by Renaud Bédard
THE ETERNALS THE MOVIES
by Renaud Bédard



We are not alone, living among us, they call themselves the Eternals. Created by Jack Kirby, this race of superhuman beings, an evolutionary offshoot of humanity first came into existence million of years ago when the Celestials, a ancient extraterrestrial race came to Earth long ago, and performed genetic experiments on the nascent human race, some say in reality artificially accelerating the natural evolution of man and bring a few individuals to their full potential; but at first the changes laid dormant, and only years later did the Eternals’ genetic potential started to appear, from extraordinarily powers and physical strength to virtual invulnerability to just about anything, along with what they discovered over time to be possessing immensely long unbelievable lifespans. With the power of flight and regeneration, with some even having the power of illusion and teleportation; and their biggest vulnerability of being overwhelmed by breaking their mental hold. There enemies, the Deviants, also a down chute from the Celestials, an experiment that went wrong, an ever-changing and destructive failure

- IKARIS -

Ikaris was born twenty thousand years ago in the Eternal city of Polaria. While he was still a child, his uncle Valkin entrusted him with the keys to the Pyramid of teh winds, a mysterious structure that Valkin and Phasots had built deep below the ice of the Arctic for storage of deadly weapons. Ikaris guards the Pyramid with his keys to this day. Ikaris mingled with many humans over the course of his life, including marrying more than one of them over the years, and one child of his spawned the Greek legend of Icarus. Ikaris was among those Eternals who elected to remain on Earth after their first encounter with the Celestials. Ikaris took over leadership of the Eternals once his sister Thena revealed her love for the Deviant, Kro

- SERSI -

Daughter of Helios and Perse, Sersi is from a much later generation of Eternals; based in ancient Greece, where she met the poet, Homer, who would later write one of the earliest works in Western literature, The Odyssey; the character Circe, who lived on an island in the Aegean called Aeaea, and turned the hero, Ulysses, and his men into pigs, was based on Sersi. Unlike the majority of her fellow Eternals, who stay in their hidden cities, Sersi revels in her humanity, and has lived among ordinary humans more than any others; and from ancient Greece to Nero's Rome, Sersi traveled to many regions of the world, and lived in various places of historical importance

- MAKKARI -

Also born from a later generation of Eternals, Makkari is three thousand years old, but he retains an adolescent fervor, especially for his interest in building and riding vehicles that move faster than he himself can with his superhuman powers. In the days of ancient Greece and Rome, Makkari was often mistaken for Mercury, the swift-flying messenger of the gods

- THE FORGOTTEN ONE -

Son of Lugalbanda and Ninsun, Gilgamesh was a mighty warrior who became the king of Uruk. Feared by many for his enormous strength, and master of various forms of armed combat, The Forgotten One could ably wield and forge swords, axes and spears, and he often wore a suit of armor. At some point in his life the Forgotten One was blinded by unknown means, but this injury was apparently healed. While he was blind, he would use his cosmic senses to interact with his environment, along with the aid of Sprite

- SPRITE -

Sprite is a playful prankster who has spent centuries developing his particular sense of humor. William Shakespeare based his character Puck on Sprite hundreds of years ago. Sprite chose to remain on Earth following the Uni-Mind's departure because he felt he would have more fun here than abroad. He released the Forgotten One from exile to combat the Deviants, and it was he who once accidently shifted the entire city of Olympia into the Negative Zone temporarily

- CHI DEMON -

Chi Demon devoted large amounts of time to the study of both combat and sociology. She lectures at the University of California at Berkeley under the alias of Professor King. Of particular interest to her is the fostering of tolerance among humankind, be it toward mutants, Deviants, or Eternals

- ZURAS -

Elder son of Kronos of the first generation of Eternals, also father of Thena, and revered leader of The Eternals, Zuras has vast powers, so much that he never needed to develop any hand-to-hand combat techniques, and his knowledge of ancient wisdom is immense. He possesses the ability to manipulate cosmic energy to augment his life force granting him great longevity and regenerative abilities; he can also create force shields around himself, to levitate himself and others, manipulate molecules and transform objects, along with telepathy, illusion-casting, and teleportation. Zuras is also capable of initiating the creation of the Uni-Mind, the collective life-form resulting from the physical and mental merging of a significant number of Eternals

- CYBELE -

Cybele is a second-generation Eternal, the wife of Zuras and mother of Thena. Since the demise of her husband some years ago, Cybele has kept to herself, choosing not to become involved in the matters of Eternals, Deviants, or humans. The rare occasions when she does become involved usually involve some threat to her beloved daughter Thena

- THENA -

Daughter of  Zuras and Cybele, Azura changes her name by royal decree to Thena, and after the death of her father she became for a long time leader of the Eternals. Also known as Corona, none has so often in the past been mistaken for the Olympian goddess Athena for her great beauty. Thena's special abilities make her one of the most powerful of the Eternals, she is a fifth-level adept on a five-level scale at the discipline of projecting cosmic energy, and she can fly via self-levitation at an incredible rate of speed most other Eternals cannot match. Thena has psionic abilities which enable her to engage in simple telepathic communication with other persons and to scan the thoughts of any human or certain Eternal minds. She can also teleport herself or other individuals psionically, and she has inherited from he father the ability to initiate on her own the creation of the Uni-Mind, the collective life form resulting from the physical and mental merging of a significant number of Eternals

- THE REJECT & KARKAS -

Rejected and even feared by what is left of the Deviant empire living under the ocean floor, the too far gone mutated and unwanted of their civilization become gladiators in their arena in fights from the death, and through their entire existence learn only to kill each other. One known only as the Reject, with his only crime of not looking Deviant enough and reminding too much of humans and Eternals; he is forced to cover his face among them and fights for his very life in the arena against impossible adversaries, but never the less he survives. There is also this scary looking colossal red monster Karkas, force to also live out his existence in the arena; and it is one Eternal daughter of Zuras, Thena herself, that delivers them both from Deviant tyranny to become heroes, instead of senseless killing machines for barbaric bloody entertainment

- DROMEDAN -

With his powerful mental commands, the brain-snatcher is a product of the once Deviant empire at its former height, before they defied The Celestials themselves and saw their civilization reduced to hashes and were forced into hiding beneath the sea. Bred to destroy the Eternals themselves, with destructive mind control, the one known as Dromedan, was entombed alive by its very own creators for fear of their own safety