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For example, there are monumental architectures in the Eye of Terror, such as landscapes of skulls or fortresses fashioned from bones. However none of those are built or arranged by anyone. It is the warp that manifests them and turns them into reality, into matter, by reacting to thoughts. As another example, the Dark Mechanicum forge-world [[Gallium]] is covered with smelteries and forges, operated by robotic slaves with clock-work bodies. None of this industry was built, but rather it was the character of the Dark Mechanicum and Iron Warriors that rule this planet that subconsciously coaxed the warp into transforming the original landscape into this.{{Fn|20e}}
Humans, be they faithful Cultists or mere slaves[[slave]]s, are no more than the playthings of the daemons and the chaos gods. For the glory of Chaos they undertake gargantuan, but nevertheless pointless projects. For example, they get divided up into armies and sent to fight each other, form giant religious ceremonies or build monuments or waste away with utter pointless work such as cataloguing and categorizing grains of sand. And this insanity can change into a different kind of insanity at any moment.{{Fn|28a}} However this is not true for all inhabitants of the Eye of Terror. Many slaves live rather predictable, though not at all comfortable or safe, lives in service to a warband or as workers in a forge.{{Fn|28b}}{{Fn|28c}} And the warbands have their own designs, plans and goals.{{Fn|10a}}{{Fn|19d}}{{Fn|19e}}
There are the fortresses and domains of the Chaos Space Marines and the Dark Mechanicum, but even beyond those, the Eye of Terror is full of human settlements of all kinds of Cultists.{{Fn|20c}} Additionally, there are various kinds of mutant-tribes and mutant-hordes, ranging from primitive and feral up to those who have their own spaceships.{{Fn|23a}}{{Fn|29}} [[Beastmen]] are also widely spread. They can be found in various breeds, loyalties and faiths on various planets.{{Fn|27b}}{{Fn|30}}{{Fn|31}}
*{{Endn|17}}: [https://web.archive.org/web/20220602182540/https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/06/02/horus-heresy-history-the-age-of-darkness-has-been-inspiring-artists-for-decades/ Warhammer Community (02/06/2022)] (saved archive)
*{{Endn|18}}: [[Malleus (Novel)]] — [[Eisenhorn (Omnibus)]], Chapter Seventeen, pg. 420
*{{Endn|19}}: [[Ahriman: Exile (Novel)]]:
**{{Endn|19a}}: Chapter 5
**{{Endn|19b}}: Chapter 13
**{{Endn|19g}}: chapter 6
**{{Endn|19h}}: chapter 4
*{{Endn|20}}: [[The Talon of Horus (Novel)]]:
**{{Endn|20a}}: Chapter 1
**{{Endn|20b}}: Chapter 11
**{{Endn|20f}}: Chapter 9
*{{Endn|21}}: [[Khârn: Eater of Worlds (Novel)]], Chapter 6
*{{Endn|22}}: [[Fabius Bile: Clonelord (Novel)]]:
**{{Endn|22a}}: Chapter 2
**{{Endn|22b}}: Chapter 13
**{{Endn|22f}}: Chapter 9
**{{Endn|22g}}: Chapter 7
*{{Endn|23}}: [[Ahriman: Unchanged (Novel)]]:
**{{Endn|23a}}: Chapter 7
**{{Endn|23b}}: Chapter 3
*{{Endn|24}}: [[Dead Sky, Black Sun (Novel)]], :
*{{Endn|24a}}: Chapter 3
*{{Endn|24b}}: Chapter 19
*{{Endn|25}}: Hammer of Daemons (novel)]]:
**{{Endn|25a}}: chapter 14
**{{Endn|25b}}: chapter 17
*{{Endn|26}}: [[Fabius Bile: Primogenitor (Novel)]]:
**{{Endn|26a}}: chapter 5
*{{Endn|27}}: [[The Crimson King (Novel)]]:
**{{Endn|27a}}: chapter 3
**{{Endn|27b}}: chapter 21
*{{Endn|28}}: [[Black Crusade Core Rulebook]]:
**{{Endn|28a}}: pg. 32
**{{Endn|28b}}: pg. 3
