Ooh ok. So just to be clear. Slaneesh wasn’t even born yet when the Imperium was trying to conquer the stars? I know they’re the newest of Chaos gods. Just didn’t know if they were before Big E’s galaxy conquest plan or after.
Slaanesh was born after the Emperor conquered and unified Terra in M31. This cleared up the warp storms that had isolated most human worlds from each other during the Age of Strife and allowed the newly formed Imperium to begin to conquer the galaxy.
That’s a bit of an assumption, there’s some lore hints that the Warp Storms weakening might have been more deliberate than previously implied.
The idea being Slaanesh’s birth is what made the other Chaos Gods really sit up and take notice of how much free psychic power an evil galactic empire of murder monkeys can generate, so when Useful Idiot McGenocide was ready to start conquering they made it so that he could and cleaned up Slaanesh’s afterbirth as it were.
Of course, it’s 40k, there’s all kinds of lore hints that never get any further explanation.
Ooh ok. So just to be clear. Slaneesh wasn’t even born yet when the Imperium was trying to conquer the stars? I know they’re the newest of Chaos gods. Just didn’t know if they were before Big E’s galaxy conquest plan or after.
Slaanesh was born after the Emperor conquered and unified Terra in M31. This cleared up the warp storms that had isolated most human worlds from each other during the Age of Strife and allowed the newly formed Imperium to begin to conquer the galaxy.
That’s a bit of an assumption, there’s some lore hints that the Warp Storms weakening might have been more deliberate than previously implied.
The idea being Slaanesh’s birth is what made the other Chaos Gods really sit up and take notice of how much free psychic power an evil galactic empire of murder monkeys can generate, so when Useful Idiot McGenocide was ready to start conquering they made it so that he could and cleaned up Slaanesh’s afterbirth as it were.
Of course, it’s 40k, there’s all kinds of lore hints that never get any further explanation.