Many thousands of years ago, before the Time of Chaos, before the fathers of the Elves and Dwarfs knew of speech or song, the world was visited by a race of travellers. Elven legends dimly recall them as the Old Ones. They came from beyond the stars by means of an inter-dimensional gateway which they created above the north pole of the world. Their silver craft brought the Old Ones to the Warhammer World where they discovered the ancestors of the Elves and Dwarfs, and secretly nurtured them, teaching them the arts of civilization, through to what end remains a mystery.

THE MASTERY OF THE OLD ONES

The Old Ones built fabulous cities and temples away from the areas inhabited by the growing races of the Warhammer World. They raised their cities in the lands known today as Lustria, on the western continent, in the warm equatorial regions which best suited their alien metabolism. They were the masters of the world in those days, and perhaps the masters of the universe too. Their technical skills were unthinkably advanced, their command of sorcery unparalleled. Indeed, such was their knowledge that to them magic and science were as one, blended into a single galaxy-spanning arcane technology. Their polar gateway was a device crafted from this technology, a portal between the very dimensions.

THE FALL OF THE OLD ONES

It is impossible to say what terrible disaster overtook the Old Ones and destroyed the ordered world which they had created. Their gateway, the source of all arcane power, collapsed onto the northern pole creating a region of seething energy, a wasteland saturated in magical power, an open door into the dimension of daemons and gods. This disaster initiated the Time of Chaos and unleashed new and horrifying gods into the world. It made the Realm of Chaos where dwell to this day the daemons of men and other things too mind-destroying to consider.

The Old Ones and their deeds were forgotten. Their children, the Dwarfs and Elves who they had placed on the ladder of civilisation, survived the Time of Chaos and begun to develop in their own fashion. Man, the Old Ones newest and most vulnerable protege, was left to learn by contact with the older races, remembering nothing of their ancient contacts. In Lustria the cities and temples of the Old Ones gradually fell into ruin.

THE SURVIVORS

Although the Old Ones were gone the lands of Lustria were not completely emptied of intelligent life. For the Old Ones did not come to the Warhammer World entirely alone. They brought with them their slaves and servants, creatures whose minds or bodies the Old Ones found useful. Of these creatures the most intelligent were the Slann. The Slann were the organisers and builders, the scientist-sorcerers whose endeavours built the cities of Lustria and moulded the Warhammer World into a shape commanded by their masters. It was the Slann Mage Lords who built the polar gateways and whose spells maintained its integrity. It was the Slann who moved the whole world closer to the sun to warm it, and who changed the shape of lands to create hydro-atmospheric stability. The Slann were second only in understanding to the Old Ones themselves.

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