Nephrus (Earth-7045)

Nephrus was a priest and supposed wizard from the reign of the Pharaoh Smendes, and the person responsible for N'Kantu becoming the Living Mummy.

History
Nephrus was the royal wizard of Egyptian Pharaoh Smendes during the 21st Dynasty of Egypt. Smendes's reign ended when a Swarlili slave named N'Kantu led a bloody revolt which ended with the Pharaoh dangling on the edge of his spear. As he raided the Pharaoh's temple, he came upon the wizard Nephrus. Nephrus was prepared for the warrior-slave's treachery and splashed him with a chemical agent that caused immediate paralysis of N'Kantu's limbs. He brought him down to a private dungeon laboratory where he bound him with linen and injected him with a special fluid. This fluid granted N’Kantu immortality, but at the price of his mobility. Nephrus sealed him inside of a sarcophagus, promising that he would suffer as a Living Mummy for all eternity. Moments after entombing N'Kantu, having aspired for the throne himself, a great earthquake struck and devastated the temple, killing Nephrus and burying N'Kantu for centuries.

Powers
Supposedly precognition

Abilities

 * Genius-Level Intellect
 * Master Alchemist: created the preservative the inadvertently made N'Kantu super-strong and immortal.
 * Expert Mummifier