Cerebra's Files
Sanctity
Real Name: Tonya Trask
Affiliations: 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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