Who's This? An Atlantean sorcerer.
The facts: Arion's evil twin brother is his main antagonist, appearing opposite the Lord of Atlantis from the beginning (Warlord #59, July 1982), all through the original series and its sequel, Arion the Immortal. The latter may or may not contradict a pre-Crisis JLA story (from Justice League of America #217) in which Garn survives to the present day as an old wizard (while The Immortal gives him the same contemporary vigor afforded Arion). The latter series merges him with the mystical dimension called Darkworld, which pretty much spells his end.
How you could have heard of him: If you know Arion, you probably know Garn. His legacy lives on in the form of the genie-like Bedlam, created from his magic, and the enemy of Young Justice possessed by this entity.
Example story: Arion, Lord of Atlantis #18 (April 1984) "Blood Brothers" by Paul Kupperberg, Jan Duursema and Bob Smith
After being dead for almost 10 issues, Garn Daanuth returns. Arion couldn't actually kill his own brother, so he absorbed him into his being, and when Arion sacrificed his magic to save Altantic, Garn was able to corrupt his brother into killing with his sword (this, and Daanuth's albino complexion and consorting with the Gods of Chaos seem inspired by Moorcock's Elric), using that evil to grow in strength and finally escape.
It's quickly made clear that these two men were a physical and magical match for one another, but now that Arion has lost one of these faculties, Garn has the upper hand. And the ability to take revenge on the mystical scaring suffered at the hands of his brother.
Garn flies off, leaving Arion and his allies demoralized, and calls up a storm to terrorize the land. Rain isn't particularly scary, but when you KNOW Atlantis is doomed to be flooded and sink beneath the waves, maybe it IS portentous.
As the city starts to indeed flood, Garn takes his fight with Arion to the skies, and though he takes a couple of sword slashes to the face, the advantage is his!
He follows up by creating beast-men for his brother to fight while he, once again, escapes. But not very far, just to the island's highest point, from which to cast his ultimate spell!
It's really happening! But wait, Arion is about to share his existence with the ghost of his magic dad! Could THAT stymie Garn? it could, it definitely could!
And so he is left trapped under the ocean surface, never to rise again. Well... that was the hope. Didn't quite work out.
Who's Next? A glittery fantasy world.
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