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as for what the Old Ones did: yeah it sucks to be made as sapient warp weapons, basically pretty-femme bio-android kill machines, and then just let loose and told good luck enjoy immortality and building a society

I don't know why but I've been obsessed lately with tying threads of the Dark Ages together into something coherent lately while also still remaining vague and mysterious. Painting some broad strokes about human culture and how to led to the one in 40k+ It seems disingenuous for the common wisdom to be that everything was the Eldar's fault, as in the warp destabilization that led to humanity's collapse (basically saying the xenophobes and the Emporer are right!)

It's more a mutual destruction from resonance and basically "spooky action at a distance", unknown to both parties. For humans, because they didn't truly understand what the warp actually was until it was too late. And for the Eldar, because they were too comfortable with thinking they had fully understood and mastered it and were protected by their Construct-Gods.

All this sudden, uncontrolled energy released into what is basically the underlying fabric of reality for sapient life is like when everything lines up perfectly in the sea and you get a Rouge Wave (Slannesh).

Originally Stoic, even ST Vulcan-like Eldar get a taste of exotic, compatible emotions from roiling humanity and as living weapons of the warp, amplify that shit and turn it inward like some kind of warp death ray against their own psyches