IRON FIST
Identity: Daniel Thomas Rand-K'ai
Group Affiliation: Member of Heroes for Hire, Inc.
Base of Operations: New York City
First Appearance: MARVEL PREMIERE #15 (1974)
Side: Good
Sex: Male
Age: 25
Height: 5' 11"
Hair: Blond
Eyes: Blue
Level: 6th
Experience: 20,000
Training: +1 Accuracy with HTH Combat
POWERS:
1. Body Power (Summon Chi): Iron Fist can summon his body's chi and manipulate it in two ways:
a. Chi Healing: To heal himself, Iron Fist regains 1 HP for every 2 points of Power spent. It takes more effort to heal others - for every 3 points of Power spent, Iron Fist can heal 1 HP of Damage.
b. The Iron Fist: Iron Fist can summon his chi into his hand(s) and make it inhumanly powerful and impervious to pain and injury. To activate the Iron Fist, Danny must spend a turn concentrating (may take no other action or movement) and pay an initial PR activation cost of 4 points. For every additional point of Power he spends, Iron Fist adds 2 to his HTH Damage.
2. Heightened Agility A +14
3. Heightened Attack (K'un-Lun Martial Arts Training): +1 Damage per level (+6 Total)
4. Heightened Defense (K'un-Lun Martial Arts Training): -4 to be Hit.
5. Heightened Endurance A +10
6. Heightened Expertise (K'un-Lun Martial Arts Training): Iron Fist is also known as the Living Weapon (+4 to Hit in HTH combat).
7. Heightened Senses (K'un-Lun Martial Arts Training): Iron Fist's mastery of K'un-Lun Martial Arts has sharpened his senses/perception (x3 modifier to Detect Danger roll and a x2 modifier to Detect Hidden roll).
8. Natural Weaponry (K'un-Lun Martial Arts Training): +5 to hit, +10 Damage.
9. Will Power (Type A)
CHARACTER DATA:
Weight: 175 lbs.
Basic Hits: 4
Agility Mod: Nil
Strength: 16
Endurance: 22
Agility: 24
Intelligence: 12
Charisma: 16
Reactions from: Good: +2 Evil: -2
Hit Mod. (1.4) (2.6) (2.5) (1.1) = 10.01
Hit Points: 41
Damage Mod.: +3
Healing Rate: 2.4
Accuracy: +4
Power: 74
Carrying Capacity: 544 lbs.
Basic HTH Damage: 1d8
Movement Rates: 62" ground.
Det. Hidden: 30%
Det. Danger: 28%
Inventing Points: 7.2
Inventing (36%):
Knowledge Areas: Inheritor, Mysticism (K'un-Lun Philosophy) & Sports (Martial Arts)
Origin and Background: (American) Daniel Rand was the son of businessman Wendell Rand, who had once lived in the fabled city of K'un-L'un, which exists in an otherdimensional realm. Wendell Rand-K'ai, as he was known there was the eldest son and heir of Lord Tuan, who ruled K'un-L'un, in the guise of the August Personage in Jade. However, Wendell was driven from K'un-L'un by his brother, who not only wanted to rule K'un-L'un himself, but who was Wendell's rival for the love of a woman named Shakirah. It was Wendell that Shakirah chose, and she bore him a daughter, Miranda. Wendell found refuge on Earth and became a successful businessman in the United States. In his absence, Tuan died and Wendell's brother succeeded him as Yu-Ti, the August Personage in Jade. Wendell married a woman named Heather, who bore him a son, Daniel.
Wendell sought to return to K'un-L'un, which ordinarily was only accessible from Earth through an interdimensional nexus that opened once every ten years. When Daniel was nine, his father traveled to Tibet along with Heather and his business partner Harold Meachum in search of the nexus to K'un-L'un. Toppling off a treacherous mountain passage, Daniel dragged his mother and father over the ice shelf with him. While he and his mother landed on a ledge below, his father dangled over the sheer drop of the mountainside and called to his partner for help. Hoping to take over Rand's share of the business, Meachum instead caused him to lose his grip and plunge to his death. Though Meachum offered to help Heather Rand and her son, they spurned him. Attempting to make it back to camp on their own, Heather and her son spied a long suspension bridge as a pack of wolves attacked. Heather tried to hold them off long enough for her son to get to safety and was killed in the effort.
Soon thereafter, denizens of K'un-L'un found the boy and took him to their city. There Daniel was brought before Yu-Ti, who had secretly plotted the Murder of both Wendell and Heather. Yu-Ti apprenticed Daniel to the martial arts master Lei Kung the Thunderer.
Rand's training under Lei Kung was rigorous. At age sixteen Rand earned the Crown of Fu-Hsi, king of the vipers, vanquished four foes in the ritualistic Challenge of the Many, and defeated Shu-Hu, a mechanical being whose name means "Lightning." Rand diligently conditioned his hands by thrusting them into tubs of hot sand, then gravel, and finally rock.
At age nineteen Rand was given the opportunity to gain the power of the Iron Fist. He was sent to battle the enormous fire-breathing serpent called Shou-Lao the Undying which lived in a cave outside the city and which ferociously guarded a brazier containing its heart, which had mystically been removed from its body. In their battle Rand grabbed the serpent's body, which bore a scar which imprinted itself upon Rand's chest. Killing the serpent, Rand plunged his hands into the now unguarded brazier containing Shou-Lao's molten heart when he was through his hands shone with a quasi-mystical force and he earned the title "Iron Fist," for he could now summon superhuman energy to reinforce the power of blows struck by his hands.
Declining to stay in K'un-L'un eternally, Rand returned to America when the nexus reopened in order to take vengeance on Meachum for his father’s death. While recovering from severe frostbite in the Himalayas, Meachum learned of Rand's training at K'un-L'un, and returned to America as an invalid to await Rand. Clad in the ceremonial garb of Iron Fist, Rand finally confronted Meachum but took pity on the invalid and spared him. Minutes later, however, a mysterious ninja murdered Meachum. Blamed for the murder, Iron Fist undertook the mission of finding the ninja and clearing his own name. Eventually Iron Fist succeeded in both tasks.
Iron Fist was befriended by Professor Lee Wing and his daughter Colleen, a private investigator. Eventually Daniel Rand became the lover of her partner; Misty Knight. Although Harold Meachum's daughter Joy and brother Ward long mistakenly sought vengeance on Iron Fist for Harold's death, Daniel finally made peace with Joy Meachum. Daniel claimed his inheritance as a full partner in Rand-Meachum, Inc., thus becoming a millionaire.
However, Rand allowed Joy Meachum to manage the business. His activities as Iron Fist had led him to become a crimefighter, and eventually he chose to devote his time to acting as the partner of Luke Cage, alias Power Man, in their firm Heroes for Hire, Inc. Through this firm Cage and Rand accepted jobs as special bodyguards or detectives.
Note: Origin and Background text is from "The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #4" (Update 89 Edition) and is used without permission.
Training Bonuses:
2nd Level: +1 Damage with HTH Combat
3rd Level: +1 Accuracy with HTH Combat
4th Level: +1 Damage with HTH Combat
5th Level: +1 Accuracy with HTH Combat
6th Level: +1 Damage with HTH Combat
Legal Status: Citizen of the United States with no criminal record; citizen of K'un-Lun.
Notes:
To Hit (Unarmed HTH): +15
Damage (Unarmed HTH): 1D8 + 21 + Iron Fist Damage Mod.