Avia
1066 - Avia and the New Gods come into being on a higher plane of existence on the twin planets of Apokolips and New Genesis after Ragnarök, the fall of Asgard. Avia is the goddess of building. Her husband is Izaya the Inheritor, the god of wisdom.
1161- Avia and Izaya are attacked by Steppenwolf and Darkseid during their hunt, and Avia is killed by Steppenwolf.
The Gods of New Genesis don't have as broad a gallery of characters as Apokolips, since they aren't antagonists, but there is still a lot of great design work to be found in these less prolific characters. Avia in particular really has only appeared in flashback, but is still a character that manages to leap off the page. She is a character of great historical significance, and even if her contribution to our timeline is relatively small, she's still an important figure in the history of the New Gods.
Avia's StoryAvia only has one relevant appearance at all, in one of the most important books in the whole of the Fourth World. New Gods #7 does a lot of heavy lifting in laying out the epic backstory of Apokolips and New Genesis. It shows the Gods Izaya and his wife resting together on New Genesis when they are attacked by gods of Apokolips, Steppenwolf and Darkseid. A battle ensues, in which Avia is killed. This is the original catalyst of the conflict between the planets, leading to a great war and to Izaya eventually laying down his weapons when he sees the destruction they'd wrought, seeking out the source and becoming Highfather.
Avia is one of those characters that does make an occasional extremely rare appearance, generally only when someone wants to depict the ancient history of the New Gods, or else in large group shots of modern comics that really don't understand comic continuity, as Avia being dead is kind of a big deal. Since she is going to need to be one of the original New Gods born after Ragnarök, that meant we could decide what she is actually the God of... and we thought it would be cool if she was the "goddess of building" which means she would be responsible for all the ancient glorious architecture seamlessly coexisting with the natural world on the surface of New Genesis, making the whole planet a sort of monument to her memory. |
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