Clancy Brown as Brother Justin

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History

Crowe is born Alexi Belyakov, son of Lucius Belyakov. As children, he and his sister Irina (later Iris) are orphaned after their mother died in a train crash, that Justin and Iris were the only survivers of. They are rescued by Reverend Norman Balthus, a Methodist minister who raises the two children as his own. The Methodist movement is a group of denominations of Protestant Christianity. ...

Even as a child, Crowe is apparently gifted with strange powers. Once, shortly before coming under the care of Reverend Balthus, he telekinetically snaps a man's neck. His memory of this incident was repressed, but Iris remembers, and keeps the knowledge from him throughout most of his life. Psychokinesis (literally mind-movement) or PK is the more commonly used term today for what in the past was known as telekinesis (literally distant-movement). It refers to the psi ability to influence the behavior of matter by mental intention (or possibly some other aspect of mental activity) alone. ...

As a young man, Crowe becomes infatuated with a gypsy woman named Apollonia Bojakshiya. Sensing his true nature, she repeatedly spurns his advances. Eventually he forces his way into her home and brutally rapes her. Unbeknown to Crowe, Apollonia would later give birth to a child, Sofie, before falling permanently into a catatonic state. Languages Romani, languages of native region Religions Christianity, Islam Related ethnic groups South Asians (Desi) The Roma (singular Rom; sometimes Rroma, Rrom) or Romanies are an ethnic group living in many communities all over the world. ... Catatonia is a severe psychiatric and medical condition, characterized by, in catatonic stupor, a general absence of motor activity, and, in catatonic excitement, violent, hyperactive behavior directed at oneself or others but with no visible purpose. ...

As an adult, Crowe follows in his adoptive father's footsteps and becomes a minister, eventually tending his flock in Mintern, California. For other types of minister, see Minister In Christian churches, a minister is a man or woman who serves a congregation or participates in a role in a parachurch ministry; such persons can minister as a Pastor, Preacher, Bishop, Chaplain, Deacon or Elder. ...

The Avatar of Darkness

In 1934, Crowe once again exhibits supernatural abilities, including the power to force people to relive their greatest sins in the form of visions that he himself would also experience. Despite the anger and self-interest that often lay at the heart of these episodes, he initially believes himself to be doing the work of God. Look up Supernatural in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

After his church is destroyed in a fire that took the lives of several innocent children (a crime, unbeknown to him at the time, committed by his sister), Crowe becomes a drifter, keeping company with migrants and hobos before finally ending up in a sanitarium following an unsuccessful suicide attempt. While hospitalized, he discovers he has the ability to manipulate and control those around him through sheer force of will, eventually commanding rooms full of people to fall silent simply by uttering the words "be still". After using his powers to secure his release and return to Mintern, Crowe quickly begins rebuilding his ministry. Immigration is the act of moving to or settling in another country or region, temporarily or permanently. ... A hobo was a member of a distinctive sub-culture of homeless, travelling workers in the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. ... There are a few meanings of Sanitarium: A sanitarium can be a psychiatric hospital. ... Mayor of Leipzig, Germany, committed suicide along with his wife and daughter on April 20, 1945. ...

Shortly thereafter, during a service, Reverend Balthus attempts to baptize Crowe, who wants to be "reborn" in the eyes of God, and is shocked to see the water from the baptismal font turn to blood as it touched Crowe's forehead. Suspecting that Crowe might be possessed by a demon, Balthus confronts his surrogate son, but Crowe becomes enraged and tries to make him relive his worst sin. To Crowe's horror, Balthus' "greatest evil" turns out to be saving his life as a little boy. Devastated, Crowe begs the priest to kill him, but Balthus could not bring himself to do it. Baptism is a water purification ritual practiced in certain religions such as Christianity, Mandaeanism, Sikhism, and some historic sects of Judaism. ... Born again is a soteriological term used primarily in the Evangelical, Fundamentalist, and Pentecostal branches of Protestant Christianity, where it is associated with salvation, conversion and spiritual birth. ... Spiritual possession is a concept of supernatural and/or superstitious belief systems whereby gods, daemons, demons, animas, or other disincarnate entities may temporarily take control of a human body, resulting in noticeable changes in behaviour. ... “Fiend” redirects here. ...

After discovering his true nature, Crowe embraces the evil within him, reasoning that "perhaps God has a different plan for some of us." He gathers a huge flock of worshippers (mostly migrants and Okies) outside Mintern via his nightly radio sermons and newfound abilities of persuasion. He is soon approached by a scholar named Wilfred Talbot-Smith, who identifies him as "the Usher" and tells him that, in order for him to gain his full measure of power and fulfill his destiny, he must find and kill a man named Henry Scudder (who is secretly the father of his counterpart, Ben Hawkins, and the previous Avatar of Darkness). With the help of escaped convict Varlyn Stroud, whom he influences telepathically via radio transmissions, Crowe eventually kills Scudder. Dust storm approaching Stratford, Texas During the Great Depression, in portions of the North American Great Plains there was a years-long drought, leading to soil erosion and dust storms usually referred to as the Dust Bowl. ... For other uses of Fate, see Fate Destiny refers to a predetermined course of events. ... Nick Stahl as Ben Hawkins Ben Krohn Hawkins is a fictional character from the HBO drama Carnivàle played by Nick Stahl. ... Telepathy, from the Greek τῆλε, tele, remote; and πάθεια, patheia, to be effected by, describes the hypothetical transfer of information on thoughts or feelings between individuals by means other than the five classical senses. ...

Meanwhile, father and daughter are reunited, as Sofie Bojakshiya comes to work at Crowe's house in New Canaan (the site of his growing ministry) as a chambermaid; neither knows their true relationship to the other. For other uses, see Canaan (disambiguation). ...

Shortly thereafter, in a cornfield outside New Canaan, Crowe at long last meets his adversary, the Avatar of Light, in a battle in which his enemy is badly injured and Crowe himself is killed. However, Sofie, the Omega, the Final Avatar, quickly arrives and places her hands on Crowe's chest, causing the corn stalks around them to wither and fall away highly reminiscent of what happened when Ben healed a crippled girl's legs in the show's first episode.

The Usher of Destruction

According to Wilfred Talbot-Smith (as well as Daniel Knauf, the show's creator), Crowe is not only the final Avatar of Darkness, but also the Usher of Destruction, a figure whose coming is foretold in the Gospel of Matthias (an ancient book filled with Avataric lore and mythology). Daniel Knauf (who is sometimes credited under the pseudonym Wilfred Schmidt) is an American film writer, director and producer best known for his epic HBO series Carnivàle. ...

The show was cancelled before the ultimate purpose of the Usher (as well as that of the Omega, Justin's daughter) could be explained. During a recent convention appearance, however, Knauf revealed that had the show continued, Crowe would have come back, with Sofie and Iris apparently still at his side. He also claims that Crowe would have continued to struggle with the darker side of his own nature, and that ultimately the audience would have been left in doubt as to whether he was truly evil or his counterpart truly good. Knauf followed up in an online forum that Crowe and Sofie would be married by the time the third season began, and that a child would be involved. Future plot development would revolve around the parentage of the child and Sofie's coming into her own as the Omega to Justin's Usher.