Eternal Warrior
issues:
1-50
(issue 8 is the same as Archer & Armstrong 8)
(issue 26 is a flip-book with Archer & Armstrong 26)
Eternal Warrior Yearbook 1 & 2
Eternal Warrior: Fist & Steel 1 & 2
Eternal Warrior: The Wings of Justice 1-shot
Character Info:
The Eternal Warrior
Real Name: Gilad Anni-Padda
Current Alias: Gilad Abrams
Powers: Immortal with enhanced strength, endurance, durability, and healing
The Story:
Gilad Anni-Padda was born in 3268 B.C. in Anatolia, a plateau between the Black and Mediterranean seas. He was the second born of three brothers who were born with great strength and endurance. They could also heal from the most grevious of wounds.
The brothers were immortals. Gilad the One, as he was called by the others in his tribe, had a great thirst for battle that his brothers lacked. Over time he came to be known as the Eternal Warrior.
Gilad's adventures began after his tribe was slaughtered by the Sumerians. Gilad and his younger brother Aram were the only survivors (Ivar, the oldest brother, had disappeared years eariler). Gilad wanted revenge, but Aram was tired of fighting. The two parted ways. That's when the Geomancer came into Gilad's life. While Gilad was burying his family, a strange man whom he had met earlier returned. The man told him that his son Kalam had survived the attack and was taken captive to the Sumerian city. Gilad decided at once to try and get his son back, but the Geomancer talked him out of it. Gilad ended up traveling with the Geomancer and eventually became the Fist and Steel, pledging his aide to all the Geomancers to come.
Centuries later in 210 B.C., Gilad fought General Cheng in China. General Cheng's hatred for Gilad triggered a necromantic power that causes him to be reincarnated through the ages. As the Immortal Enemy, he always returns seeking Gilad's destruction. Every time he is reborn he has one green and one brown eye. He becomes a constant thorn in Gilad's life for centuries to come.
In World War II at the battle of Dunkirk, Gilad met a man with whom he would work with a lot in the future. Neville Alcott, not knowing that Gilad had great strength and durability, risked his life to save the Eternal Warrior when he appeared to be in danger. As a result, Neville lost the use of his legs. They became friends soon afterwards.
In the year 1992, the new Geomancer Geoff McHenry came for Gilad. Ever since Gilad first hooked up with the Geomancers, they had been warning him that the end of the world was coming. That time had come. Erica Pierce, the Mothergod, had set up base in a place existing outside of time known as the Lost Land. She planned to essentially end this reality and create a new one. Gilad and many other heroes traveled to the Lost Land and fought in the war to stop Unity. While in the Lost Land, he fought side by side with his future self. Because the Lost Land exists outside of regular time, Gilad fought in the same war twice. Once in 1992 and again in 4001. Eventually Solar stopped Mothergod and returned Gilad home.
After the war, Gilad found himself in more trouble. Cheng, the Immortal Enemy, had once again returned. This time he was a Colombian drug lord named Juan Javier Caldone. Their struggle ended when Caldone crashed in the plane that they had been fighting on. He was horribly burned and mutilated in the crash. The Enemy was able to find a new host, however, before Gilad could kill him. The Immortal Enemy was still at large.
Next, Gilad met a new ally. The newly freed Bloodshot hunted down Gilad after finding his name in a file. The two quickly became friends and Gilad brought him to work for Neville Alcott. Later, it would turn out that Bloodshot was an extremely good ally to have.
After making enemies with Master Darque in a battle that resulted in the death of the old Geomancer Buck McHenry, Gilad found himself again at odds with the Immortal Enemy. This time, however, the Enemy was able to take control of Gilad's body. He was now in control of an immortal host. The only way to defeat him now would be to kill Gilad, right? Not if Bloodshot has anything to say about it. He single handedly took down each and every one of the Enemy's men without even breaking a sweat. When he finally cornered the Enemy, Caldone knew that he couldn't defeat Bloodshot. Oh well, one immortal body is as good as another. The Enemy transfered him consciousness out of Gilad and into Bloodshot. Unfortunately for the Enemy, the nanites in Bloodshot's blood treated the Enemy's attack as it would any common virus and he was fought off. When Bloodshot smashed a computer during the attack, the Enemy was sent into the machine and escaped through the internet. Gilad was saved, but the Enemy was able to find a new host in the form of a little boy playing a modem game in London. Now all he had to do was wait for the right moment to make his return.
Gilad's next adventure involved the search for thirty silver coins. These coins were used to pay off Judah for his betrayal of Christ. They were embued with a massive amount of necromantic energy during Christ's crucifixion. Now Master Darque seeks to posses all thirty coins and Gilad got involved. During the search Gilad had to fight off elementals created by Darque as well as Madamoiselle Noire, a woman who Darque made irresistible to men. The search ended when Dr. Mirage absorbed one of the coins thus making it impossible to learn the location of the next one.
Life went on pretty much the same for Gilad until the Chaos Effect rocked the world. The Immortal Enemy returned more powerful than ever, but he was taken care of by Dr. Mirage. In the aftermath of the crisis, however, Gilad's brother Armstrong and his young partner, Archer, had vanished from the face of the Earth. And the Earth's Geomancer, Geoff McHenry, had vanished along with them. Now, along with the Book of the Geomancers, Gilad had to find a replacement for Geoff. Who he found was Clay McHenry, a relative of Geoff's. After becoming Geomancer, however, Clay made it perfectly clear that Gilad's services were no longer needed. Gilad was no longer the tool of the Geomancers. He was now his own man.
This led right into the Immortal War. Apparently the Immortal Enemy (why does that name sound so familiar?) survived the Chaos Effect and was now once again in the guise of Caldone the Mob Boss (albeit in a new body). Changing into the body of a man named Lipato, the Enemy waited for Gilad to come to him. Waht ensued was a great battle that ended when Gilad had the Enemy left in the frozen wastelands where the cold placed him into suspended animation and ended his ability to be reincarnated, at least for a while.
Gilad went on doing what Eternal Warriors tend to do, get into and out of trouble. He was framed for murder by his own son, but he giot out of that situation and took care of his son permanately. He fought organ robbers and traced them all the way to South America where they were raising children simply to slaughter them and sell their organs. The final story of the series found Gilad going mad and almost causing destruction for the Earth. The Geomancer Clay McHenry came to the rescue and soon everything was back to normal.
After the series:
Gilad went on living through the years, as immortals tend to do. Some time down
the line, Gilad saves the life of the 29th Rai, Shinobi Nakadai. Shinobi then
gives Gilad his family dagger so that the debt would be repayed someday.
Gilad eventually fell victim to the psychoprobes of the future. His memories
were erased and he was given the new identity of Gillie Pachter. In the year
4001, Geomancer Rokland Tate helps Gil regain his memory. Tate was looking for
heroes to send into the Lost Land to fight Mothergod and stop Unity. Together
they find the Rai Tohru Nakadai, who pays off his ancestor's debt by joining
them. They also recruit Magnus before fighting in Unity. As you probably know,
Gilad fights side by side with his past self in the war.
After the victory at Unity, Gilad was faced with the Malev invasion of 4002.
He joined the new Rai and Magnus in the battle as a member of the Future
Force. He was last seen piloting a rail-gun freighter ship full of human refugees
away from Earth to the safety of Luna. What he's been up to since is unknown.
The Same As It Never Was:
Gilad apeared in the Eternal Warriors series. He was not called the Eternal Warrior anymore, though. This version was known as the Warmaster. He's a member of the Forever Family and is the second oldest
of the three Immortal Brothers, aka the Eternal Warriors. He's the war strategist of the team and has a deep love for war and conquest. The last time we saw him, his father Mog had just taken contol of the Forever Family.
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