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Wundagore Mountain

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Mount Wundagore was a mountain located in the Transian Mountain Range,[3] in the Eastern European country of Transia, overlooking East Transia,[4] the country's capital.[3] It peaked at 11,675 feet.[10]

It became home to Herbert Wyndham, the geneticist known as the High Evolutionary, and his New Men, sentient semi-humanoid animals, artificially evolved to their current state from ordinary animals.[11]

History

Early Earth[]

In the Darque Hold, a chamber among the caverns inside the mountain, Chthon wrote the Darkhold, his book of black magic.[5]

Late Hyborian Age or Early History[]

In ancient times, Vanda-Gor was a mountain within a grim and mountainous realm set south of the Borderlands (themselves south from the cold north that had been home of the immortal warrior Bloodstone). There, a Skrull trapped on Earth lived and set up an altar to Sl'gur't. He terrorized the people living around the mountain and was known to be a "sorcerer-god from beyond the stars".

Taking the form of a merchant, he told Bloodstone about that star-spawned sorcerer, intending to lure him in his lair, slay him, and take the Bloodgem for his own, in order to return to his world. Bloodstone found the sorcerer's lair on Vanda-Gor, and after the brutal destruction of the sorcerer's animated corpses, the plot was revealed by the Skrull, beheaded moments later by Bloodstone.
That tale was recounted in "The Star-Spawned Sorcerer", 1928.[9]

6th Century[]

In 6th Century A.D., Morgan Le Fay and her Darkholders found themselves overwhelmed by the Chthon after summoning him and they resorted to imprisoning the Elder God inside Wundagore Mountain of Transia.[12][13] Chthon's evil entered into the clay and wood of Wundagore, and could be used as a sort of sympathetic magic by forming images of people used to manipulate said people from a distance. Later, those clay and wood would be respectively used by the Puppet Master and by Django Maximoff.[3]

20th Century[]

The Wundagore Mountain became part of the stateg of Gregory Russoff, father of Jack Russell. He later sold a portion of his estate including the Wundagore Mountain itself to the High Evolutionary and his partner Jonathan Drew. Drew and Wyndham uncovered a substantial uranium deposit on the mountain, using its wealth to create an advanced research facility.[14][15]

In 1928 (the same year in which "The Star-Spawned Sorcerer" was written and/or published),[9] Wyndham used subterranean slaves, Moloids, to built the Citadel of Science at Wundagore.[3] In the 1930s,[3] Wyndham started genetically enhancing domestic and wild animals into the "New Men", such as Bova, a female bovine; Porga, a humanoid pig; and Tagar, a bipedal tiger..[14][15]

Modern Era[]

The spirit of 6th century magician Magnus, possessed Jonathan Drew to warn the High Evolutionary about the demon beneath his laboratory. They decided to train the New Men into disciplined military force, the Knights of Wundagore. When Chthon attacked through his vessel, the Other, he was repelled by the combination of High Evolutionary's science, Magnus's magic, and the Knights' combat prowess.[16] At the same time, a refugee named Magda delivered twins Pietro and the Wanda Maximoff at the High Evolutionary's citadel. Chthon imbued Wanda with dormant magical potential.[17] After the victory over Chthon, the Knights of Wundagore assumed permanent responsibility for protecting the mountain.[6]

Wundagore Mountain from Thor Vol 1 406 001

High Evolutionary created the Man-Beast who became a threat. Thor helped defeat the Man-Beast, but the High Evolutionary determined that Earth proved insufficient space for his New Men. Converting his Citadel into a spacecraft, he departed off-world with all New Men,except for Bova and Tabur.[11] Man-Beast created his own New Men to terrorize the Counter-Earth.[citation needed]

Alternate Universes[]

Age of Apocalypse (Earth-295)[]

In the Age of Apocalypse, after the death of Charles Xavier, Magneto used the mountain to home and train mutants and his X-Men while Apocalypse focused his efforts on the United States of America. While Magneto and his X-Men were at Cape Citadel to thwart the Horsemen, Apocalypse's son, Nemesis attacked the Wundagore Mountain base, slaughtering the mutants there, including Wanda Maximoff.[18]

Marvel Cinematic Universe (Earth-199999)[]

Wundagore Mountain from Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 001

In Earth-199999, Mount Wundagore had an ancient shrine dedicated to the prophesized Scarlet Witch carved into it by Chthon. These carvings contained spells that were later transcribed into the Darkhold.

Wanda Maximoff as Scarlet Witch, visited Mount Wundagore in order to possess an alternate reality version of herself to capture America Chavez in that reality. After a battle against America, Stephen Strange and Wong, she seemingly sacrificed herself to destroy Wundagore and the spells contained within, as well as all the other copies of the Darkholds throughout the entire multiverse.[19]

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