T'Challa: The Black Panther Appreciation 2021

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What about this one? Remember during the Hudlin run, Wolverine had a solo book and he went to WK and they found fossilized remains of the people all the feline/canine mutants came from. What if we make those the people who imprisoned the originators. But then later they moved on due to drought or something and generations later Romulus is born and creates Rome.

They gotta get rid of the Native American analogue altogether, shifting the blame to someone else doesn't work for me. Just say Djalia Mother lied to Shuri and Bast pulled a King Fritz, manipulating the minds of both humanity and the Originators to hide the real truth of Wakanda's deep past.

Instead of being the original inhabitants of the land that would become Wakanda, the Originators were an exiled army of Deviants from ancient Lemuria. They already look the part. The events of Bast's rise happened when Deviants were rulers of the Earth and pillaging humanity. Just say the Originators were banished from their original homeland and wanted to displace Wakanda's ancestors, resulting in the rise of the new Wakandan gods to seal them away.

After overthrowing the Elder Gods as the main deities of pre-Wakanda's people, Bast and the other Orisha make up the great lie that casts the Originators in a sympathetic light as part of a deal with the demon Damballah, the patron of the Originators. He believes that if the Originators are convinced they had their land stolen they will worship him more as their salvation, in return he agrees to the Orisha's offer never to set foot in Wakanda.

The Originators are still somewhat sympathetic, the continuity of Coates' story is kept intact, the lore of Wakanda is integrated with pre-Cataclysm MU, we get more context for Bast/Orisha, and T'Challa has a new potential rogue.