Black Canary and Zatanna: Blood Spell - How Zatanna met Black CanaryBecause I like this scene, here
Black Canary and Zatanna: Blood Spell - How Zatanna met Black CanaryBecause I like this scene, here is the scene of the 12 year old Zatanna Zatara undergoing her magical rite of passage by floating herself up Mount Everest, only to bump into a 16 year old Dinah Lance near the summit.As the creators note in the art pages at the back of the trade, technically Zee’s mum, Sindella, wasn’t present in her life at this point (she faked her death after Zee was born and fled to a homo magi sanctum in Turkey, after she was cursed to die if Giovanni Zatara ever saw her again), but they included her anyway because “continuity be damned, this is a family affair“.Side Fact: The homo magi are the people within the DCU with a natural inclination for magic, the descendants of the original Atlanteans, the island being a focal point for wild magic way back in the day, which may have had a hand in their civilisation’s destruction.Most people within the DCU have some recessive homo magi genes in them, meaning that the majority of people are capable of performing some magic, but strictly speaking people more closely related to the original refugees find it more easier to do so. For example, Zatara’s dad is a regular human who could do magic, while Sindella was one of the homo magi, making Zatanna one too.Interestingly the homo magi genes appear to be matrilineal, as the only other confirmed characters who are homo magi appear to be female characters, such as Zee and her mum, Traci 13 and her mum, and Nimue and her sisters in the Matt Wagner Madame Xanadu series (although in with Nimue/Xanadu, their family may have intermarried with the pre-human inhabitants of the British Isles, the Fair Folk, as well).Amusingly one of DC’s most powerful magicians, Merlin, ISN’T one of the homo magi, himself getting his power through his demonic ancestry, as he does in a lot of folklore (at least, the folklore where he isn’t just a druid or part Fey). -- source link
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