History

A Glimpse Into a Secret History Godlike strives to maintain realism while still sparking the imagination. Hundreds of hours of research into the war and its effects have gone into the game's development. Godlike realistically portrays superhumans and their effects on the outcome of the war. An average excerpt from the timeline follows... Feuerzauber poses in Stalingrad just three weeks before his death.	May 19, 1940 -- The second Nazi parahuman, Feuerzauber Appears During the retreat of the French forces from the southeastern portion of France, and the advance of the Wermacht into the heartland of the nation, a new German Übermensch was discovered. Called Feuerzaber (³Fire Magic²) by the German press, this parahuman could convert kinetic damage into heat. When struck by projectiles the energy would be dispersed in the air around him as heat (whose deleterious effects he was immune to), leaving him seemingly invulnerable to modern weaponry. Feuerzauber was rushed back to Berlin at the behest of Hitler, who, along with Der Flieger anxiously awaited the coming of the new age of the Aryan race. Soon enough, they believed, every birth in Germany would be as miraculous as their own.
	Dossier: Feuerzauber ("Fire Magic") Name: Ernst Karsten AKA Feuerzauber. Nationality: German. Political Affiliation: Nazi (National Socialist.) Education: Gymnasium at Essen, Wermacht training. Rank: Leuntnant in the Wermacht. Decorations: Knight's Cross to the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords. DOB: 5/17/10, Essen, Germany. DOD: 1/29/42, Stalingrad, Russia. Known Parahuman Abilities: Karsten could unconsciously disperse kinetic attacks as heat. Kinetic impacts on his body were immediately converted to a wave of heat, which, depending on the severity of the attack would erupt from his body in a wall of flame. Karsten was immune to this and other natural sources of flame.
Talent Against Skill The extent of Karsten's power was tested by RuSHA Besondere Departement A under the auspices of the Wermacht in June 1940. The Wermacht were very interested in utilizing him as a "one man shock troop" to pave the way in the face of difficult enemy opposition. To this end, a mock battlefield was set up outside the political prisoner camp at Hurn, which, at the time contained about two hundred Polish soldiers. A detachment of these soldiers was told to prepare a perimeter. If they could defend it with machine guns and kill the opposing force they were told, they would be freed at the border to Switzerland (in truth, even if they had achieved their goal, no such transfer would have taken place.) The soldiers set up as best they could and prepared for an assault. Karsten rushed in with his submachine gun, but soon was naked and unarmed as the terrified poles poured hundreds of rounds into him and wave upon wave of fire burst from him. Finally a grenade volley from the Poles managed to simply knock Karsten down, but the ensuing flash of flame from his body killed all the Poles, and made the test a significant success. Feuerzauber takes an 88mm round to the chest.	History: Karsten was a veteran of both the invasion of Poland and the invasion of France, serving in the 11th Infantry Corps. A respected soldier, he soon gained the rank of Leutnant, and was marked for even further advancement, no doubt due to his classic Aryan features and carefully held Nazi ideals. In May, 1940, Karsten was transferred to a command position in the 12th Infantry, and acted to coordinate infantry support for tank units. On the 19th of May his unit came under heavy fire during one of DeGaulle's brief counterattacks near Laon. Out of his thirty five men, only Karsten survived the initial engagement. Bruised and nearly naked, Karsten made his way back to German lines while he was continuously shelled by Allied mortarmen and shot at by snipers. Witnesses on both sides of the conflict watched as direct hits by the mortar rounds would only knock the man down, to be followed by a erupting sheet of flame which would shoot from his body in all directions. Four nearly direct hits later Karsten arrived back at his lines, unscathed and naked. Karsten was another example of the Nazi Übermensch, and was rushed back to Berlin to enjoy a short stint as a darling of Hitler before returning to the various troublespots of the war. Karsten and Konrad Rahn (Der Fleiger) grew to be close companions, and were used to great effect by the Nazi propaganda machine. On January 29, 1942 Karsten was killed in Stalingrad during an advance towards an oil storage facility on the Volga river. Although the Soviets' shells failed to damage him, the firestorm which erupted in the facility around him rapidly depleted the air in the area, causing him, and his men to asphyxiate.