Orlax of Primeria



The Orlax of Primeria was a one-eyed, multi tentacled creature that appeared in the Masters of the Universe: Revelation prequel comic book series published by Dark Horse Comics.

The Orlax was a magical creature that existed in two different dimensions at once. It traveled from Primeria to Eternia 500 years before the time of He-Man. The first beings it met were General Hiss and the Snake Men, who, realizing it's attempts to communicate with Eternians proved fatal, enslaved the creature and used it to attack King Grayskull and his family. The Orlax touched young D'Are Littlegray with one of it's tentacles, causing the boy to fall into an immediate coma. The Orlax also grabbed and picked up Grayskull's youngest son, Ro Littlegray but the boy managed to avoid falling under the same spell as his brother D'Are.

When Grayskull found himself unable to hurt the creature with his sword, the Elders explained to him that it existed in two different dimensions at once, and that any would needed to be inflicted in both dimensions simultaniously. Grayskull created the Sword of Power to defeat the Orlax, and severed one of it's limbs to frighten the beast back to Primeria. However, the Orlax soon returned for another attack, only to lose another limb to the same Power Sword, this time wielded by a mysterious visiting hero from the future.

However, D'are did not awake from his ailment. Grayskull's wife, Veena, realized that he had not been poisoned, but the Orlax's touch formed a psychic connection too strong for human minds to process. She concluded that the Orlax may have merely been trying to communicate with them.

Five hundred years later, the Orlax reappeared in the Royal Palace of Eternos. Again, because of it's existence in two dimensions at once, none of the weapons used by the Royal Guards had any effect on it. This time it's poisonous touch caused King Randor to fall into a deep sleep. He-Man traveled back in time using the Cosmic Corridor to learn more about the Orlax, and took the tentacle he severed from it back with him to his own time.

At Castle Grayskull, the severed limb swiftly regenerated itself into the full Orlax. The Sorceress imprisoned the creature in a cell fortified by her magic, in the hopes of learning how to heal King Randor of his affliction and perhaps, also to learn what brought the creature to Eternia in the first place. The Heroic Warriors now realized that the Orlax was afraid to touch them, not wanting to put them into danger, but also knew that it was not in full control of itself.

However, the Heroic Warriors were unaware that the Orlax was being manipulated by the combined efforts of Skeletor and Evil-Lyn, who were trying to translate the Orlax's warning, the whole reason it came to Eternia half a millennium earlier.

Dark Horse prequel comic

 * Masters of the Universe: Revelation No.1 (Dark Horse Comics)
 * Masters of the Universe: Revelation No.2 (Dark Horse Comics)
 * Masters of the Universe: Revelation No.3 (Dark Horse Comics)
 * Masters of the Universe: Revelation No.4 (Dark Horse Comics)

Trivia

 * A tentacle of the Orlax of Primeria is included in the 2021 Power Con exclusive set "Mysteries of Grayskull", packaged together with the Spirit of Grayskull and the Explorer’s Space Suit. All three of these items were created to interact with the already released Castle Grayskull playset in the "Masters of the Universe Origins" line.