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   The imperium of man: the imperium is a massive empire taking up approximately 80% of the galaxy, it is an empire of 1 million worlds , untold amounts of population all led by their carrion overlord the emperor upon his golden throne of terra , within his armies include the adpetus mechanicus religious zealots devoted to machinery and the spirits of technology, the adeptus astartes gene altered warriors and angels of the emperor, the sisters of battle women who take up arms in the name of faith and fire, the imperial guard the boots on the ground of the imperium ranging from the planetary defence forces on all worlds to the most elite of shock troops, the inquisition who ensure purity in the populace , the eclisiarchy who are the official state religion of worshipping the god emperor , the Adeptus Arbites who enforce law , the administratum who handle the admin of the vast empire and a million other Adeptus organisations across the galaxy , the imperium is a massive force and organisation to the point that most outsiders would look at it and assume it is not a singular empire but a confederation of a thosuand sectors each with their own customs , the imperium is vast each world builds its own cultures and as long as it is not deemed heretical and the tithes arrive on time it is permitted as if it where official doctrine, the imperium is highly xenophobic being deeply afraid and hateful of aliens and xenos too the point that many humans see anything that isn't an exact base human as an abomination , the imperium despite this is diverse with a humans making up a decent portion of the population from the navigators who's third eyes guide warp travel to the ogyrns who bolster the imperial guard , the imperium is a deeply indoctrinated society propaganda , fearmongering and constant religoous preaching makes those in the imperium zealous and used to the brutality of its systems the imperium is a brutal autocracy but a vast one millions of worlds and untold masses of people to the imperium all are numbers but the worlds vary greatly from the most despotic hell holes to paradise worlds, death worlds that make the most dangerous humans tk forge worlds which lack all natural beings the imperium is vast, varied and dangerous, overall the imperium is a mighty empire even in these times of strife as it is split in 2 by the great rift: Within the Imperium of Man warp travel is an essential part of life, Hive worlds need imports, Agri worlds need exports, soldiers just be transported in a timely manner and the warp itself is no help in these matters for this reason is why the imperium of man has the Navigators of the Navis Nobilite , early in human history Navigators came about around the same time as the warp drive and gellar feild , a genetic byproduct of those who travelled and navigated the warp , each Navigator is born with a third eye capable of gazing into the Immaterium and their powers sheild the Navigators mind from the madness that staring blind into the warp would bring as such throughout the imperium Navigators are one of the few Mutant humans whom are not just accepted but outright pandered to in order for the imperium to maintain warp travel. The Navigator houses are as any nobility a cutthroat and dramatic bunch constant squabbles between houses, fighting between heirs and political maneuvering take place among the Navigators, Navigators thanks to their connection to the warp are Highly powerful psykers abke to use their third eye as a focus for their power letting them dominate others minds, release burst of energy from their third eye and other great Abilities. The Navigator houses are a rather Twisted lineage due to the way their genetics work , the gene to make Navigators is not entirely guaranteed to develop in offspring and as such Navigator houses often partake in intermarriage among their house to ensure "pure" Navigator offspring thansk to imperium Technology and medicines the worst effects of incest are spared from the Navigator children but still the process of arranged marriages are messy and result in ni end of spite among the Navis Nobilite, in the end the Navigators are the powerful noble families in charge of warp travel and the danger they go through gazing into the realm kf chais is rewarded by the extravagant lifestyle of a noble class not even the Imperium would dare to unseat: Rogue traders are those few nobles of the imperium granted warrants of trader excusing them from any and all laws of the imperium , these men and women whos authority matches that of an Inquisitor prowl the void in search of profit, power, glory and many more:

   The Inquisition: The inquisition is the secret police of the imperium of man, made up of men and women devoted to the service in the golden thrones name, the inquisition has many ordos dedicated to various exploits and sectors, the main ordos are the ordo xenos handling matters of the alien and non human , the ordo Malleus who handle matters regarding the warp and demonology , the ordo Hereticus hanlding matters of corruption and heresy , there are also minor ordos such as redacted whi redact information, the ordo Originatus who dedicate themsleves to UNredactibg information , the ordo Machnium who police the mechanicus , the ordo Chronos who handle chronology matters and many many more , Inquisitors are roughly separated into 2 types, radicals and Puritans, radicals beleive that humanity should use Xeno technology, abhuman Abilities and pretty much exploit anything that isn't strictly heretical often radical Inquisitors keep diverse retinues of various abhumand and xenos , then there are Puritans who believe humanity should not rely on any force but themselves, they believe all xeno technology , mutation and unholy elements should be burnt they often are far more zealous to the imperium , the 2 types of Inquisitors often clash ideals but in the end most if not all Inquisitors are unshakably loyal and devoted to humanities safety even if that safety must be gained in blood as afterall, even the kindest Inquisitor has a closet filled with skeletons:

   Imperial Knights: the Imperial Knights are chivalric order of noble houses each entrusted with the use of the imperial knights , massive bipedal mechs equipped with heavy armour , heavier armaments and the simple task to prove their mettle upon wars anvil , originally used as colonial machines in the dark age of technology when the old human empire split apart knight worlds regressed to feudalism with those nobleswno had and operated knights becoming the royals, when the emperor reunited them they joined the imperium desiring to prove their might in crusades across the galaxy , ever since even when knights turn to chaos they have remained honorable and loyal crushing those who they are commanded to , the imperial knights have many patterns , the most common is the questoris pattern a versatile weapons platform capable of using any weapon under the imperium perview and is highly customisable for the pilot , the dominus pattern designed for long range with heavy armour and heavier death , the cerastus knights nimble and quick they are made to fight in melee and break lines like jousting knights of horseback of old, the destrieder, smaller then other knights but still noble and given to younger and bolder knight pilots, and of course the armigers piloted by minor nobles and elevated house guards they are smaller less advanced ut no less important knights, made to be scouts and grunts for the larger patterns , knight houses are organised along noble lines with the Lord/Lady scion in charge with their direct family and cousins piloting the knights , distant cousins and minor nobles piloting the armigers and so on , every imperial knight pilots their mech through the "throne mechanicum" a device that links wjth the pilots very thoughts so they csn control the 40 foot tall war machines ,the throne has a sideffect as it links the pilots very mind meaning that even after death a peice of the past pilot is left meaning that a Knight pasted down through the family will result in a pilots ancestors giving the advice (or backseat driving) the imperial knight with the current pilot, overall the imperial knights are an honorable and reliable group always ready to fight and die for the imperium:

   The astra militarum or imperial guard who are the backbone or the imperium being its standard forces using mass forces of mortal humans and heavy armour to fight back the enemies of the god emperor, Abhuman auxiliaries make up special units and each world of importance tends to have some form of guard regiment making the militarum diverse. They are varied and numerous from the ice warriors of valhalla, the Catachan jungle fighters from the death world Catachan, the Hardy cadians from the now destroyed fortress world cadia and many much more regiments and forces:

   The astartes who are genetically modified super soldiers of the emperor , originally made during the horus heresy to be the bulwark of humanities armies but with the Horus heresy causing a civil war the astartes where split by its end now they're divided into chapters each chapter being lesser then the original legions but still a grand fighting force, astartes are varied ranging from specialised chapters for specific tactical uses to generalist chapters and overall each and every chapter is unique beibg named "the emperors angels of death" for a reason, the space marines are all genetically modified hosting dozens if additional organs and modifications allowing them to interface with their adamntine power armour, space marines aspirant must go through grueling trials and tribulations to even become scouts of the chapter and those scouts who ascend to become astartes are those worthy. The astartes have many sepertae branches from the Apothecaries who ensure the geneseed needed to make space marines is guarded and managed, the tech marine who upkeep space marines vehicles serving with the tech priest of mars, the chaplains who ensure loyalty and stamp out corruption, to the captain and veterans who train and command the chapters. Each space marine chapter is led by a grand chapter master the best space marines of their force, for a space marine life is war and fear is impossible even in death an astartes can be jntered in a dreadnought, a dreadnought is a special privilege given to high ranking Astartes if a space marine of great importance is mortally wounded then if recovered they will be entombed in a dreadnought a collosal life support system whcih is then fitted with arms, legs and systems to allow control from the astartes brain this allows legion veterans to fight even after being crippled beyond repair , even in death they still serve. The astartes despite their issues remain a grand force of Humanity:

   The Adeptus Custodes: the Custodes or "the ten thousand" are the elite bodyguards to the master of mankind and wardens of the imperial palace and terra, created as the first gene edited soldiers of the emperor they proved perfect specimens as unlike space marines their genetic changes grew with them rather then being haphazardly jammed into an aspirant for the custodes are as much art as they are gene forgery, the custodes wear golden armour made of the galaxys strongest material Auramite and equipped to be lions of war, each custodian is geared with cloaks that are as valuable as worlds and weild guardian spears with built in bolters, the custodes have everything space marines have but better in less numbers Alaris terminator armour is sturdy and almost unbreakable while being faster then astartes terminator plate, custodes jump packs allow true flight rather then controlled boosts into the air, and their dreadnought walkers are still as whole and capable as custodes would be but larger and clad in an auramite dresdnought. Custodes have many sheild hosts who handle different matters such as the caretakers whom attend to the thronebound emperor, the shadow keepers who guard the secrets in the dark cells of terra, the aquillon sheild who protect vital figures essential to the plans of the imperium and the Emmissaries imperator whom receive visions from the emperor in dreams and interpret them as a group. All in all the Custodes are the protectors of terra but with the coming of the era indomitus they Sally forth in packs from terra to once more show their enemies why they are the lions of the emperor:

   Adeptus Sororitas: the sisters of battle or Adeptus sororitas are a devout and sacred group of warriors under the imperial cult, originally known as "the brides of the emperor" during the reign of Goge Vandire before his defeat,the sisters showed their zealotry and zeal and after a decree banning the cult imperialis from having any "men at arms" they where enshrined as the militant arm fo the eclisiarchy a sisterhood of holy women as their main force who would be devout and grand, they are zealous warriros who combine the aesthetics of gothic churches with the tools of the imperium war machine and due to their zealotry they have a deeply rooted Saint culture with martyrdom and great acts being encouraged so sisters who do so can be cannonsied as saints with a few lucky ones becoming "living saints" an angelic figure who comes to aide the sisters in their greatest hour an angel of the emperor made manifest on thr feild of war (a greater daemon of the God Emperor), the Sisters of battle make use of many forces from their battle sisters, to Paragin warships serving as mechanised walker exosuits, Repentia sisters who have committed sin great enough they chose to relinquish armour and go into battle clad only in cloth and faith, the sisters of battle to many extents are insane as they charge into battle fueled only by faith, zeal and hatred:

   The Adeptus Mechanicus: The Adeptus Mechanicus is the engineering and science aspect of the imperium of man they hail from Mars one of the most important worlds second only to terra itself , the mechanicus was formed after the age of strife when a priesthood formed on the tech guilds of mars and they began to worship the Omnissiah the god of machines during the great crusade they where brought into the imperium by the Emperor who claimed to BE the omnisiah made manifest however they where given much more freedom and essentially functioned as their own vassal state within the imperium but within the mechanicum discontent brewed many beleived the emperor was merely a prophet and not the machine god but others , others outwardly defied and soon as the horus heresy came a rebllion began and the faction split into the Dark mechanicum and the Adeptus Mechanicus and once the heresy ended the Mechanicus became what it is now the mightiest technomancers of the imperium, the fabricator general leads the mechanicus from Mars being the most intelligent and devout magos of all , the tech priests believe that the flesh is weak and that by replacing their flesh with cybernetics they become closer to the Omnissiah often tech priests can be detached due to their augments and beliefs affecting their emotions and view of others , their are still many limits for example tech priests are only allowed limited inventing and absolutely NO artificial intelligence (usualy called abominable intelligence in the Imperium due to a past AI rebllion) they often make it around these limits by just making stuff appear like archeotech , the mechanicus often clash with the other factions of the imperium trying to leverage their power to get their way whether that be stopping astartes from purging a world for research purposes or ordering the astra militarum help them explore a necron tomb world , the mechanicus are deeply curious by their nature and often poke their noses into things they REALLY shouldn't, the mechanicus produce all the technology of the imperium making everything from tanks , titans , power armour and ships to the mundane radios , vox recivers and cars with forge worlds being not just masisve gun factories but the basis for entire sectors civilian production of goods , so important is the mechanicus many worlds are dedicated simply to supplying them in people and materials. Many mechanicus rituals and maintenance center around appeasing machine spirits which are the souls of machines (at least for the mechanicus they couod be anything from acrual souls to fragments of AI) these are often tied to a peice of technologies size and importance a lasgun machine spirit needs simple maintenance and a prayer every now and then while a tank requires rituals , incense ,the best maintenance possible and holy oil and titans require even more somehow, The mechanicus are mostly a closed kinhood with tech priest being either born into it or grown from cloning vats , but those who show promise can become adepts , the mechanicus organises itself simply skittari are the cyberntically enhanced warrior class , tech adepts and acolytes are the lower ranking members of the cult mechanicus doing Menail repairs and tasks and being tutored by their masters , tech priest are more specialised being devoted to one displacing of either maintenance, exploration or administration, the magos's and arch magos's are the leaders of the mechanicus on regional scales commanding forge worlds , exploratory fleets and armed forces of skittari and servitors, those huamns who are lovotmised and their minds used for these organic machines and of course at the top is the fabricator General, the mechanicus has a rather lax view of relationships while they're not encouraged they also aren't discouraged and infact same sex relations are seen as perfectly acceptable due to how extensive modification can be making gender a sort of suggestion for the mechanicus , it is despite all the strife, dangers and bureaucracy that the mechanicus continue on as the Great technomancy priesthood of the Imperium guided by the omnisiah and their machine spirits:

   the Warp is a fundamental aspect of existence in the galaxy , the warp is a realm of souls , emotion and warp energy , a place made of a very simple concept , if everything mkae a byproduct what is EMOTIONS byproduct and the warp is the result of the psionic eminence of any kind of emotion , higher thought and especially psyker ability, the warp was orginallg discovered and exploited by rhe old ones who made it a pleasant afterlife for souls and ensured it was calm as it can be and stable enough for the eldar webway to be built , but when the war in heaven between the Necron and Ctan vs the Eldar , old ones and Krorks , the great war resulted in the warp being shaken and lit like a bottle rocket causing ti to explode with the negative energy of the great conflict, due to this warp entities known as "Daemons" appeared , physical embodiments of strpng emotion and goals and among these beings where the first gods, these entities where being worshipped by primitive civilisations snd this direct worship gave them power resulting in the birth of the eldar pantheon as well as Gork and Mork the gods of the orks but it also led to the first links of chaos , Khorne the god of blood , Tzeentch the deity if trickery and Nurgle the god of blight where born and cut out a small part of the warp as theirs at the time these new God's where so small the much larger Eldar pantheon ignored it and focused on their own matters and so the millenia passed , warp entities came about , and the warp remained a controlled area of chaos with most warp entities only able to manipulate lesser races , but soon enough change would come in force as the eldar empire of old fell to decadence as the human empires machines turned on humanity whilst a psionic awakening began this led to the warp becoming chaotic and thrown around like a tundra and at the centre of it all in the heart of the eldar empire a new god was incubating , Slaanesh was born at the height of the eldar power and ifs birth caused a massive explosion in the warp one so powerful it tore a hole between the warp and reality resulting in the eye of terror being formed and with that the Eldar and their gods fell and Slaanesh became the 4th chaos god just in time for the emperors grets crusade with the chaos gods shaking their interest by assisting in the scattering of his primarchs son and within time their manipulation led to the horus heresy and for the chaos gods to gain not only primarchs as minions but entire armies of humans and legions of space marines and so the chaos gods continued their great game now hoping to add rhe emperor as its latest player all to ensure the galaxy remains chaotic and their own power grows forevermore , the main 4 Chaos gods are Khorne chaos god of bloodshed , skulls , honor , war and strength , tzeentch chaos god of magic , manipulation, intellect , fate and change , Nurgle chaos god of blight , nature cycles , disease , delay and rebirth and Slaanesh chaos god of Excess , pleasure , joy , pride , desire and sensation, there 4 chaos gods are the main players of the warp controlling most of the most valuable areas , having the most followers or daemons and having all the power they can want they ingage in "the great game" a sort of honorbound contest between the deities where in they all compete against eachother always competing but uniting in times of need and never knocking another god out to becoming irrelevant, they all have reasons too nit end their sibling chaos gods but in the end its all for power, each chaos god has legion of daemons made from small aspects of the chaos gods own power they are split into various strata's there are minor daemons who are the rank and file do all the rough work and are numerous , major daemons who are the more specialised units who handle specific tasks and are more favoured by the gods and the greater daemons, these are the leaders and largest daemons made of shards of their gods power and being trusted to the point of many being akin to small versions of the chaos gods , it is also possible for mortals to be made daemons if they get the chaos gods attention and mandate , in the warp there are also minor warp entities such as Vashtorr a chaos undivided greater daemon known for trying to become the 5th chaos god , Vashtorr a god of technology who owns the forge of souls that makes weapons for the daemons and a dozen other minor entities all vying for what little power is left untalented by the big players , the immaterium in all is chaotic , dangerous but also if harnessed powerful and mighty: Chaos has many different factions from cultists to heretical or renegade space marines all using chaos for their own power but the main Chaos forces are dedicated to one of the 4 chaos gods these are

   Khorne: Khorne was one or the first chaos god having formed during the war in heaven due to all of the blood and fighting resulting from the war beaten the old ones and star gods , she came into being alongside Nurgle and Tzeentch. Khorne represents blood , war , fighting , strength , honorable combat and such things and practices she is a god of death and battle she is considered the most militant god of chaos and is focused solely on war never bothering with trickery with khorne you gte what you get , khornes daemons are known for leathery red skin , long snake like tongues , large horns and flaming weapons being like stereotypical devil's and demons, Khorne is a simple god she rewards strength, kill counts and martial prowess she rewards those who are strong and taught Aith even more strength and constitution if you can prove you have the ability to kill khorne will give you even MORE ability to slaughter. Khornes realm is a great Volcanic mesa of daemons , warhosts and production to fuel the mighty armies of khorne the blood god, at tis centre is the brass citadel one part capital city of the demon armies , one part Arena of daemons looking to gain khornes attention and one part a throne room for the skull throne a mighty and collosal throne made uo of EVERY SKULL taken in the name of khorne so large that the goddess grows to a titanic size to sit upon it. Khornes colours are that of blood Reds , bronze or Brass and fire Oranges with her sacred number being 8 and her symbol being that of a stylized, brutal skull, often depicted as an X-shaped rune with a bar across the bottom. Khorne cults are bloody and brutal believing that strength is the only way to live by and that might makes right. Khorne daemons are brutal butchers and all wish to gain khornes favour over their fellows to advance and become mighty bloodthirsters. Khorne as a god believes in tough love and violence having a "beat them into shape" philosophy. Khornes astartes legion are the world eaters a brutal and destructive legion led by the daemon prince angron who khorne corrupted via a rage device known as the butchers nails and Khorne adores her army of red butchers with her favoruite being Kharn the betrayer who kills so many that Khorne cannot help but watch each of his fights with satisfaction.

   Tzeentch: Tzeentch was one or the first chaos god having formed during the war in heaven due to all of the collective psionic resonance of all the betrayals , psionics , change and planning of the collosal conflict coming into being alongside Khorne and Nurgle , Tzeentch represents trickery, magic and change in the grand scheme of things being the most random and unpredictable of chaos gods often randomly turning her followers into chaos spawn for no real reason , Tzeentch daemons are often random and very grotesque being random limbs and peices but often they have bird themes and features with avian being tzeentchs favourite creatures tk bade designs off of , Tzeentchs domain is magic as such she focuses heavily on psionics often favouring mages and magicians as her champions but also she adores schemeres and tricksters respecting the hustle even if its performed on tzeentch herself , Tzeentches realm is a straight uo cognitohazard m random geometric shapes , areas from whopemother universes and places in time, strnage fkuctatuons daemon spawning pools , gravity defying areas etc, Tzeentch hsrswld sits within a vast crystal Palace and labyrinth which is so complex without the guidance of a tzeentch daemon or higher power one cannot escape it without dying of old age or being killed once a question is failed and the guardian ends them , her Palace is isometric , liminal and randomly generated she changes its layout constantly and adores peoppe getting lost and confused in it Tzeentchs colours are that of blues , tears, Light greens and golds with her Sacred number being 9 and her symbol being that of an eye engulfed in blue flame. Tzeentch's space marine legion is the thousand sons led by the daemon princess Magnus a legion of sorcerots and dust passed rubric marines

   Nurgle: Nurgle was one of the first chaos gods created from the emotional backlash of the war in heavens godly diseases and chemical warfare she came into being along with khorne and tzeentch , Nurgle represents blight, disease , sickness, death and rebirth , the cycle of life and pack/familial bonds , nurgle is a god of disease and blight everything she does is in some way or manner related to disease and sickness , nurgle is regarded as the most expansive god due to her proffering to use her powers to make my daemons over personal power in her primary avatar as such she has by far the largest army of daemons , said daemons are known for their sickly appearance , gangrwnous limbs , puss , exposed organs, boils and other signs of unending decay however nurgle is a merciful god and gifts her followers eith not feeling the pain and increased constitution , nurgle favours those who spread her plagues , buidk bonds with her daemons and other followers and who worship her not as a god but rather a djvine grandmother caring for grandchildren who deserve the gift of plague with Nurgle considering herself a merciful and kind chaos god despite the suffering she puts much of her followers through, Nurgles realm is known a "the garden of nurgle" sprawling across her territory are vast forests if blight, diseased swamps , mountains of corpses grown over , at its center is where nurgle resides in her own personal garden where only the most blighted but beatiful examples of her work lay it is here that Nurgle toils over her cauldron making all the sicknesses and plagues that she unleashes upon the mortal realm , Nurgles colours are that of greens , browns , sickly yellows and oranges with her sacred number being 7 and symbol being that of 2 circles that appear to droop ichor , nurgles cults believe in the value of decay seeing blight and sickness as positive things meant to be celebrated and embraced whole heartedly and her followers are often recruited from thaise desperate to make the lain of sickness go away , those who want to ensure crops don't fail and those who wish for good health to the wrong god , Nurgles daemons are all fervent and friendly for warp creatures treating fellow nurgle worshippers and siblings in arms all kf them under the grets grandmother nurgle , Nurgle is a kind god shown greatly by how her greatest greater daemon was formed , one day when she cooked her most devious plague she did so with her favourite nurgling Ku'gath on her shoulder but the little thing fell into the cauldron and not knowing how to swim he drank and drank and drank the plague untik when he finished he had ballooned and grown to become a great Unclean one greater daemon and Nurgle was overjoyed how he'd grown even if ku'gath felt he did wrong by destroying the plague so he wished to repay grandmother nurgle byt making her the greatest plague ever and gifting it to his god. Nurgles space marine legion are the death guard, slow and lumbering brutes who she corrupted by tricking them into being trapped in the warp with hsr plagues forcing them tk join her or die painfully (she is a kind chaos god BUT only kind to her worshippers).

   Slaanesh: Slaanesh is the youngest chaos God being about 10,000 years young , she is despite her status as the youngest chaos god still powerful and has shown to be an equal to her chaos gods siblings, Slaanesh is the god representing the emotions of pleasure, desire , joy , need and excess, Slaanehs is a god ruled by pride and seeking pleasure above all else she rewards those who are decadent , do anything for pleasure and wish to be perfect, but also she encourages debauchery , rape , abuse of substance and using others for yoru own goals , afterall chaos gods represent eveyr aspect of an emotion , the good , the bad and the ugly , Slaanesh and her daemons are known for their appearance all of Slaanesh's creations look both beatiful and hideous and are known to bring great pleasure to allies (consent or not) and causing pain and suffering for their enemies, Slaanesh resides in the chaos area known as the 6 circles of seduction a set of warp regions each with a different challenge on the path to the Palace of pleasure where slaanesh resides , these circles are Circle of Avidity ,Circle of Gluttony ,Circle of Carnality , Circle of Paramountcy, Circle of Vainglory, Circle of Indolency and of course the Palace of pleasure at its very centre. Slaanesh and her realm are vast and covered in her daemonettes and daemons, Each if slaanesh daemons are alluring btu also deadly with shapr crab like claws and at their head are keepers of secrets the greater daemons who embody the dark Princess of pleasure , Slaanesh corruption is very unique as unlike other chaos gods corruption it more closely follows addiction as it begins small and safe but consumes the mortal and ends in them becoming a puppet of the chaos god , slaaneshs sacred colours are pinks , purples and black with her sacred number being 6 , Slaaneshs symbol is akin to the symbol of male and female genders combined and set askew , Slaanesh's Space marine legion is the emperors children led by the daemons Prince fulgrim who have turned to her whims.

   The Aeldari: the Eldar are the elven species of the galaxy , originally in the older time they where one of the first races made by the old ones and Inherently Psionic race who where diverse in their paths of life , when the necrons attacked the old ones the Eldar fought to defeat them causing the legendary rivalry of the 2 races, the Eldar in this time where powerful beings their warp powers unimpeded and their very gods and goddesses fought with them but still the war in heaven was a draw with the necrons going into slumber and old ones dying out and so the Eldar expanded and continued on, during the 25th or so millennium the eldar encountered early humanity and not being the imperium of the 41st millenium the 2 became sort of allies with a mostly "stay in your lane" dynamic between the 2 mighty empires, but during this time the eldar began to degrade having gone beyond struggle the eldar had free time and more so they began to enjoy themselves however slowly this morphed at first it was finery , fancy parties and art, then it became music, more loose and fun parties and drinking with friends but eventually around M30 it became debauched, blood orgys , sacrifices, rampant testing, eating the most excessive meals, many saw this and became appalled so some eldar broke off, corsairs left to be pirates and find meaning in freedom, the exodites swore off the most advanced of pursuits and went onto primitive but grand maiden worlds to live amongst the wildlife in harmony, and the eldar of the craftworlds swore off their kin in the cores and left on their world ships and the most debauched eldar the dark eldar hid in a grand city of commoragh in the webway to escape their fate , and eventually the excess of the old eldar empire caused a ripple in the warp and caused THE BIRTH OF SLAANESH the chaos god devoured trillions of eldar and ate all but 3 of the Aeldari gods (Isha the goddess of healing was taken by nurgle, Khaine the god of war was shattered by khorne and Ceogorach the laughing god fled to the webway) and when the dust settled the eldar went from a million worlds and a mighty empire to scattered fragments and now their very souls where at risk, each faction of eldar handled this a diffetnt way , the craftworld eldar made spirit stones from the crystals taken from Crone worlds those former core world consumed by the warp and left as crystalised graveyards these allowed their souls to be contained and while it limited psionics if meant their souls wouldn't be eaten by slaanesh when they died and their souls could be put into a craftworlds infinity circuit as a sort of afterlife, the dark eldar druhkari on the other hand found if they caused enough extreme emotion or pain they'd essentially overfeed slaanesh and their souls would be untouched so they instead of fixing themselves sunk further into debauchery, the exodites meanwhile used their connection to the maiden wrolds to safeguard souls,the Harlequins using connection to cegoarch kept their souls safe and Corsairs took upon aspects of all the other species ways to keep their souls safe, All eldar share one unique type of faster then light travel this method being the webway,a grand artificial psychic tunnel through the warp impenetrable from the outside even to gods this webway allows for FTL travel of the eldar species from the craftworlds world sized ships all the way to mere eldar on foot with the webwya itself being alive to ensure those who arent welcome would die in the webway instead of using it. In the 41st millenium the eldar while far lesser are still a proud and mighty race even if they are last their prime they are powerful and remain a power: there are 3 main eldar factions in the galaxy: Drukhari: the Dark Eldar began as the most debauched of old eldar society unlike the poors they went to the webway to do their debauchery and when slannesh was birthed they didn't notice until some of them began to have their souls devoured, their scientists worked long and hard before they discovered by causing others pain and extreme emotions they could overfeed slaanesh and even recover their youth and strength and what better extreme emotion then Suffering! So the Druhkari not ONLY learned nothing from the brothers of slaanesh they actively doubled down on being wicked being, within time the settlements of the druhkari became Commoragh the dark city of the druhkari, a collosal city in the webway which is so large the druhkari routinely need to steal entire stars in order to keep it somewhat well lit , within commoragh their are continent sized arenas , slave pits as large as countires , trillions of slaves and of course the druhkari masters using the slaves for thier own ministrations, pleasure and desires, the Druhkari are led by Lord Asdrubael Vect one of the oldest eldar and on old noble of the empire he gained power for his and his allies kabals until he became the defacto king of commoragh, the dark eldar sort themselves into "Kabals" these are in all essence gangs with the drukhari operating off of mob rule who go out and raid realsapce for loot and slaves, enter gang wars with other kabals, intimidate others and overall function as much as political parties as crime syndicates , some of the major organisations of the druhkari also include the Wych cults who handle the arenas of commoragh and keep slaves in check, the Incubi warriors who are the closest the druhkari have to loyal aspect warriors like their craftworld cousins as all incubi crave is the feeling of taking a life in the most gruesome way possible, and the Hamunculuos covens the dark twisted mad doctors of the druhkari who clone new kabalites as pregnancy is to risky in the dark city , create weapons and abominations and manage machines that allow druhkari to be received from the smallest sliver of flesh to allow them to fight again and again as long as the body is revived fast enough for their soul to be caught before slaanesh devours it, Druhkari society is VERY dark and twisted things like rape , assaults, murder, debauchery, harems, sacrifice, torture and other wicked deeds are seen as normal while more standard things like monogamy and being nice are seen as weakness and foolish, Dark eldar looks down on all races equally seeing them all as just slave fodder, test subject or playthings, the "kinder" druhkari may just take slaves as pets for their amusement the druhkari are masters of torture and agony they turn peoppe into living furniture, flay slaves skin and ensure they live while it happens, cut off body parts to see what happens and a million other depraved and debauched antics, for a druhkari if you aren't causing pain you aren't living, the druhkari have a strict Caste system with natural born Dark eldar being automatically above the vat grown, the leaders of Kabals are Archons, who have Dracon lieutenants, warrior Kabalite grunts and slave rabble go be servants, sex slaves , playthings and torture fodder , pretty much all druhkari technology is made to cause pain or suffering. In the 41st millenium the Drukhari care not for the struggles of other species, for a Drukhari only wishes to hear their agony:

   Asuryani: the Craftworld Eldar or Asuryani after the fall of the old empire set up a system to ensure purpose was maintained and to avoid past mistakes this being "The Asuryani Path" also once called the Eldar Path or Ai'elethra in the Aeldari Lexicon, is a rigid code of behaviour that every Asuryani submits to in their day-to-day life to protect their souls from the predations of Slaanesh. These behaviour patterns act as a form of physical and psychic protection against the Aeldari's baser nature, and allows an Aeldari to experience their species' incredibly intense emotions without repeating the terrible excesses that led to the cataclysmic Fall of the Aeldari in the past, their are many paths such as the aspect warriors the various specialist roles of the Craftwolrds from anti tank fire dragons with their fire spear guns, Warp spiders who teleport through the warp to ambush their foes, Howling banshees whos cries of war demoralise foes before they strike in melee, the swooping hawks who attack from the sky, the dark reaper who bring doom from long range, the rangers whom scout and snipe their foes from ages away the striking scorpions whom strike into the enemies flanks like scorpions and the dire avengers who are the jack of all trades for the Asuryani militant arm supported by the volunteer guardians who are normal eldar taking up sums to defend their home, the seer path which is the Path for Eldar who wish to focus on their psionics and many other paths, many eldar get "lost" on these paths in which they will remain in that path for the rest of their lives for eldar this is somewhat troubling due to their long lives but still most find fulfillment in the paths, the Eldar are very unique biologically not only are they inhernertly Psionic but they move with purpose and stride being athletic by nature and with keen senses beyond other species to the point of being unnvering, Eldar are also slow breeders by nature Eldar have lower libidos in general and unlike humans need to have sex multiple times in order to create a child with each encounter building up the fetus this also means eldar can have more then 1 biological father ,Eldar are very unique in finding lovers as Eldar dont really consider most physical characteristics instead most Eldar find love by searching anothers souls and go to find another who's soul meshes with their's this means many eldar relationships are very deep and strong on a base level , Eldar are long living being able to live thousands of years with their oldest being Eldrad Ulthuan who is about 11 thousand years old, Craftworld Eldar live on Craftworlds these are massive self sustaining ships made of a psionic material wraithbone which stores and reacts to psyker powers and is made from eldsr bonesingers who sing the material into existence from nothing, craftworlds are massive with even the smallest of these world ships being larger then humanities colony worlds and far prettier each craftworld has places to grow food , water distillation, forges where bone singers make wratihbone and clothes or armour and other goods, schools and all amenities a wolrd would need , the Eldar often refer too humans as "Mon-keigh" with this being the Aeldari word for any race thats considered "strong but barbaric" as is alsmot always a form of insult,the eldar look down on most other races as being "young and uppity", eldar are very emotionally connected creatures due to their psionic nature , the eldar had many gods lost to slaanesh the main ones worshipped where, Asuyran the king of the Aeldari gods, Khaine the Eldar god of war and strength who's form once shattered became grata avatar the eldar bring to the moat dire of wars, Isha the eldar goddess of health and fertility taken by nurgle, Kurnous the hunting god who the rangers venerate even now and Ceogorach the eldar god of laughter and fun:

   Harlequins are a subfaction of Eldar , after the fall of the old empire the laughing god Ceogorach and his followers hunkered down in the webway on the craftworld known as "the black library" a massive archive of ALL the universes knowledge and information contained in one craftworld, it is protected by the Harlequins and fiercely so anyone not invited is killed with prejudice, the Harlequins are a mix between bards, teachers, historians, warriors and entertainers, each Masque of the Harlequins travel the galaxy going between craftworlds, maiden worlds, corsairs fleets, the dark city of commoragh and many other places performing shows for those who watch these range from tales of the eldars greatness, to the story of the eldar empires fall to slaanesh a Harlequin masque ismthe name for the collectives of troupes and people who come together to perform and travel together fighting chaos, orks and tyranids along the way, most Harlequins where not originally Harlequins instead they where an eldar of any kind who was called to service by Ceogorach and they answered the laughing gods song to serve him with new names, faces (their masks) and purpose that being to protect from chaos and the worst threats of the galaxy, there are many types of Harlequin but all are mostly equal with one another as in a performance all have their part and they do it well, the outlier rank is Solitaire these are Harlequins chosen specifically by cegoarch ,these Eldar are considered to be on par with the best of custodes and equal to chais greater daemons with their skill in combat and blessings from soaanesh, a Solitaire is a role that operates alone joining troupes and masques by their fancy as most eldar fear these blessed ones known to them as Arbennian, Solitaires are the one type of Harlequin who can handle the strain of playing the character of Slaanesh in Harlequin productions to the point where when one dies cegoarch himself has to intervene to try and save their soul before Slaanesh pounces to claim it for the mockery of representing it: Exodites: The exodites are one of the many eldar factions of the galaxy, unlike their Drukhari, Harlequin and Craftworld kin they have chosen a more simple life, following the decadence and fall of the eldar empire the exodites where the first to leave society they isolated upon their maiden worlds, perfectly terraformed gaia worlds made to be nearly alive to aid eldar colonisation, these worlds have their own spirits and these "world spirits" safeguard the souls of the eldar upon them , the exodites swore off technology and Automation instead returning to a pre industrial society of hunting, gathering and artisans the exodites while pirmitve are still eldar and have access to technology for the purpose of defence and their connection to the worlds they Inhabit lead to their psionics being more powerful and allowing them to tame the fauna of their maiden worlds including the large dinosaur creatures as their mounts and allies in battle, while small in numbera due ti isolation the eldar exodites are a mighty force defending thier maiden worlds:

   The Corsairs: The Corsairs are eldar who find the constraints of their society suffocating these free spirits split from the craftworlds, commoragh and maiden worlds striking out in the void of space to become corsairs and pirates, they assemble in crews, make alliances with xenos and their kindred, corsairs are often even known to have grand cross species romances with rumors a plenty of half eldar hybrids born from the union between humans and corsairs. The corsairs are an odd bunch but still they are useful and when dirty work must be done and profit can be made their captain can be found easily:

   Tau: The Tau are a newer empire on the galactic stage , a species of blue bovine aliens from the Eastern fringe of the galaxy , the Tau originally where made up of 4 sub species who where locked in constant war those being the war focused Fire Caste, the Diplomatic Water Caste, the transportation oriented Air Caste and the Engineering minded Earth Caste, these 4 factions where for millenia locked in a power struggle until one day the ethereals , a Caste of uniters and leaders came into being , with the guidance of the ethereals the Tau became a united species under the principles of "the greater good" a philosophy where in every individual member works towards the collective betterment of the whole too do this the ethereals made the society spilt into 5 sections , the ethereals who oversee , guided and rule , the Earth Caste who handle construction, research and engineering , the water Caste who handle trade , diplomacy and mid level government duties , the Air Caste who run the various transports, space ships and space stations and finally the fire Caste who handle all the military and defence needs of the empire , these 5 castes became the basis for wider Tau society with everyone having a part , however still the Tau are not without their minor evils , as a way to ensure control and stability people are ONLY allowed to reproduce withitn their Caste and cross Caste romance is strictly forbidden , the Tau eventually reached space and quickly began to form an empire which opposing the imperium of man they made peace and alliances with the various xeno species quickly integrating unique species into their empire as long as they agreed to fit themselves into an aspect of the Caste system , the Tau went on and expanded and despite being a rather egalitarian and progressive (for this galaxy) empire they where still very militaristic and expansionist believing EVERYONE needed to follow the greater good, eventually they met their first human groups (or as Tau call humans "Gue'lla" which is the Tau word for human) when they first found human worlds to put it mildly the Tau where horrified at how draconian, twisted and wicked the imperium was and so quickly upon explaining the situation the ethereals began a propaganda and Diplomatic campaign and this appealed to the humans causing the tau to integrate human worlds and take the systems too being a great boon to their land gains, eventually however the imperium took notice when Tau forces began to amass at the Damocleus gulf of space in where the first official military campaign of the tau vs the imperium began and despite having to adapt to the human way of war, from astartes to the sheer absurdity the Tau faced in the legio titanicus the conflict ended in a draw both side harried eachother and engage in small conflicts time to time with neither having the brute force to make major headway in the area of space, The Tau are a very large and kind empire they believe in uplifting other species to their level (or close to their level) and follow the greater good to a tee, normally Tau are given government partners to breed with to keep up population growth however tau atill make bonds akin to human marriages in the traditions of bond mating where 2 individuals swear to devote themselves to eachother as well as the greater good, the Tau are a bovine species as such they have leathery blue-grey skin, humanoid proportions , hoofed feet , 4 fingered hands , slight better eyesight then humans , slightly less strength then humans (an average human would be equal in raw strength to a fire caste tau) , due to the speed in which they evolved tau dont have tails ,and instead of noses Tau have a Y or I-shaped slits on their forehead Tau also have differences between with Fire warriors being stronger and more toned, Air Caste being thinner and taller with hollow bones, Earth Caste being shorter but hardier, water Caste being more traditionally attractive and Ethereals being more well rounded between the 4 castes seperate traits, the Tau empire is a xenophile oligarchy with etherals ruling from the capital and ensuring all other castes are in line and doing as is best for the greater good, The Ethereals are the leader caste and spiritual guides of the T'au Empire, their history dates back to the beginning during the times of Mont'au before the species reached the stars, in this time the earth, fire, air, and water castes where locked in tribal wars against eachother that is until the ethereals emerged , a new sept of tau dedicated to teaching the ways of the greater good, soon synthesis was achieved and the T'au united rapidly industrialised and collectivesed into the empire they are now , the ethereals led the tau in this, while at their core the ethereals are lying in some ways the tau species at the core of it all in a grim sort of way the ethereals gentle oppression is somewhat needed for the earth caste is too curious, the fire caste to violent, the water Caste too manipulative and the air caste too isolationist to do anything alone would cause the tau to collapse in a way the ethereals are a necessary evil, but even then the ethereals are the Honored teachers of the empire teaching both the T'au and other races the merits of the greater good and the tranquility of the Tau'va: , Tau are a simple race too the point where Tau have VERY dim souls meaning that daemons and warp creatures have hard times even seeing Tau this also means Tau are physically incapable of psionic powers and additionally have issues travelling the warp for long distances without navigators third eyes like the imperium has, the Tau empire is for the most part a better place to live then the imperium of man, the Tau make extensive use of artificial intelligence in helping their research and military with AI being used in bureaucracy and battle suits for efficency, Tau have a very practical style of war, Tau always prefer to fight in ranged combat and leave melee of CQC to their auxiliary forces, Tau make extensive use of mechs known as "Battle suits" which range in size and use but all are meant to be fast moving, heavy hitting hammer and anvil units that Harry enemies side or back lines, recently due to miscommunication many tau auxilairy species that have more impactful presence on the immaterial have began to treat the greater good as a religion and have even accidently made a warp diety of the faith known as Tau'va, Tau names work very simply they have the Caste + rank + their actual name for example a fire caste commander would be Shas'so , the fire Caste is Shas , the earth Caste is Fio , the water Caste Is Por and the Air catse is Kor , with La being the monicur for Tau without meaningful rank and So being for those tau who have rank the Tau while a young and relatively small empire stand tall and proud as they endeavor to bring the greater good to anyone who will listen:

   Tha tau as a rarity in the galaxy take in all species to their confederation these species include the Tau themselves as well as Humans known to the T'au as "Gue'lla" or if they are humans that are part of the Tau'va "Gue'vesa", there are also the vespids a race of insectoids with anti gravity technology which they use to fly and serve as the taus flying shock troops, the Tau also host many other species such as Demiurg - A faction of Kin of the Leagues of Votann that supports the T'au.[3] Galg - Cephalopod-like mercenaries.[6] Nicassar - A psychic, voidfaring race. The T'au's oldest ally. Tarellian - Canine like beings Employed as mercenaries, Thraxian - A chitin-covered multi-armed species. Vorgh - A species so large it can go toe to toe with a super-heavy combat walker. And the Kroot are a major auxiliary species of avian descent in the T'au Empire , originating from the world of Pech the kroot are species of carnivores who evovled very uniquely that being they didn't evolve themselves they stole other species mutations, the kroot are a special species in which kroot depending on what meat they eat can inherit aspects from said species for example if a Kroot eats a smart person they'll become more intelligent , if they eat a rebellious person they'll become more unruly and if they eat a strong person they inherit this strength, the kroot have used this and became a tribal people with tribes selling their services as security and mercenary forces with only one real rule "you eat what you kill" they often take jobs less so for whatever agreed upon payment is and more for their tribes to get a wide range of species to feast on to allow members of the tribe to have what mutations they wish, the Kroot are a very honorable species always respecting the dead whom they eat and even not eating dead bodies of their comrades if they're asked not too , the kroot are a tribal people but they still posses advanced technology they simply find tribal life to be easier and more true to their race , Kroot have humanoid proportions beaked faces, hollower bones , 4 digited hands and feet , quill like hair on thier heads and green or brown rough skin , despite their hollow bones Kroot are excellent in melee combat and are usually the Tau empires go to for close quarters operations , the kroots genome are not without flaw , if kroot eat too much meat from large dumb creatures then they can essentially devolve into a Krootox which is a large beast like kroot large enough for other kroot to ride and mount weapons even when a kroot becomes a krootox they're kept around by the tribe as a mount and to carry heavy things and never looked down upon , unlike other humanoid species kroot don't reproduce through intercourse instead a kroot male would excrete a goo of their genes onto a female kroots shoulders where its taken in and impregnated the female , kroot are fast growing and long living often taking only 12 years to reach full maturity and living for slightly longer then humans , the kroot as a tribalism society have a very simple structure, chieftains known as shapers oversee the tribe and command their warriors with trailshapers making the paths kroot use to hurt and plan attacks or carnivores preparing the meat which the kroot consume as to ensure they get only the most desirable traits , and of course kroot warriors defend whilst the others keep care of the camp and towns with kroot hounds and krootox kept in pens when not used for heavy lifting or transportation, overall kroot are anhonorabke species of evolutionary predators who fight for the highest bidder and genetic domination:

   Orks:the Orks are a complex species , originally made as a bioweapon during the war in heaven over thousands of years Orks devolved into what they are in the 41st millennium, Orks are a race of barbarian Mushroom like beings who reproduce Asexulaly through spores they spread with dozens of said spores being made when they die or when they win a large battle meaning an ork invasion can often be a self perpetuating cycle that needs alot of focus to handle, Orks are a very unique species as thier collective psionic weight bends the rules of reality to a degree, if enough orks believe something and its somewhat reasonable to them then it becomes fact, for example Orks believe certain colours give certain properties such as Blue being lucky red makes things go fast, yellow makes big explosions and green, well green is da best!, and due to their collective psionic presence it becomes true , this ability has limits of course as Orks are not only unaware of this ability on a biological level as in they physically can't comprehend it but also its only within reason so Orks can't just make enough people believe its a god and become a deity , the Orks worship a pair of gods named Gork and Mork , Gork is brutally cunning and Mork is Cunningly Brutal Orks venerate both gods equally since afterall "we need 2 gods or else whos our God gonna fight" , Orks as a culture are built around fighting and getting more ways to fight, orks reproduce by fighting their currency "Teef" is literal teeth they take from their dead enemies or allies or even themselves meaning the most poweful orks are the richest, "Dakka" is the orks concept of weaponry and they can never get enough, a "WAAAGH" is an Ork term for any kind of campaign of large scale operation such as a war or campaign they LOVE war and fighting too the point that in the ork writing system the symbol used for "friend" is the same as used for "favourite enemy" Orks put alot of emphasis on rivalry with Ork warbosses such as Ghazghull having a famous rivalry with the human commissar Yarrick too the point Orks in a way respect and venerate the man as an example of a true fight, Orks are ramshackle with most of their weaponry BARELY being able to function and only thanks to their belief do their weapons truly function and Orks are known for using junk, scavenged parts and other miscellaneous peices for armour, vehicle parts and such and even steal other races vehicles, Orks have 3 main types those being , normal orks the standard ground troops and leaders , Gretchin, smaller weaker things that do service roles and are cannon fodder and Squigs which are animlasitc things which are basically red spheres with legs and a jaw many ork who have hair are actually just wearing "hair squigs" Orks have many varied proffesions, from the warbosses who lead Waaghs, the Nobs who serve as sergeants and commanders, the Mad doks who heal and experiment on other orks, the big meks who let their creative sadism shine and the Weird boys who channel psionics,Orks have many tribes from the Bad moons who are the richest orks who love shootas, the blood axes who are violent and adore the more primal ways, the beats Snaggas who are the squig ranglers and beast masters, the goffs Ghazghulls tribe qho are the toughest and most well rounded bunch, the evil sunz who adore speed and going fast, the freebootaz who are pirates and mercenaries and many many more tribes Despite all that things seem and how often they lose war in the grim darkness of the 41st millennium orks are THRIVING!

   The Necrons and C'tan: the necrons where not always the endless legions of automatons they are now , originally back in the old ages before the end of the old ones they where flesh and blood like any other species , the homeworld of their dynasties was bombarded by solar radiation so terribly that the entire necrontyr species died quickly but they pushed onward eventually reaching space faring ages and escaping their world but the damage was done their genes where too damaged, so the necrons went and tried to ask the old ones for a cure to their ailment and upon refusal the deeply proud and angered necrontyr declared war but the old ones where far too strong and humiliated the young race. It was after this event the necrontyr fractured into dynasties in civil war, but some began to research soon they found strange beings feeding off stars, the necrontyr gave them bodies madeokf living metal known as "Necrodermis" and this was how the ctan where born, star gods representing concepts of existence itself , beings like the deceiver, the nightbringer, the void dragon and such came too be, the Ctan promised the necrontyr that they would get revenge and so the Necrons in their blind desire for revenge and desperation to throw off their genetic weakness willingly submitted to Biotransference having their minds placed into robotic bodies and their souls devoured by thirsting ctan and so the necrontyr organics died, and now only the synthetic necrons remained, it was then the war in heaven began, the war rocked the very galaxy as the Necrontyr foight the old ones, Krorks (Precursors to orks) and Eldar making the warp as its known in the galaxy and causing the old ones to be killed , it was only as the war in heaven progressed that the necrons silent king Szar'ehk realised the betrayal and so they turned on their gods and shattered the C'tan using their once gods as energy sources and weapons locked away in their Tomb worlds but the necrons saw the state they left the galaxy and surrounded by foes they left to slumber until conditions improved in the great sleep, over a million years have passed and whilst many awoke early in the 41st millenium the necrons have nit yet began to awaken fully, but some of their great leaders have awoken, the silent king looking to bring back their flesh , Imotekh the storm Lord wishing to conquer all he can and bring the organics to heel , Trazyn the infite and Orikan the diviner scheming agaisnt one another and thousands of other overlord awaken to reclaim their dynasties and too learn of what has gripped the galaxy in their absence: Necron society is deeply structured from their old dynastic monarchies and belief in their own special honor and will system of "Heka" in the times the necrons finds themselves most of the warriors and peasantry have lost their minds most merely are automatons, but some having falling into madness becoming flayed ones those cursed by the destruction of the C'tan Llandu'gor these necrons afflicted by the dying curse of the C'tan wishing to recover their flesh by stripping others of theirs and wearing the skin as they desperately try to believe theyre still organic, or for the opposite side of the madness becoming destroyers hellbent on killing all organic life where ever they go modifiying their forms with Tripod legs and massive sweeping blades or skimmer hovering bodies to allow them to rain ranged death, but many others have simply awoken as mindless drones, only the overlords and higher ranked necrons have regained full sentience granted with quirks and confusion as awakening from the great sleep has caused chaos, corruption of codes, malfunctions and a trillion issues for all, however the necrons remain disciplined, from crypteks who use glyphs and technomancy to repair necron technology and create it as well their sciences so advanced to many it is magic, Lychguard and triarch praetorians who police the necron gentry and nobility to ensure they don't tear eachother apart over petty concerns, overlords who lead their dynasties to awaken and recover from the great slumber and of course the endless grey tide of warriors ready to fight for the necron overlords and even if they're "killed" they can always be put back together and reaminated, the necrons remain both a great threat to the galaxy but also still a fractured empire filled with noble squabbles and court shenanigans: the C'tan are being of pure energy each of them representing a concept of the very universe they are as old as creation and completely separate from the warp , for eons they where merely mindless clouds of existence sapping energy from stars until the necrontyr found them after their defeat to the old ones , the necrontyr studied the star gods and quickly began to forge them bodies made of necrodermis and this led to the C'tan being made, there where hundreds of ctan with only the mightiest and most importantly having names these where those such as the Nightbringer representing death and ends , the deceiver representing lies and trickery, the void dragon representing Technology and intellect any many others , the deceiver became their defacto leader as they reached the necrontyr convincing them to Abandon the flesh and become endless machines this not only "helped" the necrontyr making them subservient but it let the C'tan feast on their souls empowering them for the war in heaven , in the war in heaven the C'tan proved the greatest weapons on either side of the conflict being star gods it took either direct attack from the old ones of the very eldar gods presence to even hold them back and for EONS the war raged as the ctan feasted upon souls and it seemed as though it would never end but soon the major ctan got greedy and began to cannibalise weaker ctan this led the silent king of the necrons to realise his error and so quickly he ordered his forces to shatter the star gods, and combined with the eldar and krorks still fighting all the ctan where shattered into shards of their power leading them to become what they are now, one part battery and one part weapon for the now reawakening necron:

   Tyranids: the Tyranids are a devouring swarms of bug and insectoid creatures from outside the galaxy, their origins are completely unknown but their intentions are clear TO CONSUME EVERYTHING the tyranids sole purpose is dominance at the top of the food chain they come to worlds , kill any resistance and strip it bare turning anything they can into biomass and leaving the rest behind leaving a barren husk of a world behind them, the Tyranids are adaptable being split into hundreds of hive fleets, fully autonomous in nature vut vonnected to a hive mind they go in different directions to consume with each hive ship adapting tyranids to the warzone they fight In to ensure the hive has the best chance possible of victory, the tyranids are not merely mindless drones and brigands they use tactics extensively from precision strikes, divide and conquer to even infiltration using licotrs and genestealer cults who infiltrate worlds over generations to weaken its defence system for an easy meal , Tyranid biofroms range in size from the cannon fodder ranged termagaunts and melee HormoGaunts to the ever reliable tryanids warrior ,tunneling raveners, flying gargoyles and prime tyranid leaders all the way to the largest of the brutish carnifexes , psionic neurotrhopes and the greater of all , the Hive tyrants and swarm lords who are akin to extensions of the hive mind itself , the tyranid hive mind is the central intelligence of the entire tyranid race its synapse connection to all bioforms making them efficient and intelligent killing machines, overall the Tyranids are a brutal, hungry force in the galaxy eager to sink their teeth into anything they can: the hive mind is the "god" of the tyranids due to how by this point the tyranid hive mind simply can no longer be considered a mortal thing , the tyranids have been guided by its instinct since their conception and ever since they're ravaged whole galaxies and now the milky way is its next target.

   The genestealers are a subspecies of the Tyranids made to infiltrate and weaken worlds, They begin when a patriarch a type of tyranid comes to a world and finds it first mate, wheter my deception, seduction, pheromones or forces the Patriarch breeds and makes offspring, as these offspring gorw they soon organise into an almsot famioy or even a cult. As it grows the cult ensures it's members live life, breed and spread their ideals eventually inflitrating either all walks of life or a majority after a good few generations after the genestealers are almost indistinguishable from normal humans they produce the more mutated types Aberanta aith 3 hulking arms, Purestrain genestealers and initiate a rebellion to conquer or at least weaken the world for the tyranid swarm that is coming to consume. When a genestealer cult begins the first generation are half tyranid half human abominations that guard the patriarch and hide frok society they produce the second generation genestealers who are humans with noticible mutations but they fit in enough to be able to occasionally be in society and do duties or even work in some worlds these then make the third generation who are practically simply seen as mutants with only a couple distinct genestealer traits that are able to be ignored and so they spread and incorporate until they can make the 4th generation who are made to indistinguishable from normal people and once these 4th generation's spread enough the 5th generation is when the rebellion occurs and they summon the tyranids to feast. The Genestealer cults are united by a hivemind connection called "The brood mind" strengthened by The patriarch and Magus psionics the Genestealers bolster their tanks using template genetics to make heroes such as the revolutionary kelemoprh, the Primus who lead them into war, the Reductus Saboteur and other strange beings. The genestealer cults use the local culture and beliefs to Integrate often naming the hive mind "the many armed emperor" on imperial worlds. The Genestealers are a horrifying faction not because they are the vanguard of the unending hunger, but rather because they know this, and they relish the chance to be eaten by their cousins from the stars.

   The Leagues of Votann are a grand confederation operating from within the galactic core. The Votann where once part of the old human empire from before the age of strife, sent as miners to the galactic core of the milky way, the centuries passed and soon the age fo strife led to collapse of the human empire, those in the galactic core where left to their own devices, isolated and with onky their technology, sturdiness and corporate structures left soon the Votann assembled and had to find solutions, solutions they found within the Votannic cores, these great mixes between massive artificial intelligence and super computer's, they offered and soon the Votann honored these things, as the millenia passed the Votann changed as they had lost the ability to reproduce the Votann began to clone them using diverse samples of previous kindred to make them, this also allowed their genetics to be altered. Soon the humans became the Kin, Short, stout, sturdy and stalwart standing at about 4 and a half to 5 feet tall they where Hardy and grand and so they began to venerate their ancestors and especially the Votann and hence the Leagues formed united by the old ways of profit, manufacturing and the Votann cores, for eons the Leagues rarely ventured out of the galactic core but following the fall of cadia and the opening of the great rift as the core of the galaxy was breached finally the kindred had to come out and show the galaxy who they where: the kin arw all cloned by the Votann, created from the greta crucibles they are as much produced as anything else, despite their status as being made they are not all identical instead all kin are unique with varying traits carried from millions of previous iterations differnt skin and hair colours, alternating make ups and thickness so on so forth, for the Kin life is sweet and grand all about honoring your ancestors and pursuing adventure despite how often rigid their society is, the Kin upon death are not buried, instead they are return back to the hold ships or hold worlds, there they have their minds uploaded to the Votann in order for their experiences and memories to be passed down hence why legacy is so important. The Kin are not the onky species however, for there is also the Ironkin these kin are the artificial intelligence of the Votann, unlike other empires where such is either a servant or banned the Ironkin are completely equal in all ways to their fleshy counterparts aith them having personality and purposes of their own. The Leagues of Votann are bound by 4 greta pillars of their life, Hearth, Forges, Fane and Crucible. The Hearth refers to the adventurous spirit of the Leagues, here the Hearthjyn warriors those who go out striking into space for materials, treasure, to right grudges and find profit, then there is the forge where the Brôkhyr engineers clad in thier heavy exo suits create the grand weapons of the kin, the Las, Plasma, Malta and Bolt weapons akin to the imperium but far greater and more closely guarded tk avoid the imperium learning and trying to take them for study, then the Fane where the Grimnyr those Kin able to channel the warps power using runes and technology, in the Fane these Grimnyr channel the wisdom of the Votann and learn the words of the living ancestors to further their guilds, and finally the kast pillar, the Crucible where the Kin and Ironkin alike are made wheter in artificial womb or construction Cue, all kindred are born here and when they die if they are recovered they will be returned to it. The Votann beleive in no religion but the closest for them is the Votann they venerate the great machines who make and command them and the Ancestor cores are protected fiercely and venerated however they are over tike degrading in many ways, the most vital information becoming harder tk gain but still, the Kin remain hopeful and perhaps one day, the Votann will reveal how to fix themselves, the Kin are split into many forces, from the Cthonian mining guilds who process the minerals, the Hyrnkin whi prospect and find new materials, the grudge bands who right thw wrongs against the kindred as a whole, the Votann are split across many hold ships, great and massive behemoths who expand the Leagues resources, resourceful as they are the Leagues operate as an almost corporate structures for their society the Khâls command their forces in war but have large councils to advise them, the Kin are all workers at heart and see eachother as employees in one large company who desire profit and efficiency, however this does nit make them heartless they make trade deals and take mercenary work fork anyone willing to give it even if other species distrust them especially humanity who see them as xenos despite common ancestry. Unlike other species the Votann use the Ancestor cores great enegry spikes tk guide them in warp travel making shorter dives into the warp to avoid issues with long distance travel. The Kin are all dwarves as such they are lovers of a good drink, to kin a good Brü a special warm beverage letting them have fun and get drunk, it is such an experience many ironkin intentionally introduce mild malwares to their system to simulate inebriation in order tk have fun with their kindred. The Votann are split into many structures all seeking to compete like corporations, these are the Greater Thurian League, the Kronus Hegemony, the Trans-Hyperian Alliance, thw Urani-Surtr Regulates (URSR) and the Ymyr Conglomerate each of them compete but also work together and the compe5whioe corporate is nit bloody as all kindred beleive in working together in the end, for with the leagues they all lift together ROCK AND STONE!

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