 In Pre-Crisis continuity, Nu'Bia was kidnapped by Mars, taken to an island concealed within a mystical fog and brainwashed through the use of a magical ring given by the War God, a fact that is mirrored by the possession of Post Crisis Hipolyta by the magical metallic patina.During the "War of the Gods" storyline, the witch Circe put a spell on Queen Hippolyta and dressed her in the armor of the first Shim'Tar.The Shim'Tar armour was magically placed as a nanotech metallic patina in a goblet.