Many eldars were already seeking extremes but the dark eldar do not seem to be the norm of that time. Given time would they have eventually have eventually become like drukhari apart from the few exodites?
Many eldars were already seeking extremes but the dark eldar do not seem to be the norm of that time. Given time would they have eventually have eventually become like drukhari apart from the few exodites?
That’s exactly when they formed, Khorne likely being the first. Remember, the galaxy is a biiiiiiig place. There’s anywhere between 100 and 400 billion stars. Even if Chaos spread across a thousand solar systems each year, it still wouldn’t have spread through the whole galaxy in 60 million years. Entire species evolved, became sentient, built civilizations, and went extinct before they encountered Chaos. The Warp itself is even more vast and infinite. So before Chaos could expand outwards into the materium, it had to evolve and develop within the immaterium.
Another reason is because Chaos is us, the audience, and the Warp is the real world outside of 40k. Humans were more preoccupied with what’s actually happening and not writing fanfic for their toys. Hence, the previous 65 million years where nothing ever happens.
During Great Crusade traces of chaos influence among xenos were subtle. What really caused it all to explode was Horus Heresy. And look how human chaos is (there’s still barely any chaos xenos in lore), older lore even straight up said humans caused chaos gods to form, like first Bloodthirster was Genghis Khan for example. It also fit the original over the top satirical face of 40K that humans are the problem. Later it was retconned when Warhammer became serious and Imperium is hailed good.
Hmmm
weren’t they only sentient in M2? At least khorne was said to have become that around this time because of the wars in M2 that triggered it. I guess the timing confused me because those wars were small time in comparison.
Then again time is wonky in the warp
The gods supposedly awakening between 0 and 2000 AD was from the Realm of Chaos supplements AFAIK. GW has since abandoned those plot lines, which is chalked up to unreliable narrators and warpfuckery.