Hecate

Hecate's History

Hecate is the Goddess of Magic, Witchcraft, Ghosts and Necromancy in the Greek Pantheon. She is an enemy to Wonder Woman and the Justice League Dark.

At the dawn of time there was magic. It was promising and pure as it surrounded the forming Multiverse. When life was new the first magical being shaped herself out of the cosmos within the plane that would become the Sphere of the Gods so she could play with the magnificence of magic. Before long the girl sensed that beneath the Sphere there was a darker font of magic similar to her, one which was tied to the Dark Multiverse. This font would later become known as the Upside-Down Man. Frightened by this evil, Hecate created a barrier between her realm and the darker so that her realm of possibility couldn't be ruined by darkness.

After creating the barrier the girl visited Earth 0, the center of the multiverse, where she watched humanity grow. Hecate would gift mankind pieces of her magic so that they could make the world around them a paradise. Humanity gave the girl a name- Hecate, which meant "far off" in their primitive tongue, believing that she came from the moon. As humanity's beliefs grew, they began to effect the Sphere of the Gods. Out of the imagination of humankind pantheons of gods were born and the Sphere of the Gods was split into smaller realms for them to reside in. The different pantheons all tried to earn the favor of Hecate, as they believed her to be the true creator of the universe. Because the rules of reality were becoming stricter, Hecate was transformed from the Maiden (an innocent and optimistic child) to the Mother (a more responsible version of the Maiden).

Eventually Hecate chose to join the Greek pantheon, which lived on Mount Olympus in the Sphere of the Gods. Hecate was to marry Hades, the king of the underworld and god of death. Eventually mankind noticed the immense power Hecate wielded and attempted to steal it. Hecate was summoned by a ritual and bound by the humans, locked for eons in a prison she couldn't escape. After years of solitude, Hecate was contacted by Hades who informed her that he had taken a new bride and that she was no longer welcome at the gates of Olympus. At that moment Hecate let out a scream that shook all of reality, and she felt the dark presence of the Upside-Down Man for the first time in eons. With all of her fury Hecate tore a hole in magic, allowing some of the darkness to break through the veil of existence. She gifted this dark magic to the magicians of Earth in hopes that they would destroy themselves with it, in this moment a new dominant aspect of Hecate was born- The Crone. The Crone was pure evil who wanted nothing but suffering to be felt by every being in existence.

With her rage Hecate broke free of her restraints and travelled to Mount Olympus where she met with the Gods of Olympus. When the gods begged for mercy Hecate gave it to them, however she also told them that if they crossed her again she would eliminate all of them. Paranoid that the humans would strike at her again, Hecate divided her power into five pieces and stored them in five human girls for safe keeping. These girls would never learn of this power, and each time one of them died the power would be implanted in a new girl until Hecate would come to collect. In the modern day the five witch-marked were Wonder Woman, Manitou Dawn, Witchfire, Black Orchid, and Circe.