Heggra
1066 - Heggra 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. Heggra is the goddess of malice, her husband Yuga Khan is the god of evil and ruler of Apokolips. Their two sons are Drax and Uxas. Her brother is Steppenwolf, the god of the hunt.
1157 - Heggra's husband Yuga Khan is absorbed into the source wall, making her the supreme ruler of Apokolips. Her son Uxas kills his brother Drax to steal the Omega Effect, becoming Darkseid.
1161- Heggra's brother Steppenwolf is killed by Izaya the Inheritor. Her nephew Killroy becomes her new bodyguard. Her biggest threat is Darkseid, her son and Killroy's cousin,
1164 - Heggra has Desaad poison her son Darkseid's lover Suli, and arranges his marriage with Tigra.
I love characters like Heggra, characters that manage to establish a strong, important role in continuity with barely any appearances at all. Heggra clocks in at eight or nine unique non-reprint appearances, and if you count the ones that are actually advancing the overall narrative I think you could really only count maybe two of them. Despite that scarcity, she is unquestionably a huge part of the world of the New Gods just by virtue of how dramatic that role is.
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Heggra's StoryHeggra is the mother of Darkseid, which feels like a crazy concept. She only made one appearance in the classic New Gods series in issue #7, the flashback that tells the origin of the conflict between New Genesis & Apokolips. In a sequence of deep worldbuilding and conceptual narrative jazz, we see a vast dining room presided over by the current ruler in all her grotesquerie. She really is just there to react and be loud and gluttonous, but her presence established that Apokolips before Darkseid's rule, while decadent and collapsing under the weight of it's own appetites, wasn't yet the horrific engine of war and desolation it would become. Almost every other appearance of Heggra was a riff on that original idea, just using her to establish the tone of the pre-Darkseid Apokolips, but then we also learn that it was Heggra who was responsible for the murder of Darkseid's first wife Suli.
There is just way too much fantastically scandalous drama oozing out of Heggra to even think about not including her. Her presence lets us build up to a massive coup from Darkseid, marking a major change in the history of the New Gods, which is absolute gold when you're building a timeline. |
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