History
The Deonists were a humanoid race with pale white skin that originated on Deo, the fifth planet from the sun in the Denebola system of the Milky Way galaxy.[1]
Deo's biosphere was fragile and there came a time when energy from an external source was required to sustain the planet's habitability.[2] For many years, this energy came from a being known to the Deonists as the One Above All, a god whom they worshipped and who, in return, gave freely of himself, allowing his limitless strength to flow into the energy-siphons that supplied the power to keep Deo alive.[3] In fact, this Celestial Being had a symbiotic relationship with the Deonists since it nourished itself by feeding off the psionic energy that the Deonists generated by their devout worship.[2]
Deo was part of a confederation of planets. Being the planet where the Confederation's greatest treasures were stored in giant golden shrines caused it to become known as Templeworld.
Templeworld and the Confederation existed in peace until they were attacked by a vast armada of ships that included members of the Skrull, Badoon, Aakon and Kree races. The other planets in the confederation were swiftly destroyed but access to Templeworld was blocked at its poles by perpetual meteor storms and a cosmic maelstrom. To protect the only usable passage, the One Above All constructed a massive wall in space around the planet's equator. The alien armada was unable to breach the wall and all its ships were destroyed during their failed attempts to do so. Unfortunately, the act of creating the wall had somehow exhausted the One Above All's life-giving energies and, despite the fervent worship of the Deonists, he perished. The Deonists mourned the loss of their beloved god and constructed a great stone coffin to hold his blessed remains.[3]
Without the One Above All to sustain their planet, many Deonists died.[2] Those Deonists who survived began calling themselves the Soul-Survivors and, desperate to preserve what remained of their world, they built an armada which they used to seek out and capture other "gods" that they could use as sources of energy. However, being worshipped by the Soul-Survivors seems not to have nourished any of these gods so the draining of their life-forces caused them to weaken and die. The Soul-Survivors were thus forced to keep searching for new gods and many more Deonists died while doing so.[3]
At some point, the planet once known as Templeworld came to called the dreaded Doomsday Star.
The last god that the Soul-Survivors ever acquired was All-Father Odin whom they intercepted as he was travelling from Earth to Asgard. The Soul-Survivors kept Odin captive within a replica of a great Norse funeral barge and began draining his living energy, the Odin-Force. However, despite being one of the most powerful gods they had ever captured, the constant draining of his energy soon caused even Odin's energies to dwindle.[3]
As Odin's energies became dangerously low, a party of Asgardians approached the Doomsday Star aboard the Starjammer in search of their missing lord. After a failed attempt by Thor to blast his way through the Wall Around the World, the Soul-Survivors teleported Thor and his companions Sif, Fandral, Hogun, Volstagg and a Rigellian Recorder from their craft to a rooftop in the deserted city where multiple Soul-Survivors garbed in power-armor then attacked the aliens. Hogun, Volstagg and the Recorder were separated from the others during the attack and were believed to have died, but the armored Soul-Survivors managed to render the other three unconscious and capture them. This trio soon awoke to find themselves shackled in the tower of the Soul-Survivors.[4]
Two of the Soul-Survivors, K'rll and N'gll, spoke with their captives and granted Thor's demand for an explanation by revealing the history of their world. Then, to reward them for successfully completing their quest, they escorted the shackled Thor, Sif and Fandral to the temple where Odin was imprisoned. While the Asgardians spoke, the Soul-Survivors detected that the three they had thought had died were still alive and scaling their tower. Overhearing this and knowing that he could not survive much longer, Odin secretly transferred almost all of his remaining Odin-Force into the body of Volstagg and then, as the last of the energy in his body was drained away, Odin died. Enraged by his father's death, Thor freed himself, Fandral and Sif, and they were then joined by Hogun, Volstagg and the Recorder. The six of them swiftly proved to be too much for the armor-clad Soul-Survivors to handle so K'rll retreated to the Spirit-Mold which he used to give form to that portion of the Odin-Force that was still stored within their energy-batteries, creating a humanoid form that embodied the Odin-Force but was controlled remotely by him.[3] The Odin-creature proved to be superior to the Asgardians but Volstagg, being secretly empowered by the Odin-Force himself, was able to fight back long enough to force K'rll to expend all of the stored Odin-Force. With no more power, the Odin-creature dissolved into nothingness and the power-feedback from its destruction caused the energy-siphons and the other mechanisms used by the Soul-Survivors to explode. Enraged by the ending of their dream and full of hate, K'rll recklessly attacked Thor who might have killed him except that Odin then returned to life (in a slightly-delayed reaction to Volstagg's attempt to use his new-found power to revive Odin that had inadvertently returned the Odin-Force to him). As the Asgardians departed with Odin, whose weakeness had caused him to enter the Odin-Sleep, the Recorder advised N'gll to swiftly go to K'rll because his friend needed him.[5]
With no more "godly" life-force to sustain it, the Doomsday Star swiftly became uninhabitable and the Deonists were forced to evacuate it.[2]
At least one of the Deonists decided to join the multi-species religious order known as the Mourners.[6]
At some point, K'rll re-entered the Spirit-Mold and discovered that he could recalibrate its psionic circuitry to drain the life-forces of his fellow Deonists. He did so, killing all of them, and then, in the form of the Soul-Eater, he began to travel through the universe looking for places of death where he could feed upon fresh souls. Near the center of the Kree Empire at the time when the Nega-Bomb was detonated, the last Deonist absorbed untold billions of souls, causing the Soul-Eater to increase in size and power exponentially.[2]Powers and Abilities
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Highly advanced, but no new strides were made in centuries inasmuch as the race was becoming extinct. They possessed faster-than-light starships and technology that could absorb life-force from living beings and store it in energy-batteries.
- Cosmotronic Cannon
- Spirit-Mold
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See Also
- 6 appearance(s) of Deonists
- 2 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Deonists
- 1 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Deonists
- 3 image(s) of Deonists
- 2 representative(s) of Deonists