Who Is Wotan? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Wotan is a DC Comics comic book character, with over 66 comic issue appearances. Wotan is an immortal master of ancient sorcery, who can fly and travel through dimensions and can also project powerful mystical bolts. He is the arch enemy of Nabu and Doctor Fate.

Who is Wotan?

Origin Ages ago, the sorcerer now known as Wotan was a female member of a primitive tribe in a northern western wasteland. After being raped and beaten to the brink of death, the woman was determined to discover the reasons, if any, for human existence and the suffering it entails. Escaping her tormentors, she found refuge with an aged shaman who taught her the mystical arts. The future Wotan grew to become a powerful sorceress that was worshiped as a goddess. Seeking to escape death, she learned how to extend her life by transferring her soul into another body, and finally to direct her own reincarnation into other bodies (or controlled re-birth, as Wotan named it). After thousands of incarnations, becoming both male and female. The original Wotan named himself after the Teutinic god of the same name (who is better known as the Norse god Odin), although he has no connection with the gods of Asgard. Moreover he is not a demon, although he allowed people to believe he was.

Key facts

Wotan is of god/eternal origin and first appeared in "The Spectre: "Zor"". The character is published by DC Comics. With 66 recorded issue appearances, Wotan ranks among the most featured characters in comics.