Organization: Spiral Dawn / Spiral Ascendant

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Wyvern
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Organization: Spiral Dawn / Spiral Ascendant

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Spiral Dawn is a charitable organization founded by a rich mutant as a support organization for mutants. It favors those who are born with mutations (powered or not), but will also help those who've been subjected to various forms of genetic modification, or those who are born with powers (even if they are not technically mutants - or, in some cases, not technically even human). It runs a number of orphanages & special-needs schools, lobbies for relevant legal changes, etcetera.

In some places Spiral Dawn is seen as a generic program to help powered individuals of all sorts, despite its founder's pro-mutant agenda.

In other places it serves as a simple cover for the Spiral Ascendant genetic supremacist group - a villain faction dedicated to creating a new "homo superior" species. Fortunately for the heroes (and unfortunately for anyone caught in the crossfire), the Spiral Ascendant is not a monolithic group, and factional infighting is common.

(Note on mutation as a source of powers: this certainly shouldn't be the only available source of powers. Thematically, it makes sense for mutants to start being born after the Trinity test in 1945 - or at least, for that point in time to mark a definite up-tick in the number of people who have "mutation" as an origin for their powers.)
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