Happy Endings and other books imply that these gods are Eternals as seen in the serial Enlightenment.

The small number of beings that are more powerful than the Time Lords include the ( now extinct ) Osirans and higher powers of the universe such as the Black and White Guardians, and possibly the Eternals.

It is staffed by male humans called Eternals who are recruited from different eras of human history commencing with the twenty-seventh century.

The Eternals are also troubled that beyond a certain point in the future they are blocked by unknown means from entering Time.

In the year AD 2293, a post-apocalyptic Earth is inhabited mostly by the Brutals, who are ruled by the Eternals.

The Eternals are overseen and protected from death by the Tabernacle, an artificial intelligence.

But any Eternals who somehow manage to die, usually through some fatal accident, are almost immediately reborn into another healthy, synthetically reproduced body that is identical to the one they just lost.

The Doctor speaks to Striker and discovers that he and his officers are Eternals, beings who live in the " trackless wastes of eternity ," as opposed to the Doctor and his companions, who are " Ephemerals.

The Eternals have lived for so long that they are unable to think for themselves and need human minds to give them existence, and entertainment — that is why the ships use human crews.

The article states that the Eternals were involved in a previous Time War with the Halldons, a powerful race first mentioned in We are the Daleks, an article by Terry Nation from the Radio Times 10th Anniversary Special in 1973.

* The Eternals are briefly mentioned in the Tenth Doctor episodes " Army of Ghosts " and " The Shakespeare Code ", where they are said to have been the ones to banish the Carrionites from the universe at the dawn of time.

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.

While the Eternals possess godlike power and are generally physically beautiful ( by human standards ), 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.

Some of these mutations can provide superhuman abilities, but their powers are usually not as great as those of the Eternals.

Visiting Earth every thousand years in groups called " Hosts ", the group are revealed to have been responsible for the creation of both the Eternals and the Deviants over a million years ago, but not the Human race ; they are also responsible, through genetic manipulation, for the existence of superpowers in mutants.

Inhumans and Eternals alike are all killed and Dracula drains them.

While the exact limits are unknown, he is known as the, by far, physically strongest of all known Eternals, save for Thanos.

Normally the Eternals traverse from century to century within Eternity in a kind of temporal elevator called a kettle.

The rest of the Eternals in turn become indignant at Urizen turning against eternity, and they instill these essences of sin within Urizen's creation.

This was intended merely to prove a point about the effect of Eternity on the individuals from real time who learn of it, but it has the unintended consequence of making Harlan besotted with the woman, so much so that he smuggles her into Eternity, since he has discovered that she will cease to exist in real time when the Eternals make their next Reality Change.

Harlan at first intends to kill Noÿs and carry out his mission, but in comparing her story to that of the freakish and occasionally inhuman Eternals he has encountered, Harlan confirms his lingering suspicions that Eternity has been wrong for humanity.

To ward off the fiery wrath of his vengeful brother Eternals, he frames a rocky womb for himself: " But Urizen laid in a stony sleep / Unorganiz'd, rent from Eternity.

He became an outcast from his fellow Eternals when their ruler, Zuras, decreed that he had been too proud a meddler in the mortal world and confined him to a sector of Olympus.

It was a reimagination of the classic Eternals comic book by Jack Kirby and was lauded by at least one fan as " haunting yet humorous ".

Zeus discovered the principal nexus between the Olympian dimension and Greece was at the top of Greece's Mount Olympus, near Olympia, the principal city of Earth's Eternals.

Other abilities he has in common with most other Eternals includes the power to levitate himself and fly at superhuman speed, projecting beams of concussive force or heat from his eyes and hands, and the manipulation of matter.

This resulted in the creation of two hidden races, the godlike Eternals and the genetically unstable Deviants, in addition to giving some humans an " x-factor " in their genes, which sometimes activates naturally, resulting in sometimes superpowered, sometimes disfigured individuals called mutants.

The hint could mean that a real record got through but was garbled, confusing the Eternals with their unnamed enemies.

Given their limitless lifespan, the Eternals have grown bored and corrupt.

The Eternals spend their days stewarding mankind's vast knowledge, baking special bread for themselves from the grain deliveries and participating in communal navel gazing rituals.

As Zed divines the nature of the Vortex and its problems, the Eternals use him to fight their internecine quarrels.

Zed helps the Exterminators invade the Vortex and kill most of the Eternals — who welcome death as a release from their eternal but boring existence.

In conversation with Striker, the Doctor finds out that Eternals use Ephemerals for their thoughts and ideas.

Davies ' article also states that the Eternals watched the Great ( and final ) Time War between the Time Lords and the Daleks, and " despaired of this reality, and fled their hallowed halls, never to be seen again.

However, the humans began to think of the Eternals as the Olympian gods themselves and not merely their representatives, leading to a growing resentment by the gods towards the Eternals which eventually erupted into war for a time.

On December 8, 2010, the band announced their new album, All Eternals Deck, and that it would be released March 29, 2011.

Most affected were the Greater Animus, which died, the Nestene consciousness, which lost its homeworld and its protein-source planets, prompting it to another invasion of Earth, the Eternals, who apparently fled this reality in despair, and the Gelth, who lost their physical form and were reduced to gaseous beings.

Deviants is his long-standing ( 20, 000 years ) on-off relationship with Thena, leader of the Eternals and mother of their twin children, Donald & Deborah Ritter.

She is from those centuries the Eternals cannot enter.

After the Beyonder / Goblin Queen and the vampire Dracula lay waste to the Earth's heroes in an attempt to conquer the Multiverse, a team of Inhumans, Medusa included, and Eternals attack from above.

* Metabo-engineered by Kro, able to absorb cosmic energy from Eternals ; it was briefly considered for Delta Force

* Spore-created millennia ago as the ultimate weapon against the Eternals ; gained immortality from consuming Eternals but was destroyed circa 18000 BC by the Celestial second host ; its particles were incorporated into the cocaine crop of Gen. Caridad ; destroyed by Sister Salvation

After losing a battle with Thor, Hero and the other Eternals assisted Thor in battling the host of the Celestials to prevent them from destroying humanity.

After meeting the entities known as Eternals racing in yacht-like spacecraft for the prize of " Enlightenment ", Turlough broke free from the Black Guardian's influence, and continued to travel with the Doctor and Tegan.

Under that objective, they intervened in two previous " Time Wars ": the first was a skirmish between the Halldons ( a race mentioned in the Terry Nation story We Are the Daleks from the Radio Times 10th Anniversary Special, 1973 ) and the Eternals ( Enlightenment ), the second the slaughter of the Omnicraven Uprising.