The Celestials have returned a few times to check in/intervene in the affairs of the Eternals and Deviants, the last time being thirty years previous (Kirby's Eternals series). They've been in conflict for thousands of years with humanity in the middle. The Deviants are mutants, monsters, too violent and harsh the Eternals a angelic, immortal, barely breeding, too pure. The Deviants and Eternals are both creations of the Celestials for the purpose of ruling the Earth for them - both too far in one direction. The Celestials being big giant robot-esque space gods that altered the Earth for their own mysterious purposes. Basically, the Eternals are the basis for our gods (something that doesn't entirely work in the Marvel universe given the pantheons of gods that exist there), created by the Celestials to balance out the influence of the Deviants. Not meant to be part of the Marvel universe, Kirby teased with that idea as the Powers That Be pressured him to bring the characters into the fold - eventually they were. The Eternals are a group of characters created by Jack Kirby in 1975 for Marvel.
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