The circumstances of their separation from their clan were so traumatic that not until well into adulthood could they remember anything but the barest details of their childhood. Using his phenomenal speed, Pietro fled from the camp with his sister. Afflicted by poverty and the lack of opportunities to provide for his family, Django began to steal food for his starving family and enraged villagers attacked their caravan. Under their family's protection, Wanda explored her mystic potential freely while Pietro manifested an unusual superspeed power. The witches then returned Wanda to her family. The battle only ended once Wanda was able to manifest her hex powers for the first time, accidentally allowing Chthon to reach out to her soul and make it known that Wanda was not allowed to join any coven. However, servants of Chthon, Taboo and Damballah, interfered with Wanda's initiation. They hoped to recruit Wanda into their coven as an apprentice, being able to predict her future as a relevant magic wielder. Calderu approached Marya Maximoff and had her bring Wanda to Castle Russoff. Wanda's potential for magic eventually attracted the attention of a powerful coven formed by Margali Szardos, Maria Russoff, and Lilia Calderu.

Wanda and Pietro lived a happy childhood, constantly travelling alongside their foster parents' tribe in Central and Eastern Europe. Instead, a disappointed Evolutionary returned the babies to Django and Marya Maximoff. However, the former fled in desperation while the latter perished after a miscarriage. Bova and the Evolutionary attempted to have the twins to be adopted by World War II heroes Whizzer and Miss America. From that moment on, she acquired a natural latent talent for the practice of magic. While under the Evolutionary's care, the newborn Wanda Maximoff was imbued with the mystic energies of the Wundagore Mountain, which was in fact a prison for the demon-lord of chaos known as Chthon. The babies were nursed by one of the Evolutionary's servants, the humanoid cow and midwife Bova. The High Evolutionary made alterations to the twins' genomes, disguising them as regular mutants. When the High Evolutionary and his Knights ravaged the region where the Maximoffs lived in search of babies for his experiments, the twins were kidnapped by a catholic priest and brought to the Evolutionary's citadel on the Wundagore Mountain, in Transia. Afraid of harming her children due to her perilous lifestyle, Natalya Maximof placed the babies under the care of her brother, the ventriloquist Django, and his wife, the gentle Marya. Wanda Maximoff and her twin brother, Pietro, were born to a nomadic Romani witch named Natalya near Novi Pazar, in Serbia. Moreover, when secretly attending the Hellfire Gala, a mutant fashion event, the Scarlet Witch was mysteriously assassinated, which led to an even more puzzling investigation. More recently, she found herself dealing with the threat of Chthon once again by getting into contact with his book, the Darkhold. įor years, after a long recovery by rejoining the Avengers, the Scarlet Witch has been haunted by her actions in a journey for redemption. This action became known as the mutant decimation. As the Avengers and the X-Men battled to restore reality, she uttered the words 'No More Mutants', wiping out the super-abilities of most mutants in retaliation of Magneto's extremism. Subsequently, in a major display of her powers, the Scarlet Witch reshaped reality, making mutants the dominant lifeform on Earth ruling as the House of M, based on Magneto's wishes. After she attacked the Avengers twice, the group disassembled. The trauma of losing her family made her mentally vulnerable.

In order to form a family with her artificial husband, she used her abilities to create two twin boys, but the spell was later broken, erasing the boys from existence, a tragedy that was accompanied by her husband being dismantled. As an Avenger, Maximoff fell in love with and married her synthezoid teammate, the Vision.

She also had in the demon lord of chaos Chthon an archnemesis. The Scarlet Witch was trained by Agatha Harkness in order to explore her naturally powerful magical abilities. Disagreeing with Magneto's ruthless approach, the twins left him and joined the super-heroic Avengers instead. After being saved from an angry mob by Magneto, the Scarlet Witch and her brother joined the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants to fight for Magneto's mutant supremacy cause. The Scarlet Witch became a conduit of chaos magic, allowing her to shift probabilities and warp reality itself in the form of 'hexes'. Once believed to have been mutant children of Magneto, the twins are in truth orphans enhanced by the High Evolutionary at Mount Wundagore. Wanda Maximoff, also known as the Scarlet Witch, is a Romani Transian sorceress and twin sister of the speedster Quicksilver.

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