Talk:Warhammer Meta-Setting
The 40K galaxy is the Chaos gods' "day job," and the Fantasy world is where they play their intricate tabletop battles in their off time[edit]
The Fantasy universe has just one planet compared to the trillions in the 40K one (even if you only look at our galaxy alone, that's still billions), so it's probably safe to assume that the 40K universe is more important to the Chaos gods, so we'll look at the facts of that one first:
- It is a known fact in 40K that every given point in the materium is linked to a corresponding point in the Warp.
- From the perspective of the Materium, each Chaos god was known to have been born at a specific date in its history; Nurgle, the second-youngest, was born during the Black Plague on Terra, for example (the only thing that makes Slaanesh unique is that they were born in the 30th Millenium, whereas the other three gods were all awake and running by 1400 AD).
- Each of the Chaos gods' birth corresponds to a specific event or time period in our specific galaxy, so combine that with the fact that they should otherwise be powerful enough to rip open an Eye of Terror at will, they aren't very likely to be drawing power from any galaxy other than our own.
- The Tyranids arrived here from another galaxy and are specifically stated to have consumed 1,000 galaxies and millions of intelligent species prior to us, which means that most galaxies in the 40K universe have their own assortment of intelligent life, so it stands to reason that they'd have their own warp gods as well.
- The Great Horned Rat has no presence here.
- Non-daemon warp entities occasionally come through to screw someone's day, such as Enslavers.
Now let's look at what we know about the Fantasy universe:
- It is not stated (to my knowledge) that a given point in the fantasy world corresponds to a given point in the warp.
- All four Chaos gods came to the world at once.
- this universe contains only a single inhabited astronomical body.
- There were initially Warp gods of order in addition to the warp gods of chaos, but who were weaker than the chaos gods and were thus killed by them.
- One of the initial four Chaos gods has been imprisoned and locked away somewhere, despite this very same god being still out and about from 40K's perspective.
- The inhabitants of the fantasy world are not known to face nondaemon warp entities like enslavers.
The inconsistency with the Great Horned rat and Slaanesh can maybe be explained by the fact that the physical laws of the warp are rarely consistent and the place is a temporal Möbius strip at the best of times, but there might be more to it than that.
My hypothesis is that the 40K universe is the central one, and that the Warp gods of each galaxy create a unverse for their amusment where they basically play their own rough equivalent of a tabletop wargame in their off time, one that is safely isolated from outside interference like natural warp fauna such as enslavers, or other warp gods.
The "Slaanesh and the rat conundrum" could possibly be explained by the elves imprisoning Slaanesh on the 40K side of the warp, and the other gods voting in Great Horned Rat to run Slannesh's stuff until the next session, I.e. the next fantasy universe. 134.129.58.170 02:45, 5 October 2018 (UTC)
