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666,000 Years Ago
In Apokolips, Darkseid would be named the new ruler of the New Gods.
With the denizens of Apokolips angered by the failings on Arda of Melkor, Sauron, and Saruman- Darksied was made leader, after vowing to find a way for the New Gods to enter Ea, directly- and in mass.
In time, Darkseid created a weapon that was able to harness the dark energies of Apokolips. He then used the weapon to focus those energies on Ea, trying to create a bridge between Apokolips and Arda.
In New Genesis, a Beyonder, named Thanos, became corrupted by the spreading ideology of Darkseid.
In an attempt to overthrow New Genesis, Thanos would eventually lead a rebellion against the Beyonders, and the Eternals.
Eventually, seeing that he would not be able to overthrow all of New Genesis, Thanos, and his followers, succeeded in harnessing the powers of New Genesis (similar to the way that Darkseid had been working to harness the powers of Apokolips), and fled to Ea.
Once they had succeeded in entering Ea, they settled on an empty moon- not too far from Arda.
They would call their new home Titan, and they would come to be known as the Titans.
In another far corner of Ea, Malekith, and the Dark Elves, colonized the planet Svartalvheim. The other Maiar whom had traveled with Malekith, would eventually leave Svartalvheim, and continued across Ea- until they found a planet they would call, Jotunheim.
Those Maiar would then come to call themselves the, Jotuns, and they would be ruled by Queen Laufey.
On Arda, Melkor's disciple, Attuma, had grown dissatisfied with the role that the Numenoreans had come to accept on Arda.
He would then begin growing a sizable army on the surface of Lemuria.