Exobiology: N'Garai

N'Garai

An ancient race of demonic-looking creatures, the N'Garai ruled Earth eons ago. They are large gray creatures, with have large heads with rows of sharp teeth, poison-covered claws and powerful tails. Some variants also sport bat-like wings. Their legs are typically dog-shaped, with large feet of which they use their tiptoes to stand. After years of slavery to the "demons," human mages banished the N'Garai to another dimension and sealed them in with stone cairns carved with mystical symbols. One such cairn resides on the property of the X-Mansion.

Years ago, while wandering the grounds in grief over the death of Thunderbird I, Cyclops unleashed his eye blasts and cracked the cairn. Cyclops did not know the cairn's purpose, and so did not see the N'Garai leader Kierrok emerge until he attacked the Mansion.

The X-Men defeated Kierrok, but the cairn, once broken, proved difficult to keep closed. Storm fought a number of the demons while trying to destroy the cairn, and another attacked Kitty Pryde in the Mansion. Kitty barely escaped with her life, surviving by luring the N'Garai into range of the Blackbird's afterburners.

The N'Garai lay low for a while, but then tried to breach the dimensional barrier in the Bermuda Triangle. Only a few vacationing X-Men and (ironically) the vampiric Bloodscream managed to stop the N'garai before their hordes could overrun our world. Later, a N'Garai that escaped the Xavier grounds cairn was followed back to its home by Wolverine and Nightcrawler. Wolverine vowed not to leave until he had wiped out the N'Garai, and managed to get to Kierrok himself. Kierrok and Wolverine wounded each other severely in their epic battle, and Kierrok realized that he had to get rid of Wolverine, so he banished him (and Nightcrawler) back to Earth and sealed the cairn.

Months later, when Wolverine was attacked by other strange creatures called the Ru'tai, the X-Men learned that the N'Garai had been overthrown by the Ru'tai slaves they had oppressed for years. The revolution also seemed to have been accomplished with the help of one "Maekith," who it appears was Wolverine himself, when he was previously in the N'Garai dimension (apparently for years due to the time distortion between here and there).

The N'Garai, however, were not content to be conquered and soon teamed with Belasco to open a cairn in Limbo, from which they could then launch assaults on any dimension, at any time. For this plan, Belasco tricked Shadowcat into performing a spell that gave five N'Garai the forms of the X-Men, who then went to collect the souls of still more X-Men, filling a talisman with bloodstones for the plan's final stage ceremony. Fortunately, Magik II was able to rally some of the unaffected X-Men to her side to stop the spell from being cast. The N'garai remain trapped in their dimension.

A "future" N'Garai
Note: A future version of a N'Garai once emerged from a cairn in Limbo. This specimen was covered from head to tail in massive spikes and armor. Fortunately, the X-Men were in Limbo at the time fending off the current N'Garai during their partnership with Belasco, and the spiked N'Garai was destroyed by Thunderbird III.

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