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Mother Righteous
Personal Info:
Real Name: Rebecca Essex
Also Known As: No known Alias
Place Of Birth: Milbury House
First Appearance: Legion of X Vol.1 #1 (2022) Modern Age Villain
Known Associates: Mister Sinister, Doctor Stasis, and Orbis Stellaris
Group Affiliation: Formerly Crew of No-Place X
Base Of Operations: Sanctum Malefica
Grudges: X-Men
Creators: Simon Spurrier and Jamie McKelvie
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Powers:

Mother Righteous possesses an extensive command over the occult arts, delving deeply into supernatural studies. As a dealmaker, she employs cunning tricks to entice her victims with promises of power through mystical ideas, artifacts, or entities in exchange for their gratitude, devotion, and faith.

Sorcery: Exhibiting extraordinary prowess as a sorceress, Mother Righteous exhibits the ability to weave powerful magical spells and rituals. These incantations can manipulate the natural world and conjure both demonic and divine entities, bound to fulfill her desires. Numerous glowing, floating lanterns adorning her back serve as repositories for the information, items, and entities she has amassed to offer in her trades and employ in her rituals.

Mystical Influence: By ensnaring her victims in binding deals, Mother Righteous establishes a perpetual hold over their souls. These deals are sealed through expressions of gratitude. As a result, she gains the power to mystically track, torture, control, and even absorb the life essence of the indebted individuals.

Astral Projection: Mother Righteous can project her consciousness onto the astral plane, allowing her to manifest and communicate with others without being physically present.

Summoning: To enrich her trades, Mother Righteous adeptly calls forth both demonic and divine creatures. For instance, she summoned the Spirit of Variance and bonded it to Banshee, as well as materialized the trickster god Tumult to serve Ora Serrata's interests. Later, Mother Righteous revealed that she also had a God of Sunrise and Sunset, Life and Death at her command and is able to use its power to revive others from the dead.

Teleportation: Using mystic spells, Mother Righteous is able to teleport to different locations.

Energy Blasts: Mother Righteous wields the capability to unleash beams of immensely destructive force, capable of obliterating those in her vicinity.

Resurrection: One of her remarkable feats involved successfully resurrecting her associate Selene through a potent ritual.

Story Magic: Mother Righteous envelopes herself in a spell that avoids suspicion from others and allows her to easily gain people's trust.

Origins:

The entity known as Mother Righteous was a creation of the original Nathaniel Essex, physically and psychologically modeled after his late wife Rebecca. Among the four versions of Essex designed in the late nineteenth century to explore diverse approaches to combat the impending rise of machine dominions, Mother Righteous became aware of her true nature from the beginning and eventually discovered that the memories of her creation were false. Created to explore the mysteries of magic, Mother Righteous became a formidable sorceress with a connection to the Astral Plane.

As a master manipulator, she orchestrated events by making deals of power in exchange for loyalty and gratitude.

Notes:

Mother Righteous at Marvel Database

Mother Righteous at UncannyXmen.net