The Wizard Consensus Mind governing Smaragdoz has permitted a number of celebrity vigilantes to emerge, and Mandrake is one of them. Armed with an Archaic psionic artifact and a theatrical flair, she apprehends mundane criminals and dissi-dents, and the occasional equally theatric master criminal — apparently also allowed by the Consensus.
The psionic enhancement helmet Elphaba Mandrake wears is known as “The Helm of Hekate,” though the name is likely Man-drake’s invention. The device itself dates to the Archaic Oikumene and is theorized by some experts to have been a prosthesis to amplify psi potential. Others believe it to have been used primarily in experimen-tation by an early psi-religious/self-help group.