The sly and deceitful Mara-Al-Utha was banished by his fellow Quintessons long ago, in the era when they still controlled Cybertron, for dabbling in the forbidden arts of sorcery. Surprisingly benevolent in their choice of punishments they sent him to the magic-filled other-dimensional realm of Menonia, where he apprenticed with the sorcerer known as the Golden One, eventually betraying him and seizing power for himself.