#Eternal arena selene free

Shaw, being no fool, immediately recognized Selene's unmatched power and of what she could do to him if he ever dared to cross her.

Shaw correctly interpreted this as Selene showing Shaw his place.ДЇrom Selene's attack Shaw concluded that Selene knew Shaw's weakness, and would not have hesitated to kill Shaw right then and there. Selene then repaired Shaw's throne and sat on it herself.

#Eternal arena selene free

Had Shaw not previously collected enough kinetic energy to barely break free he would have been suffocated and killed by Selene's attack. When Shaw asked Selene for an audition she effortlessly used her immense power to capture both Shaw and his throne in pure concrete. A member of the Hellfire Club, von Roehm introduced Selene to Sebastian Shaw, the Black King, who was seeking powerful recruits for his Inner Circle. Selene approached the local High Priest of her world-wide Cult of Fire, Friedrich von Roehm, to assist her in securing accommodations where she could practice her dark arts safely and discreetly. Selene ambushed and ruthlessly murdered Damiano, causing Rachel to swear vengeance against her. Prior to the X-Men rescuing her, Rachel had been invited to platonically spend the night at the home of Nicholas Damiano, a young club owner. She was prevented from doing so when Wolverine manipulated a bar-room brawl between Juggernaut and Colossus, which led to her discovery of the existence of Rachel Summers, whom Selene sought to enslave, only to be defeated by the X-Men. She planned to seduce and murder him, absorbing his life essence. In New York City, she encountered Juggernaut at a nightclub. However, Selene not only survived, she followed the New Mutants to the United States, and New York. The intervention of the New Mutants both thwarted Senator Gallio's schemes and led to Selene's apparent destruction. In her initial appearance, Selene was the wife of Nova Roma senator Marcus Domitius Gallio plotting to abolish the republican government and insert Gallio as the Imperial Ruler. It was later explained that the creation of Nova Roma was an elaborate rouse concocted by the Hellfire Club using kidnapped British and American tourists brainwashed to believe themselves descendants of Roman expatriates. At first Selene claimed that she found herself unable to leave Nova Roma, where she remained for roughly two thousand years and led the dreaded Cult of Fire as its Black Priestess. Fearing that Rome's republican government would be replaced by an imperial monarchy, numerous Roman citizens, including Selene, fled Rome in the First Century BCE and sailed to the New World where they founded Nova Roma, or 'New Rome', in a concealed valley in the Amazon rainforest, in what is now Brazil. Selene then came to live in the ancient Roman Republic. In ages past, Selene was renowned as a sorceress whose power was feared and respected by practitioners of black and white magic alike. In her attempt to ascend into goddesshood, Selene explained that she was born in Central Europe seventeen thousand years ago.

She claimed to have lived for several millennia, and to have been a foe of the ancient sorcerer Kulan Gath. Nova RomaДЇor years Selene's origin went unrevealed. He spent centuries searching for a way to recompense what he lost for Selene. Eliphas swore he would gain forgiveness from his goddess.

She cursed him, granting him immortality but life of eternal pain. Eliphas, who at that moment was not an evil man, agreed to help Selene but he was captured and ruined Selene's plan. During the Roman Empire, Selene promised her lover Eliphas her love and eternal life in exchange for every soul in Rome.

Prior to the events in Necrosha, Selene attempted to become a goddess several millennia ago. Selene was created by Chris Claremont and Sal Buscema and first appeared in The New Mutants Vol.1 issue 9 (1983). Selene explaining her origin to to her inner circle in X-Necrosha. But sustenance was not all that they provided. The tribal elders recognized me for what I was and instructed my mother's people to offer their lives to me until there were none left to give. She was the first to sacrifice her life to insure my survival, but she would not be the last. But she would be dead before I uttered my first words. My mother was a mere child when she gave birth to me. Origin Birth of Selene 'After the oceans swallowed Atlantis and before the rise of the Sons of Aryas is when my journey began.