Esteban is a seemingly immortal mutant. Born roughly 75 years ago (he doesn't really say, and might be quite a bit older), he realized that the current governments of South America could not handle the burden of leading a peoples. Although powerful, he lacked the resources and backing to take over a continent. He attempted to wrest Columbia from the drug dealers that ruled by proxy but was rebuked. Escaping without great injury he traveled to Europe to rebuild. It was there that he was approached by a group of similarly minded men and women of power. After a period of "adjustment" he was allowed into the ranks of the Divine Right. Cortez has claimed his homeland of South America as his domain. Using the capital of his new organization, he has filled the vacuum left by the dispersal of the original Terror Incorporated. As the Golden Emperor, he brings his considerable telekinetic might to bear only in dire occasions. His well armed and trained agents and loyal followers do most of his dirty work. He is seen somewhat as an underground hero for his opposition to the violent drug cartels that seem to run every thing south of the United States border. The Golden Emperor is just another self important, arrogant, vain, egotistical wannabe master villain. Cortez is sure he can do a better job of leading the peoples of South America than the weaklings and drug runners that do so know. He has little popular support but is waging his war for the hearts and minds of the citizens as well as the control he desires. "True, when I am king there will be changes; for instance, you will no longer pass this filth amongst our children!" The Golden Emperor is one of the most powerful telekinetics in the world. Menton has his telepathic abilities to give him an edge, but in a pure TK contest Cortez would devastate him. Cortez is subtle and rarely makes grand gestures of power. He does, however, take personal challenges seriously and feels that honor demands he fight with all his savvy and might. The Golden Emperor is a master villain with motives that, at least for the short term, are concurrent with most heroes (battling Drug Lords). However, he does enough illegal activities to make him a sympathetic foe, rather than a cautious ally. He doesn't hesitate to lend his aid to those in need if only because that makes them beholden to him. A handsome man of mixed Spanish and Portuguese decent. He has brown hair and eyes, a dark complexion and chiseled features. He is stronger than he looks and occasionally can be drawn into fisticuffs with even superhuman opponents. He wears stylized golden armor plates over a black stasis cloth bodysuit with a purple cape held by ornate silver crosses at his collar. He wears a cowl that doesn't cover his face but does enough concealment to keep him from being on the cover of the newspapers all the time.