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There are a few beings in the fluff that pre-date even the Old Ones and their servants. I believe Krakanrok the Black, eldest of the Dragon Ogres, is one of them. Perhaps also some dragons (pretty sure dragons cannot die of old age), but I don't remember hearing about a named dragon who is seen as the elder of his race.

Three ways to answer this.

1. Oldest being for which there is a model of Lord Kroak, as he is a Slann of the first spawning.

2. Earliest special character is Heinrich Kemmler, as he was around since first edition. Though there were five earlier characters, a party of dwarfs defending a Ziggurat from unknown goblin assailants they were not persistent characters.

I dont know what the oldest known entity is. Nurgle is the oldest of the chaos gods, maybe him?

 Orlanth wrote:
Three ways to answer this.

1. Oldest being for which there is a model of Lord Kroak, as he is a Slann of the first spawning.

2. Earliest special character is Heinrich Kemmler, as he was around since first edition. Though there were five earlier characters, a party of dwarfs defending a Ziggurat from unknown goblin assailants they were not persistent characters.

I dont know what the oldest known entity is. Nurgle is the oldest of the chaos gods, maybe him?

As my first post clearly indicates, my question is about the oldest being in the internal timeline of the Warhammer universe, whether or not they have a model (hence why I mentioned Krakanrok the Black, who doesn't have a model since he's described as being as tall as a mountain).

The Chaos gods are not the oldest beings in the Warhammer universe. They came after the Old Ones, who themselves came after the dragons and dragon ogres.

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That's a really good question...

I could imagine the Dragon Princes of Caledor or those who resided in the Tower of Hoeth might have been able to answer it...were they still around.

One of the Storm of Magic novellas has a Zoat make a brief cameo. It is hinted that the Dragon Ogres are a debased relative to the Zoats (and dragons?), and that the Zoat remembers a time before their races separated (either politically or through speciation?) or the coming of the Old Ones.

In the Genevieve omnibus, Drachenfels, The Great Necromancer, is an entity that existed before the coming of the space Slann (old fluff) who remembers hopping into the bodies of our prehuman ancestors.

Well the Olde Worlde is just a planet on the edge of the Eye of Terror so that would make the Emperor older.

-Guardsman- wrote:

As my first post clearly indicates, my question is about the oldest being in the internal timeline of the Warhammer universe,

As it is a fictional universe we can take it as we will.
Your questions have no definite answer as the deep fluff is patchy and incomplete.

However it is interesting to see what answers you get. I say Nurgle, others say otherwise.