Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-95.148.187.34-20130120214333

Upon reading the page on the Old Ones, the War in Heaven and so on, I've started to notice a distinct similarity between both the 40K and the Warhammer worlds.

Let's start with racial similarities.

We got the Orks and Orcs, pretty obvious, both created by the Old Ones as weapons of war. You've got the Dwarves and Squats, Humans (Bretonnia and the Empire), and the Tomb Kings having a similarity with the Necrons.

Then you have the strange ones. You've got the Elves, which bear huge similarities with the Eldar, but the Elves themselves have no knowledge of the Eldar Empire. Is it possible that the Elves of the Warhammer World suffered the same cultural and technological regression as Humanity's empire during the Age of Strife? Or are they a different race entirely like the Interex, who bore similarities with the Eldar. It may also be possible that the Elves are Proto-Eldar created by the Old Ones. Who knows?

You also have the Skaven, which I think have a long-forgotten Rat-Like counterpart in 40K, the name of which eludes me.

If there's any others, let me know.

Most interesting thing about it all is the Lizardmen. The Lizardmen were designed by the Old Ones as servants and warriors, much like the Orks and Eldar. Now, the Necron Codex mentions that the Old Ones created the Krork (Proto-Orks), the Eldar, the Rashan and the Kn'ib to fight the war in heaven. We know what half of those races look like, the Rashan and the Kn'ib remain unseen. So what's to say that the Lizardmen aren't one of those races? Of course, they may have been wiped out during the war in heaven; or perhaps worse. It's possible that Grox, who bear a strong visual similarity to Lizardmen Cavalry mounts, are the ancestors of that species.

I dunno, this is all wild speculation. But still, speculation is fun right? I'd like to hear all of your two cents on the matter. 