OK, so there's Limbo, realm ruled at various points by Belasco, Illyana Rasputin, Amanda Sefton, probably some other folks.
Then there's Limbo, the place Rom, Greatest of the SpaceKnights, sends any Dire Wraith stupid enough to cross his path*.
So, same Limbo, or different Limbos? If they're the same, then the X-Men might want to take a closer look at Illyana, 'cause she could be a Dire Wraith, and we don't need those freaks running loose in the Marvel Universe again**. If they're different Limbos, well then, somebody has trademark infringement issues to be concerned about.
Well, Wikipedia says they're different places, so trademark infringement it is. And trademark infringement issues can only be settled through war! War between Demons and Wraiths! I'm not sure why the demons would care, but it seems fairly easy to get to Earth from their Limbo, so I have to think the Wraiths would be interested in that. Plus, magic is apparently easier to use in Demon Limbo (or "Otherplace"), so the Sorcerer Wraiths would be more than eager to exploit that.
Granted, there's the issue of how the Wraiths get there, but if Kang/Immortus can have a place in Wraith Limbo they can come and go to as they please, I'm sure the Wraiths can come up with a way to make it to Otherplace. Maybe they could design a spell to have themselves drawn towards the demonic energy. Or, since time operates differently in Otherplace, there might be a loophole around the Wraiths being trapped in a dimension outside time***.
* Excluding the ones he just outright killed, of course.
** Or do we? No, we don't. They could kill Norman Osborn for us, then be destroyed while impersonating him. That would be helpful.
*** I think that would have the added benefit of explaining why, if the Wraiths can escape Limbo, they don't just head back to Earth (or somewhere in that universe) directly. It would be like "You can't get there from here, but you can reach this other there from here, and from the other there you can reach the first there, which is the there where you wanted to be along".
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You've got to figure Immortus (and Kang possibly if he's in "True Limbo") probably keep the Dire Wraith population down quite a bit. The last thing either of them would really want is to have a major army of sorcerous skrulls as powerful neighbors. That might prevent the Wraiths invading.
As for the Demons, I think it would depend on who's ruling Limbo, and how independent the Demons are.
The 2nd Magick miniseries (Amanda Sefton as Magick) seemed to indicate that one of Limbo's purposes is to serve as a barrier between the other mystical dimensions and Earth.
So the demons could probably only afford to invade True Limbo if there was no threat of a possible invasion from the realms of Dormammu, Mephisto, etc.
Now a grand alliance of all of those powers invading Immortus' Limbo...that would be a cool comic.
seangreyson: Yeah, I could see Kang testing his armies against the Wraiths in between campaigns. "If you can kill some Wraiths, you can conquer an entire era!"
We sort of had a team-up of demon realms in Engelhart's hellcat mini-series, when Mephisto tried to form an alliance with Satannish, Hellstrom, Hela, and Pluto to defend their realms against Dormmammu. It didn't really get much attention though, since the focus was on Patsy's struggles to cope with escaping Hell.
The Hellcat reference reminds me that X-infernus also had the Lords of the mystical realms meeting (some sort of Council summoned by Belasco's daughter or something).
Maybe they'll actually do something with that concept (it isn't Bendis's story but it could work pretty well in the whole Sorcerer Supreme arc in New Avengers).
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