Kro returned to Lemuria and was crowned as a figurehead monarch, with the real power in the hands of Ghaur. Without the aristocracy, the Deviants' priests seized power, led by Priestlord Ghaur, who killed the son of Tode, Ranar. Only Warlord Kro escaped with the help of his old lover Thena of the Eternals. The Eternals transformed the Deviants' aristocracy into a synthetic cube, killing them. However, the hero Iron Man (James Rhodes) rescued the Eternals and helped them in the defeat of the Deviants. Later, the Deviants' aristocracy, led by Brother Tode, attacked Olympia, kidnapped the Eternals with the intent to disintegrate them. When this attempt failed, the Deviants sent an attack team to the Celestial spaceship, which failed too. When the Fourth Celestial Host arrived on Earth, Deviants soldiers led by Warlord Kro attacked New York City in an attempt to provoke fear in the humans and trick them into attacking the Celestials. In the advent of the heroic age, Brother Tode was leading the Deviants, with his capital in the city of the Toads in the sunken continent of Lemuria.

Vnn absorbed the Star Brand powers and used them to defeat the Deviants. When Brrkk died, Vnn found the corpse of a Tyrannosaurus that previously possessed the Star Brand. The Deviants had already developed advanced technology such as genetic engineering when humans were still living in caves.ДЄt some point in prehistoric times, some Deviants chased after Vnn and his lover Brrkk. They have one or more holy books-the only one named thus far being the Book of Krask. They credit him with their creation and claim that he granted them dominion over the Earth, an agreement they believe was later broken by the treachery of the other Celestials. The Deviants are religious, revering the Dreaming Celestial ('He Who Sleeps in Darkness'). The veracity of this has been revealed untrue as the Deviants and the Eternals were actually created because the Celestials saw the human population as a useful pathogen to act as antibodies against the Horde, so the Deviants and the Eternals were to defend the process under the false impression that they were actually protecting the human race. Some of these mutations can provide superhuman abilities, but their powers are usually not as great as those of the Eternals.ДЄccording to the account of one Deviant in the 2006 comic book mini-series, the Deviants were created as a delicacy to be consumed en masse by Celestials at periodic intervals once they multiplied sufficiently.

Extremely mutated or deformed Deviants are referred to as 'mutates' and some of the monsters of myth and legend have in fact been identified as Deviant mutates. While the Eternals possess godlike power and are generally physically beautiful, the Deviants (who sometimes refer to themselves as 'the changing people') are for the most part hideous, with each member of their race possessing some random physical and/or cosmetic mutation that is by Celestial design never repeated within the sub-species. They are an offshoot of the evolutionary process that created sentient life on Earth instigated by the alien Celestials, and wage war against their counterparts, the Eternals. The Deviants first appeared in The Eternals #1 (July 1976).

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