Shiera Sanders (Prime Earth)

Shiera Hall, born Shiera Sanders and also known as the superhero Hawkgirl, was the wife of Carter Hall and a member of the original Justice Society of America and All-Star Squadron.

History

Shiera is the reincarnation of Shrra, an angelic herald cursed by God to reincarnate across space and time alongside Ktar Deathbringer, as she decided to save him by reaching out and making herself visible to him despite the great slaughter he committed and in defiance of her God's will.^[5]

On the planet Earth, she was incarnated as Shiera Hall, with Ktar as her husband Carter Hall,^[6] in the early 20th Century. Together, they worked both as archaeologists in the city of St. Roch and as the superheroes Hawkman and Hawkgirl.^[1] In 1940, she and her husband uncovered the bodies of Chay-Ara and Prince Khufu, their own past lives, in Egypt's Valley of Kings.^[7]

As Hawkman and Hawkgirl, they faced villains such as the undead Gentleman Ghost^[8] and Anton Hastor, a reincarnation of Hath-Set, a jealous priest who had murdered Chay-Ara and Khufu and stalked them through their subsequent lives only to be seemingly killed with a crossbow bolt by Hawkman.^[9] With the wartime super-team the All-Star Squadron,^[10] Hawkgirl fought on behalf of the United States of America in World War II.^[4] She was also a member of the Justice Society of America,^[2] a superheroic group which her husband had helped to found,^[11] being a part of many of their adventures,^[4] including one where Shiera and her husband were secretly possessed by their modern-day counterparts (Shayera Thal, in Shiera's case) and thwarted an attempt by the Injustice Society to establish a new headquarters in Austria.^[6] At some point, the two also had a son together, Hector Hall, who would later become a superhero in his own right.^[12]

In an altered timeline in which the Justice Society had never formed,^[13] the Halls spent decades forming a number of organizations—the Council of Immortals, Blackhawks, and Challengers of the Unknown—to investigate their own origins, learning of their prehistoric past lives as members of the Bird Tribe and that the Nth Metal which gave them the power of flight and that killed their Egyptian lives originated in an other-dimensional darkness. Though Shiera Hall came to believe the mystery of Nth Metal was a trap to draw them into that darkness, her husband persisted in his investigation, and ultimately disappeared into it, leaving his wife behind.^[1]

Eventually, Shiera Hall died and was reincarnated once more, but her soul was split between two lives: the human Kendra Saunders and Shayera Thal of Thanagar.^[14]

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Reincarnation: For her defiance of God, Shrra was locked in a cycle of death and rebirth throughout the centuries. While not a superhuman power per se, this propensity for reincarnation has allowed her to cheat death and return to life in subsequent incarnations. After she died while trying to stop the Lord Beyond the Void as Shayera Thal, her curse was lifted.^[15]