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During the war, Necron legions are known to have breached the Webway and assaulted the Old Ones in every corner of the galaxy.{{Fn|6a}} Despite their legendary patience and implacability, the Old Ones began to grow desperate and began breeding new forms of life with an even stronger connection to the Warp, with the intention that these manipulated species would have the power to channel their psychic might to defend themselves. Many warrior races were created in this manner; it is believed that the [[Eldar]], [[K'nib]] and [[Rashan]] ranked among their number. It took millennia before these new creations were ready and in that time, the C'tan along with their Necron armies extinguished even more life in the cosmos.{{Fn|1b}} According to Eldar legend, the paradise the Old Ones had created was now desecrated by the C'tan, whom the Eldar knew as the Yngir.{{Fn|1d}} Among their creations also were early [[Human|Mankind]], tree beasts that were part of their ecosystem but otherwise had no greater role defined for them by the Old Ones.{{Fn|1a}} This was the time that the Eldar referred to as the God War, fought between the C'tan-supported Necrons and the Old Ones aided by their successor races.{{Fn|1a}} During ancient times, the Eldar learnt a great many secrets of the Warp from the Old Ones.{{Fn|3}} From this encounter, the Eldar learnt technologies that led to the eventual creation of the Webway.{{Fn|2}}
By the time the Old Ones marshalled their forces, there were only four C'tan in existence, but much of life in the galaxy had already been extinguished.{{Fn|1d}} Eventually, the hot-blooded Young Races were unleashed, sending the Necrons reeling as the power of the Warp was an anathema to them and they struggled to contain the advance of this new offensive. In response, the C'tan unified for the first time in millions of years and began the great warding, which was to seal the Empyrean from the material universe forever, thus countering the magicks of the Old Ones. However, a seemingly unforeseen side effect of the Old Ones began to manifest in this era as the Young Races' growing pains disturbed the Warp itself with this formless energy coalescing and older warp entities become predatory as the Empyrean began to become a more hostile environment. From cracks in reality, the denizens of the warp sought entry into the material universe which forced the Old Ones to bring about the emergence of new species to defend their last strongholds. Among their creations included the green-skinned, hardy [[Krork]] and the technology-mimicking [[Jokaero]]. However, it was too late by this point with their intergalactic network being breached with their greatest works and places of power being overrun by the horrors of the warp created by their own creations. Among the most insidious of these entities were the [[Enslaver]]s, who dominated the minds of the Young Races in order to create portals for more of their kind. The [[Enslaver plague|Enslaver Plague ]] became the final blow for the reign of the Old Ones who scattered and forever broke their power.{{Fn|1c}}
==Fate==
