Arcane ritual with five arcane relics, where the people were granted either immense power or they paid the ultimate price. Those relics, when brought together and the ritual performed, allowed the five who possessed them to be blessed or cursed with: power, knowledge, immortality, insanity, and death. But the catch was that those powers didn't seem what they were at first: what first seemed madness was in fact knowledge, what seemed power was madness, and death seemed like immortality. One recorded Gathering of the Five was brought together by Norman Osborn when he sought power.