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| An age ago, the sorcerer now known as Wotan was a female member of a primitive tribe in a northern wasteland. After being raped and beaten to the brink of death, the woman determined she would discover the reasons, if any, for human existence and the suffering it entails. Escaping her tormentors, she found refuge with an aged sorceress who began teaching her the mystic arts. Upon the old woman’s death, the future Wotan became a sorceress in her place. |
| The future Wotan grew so powerful that she was worshipped as a goddess. Seeking to escape death, she learned how to extend her life by mystical means, then how to transfer her soul into another body, and finally how to direct her how own reincarnation into other bodies. Hence, the being called Wotan adopted thousands of different forms, both male and female, over the millennia. At some point he took the name “Wotan” after the ruler of the gods of Germanic and Norse mythology, although he has no known connection to the pantheon. |
| Wotan continued to amass knowledge, both of science and of mysticism, and built the occult power to great levels, often by absorbing the souls of other great mystics into himself. But he was never satisfied, and still sought the answer to life’s ultimate questions. He believed that only through gaining more and more control over the earth could he find those answers. Wotan’s ruthless pursuit of power brought him into conflict with the original Doctor Fate. |
