Phaeder then lives among the Deviants, and bred with a Deviant female named Morga who gave birth to Maelstrom.

Maelstrom then attempts to siphon the energies of the Eternals, but is thwarted by the superhero team the Avengers, and after commanding Deathurge to kill him yet again, transfers his consciousness to a new clone body.

Becoming Oblivion's avatar, Maelstrom then becomes determined to achieve Oblivion's goal of non-existence on a universal scale.

Maelstrom is revealed to be the son of a rival of Black Bolt's father, and after his minions are defeated attempts to destroy Attilan with a guided missile.

An ashamed Maelstrom shrinks himself out of sight, but eventually returns to battle the Great Lakes Avengers, who are powerless to stop him.

Maelstrom has first contact with Earth's metahumans when he sends his superpowered minions-Phobius, Gronk and Helio-to the scientific island facility Hydro-Base to steal an Anti-Terrigen mist compound.

Maelstrom can manipulate kinetic energy, and can absorb literally any attack and use the energy for his own purposes, such as strength enhancement, energy projection, force field creation and size shifting.

Upon entering the Maelstrom they found the need to encase said energy / essence in crystalline forms.

However, Quasar is recreated in an energy form by the cosmic being Infinity and battles Maelstrom and Oblivion.

For a short period Maelstrom also possessed Quasar's quantum bands, which enabled him to draw on virtually unlimited energy from the other-dimensional " quantum zone.

However, certain cosmic entities, such as Galactus, In-Betweener, Maelstrom, or The Stranger have demonstrated personality, motivations, or ( except for the first mention ) even ambitions beyond their functions, but often maintain the perspective that morality is entirely relative, or that destroying civilisations of " lesser " beings is no more evil than if these beings destroyed an anthill.

VOR: The Maelstrom is a science fiction miniature wargame, set in the 22nd century.

The plot revolves around a newly promoted captain who is assigned to investigate an explosion of a star in the Maelstrom.

Phelgethon is the location of a number of godly realms, including the Queen of Air and Darkness's realm of the Unseelie Court, Zeboim's realm of The Maelstrom, and the derro deity Diirinka's realm of Hidden Betrayal.

" McLuhan ( 1951 ) found inspiration in Edgar Allan Poe's short story, " A Descent into the Maelstrom ," in which a shipwrecked sailor is trapped within a whirlpool, but escapes death by finding the pattern hidden within the vortex.

Dr. Gunnar Maelstrom ( pronounced goonar ) is a hostile & extremely violent criminal whose archenemy is Carmen Sandiego.

During a series of extended battles between cosmic hero Quasar and the villain Maelstrom ( the avatar of the entity Oblivion ), Eternity is revealed to have a " twin " entity-Infinity, with the pair representing the space-time continuum and the living force of the universe.

* Bloth ( voiced by Brock Peters ): The ox-sized, humanoid captain of the feared pirate ship Maelstrom, he is after the Thirteen Treasures of Rule to control all the Dark Water in the world, and in effect, Mer itself.

The original Maelstrom ( described by Poe and others ) is the Moskstraumen, a powerful tidal current in the Lofoten Islands off the Norwegian coast.

The Maelstrom is formed by the conjunction of the strong currents that cross the straits ( Moskenstraumen ) between the islands and the great amplitude of the tides.

The fictional depictions of the Maelstrom by Edgar Allan Poe and Jules Verne describe it as a gigantic circular vortex that reaches the bottom of the ocean, when in fact it is a set of currents and crosscurrents with a rate of 18 km / h.

In Spanish and other languages, Maelstrom is used as a synonym for whirlpool.

In the Act 5 of Gears of War 3, the main objective is to deactivate a Maelstrom device.

In the film Maelstrom, Lofoten is where the ashes of Annstein Karson are distributed.

The ship loses control in the storm, and is trapped by the Maelstrom in the Blood Sea of Istar.

Maelstrom is destroyed by the Quantum-bands and Quasar resurrects himself.

Critic Matt Smith of Maelstrom wrote that it is one of best Opeth albums, and " it set the tone for the albums to come.

Maelstrom is a role-playing game by Alexander Scott, originally published in 1984 by Puffin Books as a single soft cover book ( ISBN 0140318119 ; ISBN 978-0-14-031811-1 ).

The herbal pharmacopoeia present at the end of the book, representing herbal knowledge of the time, has become legendary in roleplaying circles and is believed to have been a major source document for many subsequent RPG herbals ( only some of which credit Maelstrom ).

Age is a very important characteristic to a character in Maelstrom, unlike many RPGs where aging is not a major consideration in character generation.

Following is a partial list showing a range of the Livings a character may choose from, from both the core rulebook and the Maelstrom Companion.

In the VOR universe, the Earth has been sucked into a pocket universe known as the Maelstrom.

* Ceru: The Ceru are a race of blue, gnomish beings who were enslaved by the Golem, but broke free when the Golem's homeworld ( where the Ceru happened to be at the time ) got sucked into the Maelstrom.

During an invasion of the Milkyway by the Laren, Earth and the Moon with its 20 billion inhabitants are supposed to be teleported to a different system, but accidentally end up in the bridge between two collided galaxies ( called Maelstrom of Stars ) and moved into orbit about a star.

At the end of this novel, Captain Nemo seems to commit suicide, sending his Nautilus submarine into the Maelstrom ( although in Verne's sequel Nemo and Nautilus survived ).

In Warhammer 40, 000 ' the Maelstrom ' refers to an unstable region of the Milky-Way galaxy, known as a ' Warp Storm ', where real-space and the Warp bleed into one another.

Strapp steals his brother, Slipp's crew and gives chase aboard his ship, the Shalloo, but they are all lost at sea when the ship sinks into a whirlpool called the ' Green Maelstrom '.

* The complete text of Edgar Allan Poe's A Descent into the Maelstrom

Maelstrom and his minions, however, are later revealed to be alive, as courtesy of advanced science their minds were transferred into new, cloned bodies.

This brings Maelstrom into conflict with the agent of the entity Eon, the cosmic hero Quasar in the Outer Void ( realm of Oblivion ).

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* Flight into the Maelstrom: Immigration to Israel and Middle East Peace, Ithaca Press, 1997