Who were the old ones Warhammer?

The Old Ones were an ancient and highly technologically and psychically advanced intelligent species of cold-blooded reptilian beings or an alliance of individual advanced species. They established an interstellar empire across the Milky Way Galaxy tens of millions of Terran years ago.
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Are the old ones gods Warhammer?

The Old Ones were powerful beings who arrived to the Warhammer world millennia ago and created many races. After their polar warp gates collapsed, the Old Ones disappeared. The Lizardmen venerate the Old Ones as Gods and attempt to interpret and carry out the Great Plan of the Old Ones.
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What happened to the old ones in Warhammer fantasy?

As their portals collapsed, the Old Ones disappeared, their fate unknown. Yet the disaster could have been worse, if the Old Ones' most powerful servants, the Slann, had not staved off complete destruction by sealing much of the rent in reality.
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Are the Seraphon the old ones?

The name Old Ones refers to both the creators of the Seraphon, who the Seraphon have largely forgotten, and the godly personifications the Seraphon have made up to venerate in the place of their creators.
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Did the old ones create chaos?

As far as i am aware this is not the case, The old ones INDIRECTLY created the chaos gods in modern GW cannon when the old ones creations (Eldar, Slaan, Etc...) all felt intense emotions, died en-mass & used psychic powers during the war in heaven. This was the way that Khorne, Nurgle and Then Tzeench were made.
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Did the old ones create the Necrons?

The Old Ones were also the creators of the early, primate-like ancestors of Mankind on primordial Earth who eventually rose to full sentience. The existence of the Old Ones is known to Humanity mainly through Aeldari Mythology and their long-ago war with the Necrons.
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Did the old ones created the Tyranids?

The Tyranids were in fact created by the Old Ones, either during, or after the War in Heaven.
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What are the Tyranids running from?

They came to this galaxy in 40K because they were drifting through the intergalactic abyss and the Pharos beacon illuminated the Milky Way as a prime source of biomass. If they were running from anything it was most likely hunger after consuming the other galaxies they'd encountered since their origin.
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How many C Tan are there?

There might be four C'tan at present in the galaxy, four thousand or any number in between.
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Who is Sotek?

Sotek, often called "Sotek the Deliverer," is the god of war and serpents and one of the most infamous gods of the Lizardmen of Lustria. The most significant sacrifice the Lizardmen have offered up to their distant gods was that which heralded the coming of the Serpent God Sotek.
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Is Sigmar the Emperor of Man?

Newly reborn the Emperor, now known as Sigmar, needs time to remember his powers and who he is. His nature however drives him to fight to unite humanity and battle the warp. He does this forging the Empire. Eventually his memory and powers return and the Master of Mankind returns to the stars to fight the big war.
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Who is the oldest human in Warhammer 40k?

Well from what I know the oldest "living" character in 40k is the Emperor followed by Urien Rakarth and Asdrubael Vect (they both remember the fall which happend around 31. M). Eldrad claims to be older, witnessing the Aeldari pre-fall and knowing plenty of the ancients personally when they walked the mortal path.
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Was Sigmar a primarch?

Absolutely not. It wasn't even clear on the Warhammer World for a long time whether Sigmar was even a god or just a jumped-up human cultural hero for the ancient tribes of the Empire of Man.
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Who is the God of Warhammer?

Gods of Chaos

Khorne - The Blood God is the Chaos God of war, hate, rage, murder and bloodshed.
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Are Ctan gods?

The C'tan, also known as the Necron Star Gods or in the Eldar language, the Yngir, are a race of etheric creatures believed to be the first intelligent life in the Milky Way galaxy. In their true form, they are immense energy creatures able to engulf entire stars.
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Is the Nightbringer resin?

This box contains one C'tan Shard of The Nightbringer - a finely detailed resin cast kit that comes as six components, and is supplied with a 40mm Round Base.
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What are Krorks?

The Old Ones created a warrior race known as the Krork, from which the modern Orks may derive. It is believed that the Brain Boyz engineered the Orks to be their warrior caste alongside the ancestors of the Eldar, using them as essentially humanoid biological weapons to protect them against various other ancient races.
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Did the Necrons create the Tyranids?

Who made them and why? There are a bunch of sources out there, but it's pretty much assumed (not confirmed) that the Old Ones made the Tyranids to act as a delete button for the other races in the universe (Necrons, Orks, etc.) as well as acting as a DNA bank if they needed to create something again.
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Why do Tyranids avoid Necrons?

Nids: The Tyranids need biomass to survive and grow so they rarely battle Necrons as even if they win the fight they would not gain as much biomass as they lost therefore just making them weaker either way.
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What is the biggest Tyranid?

Dominatrixes are the Tyranids' largest known Bio-Titans, and it is rumoured that they sometimes carry the Norn-Queens themselves into battle on their backs. They are armed with an immensely potent Warp blast weapon, Bio-plasma emitters, and their massive chitinous claws.
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Why did the silent king create the Tyranids?

He desired to snuff out life in the wider world (The galaxy). He left the world for an age and bred horrors of infinite hunger (The Tyranids). The Lord guided these hungering horrors towards the world. With his lifeless people safe, the Lord laughs as kingdom after kingdom is consumed by the horrors.
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What is the name of the Tyranid leader?

The Tyranid Warrior Prime (Tyranicus gladius primus) serves as a powerful synapse creature for Tyranid swarms and is a potent commander of Tyranid attacks.
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What brought the Tyranids to the Milky Way?

The Tyranids were first attracted to the Milky Way Galaxy when the xenos communication device known as the Pharos was overloaded in the Battle of Sotha during the Horus Heresy. Indeed their very name is but a title given to them by the Imperium, named after the planet where they were first encountered (Tyran).
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Why did the old ones create the orks?

The Orks were created by the Brain Boyz to fight the Necrons and their C'tan masters in the great interstellar conflict called the War in Heaven that shattered the galactic civilisation of the Old Ones that existed prior to the rise of the Aeldari.
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Did the old ones make the Eldar?

The Eldar were "adopted" (or alternatively "created") by the mysterious Old Ones. The Old Ones, a race now long extinct were embroiled in a long war against the C'tan and their slaves the Necrontyr and, being desperate, raised many warrior-races.
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