I'm pretty sure Slaanesh came about during the age of strife which was before the great crusade. I remember hearing that Slaanesh was about 25k years old in the current 40k setting. The HH happened around 30k (or ~10k before current setting).
As for the other gods, I thought they were all birthed after the war in heaven which was like 60 odd million years ago when the Necrons killed off the Old Ones.
The Fall of the Aeldari in the early 30th Millennium was signalled by the birth-scream of Slaanesh, a tsunami of emotion and psychic power that heralded the Prince of Pleasure's arrival in the Realm of Chaos even as it shaped a new dominion within that dimension to serve as its home, the Dark Prince's Realm.
Khorne is the mightiest and the oldest of the four major Chaos Gods, fully coming into existence in the Immaterium sometime during Terra's European Middle Ages in the early 2nd Millennium, its birth heralded by an era of wars and conflict that raged across the globe.
Nurgle was the third of the Chaos Gods to fully awaken within the Warp, emerging during the 2nd Millennium in the midst of Old Earth's European Middle Ages, as great plagues swept across the world heralding the god's birth.
Yeah they will be around until Tyranids eat up every single world and then be off to the next Galaxy.
Yeah they will be around until Tyranids eat up every single world and then be off to the next Galaxy.
Taking this 40K shit more seriously then real life issues.
Big E's xenophobia to me has -always- been bad and unjustifiable. You had civilizations like the Interex which would have no doubt joined the Imperium and they were -not- a threat at all. Even had knowledge and actively hunted Chaos. It was really because they were a society that peacefully coexisted with Xenos as to why everything went to hell (oh, and Erebus).
Arent the tyranids the only intergalactic threat? To my knowledge everything outside of the Milky Way is pretty much unknown territory and no one really has the means to travel that far. The Astronomicon doesnt reach there. Which pretty much makes the tyranids the biggest threat there is.
I mean...I feel Imperium is one of the few fictional instances where you can actually justify that kind of government though. It speaks to how shifty fascism is though. For it to be justified: Hell has to actually exist, demons have to actually exist, and they have to be actively gunning for your entire species from all sides along with other objectively terrifying xenon threats like Orcs and Tyranids. That's the only way fascism is justified.Eh, in the Horus Heresy novels there are plenty of human societies that were flourishing and werent fascistic. The nascent Imperium of Man absorbed or destroyed them.
slaanesh was born around 30k during the fall of the eldarOh rightio.
khorne was born sometime between 1000-2000 CE
nurgle was born supposedly after khorne implying plagues during the middle ages
Ive seen people discuss Warcraft politics as serious business too. Sylvanas apologists had/have a lot of overlap with Trumpers.
Yeah they will be around until Tyranids eat up every single world and then be off to the next Galaxy.
Don't they literally sacrifice hundreds of thousands of people every day just to keep him alive? Sounds pretty MAGA-esqueNo. The Golden Throne keeps him alive. It's the Astronomican that slowly kills the people placed in to it.
Nah, eventually Tyranids get hemmed in by Necros. The whole "assimilate any flesh" shtick doesn't work on an immortal undead army made of metal
he is, heretical I know, just a man.
40K , from everything I've heard of it, seems like the kind of universe where a supermassive black hole suddenly appearing and consuming everything would be more merciful than having to exist for even one day in there.
40K , from everything I've heard of it, seems like the kind of universe where a supermassive black hole suddenly appearing and consuming everything would be more merciful than having to exist for even one day in there.
If youre Imperial Guard you wont even last one day.
No. The Golden Throne keeps him alive. It's the Astronomican that slowly kills the people placed in to it.
Unless you're super awesome, and the sniper. And the author recently got a girlfriend.
Nah, eventually Tyranids get hemmed in by Necros. The whole "assimilate any flesh" shtick doesn't work on an immortal undead army made of metal
Ciaphas Kain, HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!I really hope the Amazon series is an adaptation of these books.