Biography
Visiting Earth every thousand years in groups called "Hosts", the group is revealed to have been responsible for the creation of both the Eternals and the Deviants and via genetic manipulation the existence of superpowers in mutants. Resenting the presence of the Celestials and their monitoring of Earth's progress, the Skyfather figures of Earth (e.g., Odin, Zeus, and Vishnu) attempted to stop the Third Host, but are quickly outmatched. The Skyfathers then develop a convoluted plan to stop the Fourth Host via the use of the Odinsword and Destroyer armour, but once again the Celestials—although also opposed by Odin's son Thor—prevent the offensive and melt the Destroyer armour into slag, scattering the Asgardians' life-forces. Thor throws the Odinsword through Arishem's chest, but he removes it, analyzes it, and vaporizes it. The Earthmothers (such as Frigga and Hera) of Earth, however, make an offering of twelve perfect humans, which is accepted and the planet is spared judgment.The judgment process is eventually witnessed by Thor, observing Celestial Arishem the Judge sending an execution code to Exitar the Exterminator, a 20,000-foot (6,100 m) tall Celestial who carries out Arishem's "sentence". Exitar terraforms the planet in question into a garden paradise, with only the "evil" inhabitants having been destroyed. On one occasion the hero Quasar observes a race completely fail the genetic test, with every living creature being destroyed with their planet. The Celestials' actions conflict with the policy of "non-interference" practiced by fellow cosmic entities the Watchers, with the two races having become enemies.The Celestials and their "opposites", a group of entities known as the Horde, are established as instruments of an entity referred to as the Fulcrum, their purpose to be "instruments of the planting/creation/teeming of the universe".
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