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===The Coming of Ghalac’tuus=== : Huge tidal waves begin pounding the coast of the British Colonies in ever-increasing fury. As the colonists struggle against the onslaught, a figure forms out of the foaming surf and warns them of the coming of Ghalac'tuus! : The legendary Ghalac'tuus is a primordial creature from deep beneath the oceans who, as some legends have it, consumes entire landmasses. Atlantis/Lemuria, Thule and Mu have already been consumed by the leviathan in the ancient past, and now he's awakening again and will feed on the New World. :: He Who Watches: Fortunately, the ageless wise man "He Who Watches," (a Muvian Watcher) the last known survivor of ancient Mu, has been watching and preparing for Ghalac'tuus' return and tells the AVENGERS of an artifact in sunken Mu that can fend off Ghalac'tuus. : In his mountain on Mu ravenous Ghalac'tuus lies sleeping Mu is a sunken continent in the Pacific Ocean. Before it sank, Mu is believed to be the place where humans first appeared. The ancient Muvians worshipped countless gods, but the most important ones was in legend a "son" of the stars: Ghalac'tuus. Their reverence for this leviathan may have hastened Mu's downfall. There is much speculation about what caused Mu to sink into the ocean. According to the Muvian Watchers, the high priest Zanthu angered the Elder God when he attempted to summon Ghalac'tuus to challenge the power of land devourer. In retaliation, the Elder God destroyed Mu and sank it beneath the waves. : Mount Ghalac'tuus was a towering basalt contraption on a mountain atop the continent of Mu. Its peak is topped with a colossal, ancient stone fortress/mechanism, which legends claim was built eons ago by a race of beings beyond the stars. Inside the fortress is a huge trapdoor that seals an entryway to the interior of the mountain. : More than 200,000 years ago, this mountain became the resting place of Ghalac'tuus sacred because it was the dwelling place of the god Ghalac'tuus. Priests of Mu built a temple at the mountain's base and offered regular sacrifies to the god, lest Ghalac'tuus emerge from the bowels of Mount Ghalac'tuus, crawl down its slopes, and bring doom to humanity by devouring the land on which they lived. : Ghalac'tuus is a member of an ancient race of powerful and destructive beings who lived on earth aeons prior to human evolution. He resembles a cross between a dragon, an octopus and a human figure He now lies dead but dreaming in his mountain fortress/mechanism on the sucken continent of Mu sunken under the ocean somewhere between New Zealand and South America. : 'Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Ghalac'tuus Mu wgah'nagl fhtagn' - (In his mountain on Mu ravenous Ghalac'tuus lies sleeping) : The waves be striking the coast of Europe, mostly around the UK. : They may even consider this Man of Silver appearing from the surfs the enemy, The Man of Silver is actually High Priest Zanthu. Ghalac'tuus, in his infinite evil godness, decided to add insult to injury: not only did Zanthu doom his people, but after his death, Ghalac'tuus forced his conciousness into a statue of pure silver scavenged from Mu, and forces him to act as his servant on Earth. : Play up how artificial he looks. Creases in the metal, rivets along the sides, plating. Not too much, just enough to make him seem industrial like you have going on with Stark and other scientists in the setting. the Man of Silver just sort of standing on the crest of a wave and riding it all the way to his destination. : The Mu word for High priest is Zenn-La. : Or, he could have summoned Ghalac'tuus from the Temple at Zenn-La and make that the capital city of the sunken continent of Mu -- and where the AVENGERS must venture to get the artifact they need! : "To stare upon the image of Ghalac'tuus was to see a figure that threatened one's sanity. It stood twenty men tall and more with no mortal craftmanship believed possible to make such a thing. The statue of metal and stone that had been shaped by races aged long ago moved of its own accord with its face seeming to be the inspiration of the great heads of Easter Island. What fell force had been summoned by ancient priests to animate the giant was impossible to imagine but it was cloaked in a metal armor that was similar to the garb of the Ancient Atlanteans that their deity ultimately destroyed." : "But worst, worst terrible was the Colossus' voice that when its open its mouth, spoke with words that could sing the song to end the world." : From the Necronomicron he is mentioned but Stephen Strange had his own papers penned by a Tibetan Lama known as the Ancient One whom had familiarized himself with relics of Lemuria passed down from old mystics to his order via ancient stone tablets. : "Perhaps most terrible of the fate of the Mu was that of their last and greatest king. No'Ran the Ra son, ancient God-Emperor that would be forgotten amongst the survivors who fled across the oceans to what would eventually become Egypt, sought to bargain with the awakening creature that had long been appeased by grotesque offers of vast human lives to feed its eternal hungers. : What words passed between the God and the King, if it even deigned to notice him, was spoken not. All that remains is the account of Shabala the Queen whom escaped to become the mother of Cheops. She spoke of her husband descending from the sky on the back of a holy obelisk as transformed into a living statue of silver. It was from his words that the judgement of their God had come down upon them and they would pay for their periffidy in blood." : "So thus did Zenna-la, greatest of the Mu cities, meet its end and the continent was laid waste." : Destroy the statue but the Dread Other Dimensional Presence will simply be able to seek out a new vessel. : The Stele Stone is silver too and probably covered in terrible heiroglyphics. : A Standing Stone, orthostats, liths or more commonly, megaliths are solitary stones set vertically in the ground and come in many different varieties. A Stele is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected for funerary or commemorative purposes, most usually decorated with the names and titles of the deceased or living—inscribed, carved in relief onto the slab. Stelae were also used as territorial markers or to commemorate military victories. They were widely used in the Ancient Near East, Greece, Egypt, Ethiopia, and, quite independently, in China and some Buddhist cultures, and, more surely independently, by Mesoamerican civilisations, notably the Olmec and Maya. The huge number of stelae surviving from ancient Egypt and in Central America constitute one of the largest and most significant sources of information on those civilisations. An informative stele of Tiglath-Pileser III is preserved in the British Museum. : The Kaifeng Jews of China left these stone monuments to preserve their origin and history. Despite repeated flooding of the Yellow River, destroying their synagogue time and time again, these stelae survived to tell their tale. : This one etched with the names of his fallen on the top (facing him) so that he always remembers the cost and prayers of a humble servant to the devourer on the bottom side (facing anyone he flys over). : similar to this in size, but covered in rivited silver... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Forres_sueno.jpg : It would be intriguing if someone who thought they could control the power of Galactus and set about constructing a new body for him -- notable for a rash of thefts that desecrate Egyptian tombs and leave with nothing more than obelisks (valuable parts for the new body). : a great Mist that Covers the World. But instead of a Flying Dutchmen out comes a silver man who sails the stars... Perhaps this Silver Sailor would be regarded as an angel, for he Heralds Judgement that comes in a Year. This could be secret info that SHIELD, The Hellfire Club, and Mr. Sinister (with a prophecy of and from Apocalypse) are aware of. But not only Kang and Immortus come to warn of this event but the Swarthy Man known as Bishop, and a One Eyed Albino with a Clockwork arm also arrive around the world warning of the Comming of Herald. ====Surfer==== [[Image:Ted Nasmith - Departure at the Grey Havens.jpg|frame|The White Ship]] :: Perhaps for the Silver Surfer, make him the Argentine Sailor. :: He sailed a bit too far, and found...something. The only survivor of the group that went after whatever happened to Lord Richards and his crew. now he claims that something terrible is coming, that Judgement Day is at hand, that we must all reprent. If he weren't covered in Silver, no one would heed him...
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