Name: Artemis
First Appearance: Wonder Woman #310 (1983)
Creators: Dan Mishkin and Mark Beachum
Abilities: Sword haver, super strength, flight, the ability to persist beyond death.
Backstory: Hailing from ancient times when the Amazons still lived in the original Themyscyre. Artemis was deemed amongst the mightiest amongst the Amazons and the dearest friend Hippolyta ever had.
After the previous in a line of Amazonian queens perished in battle, a contest was called to determine the new ruler of the Amazons. The winner Hippolyta, would prove herself worthy but second place went to Artemis who by the will of the patron gods of the Amazons became the original…Wonder Woman!
Journeying to the outside world in an effort to change it for the better, Artemis would fall in love with a warmonger by the name of Cleon and manipulated by Ares, she would be convinced to abandon the ways of peace and love in order to aid Cleon in waging war and carving out an empire with bloodshed by her lovers side.
However when this path of bloodshed led to them trying to conquer the Amazons themselves, Hippolyta realized the truth of the matter and revealed Ares manipulations in all of this.
Artemis in her rage at betrayal would swear vengeance on anyone and everyone. Roaming the world in a fit of rage, eventually trying to slay Artemis herself and dying for the effort.
But Artemis’ unquenchable rage never ending, so when the sorceress Circe millenia later gave her the chance to rise from her grave and take her revenge, she did so without hesitation.
Thus the undead Artemis would arise once more, to persist until anyone and everyone who ever earned her ire were dragged to the depths of Tartarus along with her.
