| Super Name: | Danik |
| Real Name: | None |
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| Publisher: | Crossgen |
| Gender: | Male |
| Character Type: | God/Eternal |
| 1st Appearance: | # |
| Appears in: | 17 issues |
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Danik is an ascended Atlantean who has gained near omnipotent power. He has split himself into multiple aspects in an effort better ready his universe for an attack by Charon of the Negation universe. Edit
Citizen of Atlantis
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Danik was born in Atlantis on the planet earth over 100,000 years before the current time in the Bright Universe. The Atlanteans evolved to near perfection thousands of years before the beings who would one day become Homo Sapiens even discovered fire.
The Atlanteans honed their abilities to a razor fine edge by following the Five Disciplines: Mind, Body, Spirit, Passion and Empathy. Danik was a student of the Spirit discipline, which focused the mental abilities of the individual. Danik's mental prowess was so advanced, he came to be considered the most powerfully mentally disciplined Atlantean who ever lived. So powerful was he, that he was able to free his mentor Amatus from a mental virus, and then subsequently destroy that same malady.
Capricia, Danik's best friend and potential love interest, was the leader of the faction who believed Transition should be postponed. Capricia and the others like her believed that the role of the Atlanteans on earth was to protect and guide humanity on its climb up the evolutionary ladder. Because of this belief, those electing to stay behind would lock themselves inside stasis tubes deep inside Atlantis in order to better survive the powerful backwash of energy unleashed during Transition.
Transition
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Danik, Diennara, Chaund, Solusandra and the majority faction of Atlanteans flew into the air on the appointed day, and those staying behind entered their stasis tubes. Though concerned with Solusandra's refusal to discard all emotion, she was eventually proved correct. Solusandra soon becomes the most powerful among those who transitioned, and was now feared and despised by all her peers but for Danik.
Combining their powers, the other ascended Atlanteans attacked Solusandra and wiped her mind, leaving Danik—who was sympathetic to her—to watch over her. Danik slowly came to the realization that Solusandra was correct in her belief to keep hold of her emotions, and saw that she was the only Atlantean to have transitioned correctly.
Solusandra created a great many worlds throughout the Bright Universe. Now with her mind wiped, Danik proposed a "game" to her. She was to give her Sigil to one (sometimes two) inhabitants of each planet, thereby advancing them up to the top of the evolutionary ladder and imbuing them with great powers. Danik hoped to use these new and powerful people as an army against his fellow Atlanteans. This proves to be unnecessary, as Solusandra eventually regains her mind and is attacked by the other Atlanteans. When Solunandra breaks through to the Negation (Dark) universe during their battle, she tries to draw energy from the Negation itself. Charon, god of the Negation, tries to join with Solusandra, but the opposing powers are not compatible, and cause a forceful explosion that kills all other Atlanteans apart from Danik and herself. Solusandra survives by "breaking apart," sending parts of her memory and self-awareness into the many Sigils she had placed throughout the Bright Universe.
Danik also traveled to his original home of Atlantis and awoke his former best friend, Capricia. The Atlantean stasis tubes malfunctioned, and did not awaken those who stayed behind. Now they are wrenched back into the present over 100,000 years too late. He tells her to choose five more Atlanteans to awaken, and he then marks them all with his own Sigil, granting them refinements and increases to their own inborn powers. These newly awakened Atlanteans are immediately attacked by Negation monsters, the threat for which Danik now trained the universe's Sigil bearers to oppose.
Avatars of Danik
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In order to better keep watch and mentor the Sigil-bearers spread across the universe, Danik splits himself into numerous splinter aspects. Each of these aspects, while being completely a part of Danik, are each also unique individuals. While Danik is a cold and unemotional being, many of his aspects show deep emotion. The real connection between the aspects is unknown, but they do not seem to share a group mind but rather must join together to share their accumulated knowledge.
Each of the individual avatars watches over one of the Sigil-bearers created by Solusandra, along with the six Atlanteans he brought back to awareness.
Known Aspects
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Zamida: A young woman and her child are captured by Negation forces and kidnapped back to the Dark Universe. This aspect of Danik has split itself into two separate bodies in an effort to enter the Negation universe undetected by Charon. Obregon Kaine, an incredibly savvy human, and Khlystek, as Saurian female, help Zaida (the girl) and Memi (the baby) merge back into one single aspect of Danik by discovering the implanted trigger word: crossgenesis.
Too-Too: Mentor to Cassie Starkweather which appears to her as her dead grandfather. Cassie is bearer of Danik's own Sigil, a mark which grants her focus to her mental abilities. Too-Too prepares Cassie for her future confrontation against The Adversary.
Soujiro-San: Mentor to Obo-San on the planet Han-Jin. Obo-San inherited the Sigil when Todosi, his mentor and friend, used Atwaal's weapon against on of the First and was killed in the process. Enson was among the First when Obo-San took the Sigil, and he split Soujiro-San from himself to stay behind as watcher and guide.
Polla: Mentor to Dr. Kellra Tuskin, a psychic on the planet Cardeen. Polla apperas as a floating smiley face, possibly a computer-like being that serves as Dr. Tuskin's secretary.
Emma Bishop: Mentor and partner to Simon Archard, a detective on the planet Arcadia. Archard bears Danik's own Sigil on the end of a cane he always carries.
Nemases: Mentor to Mikos of the planet Abyelos. Nemases is a gargoyle/griffin-like creature.
Note on CrossGen Comics
CrossGen Comics suffered bankruptcy and ceased publication before most of its major storylines could be brought to a conclusion. The company was building up to the Negation War, a massive crossover in which many of the company's characters would meet and interact. As a result of the bankruptcy, this crossover was never fully realized, and the ultimate fate of Danik remains unknown.
