![]() While investigating a disturbance on the ocean surface, Orin encountered the Flash (Barry Allen) in mid-battle with the Trickster. Begrieved over his mother's death and his missed chance to discover the origins of his birth, Orin beat down prison walls and fled the city shunning all contact with people, opting instead to live amongst the marine life and become their champion frequently freeing them from fishing nets and trawlers. ![]() Wishing to speak with her, Orin had Vulko teach him the language and ways of the Atlanteans, however, before he could formally meet her, Atlanna passed away due to illness. Once again alone, Orin chanced upon the domed city of Poseidonis but was captured by the city's new dictatorial government and placed in a prison where he met Nuidis Vulko and the woman who he subconsciously knew was his mother, Atlanna who had been exiled from Atlantis following Orin's birth but eventually returned only to be imprisoned. While Orin saved Kako, her grandfather died from a heart attack that the tribe believed was an act of vengeance by the goddess and drove Orin away before he could learn that Kako had become pregnant with his son, Koryak. As Orin was invited to stay and learn their ways, Kako was attacked by the sea goddess Nuliajuk. However, he also met and earned the jealous hatred of her cousin, Orm Marius, who wanted Kako for himself. Thinking that Tom had abandoned him, Orin swam to Alaska to find him but instead met and fell in love with an Inuit girl named Kako. As Tom taught Orin English, he also told him of his youth in Alaska as well as his years as a sailor while Orin told him of life beneath the ocean waves.Įventually, Orin returned to the sea to visit Porm but upon his return, he found the lighthouse in disarray and his adoptive father missing. and the two formed a close bond, with Tom adopting Orin as his son and naming him "Arthur Curry". Tying the boy up and bringing him into the lighthouse, Tom soon noticed that Orin could not survive out of the water and freed him throwing him back into the ocean. As Orin spied the lighthouse keeper, a human named Tom Curry, catching crabs off of the shore of the island, he attempted to free the crabs but Tom attempted to stop him and, thinking Orin a thief, knocked him unconscious. Wandering away from the reef, ultimately finding his way to the Curry Lighthouse in Amnesty Bay. ![]() Raised amongst the sea-life on Mercy Reef until his teen years, Orin began to feel out of place amongst his dolphin family and left after a fisherman killed his adopted brother Drin. However, the child's ability to communicate with sea-life caused him to be found by Porm, the Queen of Dolphins, who adopted him as her own and named him "Swimmer". Immediately decreeing that the child carried the Curse of Kordax, Trevis announced that Atlanna's pregnancy was a miscarriage had the infant left on Mercy Reef, where at low tide the child would be exposed to the air and die. Named after the first ruler of Atlantis, King Orin, the child's true parentage soon came to light when it was revealed that he had blonde hair. Unable to produce an heir due to her husband's sterility, Atlanna was unwittingly impregnated during a dream by the immortal Atlantean wizard Atlan as part of a prophecy that stated that the fate of Atlantis would struggled for by two brothers. Queen Atlanna was the wife of King Trevis and together they ruled the underwater city Poseidonis as part of the ruling monarchy of the Kingdom of Atlantis.
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