Rawtooth wrote:The inital phase for the Old Ones is "The Old Ones understood that all life is useful, and where they passed they kindled new species and impregnated thousands upon thousands of worlds to make them their own." No hint what so ever of modified lifeforms.
And you presume that their practices were different during during peace than during wartime without a jot of evidence... why? Given what we know of them, and descriptions of the Slaan as their 'first' creations, and those closest to them, I doubt they suddenly changed their MO utterly when the C'tan showed up.
Who to trust; the people who helped spread life across a galaxy
Their life. With the obvious intention of making it serve them.
or the people who worshipped their sun as a death-god,
'and life giver combined' what's more, I rather doubt they maintained such a tradition into spacefaring days, indeed, I seem to recall suggestion quite to the contrary. Given that the necrontyr species is apparently billions of years old, I hardly think one strange religion (which, mind you, may be infinitely more beneficient than Christianity or Islam and all the rest) that may not even have survived that long is worth writing off the entire species.
created vast cities more to house the dead than the living,
And? This is evil, is it?
and ended up worshipping and serving a slaughterer they helped bring, or draw it's attention, to the material universe.
Errr. If you actually read it, you'll note that the not only was the Nightbringer never particularly popular, but they most certainly didn't know it was going to be a super-monster until it started
killing them. By that standard, the Old Ones are directly responsible for the entire galaxy/universe going tits up when the warp decided it'd had enough of them, and wiping out the vast majority of the galactic/universal population.
There is also the fact that the Codex appears to be written in a neutral 3rd person perspective from the outside, as it contains information no one faction would have access to.
This is incorrect. The codex is written in a third person synopsis style, this is true, however, it at no point contains no information that the Eldar, Hrud, and other extant races could not have access to what's more, it later proceeds on to "seperating fact from myth about the C'tan is impossible, and given their nature, it may be a mistake to even try" while maintaining the same person and tone. If a source outright says it is based on myth and makes no effort to determine truth, it is most certainly highly unreliable.
The closest it comes to any kind of external 'omniscient' perspective is in its description of the Nightbringer's first appearance, and even that may either be completely ficticious (after a few thousand we've got bullshit about Buddah popping spontaneously out of his mother's side with no harm done, and the entire world ringing with bells, I don't want to think what kind of elaborations the Eldar and Hrud {the two races with substantial knowledge of those times still widely active} both of whom preserve their history by
oral tradition could come up with) or mythologised.
