AYRIAAYRIA
HOMEWORLD: Aegri Somnia One SECTOR: unknown
FIRST APPEARANCE:
GREEN LANTERN CORPS
QUARTERLY # 7
(Winter, 1993)
"Triumph of the Will!"
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Male humanoid, blue skin
KNOWN RELATIVES: unnamed brother (deceased)
HISTORY:
These events were shown to Alan Scott, The Golden Age Green Lantern by the sorcerous Green Lantern Torquemada.
Ayria was the Green Lantern of Aegri Somnia One. The three worlds of the Aegri Somnia system had been infighting for generations. He decided that the only way to stop the squabbling would be to unite the three worlds.
Aegri Somnia Two was easy, he seemed like a god to them. Aegri Somnia Three was difficult, resistance had formed, Ayria's ring was powerless against the inhabitants' yellow skin. Discovering this flaw of the ring, they began coloring their ships yellow. This frightened members of Ayria's general staff. When Ayria's brother and oldest advisor explained the position of the general staff, he and the staff were executed as an example to others.
The Lantern Starforce was winning the war on AS3, thanks to Ayria's strategies. He poisoned the planet by creating weapons factories and drove the population into concentration camps. Their wills were torn from them to feed Ayria's power battery. Resistance was growing on AS2.
Ayria had a fondness for the women of AS3, so his soldiers would keep him supplied with companions culled from the labor camps. Selaya, a member of the underground resistance on Aegri Somnia Three, was taken for Ayria.
Unknown to the Green Lantern, Selaya had been assigned to steal his power ring. While he slept, Selaya removed his ring and swallowed it to prevent discovery.
Ayria was furious when he discovered the ring was missing. He had Selaya tortured to discover the location of the ring. She implicated several of Ayria's staff, who in turn implicated others. All were soon put to death.
The ring was not found, and Selaya was put back into the concentration camps. She was reunited with her husband moments before they were both gunned down by camp guards.
Ayria never gave up searching for the ring. He was carried through the death and destruction, surveying his work. When Ayria's power battery came in proximity to the power ring, it charged the emerald gem. The enormous amount of will power that had been fed through the lantern for the past months rekindled life in the piles of dead of AS3.
They rose from the dead, attacking their former captors. Dozens of corpses tore apart the powerless Ayria. Finally free, Selaya and her people could now rest in peace.
[GLCQ # 7]
OATH: unknown
CREATIVE TEAM:
KNOWN APPEARANCES:
'mouse note -
Most likely, Ayria was a Green Lantern who went solo after the Crisis. Left alone, he shaped his world to his own ends. As can be seen with Ch'p, many Green Lanterns were still out in space, and did not respond to any summons to Oa. Ayria most likely did not return to Oa when Sinestro was executed and because of that he kept his ring.
