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Kala
Kala
Kala
To avoid this aging effect, Kala wears a “fish- became much more peaceful, execute him, and two other
bowl” style helmet the presumably contains content with the idea of simply hostages, and claimed she would
her native atmosphere. The air in the helmet spending her remaining years activate devices that would
will last 8 hours before needing replenished.
with the man she loved. devastate the surface world with
While wearing the helmet, Kala can not be
affected by attacks that require her to breath earthquakes. Stark agreed, but
HISTORY actually used the laboratory
Before the continent facilities that Kala assigned him
of Atlantis sank about 20,000 to create a duplicate of his Iron
years ago, its civilization had Man armor. Once inside the
reached great technological armor, Stark captured Kala and
heights. The priests and flew her to Earth's surface. There,
intellectuals of the city as Stark had theorized from
of Netheria in the southern part unknown evidence, Kala quickly
of the Atlantean continent aged into an elderly woman due
foresaw that Atlantis would be to the difference in atmospheric
attacked by the Deviant Empire conditions between Earth's
based in Lemuria. Therefore, the surface and the Netherworld.
people of Netheria enclosed their Realizing that the Netherworlders
city in a dome of an unknown could not live on the surface
plastic-like substance and without becoming old and weak,
excavated and fortified their Kala renounced her plans of
city's foundations. Consequently, conquest. Iron Man returned her
when Atlantis sank, Netheria to the Netherworld, where she
remained intact, and its people regained her youth through
survived, having discovered a unknown means. Iron Man
something (i.e. gas attacks). The helmet is means a recycling their air returned Kala's other two
made of Excellent material. supply. Netheria sank more hostages to the surface word,
deeply over the years until it and Kala subsequently married
TALENTS: finally came to rest in a huge sub- her advisor and general, Baxu.
Military, Netherworld Technology, sea cavern. The Netherians
Leadership
renamed their realm the After Baxu's death, Kale planned
CONTACTS: Netherworld, and were thereafter to gain control of a vast army
Mole Man known as Netherworlders of Subterraneans by pretending
to fall in love with their
ADDITIONAL NOTES: They remained unnoticed by the ruler, Mole Man. Mole Man had
surface world until captured his greatest
inventor Anthony Stark found rival, Tyrannus, who had his own
himself enveloped within a kingdom in
strange, crystal-like substance underground Subterranea, and
which sank into the Earth, taking brainwashed him into becoming
him with it. The large crystal his slave. In love with Tyrannus,
transported him to Kala freed him from the Mole
the Netherworld, whose people Man's brainwashing, and
had been monitoring the events in Tyrannus then captured the Mole
the surface world for centuries Man, who was crushed when Kala
with their technological devices. told him how she had deceived
The Netherworlders' youthful and and betrayed him. Kala planned
beautiful Queen Kala intended to that she and Tyrannus would rule
ROLE-PLAYING NOTES: use her armies and highly the entire subterranean world
Kala is a charismatic ruler, a advanced weaponry to conquer together. Moreover, her engineers
cunning military strategist, and the surface world. However, Kala had designed huge shafts leading
an efficient administrator. In the had no means of transporting all to the surface, which the Mole
past, she was ruthless, arrogant, of her invasion forces and Man then had his Subterraneans
vain, and apparently even willing weaponry to the surface. She build; Kala and the Mole Man
to commit genocide to achieve demanded that Stark create such intended to use the shafts to
her own ends. After aging, she a means, or else she would
transport molten lava to surface later regulating Kala to her own party, which included
world, thereby destroying its guarded chambers. the Invisible Woman and She-
civilizations. Now Kala plotted to Hulk, until the Mole Man
carry out that plan herself. Later, when the underground race interrupted her assault to reject
of Deviants began a war on the her one final time, causing her to
Tyrannus turned against Kala and other races of Subterranea, Mole retreat.
imprisoned her within energy Man was removed from his
rings, since he had no intention of domains. Kala used the
sharing rulership of Subterranea opportunity to escape but made
with anyone. Tyrannus was her way to the surface to ask Iron
temporarily incapacitated by an Man to aid the Mole Man in the
explosion, and the Mole Man and war. Ending up in the Netherworld
Kala regained their freedom, but once more, the once-again
Kala and the heart-broken Mole rejuvenated Kala was attacked
Man parted, and she returned to by her own people. Kala's aides,
her Netherworld kingdom. the Subterranean superhuman
team called the Outcasts,
Later, Kala and the Mole Man retaliated and almost caused a
went to war with each other. Part destructive cave-in on the city if
of this conflict involved a battle it were not for the intervention of
between their forces on the Iron Man. Awed by the display of
Earth's surface, where Kala wore power that Kala had brought back
a helmet equipped with a means with her, the Netherworld citizens
of preserving her youth despite would have accepted her back,
her exposure to the atmosphere but Kala instead chose to return
there. However, the helmet was to the Mole Man's side, even
accidentally broken, and Kala though it meant returning to her
swiftly became aged and frail. great age. Kala was wounded in
She sought to use the the Subterranean War when
underground Fountain of taking a blow meant for Mole
Youth that Tyrannus used to Man. Moved to compassion, Mole
maintain his own youth but was Man returned to his domains at
told that it had drained away. the end of the war with Kala by
Apparently, Kala had no other his side.
means to restore her youth.
Distraught over the fact that she After being rejected by the Mole
must remain withered and old, Man, Kala became obsessed with
Kala appealed to Mole Man, who him, and refashioned herself as
agreed to allow her to return to the Mole Woman. Once she
his domains. The Mole Man, learned that Fantastic Four
however, was still in love with member The Thing was going to
her, and she agreed to become get married to Alicia Masters,
his consort. Kala decided she couldn't allow
any of the Mole Man's enemies to
Kala soon grew to love Mole Man find love before the target of her
due to this act of kindness. And own affections did. She attacked
for a time, Kala was treated well, Alicia at World War Hunk on her
but the Mole Man grew more and bachelorette party, accompanied
more distant, never including by an army of Moloids. She
Kala in his plans of conquest and confronted the guests at Alicia's