Celestar has lived a very long and complicated life. He is one of the longest living superheroes alive today, thanks to the nature of his energy powers. Due to an early tragedy in his superheroing career, Celestar also suffers from classic survivor’s guilt. He became a superhero in the early 1960s, when, as a young physics grad student in Canada, named Lonnie Lawrence, he came face to face with the Land, greatest of all the spirits of the North. Sensing in him dormant mutant powers, the Spirit of the Land offered to awaken his powers if he would battle the ancient evil of Kigatilik.