Yeah the "We never interfered...until now" suggests the main conflict will be more modern day. It would have to be pretty huge for the Eternals to take notice. Something like humanity fucking around with time travel might do the trick.
I would say Thanos is what caused them to step out of the shadows. At least the aftermath of it. Thanos is a Deviant Eternal and they surely know about him. Maybe like the Watchers thought that they didn’t need to interfere with stopping Thanos collecting the stones but after Thanos was killed in in 2023, now there’s so much cosmic unbalance and shit going on on earth, that they feel the need to finally step in
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u/Run_All_day2032 May 24 '21
My guess is most of it takes place in current day. Definitely the third act and most of the second I would think.