Were it not for the Foreign God, they'd likely never have awoken, and even with its aid, Wodime is Living on Borrowed Time and will be killed if he tries to oppose the Foreign God's awakening, while the others will be branded traitors and hunted down by the Foreign God's apostles. Even then, all seven of them were intended to save humanity as Masters of Chaldea and were victims of Lev's bombing of Chaldea, left Only Mostly Dead as a result.
Anti-Villain: With the exception of Beryl and possibly Daybit, they all believe in creating a new, better world for humanity than the original Proper Human History, just to different extents.