"We come into this world alone and we leave the same way. The time we spent in between - time spent alive, sharing, learning together... is all that makes life worth living." - Jean Grey
It's actually the first two pages of Necrosha entirely lmfao.
"We come into this world alone and we leave the same way. The time we spent in between - time spent alive, sharing, learning together... is all that makes life worth living." - Jean Grey
In the scan Exoduscloak provided, under the section titled History, the first line says Storm descends from a long line of African witch-priestesses. Some were magic-wielders, there are also tales of multiple Windriders throughout history. Since its never been confirmed that she gets her mutant gene from her father and we know her mother's line comes with power by the boatload AND there have been multiple Windriders, it stands to reason that if Ororo is a mutant the other Windriders were as well. This goes back to my point that the idea of mutants being around even before "humanity" is not a new idea or some sort of retcon. Storm's backstory practically suggests this to be the case. The African witch-priestesses could be interpreted to have given birth to mutants and humans alike. That's the point here.
Could be that it just means the X-gene is something that existed in life that far back...and when Homo Sapiens came along it was passed into their gene thru interbreeding with what came before.
Since mutants are supposedly the next stage in human evolution and the new burning away the old when you have mutants as old as Poccy then you'd think everyone would be a mutant by now.
Maybe they are just genetic aberrations caused by radiological/biological/chemical contaminants that have been put into the ecosphere. Selene, Apocalypse, etc...so few mutants born throughout the millennia are because there were very few naturally occurring contaminants. After the nuclear research of the early-mid 20th century there is a massive amount of contaminant causing a drastic rise in people born with the X-gene.
Excalibur has established that Apocalypse has always been a wizard and not solely reliant on celestial technology as established in past stories. Selene has always been a sorceress and is now chronologically the oldest mutant. In a way is is the mutant Eve, excluding Lady Phoenix who may just be the Phoenix Force incarnate or a prehistoric human mutantes by the PF.
I wonder if in the ancient world there weren’t so many naturally occurring mutants because the only catalyst was either Celestial technology/material or magic. Mutant magic is finally being explored for the first time in DoX, so I wonder if ultimately the connection between mutants and magic is that magic was a catalyst for mutations similar to atomic science.