This was a force composed of Indian Overmen recruited by the British government to serve the Indian Raj. Like most members of the Royal Elite Guard, with whom they were associated, all the members of the Royal Indian Guard died in the Russian nuclear strikes which ended WWII. Its members consisted of the first Avatar, Gryphon, Monolith and Marathon. Click on the character names to return to the top of the page.
A Sikh man born in 1868 in a lower-class rural farming family living near Agra. He was recruited into the Guard after demonstrating his powers in his village. He was fairly strong and fast with telekinesis and a telekinetic force bolt. He had to be coerced into joining the Guard, and as a result was somewhat bitter about the whole affair. Average looks, fairly striking.
A 21 year old male town-dweller from a Moslem area near Multan whose powers consisted of enhanced strength and the ability to generate highly convincing illusions. Good looks, average presence.
A Hindu man from the lower classes of the town of Jagdalpur, born in 1864, he was recruited soon after his powers manifested due to their highly visible nature - he had turned into a mobile crystalline statue with enhanced strength, extreme toughness, crystalline claws and the ability to fire crystalline spikes (which grew on his body) at ranged targets. Before gaining his powers he had been a street magician with noticeable animal handling and sleight of hand skills, but carrying on as before was no longer possible after he gained his powers, so when the British asked him to join the Royal Indian Guard he accepted with few reservations. Despite his strange appearance, his crystalline form was also quite attractive and highly impressive. In 1890 he married Marathon (Arati Kumar) of the Guard.
Born in 1869, a Hindu farm girl from near Vadodara, Arati was clinging to the outside of a train as she travelled alone to relatives in Delhi after the death of her parents due to illness, when it collided with a troop-train going the other way after a points failure. There was a huge amount of carnage, but Arati pulled herself out of the wreckage completely unharmed, and also immensely strong. She was invaluable in getting people out of the wreckage, being able to lift anything that had to be lifted. The British tried to get her to rescue their troops before the Indians, but Arati single-mindedly and systematically got people out of the worst areas first, regardless of race, to the helpless annoyance of the British. After the disaster had been mostly cleared up, one of the British officers asked Arati (via a translator) if she would like to join the Royal Indian Guard. She thought about it for a minute - the fact that she had no close relatives, and was going to she-didn't-know-what in a strange city with people she didn't know, and accepted. Arati had a long and happy career with the Guard, coming to think of it as her family. She married Monolith of the Guard in 1890, despite general disapproval due to his strange looks, and in time they had 2 children.
Arati is small and appears fairly unimpressive and frail, although she is quite attractive with long black hair. However, it has been proven time and again that she is hugely strong and almost invulnerable to damage. In addition to this all her senseS are boosted to levels far above the human norm. She tends to very deliberate and single-minded about things and is almost impossible to talk out of something once she has set her mind on it.
Marathon in Champions terms.