Atum (Earth-616)

## Atum

* Atum
* Demogorge

**Atum** was a God and child of Gaea. Atum was born to vanquish the demons that plagued the Earth after the Elder Gods began killing each other. While doing so, Atum became a being known as **the Demogorge, the God-Eater** which succeeded in killing the demons save for Chthon. Set. and Set's children.

## Biography

### Birth

Gaea summoned the Demiurge and had it engender a child inside of her. Gaea then hid in the caverns of the planet to give birth. Gaea give birth to Atum who had the power of the Sun and was the first of a new breed of God.

### Fighting Demons

Atum began hunting down and killing the demons, in the process he began absorbing their energy and became a being known as Demogorge the God-Eater. Demogorge managed to destroy all demons aside from Cthon, Set, and Set's spawn. The group attempted to fight of Demogorge, but were unable to. Chthon realized that there was nothing he could do to defeat the Demogorge, and as such wrote down all his knowledge in scrolls known as the Darkhold. Chthon then left the Earth for a new dimension, just in time as the Demogorge had found and was about to attack him. Set witnessed Chthon create the portal and created his own portal for a new dimension of his own. Set and his children then "shed" their original forms and became ethereal, leaving their original forms to serve as decoys that the Demogorge could destroy so they could escape. With his mission seemingly complete, the Demogorge expelled the demonic energy he absorbed and returned to being Atum. Atum then flew up to the sun and merged with it.

### 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.