Real
Name: Unknown
Adopted Name: Ulysses Bloodstone
Occupation: Hunter, adventurer, soldier of fortune
Identity: Publicly known
Legal Status: None
Place of Birth: Northern Vanahelm, European continent,
circa 8250 B.C.
Place of Death: New York, New York
Marital Status: Unknown
Group Affiliation: None
Known Relatives: None
First Appearance: MARVEL PRESENTS #1
Final Appearance: RAMPAGING HULK #8
History: The man who would one day call himself
Bloodstone was born about ten thousand years ago, at the
dawn of the Hyborian Age, into a small nomadic tribe who
occupied the area that would one day be called Scandanavia.
One of his tribe's foremost hunters, bloodstone was hunting
for food one day when he encountered the extradimensional
being Ulluxy'l Kwan Tae Syn, the guardian of the bloodstone.
The bloodstone was an unearthly crystal which had recently
materialized on Earth and which housed the Hellfire Helix,
a non-organic life form from another universe that possessed
great mystical power. In order to exist within Earth's Dimension,
the Helix had to encase itself within the protective crystal.
The Helix desired to conquer the Earth, and to this end
required a native life form to be its agent. Thus its servant
Ulluxy'l lured Bloodstone to its lair and offered the savage
a portion of the gem's power. Irradiated by the bloodstone,
the hunter was endowed with superhuman strength. Returning
to his tribe, he demonstrated his power and told his awestruck
people how they too might acquire his gift. The entire tribe
accompanied him back to Ulluxy'l's lair and were arranged
in formation before the gem. The bloodstone then bombarded
the assembled human beings with its energies, psychically
absorbing their minds while killing their bodies. When Bloodstone
realized what was happening, he lunged upon the gem, causing
it to explode into hundreds of fragments. One of these geometrically
perfect pieces imbedded itself into Bloodstone's sternum;
the others were scattered across the planet. Although his
people had perished by the power of Helix, he had become
immortal. He dedicated himself to extracting revenge upon
the being he held responsible for his people's death, and
eventually took the name Ulysses Bloodstone. Ulluxy's determined
to locate and gather the many fragmentd of the great gem
in order to one day reassemble it.
For a hundred centuries, the two antagonists pursued their
goals. To keep Bloodstone from reaching him, Ulluxy'l dispatched
hordes of extradimensionally-born monsters to kill him.
Bloodstone managed to triumph over the many creatures sent
against him but only succeeded in locating his arhfoe a
handful of time over the millennia. When he lost Ulluxy'l's
trail completely, and was not involved in learning new languages,
skills, or knowledge, Bloodstone went into a self-induced
suspended animation, sometimes for up to a century at a
time. By the early 20th Century, Ulluxy'l had assembled
all but four of the gem's fragments, while Bloodstone had
acquired a fortune through mercenary work and shrewd investments.
By the later part of the 20th Century, Bloodstone had established
headquarters in six different locations across the globe,
each equipped with hand-picked operatives. His main base
of operations was the small Pacific isle he called Bloodstone
Island. Bloodstone had become very proficient at modern
weaponry as well as applied technology.
Ulluxy'l in the meantime, had been contracted by a group
calling itself the Conspiracy, who unknown to the extradimensional
being, had been organized by the very Hellfire Helix that
he served. Ulluxy'l was suspicious of the Conspirators and
how they learned of the mystic gem, but had no choice but
to cooperate with them. Requiring only two gem fragments
(including the one on Bloodstone's chests) to complete the
crystal, Ulluxy'l stepped up his attacks on Bloodstone,
aided the resources of the Conspiracy. Ulluxy'l was killed
during his attack on Bloodstone Island, however, by the
evolved human scientist called Centurius, who sought Ulluxy'l's
place in the five-person Conspiracy. After vanquishing a
number of the Conspiracy's agents, Bloodstone was taken
captive by the human sorcerer Kaballa, one of the five Conspiracy
members, in his lair beneath Central Park. Bloodstone was
then told that the Helix had purposely chosen him as its
recipient ten millennia ago so that it might have a mobile
host through which to observe the evolving human species.
To that end, Ulluxy'l served as his eternal nemesis, giving
Bloodstone reason to wander the globe and come into contact
with all walks of humanity. The Helix no longer required
Bloodstone for that purpose and organized the conspiracy
with promises of immortality and power in order to set the
stage for the next phase of its plan. His will subverted,
Bloodstone submitted to a surgical operation by Conspiracy
member Dr. Juden Bardham which removed the Bloodstone from
his chest, killing him the process.
The Five Conspirators then took the remaining piece of
the bloodstone and joined it to the assembled gem in a ceremony.
The Helix had deluded the Conspirators with its promise
of power, however, and simply used their special natural
energies to bond together its fragments. In the process,
the Conspirators' bodies were destroyed. Bloodstone, still
possessing residual energy from his years of symbiosis with
the gem, rose zombie-like from the operating table on which
he died, and instinctively sought out the restored bloodstone.
Mystically entering the consciousness of the Helix, Bloodstone
obsessively found Hellfire Helix itself, and managed by
sheer psychic strength to destroy it. The Helix dissipated,
the crystalline body it was building for itself shattered,
and the essence of the Conspirators died. Bloodstone's body
then crumbled to dust, having finally exacted revenge on
the true being who killed his tribe ten thousand years before.
Height: 6 ft. 2 in.
Weight: 255 lbs.
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Blond
Strength Level: Bloodstone possesses superhuman
strength, enabling him to lift (press) about five tons.
Known Superhuman Powers: Apart from his superhuman
strength, the bloodstone also conferred upon Bloodstone
vast regeneration powers, enabling him to recover from virtually
any form of injury up to the dispersion of a vital portion
of his bodily molecules.
The bloodstone also conferred upon him vast regenerative
powers, enabling him to recover from virtually any form
of injury up to the dispersion of a significant portion
of his bodily molecules. The period of regeneration would
vary according to the severity of the injury. To regenerate
a missing leg once took him about a decade, during which
time he slept in self-induced suspended animation. Bloodstone's
reflexes and five senses were also heightened to a functional
level of about 1.5 times that of an Olympic athlete. Over
the millennia, he mastered virtually every form of combat
and martial art devised by man.
Bloodstone had an invisible "third eye" on his
forehead, granting him a number of extrasensory perceptions,
including the ability to see human auras (permitting him
to see people in the dark) and the ability to mentally travel
to one of the astral planes of existence.
Weapons: Bloodstone had become proficient with nearly
every type of weapon ever fashioned by man. In modern times,
he relied mostly on knife, .45 automatics, and a specially
designed sawed-off shotgun.

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