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Realm Of Divine Magic
worship of the Chaos Powers. It is even possible that the Old Slann and Elves created the
Chaos powers; the fragmentary accounts of the creation of Slaanesh recounted in an epic
cycle of ballads from the Elf Songs clearly suggest that the High Elves believed that their
ancestors had created this god. The creation of gods by mortals is a disturbingly
paradoxical concept, of course, and is treated in the Verrah Rubicon with ironic
skepticism, but it is worth noting that Wood Elf traditions have historically accepted the
notion of the Elven guilt for the creation of Slaanesh as a literal truth.
[[The creation of Slaanesh presumably predated the Warhammer arrival of the Elves as
Slann chattel. Right?]]
[[The Creationist Heresy holds that the Old Slann created the Known World and its
human inhabitants. This plausible but unconfirmable doctrine is denied by all Young
Gods cults on the basis of the Old Faith's rejection of the notion; critics note that the Old
Faith may not be a reliable source on its own origin. Warhammer 40,000 fans may find
this heresy attractive, reckoning that the Old Slann either imported humans or engineered
them from existing genetic stock on planets throughout the universe.]]
The Collapse of the Slann Gates, the God War, and the Dark Time
The Warhammer World of the periods preceding the arrival of the Slann is a stable,
relatively peaceful world of numerous primitive cultures worshipping a single god, the
Earth Mother, and her lesser nature spirits. Magic was rare and exceptional; only the
Druids, the chosen of the Earth Mother, had any magical powers, and even those were
rarely practiced in public. The arrival of the Old Slann and their client races scarcely
appears to have touched the indigenous Warhammer civilizations; the Old Slann, elves,
dwarves, and other off-world races apparently avoided contact with the Warhammer
natives, choosing to live in isolated habitats in Lustria where the ruins of their once-great
ancient cities may be seen.
However, the catastrophic collapse of the Slann gates, vast artifacts through which the
Slann ships traveled in their journeys from other worlds to Warhammer, altered the
nature of Warhammer World forever. Following the failure and collapse of these
powerful artifacts, the planet's relatively stable material and spiritual elements were
corrupted and transformed by vast quantities of raw aethyr that erupted from the Void
into Warhammer in the form of warpstone and warpdust. At the poles, where the Void
flux was most dramatic, the Chaos Wastes were formed -- vast areas where the laws of
nature no longer hold sway, and where the magical armies of Chaos wage never-ending
war upon one another. This tide of Chaos threatened to spill over into the rest of
Warhammer World, but it was opposed by the spirit of Warhammer itself -- the Earth
Mother and her subordinate spirits -- and the humble creatures which worshipped her.
This period is known to Verenan scholars as the God War.
The God War pitted the burgeoning forces of Chaos against the forces of the
Earthmother. During this period the divine entities known collectively as the Young Gods
(Taal, Rhya, Manann, Ulric, Myrmidia, Shallya, Verena, Morr, Ranald, and Darah) and
the Dark Children (Khaine and Ecaté) are first recognized as independent aspects of the
Earth Mother, struggling at their mother's side to defend Warhammer from the invading
elements of the Chaos Powers.
The God War was apparently a draw, with the Earth Mother dominant but unable to
expel the forces of Chaos from Warhammer, the warp gates closed but leaking, and the
armies of the Chaos Powers confined to the Northern and Southern Wastes. This uneasy
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