The Raven
He doesn’t remember if he had a name before winning one. That was part of the Murder League’s brutal training. He remembers snippets of another life—a smiling woman—his mother, he thinks. Somewhere, in the back of his mind, he’s afraid that he killed her. He thinks that was his final test, before the real indoctrination began, before he earned the name “Elite”.
The Murder League trained him well. It was the premier assassin’s guild, not only of his Earth, but many others. He’s been to too many alternate worlds where the Murder League exists and where they have recognized him as a rogue. Under the Murder League’s tutelage, he learned the art of killing, became their instrument, until a mentalist target tore apart his conditioning and his former masters and associates turned on him.
He found a most unusual escape: rescuing visitors from another dimension, another Earth, and then leaving with them. Navigatrix helped find others in need, and The AlterniTeens ended up at Claremont Academy on Earth-Prime . Elite proved his abilities as a leader and earned the respect of Duncan Summers, school headmaster and the original Raven. He trained with Duncan’s daughter, Callie, as well, so when she needed to give up the role of Raven, she chose to pass it on to him.
So it was that “Elliot Allen” relocated to New York City, becoming a part of the nighttime social scene, but spending most of his time away from his high-rise condo and studying the city from Nevermore, a secret headquarters hidden in a dimensional fold with the assistance of his old friend Navagatrix, studying and planning a war on crime such as the city has not seen in more than a generation.
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