nopictureavailable interdite

Real Name: Unrevealed

Identity/Class: Extraterrestrial (Interdite) precognitive

Occupation: Prophet, hermit

Group Membership: Order of the Divine Oracolites

Affiliations: A trio of unidentified Roclites and an unidentified Sagittarian;
    some of those to whom he provided information

Enemies: Gamora;
    some of those to whom he provided information (such as apparently the Sirusite nobleman);
    indirectly Annihilus

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: 

Base of Operations: Unrevealed;
    formerly the planet Carnassia;
    possibly formerly Interdis (now uninhabitable), seventh planet from the sun in the Tartaru star system of the Milky Way Galaxy

First Appearance: Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy  (2017; see comments)

Powers/Abilities: Precognitive abilities

    Experienced at cooking and living a primitive existence bereft of technology. He is notably experienced with cooking meat stew (and acquiring the meat and other ingredients) and with preparing Zundamite leaf tea.

Height: Unrevealed (likely around 5'11")
Weight: Unrevealed (likely around 150 lbs.)
Eyes: Presumably solid yellow (with no visible pupils or irides)
Hair: Presumably none
Skin: Light blue
Other Distinguishing Features: Fringed, pointed ears; craggy chin

History:

(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter Seventeen: Meanwhile, Meanwhile (five days earlier on Carnassia) (fb) - BTS) - The Interdites had been a powerful and technologically advanced civilization, until they had been crushed and scattered by the Badoon. In an effort to make sure that nothing like that ever happened to them again, the surviving, far-flung members of the Interdite race lived like hermits and outcasts, developing their latent psionics, turned to mysticism, and eventually became highly gifted in the arcane craft of precognition.

    A group of seven Interdites formed the Order of the Divine Oracolites, although it is unrevealed what were their association(s), location(s), etc.

(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter Seventeen: Meanwhile, Meanwhile (five days earlier on Carnassia) (fb) - BTS) <Eight decades before the main story> - After the last other member of the Order of the Divine Oracolites perished, the final surviving member chose to maintain the notion of the Order singlehandedly. Based out of a cave in the high peaks of a windswept and ragged mountain range that ran like a spine across the main landmass of the planet Carnassia, he lived a lonely, hermetic existence. Individuals from other worlds came to visit him, making the demanding trek because they craved access to the psionic insight into the future that his order possessed. They came to him with questions, frets, worries, doubts, and fears; and he gave them answers.

    The interdite's powers always let him know when others were coming, and he always had a pot of something or other warming over the open fire of his cave.

(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter Seventeen: Meanwhile, Meanwhile (five days earlier on Carnassia) (fb) - BTS) <Over a year before the main story> - The interdite prepared a kettle of Zundamite leaf tea in preparation for the arrival of a Sirusite nobleman who sought to discover whether his wealthy bride-to-be would remain faithful to him. The answer the nobleman received caused him to leave fairly quickly with a disgruntled look on his face, and with little drunk of the Zundamite leaf tea.

(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter Seventeen: Meanwhile, Meanwhile (five days earlier on Carnassia) (fb) - BTS) - The interdite sensed that the Zen-Whoberian Gamora would be coming to ask about the location of the Rigellian Recorder #127. Aware at least to some degree that that Recorder held the bulk of the information needed for Project 616 -- which could grant power to utterly control the entire galaxy (at least) -- and that Gamora had been employed to recover the Recorder by the Negative Zone's Annihilus, the interdite resolved that he could not give Gamora the answers that she would seek. However, appreciating that the future was in flux and that there were limits to his precognitive abilities, he saw the ultimate resolution only as a blank void.

(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter Seventeen: Meanwhile, Meanwhile (five days earlier on Carnassia) (fb) - BTS) - To protect himself from Gamora -- billed by many as "the most dangerous woman in the galaxy" -- the interdite employed a trio of Roclites and a Sagittarian to defend himself. In preparation of these guests, the interdite prepared a large bowl of meat stew over his fire.

(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter Seventeen: Meanwhile, Meanwhile (five days earlier on Carnassia)) - Stirring his meat stew, the interdite sensed Gamora's arrival. Acknowledging the information she had come for, he refused to divulge it due to ill omens he had seen for what would happen if she delivered the project to Annihilus.

    When she questioned how and why he -- knowing her nature -- would defy her, the interdite advised her that he had known she was coming, at which point one of his Roclite agents attacked.

    After Gamora had incapacitated that Roclite, she asked the interdite, "And the others? You know who I am. One Roclite?"

    As the other two Roclites emerged, the Sagittarian told the interdite that the stew had better be good. The interdite assured him that it was, and that it would make thie effort worthwhile...as would the winning numbers for next week's Denebian lottery. The Sagittarian then ordered the other Roclites to kill Gamora.

    After taking out the other two Roclites and the Sagittarian, Gamora again confronted the interdite Oraclite, tasting the spilled stew and noting that it was "Not worth my life, but not bad." She then asked the interdite if this was the way he had seen things turning out.

    Stammering out, "N-no," he continued "I hoped but...I told you, we are on the cusp of fate. D-destiny teeters. There are so many p-potent forces involved in this matter, it is impossible even for precogs to foresee reliable outcomes. The future is in flux. In flux! The ultimate resolution is hiddren from me.. It is a b-blank void."

    At Gamora's insistence, the interidte told her everything that he knew about the Recorder #127.

(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter Twenty-Two: Meanwhile (Precisely now on the Kree battleship Pride of Pama) (fb) - BTS - The Interdite apparently predicted that Gamora could find the Recorder in the Kree Pride of Pama ship and in what sector of space.

(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter Seventeen: Meanwhile, Meanwhile (five days earlier on Carnassia)) - Walking toward the interdite with a blade in each hand, Gamora thanked him but noted that there was another reason why the future he saw was nothing but a blank void. Although he begged her for mercy, Gamora continued her approach, noting, "I think you should get out of the precognition business. I see no future in it."
   
    Gamora presumably slew the interdite Oracolite.

Comments: Created by Dan Abnett.
    In the Acknowledgments section, Dan thanked Stuart Moore, Jeff Youngquist, Axel Alonso, Dan Buckley, Sarah Brunstad, and James Gunn for their support in this project.
    He also noted "fist-bumps to <the Appendix's own> Ronald Byrd for continuity-fu."

    It was pretty cold of Gamora to have killed the interdite Oracolite. All he wanted to do was prevent the likes of Annihilus from gaining the power to control Earth's universe (or galaxy). That was pretty much a murder of an innocent on her part.
    There were definitely some relatively innocent folk taken out by Gamora, Rocket, and Groot in this series.

    In-continuity?

    People question whether novels should be in-continuity. There is a mindset that they should arbitrarily and automatically excluded. I don't get that at all. If the stories fit seamlessly in-continuity and they add to the rich texture of the "Marvel Universe," why exclude them? In any case, characters in such stories as novels, games, etc. that don't contradict -616 continuity are considered "fringe characters." They fit into existing continuity, but are not definitively part of it until they are confirmed to be so in a story, handbook, etc.
    There is one significant continuity glitch, but it has been referenced in other stories confirmed to take place in Reality-616 (see Donald's discussion below)
    They sure fit in better than a lot of stuff by certain writers...you know who you are...and we know who you are...
    Not only that, but the story specifically references the universe in which they dwelled to be Reality-616...however, the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies refer to their mainstream reality as -616 also...

Counterpoint by Donald Campbell:

    As much as I liked this novel, there were some elements that bothered me. For example, Alpha Centauri is described as a "cosmic hubworld (that governs) almost thirty systems and trillions of lives." This definitely does NOT sound the like 616 Alpha Centauri system where the Centaurians are usually depicted as only having a "bow-and-arrow" level technology, the Alpha Centaurians (assuming they are not nearly extinct) are focused on desperately trying to keep their homeworld habitable, and the Centurii from Centuri-Six (which may or may not actually be part of the Alpha Centauri system) were all kidnapped by slavers. And yes, I hold this opinion despite the fact that, in Annihilators#1/2, Abnett and Lanning established that Rocket Raccoon had worked for six months as a mail clerk at the Alpha Centauri offices of the Customer Services Division of Timely Inc. Also, while the Timely offices were aboard an orbiting ship in that comic, in this novel they are on the planet Alpha Centauri...which is also wrong/inconsistent with the Marvel Comics universe.

    In conclusion, I really enjoyed the novel but I don't think it was meant to be canon and I don't think that it should be treated as being "in continuity." And I would REALLY like some writer to finally get around to explaining the current status quo in the 616 Alpha Centauri star system. I mean, what level of technology do the Centaurians actually possess? What do the Centaurians actually call their race? What is their name for the planet known to Terrans as Centauri-IV? Can Alpha Centaurians still live on Arima or was the planet left too dehydrated after Sub-Mariner I#18? Is Centuri-Six actually in orbit around Proxima Centauri? 

     Personally, due to the Alpha Centauri discontinuity, I would prefer it if Recorder #127 were as incorrect in his statement that he existed in "Universe 616" as some characters from Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness were when they assigned the number "616" to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (Reality-199999). However, that's just my opinion.

 Me again:
    Valid point on the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but the difference is that the novel  is not clearly a different reality or part of a different Multiverse than the comics Reality-616 as the cosmic hierarchy, (Uatu the Watcher, Galactus, etc.) etc., is the same. Additionally, this story goes to great lengths to fit solidly with Reality-616's continuity, alien races, etc.
           On that note, the movies call this reality Earth-616, but the comics call this reality Earth-199999. There two realities are in different multiverses, so it makes you wonder if the former a local name, within the larger/latter multiverse number.
    The Alpha Centauri discrepancy is certainly significant, but bigger issues than that happened consistently in Bendis' and other writers' stories that are considered Reality-616.

    As you note, -616 stories have contradictions within the Alpha Centauri system, but they're not excluded...as well as there having been relatively recent -616 continuity comics that reference Rocket's past with the Alpha Centauri offices of Timely Inc.
    Timely Incorporated may have offices on an orbiting ship, but the office on Alpha Centauri is presumably the main office. Maybe they moved portions or entire buildings. They have the technology...they can rebuild it...

    Anyway...the bottom line is that this story and all the characters in it are fringe characters until confirmed one way or another.
    At minimum, the story occurred in Reality-17721.
    Did the same or similar events occur in Reality-616?
    Who knows?
    --Snood

Profile by Snood.

CLARIFICATIONS:
The interdite Oraclite should be distinguished from:

Order of the Divine Oracolites

(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter Seventeen: Meanwhile, Meanwhile (five days earlier on Carnassia) (fb) - BTS) - The Interdites had been a powerful and technologically advanced civilization, until they had been crushed and scattered by the Badoon. In an effort to make sure that nothing like that ever happened to them again, the surviving, far-flung members of the Interdite race lived like hermits and outcasts, developing their latent psionics, turned to mysticism, and eventually became highly gifted in the arcane craft of precognition.

    A group of seven Interdites formed the Order of the Divine Oracolites, although it is unrevealed what were their association(s), location(s), etc.

(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter Seventeen: Meanwhile, Meanwhile (five days earlier on Carnassia) (fb) - BTS) <Eight decades before the main story> - After the last other member of the Order of the Divine Oracolites perished, the final surviving member chose to maintain the notion of the Order singlehandedly. Based out of a cave in the high peaks of a windswept and ragged mountain range that ran like a spine across the main landmass of the planet Carnassia, he lived a lonely, hermetic existence. Individuals from other worlds came to visit him, making the demanding trek because they craved access to the psionic insight into the future that his order possessed. They came to him with questions, frets, worries, doubts, and fears; and he gave them answers.

--Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy

roclites

Like others of their race, the roclites are savage humanoids with dark skin and large, pupil-less eyes. Roclites were famous for their immense strength, ferocity, and utter brutality.

These three roclites seemed to be under the command of an unidentified Sagittarian.

(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter Seventeen: Meanwhile, Meanwhile (five days earlier on Carnassia) (fb) - BTS) - From his cave in the mountains of the planet Carnassia, the unidentified interdite precognitive who was the last surviving member of the Order of Divine Oracolites sensed that the Zen-Whoberian Gamora would be coming to him to ask about the location of the Rigellian Recorder #127. Aware at least to some degree that that Recorder held the bulk of the information needed for Project 616 -- which could grant power to utterly control the entire galaxy (at least) -- and that Gamora had been employed to recover the Recorder by the Negative Zone's Annihilus, the interdite resolved that he could not give Gamora the answers that she would seek. However, appreciating that the future was in flux and that there were limits to his precognitive abilities, he saw the ultimate resolution only as a blank void.

(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter Seventeen: Meanwhile, Meanwhile (five days earlier on Carnassia) (fb) - BTS) - To protect himself from Gamora -- billed by many as "the most dangerous woman in the galaxy" -- the interdite employed a trio of Roclites and a Sagittarian to defend himself. In preparation of these guests, the interdite prepared a large bowl of meat stew over his fire.

(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter Seventeen: Meanwhile, Meanwhile (five days earlier on Carnassia)) - After Gamora confronted the interdite, one of the roclites emerged to challenge her. This was a big specimen, even by roclite standards, its rippling musculature and heavy frame making even the likes of Drax seem puny, and with hairy arms that were almost simian in proportion to its body. It swung its massive fist with lethal force, but Gamora ducked and rolled into the cave, and its fist instead struck and shattered rock. Opening its considerable mouth, the roclite roared, and its tree-trunk neck muscle corded and bulged. The roclite then charged, howling, but Gamora leapt out of its path, and it skidded clumsily as it stopped and turned. After it twice smashed the wall while swinging and missing the agile Gamora, she drew her blades, and as it reached for her, seeking to rip her limb-from-limb, she sliced off most of its fingers and thumbs. Howling, it sank to its knees while its lost digits were scattered on the cave floor around it.

    When Gamora questioned the presence of others, as she could not believe the interdite would have employed a single roclite against her, the other two roclites emerged from the shadows at the back of the cave, bellowing. After the interdite promised their Sagittarian ally (or commander?) the winning numbers for next week's Denebian lottery, the Sagittarian instructed the roclites to kill her. As they were already trying to do so, Gamora dodged the second roclite and left a bloody gash across the ribs of the third, forcing it to back off again. The second came at her again, and she was obliged to leapfrog the kneeling, weeping form of her original attacker. It tried to grab her as she bounded over it, but its lack of fingers caused it to fail.

    As Gamora's leap carried her into proximity of the sagittarian, who fired his Mobian ripper pistol at her; mostly dodging its fire, she slew the sagittarian with her blade.

(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter Seventeen: Meanwhile, Meanwhile (five days earlier on Carnassia) (fb) - BTS) - Some of the Mobian ripper pistol barbs struck one of the still-active roclites through the eye and into its brain, killing it and pinning it against the wall of the cave.

(Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy Chapter Seventeen: Meanwhile, Meanwhile (five days earlier on Carnassia)) - With Gamora distracted in taking down the sagittarian, the remaining roclite struck her from behind and then stepped on her other sword as she struggled to get back up. Letting go of her sword and diving between its legs, Gamora then met the roclite -- as it turned to face her -- with devastating jabs to the face and a vicious series of spin kicks. After Gamora next struck the roclite in the side of the head with the tureen, spilling the stew it contained through the air, she retrieved her sword and put it through the roclite's throat; the roclite fell face first and left a spreading pool of dark blood.

    Gamora wheeled, expecting the other roclite to be attacking but she instead saw the one roclite dead from the ripper blast and the digit-less roclite still whimpering.

    Recovering her sword and ending the suffering of the whimpering roclite, Gamora then again confronted the interdite.  

--Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy


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Appearances:
Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket Raccoon & Groot -- Steal the Galaxy prose novel (2017) - by Dan Abnett (see comments)

First posted: 03/04/2024
Last updated: 04/20/2024

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