Ororo Munroe is a powerful mutant with the ability to control the weather, usually known as the magnificent windrider Storm. Having been orphaned after a plane crashed and destroyed her home, the young Ororo became a sneak thief on the streets of Cairo under the tutelage of Achmed El Gibár. As a teenager, she travelled through Africa, eventually reaching the Serengeti plains, before she settled in the Uzuri Tribe in Kenya, where she was venerated by the locals as a goddess for using her abilities to ease the droughts in the arid desert. Eventually approached by Professor Xavier, Ororo was baptised Storm to join his X-Men, a mutant group aimed at implementing peace between humans and mutants.