SOUL-EATER

1^st Appearance:  (K’ril) Thor #261; (Soul-Eater) Quasar #35

Real name: K’ril
Aliases:  Soul Survivor
Identity: Existence unknown to Earth’s general populace; identity recorded in Avengers and other files.
Occupation: Former predator, keeper of the god of the Soul Survivors
Citizenship: Formerly the Deonist Confederation of Planets
Place of Birth: Templeworld (formerly Deo, later the Doomsday Star), 5^th from the star Denebola, Milky Way galaxy
Known relatives: None
Group affiliation: Formerly the Soul Survivors
Education: Unrevealed

Height: (K’ril) 5’8”; (Soul-Eater) variable
Weight: (K’ril) 130lbs; (Soul-Eater) variable
Eyes: (K’ril) black; (Soul-Eater) red
Hair: (K’ril) brown; (Soul-Eater) none

Intelligence: 5/7
Strength: 7/7
Speed: 7/7
Durability: 7/7
Energy Projection: 7/7
Fighting Skills: 2/7

History:  K’ril is believed to be the last of the Deonists, a race originating on the planet Deo and ruling a Confederation of Planets.  Deo eventually became Templeworld, so named because it housed the “One Above All,” a gigantic god-like being who fed off the psionic energy of their worship in exchange for sustaining Templeworld’s fragile biosphere.  When a powerful space armada attacked their system, all of the Confederation except Templeworld fell.  Their god sacrificed itself repulsing the invaders; with its last energy, it erected an immense spacewall around Templeworld to protect against further invasions; the northern pole was protected by constant meteor showers and the southern pole by seething stellar maelstroms.  The surviving Deonists, calling themselves the Soul Survivors, captured another vastly powerful being, using him to provide the energy to protect themselves and preserve their world, which became known as the Doomsday Star.  After fatally exhausting this being, they captured a replacement, repeating this as needed for an uncertain time period.  K’ril became keeper of the Soul Survivor’s gods, ruling alongside N’gil and developing a massive defensive arsenal.

The Deonists eventually captured the Asgardian god Odin in mid-transit between worlds.  His son Thor and several other Norse gods journeyed to find him.  The Doomsday Star’s defenses, powered by the Odinforce captured most of the group, whom the Deonists hoped to use as additional power sources.  The immense energy drain pushed Odin past his limits, and he seemingly died soon after.  As their restraints lost power, Thor freed himself and his allies, who overcame the now-weakened defenses.  Confronted by the powerful gods, K’ril entered the “spirit mold,” which animated a psionic energy construct empowered by the last stored portions of Odin’s life force.  Thor and his allies overcame the construct and freed and revived Odin.  Without a godly life force to sustain it, the Doomsday Star became uninhabitable and the Soul Survivors were force to evacuate.

K’ril later re-entered the spirit mold, reformed the construct and recalibrated its psionic circuitry to tap his brethren’s life force, slaying them all in the process.  Now dwelling within the construct as the Soul-Eater, K’ril traversed the galaxy looking for places of death to feed upon fresh souls.  He was near the Kree Empire’s center at the conclusion of the Kree/Shi’ar war when the Nega-Bomb exploded on Hala.  The Soul-Eater absorbed untold trillions of souls, increasing in size and power exponentially.  The cosmic protector Quasar (Wendell Vaughn) was sent by the death rite fanatics known as the Mourners to investigate the lack of “true death” of the Nega-Bomb’s Kree victims.  Quasar and his allies, the Eternal speedster Makkari and genetically engineered Kismet (Her), quickly found their abilities to be insignificant against the Soul-Eater’s power.  The Soul-Eater then targeted the still-gestating form of the cosmic entity Origin.  Quasar entered the Soul-Eater, encountering the souls of the Nega-Bomb victims and convincing them to resist the Soul-Eater, causing an internal reaction which blasted the Soul-Eater’s form to shreds.

Abilities/Accessories:  The Soul-Eater was immensely large and powerful, dwarfing even planets.  Existing in deep space, the Soul-Eater fed on the souls of the living and the dead, and it could reform after injury.  K’ril controlled the Soul-Eater from within via the spirit mold.  He formerly used the Doomsday Star’s advanced weaponry.  The spacewall was virtually impregnable.  Deonist warriors wore powerful armor, used energy cannons and rode war wagons – all their weapons were similarly powered by their god’s life force.  While tapping the power of a virtually omnipotent god, the defenses of the Doomsday Star were exceedingly formidable; however, maintaining this power level quickly drained their gods’ resources.  With the death of their god, their power would rapidly dwindle.