Nabu (Prime Earth)

Nabu is one of the Lords of Order who inhabits one of the artifacts of fate, the Helmet of Fate. Those who bear his helm become the entitiy known as Doctor Fate.^[1]

History

Nabu was born during the dawn of mankind. He and others discovered a secret of the universe that would one day become known as magic. With their almost infinite powers, Nabu and the other men and women became the Lords of Order, peacemakers obsessed with maintaining order. Soon enough the magic the Lords contained grew too strong for their bodies, forcing them to find a new way of existing. Nabu forged a helmet and imprinted his soul on it, anyone to wear the helmet would be possessed by Nabu, making them a servant of order. This helmet would become known as the Helmet of Fate and whoever wore it would take on the moniker of Doctor Fate.^[2]

Powers and Abilities

Powers

• Unique Physiology: Among the Lords of Order, Nabu himself is a being of magical energy.
  • Magic: Nabu is a extremely formidable powerful sorcerer, capable of matching other powerful sorcerers such as Arion and The Phantom Stranger.^[3][4] He is considered to be perhaps the most powerful among the Lords of Order.^[1]
    • Force Field^[3]

• Through the Helmet of Fate: After losing his body from his ascension into a Lord of Order due to it eroding his body, Nabu forged the Helmet of Fate in order to preserve and continue his existence. Despite this, he still possess powers through it.^[1]
  • Magic: Even as the Helmet of Fate, Nabu can still cast spells.
  • Telepathy: Nabu can communicate with his bearers and speak to others.^[1]
  • Flight: Nabu can allow the helm to levitate on it's own.^[1]
  • Computer Operation: Nabu can still operate a computer as the helm.^[1]
  • Regeneration: Nabu's helm can regenerate even after being vaporized.^[3]
  • Possession: Most notable, Nabu was able to possess those whom bore the Helmet of Fate upon them.^[2]
    • Kent Nelson's Body: While possessing Kent Nelson's phyiscal body, Nabu can take advantage of the host's prowess, having helped develop Nelson in order to make him the perfect host body.^[2]
      • Magic
        • Telekinesis: While in Nelson's body, he possess telekinesis and was capable enough to wrest the Lasso of Truth off of him and toss around Zatanna.^[2]
        • Energy Construct Creation: Nabu can create magical constructs of ankhs to use as defense.^[5] He could also create mystic binding.^[6]
        • Molecular Reconstruction: Nabu once tried to manipulate the forces in which power Brimstone.^[6]
        • Electrokinesis: Nabu can call upon lightning to attack his foes.^[6]
        • Eldritch Blast: Nabu can dispatch magical energy beams at will.^[6]

Abilities

• Occultism

Weaknesses

• Vulnerability to Magic: Nabu's breanth of power can be disrupted by other powerful forms of magic, including those from both fellow Lords of Order and his enemies, the Lords of Chaos.^[3]
  • Vulnerability to Chaos Magic: Due to Nabu is no longer able to control his own power after a binding spell casted by numerous powerful sorcerers and backed by Chaos Magic created the condition of the helm's power being operated only by a willing host.^[7]
  • Vulnerability to Atlantean Magic: Nabu is seemingly vulnerable to powerful forms of Atlantean magic, proving powerful enough to server his connection between his given hosts and himself.^[3]
• Cost of Magic: Due to the magic of order being pulled from a dark source, Nabu's original human body eroded overtime from the use of magic, forcing him to forge a helm and imprint his own soul into it.^[2] (Formerly)

Notes

• Nabu was created by Gardner Fox and Howard Sherman, first appearing in More Fun Comics #67. However, in the Prime Earth continuity, Nabu first appeared as part of the New 52 DC Universe in Doctor Fate (Volume 4) #1 by Paul Levitz and Sonny Liew.
• This character or object is an adaptation of Nabu, a character or object in traditional stories. These include, but may not be limited to religious texts, myth, and/or folk lore. More information on the original can be found at Wikipedia.org.
  

Trivia

• Nabu favors Khalid as Doctor Fate.^[8]
• Xanadoth described Nabu as the fiercest of all the Lords of Order.^[9]

Related

• 64 Appearances of Nabu (Prime Earth)
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• Character Gallery: Nabu (Prime Earth)

Footnotes

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