Name: Ahriman
First Appearance: Wonder Woman #154 (2000)
Creators: Doselle Young and John McCrea
Abilities: Immortality, power over lies and shadows. Ability to make the unwary believe him. Possesses a knife able to carve out the hearts of gods. Ability to fire beams of energy from his hands. God-like power.
Backstory: Older brother to Ahura-Mazda, the god of light and truth. Ahriman was the embodiment of lies and shadows, compelled by his very nature. Once a year the two brothers would battle for the fate of the universe and should Ahriman win, then everything comes to an end.
Time after time Ahriman loses which is how everything still exists, but ever would he plot, trying to sabotage his brother or kill him before their yearly challenge so that he might for once succeed and bring about the end of everything.
Due to his very nature, Ahriman is compelled to oppose any being of truth or light. Believing them to be an agent of his brother. Thus Ahriman would scheme and plot to slay Wonder Woman whenever the opportunity arose. Convinced that by her very nature and opposition to everything coming to an end, that she followed the will of Ahura-Mazda.
