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  • Artist Info: Name: Kent Nelson<br />
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    Alias: Doctor Fate or just Fate<br />
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    Powers and Abilities: Doctor Fate possesses a variety of mystical powers. In general, even without wearing the Helmet of Nabu, the host can fly, is highly resistant to injury, has minor telekinesis, and has greater-than-human strength.<br />
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    In all of his incarnations, Doctor Fate is an accomplished sorcerer, and at his most potent able to match most other wizards in the DC Universe.<br />
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    * Personal Sorcery <br />
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    * Telekinesis<br />
    * Flight: Using his telekinesis Kent may attain Remarkable airspeeds<br />
    * Levitation<br />
    * Damage Resistance<br />
    * Enhanced Strength: Kent may use his telekinetic power to supplement his physical strength <br />
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    * Enhanced Sorcery: due to the Helm of Nabu, Amulet of Anubis, Cloak of Destiny. <br />
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    * Mystical Bolts<br />
    * Spells: Ability to summon & use large amounts of magic to perform almost any feat such as shields, teleportation, increasing size etc.<br />
    * Illusion Casting<br />
    * Invisibility<br />
    * Phasing<br />
    * Flight<br />
    * Levitation<br />
    * Divine Powers<br />
    * Astral Projection<br />
    * Dimensional Manipulation<br />
    * Energy Manipulation<br />
    * Enhanced Intellect<br />
    * Time Travel: Ability to travel through the time-stream<br />
    * Energy Blasts<br />
    * Telekinesis<br />
    * Super Strength<br />
    * Super Speed<br />
    * Summon & Banishment: Ability to summon creatures or banish creatures<br />
    * Invulnerability<br />
    * Interstellar Teleportation<br />
    * Solid Energy Constructs<br />
    * Transmutation<br />
    * Immortality<br />
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    Abilities: Expert Combatant: Formidable opponent at Hand-to-hand Combat & Jujitsu<br />
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    Weaknesses:Without the helmet, Kent Nelson in an ordinary mortal. Without a mortal host, Fate cannot visit the earthly plane. Although Fate cannot be destroyed, the mortal hosts main weakness is that he requires to breathe. Areas where oxygen lacks or gases may harm the mortal host unless a spell has been cast to protect the body. <br />
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    At the known height of his abilities, he was able to take control of Etrigan the Demon, Darkseid, Highfather and Orion and harness their powers to take on the Anti-Life entity. In this instance, he was powerful enough to destroy a reality in order to halt the advance of the entity using a "Mystic Firebreak". He has also been on the losing side of drawn out battles with the Spectre<br />
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    Helmet of Nabu<br />
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    The helmet that Doctor Fate wears is the focus of the Doctor Fate identity. It originally housed Nabu's spirit and allowed him to possess the current host, it later only allowed him to advise the host instead. The helmet is what provides the link to Nabu and by not wearing it, as Kent Nelson did at one time, Doctor Fate loses much of its power and knowledge.<br />
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    Putting on the helmet usually results in its wearer being clad in the other raiments of Doctor Fate, unless the one with the actual claim to the helmet wants to prevent it. On several occasions, villains seeking the power of Doctor Fate have stolen the helmet, in which case the result has typically been that the thief goes insane when he or she puts the helmet on.<br />
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    At one time a half-face version of the helm was created when Kent felt the Nabu entity had become too dominant.<br />
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    Amulet of Anubis<br />
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    The circular device that adorns the livery collar worn around Doctor Fate's chest and shoulders is the Amulet of Anubis, which gives anyone who wears it vast magical abilities. The amulet has also been shown to house the souls of many who have worn the vestments of Fate.<br />
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    Bio: Kent Nelson was born in 1928 to Celestine Babcock-Nelson, a spiritualist and Sven Nelson, an archaeologist. Kent's mother died sometime after his birth under unknown circumstances. However, Kent's destiny was already written and at the age of 12, his sheltered life would soon change. It was the early 1940's and Sven Nelson had decided to take his son Kent on a dig to the Valley of Ur in Mesopotamia to an archaeological site. The natives were too scared to enter the temple, fearing curses and the wrath of God which did not disturb Sven Nelson. Sven and Kent ventured into the temple of Nabu the Wise that would soon change their lives. Kent wandered around the temple and stumbled upon an ancient sarcophagus containing the giant body of Nabu the Wise, an ancient Egyptian sorcerer. Kent felt that he had to pull the lever that was keeping Nabu asleep after a thousands of years. After pulling the lever that kept Nabu in suspended animation, a poisonous gas swept through the temple and killed Sven Nelson but left Kent unharmed.<br />
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    As gratitude for his release, Nabu would offer to teach the boy magic. Kent did not want this power but only to have his father back but with a wave of his hand, Nabu had removed all knowledge of Sven's death from the boy. Within that week, Nabu had transformed Kent into a full grown man and taught him the ways of mysticism, order and power. Nabu's last wish was for Kent to release all his power on his master, Kent could not kill his master as he had grown attached to Nabu. Nabu made a gesture of his hand and Kent remembered that the gas that freed Nabu had killed his father. In an angry rage, Kent summoned all his power to destroy the murderer of his father. At that instant, Nabu's true origin was revealed to Kent, Nabu was an energy being , a Lord of Order. Nabu explained the circumstances of his fathers death and the never ending battle between Order and Chaos. As a final gift, Nabu gave Kent a golden helmet and an amulet that would increase his powers. When Kent wore the Helmet, he was joined with Nabu and earth would once again have a Lord of Order.<br />
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    During Kent's first adventure as Dr.Fate, he fought his first adversary, the evil sorcerer Wotan and rescued Inza Cramer from his evil clutches. Kent fell in love with Inza and they soon married. (The true power of Dr.Fate was for man and woman to be joined but Nabu had blocked the process so he could control Kent. Thus the trinity of Inza, Kent and Nabu could not be performed) Fate magically created a tower in Salem, Massachusetts as base of operations where he would become Earth's mystic defender. Dr. Fate's first encounter with a hero of that era was the Spectre, the wrath of God. Together they destroyed a military gateway to a netherworld of demons. It was World War II and America was pulled into the war, Dr. Fate and many other mystery men help defeat an assassination attempt of President Roosevelt's life. At Roosevelt's request, they formed the Justice Society of America.<br />
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    During this time, Kent found the helmet becoming more and more possessive of him, so rather than abandoning his battle against chaos, Kent created the half helm. Although Kent's powers were severely limited, he still had the ability of flight, invulnerability and super strength. However, Kent donned the helmet one last time in order to find the missing Spectre. Dr. Fate discovered that the Spectre was under the control of Kulak and in a titanic battle with the Spectre, he was defeated and the Helmet of Nabu was lost somewhere in the netherverse. It would not be until the early 1960's that Kent Nelson would somehow recover the helmet of Nabu and become Dr. Fate again. In the 1950's Kent Nelson had retired his fate persona and became a physician. It was not until the 1963 that Kent would rejoin the Justice Society of America. As their Justice Society comrades aged, Kent and Inza seemed immortal. The magic fate held over them, virtually stopped their aging process. Inza and Kent also received a small portion of Ian Karkull's power which gave them even more vitality.<br />
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    For the next 20 years, Dr. Fate participated with the JSA and JLA.<br />
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    When the Justice Society reactivated in the 1960s, Fate was a member - again wearing Nabu's helmet, though how it was recovered has not been revealed. Little is known of Fate's adventures during this period save for the JSA's annual gatherings with the Justice League of America from the parallel world of Earth-One (the JSA being on Earth-Two), and a pair of adventures he shared with fellow JSA member Hourman facing the monstrous Solomon Grundy and the villainous Psycho-Pirate.<br />
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    Dr.Fate was also the founder of new Justice League where he and the Justice League foiled the plans of Darkseid to turn the people of earth against heroes. Kent lasts adventure was against the Gray Man. During the late 1980's chaos and order were at breaking point. It was the Kuli Yuga, the final age of man. Order had pulled out of battle, waiting for Chaos to engulf itself to create the new Golden Age. The strain of the Kali Yuga on Kent and Inza had caused them both to age rapidly. The strain on Inza was unbearable, in 1987, Inza committed suicide which left Kent devastated and on the verge of suicide. Nabu had become more dominant in the relationship and would not allow Kent to die until he could find a new host body. Kent reluctantly helped Nabu find Eric Strauss as his protegee as the new Fate. It was only during these short few weeks that Kent discovered that Dr. Fate was meant to be a triad. Man, Woman and Fate. Kent broke the hold of Nabu over Fate which allowed Eric Strauss and his lover Linda to become the new Dr. Fate. Nabu allowed Kent to die. The Nelsons enjoyed an afterlife in which they lived normal lives unknowingly in the Amulet of Anubis. They raised a child called Kent and once again Fate would play a role in their lives again.<br />
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    In desperation, Nabu travels to the Tower of Fate in Salem, to prepare the way for the TRUE Dr. Fate, Kent and Inza Nelson. As the they look into the amulet of Anubis, they see the souls of Kent and Inza Nelson. Jack C. Small and Petey venture into the amulet to find the Nelsons while Linda and Nabu prepare to fight Benjamin Stoner. With Nabu's help, Linda can touch the items and become Fate with Nabu. Nabu and Linda create a four armed Dr. Fate to battle the Anti-Fate. However, they fail and the Anti-Fate rejects the Lords of Chaos. Within the amulet, Jack C. Small and Petey discover that Hesse is inside the amulet. With his help they find the Nelsons and try to persuade them to come back to earth. Inza called this world heaven as the Nelson's could live the life they wanted to live. In this world, they even had a son called Kent junior. Inza does not want to leave this so-called heaven but eventually agrees that they could make this life happen on Earth.<br />
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    Linda dies from her wounds from the battle with the Anti-Fate as her soul goes into Wendy, a woman who just recently died. There she is rejoined with her husband Eugene (Eric) and their daughter Raina where they will become the new seeds of humanity. Nabu is given the choice between humanity and being an immortal Lord of Order, he chooses humanity and his soul goes into Wendy's unborn child.
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