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This clause contains spoilers forExcalibur#11 .
TheX - Men’sGambitseems to have just stolen the Marvel Multiverse ’s large secret . Remy LeBeau grew up in the Thieves ' Guild , and he ’s hone slip to an graphics form . In fact , over the last years Gambit has come up through the ranks until eventually becomingKing of the Thieves ' Guild .
But this week’sExcalibur#11 find out Remy LeBeau make the easiest score of his vocation . He and Rogue are in the Starlight Citadel , at the center of Otherworld . This is the nursing home of Saturnyne and her Priestesses of the White , and it ’s unfriendly territory for the X - Men . But , while Saturnyne steps away to discourse withBetsy Braddock ’s Captain Britain , she makes the mistake of leaving Gambit and Rogue alone . Here at the heart and soul of the Starlight Citadel , there ’s no surety , because nobody ask a thief . Gambit ca n’t resist an unlocked closet .
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The closet contains a wide stove of dissimilar items , from swords to scroll , from mirrors to a mysterious jewel . Gambit , of course , strike the jewel . He does n’t know it , but this belongs to Saturnyne herself ; she was frequently seen wear it in the Chris Claremont era . But this is far more than just another " pretty thing " that has get Gambit ’s middle ; early inExcalibur#11 , Apocalypse give away the jewel ’s straight story to Rictor .
According to Apocalypse , in the twelfth century he and several other immortal mutants called the Externals performed a saturnine ritual . They transferred the power of one of their own , Candra , into a occult muffin . It contains the essence of an External ’s power , making it one of the greatest mutant artifacts of all clock time . Somehow , it seems , Saturnyne gain Candra ’s gem - and thus has on the QT been maintain an External ’s powers all these geezerhood . Now Gambit possesses the gemstone , with no idea what it can do . There ’s a sure degree of irony to this , give Candra has been heavily involved with the Thieves ' Guild in the past .
Apocalypse has engineered a mysterious scheme to bring the Adam - Men into conflict with Saturnyne , last so far as toestablish Jamie Braddock as vanquisher of Otherworld . It ’s possible all this was to gain Candra ’s gem , to possess her power for reasons as yet unrevealed . If so , Gambit has blunder into Apocalypse ’s plans with his traditional hutzpah , and Apocalypse - who is still in the real world , not in Otherworld at all - has no musical theme . The easily lay plan of mice , men , and mutants often go amiss - especially when a certain Cajun charmer gets involved .
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