The Celestials

The Seeders of the Marvel Universe

Powers

• Nearly omnipotent alien race, can leap across universes and between universes at will, manipulate genetics as they please, warp reality, and are nearly indestructible

Purpose

• Serve a mysterious entity called the Fulcrum• Helped form the universe, and other universes, and populate these

universes with life• Manipulate races considered to have sentience and genetic potential into

superhumans• Create three distinct groups on each world, 100 immortal god-like

Eternals, millions of monstrous mutated Deviants who arent immortal but reproduce very fast and can shapeshift, and then the baseline race

• Baseline people though are instilled with potential deep in their DNA to gain superhuman abilities, and after millions of years to get stronger and stronger until they far outstrip the other two groups and even approach the Celestials in power

• This potential was jumpstarted in the modern day when the atomic age began and radiation spread through the earth, and people began to be born with extraordinary powers called mutants (like the x-men for example)

Purpose continued

• Others were born normal but had their latent genetic potential unleashed by accidents with radiation or other sources, EG the Hulk and Spider-Man

• Over time, the Celestials let the Deviants and Eternals war and return later to see who’s won

• If the Deviants win, the Horde arrive and eat the world’s life energy• If the Eternals win, the Celestials let the world live and the Eternals

guide the baselines to their full potential• The Celestials have done this to many species, including humans

and Skrulls• They also remove any species they consider interfering with their

chosen species' development, EG they forced the Asgardians and other mythological gods to leave earth 1,000 years ago to let humanity develop without the gods demanding their worship

Origins

• Unknown, but come from beyond the Marvel universe and in fact are older than the universe itself

• Work for the mysterious Fulcrum

• Have warred with the Watchers and Galactus

Notable individuals

• Tiamut- The dreaming celestial. He rebelled against the others and was put to sleep, later to wake up and eventually meet the fulcrum and be rewarded for his independence with ascension to equality with the fulcrum

• Scathan- The approver. Serves on the court of the Living Tribunal, judge of the whole multiverse. Scathan approves or disapproves of rulings and if something happens in the cosmos he doesn’t approve of, he undoes it instantly

• Arishem- The judge. He visits planets that have failed their cosmic experiment and heralds Exitar’s coming

• Exitar- The exterminator- He destroys all life on worlds that fail their experiments (meaning the people have not developed as the Celestials planned)

• The One Above All- the leader of the Marvel Universe’s celestial host, he commands all the Celestials of that particular universe

• The Mad Celestials- A group of celestials watching over another universe who went mad and declared themselves gods, coming to conquer the main Marvel universe before they were stopped

• The Fulcrum- mysterious human-looking leader of all the Celestials and associated races. Implied to be the same man or partner of the One-Above-All (not the previously mentioned Celestial leader, this one-above-all who’s name is hyphenated is the creator of the marvel multiverse and the living tribunal’s boss, and usually takes the form of Stan Lee)

Recommended Reading:

• Neil Gaiman’s Eternals• Eternals: To Slay A God• The Infinity Gauntlet• Jack Kirby’s Eternals• Fantastic Four by Jonathan Hickman:

the Mad Celestials Saga• Guardians of the Galaxy: The Protégé

Saga• Uncanny Avengers• The Thanos Imperative• Uncanny X-Force: The Dark Angel Saga• Certain X-Men stories I couldn’t find