Through shrewd manipulation of many agents, the First Firmament then managed to cause the collapse of the Superflow, the medium which keeps all universes in the Multiverse separate. In this role, they proceeded to eradicate the Celestials (although unknown to the Logos, one of them survived due to intervention by the Never Queen). Chaos and Order assassinated the Living Tribunal, the cosmic arbiter, and claimed the title of supreme authority for themselves as the entity the Logos. When the Multiverse did reform, Eternity found itself in chains, unable to act as some of its components were corrupted by the Aspirants. Due to unusual circumstances - at the hands of whom else than Doctor Doom, - the Multiverse was slow in reforming, and the Celestials were inattentive due to not yet existing at this time, allowing its progenitor to proceed an attack. So, the Aspirants came to be known to the beings who lived inside the Multiverse as 'Death Celestials' since they appeared as dark, forbidding versions of the (already perceived as evil by some) Celestials.Īfter the death of the seventh iteration of the Multiverse (the original Multiverse, however, is held to be the second one), the First Firmament finally saw its chance. But the First Firmament - presumably it took this name when it realized it had successors now - sent out its Aspirants to attack the Multiverse, weaken its structure, and slay its defenders. Hope rose as the Multiverse collapsed and died, but fell again as it manifested anew in a different form this happened over and over again, and each time the Multiverse and Eternity were reborn more complex, more perfect and seemingly more unassailable. In the infinitude of eons that followed, the First Firmament and its servants the Aspirants observed the Multiverse with hungry eyes. The Celestials migrated to this new Multiverse and from then on dedicated their efforts to maintaining its structure, while the First Firmament withdrew into the darkness to lick its wounds. Soon, the newly-formed universes drew together into a Multiverse, self-aware and possessed of life as their predecessor had been, manifesting the being known as Eternity - the first iteration thereof. The conflict ended up being so devastating, it rended the universe apart the substance of the First Firmament spilled into the void like blood, where it eventually coalesced into a host of new universes! The Aspirants and the Celestials waged war over their ideas one side fought for order and obedience, the other for freedom. These colorful beings would eventually come to be known as the Celestials. However, inside the First Firmament there also lived other beings, godlike giants like the Aspirants, but decidedly different: they did not worship the universe, let alone obey it, but rather desired freedom and independence. Self-aware from the start, it created within itself living beings, star-spanning space gods which worshipped the universe which had spawned them, and created smaller lifeforms in imitation of it, and which it called 'Aspirants'. Given that everything in the Marvel continuity was ultimately created by the unknowable One-Above-All, presumably he created the universe which would eventually come to be known as the First Firmament. It conspired to consume and digest the Multiverse after being overthrown by the Celestryals, it’s creations. It is the embodiment of the first cosmos, thus the oldest known entity in the Marvel Comics sans One Above All, alongside it's younger siblings Knull and The Black Winter. The First Firmament, also known as The Anti-God or The One Before All, is one of the three overarching antagonists of the Marvel Comic Universe (alongside One Below All, Knull, and The Black Winter).
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