Gaea (Earth-616)

## Gaea

* Giant-Size Avengers #4 (As Gaea)

**Gaea** was an Elder God and one of the few that did not succumb to their base instinct and devolve into a demon. Gaea was the progenitor of all the gods such as the Asgardians, Amatsu-Kami, Olympians, etc.

## Biography

### Birth

Gaea was born from the Demiurge's life energy. Gaea became Mother Nature and ruled with her siblings for millions of years. Gaea helped mend the continents and protected the the mortal life that was developing in the ocean.

### Degradation of the Elder Gods

As time went on, the Elder Gods gradually began to devolve into demons starting with her brother Set the Destroyer murdering their brother Hyppus. The other Elder Gods slowly began to follow in Set's footsteps and began murdering each other causing their degradation. Gaea was one of the few that did not devolve and in fact contacted the Demiurge to implant in her a life that would help defeat the demons.

The Demiurge did so and Gaea went deep into the depths of the Earth to give birth to the baby who would be named Atum. Atum would defeat all the demons sans Chthon, Set, and his offspring who all fled to other dimensions. With the demons gone, Gaea began her work once again.

### Age of Dinosaurs

In time the life that crawled out of the sea evolved into terrestrial species, the most dominant one becoming the Dinosaurs. Set had a special relationship and liking for the dinosaurs as he fed on the energies released from the dinosaurs hunting and eating each other, which over the course of years allowed him to amass more and more power. Gaea, on the other hand, was conflicted as she loved the dinosaurs but felt that they had made life on Earth stagnate. Gaea believed that mammals had the potential to evolve to a good point, and reluctantly decided to shift the conditions of Earth so that the dinosaurs would die out and mammals could dominate the planet.

Set refused to let his beloved species die and thus deprive him of power, and as such he used his demonic strength to command every single dinosaurs to deliberately attack and eliminate every single mammal on Earth. Gaea realized that only Set could have that power, and as such challenged him to confront her. Gaea was confronted by three dinosaurs who glew with demonic energy and merged together into a vessel for Set. Set attempted to kill Gaea, but Gaea managed to summon Atum who arrived on Earth to defend his mother. Atum rammed through Set's neck, decapitating Set and once again transformed into the Demogorge. Rather than die, Set grew bigger and gained two heads to replace his old one. The Demogorge and Set then had a massive fight, in which Set eventually got seven heads and caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, except for the area known as the Savage Land in Antarctica. Gaea sheltered the mammals from the battle and the Demogorge forced Set back to his dimension. Set was considerably weakened by the fight and was unable to return to Earth without the aid of another sentient being and he was unable to feed on the energy of the mammals. Demogorge returned to his original form and returned to the sun, and Gaea began guiding the evolution of the mammals, though Set still watched from his dimension and vowed vengeance on mammals.

### The First Host

A starship carrying the First Host of Celestials began to touch down in the Garden of Eden, where a tribe of Homo Erectus known as the Wanderers had just finished fighting the Tribe of Set. Ten Celestials emerged from the ship and the Celestial known as Gammenon the Gatherer grabbed the Wanderers and carried them to the starship, and though the tribe was initially terrified they grew calm and accepting with Gaea assuring them.