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TRINITY OF ASHES

Membership: Griefsavor, Mother-of-Pain, Ygmlosvorraich

Purpose: Mystic principalities, empowering agents

Affiliations: Blasphemy Cartel (Director None, others), Pura-Shamutra;
   supposed host body Revenant Prime (aka. Sentry/Robert Reynolds);
   formerly Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange)

Enemies: Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange), Dormammu, Fatalis, Jarakk, Slorioth, Clea Strange, Urthona, Vishanti (Agamotto, Hoggoth, Oshtur)

Aliases: Management

Base of Operations: Unrevealed

First Appearance: Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme#48 (December, 1992)

History:
(Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme#48) - During the War of the Seven Spheres the Trinity of Ashes were assigned to fight the Vishanti, their opposing forces.

(Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme#57 (fb) - BTS) - Pura-Shamutra became an agent of the Trinity of Ashes during the War of Seven Spheres.

(Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme#57 - BTS) - Jarakk, an agent of the Vishanti, fought Pura-Shamutra on the planet Gevaltu and defeated Pura-Shamutra with the help of Urthona. Pura-Shamutra's death caused a cosmic imbalance in the War of the Seven Spheres.

(Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme#58 - BTS) - Dr. Strange helped restore Pura-Shamutra, who revealed to Strange that he participated in the war to keep it balanced, so that the Trinity could never reduce its warriors to the level of savages.

(Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme Annual#4/2 - BTS) - The Trinity of Ashes attempted to conquer the Dark Dimension during the War of the Seven Spheres. They were opposed by Dormammu and other enemies like Fatalis and Slorioth.

(Strange III#9 (fb) - BTS) - Doctor Strange fought the Trinity during the War of the Seven Spheres.

   To assure peace with the Trinity of Ashes the Vishanti had Doctor Strange forget the war years.

   They never forgot what Strange did to them during the war.

(Strange III#10 (fb) - BTS) - They were terrified of Strange because they saw what Strange had become during the war.

(Strange III#9 (fb) - BTS) - The W.A.N.D. agent later known as Director None heard the whispers of the Trinity of Ashes in the darkness between the stars. They promised interesting things.

   W.A.N.D. fell and the Blasphemy Cartel picked up the pieces. Director None made contact with the Trinity of Ashes.

(Strange III#7 (fb) - BTS) - To gain their patronage Director None had to erase every aspect of his identity from reality so they could show him unimaginable things that would've otherwise destroyed him. The Trinity of Ashes became the Blasphemy Cartel's Management.

(Strange III#9 (fb) - BTS) - The Blasphemy Cartel created the Revenants to use them as agents against their enemies and to stir up pain and chaos, which the Trinity liked.

   Because the Trinity sought to walk on Earth the Blasphemy Cartel created Revenant Prime (the Sentry), a gestalt being of one hundred million ghosts, as the future vessel for the Trinity.

(Strange III#10 - BTS) - Harvestman (Stephen Strange) and Clea merged into a single being to destroy Revenant Prime and release the one hundred million ghosts, which destroyed the Blasphemy Cartel's Emerald City HQ and everyone within it. In his final moments Director None begged the Trinity of Ashes to save him, but his plea was ignored.

Comments: Created by Len Kaminski & Geoff Isherwood.

The fate of the Trinity of Ashes after the War of Seven Spheres is unrevealed, but they were likely opposed by Dr. Strange during the war when he served the Vishanti.

Though it was never actually revealed it can be assumed that Griefsavor was the sword-shaped member of the Trinity, Mother-of-Pain the seven-legged creature within a ring and Ygmlosvorraich the gentleman clothes.

As mystic principalities the Trinity of Ashes can be invoked, but I know of no instance this was done.

Profile by Markus Raymond.

CLARIFICATIONS:
The Trinity of Ashes have no known connections to:


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Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme#48, p16, pan5 (main)


Appearances:
Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme#48 (December, 1992) - Len Kaminski (writer), Geof Isherwood (pencils), Petrecca, Barnett & Hudson (inks), Mike Rockwitz (editor)
Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme#57-58 (September-October, 1993) - Geof Isherwood (writer/artist), Mike Rockwitz (editor)
Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme Annual#4 (1994) - Tom Brevoort & Mike Kanterovich (writers), Anna-Maria Cool (pencils), Mike Manley (inks), Evan Skolnick (editor)
Strange III#7 (December, 2022) - Jed MacKay (writer), Marcelo Ferreira (pencils), Roberto Poggi (inks), Darren Shan (editor)
Strange III#9-10 (February-March, 2023) - Jed MacKay (writer), Marcelo Ferreira (pencils), Roberto Poggi (inks), Darren Shan (editor)


First Posted: 01/15/2006
Last updated: 03/19/2023

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