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The well known Eye of Terror has been created by the birth of Slaneesh. It is said, that when Big E dies and becomes a Warp Entity, the whole Imperium becomes one big Eye of Terror. I wonder where the Eyes of Terror are that were the birth places of Khorne, Nurgle and Tzeenth?

There is another warp storm that has formed called "The Emperor's Wrath"

While I am not hugely up to date on my Chaos lore. I don't think Khorne, Nurgle, and Tzeentch where created like Slanessh.

Tzeentch has been around, at least as long as humanity has, so has Khorne and Nurgle. Reading the First Heretic sheds some light on them being very old and deeply rooted into humanity.

So maybe it was because the Eldar used psykers more than the ancient humans and that's what created their orgy induced explosion. Whereas, the other three represent human ambitions.

Humanity is around for about 2 million years. So the 'birth' of the other chaos entities is at least 1 million years ago. Assuming that the birth of the other chaos entities would also create an Eye of Terror, do you think it is possible for an Eye of Terror to go extinct? Like in radioactivity? The first few thousends of years it radiates brightly, but in a million years there is almost nothing left of it?

humanity may have been around for a long time. but the aspects of their existence that lead to the creation of Khorne(WAR!), Nurgle(Disease/pestilence) and Tzeentch(Cunning etc) needed to wait till humanity was developing. these 3 chaos gods assembled slowly with humanity, they never had the sudden birth that slaanesh did. Think of humans at the time as little batteries, they fed the essence that would become the chaos gods slowly. Slaanesh was born from eldar, who were like energiser batteries, much more psychically powerful. Slaanesh's birth created the Eye of Terror because thats where the Eldar worlds were.

Ok, thanks for the explanations

Grimmzahn wrote:Humanity is around for about 2 million years. So the 'birth' of the other chaos entities is at least 1 million years ago. Assuming that the birth of the other chaos entities would also create an Eye of Terror, do you think it is possible for an Eye of Terror to go extinct? Like in radioactivity? The first few thousends of years it radiates brightly, but in a million years there is almost nothing left of it?

Possibly, although I think it is more likely that the other three gods were born gradually. They were spirits or entities that fed on a specific thing, and just grew and grew. Slaanesh, on the other hand, was a potential being, and when the fuel for his existence reached critical mass, he appeared all at once. I tried to think of a metaphor, but they're all dirty. Which is, I suppose, fitting.

ChaosGalvatron wrote:humanity may have been around for a long time. but the aspects of their existence that lead to the creation of Khorne(WAR!), Nurgle(Disease/pestilence) and Tzeentch(Cunning etc) needed to wait till humanity was developing. these 3 chaos gods assembled slowly with humanity, they never had the sudden birth that slaanesh did. Think of humans at the time as little batteries, they fed the essence that would become the chaos gods slowly. Slaanesh was born from eldar, who were like energiser batteries, much more psychically powerful. Slaanesh's birth created the Eye of Terror because thats where the Eldar worlds were.

I know that it's in the fluff, but pre-industrial age humanity would have been a patheticly small influence on the warp. Slaanesh was created by the efforts of a multi-world empire of an increadibly psychic race having crazy hot monkey sex drugs and rock 'n roll for centuries. Having the creation of the more powerful three ruinous powers tied to the efforts of what would be at most a few hundred million (at absolute most) humans who were mostly just going about their normal lives, not lopping off heads or playing 11-dimensional hyperchess, is just goofy. I know that you need to have the warp powers manifest fully after the Emperor is born, but it makes more sense to have the creation of the big three influencing events on Earth, not the other way around.

Slaanesh was born in a very short period, literally like a warp explosion

Nurgle, Khorne and Tzeentch took a lot longer to form, it wasn't a sudden event.

My theory is that Slaneesh 'jumped' into existence, but the others built up over time.

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/The_Maelstrom

before the Emperor was put in the Golden Throne, he poked the other Eye out. That is why Terror has no Depth Perception and always walks into walls.


srs time: Slaanesh was made in centuries, Khorne, Nurgle and Tzeentch were made over million(s) of years.

There are other Warp Storms across the galaxy. But none is big as Eye of Terror.