Profile: Storm

Additional Information

Ayesha of Balobedu (ancestor, deceased); Ashake of Egypt (ancestor, deceased); Ashake of Meroë (ancestor, deceased); Unnamed ancestor (deceased); Harriet Munroe(paternal grandmother); Unnamed paternal grandfather; Unnamed maternal grandmother; David Munroe (father, deceased); N'Daré Munroe (mother, deceased); Ainet (unofficial foster mother); Achmed El Gibár (unofficial foster father); Colonel Shetani (maternal uncle); Unnamed maternal aunt;  Abuya (cousin); Unnamed paternal aunt (deceased); David Munroe, Jr.(cousin); Black Panther (T'Challa) (ex-husband, marriage annulled); Kymera (alternate-reality daughter).

• Weather Control: Monstrous ability to influence and control the weather, calling lightning, rain, snow, hail and various other effects.
  • Flight: Excellent, up to 5 passengers.
  • Create a personal slipstream allowing her to fly at speeds approaching Shift-X speeds.
  • Protection from the weather: Unearthly ability to resist climate or weather related effects or attacks.
  • Weather Prediction: Amazing ability to predict the weather.
  • Create fog: Amazing intensity & thickness over a 6 area range.
  • Lightning Bolts: Monstrous ability to call lightning form the sky or shoot lightning from her hands.
  • Create Monstrous weather related effects.
  • Reduce weather effects with Monstrous ability, failure will mean effects will increase by power rank.

Leadership: Storm is a natural leader and any group that elects him leader the group karma pool gets an additional 50 karma points.

Resist Domination: Storm was trained by Professor X to resist attacks, dominations and probes at Incredible ability.

Thieving Skills: Ororo is a skilled lock picker, thief, and escape artist. Her Agility is Remarkable when using these talents (the lock picking talent is only this high if she has her lockpicks, which she usually carries secreted on her person). It should be noted that she gets no special bonus backstab or read languages.

Gardening: Ororo has a natural green thumb and can grow plants and tend for them with Remarkable ability.

Knives: Storm learned how to handle a blade on the hard streets of Cairo and can do so with Incredible ability.

Guns: Storm has been trained in the use of handguns by Wolverine and knows how to handle one should she have to do so, she has Remarkable agility in the unlikely event she needs to fire a gun.

Aerial Combat: Storm has has Incredible fighting when attacking in mid-air and Incredible agility when utilizing her speed in combat.

Martial Arts A and C: May stun or slam an opponent regardless of their strength or Endurance, +1CS to grapple rolls (Including damage), an additional +1CS to dodge and Escape Rolls,

Multi-Lingual: Ororo speaks, writes and reads the following languages fluently: Russian, English, Kenyan, Swahili, Japanese, Russian, Wakandian, Imperial and Common Shi’ar.

She has blue eyes and white hair.

Munroe periodically goes through personality shifts. Originally she was a strong-willed and regal woman who acted like a goddess-on-earth. During that period she also suffered paralyzing claustrophobia. Later she renounced her naturalism in favor of a punk lifestyle, appearance, and behavior. Currently she has reconciled the two personalities into a single harmonious whole.

• Claustrophobia: Having been trapped under rubble for three days in Cairo while her mother lay dying, Storm's claustrophobia was once so severe, it rendered her completely helpless. However, she has more or less conquered her fear, though tight spaces still make her uncomfortable. Should she have a panic attack for any reason, Storm must make a psyche feat roll or suffer -3C/S to all rolls

• Emotional Influence: Storm's ability to manipulate the weather in her immediate vicinity is affected by her emotions; hence, if she does not maintain control, a fit of rage might induce a destructive storm. As a result, Storm has in the past kept a tight rein on all extreme emotions. Should she have an emotional outburst for any reason, Storm must make a psyche feat roll or suffer with the weather raging out of control for D5 rounds

• Physical Condition: Storm is limited by the force of her will and the strength of her body. It once took her several hours to put an end to a savage blizzard sweeping over much of Canada, and she nearly killed herself from exhaustion in the process. If Storm used her power at maximum level for more than four rounds, she would need to make a power FEAT roll for each round following to keep the weather under control. Failing the FEAT roll would indicate the weather goes wild (Monstrous damage to all in the area of effect) and must be again brought under control (yellow FEAT roll).

• Numerous sets of lockpicks and her families ancestral ruby.

• X-Men Uniform:

The Uniforms are constructed out of unstable molecule fabric of Remarkable Material. The suits come with a standard comlink that has a 250 mile range and a GPS tracking device built into it. The suits are insulated providing Good Protection vs. Heat and Cold as well as being designed to hide the wearer from mutant scanning equipment, with the exception of the Cerebro. Consider this to be Amazing protection vs. Electronic Mutant Detection. The Suits are also lined with a material designed by both Forge and Hank McCoy that provides body armor, Excellent vs. Physical and Energy. The armor is extremely light and is no thicker or heavier then a standard tee-shirt.

All of the X-Men have contacts with their teammates, past X-Men, the New Mutants and other X-Related groups, Professor Xavier, Lilandra, and the Starjammers.

Storm is the descendant of an ancient line of African priestesses, all of whom have white hair, blue eyes, and the potential to wield magic. Her mother, N'Dare, was the princess of a tribe in Kenya. She married the American photojournalist David Munroe and moved with him to Manhattan, where Ororo was born, but her parents moved to Cairo when she was only 6 months old. She lived there with her parents for five years in happiness, until the war came. She lost her parents during a bombing in which a building collapsed on the entire family, killing her parents and trapping her for several hours. Wandering the streets as an orphan, she soon was taken in by the Egyptian Master-Thief, Achmed El-Gibar, and trained by him in the art of thievery. Under his tutalege, she grew to be the best. She left him when she grew old enough to survive on her own, and somewhere along the way, she made her home near a tribe of East Africa, which worshipped her for many years as a wind-goddess. By this time, her mutant powers had developed, bestowing her with the power to call the wind, rains and lightning down from the sky and bend them to her will. These powers also allowed her to fly upon the winds. It was here that Xavier found her as a young woman and enlisted her help to free the original X-Men from Krakoa. 

Over the years, she shed her innocence and learned the ways of battle, coming to be a formidable combatant in hand to hand combat. She eventually came to lead the X-Men in time, after Cyclops' departure from the team, and proved to be quite capable of the job. Her true turning from her innocence happened when Angel was kidnapped by a group of reclusive mutants called the Morlocks. In her attempts to free him from Callisto, the Morlocks evil leader, she was forced to fight her in single combat, armed only with knives. Storm won that day, at the price of her innocence, driving the knife through Callisto's black heart and winning leadership of the Morlocks. Callisto would have died if not for the Morlock healer, and Storm was forced to reckon with her actions. She came to understand that sometimes circumstances go beyond mere good and evil, black and white, but vowed never to take another life ever again. It was during this period that she grew to be the strong and wise leader of the X-Men that she still is today. 

Storm did not stay with the Morlocks however, only visiting them on occasion, letting them lead their own lives without her leadership, her first loyalty still to the X-Men. She came to regret that decision when Mr. Sinister and his Marauders invaded the Morlock tunnels and laid waste to them all during the Mutant Massacre. The X-Men fought valiantly to save as many of the Morlocks as they could, and many of their own teammates were badly injured during the fight. Very few of the Morlocks escaped death however, and Storm feels the responsibility for that to this day. 

Also during this time, she lost her powers for quite some time, when a mutant named Forge was hired by the government to design a weapon which would steal a mutants abilities. Henry Gyrich was sent to neutralize Rogue, but hit Storm with the weapon instead when she leaped in the way. She met Forge shortly after his weapon deprived her of her power, under different circumstances. Not realizing that he was the man who had designed the nullifying weapon, she fell in love with him, and he with her. Their romance was doomed however, when she discovered him to be the one who created the weapon which had stolen her powers, and she parted ways with him. They met again during the Fall of the Mutants, where they were both swept off to a perfect world by the Naze, effectively removing them from the battle. While only moments passed on earth, they spent a year there, the only two living creatures in existance. It drew them together, and their love bloomed once more. Forge discovered a way to return her powers to her as well, during their time there. When they finally managed to free themselves of the world, she and the rest of the X-Men were called upon to sacrifice their lives to save the world from Naze's evil plans. They faced their deaths bravely, but remained dead only for mere moments before the goddess Roma restored them to life for their bravery. She made them invisible to all cameras and detections of any sort and offered to send them anywhere they wished to go. Deciding that the X-Men could move about more freely and accomplish more if the world believed them dead, they had Roma send them to a remote complex in Australia. 

Meanwhile, Forge believed Storm dead, and she put him from her heart in order to follow her goals with the X-Men as leader. The X-Men continued operations in Australia, covertly and all was routine for a time. Then the complex was attacked and during the battle, Storm was believed to be shot and killed by an energy blast, the team even finding her body after the fact. In truth, she was captured and reduced to a mere child by Nanny The-Orphan-Maker, and was held captive by her for some time. She escaped, wandering for a time, eventually landing in Cairo, Illinois. Here she was confronted by the Shadow King. Having no powers in her pre-pubescent stage, she would have fallen before him, had it not been for the mutant Gambit. He helped her escape and return to the X-Men, becoming a member of the team himself. Shortly after her return to the X-Men, the entire team was swept off to the island of Genosha, where the madman Hodge turned Storm into a mindless slave. Unbeknownst to Hodge, however, the Genegineer changed the process and returned Storm to her adult form, whereupon she regained her powers once again. She met up with Forge again, following that, and he asked her to marry him. She was going to accept, and leave the X-Men, but then he withdrew his offer, believing she would refuse him, before she could answer him. They have not spoken since. 

Scott, Bobby, Ororo, and Logan mysteriously awakened in an area unfamiliar to them. They appeared to have suffered a battle, but had no memory of the events. Scott and the other X-Men found that they were being tested by Onslaught. After finally defeating Post, they were teleported back to the mansion. the X-Men were forced to battle their mentor when Professor Xavier was transformed into the evil Onslaught as a result of mind-wiping Magneto. Although the X-Men defeated the evil entity and freed Prof. Xavier, most of Earth's heroes were lost for a time. Soon after returning from Hong Kong and battling with Shang-Chi against Wilson Fisk for the Elixir Vitae, hoping it would cure the Legacy Virus, the government sponsored mutant-hunting operation known as "Operation: Zero Tolerance" took effect, and the villainous Bastion captured X-Men Storm, Wolverine, Cannonball, Cyclops, and Phoenix. Months later, the eternal mutant Apocalypse made a bid for power by gathering together The Twelve, a group of mutants prophesied to usher in a golden age for their kind that counted Storm amongst their number. Apocalypse was defeated, but not before the ultimate extent of Storm's mutant power was revealed in an alternate future wherein she had evolved into a wholly elemental being. 

Not long after, Storm and five of her team mates formed a splinter group of X-Men, cutting all ties with the rest of the team to search for the diaries of the blind mutant seer Destiny that mapped the future of mutants. During a mission in Australia, Storm was reunited with Gambit who sought to obtain her mother's ruby. It was revealed that the ruby was part of a set that, when empowered, could open a portal between dimensions. Several of the gems had already gone missing, and Gambit wished to ensure that Storm's ruby remained safe. At that moment, the other-dimensional warrior named Shaitan attacked, capturing Gambit and stealing the ruby. Shaitan used the gems and Gambit's mutant ability to empower them, thus opening a portal allowing the armies of his master, Khan, to pass through and invade Earth. Storm's X-Men opposed the invaders, but she was seriously injured by Madripoor's ruling crimelord Viper and was subsequently taken prisoner by Khan himself. The warlord intended for Storm to be his queen, and commanded his physicians to heal her. Storm attempted to seduce Khan into calling off his invasion whilst her team mates fought to close the portal. Khan's other concubines grew jealous of Storm's advances and attempted to kill her. Despite her injuries, Storm prevailed and escaped, rejoining her team mates as they destroyed the portal. During her subsequent recuperation, which required her to undertake physical therapy to heal her back and legs, Storm and her team were asked back to the mansion to rejoin the core X-Men team. Storm declined, however, believing that there was still work for her team to do. During a world summit to address the increasing hostilities between humans and mutants, Storm offered her X-Men team's services to the United Nations as a global mutant police force, the X-Treme Sanctions Executive. Storm's first mission would be a solo one as she was charged with infiltrating and exposing an underground slave trading network that forced mutants to fight in gladiator-style arenas. Soon after, Storm and her team returned to Westchester to help rebuild the mansion following an attack by Magneto and stayed on to continue their new direction. Following the events of "M-Day," when the majority of the world's mutants lost their powers, Storm left the X-Men to return to Africa in order to safeguard depowered mutants. 

When the X-Men journeyed to Niganda to investigate reports of mutant animals, they ran into Black Panther. At the end of the mission, Storm stayed in Niganda to help the mutants affected there. During this time she came into conflict with an African Colonel named Shetani, who was hunting down and killing de-powered mutants in search of Storm. When she finally confronted him, he revealed to her that he was her uncle. Afterward, Shetani told Storm of a hidden village in Northwest Kenya where she met her grandmother for the first time. This finally prompted her to accept the Black Panther's marriage proposal. At the wedding of Storm and the Black Panther, Iron Man and Captain America showed up but leaving before the ceremony because neither of them could stand the sight of each other. Earlier, Charles Xavier made an appearance, telling Storm that as the queen of Wakanda, she was now the most important mutant in the world, and the living symbol of human/mutant relations. A role he believed she was born to play. When they were married, their essences were taken to the spirit world to seek the approval of the Panther God. Storm soon found she couldn't use her power in this plane. The Panther God accepted her into T'Challa's family. T'Challa and Ororo temporarily joined the Fantastic Four after the Civil War ended while Reed Richards and Sue Storm reconciled their damaged relationship. Ororo, also, helped the X-Men with settling an affair with the Morlocks. Ororo, Warpath, and Hepzibah journeyed underground to stop Masque from disfiguring anymore humans. After being rescued by Nightcrawler and Professor Xavier, they had Masque undo all of the damage. After the Fantastic Four, the Wakandans realized that the Skrulls had infiltrated their population. When the first ground troops arrived and were shot down, a ground battle commenced. T'Challa ordered Storm to "stick to the plan" and departed quickly, leaving her husband behind.

After building a new headquarters, Graymalkin Industries, and a brief battle against Magneto and some Sentinel robots, Cyclops sent word to all the world's mutants that San Francisco, which had welcomed the X-Men with open-arms, was now a safe haven for mutantkind and that all were welcomed to join them. Ororo found herself being bored with the life of royalty and returned to the X-Men. While at the Graymalkin Industries, Storm joined with Cyclops, Emma, Wolverine, Beast, and Armor and the group checked-on a mysterious death, that seemed to be mutant related. After following a trail of mysteriously genetically-created mutants and death, the X-Men finally ended on Wundagore Mountain. There, they confronted Forge, who revealed his true madness. Forge endeavored to save the world from the Annexation, an invasion from a parallel world on the other side of the Ghost Box, the trans-dimensional teleporter, and planned this by sending the X-Men to the parallel universe that was home to the Ghost Boxes, to destroy them before the Annexation could begin. After forcibly opening the Ghost Box, risking all life on Earth, Abigail Brand and Beast fired a world-destroying laser into the opening of the Ghost Box. Before everything could be destroyed, Ororo offered Forge a chance to come back with them and Forge screamed of his rejection by Ororo for marriage and she let him go. Forge remained in his complex as it was destroyed and seemingly perished in the ensuing laser blast. 

While aiding the X-Men and ruling the Nation of Wakanda, Ororo was challenged by the Shadow King to choose between the two, by controlling N'Gassi and framing Gentle for murder. After Storm released Nezhno, they were confronted outside by the Wakandan army, Black Panther, and the Dora Milaje, when T'Challa told the waiting crowd that marrying Storm was a mistake and turned to wink at her. After being drawn to the Astral Plane, Storm confronted the Shadow King and he told her of how he controlled everyone, including Cyclops back in New York to kill the X-Men. Black Panther ordered his guards to kill Storm and Gentle and she retaliated with a lightning bolt, then froze the guards and escaped with Nezhno into the forest. Storm concentrated on atmospheric disturbances in order to find Cyclops flying back to San Francisco and destroyed the Blackbird with a lightning bolt, to save the X-Men. After the Dora Milaje attacked, Gentle saved himself and Storm, but the Black Panther arrived to fight Storm. After she overcame him, T'Challa said that he was free of the Shadow King and asked Storm to help him up, but she kicked him in the face, knowing that the real T'Challa would never ask for help. After returning to the palace, Storm prayed to the Panther God to prove to the Wakandan people that Storm was the rightful ruler and several panthers come from around the city, walk through the army, and bow to Storm. The army, then, dropped their guns and bowed to their queen. Storm and Gentle traveled to San Francisco to stop Cyclops and when they arrived, the Shadow King possessed all of the X-Men to battle her. After Storm separated all of the X-Men, the Shadow King left Cyclops and entered Ororo. Unknown to the Shadow King, the Panther God, was hiding inside Storm's mind. Bast ate the Shadow King, freeing everyone from his control and Storm performed CPR to revive Cyclops. After returning briefly to Wakanda to spend time with her recuperated husband, Ororo took Gentle back to the X-Men, stating that she is cable of doing both. 

Storm aided the team again when Kaga vowed to kill the X-Men, using bio-Sentinels of mixed X-Men friends and enemies, because he was jealous that they could appear normal with their mutations and he could not. Storm battled the Hellfire Cult, the Red Queen's Sisterhood of Mutants, and relocated on Utopia with the X-Men. After setting-up on Utopia, Storm and Iceman were responsible for the clean drinking water for all of the mutant population. After the return of the mutant messiah, Hope Summers, and Cable to the mainstream timeline, Bastion and his members of the Human Council attacked her tirelessly and Nightcrawler was killed returning her to Utopia. After Ororo attended Kurt's funeral, Bastion systematically eliminated all of the teleporters, except Pixie, from the X-Men's ranks and had Donald Pierce destroy all transportation off the island. Bastion, then, encased the island and much of the San Francisco Bay Area in an impenetrable dome. At the center of the dome, Bastion opened a time portal to his own time where sentinels ruled and mutants were extinct and sent a beacon to a Master Mold Sentinel to send an endless wave of Nimrods. 

After Bastion was destroyed, Storm fought with the X-Men against the Vampires that had invaded San Francisco and as asked by Cyclops to aide Warren, after Lobe unleashed his mutant plague on Utopia. Warren's small group, consisting of Northstar, Dazzler, and Pixie, safe-guarded San Francisco. The team defeated the Collective Man and captured Lobe's imitation X-Men. Looking to replenish the ranks of the Avengers, Captain America approached the Black Panther, who declined Steve’s offer to return to the team, but recommended Storm for membership. Calling Storm to Avengers’ Mansion, which was swarming with the media and public supporters of the heroes, Captain America asked Storm to join the team. The new Avengers team now consists of Storm, Captain America, Iron Man, Red Hulk, The Protector, Spider Woman, Hawkeye, Quake and Vision. The press conference was interrupted by a holographic image of Norman Osborne, who accused the Avengers of a litany of criminal offenses against him, and that H.A.M.M.E.R. would rise to challenge the Avengers. Captain America had the Avengers begin an immediate search for Osborne's whereabouts, teaming Storm up with Red Hulk, but all of them were surprised attacked and held captive by Osborne's H.A.M.M.E.R forces. They were eventually freed by Quake, and Storm and the Avengers defeated Osborne and shut down his bases of operation! 

Storm was summoned by Captain America to an Avengers meeting detailing their plans for the coming of the Phoenix Force and to prepare in case of a fight against the mutants of Utopia. Storm left in disgust, siding with her fellow mutants against the Avengers. After Namor attacked and almost destroyed Wakanda searching for the Avengers, T'Challa named the X-Men enemies of his country. Feeling Ororo betrayed their people by siding with the X-Men, and after Storm threw down her ring after a confrontation with her husband, the High Priest of the Panther Cult had their marriage annulled. Despite this, Storm still aided the Avengers to free their teammates from the Phoenix imbued X-Men, and in the final confrontation to defeat the Phoenix. In the wake of the Avengers vs X-Men conflict, Storm returned to the school and was immediately hired as a teacher. However, when Beast brings in the teenage versions of the original 5 X-men, Kitty Pryde takes it upon herself to train and guide them, and asks Storm to become the Headmistress of the Jean Grey School in her stead, and Ororo accepted. Storm, who was dealing with anger issues after the High Priest of the Panther Cult ended her marriage to T'Challa, and Psylocke were sent an e-mail by Wolverine's old friend Puck. An e-mail that contained a tip about a drug dealer selling TAO, a drug that makes people susceptible to a hive mind mentality. The two X-Women met Puck at a bar in L.A., and he led them to an old bank from the 20’s that the drug dealer – the diva of downtown LA - uses to sell drugs and dance. Storm and Psylocke quickly realized the dealer was Spiral, and Betsy quickly attacks her. Storm and Puck head to the bank vault, and find a scared little girl inside the vault, who mentally orders the people at the club to attack Betsy.Tracking Spiral and the girl, Ginny, the three heroes were attacked in Spiral's flat by a returned from the future Bishop, leaving Storm surprised to once again see her friend completely gone rogue.