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N'Daré (Earth-616)

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N'Dare was a princess of the unnamed tribe in Kenya. She was a part of the ancient lineage of white-haired, blue-eyed witch-priestess,[4] but hadn't inherited their physical characteristics or magic.

For generations the power and leader position was passed from mother to daughter, but N'Daré rebelled against this tradition and escaped from the village.[5] Instead she went to study in the university, where she met an American student David Munroe. The two fell in love and married.[6] They returned to the United States of America and gave birth to Ororo Munroe.[7] Accustomed to being treated as a princess, N'Daré felt uncomfortable in America where she was treated badly for her skin color, and convinced David that they shouldn't endure it, and definitely shouldn't let their daughter grow up in such an environment. When Ororo was 6 months old David got an offer for a job in Egypt and the family moved to Cairo.[1][8]

The family lived happily there. N'Daré told her young daughter stories about their lineage of queens and priestesses,[9] and about her grandmother, who had the same white hair and blue eyes as Ororo and possessed legendary magical skills.[10] N'Daré also showed young Ororo the ancient ruby that was passed in their family from mother to daughter for countless generations.[11]

When Ororo was 6 years old, a plane crashed into their house, killing both David and N'Daré.[1][12]

Many years later, when Ororo was an adult and a superhero known as Storm, her parents were resurrected by the dark god Uovu in an attempt to sway her to his side during the time when Ororo visited her old village, Uzuri.[2] During their reunion, both N'Daré and David expressed delight for the life their daughter lived. When Ororo discovered that Uovu kept the bodies of the villages his worshippers killed stored in a secret catacomb and she confronted him about it, he reanimated the bodies under his command. He additionally took possession of Ororo's parents.[13] Following Uovu's destruction, the undead were freed from his control and vanished afterwards. Before turning to dust, Ororo's parents managed to leave her with words of comfort.[3]

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Multilingual: N'Dare knew Swahili and English, she sang to young Ororo in both languages.[7]

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Ancient Ruby (formerly): This ancient ruby was a family heirloom, passed from mother to daughter for many generations. N'Daré got it from her mother and showed it to her own daughter Ororo.[11] When N'Daré died, Ororo took the ruby from her dead body and kept it as the only keepsake of her mother.[12]

Trivia

  • Originally David and N'Daré died in 1956 during the Suez Crisis, a French fighter bomber plane crashed into their house.[1] Due to the Sliding Timescale these events were later altered to be set during the unspecified Arab-Israeli Conflict[14] and even later to be just an accidental plane crash.[12] With further retcons, David was a young child when Malcolm X was killed in 1965, so he was born at the start of 1960s, and Ororo was born after David and N'Daré met in the university, so supposedly around 1980s.[6] But with sliding timescale it seems to have became a Topical Reference by now, since Ororo clearly isn't supposed to be in her 40s.

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