Lords of Empyre: Celestial Messiah v1 #1

[DonCampbell]

Blue Area of the Moon
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Celestial Messiah (Quoi) – also in flashbacks
Cotati Swordsman – also in flashbacks
Mantis (astral projecting into a plant-body) – also in flashbacks
other Cotati (none named)

Mantis (in her real body) is on the outer edge of the Lomora system – next appears in Empyre #2

Flashback #1 – Mantis being trained by a pink-skinned Priest of Pama

Flashback #2 – Mantis as a member of the Guardians of the Galaxy (alongside Peter Quill, Drax, Groot and Rocket Raccoon)

Flashback #3 – Swordsman’s death (Giant-Size Avengers #2)

Flashback #4 – Swordsman’s corpse re-animated by the Prime Cotati (before Avengers #131)

Flashback #5 – Mantis with her allies (Thing/Ben Grimm, Ms. Marvel/Sharon Ventura, Human Torch/Johnny Storm, Silver Surfer) against the High Cotati who are taking Sequoia away (Fantastic Four #325)

Flashback #6 – Between panels in Avengers #114 (panels 4 & 5 on page 6)
Mantis
Scarlet Witch (Wanda)
Swordsman (Jacques Duquesne) – also in a flashback to Avengers #20
Captain America – only in the flashback-within-a-flashback to Avengers #20

Flashback #7 – The double wedding from Giant-Size Avengers #4 and events from the honeymoon on Tamal
Mantis
Prime Cotati (in Swordsman’s body)
Scarlet Witch (Wanda Frank)
Vision
Hawkeye (Clint Barton)
Iron Man (Tony Stark)
Libra (Gustav Brandt)
Thor Odinson
Immortus

Planet Tamal
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Mantis (in a new plant body)
Cotati Elder (in a Swordsman plant body)
Cotati grove who rejected the elder


Flashbacks #8 & 10 – Willimantic, Connecticut
Mantis
Quoi (as a human boy wearing a self-made Swordsman costume) – when he made some new friends and when his Cotati genes awakened
Connor (a boy in a Captain America costume)
another boy (in a Thor costume)
a girl (in a Black Widow costume?)

Flashback #9 – before Guardians of the Galaxy #1
Mantis with Peter Quill, then Mantis using her powers to mentally influence others (Adam Warlock, Groot and Rocket Raccoon, Gamora, Drax the Destroyer, Phyla-Vell) to join the team

Notes: The non-flashback portion of this story takes place before Empyre: Avengers #0 and Empyre #1.

Although Silver Surfer v3 #4 implied that Sequoia was very young when Mantis allowed the Cotati to begin raising him, the Willimantic flashbacks indicate that Quoi had lived on Earth with his mother until he appeared to be a boy who was about six or seven years old. However, as a hybrid, he grew about three times as fast as a human so he actually would have only been about two Earth-years old.

[michel]

Analysis on the placement of FB

[DonCampbell]

My mistake. I did a search for "Lords" in Character Watches and got no results so I thought nobody had dealt with the three "Lords of Empyre" one-shots yet. My apologies to Leoparis for (unintentionally) ignoring his Issue Analysis.