Izaya (Prime Earth)

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 * Image                  = Highfather PE 01.jpg
 * RealName               = Izaya
 * CurrentAlias           = Highfather
 * Aliases                = Ixaya
 * Identity               = Public
 * AlienRace              = New Gods
 * Alignment              = Good
 * Affiliation            = New Gods
 * AlienRace              = New Gods
 * Relatives              = Darkseid (brother-in-law) Avia (wife, deceased) Scott Free (son) Big Barda (daughter-in-law) Orion (adopted son)
 * Universe               = Prime Earth
 * BaseOfOperations       = New Genesis


 * Gender                 = Male
 * Height                 =
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 * Eyes                   = Black
 * Hair                   = Black
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 * Citizenship            =
 * MaritalStatus          = Widowed
 * Occupation             =


 * PlaceOfBirth           =
 * PlaceOfDeath           =
 * Creators               = Jack Kirby; Brian Azzarello; Tony Akins
 * First                  = Wonder Woman Vol 4 14
 * Death                  =


 * Quotation              = Though we are older than time itself, we are still New Gods, and you are our future. This class, as with all graduating classes, has a responsibility to aid in the advancement of worlds so they can join us in the light. And together, bring order to all people, forever.
 * Speaker                = Highfather
 * QuoteSource            = Infinity Man and the Forever People Vol 1 1


 * HistoryText            = Long ago, Izaya, his wife Avia, and his brother-in-law Uxas lived on a mud-grubber's planet, where gods were giants who paid little attention to the mortals under their feet. Izaya was devout, and he and Avia prayed for help, only to see their hovel crushed under the foot of a giant. Though he saw his god-hating brother-in-law's blaspheming against the gods he hated as a way to more efficiently bring their wrath upon the family, Uxas believed this would be a good thing given their current lack of concern for mortals.

Izaya was horrified as Uxas killed the giant-gods, and, trying to run for his life alongside Avia, he stopped at the wounded body of the lord of the sky. Avia was badly wounded, and so Izaya put his faith in the sky god and begged him to save her, but both she and the god were too far gone. Even as the sky god died, taking Avia with him, he bestowed upon Izaya the last vestiges of his power.

Izaya faced Uxas, who reacted with disdain at the idea that Izaya would steal power from the old gods as well. Izaya responded that his powers were gifts, and that they were both the New Gods, replacing the Old Gods that Uxas had killed. He pleaded with Darkseid to join him in doing good, but this only filled Darkseid's heart with more contempt - so he destroyed the entire planet, leaving the two of them as the only known survivors.

After the deaths of the Old Gods, Darkseid's father, Yuga Khan, attempted to kill the risen New Gods, but was stopped in a rage from killing Izaya by Darkseid with a scythe, the latter wanting to no longer be ignored.

Early Meetings With Superheroes
An extremely long amount of time later, the proclaimed "Highfather", as Izaya had taken to calling himself, sent Orion, his adopted son and the son of Darkseid, to investigate a grave danger that The Source had seen coming, one that filled Highfather with fear. On another occasion, Highfather charged Orion with getting rid of the threat posed by Superman, one he had seen as dangerous to the universe due to his looks into the Prophecy Wall.

The leader of New Genesis was later present when Wonder Woman and several others followed Orion through to the home of the New Genesis New Gods. After bringing them, he put Wonder Woman into a coma for three days so that her injuries she had sustained before her arrival could be healed, but also reprimanded Orion for bringing foreigners to New Genesis. Though Highfather agreed to let Diana and her allies all go back home, he first restrained Wonder Woman, and ordered his son to take the baby Zeke from his mother, Zola. Though he resisted, Orion obeyed, while Highfather's soldiers ensured that Diana could not prevent it. As they were forced through the open Boom-Tube, Orion realized that he had to be true to who he really was; impetuous and impulsive, rather than just go along with his adopted father's plans without thought, and left with Wonder Woman after an apology to Highfather, unknowing that this had all gone according to Highfather's plans regardless.

Godhead
Examining the Source for a weapon capable of defeating his brother-in-law once and for all, Izaya found that someone, had tampered with it, removing the weapon known as the Life Equation that Highfather had hoped to use to make an army against Apokolips.

After bringing Metron to help examine the change, he, along with Metron, interrogated Relic, and learned of the seven Lantern Corps. To the end of gathering the Life Equation once more, he had the Council of Eight, consisting of himself, Orion, Bekka, Uggha, Lightray, Hyalt, Shadowfall, and Malhedron, seek out and recover the seven lights that make up the Emotional Electromagnetic Spectrum excluding white and black. However, the equation-emitter made by Hyalt proved insufficient to create the true Equation with those seven, and so he decided to search for the true reason for the breach: the White Lantern, to which end he returned to New Genesis to make preparations for war with the Lanterns.

Learning the identity of the White Lantern to be Kyle Rayner, a mortal human, Highfather left to save him from the godly power within him before it would destroy him, as well as to take said power for himself. Arriving at the White Lantern's location, Highfather helped him to rein in the power that was out of control due to some tampering by the Templar Guardians, subsequently forcing them through a Boom-Tube away to prevent further tampering. Afterwards, on the condition of saving Kyle's life, Highfather brought him and Star Sapphire (Carol Ferris) through a Boom-Tube to New Genesis.

From New Genesis, Highfather summoned Orion to him after having a discussion with Metron that included tales of Orion's temper-fueled conduct against the Green Lantern Corps, and told him to avoid killing Lanterns in the future, as they could be instead used to help the New Genesis army against Darkseid.

Following that talk, Highfather met up with the White Lantern and Carol Ferris once more, and tricked Kyle into willingly giving over all of his power as the owner of the Life Equation, opening a backdoor to his power and cutting off Kyle from utilizing it as easily, then stranding the two on New Genesis while he went off and, this time successfully, transformed the willful, warlike city of Muz with the Life Equation into brainwashed slaves. That testing done, he told the others of the Council of Eight, and planned on brainwashing the few Lanterns he had captured, whilst also admitting to Orion that this was a war, not just a mere small conflict.

Following the delivering of the Sinestro Corps and the Green Lantern Corps to the Singularity Stockade prison, Highfather gifted Indigo-1 with an opportunity to go home, which she took. After discussing loyalty and the arrival of the Stockade at New Genesis with the Apokolips-born Malhedron, he was present at the arrival of Uggha and the captive Lanterns. After brainwashing several, he was attacked by John Stewart and Kilowog, but left, allowing Uggha to deal with this "insurrection" against his authority. This battle continued after Uggha was knocked unconscious by his own hammer, with Saint Walker, Kyle, and Carol arriving to help, the latter two thanks to the intervention of Metron to even the odds of the war. However, although Kyle managed to get his White ring back, it would not channel the Life Equation, as Highfather remained fully in control of it. He then summarily fired a blast of White Light at the four, seemingly vaporizing them.


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 * Life Equation
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 * Boom-Tube
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