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oh yeah there's loads of holes in my theory, but you were asking for explanations and it's my attempt :)

but would the warp need fully fleshed (so to speak) gods for souls to feel fear?

for the millenia preceeding the gods' coalescence the warp would still have been filled with hatred, malice (the feeling not the god) and general feelings of ill will, maybe things for souls to feel fear from?

again this is just my speculative hypothesis :)