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2012/08/24 04:29:37
Subject: What are the "old ones"?
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Daring Dark Eldar Raider Rider
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Can someone fill me in on what the old ones are. They are referenced in my codex.
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"Archon Yulliptidon sat apon a throne made of polished glass, which gleamed with magnificence in the rays of the dying suns, beautifully suspended above the the many razor sharp peaks that where Commorragh. The archon held within his hands a a delicate pyramid of sculpted crystal, from which emitted a faint glow, an echo of the soundless screams of pain belonging to countless tortured souls forever trapped within. The room in which the archon sat in was something like a throne room, but displayed apon the walls where helm of every color, but all the same in size and shape. Some bore eagles on their foreheads, and others still contained the decapitated heads of their previous owners. Two huge, beautifully carved iron double doors, engraved with intricate runes of pain and suffering, opened at the far end of the room, to reveal a tall, elegant dark eldar warrior, clad in armor made from bone and flesh. "lord Yulliptidon, you asked for my presence?" Said the arrival, " to what do I owe the pleasure?". The archon raised his elongated head, skin as pale as a full moon, eyes as vivid as a horrible nightmare. " I did not ask for you, Thrayon, I ordered your presence. Do not think to much for your self, for truly, you are not much past a feral that one would find on the streets. As for why I have ordered you to my palace, it is because their is a task that I wish you to preform. I wish you and you kabal to cleanse the imperial out fort of Sargosain Gastienagan." Thrayon was both aghast and interested at what the archon had just said. "Such a task would stretch my kabal to its limits, only a great reward would be enough to do a deed like this." Yulliptidon was outraged by the the proposal of a "great reward" by Thrayon, but did not let his anger show, hiding it with a cold smile that hid his evil intentions surprisingly well. The archon was was famous for never telling a lie in his life, but was very fond of veiled double speak, and this was no exception. "Do not worry, Thrayon, you shall receive what you deserve." Thrayon, happy with this outcome, left to carry out Yulliptidons task. Little did he know what was coming. Thrayon had done a thousand evil deeds, and what he deserved was a horrible death equal to to all those he had caused. Yulliptidons smiled. He was going to have fun."
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2012/08/24 04:41:45
Subject: Re:What are the "old ones"?
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Numberless Necron Warrior
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Physically in the 4th edition necron codex there was a "hunt down the devolved old ones" mission that suggested using the WFB lizard men giving a nod to the whole necrons = tomb kings in space idea.
In fluff the old ones were people who had really long life spans and built the first webway. The Necrons (then called the necrontyr) got pissy since there home star sucked and have them all super-cancer killing them around 40. They declared two wars on the old ones before the C'tan gave them strategic superiority. In their bid to keep in the war and not be eaten by the lifeforce (not soul) consuming material gods the old ones created the orks ancestors and the eldar and a lot of other stuff.
Super basic run down as it is almost 6am and I can't sleep
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 Kain wrote:Hope feeds Tzeentch, who will do horrible things to your planet to reward you for your service. Ergo, Hope is evil, and you should stop having it, but you can't have despair because then Nurgle gets a free ride. You could be angry about this, but that'd just get Khorne's jollies off. And heck you can't even get your own jollies off without Slaanesh giggling and farting out some daemons. And if you manage to avoid all that, some genestealers might infiltrate your planet and bring a hive fleet crashing down on you any way.
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2012/08/24 11:56:05
Subject: What are the "old ones"?
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Drop Trooper with Demo Charge
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They were the first spacefaring race in the galaxy.
Pre-eldar. A very long time ago. It is suggested that they created life on many places (including earth).
In the 4th ed Necron Fluff, they necryotyr got jellous of the Old Ones civilsation so they sold out to the Ctan. Eventually the Necrons won the war. but the old ones were using lots of psyker as a last ditch defense. This caused the Necrons to retreat to their tombs. I think the Old Ones kind of disapeared also, to be replaced by one of their creations, the Eldar.
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Current Army: Death Korp of Krieg 
Armies I have played:
Necrons
Space Marines (Ice Lords) 
Death Guard 
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0021/08/24 12:44:10
Subject: What are the "old ones"?
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PanOceaniac Hacking Specialist Sergeant
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The necrontyr went to war because they petitioned the Old Ones to save them from their meager life spans. The OO continuously denied them their plea, and the necrontyr out of bitter resentment, went to war to rip the secret to immortality from the OO cold dead fingers!
They were beaten like red headed step children in the shopping mall by the old ones until, the Ctan stepped in and offered their services in exchange for one small price... their lives. And so, with a process the Ctan created, the Necrontyr all threw away their biological self, and imprinted their minds into robotic shells, thus birthing the Necron race, the rest is.. well... war in the grimdark past XD
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When your wife suggests roleplay as a result of your table top gaming... life just seems right 
I took my wife thru the BRB for fantasy and 40k, the first thing she said was "AWESOME"... codex: Chaos Daemons Nurgle..... to all those who says God aint real....  |
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2012/08/24 13:26:55
Subject: Re:What are the "old ones"?
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Loyal Necron Lychguard
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Pretty decent run down on them -> http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Old_Ones
...and just me nit picking, but there was no 4th edition Cron dex. 3rd edition is the one you guys are thinking of.
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11,100 pts,  7,000 pts
++ Heed my words for I am the Herald and we are the footsteps of doom. Interlopers, do we name you. Defilers of our
sacred earth. We have awoken to your primative species and will not tolerate your presence. Ours is the way of logic,
of cold hard reason: your irrationality, your human disease has no place in the necrontyr. Flesh is weak.
Surrender to the machine incarnate. Surrender and die. ++
Tuagh wrote: If you won't use a wrench, it isn't the bolt's fault that your hammer is useless.
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2012/08/24 16:42:28
Subject: Re:What are the "old ones"?
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Drop Trooper with Demo Charge
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I stand corrected.
Haven't read 5th ed, did they retcon the Old Ones much in it? I heard they compleatly changed the rest of the fluff.
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Current Army: Death Korp of Krieg
Armies I have played:
Necrons
Space Marines (Ice Lords)
Death Guard
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2012/08/24 21:00:26
Subject: Re:What are the "old ones"?
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Loyal Necron Lychguard
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Meh, the Old ones didn't really change too much. Big changes with what the C'tan are and how they interact with the Necrons
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11,100 pts, 7,000 pts
++ Heed my words for I am the Herald and we are the footsteps of doom. Interlopers, do we name you. Defilers of our
sacred earth. We have awoken to your primative species and will not tolerate your presence. Ours is the way of logic,
of cold hard reason: your irrationality, your human disease has no place in the necrontyr. Flesh is weak.
Surrender to the machine incarnate. Surrender and die. ++
Tuagh wrote: If you won't use a wrench, it isn't the bolt's fault that your hammer is useless.
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2012/08/24 21:25:49
Subject: What are the "old ones"?
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Iirc the Old ones also created, or were rumoured to have, the orks as another defence against necrons, as well as the eldar and the blackstone fortress's (or was that just the eldar?) They were powerful highly advanced technogly akin to god like from what I remember reading before, akin to the ancients in SG universe imo
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40kGlobal AOA member, regular of Overlords podcast club and 4tk gaming store. Blogger @ http://sanguinesons.blogspot.co.uk/
06/2013: 1st at War of the Roses ETC warm up.
08/213: 3rd place double teams at 4tk
09/2013: 7th place, best daemon and non eldar/tau army at Northern Warlords GT
10/2013: 3rd/4th at Battlefield Birmingham
11/2013: 5th at GT heat 3
11/2013: 5th COG 2k at 4tk
01/2014: 34th at Caledonian
03/2014: 3rd GT Final |
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2012/08/28 21:24:51
Subject: What are the "old ones"?
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Battlewagon Driver with Charged Engine
somewhere in the northern side of the beachball
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 Cultiststeve wrote:They were the first spacefaring race in the galaxy.
Pre-eldar. A very long time ago. It is suggested that they created life on many places (including earth).
In the 4th ed Necron Fluff, they necryotyr got jellous of the Old Ones civilsation so they sold out to the Ctan. Eventually the Necrons won the war. but the old ones were using lots of psyker as a last ditch defense. This caused the Necrons to retreat to their tombs. I think the Old Ones kind of disapeared also, to be replaced by one of their creations, the Eldar.
Oi stoopid oomie say nothing bout ORKS. Me thinks oomie got itz brainz looted. 
Brainboyz wot iz dem called. Ol' Snotrog da runtead told us gitz wots wot. Da ting iz dat ere were dem tineds dat got real oomie back then dem were squishy back den too. Dem tineads started fightin wiv brainboyz an but dem tineads aint good fightin so dem shouta dem tinead Gork an Mork fer help an start globbering brainboyz real good. So dat makes dem brainboyz tinkin real ard dem taktiks dat dem stormboyz alwayz mucking bout. Soo dem brainboyz make real good fightas dat can fight good an proppa. An datz ORKS! Every git knowz dat orks iz made fer fightin an winnin.
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Every time I hear "in my opinion" or "just my opinion" makes me want to strangle a puppy. People use their opinions as a shield that other poeple can't critisize and that is bs.
If you can't defend or won't defend your opinion then that "opinion" is bs. Stop trying to tip-toe and defend what you believe in. |
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2012/08/28 21:29:15
Subject: What are the "old ones"?
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Nasty Nob on Warbike with Klaw
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 illuknisaa wrote: Cultiststeve wrote:They were the first spacefaring race in the galaxy.
Pre-eldar. A very long time ago. It is suggested that they created life on many places (including earth).
In the 4th ed Necron Fluff, they necryotyr got jellous of the Old Ones civilsation so they sold out to the Ctan. Eventually the Necrons won the war. but the old ones were using lots of psyker as a last ditch defense. This caused the Necrons to retreat to their tombs. I think the Old Ones kind of disapeared also, to be replaced by one of their creations, the Eldar.
Oi stoopid oomie say nothing bout ORKS. Me thinks oomie got itz brainz looted.
Brainboyz wot iz dem called. Ol' Snotrog da runtead told us gitz wots wot. Da ting iz dat ere were dem tineds dat got real oomie back then dem were squishy back den too. Dem tineads started fightin wiv brainboyz an but dem tineads aint good fightin so dem shouta dem tinead Gork an Mork fer help an start globbering brainboyz real good. So dat makes dem brainboyz tinkin real ard dem taktiks dat dem stormboyz alwayz mucking bout. Soo dem brainboyz make real good fightas dat can fight good an proppa. An datz ORKS! Every git knowz dat orks iz made fer fightin an winnin.
I wish I could keep exalting this post ad infinitum.
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