Eternals (Homo Immortalis)

 

"One Thing That Sets Apex Predators Apart Is That There Are No Other Animals In Their Habitat Strong Enough To Hunt Them."

           -Sersi

The Eternals are an evolutionary offshoot of humanity gifted with amazing powers and abilities to look after the human race throughout the ages.

One million years ago, the mysterious, epic beings known as Celestials created one hundred Eternals, and left. Since then, the Eternals have lived secluded on Earth, rarely interfering with humanity, and being reborn whenever they perish.

After two devastating civil wars, the remaining Eternals of Earth chose a path of peace and dedicated their lives to bettering themselves and their society.

 The best example of what they can accomplish when working together is the power of the Uni-Mind, which is created when several Eternals join their will and intelligence together to temporarily become one powerful entity.

Throughout the millennia, the Eternals built great cities, including their current home, Olympia, which provided the setting for their meeting with the Olympians, the gods of Ancient Greece. 

After noticing the similarities between both species, they formed an alliance and the Eternals acted as the gods' representatives on Earth for a while.

Recently, the Eternals went mad and turned against each other, while some committed suicide. They have since been revived and are slowly beginning to return to their peaceful ways.

Powers and Abilities :

Powers

• All Eternals can join the Uni-Mind, even their Titan cousins.

• All possess enhanced physical attributes; i.e. strength, speed, durability, reflexes, etc. to varying degrees.

• All Eternals are extremely long-lived, and even virtually immortal

• Eternals choose to specialize in particular powers and attributes.

Average Strength Level

An average Eternal can lift about 15 tons without using any form of telekinesis, although some are able to lift up to 100 tons.

Marvel Cinematic Universe (Earth-199999)

In Earth-199999, the Eternals are synthetic beings created by the Celestial Arishem who are made to believe that they come from a planet called Olympia. 

Arishem would send out groups of Eternals to populated planets to protect the local sentient life from the Deviants and allow the necessary growth of the population that would give energy to the new Celestials gestating within those planets. 

When enough sentient beings existed, the newborn Celestials would wake, destroying their host planet in the process. The Eternals would then have their memories stored within Arishem's World Forge before being mind-wiped and send on a new assignment.

              

Arishem

A group of 10 Eternals was sent to Earth 7,000 years ago, led by Ajak and consisting of Sersi, Ikaris, Kingo, Sprite, Phastos, Makkari, Druig, Gilgamesh and Thena.

While helping humanity develop civilization, the Eternals cleared the Earth of Deviants after approximately 6,500 years. 

With their apparent mission finished, Ajak, who actually new the truth about their mission, let them go their own ways and live lives among Humans, while keeping their true purpose hidden from everyone except Ikaris. In 2023, the Blip suddenly restored half of the humanity snapped by Thanos back to life, accelerating the awakening of the Celestial Tiamut.

Deviants

By then, Ajak had grown to respect humanity and did not wish to see it die, but was murdered by Ikaris, who remained devoted to Arishem.

 Ikaris then let the few Deviants (who were revealed to be alive in the previously frozen ice) hunt down and attack the other Eternals, distracting them from the imminent awakening of Tiamut. Ikaris, Sersi and Sprite spend some time locating the others and informing them of Ajak being killed by the Deviants, who also managed to kill Gilgamesh in the mean time. 

When the remaining eight Eternals were reunited, Ikaris' deceptions were at last revealed. Sprite chose to follow him, while Kingo believed in the same cause but refused to fight the others and left. The other five Eternals planned to form the Uni-Mind and have Druig put Tiamut back to sleep until they could find a way to awaken him without destroying the Earth. 

This attempt was violently stopped by Ikaris, negating that option and forcing the Uni-Mind empowered Sersi to turn Tiamut to stone instead. With his mission in failure and his loyalties shattered, Ikaris flew into the Sun, seemingly killing himself.

 Afterwards, Sersi made Sprite's wishes come true by turning her Human and together, alongside Phastos and Kingo, they planned to resume their lives among humankind, while Druig, Makkari and Thena departed the planet to look for other Eternals. 

After the three Earth Eternals were abducted by Arishem, who planned to use their memories to judge if humanity was worth saving over the life of a Celestial, the space trio were found by fellow Eternal Eros, who offered his assistance.