Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-71.163.147.124-20130529225718/@comment-6078851-20130603030925

the old ones were gone millions of years before we evolved to become homo-sapian. what i meant was maybe the entire life of earth was an old one project of some sort, created for reasons we'll never know, and the reason our psyker abilities took so long to surface being the war in heaven, let me paint the picture...

the old ones created life on earth, for whatever purpose, and as such would have control over the evolution of said life. however the war in heaven required their attention and as the life on earth wasn't specifically designed for war the old ones then created the orks and eldar for that task. unfortunately the war didn't go swimmingly for the old ones and so 'project earth' would have been forgotten. without the old ones guiding the evolution of earth life meant it all evolved at a much slower and haphazard pace, eventually resulting in psykers. it may have been meant for our species to evolve to psyker level hundreds of thousands of years ago, but without old one guidance our species would have evolved along different paths than were intended resulting in so many physical and mental mutations across the race.

this isn't any sort of argument i'm trying to make for old ones creating us, merely an interesting idea.