Pre-Inhuman Attilan[]

50,000 years ago, Attilan, the Island of the Gods, was a technologically advanced city,^[6] located in the North Atlantic Ocean.^[7]

Phadion and Rhaya were exiled off the island for opposing Kadir, along with Tuk,^[6] heir of Attilan, possibly their son,^[8] and the first offspring of the Inhumans. Tuk lived among the mortals, and his genetic code passed down through generation, increasing the ordinary humans' susceptibility to mutation.^[9]

Inhuman settlement[]

This section contains material that has since been modified/retconned.

About 7,000 years ago,^[10][11] or even since at least 10,000 BC (12,000 years ago),^[11] the Inhumans settled on Attilan, founded by their leader King Myran, developing their civilization.^[12]

About 2,500 years ago^[12] (or nearly three millennia ago),^[13] a floating city known as Aerie was built above Attilan as a new home for the winged Inhumans known as the Bird People. However, increased antagonism between the arrogant "people of the sky" and the "groundlings" soon led to the Winged Ones deciding to secede from Attilan. After hundreds of screams were heard coming from Aerie, King Nestor acknowledged their secession by having the sky-city cut free from the pylon that had anchored it above Attilan, allowing the winds to carry it far away.^[12][13]

20th Century[]

Moved to Himalayas[]

With humanity's technological advancement, the Inhumans began to worry that their city might be found. After listening to scouting reports from Triton, who recommended the creation of a safer refuge where the Inhumans could remain forever hidden, Black Bolt agreed and set out in search of a suitable haven.^[14] Black Bolt examined multiple desolate areas but rejected them because they weren't sufficiently isolated. Then, while searching in the Arctic, Black Bolt encountered Ikaris who brought him to Olympia to meet other Eternals. Learning of Black Bolt's quest, Zuras offered the help of his people and together they found a suitable location in an isolated valley in the Himalayas range where the Eternals used their combined powers to excavate a great pit in which the foundation of a new city could be built.^[15] After returning to Attilan, Black Bolt authorized his council of engineers to prepare for the transference of their civilization via massive sky-arks. However, before the preparations were completed, an encounter with a little girl who was crying because she and her parents would have to leave their home inspired Black Bolt to adopt the much more ambitious plan of moving the entire city and the island upon which it rested. After many weeks of preparation, Attilan was successfully transported from the North Atlantic to the Himalayas where it was landed in that excavated pit.^[16]

Modern Age[]

Through the manipulations of Maximus, the mad brother of Black Bolt, the rest of the royal family was forced into exile.^[17] After living in exile for many years, and the Royal Family returned to the Great Refuge, and forced Maximus to relinquish the throne. In an insane attempt to strike back against humanity, Maximus activated a device called the Atmo-Gun. By reversing the Atmo-Gun's polarity, he generated a null barrier that completely surrounded the Great Refuge, cutting them off from the rest of the humanity.^[18] The barrier was eventually destroyed through the application of Black Bolt's sonic voice.^[19]

Attilan became heavily damaged when Black Bolt screamed during his conflict against Shatterstar and the League of Evil Inhumans. Instead of rebuilding, Black Bolt proposed commandeering Shatterstar's spaceship in order to colonise another planet.^[20] A handful of Inhumans led by Thraxon remained on Earth and rebuilt Attilan in their absence.^[21]

Attilan came to the attention of world leaders after being discovered by the Fantastic Four. With the Inhumans growing ill from pollution caused by humanity, the city was moved again. This time to the Blue Area of the Moon.^[22] The royal family was once again put into exile years later, this time by the Genetics Council after the unlawful birth of Black Bolt and Medusa's son, Ahura.^[23] In a scheme involving Morgan le Fey and the Genetics Council, Attilan was shrunk down to bottle-size and transported back to Earth, where it expanded on the site of water-breathing Atlantis, recently raised to the surface.^[24]

Black Bolt once again began to fear human involvement in their lives, and orchestrated an elaborate ruse to make it appear as if Attilan was destroyed when in fact it was teleported back into isolation in the Himalayas.^[25] Attilan was later stolen by Ronan the Accuser as property of the Kree Empire, and the Inhumans chose to remain in space for a time absent the royal family.^[26] Eventually, however, it was re-established on the Blue Area of the Moon, with permission of Uatu the Watcher.^[27]

Into Space & Above Hala[]

Following Black Bolt's capture and an attack on Attilan by Skrulls, a machine developed by Maximus was utilized to send Attilan into space, powered by Black Bolt's words. Once in space, the Inhumans destroyed numerous fleeing Skrull ships before arriving at Hala. There, an assault was launched, leading to Black Bolt being declared ruler of the Kree. Attilan then settled on Hala, hovering above the Kree capitol city.^[28]

When Black Bolt learned the secret history of the Inhumans and the Supreme Intelligence's attempted genocide of their people, he and the Inhumans abandoned the Kree.^[29] Attilan was moved over New York City,^[30] and was destroyed during Thanos' invasion on Earth in the search of his secret Inhuman-descendant son, when Black Bolt unleashed a powerful attack on the Mad Titan and destroyed his home in the process.^[31]

Reconstruction[]

The ruins of Attilan were initially repurposed into New Attilan, which sat above the Hudson River along the New York/New Jersey border near the Upper New York Bay.^[32] The Inhumans later abandoned New Attilan and constructed the New Arctilan in the Gray Area of the Moon.^[33]

After the destruction of New Arctilan, the Inhumans seem to have fully reconstructed the original Attilan, which has once again become an interstellar city-ship.^[34]

Alternate Realities[]

Counter-Earth[]

Franklin Richards created an pocket universe for the heroes to flee to after the Onslaught. When they returned, they left a Counter-Earth on the opposite side of the sun, complete with their own version of Attilan.^[35]

After the Earth-616 heroes left Counter-Earth, Attilan was taken over by the Thunderbolts.^[36]

Ultimate Universe (Earth-1610)[]

Attilan looks more like a beehive in the Ultimate Universe.^[37]

Earth-6160[]

Following the Maker's manipulation of the timeline, Attilan was located in the Society of South America. The city was infiltrated by Nick Fury's H.A.N.D. to kill a child Black Bolt as part of the Maker's goal to prevent the age of heroes from ever happening.^[38][39] Vision tried to intervene by killing Fury, but arrived too late as the Inhuman children were already killed and the city itself was in ruins. This entire event was observed by Ultron-82.^[40]

Iron Doom (Earth-42777)[]

Iron Man ruled the world and was hell-bent on tracking down the Inhumans and exterminating them from the planet. Black Bolt, along with his Queen, Susan Storm, hid the city from him for a long time below the surface of the ocean, but eventually had to come out of hiding.^[41]

2010s Marvel Animated Universe (Earth-12041)[]

The Inhumans came to Earth and placed the location of Attilan within the Himalayas, but remained hidden from the human race while place a reflected force filed around their hidden city. However after meeting the Agents of S.M.A.S.H., the force field was taken down as they decide to make contact with Humans again.^[42]

Attilan later appeared floating above New York City, as part of Maximus plan to wage war, as a last resort he cause the city to descend thus crushing the city below, but was stopped by Black Bolt with help of Spider-Man when he used his voice to push Attilan away.^[43]

Attilan was taken over by Ultron, when he planed on using the city to fly to over ones below while using the Seekers technology and Black Bolt to create a blast that will eliminate the humans on the ground. This plan was foiled by the Avengers and instead gave birth to new Inhumans within the city of New York.^[44] Some time later, Attilan became open to the public as a sign of peace between humans and Inhumans, but the city was ultimately destroyed when Maximus angered Inferno, causing him to burn away the whole city, leaving the Inhumans to find a new home.^[45]

Earth-24223[]

Attilan came under the attack of the invading Xenomorphs, and despite the Inhumans' best efforts, the city fell with the rest of the world.^[46]

Earth-TRN1710[]

Attilan was located in the Himalayas where it became a fabled location where the locals believed gods resided. However, the Inhumans inhabiting Attilan went extinct after the Xenomorphs arrived from outer space and infected most of the Inhuman Royal Family with Chestbursters. The remaining Inhumans buried the deceased along with the Xenomorphs deep within Attilan, and by the early 20th century the city was completely abandoned. During the World War II, Red Skull sent a team led by Baron Strucker into searching for Attilan in an attempt to find weapons to gain advantage over the Allied forces. The team managed to find the abandoned Inhuman city and discovered the Ovomorphs which immediately released numerous Facehuggers. Strucker was able to capture a Royal Facehugger which Hydra later used to birth a Xenomorph Queen.^[47]

Attilan was populated by the Inhumans, among them the Inhuman Royal Family, the Genetic Council and the Inhuman Royal Guard.

It was also the home of the Alpha Primitives. For some time, the city was also inhabited by the Universal Inhumans, including Incentaurians, Wraith Inhumans, White Room Kymellians and Moord Badoon.

Population[]

The population was regulated at just under 1200 for centuries.^[55]

Across the 1980's, Attilan was stated to be the home of 1,124,^[3] then 1,160 Inhumans,^[7] then finally 1,230.^[56][53]

In the end of the 90's, Attilan was stated to be the home of around 4,000 Inhumans,^[57] though in the 2000s, the number of Inhumans in Attilan (still supposed to have been regulated to 1200) was unclear due to losses at the end of the US military and to Inhumans being in space with the Kree.^[55]

When the Universal Inhumans joined the Earth-born brethren, and the Inhumans installed Attilan over New York City, Attilan was stated to host between 15,000 and 20,000 Inhumans.^[5][58]