Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-8257990-20130509201630/@comment-8257990-20130509210119

Sindri Myr wrote: The warp is & was made up of pure emotion, even before the birth of the first chaos gods, & would already have contained all of their essences. All it required was sentient life to give their essence a conscience, & then they would exist. Therefore you could argue that all the chaos gods are as 'old' as each other, & their 'births' were merely brought abobut by whatever emotion was most prevelant in the galaxy at the time. Hence why Nurgle was 'born' first, followed by Khorne, Tzeentch, & Slaanesh, & so certainly makes Tzeentch part of the warp. That is a very good thought on the matter but Rage, Misery, Excess and the idea of Betrayal require a much higher cognative function than the first organisms possessed and if so that means one question must be asked to determine the Age of the "slumbering," gods. Did the first beings have souls before this higher function? If so then Tzeentch could be the oldest of the Gods (not on a conscious level) and the age of the rest of them is simply determined by what emotions came about first, which could make sense because Rage and War, Misery and Decay are all required for survival, which all living things strive for, while excess and pleasure comes much later, when the species no longer needs to try hard to survive...