Chaos and a task was set for him. Nabu would have to find a being worthy enough to become a new Lord of Order, for they were now one short.
The Lords of Order and Chaos briefly returned to the DCU in an effort to convert Jared Stevens to their cause. They failed.
By Dan Thorsland: America On-line (Fate Folder)
"When we said that the Lords of Chaos and Order were banished from the DCU in Zero Hour, we're referring to the non-corporeal, godlike Lords featured prominently in the DeMatteis/McManus DR. FATE series from the late 80's. Physical agents of Chaos and Order are still around, but greatly depowered because of the absence of their masters. While Nabu was indeed a Lord of Order, it was only because he transcended corporeal existence. He ceased to be remotely human, and was sent packing with the rest of the Lords in Zero Hour. It was only his strong ties to earthly magic that allowed him to play a part in Fate's origin. So don't fret; Flaw & Child, Amethyst, Dove, et al. are still around, but will have to get their power elsewhere." - DT
Agents of Order:
Gray Man I (deceased)
Gray Man II
Phantom Stranger (Often viewed more as an Angel but has ties to the Lords of Order)
Power Girl (Is Kara still involved with the Lords of Order & Chaos?)
Spectre (Had former ties to the Lords of Order until new orders came from Heaven, probably been retconned)
Powered by the Lords of Order:
Dove I (deceased)
Dove II (deceased)
Inza Nelson (deceased)
Jack C. Small (The Champion for the Lords of Order)
Kent Nelson (The original Doctor Fate, deceased)
Eric Strauss (deceased and reincarnated as Eugene DeBella)
Linda Strauss (deceased and reincarnated as Wendy DeBella)
Lords of Chaos:
Child
Gorrum
Hytuurnus (LSH v4. #19)
Mordru (Prince of Chaos possessing the body of Wrynn, son of Prince Amber & Lady Turquoise)
M'Shulla
Nabu: Nabu the Wise (Former Lord of Order)
Shivering Jemmy (From the same storylines in Neil Gaiman's
Sandman -#:A Female counterpart fo Child perhaps?
T'Charr (powered Hawk)
The Weaver - a strange being with "mystical threads" attached to his body & an enemy of Arion, the heroic Lord of Atlantis. He has evidently appeared in some issues of Arion, and had own his Who's Who entry in WHO'S WHO UPDATE 1988 #4.
The Shallow Brigade and the Laughing Dancers (two sub-groups of the Lords of Chaos mentioned by Shivering Jemmy in Sandman).
The five original Lords of Chaos (Appeared in Grant Morrison's and later Ann Nocienti's Kid Eternity series - #:Chaos is viewed as a good force here)
Typhon
Vandaemon - the master of Amethyst's archenemy Dark Opal (which in turn would make the latter an "agent of Chaos"). Both Vandaemeon and Dark Opal was mentioned in Amethyst entry of the WHO'S WHO UPDATE 1987 #1)
Unnamed, The (Kid Eternity served five Lords of Chaos called the "Unnamed")
Zanadu the Chaos Maker
Agents of Chaos:
Anti-Fate (Dr. Benjamin Stoner from DeMatteis' Dr.Fate)
Eclipso (but he's really a servant of heaven/hell. He was the first Spectre after all.)
Dark Opal
Dugan (Hawk & Dove v3 #2 - Servent of Chaos)
Kid Eternity and Mr. Keeper (They were going to oversee the creation of a new breed of humans in a world of chaos. However, now that Order and Chaos have left, will they continue their mission?)
Kestrel I (deceased)
Kestrel II
Kobra (What will Kobra do now that the Lords of Chaos have left the physical world? Does he still believe in the Kali Yuga?)
Mr. Keeper
Powered by the Lords of Chaos:
Extant (Also has the powers of Dove II)
Flaw
Hawk
Inza Nelson (for a brief time as her run as Dr. Fate)
Jack C. Small (Host body for Typhon )
Kestrel I (deceaed)
Kestrel II
The Nightshade Dimension fell to Chaos
Wrynn, son of Prince Amber & Lady Turquoise (Host for Mordru)
Agent of Balance:
Jared Stevens (Fate, deceased)
