Editing Setting:Brighthammer 40,000/Warp Horrors (section)

== The Universal Destroyer ==
''Alias: The many-bodied Beast; The Nameless; Mother of All and None''

The Universal Destroyer was formed the terrible Great Old Ones fell. All the rage of the battle, the sense of betrayal and the nihilism that accompanies a passing age formed into one speck of all-encompassing hatred. Within a minute of its existence, this speck had absorbed all remaining Warp Horrors which fought on the side of the Great Old Ones. Within an hour, it was tearing reality apart and destroyed Itza. Within a day, only the ascension of the [[../Orks|Ork]] brainboyz Gork and Mork could stop the many-bodies beast from completely dragging the entire galaxy into the Warp.

Aided by many lesser deities, Gork and Mork were the prime opponents of the Universal Destroyer during the millennia before the formation of the Lord of Order. During that time, Warp travel was known as synonym for instant, horrifying death. As soon as the Lord of Order gained sentience, however, the Destroyer was forced to change its modus operandi.

Since the first sapient species had risen, there had been psykers - those people who could affect the Warp and were affected by it. Some species were even born without any who could not interact with the Warp. The Destroyer ruthlessly consumed any and all who were not protected by their own measures or by other Warp deities. Those that it could not consume were hunted down by minor manifestations. Thus began another age of darkness.

Finally, millennia later, the [[../Eldar|Eldar]] succeeded in creating their god of Passion, [[../Lords of Order#Slaanesh|Slaanesh]]. The shock waves weakened the Destroyer and the following assault all but destroyed it. For all times, the core of its being, the speck of sheer hatred, was gone. But, the Destroyer did not truly die, as it had never been a single being. Instead, the Warp Horrors which made up its being were released, to wreak havoc on the galaxy again. While few were destroyed outright, many were sealed, and some escaped justice.

To this day, shadowy remnants of the Universal Destroyer haunt both Immaterium and Materium. Thankfully, the Adeptus Telepathica, the entire Ork race, and the Bright Eldar are countering its worldly influence while Gork, Mork, the Eldar goddess Isha, and the Lords of Order stand vigilant against its corruption of the Immaterium.

It is hoped that in time, its death throes will end. Then, finally, the galaxy might know all-encompassing peace at last.

=== The Enslavers ===
''Alias: The Krell; The Dominators; The Puppeteers''

During the War of Souls, the Destroyer created small manifestations. Those, undetected by the forces of Order, drifted with the currents of the Immaterium, until roused by psychic emanations of material creatures. Burrowing into the unfortunate victims' soul, the Enslavers would turn them into living portals to the Warp within days.

Finally, the Enslavers would burst forth into the doomed world en masse, taking over and consuming ever more victims. The absorbed souls were fed directly to the Destroyer, which it would use to create ever more Enslavers.

Despite the annihilation of the Destroyer, the Enslavers endure. Uneducated, untrained Psykers still fall prey to their whispers. While the souls they absorb are no longer fed to the destroyer, more than one unlucky world has been completely depopulated by the remaining Enslavers. Quite a few Initiates of Order take it as their personal missions to find and destroy as many Enslavers as possible, so this threat might be vanquished in the foreseeable future.

=== The Screaming Fog ===
When the speck of hatred that made up the core of the Destroyer disappeared, not all Warp Horrors and Psykers that it consumed over the millennia could manifest again. Those that could not are doomed to drift in the currents of the Warp as some kind of fog. While the fog itself is unable to consciously act, it is easily manipulated by rogue or careless Psykers; however, prolonged contact with it invariably drives living minds completely and utterly insane. 

Should a mad or careless Psyker manage to locate and consolidate a sufficiently large amount of fog (which is no small feat itself), the world they reside on is utterly doomed. People will be driven mad, the dead will rise from their graves, the stars will change, ships will fail to reach the planet in time to avert disaster, even some other Warp Horror might be drawn to the Psyker.

The fog itself cannot be destroyed, but the destruction of its vessel forces it back into the Warp, where it is again a helpless victim to its currents.