Mr. Cryptic wrote:Glad you liked it CL!
Ishtar is not a pure spirit at all. She's a human woman and a goddess at the same time. She was born a woman on Earth, to human parents living in Los Angeles. At some point she became aware that she was a goddess, and that in a realm beyond our time and space she chose to become incarnate on Earth.
So, it's a little complicated in that it's kind of like there's two Ishtars. There's the Ishtar on Earth that we see in these comics, and then there's another Ishtar in the heaven dimension. Within that heaven dimension Ishtar is a woman who is born, ages and eventually dies, but from our point of view she's eternal because our universe's spacetime is like a single moment of time in the heaven dimension. That's kind of hard to wrap the mind around, but she's a goddess so her true nature is hard to understand.
I still want to do a series where we see some of Ishtar in the heaven dimension. It would be a kind of fantasy genre story more than superheroic.
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I think I understand what your saying! She's not immortal, but her race is long living, she does ages and dies. Her race lives so much longer then human, with her magic she can reach across time and space to be present at this point in time. You did answer another question for me Ishtar is really just a human being! It explain why she's powerless without her magical garments, she seem much more limited when it come to using magic then Prospero! Prospero was casting spells left and right with no limits, he doesn't need magical garments to be able to cast spells! Ishtar doesn't seem to be able to casts spells or use magic without her garments. It seem to me the magical garments enchance all her human abilities to include her prana, I noticed that anybody can use her rod to enslave someone or free them from a spell, does she really generate more prana than any other human being or is it the magical garments enchancing her prana, just like the magical garments can do for any human?? I know she's aware she's a Goddess in another dimension, but i'm thinking she's really doesn't have any powers in this dimension, just her knowledge of magic and her magical garments from her dimension!!
Now i understand why Prospero was able to defeated her everytime they faced off, she's really isn't that much more experienced at using magic then he is!! She just had more knowledge of magic then he did at first, he showed thru out the whole saga he was a lot more skilled at using magic then Ishtar was even when he was a novice mage. Moving forward they may be on the same power level when it come to magical powers, but Prospero is a whole lot more skilled at using magic then Ishtar is!! I like your new characters, Crytowoman, will she be joining the legion?? Rhiannon, is she a sorceress on Ishtar level or is she more skilled, on Prospero level ?? We also learned that Brickhouse is stronger than Ishtar, by the comment she made in Victory City # 48, " that collar saps your strength enough that you can't over power me", so Brickhouse is the strongest!! The Lord Prospero saga did reveal a lot about Ishtar!! Oh I was wondering if we will see the Queen of the night again!! I like her, I liked her even more when i learned she was really a heroine uncover!! she's tough!!