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So far I've added the Hive Mind as there is enough information that states that it exists as an entity and is compared to other gods.--[[User:Ashendant|Ashendant]] ([[User talk:Ashendant|talk]]) 17:57, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
I have had further discussion with an Admin and I will not be adding any more entries to this template. Instead, I will provide the second-hand quotes with accurate sourcing for people with the primary sources that want to work on it can easily find it.--[[User:Ashendant|Ashendant]] ([[User talk:Ashendant|talk]]) 19:24, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
::Ultimately what matters is not what the internet thinks about who or what is a "God" in the 40k universe, but what official sources you can find that says so. Emphasis on '''YOU''' --[[User:Siegfriedfr|Siegfriedfr]] ([[User talk:Siegfriedfr|talk]]) 18:11, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
:::: I doubt the Hive Mind can be considered a single character or single entity. As the name implies it is clearly a collectivity of minds. --[[User:Inquisitor S.|Inquisitor S., Großmeister des Ordo Lexicanum]] ([[User talk:Inquisitor S.|talk]]) 18:39, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
:::::I only have the quotes provided, but if they are correct they do indicate that it is an individual in the singular, with one soul and it own titles. Here are a few quotes with the bolded parts that I think single it out as an individual:
* "Against this vista flickered the souls of eldar, their jewel-brightness dimmed by the incomparable glare of '''the Great Dragon'''. And this was but a tendril of the '''creature'''. The bulk of it stretched away, coils wrapped tight about the higher dimensions, joining in the distance to others, and then others again, until at a great confluence of the parts sat the terrible truth of the whole."
* "Nor does the '''Great Devourer''', the '''mind''' of the tyranids, a being that is generated by the unthinking actions of its physical component parts, and that is perhaps greater than all the rest."
* "The tyranids are utterly alien. But we know the hive mind is real. This intelligence is emergent, coming from the billions of creatures in the swarms, but it is not an empty intellect, it is aware. It has a '''soul'''.’ ‘You say then this '''being''' is a '''warp entity''', born of the immaterium?’ asked a Librarian."
:::::--[[User:Ashendant|Ashendant]] ([[User talk:Ashendant|talk]]) 19:24, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
