Height: 6'Weight: 270 lbs.
Eyes: Dark blue
Hair: White icicles
NEGAFOK
Real Name: Negafok
Identity/Class: Inuit god
Occupation: God of cold weather
Group Membership: Inua (Inuit
gods)
Affiliations: Notable worshipers including Aningan
Kenojuak
Enemies: The Great Beasts, Mauvais
(Jean-Pierre Beaubier)
Known Relatives: Hodiak (father), Gaea/A'akuluujjusi (mother), Nelvanna, Sedna (sisters), Nanuq, Turoq (brothers), Narya (Snowbird, niece)
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Quidlivun
First Appearance: Incredible Hercules#118 (August, 2008) (seen); Thor & Hercules: Encyclopedia Mythologica (2009) (named)
Powers/Abilities: Like other Inua, Negafok
possesses superhuman physical attributes and
is a true immortal who ceased to age upon reaching adulthood; he cannot
die by conventional means. He is immune to
all terrestrial diseases and is resistant to conventional injury, and
will recover
at a superhuman rate if injured. His flesh and bone are about three
times denser than
similar human tissue, contributing to his superhuman strength
(lifting about 30 tons) and weight, as well as
superhuman endurance in all physical activities. Negafok's additional
superhuman powers may be magical in nature. Negafok can generate snow,
ice and
freezing winds; he has extended arms and fingers that aid in focusing
icy cold winds into small spaces and suggests some level of
shapeshifting ability, similar to many other Inua. Negafok is mostly
restricted to snowy and icy lands.
Height: 6'
Weight: 270 lbs.
Eyes: Dark blue
Hair: White icicles
History:
(Thor & Hercules: Encyclopedia Mythologica) - The
Inua are a
race of superhumanly powerful humanoid beings who have been
worshiped by the Inuit and other Eskimo-Aleut shamanistic
cultures of the circumpolar region from 10,000 BC into modern
times, possibly even older. Most
of the Inua dwell in Quidlivun, a small "pocket" dimension adjacent
to Earth; an interdimensional nexus point between Quidlivun
and Earth exists somewhere within the Arctic Circle, although
access has frequently been cut off
in recent years. The Inua's precise origin
is shrouded in legend. According to ancient myths, the Sky
Father Hodiak and the Earth Mother Gaea (known to the Inua
as "A'akuluujjusi") are the progenitors of the principal Inua. Of note
is that the
Inua are called different names by their human worshipers across
Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Siberia, although Negafok is simply
also known as Negafook.
Negafok assisted the Inua against the Great Beasts, a race of conquering extradimensional creatures. The Inua successfully sealed the Great Beasts within their native dimension via a mystic barrier, but the Beasts countered the incantation and trapped the Inua within Quidlivun. In the mid-18th century, the Inua used their influence to oppose the French sorcerer Mauvais (Jean-Pierre Beaubier) as he tried to conquer Canada during the French & Indian War. Later, during the French Revolution of the late 18th century, Mauvais again clashed with the Inua, who joined forces with that era's Sorcerer Supreme, the Ancient One.
(Inuit myth) - Negafok's face is said to become long
and forlorn as spring comes and the ice recedes, and he must head to
the icier northern areas. He was apparently more active around 1900
during a particularly icy weather period.
(Thor & Hercules: Encyclopedia Mythologica) -
While the Inua are often cut off from Earth, they are still invoked by
powerful shamans such as Aningan Kenojuak of the Inuit Bantu Nation and
Michael & Elizabeth Twoyoungmen of Canada's Sarcee Nation.
(Incredible Hercules#118) - Nightmare cast up various night terrors against the attacking God Squad (Hercules, Snowbird, Ajak, Mikaboshi, Atum, Amadeus Cho), including an apparition of Negafok to scare the Inuit Snowbird.
Comments: Adapted by Greg Pak, Fred Van Lante, Rafa Sandoval, Roger Bonet, Anthony Flamini.
Many thanks to Anthony Flamini for noting Negafok's first cameo appearance in Incredible Hercules #118. Initially intended as just a night terror in Nightmare's army, he soon became a god in the Encyclopedia Mythologica.
An energy creature called Brother
Bear was patterned after the scion of Negafok and Sedna, but the
offspring's name and exact nature is unclear.
A North Wind Mask, representing Negafok, is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) in New York.
This profile was completed 8/21/2021, but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the Appendix 20th anniversary 's celebratory event.
Profile by Grendel Prime.
CLARIFICATIONS
:
Negafok has no known connections to:
images:
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Thor & Hercules: Encyclopedia Mythologica, p31 (main image)
Incredible Hercules#118, p18, pan1 (headshot)
Appearances:
Incredible Hercules#118 (August,
2008) - Greg Pak & Fred Van Lente (writers), Rafa Sandoval
(pencils), Roger Bonet (inks), Mark Paniccia (editor)
Thor & Hercules: Encyclopedia Mythologica (2009) - Anthony Flamini,
Greg Pak, Fred Van Lante & Paul Cornell (writers), Jeff Youngquist
(editor)
First posted: 09/18/2021
Last updated:
10/05/2021
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