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So have the enslavers that attacked the galaxy after the war in heaven ever been named. I always got the idea that they might be an early nid swarm. Has it ever been officialy stated what they are

Yep and it's also been shown what they look like, even rules.

Psyker attracts ones attention, it enslaves the psyker, warping its body into a portal to the warp, other enslavers pop out, hilarity ensues.

darthryan wrote:
So have the enslavers that attacked the galaxy after the war in heaven ever been named.

It's not "enslavers attack the galaxy" its "Enslavers attacked the galaxy", its a group name like Human or Eldar, rather than a occupation like "cannon fodder".

Warp based entities named "Enslavers", amongst other names.

darthryan wrote:
So have the enslavers that attacked the galaxy after the war in heaven ever been named. I always got the idea that they might be an early nid swarm. Has it ever been officialy stated what they are

They've been described as a warp based predator, iirc. Not quite a demon, more extra-dimensional tick that infests people and turns them into living warp portals through which more enslavers enter the materium.
There's some pretty interesting concepts that GW doesn't really build upon. The idea of there being things other than demons in the warp is an interesting idea that seldom gets attention.

Thank you Fictional without you correcting my terrible gramma nobody would have had any clue what i meant.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

darthryan wrote:
So have the enslavers that attacked the galaxy after the war in heaven ever been named. I always got the idea that they might be an early nid swarm. Has it ever been officialy stated what they are

They've been described as a warp based predator, iirc. Not quite a demon, more extra-dimensional tick that infests people and turns them into living warp portals through which more enslavers enter the materium.
There's some pretty interesting concepts that GW doesn't really build upon. The idea of there being things other than demons in the warp is an interesting idea that seldom gets attention.

Agreed that this is a kickass concept that hasn't really been expanded much. Enslavers and Khymaerae are the only two named ones that I know, but wouldn't it be cool if there were dozens and dozens of different warp entities other than daemons that preyed on the 40k universe.

It would certainly help make the warp appear to be less homogeneous...

Enslavers also implant psykers with a larval form of their young, which takes over the host until it matures. They are fairly horrifying creatures.

Here you go ...

Reminds me of a Dalek. Weird squid with a big eye.

pretty sure this is a picture of them

They are pretty horrific

The Enslavers came from what was the 'Sea of Souls', just as it was turning into what we know now as the Warp. The Chaos Gods hadn't formed just yet.

The C'tan Vs Old One war is what stained the Sea of Souls and turned it into the hell that it is now. The Enslavers were the first 'beings' from that transition to break into the material realm.

darthryan wrote:
Thank you Fictional without you correcting my terrible gramma nobody would have had any clue what i meant.

Yea, C-

I was only trying to point out your apparent misconception over what the Enslavers were.

I could have been worse and been rude whilst telling you to try using either Lexicanum or the 40K Wikia.

Enslavers were said to originally be creatures of the normal universe - they retreated to the Warp only when defeated and still lurk there, looking for a chance to rule again. They're also so horrifyingly powerful and hard to corrupt that "real" warp entities like demons just ignore them because it's not worth the effort.

Spetulhu wrote:
Enslavers were said to originally be creatures of the normal universe - they retreated to the Warp only when defeated and still lurk there, looking for a chance to rule again. They're also so horrifyingly powerful and hard to corrupt that "real" warp entities like demons just ignore them because it's not worth the effort.

That's interesting, I'd never heard that they originated from the materium. Don't suppose you have a source for that, because that would be neat if sourced.

Do the forces of the enslavers influence the demons (especially the Tzeentch demons) or the orcs or tyranids?
Orcs use the Waaagh and the Tyranids have Shadow in the Warp

darkoms wrote:
Do the forces of the enslavers influence the demons (especially the Tzeentch demons) or the orcs or tyranids?
Orcs use the Waaagh and the Tyranids have Shadow in the Warp

We really don't know much about them, most of what we have is from ancillary sources like the inquisitor RPG, the third ed Necrons, a few eldar stories. We do know that sanctioned psykers can resist the enslavers for a while but not indefinitely, so it would make sense the strength of the host plays a role in who can be possessed. In the initial infection phase they can't posses non-psykers, but once they are in the materium they can control them.

At a guess, the shadow of the warp would stop them from making initial contact, so they probably won't be taking over a norn queen. Once in the materium (say the tyranids invade a planet being overrun by the enslavers) they could probably take control of individual tyranids, but I don't think they could take over things faster than they Tyranids could eat them.

Demons are easy, they aren't really physical beings, so they couldn't be taken over in either phase, initial contact or during the larval stage.

Orks are notoriously hard to control, and are all psychically powerful linked to a sort of orky akashic records/universal subconscious, so it would be much more challenging than humans or eldar. However the orks do have genestealer cults (they don't tend to last long though), so maybe an enslaver plague could happen on an ork world.