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Over billions of years, the emotions of mortal creatures fell into the warp like rain. Watersheds of immaterial energy and emotion formed from the ongoing deluge. As the mortal races prospered and struggled, torrents and streams of pride and anguish, hatred and desire, and so on pooled as time progressed. Eventually these formless beings gained rudimentary consciousness and the Chaos Gods were born — vast psychic presences made from the dreams and nightmares of mortals. Each sought to nurture their own power by influencing the dreams of mortals to perform acts in ways to feed their power, sometimes rewarding those mortals that serve in their name with strange gifts. The souls of those who serve the Dark Gods don't dissipate in the warp like others, instead they are enfolded into their patron's, further increasing the power of Chaos.{{Fn|1a}}
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==History==
===Origins===
Over billions of years, the emotions of mortal creatures fell into the warp like rain. Watersheds of immaterial energy and emotion formed from the ongoing deluge. As the mortal races prospered and struggled, torrents and streams of pride and anguish, hatred and desire, and so on pooled as time progressed. Eventually these formless beings gained rudimentary consciousness and the Chaos Gods were born — vast psychic presences made from the dreams and nightmares of mortals. Each sought to nurture their own power by influencing the dreams of mortals to perform acts in ways to feed their power, sometimes rewarding those mortals that serve in their name with strange gifts. The souls of those who serve the Dark Gods don't dissipate in the warp like others, instead they are enfolded into their patron's, further increasing the power of Chaos.{{Fn|1a}}
{{Spoiler|source=Rise of the Ynnari: Wild Rider (Novel)}}
The Chaos Gods exist in the Warp, a dimension outside of space and time. So when exactly the Chaos Gods emerged in unclear, especially to by own understanding, as the passage of time is a foreign concept to them. Their first recorded instance is during the [[War in Heaven (Necrons)|conflict]] between the [[Old Ones]] and the [[Necrontyr]]. While the nascent [[Aeldari]] civilisation was still protected by their creators, the Old Ones, the Dark Gods and other warp predators are said to have assailed both the Old Ones and Necrontyr. The Aeldari were well designed to resist Chaos corruption and eventually pushed back Chaos alongside Necrontyr.{{Fn|16b}} After working together to construct many prisons for the Dark Gods and other psychic threats, the Aeldari and Necrontyr's alliance soured and a new [[War in Heaven (Eldar)|conflict in the stars]] unfolded. These most distant ages are largely lost to time and remain unclear.{{Fn|16a}}{{Fn|16c}}
