There were so many characters who were participants in the first Secret Wars series of the early 1980s--and yet, in the midst of the mob, there was the Enchantress, who seemed at loose ends in this environment of senseless conflict. Only at its end would the Enchantress understand what the Beyonder was and why he brought a diverse number of super-beings to a distant, hastily-assembled world and established them in two camps which would engage in brutal battle; but until that time, she would "go with the flow," so to speak, appearing on the battlefield with her fellow villains as they fought their heroic enemies and, in lax moments, biding her time.But as we know, the Enchantress, an Asgardian goddess who plays her own games of manipulation and deceit, doesn't tarry long when it comes to scheming her way to making certain she controls a given situation, either directly or by the use of a pawn to do her bidding, with or without their realizing it. Yet there are too many players on what would become known as "Battleworld," and all striving to meet the Beyonder's terms for victory: "Slay your enemies and all you desire shall be yours!" And there is no chance or means for her to affect the Beyonder himself, so enormously powerful and completely *ahem* beyond her reach.
So what options are left to her? In the scenes which follow, that's a question we'll explore as this goddess, in the company of a host of villains, nevertheless finds herself isolated and uncertain as to how to gain leverage for herself in the overwhelming shadow of the Beyonder.
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