Solusandra
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Solusandra is a character created by CrossGen Entertainment. She is perhaps the most essential character to the "Big Picture" storyline, as she is the orange eyed being who created the Sigil-Bearers. She was exclusively found in the comic Solus (written by Barbara Kesel and pencilled by George Perez) and appeared in every Crossgen Comic that concerned the sigil. She is an extremely confident character, although her signature boldness is known to be overbearing. The name Solusandra means "one who is alone".
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[edit] The Creator
Solusandra created the sigil, an emblem of two, red and gold, droplets circling towards each other (the tail end facing counter-clockwise) as if in endless chase, representing concurrent action, the colors dividing the action into two parts, two desires for the result: red for personal needs; those beneficial to oneself and gold for obtaining results that would aid anyone or thing without selfish thought.
[edit] The Atlantean
This symbol she designed when she was young, in her birthplace of Atlantis, a grand city/state that set on an island in the center of, what we know as, the Atlantic Ocean on the planet Earth over 100,000 years ago. As a member of a race of older humans, Solusandra grew up learning the traditions of her people. One such tradition was mentoring, an act that seemed almost second nature to Atlanteans, as most Atlanteans loved to share their knowledge of what they had learned with others. Alone for quite awhile on Earth as the only sentient race, soon a new race evolved: humans. With this newfound discovery, the Atlanteans made it their goal to silently moniter and mentor this new race towards steps to becoming more like the Atlanteans. This mentoring was behind the scenes and subtle, as the Atlanteans were capable of being such, for there was one significant difference between the older human race and the present one: The Atlantean had the ability to tap into universal energies that granted them extraordinary abilities and powers not found in the humans. The Atlanteans hoped in their mentoring to awaken somehow what they assumed was dormant in this fledgling race. As they at one time had no ability to tap into these unseen energies (as witnessed by the ancient warrior-priest Aristophanes' inability to do so).
[edit] The Rebel, part I: Propriety vs. Verity
More recently in the past, Atlantean society became engrossed in their newfound abilities and eventually divided them into five categories or disciplines. Each discipline represented an aspect of being, essentially the five separate parts of what we are: Mind, Body, Spirit, Passion, and Empathy. Mind being our brain and thoughts and mental abilities. Body, our visible self. Spirit, what we are that is unseen. Passion, our emotions expressed outwardly in our actions and our feelings deep within. Essentially: What we feel. Empathy, our ability to relate to the emotions and actions of others. Essentially: What others feel. These five disciplines were decided as the core of Atlantean society and each member took one discipline unto themselves to master and hone whatever powers within them and reflect that discipline. This was known and respected and assumed mandatory. Solusandra knew her capabilities. She had more interests than one and invested much time in being involved in everything she could about life. So, when her mentor, Capricia, petitioned her to decide on a certain discipline to devote her life to Solusandra knew the obvious choice was all of them. This angered Capricia and confused many who kept with tradition. But Solusandra could not have it any other way and this was looked upon as arrogance and selfishness on her part. And it was selfish as Solusandra knew. But it was also selfless, as each discipline reflected all that we are, all that we are can do things that benefit others and oneself and both at the same time. Thus became her symbol of the sigil.
[edit] The Rebel, part II: The Dilemma of Transition
While Solusandra was still a young woman, she had heard of a woman named Dienara who had a dream of a better world and how to obtain it. It was known as Transition. Other Atlanteans began having the dreams and Dienara discovered how to obtain this Transition. Her husband, Chaund, led the way for her and organized a sort of congregation of Atlanteans to inform them and school them on how to obtain this better life which was essentially an act that would take all who followed to godhood. They speculated on how best to do this and it was decided that they must all be as one mind, each believing as one unit all that there is and with that hivemind mentality and oneness they would rise up above the city, together pooling their energies and at the instant they would know that the doorway was open to walking with the gods they would all purge themselves of all base desires and emotions and any feeling, yearning, craving they deemed unfit for a god. This rang false within Solusandra, as she knew that she wasn't much without her emotions, the driving force of action, the reactive feelings that compel us toward expression, in thought, word, deed, in obtaining of knowledge and forging beliefs and creating art, this part of us that is the bearer of the knowledge that we exist kept there to remind us that we are. But she was also in love with Chaund. So, she planned on being a part of Transition, for him, but she would not purge her emotions, for her. Another Atlantean, Danik, advised her against this on numerous occasions, claiming she would somehow taint the event, her being so against their oneness in that belief, but Solusandra felt she could still attain a god-like state just the same, as all the Atlanteans choosing to go, without harm to their almost obsessive zeal for what they thought was perfection. Transition happened and all involved attained godhood and unimaginable power and glory. And they would have been happy if they hadn't purged that emotion from themselves. Solusandra was right.
[edit] The Goddess
As time went on, Solusandra explored the universe and her powers as a goddess, and after 90,000 years had passed, somehow, to the other Transitioned Atlanteans she became a threat, so they tried to kill her. She fought back, but they stole her power, but Solusandra, amid battle, somehow found a negative universe opposed to our own and tapped into the chaotic energies there and stole her power back and then some, only to have a portion of her power stolen without her notice by a Transitioned human, living in the negative universe, named Robert Charon. Eventually, Solusandra was captured by Transitioned Atlanteans and they erased her mind, making her childlike, and she was given a portion of the universe to play in away from the affairs of the other Transitioned Atlanteans. She created a friend that she named Altwaal. Altwaal was given a measure of power by Solusandra, thus she created a friend with similar attributes to herself, including the ability to tap into the universal energies. Essentially, she created a god not unlike herself in her current state. She also created many worlds, the first being Avalon, and together she and Altwaal visited those worlds. One of the most important of the worlds she had created, however, was Elysia and upon giving this planet to Altwaal, she created friends for him: Ingra, Trenin, Pyrem, Yala, Orium, and Gannish. They also were created with a measure of power, but less than the portion Altwaal was given. She named them after intentions: anger, determination, empathy, joy, delirium, and anguish. These were only the first six but she created others, each with a name that was based on a human attribute, every intention someone could have, and each were given a degree of power, but a lesser degree than the Six. These creations, these beings of power, these gods of her portion of the universe, she called The First. Possibly, she did this to prove to the other Transitioned Atlanteans that she was right all along to have not purged her emotions or maybe it was out of frustration for constantly being told that by not ridding herself of all her desires she was wrong. Only one man knows.
[edit] Giver of Sigils
Danik, who also had Transitioned, was called to watch over her, and during his observations he concluded that Solusandra was right to not have purged her emotions during Transition. Danik realized his folly and set out to make things right. He needed an army who could fight his misled bethren, the powerful Transitioned Atlanteans. He would help Solusandra get revenge for what they did to her. He knew of Solusandra's symbol, the sigil, and what it represented. It seems Atlanteans also have a tradition of adopting personal sigils as Danik also had his own, an orange horizontal oval that flared, from its top right corner, perpendicular to the oval, leftward, to a point and from the bottom left flaring perpendicularly to a point towards the right. His was a symbol that represented clarity. And as a powerful being he knew he could grant a portion of his power to other humans, those that hadn't Transitioned, with his mark being a representation of the one who granted the power. If he could do this, so could Solusandra, so he convinced her to leave her mark upon a single soul on each planet in the universe, sometimes two. Because it was her mark, it would flare red when the bearer would do something selfish or on the offensive and it would flare yellow when the action was meant to defend something or someone or essentially a selfless act. The intentions dictated the flare of the sigil and the bearer's personality dictated the resultant manifestation of power, each bearer typically manifesting different abilities from the universal energies they tapped into. But the mark was really just a mark and Solusandra's granting of the sigils provided easier access to what was already there found deep within their human genetics. So it wasn't a big deal to have the mark taken away. The ability to tap into the universal energies would always be there.
[edit] Taker of Sigils
Eventually, Solusandra was revived of her childlike state and couldn't remember who she was, so she set out to retrieve these marks she had placed throughout the universe, because each mark also stored a memory of her past. She met a young Sigil-bearer named Lindy Carston who was known as the hero, Radiant, on her planet Heliotrope, and Lindy followed Solusandra throughout the universe as she took back the sigils. She even returned to her "toys" on Elysia.
