Here we are, and with a nice case of eye-strain to go with it.
Further Study of the Elves and the power of Chaos (Liber chaotica Slaanesh)
"...It was in this way, the simple deities that the eldar races had developed for themselves across the millenia of evolution suddenly stopped being mere concepts or items of faith and became actual beings with immense power and independent identity, the truly were the first daemons , gods and angels of the Empyrean.."
Note that Elves and Eldar are not different, the Liberchaotica books are written from the perspective of Warhammer people having visions, in particular the poor bastard who "writes" the Books of Chaos.
So, the Eldar/Elves create their gods, (theres another passage describing this for the Eldar as well...)
" But the Asur have never made good servants, long before the collapse of the slaans Gateway, the Asur already had a strong understanding of magic and the basic laws governing how chaos interacted with matter and intelligence, this knowledge allowed them to control manny of the lesser chaos entities and form a more syhmbiotic relationship with some of the more ordered greater entities. Without even realising it the Asur began to impoise their wil and expectations onto some of these greater entities forging them into benign dieties that personified various aspects of the Asurs ideals, hopes and aspirations.
Asur is obviously reference to the Elves/eldar (star born asur)
Echoes of the Birth (Liber Chaotica Slaanesh)
"...I saw the dawn of a race I took to be the Asur, though they lived not upon my world or in my time. I saw them raised from nothing by figures of shasow and light, And ancient and powerful race, the first ever to have reaced into the starryt night, Older than the gods, yet mortal and subject to time...."
This would be the Old Ones/First Ones.
I saw these First Ones leave the starborn Asur to return beyond the sky leaving their charges to grow by themselves........with subconsious and natural born talent they reached into the chaos realm and experiment ed with magic and sorcery and their works were glorious to behold. But then the First Ones retured from the darkness beyond the sky, their stranger and vast vessels were scarred and worn, their light dimmed and their shadows dispersing, For I knew that they fought and unending war with gods that were not fo the Aethyr, Gods of starlight, vampires of life. The First Ones had returned to inspect the Elder and judge whether they were yet fit for the battles that lay ahead, I watched as the First Ones encouraged the younger race to reach further into the other realm and with their vibrant minds and passionate souls create beings of power to fight the star gods.
Emphasis mine.
But the battle was long anfd the First ones were now few.......Without the wisdom and might of the first ones to bind them, I saw the elders warpbeings evolve from sentient weapons into living gods, the first true gods of the immaterium. How I wept when the Elder embraced them as such.
and again.
Time moved onwards and I saw the rise of the brother heroes Eldanesh and Ulthanesh, who alone, in the avsence of the Firstones could control the warpgods and summon them onto the physical plane, I saw them march to war against the silver skinned Yngir, the stargods and their slaves, I saw them summon the dread lord Khaine , the ELders mighty god of war to battle with them, I saw the brothers and their god lead their choldren into battle time and time again, pitting chaoes spawned furies against the souless technologies of the Yngir. But in time, the boundaries between the gods of the aethyr and the gods of the Stars blurred, and the Elder could not tell one from the other. In their fury, the gods of the stars and the gods of the Aethyr turned ipon each oterh caputring or destroying those they could, and striking bargains with those they could not, I saw the forging of the widow makers, the one hundred swords of khaine and I watched the betrayal as one was stolen and hidden far away. I saw the end of shining Althanesh at the hands of the god of death. I was witness to the final battle in which khaine was almost split asunder by the destruction of that same Death God, and I saw how endless warfare fanned the embers of Khaine's fury, filling him with power and driving him into madness, gripped by and unquenchable rage Khaine eventually turned against the Elder and slew Prince Eldanesh.
Some interesting points here, more possible links between WHFB and 40k, the Sword of Khaine that Anaerion drew could very possibly be the lost Sword of Khaine. Plus the fact that the C'tan and Warp Gods blurred into each other, hopefully this doesnt mean the Deciever is the Laughing God.
Also details how Khaine/Khorne was originally just an aspect of the Eldar psyche, but became his own being.
".......Then the Elder adopted, refined and perfected the First Ones skills for measuring the Warp and predicting its movements, they somehow linked their worlds and their floating city ships with their magical gateways. I watched as they joined millions of stars under one rule..."
*shrug* just thought this might be interesting. Ditto below.
"..For their most terrible crime of creating Him, from then and ever after, the Elder would belong to SLaanesh, their actions and beliefs had given him potential, but their souls had given him for and presence, and in death their souls were his to consume as he pleased.."
What follows is a excerpt from Of Pleasure and Rage, which details the birth of Slaanesh, relevant points are quoted, but basically details it from the Chaos Gods side. I have the full thing typed up if people want to read it, but here are the relevent bits for me.
pon the mortal plane all wars had ceased, all morals and laws had rotted away, and the change to concur was almost done, The Three wavered as Decadence took hold, and Slaanesh expanded beyond size and beyond measure, But Khorne, unable to see defeat, hung on to His charge though his arms were bent back, and his body near crushed. Then with a scream of release that ripped through the warp, SLaanesh threw off his eldest Brother and burst into being.
Such was the Event of Slaanesh's birth, the metal body that had contained Khorne's essence since he had slain Khaelis Ra, shattered into a thousand pieces that scattered across the dimension. But through his spirit had been freed from its silver prison, Khorne had not the strength to strike a counterblow against exultant Slaanesh, and so the Pleasure God was left to reap the souls of his mortal creators and set his throne alongside those of his brothers. So it was that the Three became Four, and the Eternal Pantheon was made complete.
