Apocalypse Succession

On Earth exists a line of evolutionary overseers or caretakers empowered by the Celestials to ensure their work is done on a given. When a Celestial Host first visits a planet, they engineer the progressive evolution of the planet's species. Continuous change, growth, and improvement among the lifeforms is encouraged by the Celestials, to the point where, if a species fails to evolve at the expected rate, the Celestials may declare their "experiment" a failure and destroy entire species or civilizations.
Celestial Hosts only arrive every few thousand years, however, and so the Celestials raise up a representative from the evolving species to ensure their race continues to proceed apace, in the name of evolution, the Celestials-selected being ensuring the success of humanity's new mutations, ensuring they would flourish and become the dominant species. In many realities, En Sabah Nur served as the Celestial caretaker for five thousand years, and so the line of succession is named for him, Apocalypse. He was allegedly the eighth individual to assume this mantle on Earth-616, though the references made to him being the eighth Apocalypse remain unverified.
According to Amahl Farouk, En Sabah Nur was selected because he was (allegedly) the first mutant on Earth. Successors are bestowed with a Death Seed, and they are honored by Clan Akkaba.
==Succession Line==
===Earth-616===
En Sabah Nur's role as a chosen representative of the Celestials was only recently unveiled. Previous stories told of how En Sabah Nur became Apocalypse after finding a Celestial ship and claiming its technology as his own, but the mutant was characterized more like a tomb robber than a chosen vessel of evolution.
New information eventually came to light explaining Apocalypse's motivations and behavior in terms of the Celestial mandate. An object known as the Death Seed, provided by a Celestial Gardener can evolve an individual being to become the chosen evolutionary caretaker of the space gods. Once the caretaker has been chosen, they can then use a Death Seed to empower a successor. This successor will be powerful but of lesser might under the caretaker until the caretaker's death, at which point the Death Seed in the successor will fully activate, causing them to evolve into the next caretaker.
====Apocalypse====
Character 	Name (Main) 	Rank 	Ascended/first appeared in	Notes
 	Presumably Apocalypse 	Seemingly Third 	 	Name unreadable, statue shadowed
 	Presumably Apocalypse 	Seemingly Fourth 	 	Name unreadable, statue shadowed
 	Presumably Apocalypse 	Seemingly Fifth 	 	Name unreadable, statue shadowed
Kelby Tak 	Presumably Apocalypse 	Seemingly Sixth 	 	"Apocalypse to the Deviants/Eternals". Also spelled Kaby Tak
Gorsvil 	Presumably Apocalypse 	Seemingly Seventh 	 	"Neanderthal Apocalypse". Also spelled with two "l".
En Sabah Nur 	Apocalypse 	Eighth (unverified)	/ 	Last incarnation killed as a child, cloned as Evan Sabahnur;Named "NSabahNur" in .
Warren Worthington III 	Archangel/Dark Angel 	Seemingly Ninth 	 	Former Death of the Horsemen of Apocalypse
Eimin & Uriel Worthington	Apocalypse Twins(Uriel & Eimin)	Seemingly Tenth 	 	Children of Archangel and Ichisumi (Pestilence);Prevented Genocide from claiming the role of Heir of Apocalypse, reclaiming the position for themselves
Evan Sabahnur 	Apocalypse 	Seemingly Eleventh 	 	Clone of En Sabah Nur; Ascended due to a reverse spell
Doug Ramsey 	Revelation 	Seemingly Twelfth 	 	Winner of a tournament hosted by En Sabah Nur to find an heir
====Evicted Heirs====
Character 	Name (Main)	Supposed rank 	Evicted/killed in	Notes
William Rolfson	Genocide 	Seemingly Tenth	 	Son of En Sabah Nur and Autumn Rolfson (Famine);Evicted by the Apocalypse Twins
===Earth-295 (Age of Apocalypse)===
====Apocalypse====
Character 	Name (Main) 	Rank 	Ascended/first appeared in	Notes
En Sabah Nur 	Apocalypse 	Possibly Eighth, if mirrored from Earth-616	 	
James Howlett / Logan	Weapon Omega	Possibly Ninth, if mirrored from Earth-616 	 	Killed En Sabah Nur's clone supposed to ascend, and ascended in his place
Jean Grey 	Apocalypse 	Possibly Tenth, if mirrored from Earth-616 	 	Former Phoenix Host
====Evicted Heirs====
Character 	Name (Main) 	Supposed rank 	Evicted/killed in	Notes
En Sabah Nur's clone	Presumably Apocalypse	Possibly Ninth, if mirrored from Earth-616	 	Clone of En Sabah Nur;Imbued with the Apocalypse Force;Killed by Weapon X who ascended in his place
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Category:Apocalypse Succession