Earth-357

Earth 357, aka The Magnum Universe, is one of many alternate realities of the canon Marvel Universe (Earth 616)

Origin of the Universe

According to ancient documents accrued by the Phoenix organization, the universe began when a piece of the infamous Phoenix force was lopped off in an attempt to kill the being. This piece would fall into a vacant void and in a terrifying and awesome show it grew into its own being and with its birth, so too was a new universe born.

In time this universe would gain sentience and desires of its own. Soon it created for itself a body based on what it imagined life would be like and dubbed itself Eternity. Desiring to test the limits of it's power, Eternity soon crafted for itself five gems of infinite power: Soul, Power, Reality, Time and Mind. These would be known as the Infinity Gems. Eternity would also fashion for itself the means to control all five gems, what would be known as the Infinity Gauntlet.

By themselves, each single gem could give one the power of a god. But when worn together on the Infinity Gauntlet, they gave its user unlimited power.

Eternity would first use the gems to create worlds. Pleased with the results, Eternity would further test the abilities of the Gauntlet by crafting elemental shepherds for his worlds before moving on to the most ambitious project, creating life itself.  

Eternity toiled endlessly, carefully crafting various forms of life for each world with the aid of the elemental shepherds. At first Eternity was overjoyed at having created sentient life, admiring his work. Soon however Eternity became saddened when he saw this life he created was shorter than his own.

Heartbroken, Eternity tried using the Time stone to extend the lives of one world to match his own. While some accepted the gift, others were driven insane by the agelessness, forcing Eternity to end their lives. Determined to have a companion with as endless a life as he had, Eternity used the stones and Gauntlet to make one.

His first attempt was granting sentience and a form to the residual chaos from the Phoenix's rebirth. Unfortunately this new being, rather than being Eternity's new companion, was left longing for it's own purpose. So it would wander the universe, taking on many names and forms. With his second attempt, he created a beautiful being with skin as flawless as ivory and gold. This being, later naming herself Paragon, stayed as his companion for a millennia. In that time she too would try her hand at creation with the Gauntlet and created the Sovereign homeworld. She took immense pride in her project, declaring them the most perfect beings in the universe. She would walk among them and admire their works. But like Eternity, she too would become saddened by their finite lifespans, and like Eternity would try to keep them from dying by making them immortal. Eternity attempted to talk her out of it, the memories of his own actions still deeply affecting him. Paragon however refused to listen to him and the two engaged in a titanic struggle over the Gauntlet. The battle ended with her absconding with the Soul Gem and the Sovereign homeworld to the farthest reaches of the universe.

After the first two attempts failed, Eternity would continue trying to make his immortal companion. But with each attempt only resulted in less powerful beings, while ageless as he, could still be killed.

Many of these demi gods would travel to other worlds and establish themselves as gods to be worshiped by the mortal lives Eternity created. Twelve in particular, who would become the Olympians would make a pilgrimage to a strange little blue sphere that would become known as Earth.

History of Earth

Earth was in it’s infancy chaotic and savage, ruled by great beasts. In a clash of thunder the Olympians touched down, causing a 90% extinction event. One of the Olympians, Diana, would place the surviving 10% on a preserve that would become known as the Savage Land.

The other Olympians, spearheaded by Jupiter, would begin to experiment with new life, hoping to improve on their creator's designs of life. After some toiling creating sentient life in their image, they soon split the life into two other groups to improve upon the control population. Their first series of experiments would be with a cosmic substance known as Terrigen. By converting the Terrigen into a gaseous state, the Olympians would give this group of humans exposed to it superhuman abilities and an increased intelligence. These new Inhumans would soon found their own society on an island known as Attilan.

In the second experiment series, the Olympians would toil and tinker with human's genetic structure directly, hoping to achieve the same superhuman results as the Terrigen experiments, what would later be known as the X Gene. However after many years of toiling, the results seemed unsuccessful so the project was abandoned.

In the intervening years, Attilan would become an advanced mecca of art, culture and science. While most of the Olympians were proud of this race's progress, Jupiter found it as a threat and so caused the city to sink into the ocean. When the other Olympians learned of his actions, it triggered a war amongst them.

Inhabitants

Heroes

Paladin Roster

• Victoria Domashev
• Erik Lehnsherr (Magneto)
• Wanda Domashev (The Scarlet Witch)
• Pietro Domashev (Quicksilver)
• Lorna Domashev (Polaris)
• Natasha Romanov (Black Widow)
• Rowan Erikson (Spider-Man)
• Antoinette “Toni” Stark (Repulsor)
• Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross (The Hulk)
• Hercules
• Lester Hoyt (Bullseye)
• Margaret “Peggy” Carter (Captain America)

SHIELD

• Nick Fury (Aasiyah Al-Zoubi)
• Mysterio (Quinn Beck)
• Agent Hill
• Agent Sitwell
• Otto Octavius
• Adrian Toomes
• Matthew Murdock

The Wild Pack

• Svetlana Sablinova (Silver Sable)
• Victor Creed (Sabertooth)
• Hank McCoy (Beast)
• Rahne Sinclair (Wolfsbane)

Independent Heroes

• Ghost Rider (GoGo Tomago)
• The Black Panther (Shuri)
• The Sorcerer Supreme (Dr. Judah Travers)
• Iron Fist (Danny Rand)
• Wolverine (James Howlett)
• Captain Marvel (Kalisa De-Andra)
• Stick

The Punishers

• Frank Castle
• Micro
• Bushwhacker (Carl Burbank)
• Elektra Natchios

Xavier Institute for The Gifted

• Charles Xavier
• Warren Worthington III (Angel)
• Emma Frost

Guardians of the Galaxy

• Miek
• Korg
• Skurge the Executioner
• Ayesha
• Jocasta
• Titus

Villains

The Brotherhood

• William Stryker
• Firefist
• Raven Darkholme (Mystique)

The Reavers

• Donald Pierce

The Black Order

• Thanos
• Cull Obsidian
• Proxima
• Corvis
• Ebony Maw

Superior Sovereign

• Paragon
• Magus
• Zylak

AIM

• Reed Richards
• Hank Pym
• Janet Van Dyne
• Bolivar Trask
• Sybil Zane

Ragnarok Cult

• Leif Erikson

Independent Villains

• Arcade (Amadeus Cho)
• Justine Hammer
• Johnny Storm (Daredevil)
• Susan Storm (The Invisible Woman)
• Clint Barton (Hawkeye)
• Bruce Banner (the Abomination)
• Juggernaut (Cain Marko)
• Power Man (Luke Cage)
• Colossus (Piotr “Peter” Rasputain)
• The Rhino (Alexei Sytsevich)
• Tombstone (L. Lincoln Thompson)
• Domino (Neena Thurman)
• Natalia Essex
• Ravage
• Malice

Ravagers

• Nebula
• Yondu

The Phoenix Order

• Jean Grey
• The Phoenix Knight

Kingpin Syndicate

• James Wesley (The Kingpin)
• The Purple Man (Zebediah Kilgrave)

The Hand

• Kenji Oyama (Lord Dark Wind)
• Kenuichio Harada (the Silver Samurai)
• Yuriko Oyama (Lady Deathstrike)
• Ogun

The Ten Rings

• The Mandarin
• Raza

Other Inhabitants

Stark Industries

• Peter Parker
• Gwen Stacy

Others

• Mary Jane Watson
• Max Dillon

Deities

Olympians

• Jupiter
• Juno
• Vulcan
• Minerva
• Neptune
• Venus
• Mars
• Apollo
• Diana
• Vesta
• Mercury
• Cerea
• Orcus

Independent

• Eternity
• Deadpool
• the Beyonder
• Death
• God