Dînadan:
Came across this while idly browsing Lexicanuum:
It is part of a star system composed by 10 planets
Given that nothing is known about the other planets (for the very good reason no one on the Warhammer world posses the ability to travel to other worlds) coupled with the fact that before the polar gates collapsed and Chaos broke loose the Old Ones were running some sort of experiment on the Warhammer world (shaping races, altering the geography, etc) the following crazy theory sprang to mind:
What if the Old Ones ran the same experiment on some (or more) of the other worlds? After all, scientists don’t just run one experiment and call it quits. Maybe that explains all the discrepancies that have cropped up over the editions (e.g. Brets being fairy tale/chivalric romance knights in one edition, and gritty middle age knights the next) and the various retcons (e.g. Malal) - each world holds near identical settings with various levels of discrepancies.
:P. Okay, if you hadn’t guessed by now, this is all lighthearted fun and not a serious theory about the nature of the Warhammer world (hey, I
did call the thread ‘Crackpot Theories’ :P). Anyone got their own crackpot/jokey theories about the warhammer setting? Who really killed Valten after the Storm of Chaos; are Brets really being manipulated by the Wood Elves; which god is really Tzeentch’s ninth split personality? :hat off
thewizardofoz:
Came across this while idly browsing Lexicanuum:It is part of a star system composed by 10 planets
Given that nothing is known about the other planets (for the very good reason no one on the Warhammer world posses the ability to travel to other worlds) coupled with the fact that before the polar gates collapsed and Chaos broke loose the Old Ones were running some sort of experiment on the Warhammer world (shaping races, altering the geography, etc) the following crazy theory sprang to mind:
What if the Old Ones ran the same experiment on some (or more) of the other worlds? After all, scientists don't just run one experiment and call it quits. Maybe that explains all the discrepancies that have cropped up over the editions (e.g. Brets being fairy tale/chivalric romance knights in one edition, and gritty middle age knights the next) and the various retcons (e.g. Malal) - each world holds near identical settings with various levels of discrepancies.
:P. Okay, if you hadn't guessed by now, this is all lighthearted fun and not a serious theory about the nature of the Warhammer world (hey, I *did* call the thread 'Crackpot Theories' :P). Anyone got their own crackpot/jokey theories about the warhammer setting? Who really killed Valten after the Storm of Chaos; are Brets really being manipulated by the Wood Elves; which god is really Tzeentch's ninth split personality? :hat off
Dînadan
Some interesting stuff dude, but you're twisting my melon man:o
MadHatter:
The Inversion Theory
Hashut whispered to me one night, he told me of a scheme of Tzeentch blooming out and the ironic justice in the cancer of chaos becoming the tumor on earth. The Dark Father showed me in visions how Malal was caught by the four Chaos Gods and as punishment for his actions every dimension of his divine being was turned inside-out and sent to crash into earth strapped to the front of a great comet. He became known as the Great Maw of the crater. Inverting the mind of a God is a cosmic event, the will to devour Chaos turned into the will to devour all, a Daemonic God turned into a God of teeth and flesh, a scheming will turned into ferocious mindlessness with only one instinct intact, the hunger.
The evidence:
Because of Skrag the Slaughterer (Champion of Malal) from old…
http://www.chaos-dwarfs.com/wiki/index.php?title=Skrag_the_Slaughterer
and modern (Prophet of the Great Maw) lore…
http://whfb.lexicanum.com/wiki/Skrag_the_Slaughterer
There are no copyright disputes in the old world so what could possibly have made Skrag give up on his pact with the Malicious One? Well, maybe he didnt. Perhaps at the moment of The Inversion Skrag simply could not feel or make contact with his deity anymore and the Chaos Armor consecrated in the blood of the Dawi’Zharr just fell off him, now naught but useless pieces of grimy rust.
At this time, the comet has crashed and all regional life in the ogre kingdoms are extinct save the ogres and the insects. They resort to eating each other, something that resounded with a perverted harmony in the now mindless and living former Cannibal of Chaos. And thus they came to him and by instinct recognizing a lost part of himself in them, he accepted.
Naked, lost and alone old Skrag must have wandered north of the Chaos Dwarf stronghold, again trying to find his old homelands. Retaining his skills with an axe he became a respected slaughtermaster until cooking the chiefs pet gnoblar and thrown to feed the Gorgers of the labyrinth.
It is written that “as unlikely as it seemed, he was ferocious enough for the Gorgers to accept him”. Unlikely? I think not. The Gorgers recognized Malal’s touch on Skrag as the Great Maw’s, likewise Skrag recognized his masters touch on them. With this new authority behind him he managed to arrange the warpstone degenerated Gorgers into an army to overthrow the tyrant Bron Rockgrinder after which Skrag, carrying holy secrets about his deity even unknown to said deity, rose as the revered Prophet of the Great Maw. Such are the ways of Tzeentch.
But what where Tzeentch’s motives? Was Malal an unwanted aspect of himself and what led up to The Inversion simply an act of divine abortion? Did the Lord of Change simply doom the world by removing the one being that could have stopped Chaos inevitable victory? Did the Dark Father involve His Divine Self in ‘The Inversion’ to get back at Malal for the slaughtering of His beloved children? Was Tzeentch simply fed up with a second divine schemer in existance or are the motives to obscure for mortal minds to comprehend? We may never know.
I believe.
Bloodbeard:
The Inversion Theory
Forbidden knowledge.
MadHatter
Achievement unlocked: Lore Mastery!
To see (and even think up) lore details and theories like this is fantastic. In a setting that has been re-written, things written out, expanded so often, this is fantastic.
I sending some slaves for you. Give them to Hashut, Malal or The Slaughterer. Whatever rocks you mad boat.
MadHatter:
The Inversion Theory
Forbidden knowledge.
MadHatter
Achievement unlocked: Lore Mastery!
To see (and even think up) lore details and theories like this is fantastic. In a setting that has been re-written, things written out, expanded so often, this is fantastic.
I sending some slaves for you. Give them to Hashut, Malal or The Slaughterer. Whatever rocks you mad boat.
Bloodbeard
Haha glad you liked it, I've been investigating the matter for quite some time. Thanks for the support and slaves :cheers
PS. Thanks for always being awesome, voted for you as guy of the year!