There are three known types of Eternals: Earth Eternals, Titanian Eternals, and the Uranians. The "Elder Gods" is a term designating multiple groups. The Eternals have other cities like Polaria (near Siberia, Russia) and Oceana (in the Pacific). But then, in 1976, Kirby returned to Marvel. The Kree did it with the Inhumans. Uranos discovered a Kree outpost there and used that science to make a spaceship to launch an attack on Earth, leaving a Uranian, Astron, behind to continue their civilization. His eldest son, Zuras (strong and warrior-like) had many of his uncle's traits and his younger son, Alars (fair and intelligent) wanted to follow in his father's footsteps and practice peace and pursue knowledge. The two Earthlings were welcomed by the Uranian Eternals and lived among them for some time. It's easier to think of celestials as space gods without the religion. It wasn't. She eventually settled on Titan. If all of the Celestials of the Fourth Host took on the combined might of all of the Elder Gods, which team would come out on top? A more typical subject in Deviant society is Karkas, a deviant mutate with red elephant-like hide, sharp teeth, and metallic-like claws. The Skyfathers took the wrong kind of stance with the Celestials. Who wants another civil war, especially when your brother would be the antagonist? I think it was the thing to do. What's the use of performing an experiment if you can't compare the "before and after"? Shard realm rulers such as Shuma Gorath may seem invincible in their own realms, but you have to remember that the realms themselves have vulnerabilities. But I digress, let's go back to when the Celestials made the Earth Eternals. Hyperion is one of Marvel's answers to Superman. I've read Kirby stuff. The Earth Eternals look like humans in practically every way. First are the Elder Gods of Earth, first living beings on the planet, spawns of the Demiurge, and whose most well known members include Set, Chthon, Oshtur, Gaea, and Gaea's spawn Atum, the Demogorge. One thing to note is the cosmic energy within each Eternal takes centuries to master and requires loads of discipline, but it's well worth the effort. One group lives in Olympus and the other lives in Olympia. Then there were the natives of the planet that the Celestials would plant mutant genes to be released over time. Nope. Page 1 of 2 1 2 Next > Shepard 12 "Evil beware,we have waffles" ... Old Ones/Elder Gods can pop universes by fully manifesting within them (Gods and Monsters), and they see universes as dust particles floating through the Void. For those of you who want to know more about Thanos, you can read up on him in The Life of Captain Marvel, Adam Warlock's fight against Thanos, and his scheme as chronicled in both The Thanos Quest and The Infinity Gauntlet. Thanos scoured the galaxies and created a massive army in a cult-like following. Did you spend ten-thousand human lifetimes studying this God-Being? In short, you should know that Hyperion is an Eternal. When we think of Celestials, we should start thinking of them as "space gods." Do you know what makes something odder than a regular Deviant? To everyone's regret, Mentor stopped her. The Elder Gods are incredibly powerful ethereal beings with vast cosmic powers, who are the survivors of the first wave of entities that were spawned by the Demiurge visiting Earthsoon after its formation, 4 billion years ago. The best way I can describe it was the Skyfathers were like the drunk idiots at a bar who scream at everyone that they can beat the hell out of anyone in the room. Deviant Mutates are much like human mutates like The Fantastic Four or Spider-man. by offering a peaceful solution instead. Any comic book fan worth their salt has read up on Kirby's Fourth World—required reading if you're serious about this kind of thing. Their numbers used to span in the billions, but had their race decimated after a war with a mysterious race known as the Aspirants. Silly me. Mentor, Starfox (Eros) and many of the Titanian Eternals. First are the Elder Gods of Earth, first living beings on the planet, spawns of the Demiurge, and whose most well known members include Set, Chthon, Oshtur, Gaea, and Gaea's spawn Atum, the Demogorge. The character and Deviant gladiator, Ransak (aka "The Reject"), is not accepted by his brethren due to his lack of hideousness. When Kronos began to experiment with cosmic energy an explosion exposed his entire city's population with cosmic energy. As I mentioned before, the Celestials did a lot of work around the universe. The experiments done in making the Eternals granted them long lives and slow aging. Well, not like Captain America and The Fantastic Four (also Kirby creations). And since The Dreaming Celestial is a Celestial that was shoved inside of a planet after being betrayed by all the other Celestials, making Ego have a connection to that Celestial in particular could be something that I can totally see Marvel Studios doing. Leaning towards the Elder Gods. Eternals have one other thing outside of their cosmic powers and long lives. Like Robin. Upon the sight of first seeing Thanos, Sui-San wanted to do a very, very, very late-term abortion. Another answer to Superman was The Sentry, a hero with the power of a thousand exploding suns—whatever that means. When Kirby was working for Marvel and started working on his Thor stories, he began to play with the Nordic myths, and when he left Marvel to go to DC in 1971, he literally built his New Gods on the ashes of Asgard moving forward. This alien race influenced key events in human history for mysterious and unclear reasons. Zuras, being the eldest, was now the ruler. And everything was running just great... until... Sui-San had two children. The ritual of the Unimind physically unites all Eternals who participate in it. honestly Gaea alone is more impressive than most of the celestial who are heavily implied by statement and rarely feats which in comics at those type of power happens often. The Celestials created the Eternals and the Deviants. The other thing is the madness affliction that takes centuries to incubate in the more likable of Eternals. There's a small group of super-powered long-lived near-immortal beings running around the Earth around the same time as a group of super-powered long-lived gods and demi-gods. Blackwulf, a Deviant of that planet, has inherited and is afflicted by the Black Legacy, which makes his every touch (whenever it flares) deadly. After their civil war ended with Uranos's defeat, he and his followers (the Uranians) were exiled to the planet that bears his name. Olympia was the Eternal city that was in power when the Celestial third host arrived. Robert had acquired a set of quantum bands that gave him light-based powers. He was a baby sent to Earth from his homeworld of Zhib-Ran (from the Microverse) and once here gained fantastic phenomenal superpowers that made him practically indestructible. I think that's more than enough to prove she's below them. In any event, The Eternals is one of his lesser-known works. Anyone who wants the real scoop on Thanos should be well up on the story of his Eternal family and how he came to be such a problem child. As you would expect from the scientific method, the Celestials made the Eternals the control group—but only in the sense that the beings would remain sort of stagnant. While some would say that his characters were somewhat two dimensional and black and white, his story plotting and science fiction were second to none. No one really knows the origins of the Celestials other than they were around for a billion, jillion, squillion years back when Galactus was still getting rid of his baby teeth. Edit this description 1 Others 2 Earth-Gods 3 Related 4 See also 4.1 References Before Chthon retreated to another dimension, he left behind the Darkhold, the Book of Sins; it was responsible for much of the evil throughout history. The backstory about the very origins of the universe, the quandary of dealing with immortality, as well as the general scale of his stories puts this storyline into one of Marvel's hidden treasures. There is one last thing I wanted to talk about. Initially, the Eternals were just long-lived humans and in that respect, the Eternals kept to themselves - despite their self-assigned role of being humanity's protectors. Deviants - They just don't blend well in polite society. honestly everyone has low showing. 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