Master's Character Bios

Moth Man

The creature known as the Moth Man was birthed from the fears and hatred of the other. Whatever that other was, be it a hated enemy, a loathed form of life or most commonly a rival people.

Often called the Devourer of Dreams, the Moth Man was actually biologically created as a weapon for the Arachne Spider Warriors of Preternia.

The Arachne Spider-Warriors- were an advanced civilization for its time, much like their hated enemies the Andreenids or Bee people. There was a third enemy to the Arachna Spider-Warriors called the Vespidae or Wasp people. The highly intelligent Arachna were more often than not able to manipulate the Vespidae against the Andreenids.

Though there came a day when the high scientist warrior of the Arachne named Web-Kastor looked past both the Andreenids as well as the primitive Vespidae towards the greater threat posed by the Snake Men. Web-Kastor had a grand plan to create a weapon that would cause both the Bee people and Wasp people to destroy each other. A catalytic force that would escalate the already hostile natures between the Andreenids and the Vespidae. Though in order to do this, Web-Kastor thought it best to work in secrecy with the Vespidae against the Andreenids. While the Andreenids focused on the Vespidae, Web-Kastor would develop his secret weapon.

This weapon would become the Moth Man, a being manifested from both the chemical and neurological fears locked inside the brains of the experimented victims of Web-Kastor's research.  The Wasp people would provide Web-Kastor with captured Bee People as test subjects. Since it was the Vespidae being the aggressors, the Andreenids would blame them. In this way Web-Kastor was already stoking the flames of hatred between the two rival civilizations.

After many experiments and loss of Andreenid life, Web-Kastor had a breakthrough. A lifeform, which Web-Kastor called the Morpheus Fly was created. Web-Kastor tested the Morpheus Flies capabilities on captured Preternian primitives called Cave Dwellers that the Arachne themselves would often capture for sport. The results that Web-Kastor found was that each Morpheus Fly would enter the brains of the Cave Dwellers via the ear. After which, the tiny Morpheus Fly would drive their host insane. The Morpheus Fly would then exit out of the ear, where it would soon die as its host would later do as well.

The Council of Arachne Spider Warriors were growing impatient with Web-Kastor exhausting experimentations and wanted results. In addition, the council feared that the Adreenids were catching on to their subterfuge and would stage a full-on assault on their Labyrinthine hidden city. Web-Kastor worked long and hard to understand why the Morpheus Flies were dying as soon as they fed. He eventually concluded that the Morpheus Fly required a metamorphosis towards a second stage of life. This required a chamber of some sort to assist the Morpheus Fly in digesting its nutriment of fear and angst from its host. So, Web-Kastor designed and created a cocoon looking chamber that would house the Morpheus Fly after its feeding. The cocoon was synthesized from the same flexible material that the Arachne Warriors used to make their webs. This meant that the cocoon grew in size along with the Morpheus Fly. In fact, the cocoon itself would develop into a kind of symbiotic chamber after the Morpheus Flies entered into the next stage of its development.

Finally, Web-Kastor witnessed the first Moth Man emerge from its cocoon. This was done before the Council of Arachne as they were ready to see proof of Web-Kastor's progress. To the astonishment of everyone, including Web-Kastor, the Morpheus Fly was no more. In its place emerged a very tall insectoid Moth-like being. To communicate to the room, the Moth-Man used telepathy. During the mind communication, Web-Kastor was able to explain to the Moth Man the reasons for creating him. However, the Moth Man would only go along with Web-Kastor's gambit to wipe out there enemies so long as he made him a mate. Web-Kastor had to immediately comply for fear of what the Moth Man might do to his own people.

The Moth Man agreed to reside in its cocoon until notified that another like himself had been created.

Unbeknownst to Web-Kastor, the Moth Man would go on to affect all the minds of the Arachne within his city even while inside of its cocoon. Despite the Moth Man being in a kind of sleep within the cocoon. Its power entered the dreams of the Arachne at night, replacing them with nightmares.

As the process was being prepared for another Moth Man, Web-Kastor was being alerted that strange phenomenon was happening within the city. Such things as hallucinations and insomnia were affecting the Arachne people. Immediately, Web-Kastor knew that the Moth Man was responsible. Though perhaps not consciously but rather subconsciously on its part. The Moth Man's powers over the negative mind were all-consuming.    

Web-Kastor knew that now not only for his survival, but for the survival of his people depended on solving the Moth Man's immediate threat. Though, Web-Kastor still wanted to control the Moth Man for his own purposes. As noted with the Morphius Fly, Web-Kastor suspected that the cocoon might be the key to controlling the Moth Man just as it was in furthering its development. The problem was that no one could get near the cocoon, as anyone within a klic of it would succumb to sheer madness. That was the cocoons defense mechanism.

Web-Kastor forced open the second cocoon just a day early before the transformation of the Morpheus Fly could be completed. What was found was an incomplete mess of protoplasmic goop. The remains of the ill-fated Moth Mans relative was placed into an airtight container and then placed into cold storage. Then as Web-Kastor opened up the second cocoon he found what was literally a hidden entranceway into a pocket dimension. After analyzing the pocket dimension further, Web-Kastor discovers what it really was. A space composed of negative thought. Web-Kastor then theorized that this negative had the capacity to frow exponentially in scope so long as the Moth Man fed on negative thought. Perhaps, if the negative space created by the Moth Man reached a threshold, then another metamorphosis would occur. Or the negative thought would be released into the collective consciousness of everyone on the planet. The result of which on the surface seemed like a doomsday scenario.  

 Web-Kastor then theorized with little to no sleep that the inner dimension within both cocoons were linked through negative thought. Web-Kastor need only attune the Moth Man to the others cocoons presence. Since, the Moth Man was attracted to negative thought. This would be done when Web-Kastor amplified the negative thought energy within the second cocoon. Many Cave Dwellers were captured in order to feed their negative thought patterns into a machine that would not only record the data but feed it into the second cocoon. Then it would be amplified in real time. Web-Kastor also added the deceased second Moth Man's own recorded brain patterns in with the tortured Cave Dwellers.  So, when the Moth Man picked up on both signals it would earmark its Moth relative, albeit deceased signals. The Moth Man would be unable to resist finding out the source of the emissions.

Once the Moth Man ventured out of its cocoon in search of the second one the first cocoon had to be destroyed. This was accomplished after a long-range missile was launched at it. Inside the missile was a fast active corrosive acid which melted the cocoon.  Now a desperate Moth Man had to find the second cocoon for its own survival. Web-Kastor watched as the Moth Man discovered the vacant second cocoon, which exposed the dark pocket dimension of negative space. Then as the Moth Man entered the cocoon, it was sealed up by Web-Kastor using a mechanical device. The Moth Man was then trapped inside the second cocoon which was itself incomplete because its original host had been pulled out prematurely.

Web-Kastor's plan had worked! The Moth Man could not function properly inside of the second damaged cocoon. It could only be kept alive by the negative energy inside of the second cocoon in a coma like state. Where it remained for millennium.

An elaborate apparatus in the shape of a large spider's web with the second cocoon being placed in its center. As Web-Kastor created other Moth Men in maturing cocoons, they all connected to immature cocoon on other strands of web connected to the center one. A negation switch would suspend the rate of metamorphosis of the other cocoons, at the stage just before maturity. Tunnels were then created for each new cocoon to be launched into. These tunnels led up the mountains above, where holes were blown out. Web-Kastor could initiate the metamorphosis process of any one or all of the cocoons as he saw fit. Then he would use a hydraulic claw to lift the cocoon, were it would be placed into a silo.  That silo containing the cocoon would then be launched through one of the tunnels at the target it was designated to be launched at. From the time of launch to its time of arrival the Moth Man would be undergoing its final stage of metamorphosis. A fully mature Moth Man would reach its target as dully noted by Web-Kastor, where the creature would start to feed off the negative thoughts of those in the area.

The original plan by Web-Kastor was to launch a ballistic cocoon containing the Moth Man onto the Vespidae as a test subject.

Ever since the days of Preternia, the Andreenid's felt themselves responsible for the eradication of the Vespidae. When in actuality it the Arachne Warriors by way of their secret weapon, the Moth Man.

Once again, the cocoon of the Moth Man had to be destroyed in order to stop the creature. Though this time the Moth Man was stopped by both the Andreenids and the Preternian wizard He-Ro. The Council of Arachne decided that the Moth Man was too dangerous to be used as a weapon. So, Web-Kastor never followed up with a second strike on the Andreenids. Instead, the Moth Man program was simply closed down indefinitely or until the Moth Men could be better controlled.  Perhaps there was a guilt of what they had done to the Vespidae that gave them pause. Though whatever it was the Moth Man program was never used again in Preternian history.

In current Eternia, Webstor sided with his Evil Warriors unleashed a perhaps third Moth Man using the apparatus created by Web-Kastor onto the Ice Dwarf Kingdom within the Ice Mountains. This Moth Man was stopped by the Eternian champion He-Man and his allies.

It is speculated that the Moth Man unleashed into the Ice Mountains was the third account because there is reason to believe at some point another Moth Man appeared on a distant planet. Where the lone survivor of this world, an Elysian, who was an ant-sized blue skinned humanoid gave the account of the creature that seemingly destroyed its home world. The appearance and description by the tiny Elysian were uncannily similar to that of the Moth Man. The only difference was in the Moth Mans size and the scope of its destruction.

The Moth Man is considered one of the greatest threats to Eternia. The sentient humanoid Moth creature is highly intelligent. Though what makes the Moth Man such a dire threat is its inability to control its hunger for negative thought. For even when the Moth Man is seemingly at rest inside of its cocoon it seeks out intelligent thought to feed on. It is speculated that the Moth Mans attraction to negative thought is not unlike a real moth's attraction to flame. The light of irrational fear and hatred in all manner of thought of intelligent world building civilizations is all consuming for the Moth Man. As the Moth Man begins to feed on the fear and hatred of others it creates psychic feedback of terror amongst the masses.

The Moss Man interrupts peaceful sleep with nightmares of deep-seated societal fears. Usually of impending doom or of the others most hated or feared opposite. If there is a dark history within one's culture, the Moth Man will unearth it. Then show it to you. The Moth Mans feeding off negative thought has induced symptoms of unrelenting guilt, primal fears, daytime hallucinations, paranoia and even suicidal thoughts. What's even scarier is that the Moth Man only grows more powerful as the masses panic. Furthermore, all of the Moth Mans power can be performed even as the creature is many klics away. Though, as the Moth Man's power grows so does its influence.

If the Moth Man emerges it may be to send a message or warning. Although all this can still be accomplished telepathically again without the creatures need to leave its cocoon. The Moth Man may show itself to others, simply in order to intimidate or strike fear. A rare ability that is seldom used by the Moth Man is to hypnotize weaker willed individuals with its large eyes.

The Moth Man has long antennae on its head to broadcast its telepathy as well as picking up psychic vibrations. It also has two large purplish wings for flight. Though the Moth Man seldom flies.

The Moth Mans cocoon is not only its home, but it is a part of its very being. That is why the Moth Man is never far away from it. The cocoon stores all the negative thoughts inside of it. There may be a threshold of all the negative thought that can be collected by the Moth Man. Perhaps, the Moth Man will undergo a third metamorphosis when its cocoon has reached capacity. The cocoon may be like a battery where its fuel is the negative though connected by the Moth Man.

The most assured way to defeat the Moth Man is to destroy its living cocoon.