Name: White Magician
First Appearance: Wonder Woman #66 (1992)
Creators: William Messner-Loebs and Paris Cullins
Abilities: Master of ‘white magic’ such as mind control, emotion manipulation, forming pacts with demons, retaining the youth of people and objects, projecting forcefields, teleporting, creating pocket realities within the astral plane, projecting incinerating blasts of energy, commanding lightning, becoming a demon.
Backstory: Supposedly the first European wizard to set foot in the Americas. Thomas Asquith Rudolph was hundreds of years old and being a familial relation of Thomas Jefferson.
The White Magician had used his evil magic to aid in driving off the British from the Americas, thinking that with the British gone they would carve out a new empire and he would become one of the great amongst the American nobility. Only to have his dreams crushed when the country chose democracy.
Motivated for a desperate desire for praise and adoration from the people. The White Magician retained his soul despite his workings with demons through a desperate hold upon materialism and obsession with self gratification and worldly pleasures. The only thing holding him back from becoming a puppet for magic and losing all emotions to pursue only power for the sake of magic.
Seeing himself as of pure blood and an ‘American aristocrat’ The White Magician would remain in his manor home within Boston Massachusetts. Using his magic to maintain his land and his own appearance over the centuries.
Over the years, The White Magician has gone under various identities. He-Who-Laughs, Sterling Seer, Jeremiah. Leaving his secluded mansion in order to show off and earn the adoration of the people so they would recognize him as a man of great importance.
Thomas Asquith Rudolphs identities included ‘Mr. Magic’ in the 1940s. ‘The White Sorcerer’ in the 1960s an identity he held for years until he joined a superhero team known as ‘Echoes of Justice’ Returning to his secluded retreat after the rest of his team suffered from an ‘accident’
Having a special arrangement with the American government who recognize his history of aiding them over the centuries, The White Magicians actions would be given a blind eye by the authorities in exchange for his continued assistance.
This cretin who pines for the days when slavery was legal and he was treated as a noble lord treasures above all else is attention. Vanishing for years so that he does not overstay his welcome to reappear when he can make a big splash. Not one to suffer sharing the spotlight, the white Magician will murder anyone who gains more praise and attention than himself.
