History
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Pre-Transformation
Origin[]
Sycorax was an Imperial Atlantean, the granddaughter of Syzandias, Atlantis' court wizard in the 1930's, and was herself an allegedly extremely powerful sorceress.[1]
1930s[]
Sycorax was part of the Swift Tide, an all-female quintet of warriors fighting on behalf of all sea peoples that lived in peace, under the leadership of Kharsa, captain of the group and daughter of Khasran.
On three occasions, the Swift Tide (including at least Kharsa and Sycorax, but not Garanna) stopped assassins at the gates of the Imperial City.
As Prince Namor and Lady Dorma visited the Chasm People at their seasonal home at the Orreki Reefs, well north of the then Antarctic capital, as part of negotiations aiming to have them join the Imperial realms of Atlantis, they met with the Swift Tide who went to Attukar, king of the Chasm People, to inform him they had located the Unforgotten Stone, an evil relic from the ancient times before Atlantis. The Swift Tide were acclaimed during the festivities held during the negotiations. The scene was attacked by Chasm People rebels refusing assimilation, but they were quickly defeated by the Swift Tide, Namor, Dorma and others. Retreating, the rebels were chased by the Swift Tide.
Tasked with reclaiming the Unforgotten Stone, the Tide were joined in their mission by Namor, Attukar's son Attuma, and Dorma.[1] Going northwards, stopping at villages to tell their stories, and saving helpless villagers from the occasional bandits. Defeating and pursuing them, the Swift Tide was confronted to an eldritch horror that the bandits fed and thought to master it. Sycorax freed her allies from the horror's mental hold, and Kharsa swiftly destroyed it.
When the Unforgotten Stone was activated by Soviet scientists, the Swift Tide were engulfed by its eldritch power; Sycorax using her magic to push Namor, Dorma, and Attuma to safety.[2] Along with the other members of the Swift Tide, she was corrupted by the Unforgotten Stone and merged with her mount, a giant squid - replacing her legs with tentacles. Sycorax convinced Kharsa not to eat Namor, Dorma, and Attuma - sensing they too had been affected by the Unforgotten Stone's power - and accompanied the newly renamed Black Tide in slaughtering the Chasm People and Atlantean delegates at the Orreki Reefs, among them King Attukar and her own grandfather.[3]
The Black Tide attacked Atlantis, but were sealed in mystical ice by Dorma harnessing the power of the Unforgotten Stone, and were imprisoned at the bottom of Harran's Rift.[4] They were removed from the Atlanteans' hearts and memories.[1]
Modern Age[]
Over the decades the ice thawed, and Namor eventually traveled to Harran's Rift, meeting with the Black Tide and recruiting Kharsa and Sycorax to help fend off Knull - a dark elder god who had created the Symbiotes.[5] Sycorax conjured a tsunami that flooded Manhattan, enabling the storm-gods Thor Odinson and Ororo Munroe to electrocute a large number of Knull's symbiote horde.[6]
During the chaos that followed, Kharsa and Sycorax escaped into the ocean and returned to Harran's Rift, killing the guards stationed there and freeing the other members of the Black Tide.[4]