Cerebra's Files
Sanctity
Real Name: Tonya TraskAffiliations: None
Previous Affiliations: Clan Askani (defunct timeline)
Aliases: Madame Sanctity
Relatives: Bolivar (father, deceased), Larry (brother)
Alternate-X Versions: None
Codename Etymology: Pronounced săngk'tĭ-tē [From Latin sānctus "sacred"]; Something sacred.
Powers & History: Tonya Trask was the only daughter of Bolivar Trask, the first creator of the Sentinels. Her mutant powers of time travel caused her to "disappear" one day. She learned telepathy and telekinesis from Rachel Summers, whom she met while floating in the timestream. Together, the two of them formed the Clan Askani 2000 years in our future. As a young woman, Sanctity tried to change the past so that her father's creations wouldn't destroy mutantkind. Rachel tried to stop her, but their battle itself prompted Bolivar Trask to push his project to completion. Still, it appears that Sanctity may have succeeded in erasing all references to the Twelve, the 12 key mutants who are supposed to save mutantkind's future. The ramifications of this are as yet unknown. After the death of the Mother Askani (Rachel), Sanctity was the most powerful Askani left. She taught both Cable and his future wife Aliya (Jenskot), but was captured by Stryfe in the fall of Ebonshire, and taught him as well, because by this time she was a little power-hungry and very crazy. She was responsible for sending Ch'vayre to our time and for sending Cyclops and Phoenix to the nineteenth century to stop Apocalypse from destroying the world. Recently, she was detained by the chronologists of the Maximum Secret, a waystation between timelines, in order to get Cable to realize his true destiny as well as the fact that he can't change his future. However, Sanctity's entire history is now suspect, as she was seen as a child in the Askani future, and that future as a whole has now apprently been negated by the defeat of Apocalypse in our present.
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