Black Anubis

It is the way of gods that religions rise and fall, adored one moment and vilified the next, cast down by mortal men and even by their own children. Black Anubis was once known as Oth, one of several bastard get of the god Anubis. Because of his human mother, however, Oth only inherited a portion of his father’s divinity and none of his wisdom.
Oth conspired to steal his father’s godly station, a birthright he thought better suited to himself. But whereas Anubis served as Guardian of the Dead, Oth was only interested in ruling over the afterlife as a despot. Anubis learned of his son’s plan and mummified and entombed him in his own shrine as punishment. Oth’s name was stricken from history… from mythology even. The sands of the Nubian Desert devoured his meager temple and prison.
The Middle East was in turmoil when an intruder uncovered the Temple of Oth. The Egyptian gods were all but forgotten, and now three religions serving the same one-god fought for dominion. The Jews controlled the city-state of Jerusalem through the arcane secrets left behind by Solomon. They protected it against the Christian Crusaders operating from the Holy See of Constantinople and the Muhammadian armies under the Talib Sultanate of Kufa. The hemisphere was at war, with Islam invading Europe from their strongholds in Spain and Italy, and Christendom attacking the Middle East through Lebanon and the Byzantium Empire.
None of that concerned the visitor who freed Oth, however. He called himself Loki, and represented the tattered remnants of those pantheons predating Christianity. The old ways were almost dead… but a few divinities had survived: Anansi, Ogun, Nemhain and Macha of the Morrigan, Ares and his sons Phobos and Deimos, and a handful of others skilled in war or guile. Loki told Oth that with the forces of the one-god busy fighting each other, it was time to reclaim what had been lost.
Oth joined the Shadow Pantheon as Black Anubis. If he could not kill his long-gone father for imprisoning him, then he would steal his father’s name and make a mockery of it. Black Anubis and the others further destabilized their world; their cults spread like cancer. They promoted war and intrigue, they brokered deals with supposedly pious rulers and encouraged the slaughter of millions. Two hemispheres were bathed in blood as the Shadow Pantheon set empires against one another. Ares taught humans how to wage better wars; Ogun taught them to build better weapons; Phobos taught them how to use terror more effectively. By the time they were done, Europeans and Arabs were nothing more than barbarians squatting in the graveyards of their ruined cities.
The time came, however, when the Shadow Pantheon could expand no further. To the East waited the Vedic Gods and the marshaled forces of Tian. A million gods and demons of the Far East stood ready to invade; the Shadow Pantheon knew it could not with stand them. So they left that Earth, seeking other realms to rule as deities and tormentors. Sometimes they traveled together, but more often, they ventured alone in hopes of discovering the world each could claim for their own.
Since that time, Black Anubis has been one of the few Shadow Pantheon members unable to carve out a domain for himself. He has spread misery, pain and strife, but as the weakest of the Shadow Pantheon, he must often contend with the other gods and mortal champions of the worlds he visits. He cannot hop dimensions easily and must rely on other Shadow Pantheon members to help him, which further indebts him to them. He may have found a solution to his dilemma, however. He followed a group of heroes called The AlterniTeens through a dimensional rift they caused. He seeks to capture and enslave their Navagatrix to hop dimensions more easily. Since arriving in Freedom City, however, he’s discovered there is power to be had here despite its many heroes. He plans to stay without alerting the Shadow Pantheon to this Earth’s existence.
To that end, he’s begun gathering followers and forcing the dead to serve him as fuel for his rituals and artifacts