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“I am a woman, a mutant, a thief, an X-Men, a lover, a wife, a queen. I am all these things. I am Storm, and for me, there are no such things as limits.”

Ororo Iqadi T’Challa (née Munroe) is the descendant of an ancient line of African priestesses. Her mother, N’Dare, was the princess of a tribe in Kenya, while her father was an American photojournalist named David Munroe. She was born in New York City, New York and moved to Cairo, Egypt when she was six months old.

At the age of five, a bomb destroyed their home. Ororo’s parents were killed, but she survived, buried under rubble near her mother’s body. This traumatizing effect left Ororo with the severe claustrophobia that still afflicts her today.

Ororo managed to escape the rubble of her shattered home with nothing but the tattered clothes on her back and her mother’s ancestral ruby. Homeless and orphaned, Ororo was found by a gang of street urchins who took her to their master, Achmed El Gibár. Achmed trained Ororo in the arts of thievery and she soon became his prize pupil, excelling in picking both pockets and locks. During her time in Cairo, Ororo picked the pocket of an American tourist. The man proved no easy mark, however, as he was Charles Xavier, a powerful mutant telepath who used his abilities to stop the theft. At that moment, Xavier was psionically attacked by another mutant and Ororo used the opportunity to escape.

(text from Marvel Wiki)