Over 1,000,000 years before the present, the early human mutant known as Firehair became the avatar of the Phoenix Force and - overcome by its destructive impulses - nearly razed the planet. Realizing the danger that beings like her posed to the Earth, she began assembling a team of supernatural and mystically-augmented individuals to protect the nascent humanity from both outside threats and itself; recruiting the Asgardian god Odin Borson. Together, Firehair and Odin recruited the demigod sorcerer Agamotto, the Black Panther of the Panther Tribe, the demonically-empowered Ghost Rider, Iron Fist, and Starbrand.
