When their world had depleted their resources and began to search the cosmos, the Thanagarians were distraught to find that no world existed on the same dimensional frequency as their own. These visitors were a pair of Thanagarians, an avian race whose star had become unstable and had caused the planets orbiting it (and the inhabitants living on those planets) to shift into a ‘shadow’ dimension. Using his magic, he pulled the craft to Earth and used his magic to anchor it temporarily in a corporeal state. One night while stargazing, Nabu sensed an unearthly pair of visitors near Earth.
Nabu would find what he needed from an unlikely source. As the body of his host became increasingly frail, Nabu began to fear losing complete control and sought a means to bypass the composition of minds, looking for a method which would give him direct control of a mortal body. This mystic and Nabu became a royal sorcerer of many pharaoh and eventually the mortal mind was lost to senility, leaving only Nabu. These talismans were the Cloak of Destiny and the Amulets of Anubis. Fascinated by this nation’s people, Nabu found a mystic with a mind open enough to receive instruction to create talismans of such magical ability to allow their wearer to directly merge with Nabu, becoming a composite entity. Looking closer, he found the ancient kingdom of Egypt. At some point, Nabu took an interest in the magical nexus of Earth. One among the Lords of Order that sought the more direct approach was Nabu. Some chose to do this directly, while others preferred to act through agents. Lacking physical forms, they would have to find ways to assert their consciousness through agents. While the Lords of Chaos were the manifestations of destruction, entropy, and discord the Lords of Order sought creation, unity, and stability. Even these cosmic beings are not sure why they exist, unaware that they were created by the Monitor of the 27th Reality to intrinsically oppose each other and through their agents create tension and conflict which would then create what the Monitor desired most: stories. Perhaps the first example of this was the Lords of Chaos and their counterparts in the Lords of Order. Though these three events contributed to the rise of the ‘superhero’ and ‘supervillain’, for as long as there has been an Earth, there have been those who have gained unspeakable power and likewise, as there is balance in all things, there would rise people of likewise ability to defy them.
Likewise, this is also referenced as the inspiration for the rise of the “costumed criminal.”
The beginning of Batman's career in Gotham, which inspired others to put on masks, capes, and costumes to take a stand against crime and corruption.The meteor storm of 1978 which theoretically introduced alien particles into Earth’s atmosphere which interacted with the human genome, causing an increase in the number of persons with meta-genes.Most scholars that studied the metahuman emergence and the corresponding rise of the superhero point to three major events: Unknown Biography Nabu: Prehistory - Present