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ICARA

Real Name: Icara

Identity/Class: Extraterrestrial (Prysmos) human

Occupation: Leader (Lord Ayrie)

Group Membership: High-Flyers

Affiliations: Spectral Knights (Arzon, Feryl)

Enemies: Darkling Lords (Cindarr, Darkstorm, Virulina)

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Avitrix, Prysmos (see comments)

First Appearance: Visionaries#6 (September, 1988)

Powers/Abilities: Icara is a fit and healthy member of the High-Flyers. Although arrogant to outsiders, she is a capable leader dedicated to the safety of her people. Icara can skillfully use the manufactured wings to glide on air currents around the Avitrix colony (although this was empowered by a mystical gem).

Height: 5'7"
Weight: 130 lbs.
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Unrevealed (likely cut short for head adornment)

History:

(Visionaries#6 (fb) - BTS) - When the Age of Magic washed across Prysmos and disabled advanced technology, a mystical gem that came to be known as the Crystal of Flight empowered high-climbing locals to use manufactured wings to glide on air currents. Dubbing themselves High-Flyers, they became arrogant. However, Merklyn the magician required their Crystal as part of a set to help save Prysmos and sent teams of nefarious Darkling Lords and heroic Spectral Knights to retrieve it.

(Visionaries#6) - Spectral Knights Arzon and Feryl investigated the remote lowlands while Darklings Cindarr and Virulina tried to crush them. Arzon transformed into his eagle persona (the only one of the four Merklyn's agents there with a flying persona) to investigate the mountainous spire, but he was netted by High-Flyer hunters. Knocked unconscious, Arzon resumed human form and was taken to their leader Icara. She introduced him to the colony while he told her of the quest and warned her of the Darklings. She arrogantly dismissed it but the High-Flyer colony was soon afflicted with a lethal disease unleashed by Virulina so that the Darklings could easily take the Crystal. Arzon used his power staff of knowledge to reveal the cause and cure. Although sorely afflicted, Icara accompanied Arzon to gather healing blossoms, which she then carried aloft and scattered amongst her people. The blossoms quickly healed all the High-Flyers. In thanks for the Spectral Knights' aid, Icara passed the Crystal to Arzon and asked that it be returned if possible. In the meantime, her people would learn to be human again.

Comments: Created by Gerry Conway, Mark Bagley, Romeo Tanghal.

The Visionaries' self-contained adventures all take place on the planet Prysmos and so can quite feasibly be considered Reality-616.

Marvel's comic is based on the Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light animated television series from Sunbow Productions (1987) and the accompanying line of action figures from Hasbro. Unfortunately the comic stopped with issue #6 in the middle of a story arc.

This profile was completed 09/12/2021, but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the Appendix 20th anniversary's celebratory event.

Profile by Grendel Prime.

CLARIFICATIONS :
Icara has no known connections to:

High-Flyers

The High-Flyers used fabricated wings to fly far above the ground and lived in "nests" as homes, built of metal and other materials on a remote tall mountainous spire. But their wings were not truly aerodynamically stable and relied on the mystical Crystal of Flight that empowered the colony to glide using their manufactured wings. They would use hunting nets to catch passing flying prey for food. Generally, they wore light brassy armor, and were lightweight and athletically fit to use their wings. They had an air of superiority, thinking themselves literally above those in the valleys and plains below. Like birds, they also collected treasure and stashed it in a separate nest.

   The High-Flyers were impacted when Merklyn the magician required their Crystal to help save Prysmos and sent nefarious Darkling Lords and heroic Spectral Knights to retrieve it. The Darkling Virulina unleashed a deadly disease on the High-Flyers that nearly killed them all, but the intervention of Spectral Knight Arzon found blossoms that aided a quick recovery. In thanks, the High-Flyers' leader Icara passed the Crystal to Arzon but asked for its eventual return, stating that they also had to be humans on the ground once more.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

--Visionaries#6

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Visionaries#6, cover (main image)
   p9, pan1 (headshot)
   p15, pan3 (afflicted)
   p9, pan3 (High Flyers' colony with Arzon standing in Icara's "nest" (inset))

Appearances:
Visionaries#6 (September, 1988) - Gerry Conway (writer), Mark Bagley (pencils), Romeo Tanghal (inks), Bob Budiansky (editor)

First posted: 09/21/2021
Last updated: 09/20/2021

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