A YJA Moment - Ages of Magic

What sorcerers call Magic is the best utilized but no less mysterious of all the emanations of the source.  By the combination of a person's will channeled through specific rituals and personal sacrifice, a variety of potent effects can be manifested.  However, much like a mystical iceberg, the knowledge of the magical community is but a small part of the entire spectrum of the arcane.  It is very easy for magicians, though a rash action or accidental convergence of factors creates a devastating and uncontrolled magical effect.

Normally one can rely on the Rock of Eternity and its Guardian of Magic to act as a filter for arcane flows, preventing disruptions from tearing the fabric of magic asunder.  However, there are times when the disruption is so great, the effect so widespread, that even the Rock has difficulty returning things to normal.  When the mystic storms subside and things return to normal, will-workers find that the reformed flows have been forever altered.

It is in those times when the current Age of Magic comes to an end, and a new one dawns. Because using magic relies on specific requirements the dawning of a new Age can have disastrous consequences across the entire Universe.

Wizards may find they are unable to cast spells, while previously normal individuals are endowed with great power.  The normal boons and banes of supernatural creatures can be forever altered, allowing Vampires to walk in the daylight and make Werewolves immune to silver.  Even the great Sorcerer Supreme can lose their position, finding it thrust upon another often unknown individual.  Worse yet, magical prisons could be wiped away, allowing horrific entities freedom to sow chaos.

When the cosmic imbalance known as the Anti-Life Equation grew in Pleasant Hills, it caused da great disturbance in the fabric of reality.  All the emanations of the Source were affected and this left the Rock unable to calm of the ripples within the flows of magic.  A new Age of Magic was about to dawn in with these unique circumstances, no one knew what that would bring.

Thankfully, the Avengers were able to stop the expression of the Anti-Life equation with the sacrifice of the Vision, the Reverse-Flash, Mercury, and Nate Gray.  With that, the turning of the Age was averted, if only for a few centuries.

A YJA Moment: Orchis

Henry Peter Gyrich had long craved power.  He achieved a measure of his goals when he assumed leadership of Checkmate, the intelligence & operations branch of the secretive group known as Weapons Plus.  Gryrich's first step was to reveal Checkmate to the world, using the uncertainty of current events to absorb its rival the Office of National Emergency.

This proved to be a disastrous decision, both for Checkmate and Weapons Plus as a whole.  Due to the actions of the Resistance, the Avengers were able to turn the political and public opinion against Checkmate.  Because anonymity was always Weapons Plus greatest strength, the actions of Gyrich threatened to reveal all of the shadow organizations' dirty secrets.

Ironically it would be the enemies of Checkmate, the Brotherhood of Mutants that would provide Weapons Plus with a solution.  In retaliation for the widely-maligned attack on the Xavier Mansion, the Brotherhood's leader, Magneto, dropped an Aircraft Carrier on one of Gyrich's press conferences.  The Director and his senior leadership were killed instantly, along with an assortment of innocent bystanders.

Killian Devo, former Scientist Supreme of the villainous organization A.I.M. had been offered clemency by Weapons Plus in exchange for his servitude.  Years of successful projects had earned him the respect of his handlers, eventually allowing him to have his sentence commuted and granting him leadership within the organization. 

With the chaos that followed, the still-secret elements of Weapons Plus severed their ties to Checkmate and descended into the shadows once again.  Dr. Devo severed the remaining connections with the United States government and used his connections within the  elements of A.I.M. and HYDRA to pull in additional resources.  The result was a renewed organization which they code-named Orchis.

Seeing themselves as the last hope for humanity, Orchis is embarking on a bold plan to stop the tides of evolution and end the threat of metahumans once and for all.

Little do they know the first shots of this war had long been planned by another, one with an agenda separate from both Orchis and the Brotherhood...

A YJA Moment: Mr. Tawny

The stalwart companion of the Marvel family is the individual known as Tawny.  In the few years since he emerged, his appearance and demeanor hs changed.  This is because, the being is, in fact, two merged beings, one physical and one spiritual.

The physical part of the pairing is an enhanced tiger from Northern India. Captured by the Brain and Monsieur Mallah, he was genetically altered and injected with an ultra-steroid made from a combination of the Blockbuster serum and the drug Venom.  Freed by the original Captain Marvel, he was named "Mr. Tawny" and housed him in the Rock of Eternity.

Sometime later, Mr. Tawny came to the attention of an immortal spirit that also inhabited the Rock.  This spirit had many names over his lifetime and was known to possess various willing individuals and animals in order to experience the living world.

The spirit communed with Mr. Tawny and eventually, they became good friends.  With the tiger's permission, the spirit merged his essence with the animal, become a completely new being in the process.  The magic of the Rock of Eternity further altered the Tiger, granting him an anthropomorphic form.

The New Mr. Tawny has become a world-traveler and adventurer.  Armed with years of knowledge and a web of connections, he scours the secret places for mysteries and undiscovered phenomenon. 
He has continued a relationship with the Wizard Marvel, as well as Mary Bromfield the new Captain Marvel.