Origin
Delage is the elected leader of the United Tribes of the Savage Land. A peaceful settlement located in the Savage Lands, co-governed by humans, simians and saurian species. A series of events leads X-Men members Rogue, Beast, Thunderbird, Bishop, Storm and Sage to head to the Savage Lands and with them they bring a group of Saurid refugees, The People lead by C’rel and Khadar. During the trip several saurids including Khadar become lost. C’rel and her group manage to find Delage’s ground and settlement though and she is overjoyed to find a community compromised of humans and saurids living together in harmony and peace. It is a short lived joy however as Delage explains that there are some dangerous and violent saurid sects that wish to bring violence and upheaval to their peaceful integrated settlement. C’rel is saddened by this news as she was hoping to have put fighting behind her and her people.
Beast pledges the help of the X-Men to ward off the violent groups hostility. C’rel is reluctant but decides that it is worth it to fight for her dream and she lends support to Delage and stands beside him when they rally their troops to prepare for battle against the violent band of saurids. She also believes that this opposing violent group may be holding members of her people hostage.
Creation
Delage is a Marvel comics published character created by Chris Claremont, Kevin Sharpe, Danny Miki, and Larry Slacker. The character first appears in the X-Treme X-Men: Savage Land mini series, appearing in X-Treme X-Men: Savage Land #2 – Deluge released in 2001.
Major Story Arcs
The Confrontation
The group led by Delage and C’rel head into the wilder areas of the Savage Land, backed by Rogue, Thunderbird, Beast and his new companion Lupa. The first opposition comes from Pterosaurs that swoop from the sky, Beast is enchanted by Lupa who is a double agent and seducing him with her powers, so he fails to alert the main group, but Rogue manages to punch one before being hammered by another. Then the main group is attacked by dozens of vicious velociraptors. C’rel nobly and perhaps naively attempts to get all sides to lay arms down and work towards a peaceful non violent solution, but she is surrounded by only bloodshed. When a velociraptor attempts to kill Delage however C’rel is forced into action and sets aside her pacifism to save the life of her new ally. The group faces a larger threat when saurids atop massive tyrannosaurus rex dinosaurs rid into battle. Worst C’rel recognizes one of the riders as Khadar. As Beast fights Khadar C’el makes her appeal and they realize that fighting has been a misunderstanding and that Khadar believed that Delage was keeping saurids as prisoners. The fighting ceases and the two groups head back to the United Tribes settlement.
Powers and Abilities
Delage doesn’t appear to possess any superhuman abilities or powers but he does appear to have social and political skill and ability, and was elected by many humans and saurians to lead the United Tribes of the Savage Lands suggesting he is very charismatic with strong leadership qualities or very lucky.