Human (Homo sapien superior)

Human mutants are possibly a subspecies of human that branch from their baseline counterparts with an extra gene that mutates the rest of their DNA. The abilities the mutation grants to the mutant are almost random. On Earth, mutant humans have existed for countless millennia, often explained through magic or folk beliefs. Born from different human species, the X-gene has existed in many human species since its progenitor, Tuk interbred with the predecessor of the *H. sapiens* and *H. magi*.

## Mutant Humans

### Aliases

Mutants, Muties, Children of the Atom, Gene Jokes, Genejokes, Human Mutants, Abominations, Malforms, Freaks, Genetic Monstrosities, Mistakes of Nature

### Relatives

Inhomo supremis, Tuk (common inhuman ancestor), Homo descendus, Meta gene humans, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo sapien, Homo magus, Homo oceanus, Homo immortalis, Homo piscis, Homo erectus, Homo bodoensis, Homo habilis, Homo ergaster, Homo heidelbergensis, Homo atlanticus, Homo aqua, Homo atlanticus meris, Homo magus terebis

## Biographical information

### Place of birth

Earth, Sol system, Milky Way, Space Sector 2814

## History

### First Host

During their First Host on Earth, one million years ago, the Celestials collected the Wanderers, a tribe of *Homo erectus*. Gammenon the Gatherer collected the ape-men and send them to Ziran the Tester who mutated them to have an unstable genome, creating the Deviants (*Homo descendus*), a race with various mutations, who were then released and went hiding in the caves. With other subjects, Nezarr the Calculator then created the Eternals *(Homo immortalis*), hairless, upright tall beings able to tap into the cosmic power. They were themselves released, flying out of the Celestials' laboratory-ship. Finally, Oneg the Prober created a latent gene for the expansion of human potential and those modified yet apparently unchanged ape-men were released.

The potential for superhuman powers was only latent: That dormant "DNA complex"/"mutant genes" implanted in *Homo erectus*.

That potential was transferred to *Homo antecessor*, then to *Homo neanderthalensis*, both species experimented on by Kree in order to create the Inhumans (*Inhomo supremis*). An early Inhuman named Tuk decided to live among humans, passing his unique genetic code and increasing the potential of humanity for mutation. It later came to fruition into the form of *Homo sapien superior*, the mutants. Which her spread among several known species of humanity, *Homo sapien*, *Homo magus*, and *Homo oceanus*. There by creating *Homo sapien superior*, *Homo magus major/magnus*, and *Homo superior*. Which after the Great Cataclysm (or Great Deluge, depending on who speaks of it) would lead to new water-dwelling species of humans descended from *Homo magus/sapien* hybrids.

### Dawn of Man

There had been a cluster of mutants that appeared more than 1,000,000 years ago and joined together as a tribe. So far, they have been documented as the first known mutants:

* Phoenix was one of the first known mutants and a host of the Phoenix Force during the Stone Age and a member of the Avengers.

A few individuals have been stated to be among the first known mutants as well, originated from the beginnings of human live (although their origin remains unclear as far):

* The Forever Man was seemingly one of the first mutants, possibly the first according to Iron Man, and claimed to have lived 10,000 lives, although it may be an hyperbole or an underestimation.
* Hungry, possibly the "ultimate primal mutant" (or a demonic entity) from the dawn of humanity, having existed as long as the human species.
* Garbha-Hsien was stated to be one of the oldest, even by External standards. He himself said that he was already old when the continents shook.
* Amahl Farouk said himself that he lived since the dawn of humanity, although this statement was probably referring to his parasite, the multiversal entity the Shadow King (Multiverse). Amahl (the host) himself was born a mutant before the 20th century, but in the 16th century, not the dawn of man.
* Nicodemus is said to be as old as the Swiss mountains themselves, if true and the first mutants were discovered over 1 million years ago, he could be the oldest living mutant.

### Hyborian Age

The first recorded (with a clear date) human mutant on Earth was Selene, born in Central Europe 17,000 years ago, "after the Oceans swallowed Atlantis" and "before the rise of the sons of Aryas", during the Hyborian Age, and even clashed with Kulan Gath over 10,000 years ago.

Though his exact origin is unknown, Crule was believed to originate from the northern regions of what became Africa and a centuries old animosity towards Gideon, but he invoked Ishtar and Mitra, deities primarily worshiped in the Hyborian Age.

### Biblical Times: The Neyaphem and Cheyarafim

For years, it was thought that the mutants were only a handful individuals at the first stages of humanity.

That theory was proven wrong by the discovery of a mutant civilization built *"many many centuries earlier than Mayan, Aztec or Moche"*; Carbon dating has stated that the age of the mutant remains found in Isla des Demonas to be 15,000 years old (When neolithic revolution and domestication of animals by humans dates back to 9000 BC) and long before the rise of the Egyptian empires, an ancient and advanced mutant civilization predating all other known civilizations.

Among those mutants, called Neyaphem, who enslaved *Homo sapiens* was Azazel, calling himself Satan. He and his kind were repelled to another dimension by the "Angels", the Cheyarafim, another early group of mutants. Among the other Neyaphem to be trapped were also Ydrazil.

### The Banciewicz family

Allegedly for thousand years, the first-born sons of the Jewish family Banciewicz developed powers while reaching puberty.

### Ancient Egypt

Many of the early recorded mutants were active during ancient Egypt, including communities, groups, and families:

* The Man (eventually known as "Demon") and others of his kind (named the same way) were activated by uranium pits. They were active at least since Ancient Egyptian times.
* The Forever Man was one of the first mutants on Earth, has possibly lived 10,000 lives and was active at least in Ancient Egyptian times.

#### 30th century B.C.

En Sabah Nur stated that he was the first mutant was often stated to be and thought himself to be (his name meant "The First One"), although Selene predated him by 12,000 years at least. He was reportedly born 5,000 years ago, in Egypt, during the First Dynasty (30th century B.C.). Apocalypse also stated he was the cause of the Bronze Age collapse that devestated the Near East around 1200 B.C. He was also believed, erroneously, to be their common ancestor.

After him, many powered individuals among his descendants, the Clan Akkaba, were witnessed in positions of powers in Egypt.

#### Okkara

Apocalypse was in fact the first of the "second generation" of mutantkind. He was among a multitude of mutants that resided on the mutant island of Okkara. Here, Apocalypse took a wife; Genesis, who bore him four children. Okkara became a prosperous mutant society, but their utopia was cut short when the demonic hordes of Amenth invaded, splitting the island into two halves with the Twilight Sword. Apocalypse and the other mutants of Okkara fought bravely to defend their homeland and Earth itself from invasion, but when their defeat became inevitable, a decision was made to seal off the demon-infested half of Okkara; known as Arakko, along with every Okkaran mutant, who would continue to fight the demonic horde while Apocalypse prepared the Earth's defenses. Arakko and its mutants were sealed-off into Amenth, while Apocalypse and the other half of Okkara; known as Krakoa, were left behind.

#### 13th century B.C.

Anath-Na Mut was active in 1275 B.C. and served Ramses II.

## 4th century B.C.

In the fourth century B.C.E., twin mutants tried to cross the English Channel, and drowned themselves on their raft. That event was witnessed by Apocalypse, who looked for "his people *scattered over the world, but he didn't intervened, as their deaths was by their own means.*

## 3rd century

Decimus Furius activated his powers in Rome in the year 281, seemingly a young boy or an adolescent then. After rampaging civilians, spending years in prison and acting as a gladiator, he was worshiped, thought to be the Minotaur, until he was collected by Apocalypse and "stored" for later use as the War of his Final Horsemen.

It was later speculated by Nova Roman Lucius Aquilla that the Gods were maybe simply mutants.

## 4th century

Sanjar Javeed was active in the year 325 in Persia. He was "collected" by Apocalypse and "stored" for later use as the Death of his Final Horsemen.

## 5th to 6th Centuries

Later, at least one member of the Clan Akkaba was active and was involved in the sack of Rome.

## The Neo

At some point, many generations ago, some mutants, the Neo, secluded themselves from mankind, hoping to inherit Earth once the humans had destroyed themselves. They built hidden cities in various locations, including Alaska and South America. They remained in hiding for centuries.

The exact time of this seclusion is unknown.

## Medieval Period

### 11th century

In 1013, Apocalypse came to Scandinavia to kill Thor on the counsel of Rama-Tut who informed him of beings and ancestors of people who would cause a threat to him in the future. He then sent his four Four Horsemen (Pestilence/Phantom Bats of the Twelve Minds, War, Native-American Famine, Death) to kill Folkbern Logan, ancestor of Wolverine, but they were all destroyed by Thor.

In the early 11th century Externals Garbha-Hsien, Nicodemus, and possibly Crule had already banded together as the High Lords.

Candra was active in the early to mid 11th century.

### 12th century

Around the beginning of the 12th century, Garbha-Hsien found the Celestial Ship in the Ho-Lo Shan Mountains of Northern Mongolia.

Garbha-Hsien first met En Sabah Nur in the middle of the 12th century, and claimed to have lived already several lifetimes.

At some point, Nathan Summers traveled in time to fight En Sabah Nur, as the Traveler. He went from tribe to tribe to keep them informed and unified.

#### The Skornn

The possibly alien or demonic race called the Skornn terrorized Macedonia and other areas between periods of slumber. They feasted upon the energy signatures of the few mutants they could find then.

During one of those slumbers, a gathering of powerful mutants including En Sabah Nur and Garbha-Hsien created the Five Fingers of Annihilation blade to destroy the Skornn, who imbued it with their own mutant life force while forging it.

At some point after that meeting, mutant priestess D'narda was possibly activated in Karanada, Macedonia, Greece (80 miles south of modern-day Plovdiv, Bulgaria).

There, the local priests threatened to awaken the Skornn, causing the Council of Nirinthia to seek out the Traveler.

En Sabah Nur having sent a cadre of killers after the Traveler, he responded the call months after, to find only D'narda alive, the Skornn awakened and having fed upon the lifeforce of the townspeople and priests of Karanada, and the Council of Nirinthia. When D'narda sacrificed herself to save the Traveler from the Skornn, her blood and sacrifice activated the Five Fingers of Annihilation, stopping the Skornn.

#### Third Crusade

During the Third Crusade, Bennet du Paris encountered in Akkaba the mutants Sahreed and The Scarab, before manifesting his own powers. Offered him to be become his servant, Apocalypse locked the knight he had renamed Exodus for centuries.[*citation needed*]

### 14th century

#### The Changelings/Killcrops

Another form of "early mutants" also during the same period, with notably Dafydd ap Andras, born in the year 1337, active at least in 1347. This kind, named "killcrops", was characterized by early appearance of powers, and allegedly leading the way to the modern mutants with puberty-induced mutation.

The Changelings were believed to take the place of human babies, to be Satan's hellspawn, and were recognize to their powers (strength, aerokinesis...) and also to their knowledge.

#### The Proto-Mutants

Around six to seven hundred years ago, a population of **three hundred** "Proto-Mutants" (an "early" form of mutants with "less evolved" X-Genes), a different species from mutants, like Neanderthals to humans, lived in the mountains of Crimea.

* The man who would become known as Gabriel Shepherd was stated to be 700 years old, possibly as a simplification.
* Ister was stated to be around 665 years old, and was consequently born around the half of the 14th century

It isn't known yet how far the origin of the Proto-Mutants started.

A Primal Scream caused by a Cosmic Being annihilated half of Europe's population in the guise of the Black Plague. Due to the Proto-Mutants not being affected, they were targeted by the humans, seeking a cure or simply driven by fear and anger, and were eventually all killed. Despite the Proto-Mutants retreating in the hills, they were all slaughtered and buried in a mass grave near Kuryk, Kazakhstan, off the Caspian Sea.

## From Renaissance to late 18th Century

At some point, presumably between the 13th and 18th centuries, the immortal mutant Laslo Magzel was active in Slorenia.

### 15th century

In the year 1459 in Romania, the Horseman of War led Apocalypse's Riders of the Dark against Vlad Dracula's army.

Gideon activated in 1492, travelling to America as part of Columbus' expedition in the Pinta.

### 17th century

The Clan Akkaba allegedly had at least a member on the Mayflower journey to America, in 1620.

Ogun, believed to be a mutant, was, according to some reports, alive in the early part of the 17th century.

During the autumn of the year of 1660 a radioactive meteorite fell next to Hamburg, Germany affected Hans Knoblach, who had three children in America, themselves "affected":

* Gloria Knoblach, born in 1673, possibly active (hung as a witch at Salem) in June 1692.
* William Knoblach was born in 1675, and disappeared after 1700, possibly already activated at this time, and confirmed to be soon after.
* Fiona Knoblach was born in 1680.

Burke was already active (or activated then) in the 17th century, where he was burned at the stake.

### 18th century

Fiona Knoblach married in 1707 and had three daughters. Her first husband died five years later, and she soon remarried to another man and had three more daughters before he died in 1718. She married for a third time in 1720 to a Vernon Reaves and had a seventh daughter.

Gideon stoked the flames of war causing the American Revolutionary War and independence in 1776 as part of the Externals machinations plan.

In 1780, Fiona Knoblach had around twenty grandchildren and sixty great-grandchildren, mostly girls. It is unknown how many were mutants.

Elias Bogan may have been alive in the 1780s.

At least a member of the Clan Akkaba was active in the guillotine executions during the French Revolution, around 1789-1799.

Burke was guillotined in the 18th century.

## 19th century

### From 1800 to 1870

More and more mutants started to appear:

* Jonas Graymalkin activated two hundred years ago.
* Silas Burr was possibly involved in a murder in 1828 (although he was accounted to be born at the end of 19th century).
* Ichisumi first activated in 1833 in Kumamoto, Japan. She was collected by Apocalypse and "stored" for later use as the Famine of his Final Horsemen.

From 1840 to 1870, there was a small yet significant increase in the mutant population.

Clan Akkaba member Kabar Brashir was born in the 1850s.

Tobias Messenger was born in 1859 and activated circa 1878 at 19 years.

The same year, Nathaniel Essex presented his work and theories on the Essex Factors, illustrated by a cadaver he pieced together from human and animal remains. He was rejected by the Royal Society of London. He then looked for "freaks" and was shown a collection of some of them by the Marauders during his search for the ones with the Great Mutation, the right "Essex Factor", the "Essex Men". He also met with Apocalypse and time-travelling Cyclops and Phoenix.[*citation needed*] It is unknown if some of those "freaks" were indeed mutants.

* Jeb Lee activated in 1863 in the USA. He was collected by Apocalypse and "stored" for later use as the Pestilence of his Final Horsemen.
* Amanda Mueller was apparently born around 1860.

### 1870 to the end of the 20th Century

From to 1870 to 1890 by a decrease equivalent to the increase from 1840 to 1870, and from then, the mutant population increased exponentially.

Candra was active centuries ago, and was known to be active in the year 1887.

Absalom was active at least in 1891 (although he was believed to be activated in 1896).

In 1891, the Externals Burke, Saul (Garbha-Hsien), Absalom, Nicodemus and Gideon had already banded together as the High Lords, although they were stated to exist for centuries.

Frederick and Hamilton Slade, their mother Margaret Slade, Jack Starsmore, Kabar Brashir, and dozens other members of the Clan Akkaba were active mutants in 1897, but their numbers were reduced to a handful.

In the same year, John Howlett Jr. died.

* Irene Adler was born in the 19th century (she was active in 1936).
* Victor Creed was born in the late 19th century.
* Clara and Saul Creed, the younger siblings of Victor Creed, were born at least in the end of 19th century, and were already adult in 1907.
* James Howlett was born in the end of the 19th century, and activated in 1900.
* Absalom stated he activated in Wyoming at the end of the 19th century, in 1896 (although he was seen already active and part of the Externals in 1891.

Some others are identified as being around a century old, but may in fact be much older:

* Silas Burr was accounted to be born in Canada toward end of 19th century (but was also tied to possible murders back in 1828).
* Elias Bogan was stated to have been alive for at least one century, but could have been the inspiration for the original, founding chapter of the Hellfire Club, in the 1780s.
* Ogun, believed to be a mutant, is at least one century old, was active in the 1910s but, according to other reports, was already alive in the early part of the 17th century.

## 20th century: The Modern Mutant Race

There was an exponential increase in the mutant population from 1890 and through the 20th century. Mutants became a statistically significant evolutionary offshoot of *Homo sapiens* around that time, and it is considered that the "modern mutant race" is only a century old.

* Rutherford Princeton III was born around 1902, but activated only at 96 years old.

### Over-Men, Wonders

#### 1906

In 1906 in San Francisco, the local branch of the Hellfire Club, led by Molyneux, assembled a league of "seers", "sensitives" and psychics, who were both in his vision "the first step" to the "Over-Men", and a way to detect them. He also stated that using those, he had been able to find some of those Over-Men. The concept of Over-Men was inspired by both Charles Darwin and Nietzsche's works.

Alerted by his seers of the coming of the Overmen (in fact the X-Club from the 21st century, coming back in the past to understand the origins of mutants), Molyneux activated his Sentinel.

Wednesday, April 18th, the battle between the Hellfire Club's Sentinel and the X-Club caused the Great San Francisco Earthquake.

* The Forever Man was reborn as Morgan Hardy during a fire following the earthquake.
* Doctor Nemesis was born the 1st of December 1906, and is considered among the first modern mutants.

#### 1907

In 1907 in New York lived many powered beings, named "Wonders". among them Klara Prast, a mutant.

It is unknown if some of those "seers" and "Wonders" (apart from Klara Prast) were indeed mutants.

Among the possibly or confirmed members of this modern mutants are:

* Silver Fox was active in the 1910s.
* Circa 1910, Tobias Messenger had gathered at least three other activated mutant adults, who participated to WWI and died within the 10 following years.
* Raven Darkhölme was active in the early 20th century. and at least in 1921.
* Jacob Shaw's shapeshifting abilities were activated in 1915 by Sinister.
* At least before 1920, Grigory Rasputin was active, posing as a mystic. He was urged by Sinister to sire children as much as possible.
* Irene Adler (born in the 19th century) was active in 1936.

### *Homo insectus*

Adriana Soria was born at least in 1920th and was active in WWII. Her mutation had her split from the mutants and humans to new sub-phylum: *Homo insectus*.

### First mutant boom

* Robert Frank was born circa 1910s-1920s and was active in 1942.
* Jacqueline Falsworth was born circa the end of WWI.
* Namor, born in 1920, is considered the *"first of the first mutant boom"* (he is also sometimes considered erroneously as the very first mutant).
* Lenore activated herself as a young adult in 1947, and was presumably born in the 1920s.
* Namora / Aquaria Neptunia was born circa 1921.
* Max Eisenhardt was born in the 1920s in Germany.
* Meyer Banciewicz was born in Poland in 1924.
* Born in 1932, James "Jimmy Jupiter" Jankovicz was possibly an early mutant.
* Wolfgang Heinreich was born in the year 1932, in Germany.
* Ethan Warren activated at puberty, and was a lieutenant in US Army during WWII.
* Faye Livingstone was active in the 1930s, and killed in the same period.
* Amahl Farouk was active at least in 1936, although he said himself that he lived since the dawn of humanity.
* The original members of the Promise Gene Bitner, Craig Farnsworth and Ernest Scope were adults and activated mutants in the 50's.

### World War II

* Meyer Banciewicz was active during the Nazi invasion of Poland, at thirteen years old.
* Jimmy Jupiter, maybe an early mutant, was active in WWII.
* Stonewall, Super Sabre, and Crimson Commando fought together against the Nazis.
* Jacqueline Falsworth was active at least in 1942.
* John Greycrow was active at least in 1944.
* Experiment N2 was created in 1944, cloned from Namor's blood.
	+ In order to create Experiment N2, Sinister used the blood of some Nazi concentration or death camps prisoners. It is unclear if those prisoners were mutants.

During WWII, mutants were still publicly largely unknown.

In 1944, Nazi scientist Mister Sinister (also known as "Nosferatu") experimented on prisoners in concentration and death camps in order to find and activate mutants. Sinister created Experiment N2, cloning from Namor's blood. In order to create Experiment N2, Sinister used the blood of some Nazi concentration or death camp prisoners. It is unclear if those prisoners were mutants.

Crule was active in the death camps.

Candra was active during the war as well, and used Wolfgang von Strucker to obtain the Momentary Princess gem

#### Lebengebrochennacht

The Lebengebrochennacht, the "night of broken lives", was the night the Nazis began hunting down mutants.

*That event became famous in "mutant world history", while humans weren't much told nor learned of it.*

### Post-WWII

* Simon Lestron was born in 1945.
* Daken was born in 1946.
* Robert Frank Jr. was born in 1950, but was placed in stasis for years.
* Gloria Dayne was born in 1950.

Mutants were stile seemingly unknown from the public around 1954, while scientists knew of it in 1956. During those years and the time Steve Rogers was frozen, the climate towards mutants shifted to hostility.

* Irving Banciewicz was born around 1956.
* Namorita Prentiss was born in 1958, cloned from her "mother" Namora.

In 1959, socialite Henry Marsh theorized as well the existence of many mutants unaware of their powers or keeping them hidden. He revealed his theory to Vincent Farnsworth, who activated (or discovered his powers) that day. Farnsworth also suspected Marsh of being a mutant as well.

* Christoph Nord was active at least in 1961.
* John Wraith was active at least in 1961.

In 1962, Tad Carter activated. He was informed that many mutants existed by Messenger, who recruited him into the Promise.

At least in that year, Lucius Farnsworth was active as well.

In 1963, Gideon was involved in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy as part of the Externals machinations plan.

Until a certain point, the Soviet Union euthanized mutant children. Afterwards, they started having them serve the state instead.

### Mutant Gatherings

During the latter half of the 20th century, mutant births began to occur more frequently. A popular explanation for this marked growth is the proliferation of nuclear technologies in the modern era, starting with the first atomic bomb, which is believed to have led to wide-spread genetic mutation due to latent radiation, though the actual reason for the spike in mutations would remain unknown.

This spike in mutant births was eventually perceived by the Eternals as a sign of the coming Fourth Host.

During the 20th century, a young mutant telepath known as Charles Xavier was approached by a young woman named Moira Kinross. Moira revealed to Xavier that she herself was a mutant, with the ability to reset her own personal timeline upon her death. As a result of this power, Moira had lived nine lives and spent most of them fighting in vain for the survival of mutantkind, always ending with their people's extermination. Moira opened her mind to Charles, allowing him to see the truth, and together, they would attempt to make this lifetime different, and ensure the survival of mutantkind.

Witnessing the opression of mutantkind, Xavier created the X-Men, bringing together Scott Summers, Bobby Drake, the winged Warren Worthington III, Henry McCoy and Jean Grey as his first students. Xavier would train the X-Men to control their powers and to become superheroes, hoping that by proving that mutants could use their gifts for the benefit of all mankind, mutants might grow more accepted.

Charles Xavier was not the only man gathering mutants to his cause, however. Years before founding the X-Men, Xavier had encountered a Holocaust-survivor by the name of Max Eisenhardt (then going by the name of Erik Magnus Lensherr). The two became friends, but found themselves frequently debating the subject of human-mutant co-existence. Scarred by his experiences as a prisoner of the Nazi death-camps, Magnus was convinced that humanity would turn against mutantkind, and that only by claiming their position as the dominant species by force, could mutantkind survive. Xavier and Magnus would soon go their separate ways, and Magnus eventually began calling himself Magneto, recruiting mutants who shared his violent ideology to his Brotherhood of Mutants. Magneto's Brotherhood would find themselves embroiled in conflict against Xavier and his X-Men.

During her many lifetimes, Moira MacTaggert had walked the paths of Xavier, Magneto and even Apocalypse in the search for mutantkind's salvation. Now on her 10th and possibly final life, Moira sought to bring all three mutant leaders together, believing that mutantkind could succeed united where they had previously failed. To this end, she subtly manipulated them to bring her vision to pass. After Magneto was de-aged into an infant during a conflict with the X-Men, Moira altered his genetic structure to reduce the impact of his vast magnetic powers on his mind and personality. Once re-aged, Magneto was more stable, and when Xavier and Moira revealed the truth of her many lives to him, he agreed to join their cabal.  No longer fighting the X-Men, Magneto would eventually join and even lead the team for a time.  The X-Men themselves underwent many changes through the years, with Xavier's five original students leaving and rejoining the team on various occasions, and being joined by an ever-expanding roster of mutants. In time, the X-Men would spawn various break-off groups, such as X-Factor and X-Force.

While Magneto's Brotherhood and Xavier's X-Men would be the foremost mutant groups assembled in the 20th century, they were far from the only ones. The mutant terrorists Mystique and Destiny would also pursue a radical and violent path to mutant supremacy. Guided by Destiny's pre-cognitive powers, the pair assumed the mantle of Magneto's Brotherhood after he had stopped using the moniker, leading a team of mutant fighters on a campaign of terrorism and assassination. In order to avoid imprisonment, the couple would reform the Brotherhood as Freedom Force, a mutant strike force in service to the U.S. government.

Apocalypse himself would eventually awaken from a long period of dormancy, leading his renewed Horsemen back on the world stage. His exceedingly harsh and cruel world-views led to him being opposed by the X-Men and other mutant groups.

In the tunnels beneath New York City, a group of mutants calling themselves the Morlocks emerged. The Morlocks were mutant outcasts, many with powers that were not especially suitable for combat or left them deformed. Banding together, the Morlocks found safety in numbers and isolation, though it would not last long. The vile Mr. Sinister had taken a great interest in mutantkind and the mutant genome, even going so far as to turn himself into a mutant. Sinister learned of the Morlocks and deemed them scientifically useless and a threat to the mutant genepool. He began plotting their extermination, contracting a mutant thief under his employ nicknamed Gambit to recruit a group of mutant mercenaries known as the Marauders who would cleanse the Morlock tunnels. Unaware of the group's mission, Gambit led them into the tunnels, where they began the Mutant Massacre. All the Morlocks would have died, if not for the intervention of the X-Men, X-Factor and Thor.

### Legacy Virus

In an attempt to exterminate mutantkind Stryfe, the clone of X-Man Cyclops' son Cable, unleashed a custom-made plague known as the Legacy Virus. The virus targeted mutants, causing the deaths of hundreds before mutating to also effect baseline humans. Through the work of X-Man Beast and the sacrifice of X-Man Colossus, a cure was developed.

The epidemic would have far-reaching consequences however. Having learned of Moira MacTaggert's manipulations of his genome, a furious Magneto abandoned his covenant with her and Xavier, leaving the X-Men and once more pursuing a more radical and violent path to mutant salvation. He gathered a new group of mutants known as the Acolytes. For a time, Magneto created a base known as Asteroid M in Earth-orbit which he hoped would serve as a sanctuary for mutants. When those plans were undone, Magneto returned to Earth and used his vast magnetic powers to seize control of the Earth's magnetosphere, blackmailing the world community into sanctioning the creation of an independent mutant nation. The United Nations eventually agreed to his demands, ceding the island nation of Genosha to Magneto.

When the Legacy Virus began circulating in the mutant community, thousands of infected mutants had been quarantined on Genosha. When the virus was cured, Magneto gained a vast army overnight, and began preparing for a campaign of world domination. A team of X-Men managed to foil his schemes, with Magneto being left wheelchair bound due to injuries inflicted by the X-Man Wolverine.

With the vast consequences of her manipulation of Magneto and her failures to unite the three leaders of mutantkind apparent, Moira MacTaggert used the Legacy Virus as a front to fake her own death, retreating into the shadows from whence she could continue to fight for mutantkind's survival.

## Mutant Biology

Human Mutants have many distinctive traits in regard to biology, physiology and genetics from other humans. Mutants can have wildly varying biologies depending on the nature of their mutation.

### Mutation

**Mutation** is caused by the X-Gene in the mutants' DNA. Mutations normally manifest themselves during puberty, often as a result of a traumatic event. Some mutants exhibit their mutations at birth, however, while others do not manifest their powers until adulthood. **Secondary Mutation** is a phenomenon in which an existing mutant gains additional powers, or a change in their appearance due to a second mutation.

### Breeding & Cross-Breeding

Mutant breeding has notable implications, regarding the transmission of the mutant genome, or to hybridization with others of human or extraterrestrial species.

## Mutant Classification

The mutants can be divided into multiple categories, regarding to their origins, genetic status, powers (e.g. Omega Level Mutant), etc.

## Members

* Wolverine
* Cyclops
* Magento
* Pheonix II
* Nightcrawler
* Storm
* Magenta
* Laura Kinney
* Beast
* Destiny
* Mystique
* John F. Kennedy
* Santa Claus
* Colossus
* Ludwig von Beethoven
* Sam Creed
* Blob
* Toad
* Clara Creed
* Emma Frost
* Selene
* Sabastion Shaw
* The Sub-Mariner
* Mr. Sinister
* Jean Grey
* Apocalypse
* Daphne
* Katherine Pryde
* Acacia
* Sabretooth
* Medea (Themyscira)
* Mastermind
* Daphne (Bana-Migdal)
* John Howlett, Junior
* Daken