Looking at linking all me Apple products together via I Cloud. But its asking for me to make an
I Cloud email account.
My concern is that what happens to my Gmail account. IE Does all my emails go through my Gmail account and then once I open one of my Apple products does the emails then go through the I Cloud account then land on each Apple product.
Any advice would be welcome

I think your gmails will hit your gmail account first, then get pushed on to your email app on whatever apple device you’re using. All this will probably happen at the speed of electricity though and may look simultaneous. 🙂

i.e. if you’re just having to set up an apple ID to use your devices, you don’t ever have to use that for emails. You can just continue using your gmail addy.