About
Real NameDekan Drache
Current Alias
Felix Faust
Aliases
Helmet of Fate
Identity
Public
Alignment
Bad
Affiliation
formerly Secret Society of Super Villains
Relatives
Fauna Faust (daughter), Sebastian Faust (son)
Universe
New Earth
Characteristics
Gender
Male
Height
5' 11"
Weight
172 lbs (78 kg)
Eyes
Brown
Hair
Black
Status
Citizenship
American
Marital Status
Single
Occupation
Sorcerer
Ancient History
The first recorded whereabouts of the mighty sorcerer now known as Felix Faust is from circa 5,000 BC, at which time he appeared in the legendary African empire of Kor. The king of Kor was Nommo, the prime wizard of his time and the guardian of the mystic power called the Flame of Life. The evil sorcerer battled Nommo, attempting to use the Flame's power to his own corrupt ends. Nommo then called the Flame of Life into himself, defeating the sorcerer by banishing him to another dimension.
In the mid-1920s, a madman and wannabe-magician named Dekan Drache stumbled upon the dimension and managed to open a portal to it. Released, the sorcerer destroyed Drache’s soul and entered his body. However, though alive on Earth once more, the sorcerer found his powers drastically reduced.
Obsessed with restoring his mystic might, the sorcerer read the story of how the man called Faust had sold his soul to the devil for supernatural powers, and decided to do the same. Inspired by the story's main character, the sorcerer now called himself Felix Faust and began a never-ending quest for mystical knowledge.
Modern Age
Over the years, Faust's hunger for magical power proved very costly to him. He has bargained his soul for knowledge away on many occasions, only to buy it back later when his acquisitions failed to help him meet his goals; every time, he'd end up worse than before. Eventually, he found it difficult to find any mystics willing to purchase his tarnished soul. Finally, he tried to trick Neron into giving him power by offering the pure soul of an innocent girl he murdered in lieu of his own. Unfortunately for him, Neron saw through the ruse and punished Faust by setting the girl's vengeful spirit upon him. For a time, Faust's damned soul languished in a hellish plane for magicians who had abused or ignored the laws of magic.
52
During the event known as 52, a voice from within the helm of Doctor Fate speaks to Ralph Dibny and promises to fulfill his desires if he makes certain sacrifices. Dibny journeys with the helm through the afterlives of several cultures, where he is cautioned about the use of magic. The Spectre promises to resurrect his late wife Sue in exchange for Dibny's taking vengeance on her murderer, Jean Loring, but Dibny is unable to do so.
At Nanda Parbat, Rama Kushna tells Dibny, "The end is already written." In Dr. Fate's tower, Dibny begins the spell to resurrect Sue, puts on the Helm of Nabu, and shoots it, revealing Felix Faust, who was posing as Nabu. Faust planned to trade Dibny's soul to Neron in exchange for his own freedom.
Ralph reveals that he was aware of Faust's identity for some time, and that the binding spell surrounding the tower is designed to imprison Faust, not to counter any negative effects of the spell. Neron appears and kills Dibny, only to realize too late that the binding spell responds only to Dibny's commands: through his death Ralph has trapped Faust and Neron in the tower.
One Year Later
Just somehow escaped from the Tower of Fate (how he he escaped will be addressed in Black Adam's miniseries), and contacted Red Tornado's soul which was still adrift after fighting Alexander Luthor alongside Donna Troy, the Green Lantern Corps and their allies. Working with Dr. Impossible, Professor Ivo and Solomon Grundy, Faust posed as Deadman and offered the android his heart's desire: a human body. The Tornado accepted, and Faust bound his soul into his new body. Faust and his allies then stole the Red Tornado's original android body for their own purposes.
After lending his concealment spells to Cheetah, Faust joined with Talia al Ghul in order to corrupt yet another hero: Black Alice. Faust offered Alice power, wealth, a place in the Secret Society of Super Villains and the resurrection of her mother, but Alice refused, sent Faust out of town and tapped into his powers so she could perform the resurrection herself. After this, Faust seemed to rejoin the Society.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
Sorcery: He is, however, a master sorcerer able to control vast magical power to affect reality itself. When he first appeared, Faust was unique amongst magicians, of his caliber, requiring books or scrolls of spells to focus his powers. However, in recent appearances he seems to have overcome this disadvantage.
* Soul Bonding: Can bond souls to organic vessels.
* Illusion Casting
* Spectral Sight
Abilities
Basic Combatant: Felix Faust is unschooled in physical battle, and a sub-par hand-to-hand combatant.
Occultist
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Neron's voice chuckled.
A message would soon be received on Felix' communication device with a mission to meet a target and a location. The orders seemed to have originated from Grodd himself and any possible means on trying to prove otherwise, were near impossible do to resent events. His target was to be Admiral Triv and his current location was in the middle of Ireland. Exact position within is unknown, and recommended to track down by what ever means required.
Just within the Titans Tower sitting upon the roof with her eye piece on was Algiery Jade whom had been given orders to prepare false orders and ambushes to the villains. She knew well enough that Triv could handle someone like him, if not, well she knew her father was resourceful and wouldn't go down easily. Once she was done with this transmission with the recently hacked information and computers that had been hacked into from Grodd's group. It was all very easy to pull of with having every file and rewritten computer program at her disposal. It was only a matter of planning on how to use it while it could still be of use.