Their war with the Old Ones was not going well until they became aware of the existence of the C’tan and the C’tan’s great power. This was all happening about 60 million years before present. They also did not have access to the Webway or even the Warp and they traveled slowly across the galaxy. They sought to find a better way to live and they envied the Old Ones’ immortality.
The Necrontyr were a fragile and desperate race: they were very vulnerable to the radiation of the stars and lived short and difficult lives. The Old Ones ruled the Milky Way galaxy for eons, but eventually came into contact with the Necrontyr. Therefore, the ability of the Old Ones to travel via Webway was extremely useful and important. We’ll get into the Warp more in the future when the Chaos Gods burst into existence, but for now it’s enough to say that the Warp is very treacherous to travel and can drive travelers mad just in the attempt. The Warp, which needs to be defined, is also called the Immaterium, and is a place of psychic energy where all emotions felt in the material universe (the Materium) exist and are expanded upon. The Webway is a way to move through space faster than light without entering the dangerous Warp. The Old Ones had done one thing very important, which was to create (or use it’s unclear) the Webway. Not much is known about the Old Ones, except that they were an extremely powerful reptilian race that was nearly immortal and highly technologically advanced. They were powerful, but only semi-sentient and didn’t interact with the world or other races much. The C’tan were beings of energy who didn’t have physical forms but instead existed near stars leaching the power emanating from the stars for their strength. The beginning of the Warhammer 40k universe begins with origin of the C’tan, who are also sometimes referred to as the Star Gods.
Getting Started in Warhammer 40k Lore: The Timeline The C’Tan, The Old Ones, and the Necrontyr I’ll be linking to other articles as we go. For now if you want to read more about each faction, here’s an article The Warhammer 40k Races, one on the Warhammer 40k factions, and one each on the Space Marines and the Chaos Space Marines. Note that I’m not going to be going into a LOT of detail about every faction here, but that’s because I’ll be going into more detail on each when we get into then Getting Started guides for each faction. So where do we get started? In this article on getting started in Warhammer 40k lore I’m going to go through a general timeline of lore and, when we get to a certain points, I’m going to point you to Warhammer 40k novels. If you think worlds like Middle Earth are expansive, they’ve got nothing on Warhammer 40k, and that’s because for 30 years dozens of authors have been writing hundreds of novels about it. We may earn money or products from the companies mentioned in this post.Īside from Gameplay and Hobbying, the third reason that people love the Warhammer 40k universe is the lore, or the story of the setting, but getting started in Warhammer 40k lore can be daunting because there’s just so much of it.
0 kommentar(er)
