Ītlan took Garth to the Grotto, a convergence between dimensions, and spent the next several months to a year (although only days or weeks passed on Earth) training Garth in his mystical heritage, preparing him for his eventual role as the guardian of all undersea humanoid communities. He was rescued by Atlan, who transported him to another dimension. Garth was captured by her people and chained up to a rock, left to be killed by a deadly whirlwind. It was not, in fact, Aquagirl, but a "shark-girl". After disagreeing with Aquaman, Garth left his mentor and swam off to investigate the Tula sighting. During the battle, Garth at one point thought he spotted Tula in the distance. The two of them investigated a downed submarine and fought a villain named Charybdis. Shortly before Zero Hour, it was Garth who convinced Aquaman to come out of his depression and back into action.
While he later regained this power during the Millennium event, it came with the condition that his commands must now be phrased as requests to the creatures to perform desired actions, although the animals apparently need little persuasion. Aquagirl) until her death during the Crisis on Infinite Earths.Īs a result of his grief and repeated telepathic abuse by Mento, among other factors, Aqualad lost his ability to control marine life. His girlfriend for many years was Tula (a.k.a. Garth was one of the founding members of the Teen Titans, and was a member of that team in many of its incarnations although later as a reservist since he began to feel he was of little help out of the water. When Aquaman assumed the throne of Poseidonis, Garth became a member of the royal court. As Aqualad, he fought crime and had many adventures above and below the sea with his mentor. Garth did develop an intense fear of schools of fish, however, that haunted him into his teens. It was Atlan who taught Garth language and survival rituals and kept the young boy from going feral as he scavenged his way through the undersea. But, with the secret help of Aquaman's father, the Atlantean sorcerer Atlan, the young Garth not only survived but thrived. The Atlanteans claimed Garth had been born genetically inferior and sentenced him to death on a seabed leagues away from Atlantis. In Poseidonis, one of the domed cities of Atlantis, Queen Berra gave birth to her baby boy, Garth, who was born with purple eyes. The Idyllists also claimed that Thar had gone insane to hide their complex, fearful plan.
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So word was sent out that all babies born with purple eyes, the Idylist mark of power, should be banished and killed, lest they try to perform the access ritual and accidentally free Slizzath and his undead army.
Unfortunately, this spell was linked to a magical ritual which would give his offspring access to incredible mystical powers and accessing that ritual would give Slizzath the energy required to break free of his prison. Before Thar was killed, however, he was able to cast a magical spell that trapped Slizzath in an otherdimensional prison. But the Idyllist radicals killed him and banished his pregnant wife Berra back to Atlantis. King Thar knew of this and assembled an armory of robots and weapons to stop his demented brother. He planned to invade the Hidden Valley and transform it into a necropolis he would rule. His body transformed into disgusting, half human form, Zath, renamed Slizzath, returned to Shayeris twenty years later with an army of undead. Zath practiced dark sorcery and necromancy, the raising of the dead, and was eventually banished from the Hidden Valley. Thar had inherited the throne and access to ancient magical energies that his brother Zath, a powerful magician in his own right, believed to be rightfully his. The Idyllists were also practitioners of magic and kept an extensive library of mystical texts and scrolls.Īpproximately four decades ago, King Thar and his wife Queen Berra, became the reigning monarchs of Shayeris. There, nestled in the capital city of Shayeris, the pacifist Idyllists became rabid builders and collectors, architects and artisans, and eschewed physical violence at all costs. He was a prince of the Idyllists, a colony of Atlanteans that settled in the Hidden Valley 4,000 years ago. Garth was an amphibious humanoid who was left to die because of ancient Atlantean superstition and prophecy. His origin is similar to that of his mentor.
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