Name: Father Giuseppe Cardillena
Appearance: Weighing only 115 lbs but stands at a whooping 6'3'', unnaturally gaunt, with sunken eyes and cropped black hair with a long, drooping goatee. Dead, cold eyes that spoke of inhuman terrors. A bishop's robe, with usually a white skeletal half mask masking his upper face.
Alias: The Bishop
Age: 51
Gender: Male
Vigilante or Villain? Villain
Type: Magic/Tech
Personality: The Bishop talks to God. Whatever God tells The Bishop to do, The Bishop does. A devotee since birth, a rabid fundamentalist who believes in a chain of command at which he is third, right behind the angels and God himself. He is racist, xenophobic, and believes that the Vatican should be made the sole superpower of the planet, even though the Catholic Church had, long ago, ousted the man from the Vatican for these exact reasons. A torturer and sadist who believes criminals and most Metahumans are only worth torturing with Inquisition-era devices and his dark magic; the few exceptions are people who either prove themselves worthy in his eyes or those who he thinks are also God's messengers. However, he knows how to find and recruit religious zealots, war profiteers, and anyone who could help his cause to join in to help his cause. His cause being to purge all sinners in the fires of Hell forever.
History: Born to very poor parents in the city of Pisa, Father Cardillera learned suffering at an early age when his parents were both subjected to an illness that killed them both. He was left homeless until he was adopted by his grandfather, Giovanni Cardillera, who was one of Mussolini's Blackshirts. He gave him a message that haunted him to this day, cemented into his skull by child abuse and an oppressive household. "Follow His every word to the last letter. Anything less and you'll be nothing but scum who doesn't deserve the life they were given. He was contacted while working as a Brother in the Vatican. It claimed to be God (it, of course, was not- although there may be a capital-G God in a world where beings like Trigon and Etrigan run amok, this particular creature is by far not Him) and it promised him the right hand at the throne, and all he had to do was kill every last sinner to ever walk the earth. He recruited over one hundred thousand followers, recieved a sum of gold and money equating to over one billion dollars, soldiers to fight by his side, and technicians who would make the Weapons of God. He learned ancient and deadly arts of magic, thinking them to be the teachings of God. It was his influence that turned Michael O'Cule into The Visionary, giving him some "Weapons of God" (various types of what are known ad the Sin Seekers and The All-Seeing Armor) in exchange for money and the destruction of all sin in the most sinful place on Earth- Gotham City. But now it failed, and here he is.
Other: He, like O'Cule, has powers pertaining to vision. However, The Bishop's magic is all in illusion and light manipulation. He can leave after images, make people see things, appear translucent or almost invisible, and can weave a number of light-based spells, including a ball of light that cleanses (I.e. kills) anybody it hits. He doesn't use the Weapons of God often, except for a gauntlet called the God Hand, which amplifies his light power.