Editing Enslavers (section)

=="Origins"==
Trying to explain the origins of the Enslavers forces us to go back to the days of the [[War in Heaven]]. During those times, the [[C'Tan]] and their [[Necron]] slaves were beating the [[Old Ones]] and their allied races into submission, slowly but surely driving them into extinction. In their desperation, the Old Ones started creating more new races to try and stop them from going the way of the dodo, with little to no avail. This rapid creation of sapient and sentient species, alongside the tide of feelings of OCTILLIONS of beings embroiled in the war altered the properties of the Realm of Souls quite a bit, and it slowly but surely ended up altering its very nature, turning it into the twisted hellscape the Imperium knows as the Warp. It's at this point where the first Enslavers start appearing, to the absolute horror of EVERYONE and EVERYTHING.

It is not known whether the [[Enslavers]] were the first [[daemons]], birthed from the emotions of all of this death and destruction, they were just organisms inhabiting the Warp and got attracted to the galaxy in a similar way the [[Tyranids]] did (with a hunger for immaterial energy (souls) instead of physical biomatter (flesh), or they were [[Chaos Spawn|peaceful Warp creatures horribly warped and deformed into the abominations they would become]]. In any case, they invaded the galaxy in millions, following the end of the War in Heaven and basically singlehandedly stopped all remaining conflicts...[[rape|by subjecting everyone involved to fates worse than being captured by the Dark Eldar]]... which by default is '''much worse''' than death.

These entities arrived just at the time where the Old Ones were barely avoiding extinction by the skin of their teeth against the [[C'Tan]], who had been betrayed by the [[Necron|Necrons]] and started turning against each other. That small moment of respite turned out to be the calm before THE storm of the epoch, getting completely blindsided by this out of context problem. As such, the Old Ones and their slave species were utterly erased from existence, used as soul-fuel for the Enslavers. Combining the state of utter exhaustion with the quickness of the Enslavers reproductive cycle and thus most of the life in the galaxy was eradicated. The [[Necron|Necrons]] and the [[C'Tan]] were more or less safe from these things, due to them not having souls anymore, but the [[C'Tan]] were getting shattered here and there and the Necrons, seeing all of the clusterfuck the galaxy had become, decided to go "fuck it" and went to sleep for around 60 million years. The only known species that we 100% know that survived are the [[Eldar]], the [[Jokaero]], the [[Hrud]], and the [[Orks]]. The Orks survived the way Orks always survive: they probably put spores in places not even the Enslavers could find them, but the Eldar hadn't discovered the Webway yet, so who knows how they rode out the plague. (Maybe they built [[Wraithbone]] bubbles filled with souls like the Infinity Circuit, and the Enslavers couldn't get through?). The Hrud may have just not been particularly appetizing, given their whole "age things to dust" effect on things and how hard they are to dig out of their holes, and the Jokaero may have scienced their way out of the whole situation without meaning to. The Necrons also survived, but counting them as "species" is also a rather [[skub|complicated]] debate, considering the Necrontyr are definitively extinct, and in their place they left the automata known as Necrons. Anyway, once they managed to leave the galaxy clean of important life, they either went back to the Warp or they starved to death, leaving the way for the galaxy to recover from the cataclysm. With the millions of year passing, the memories of these creatures faded more and more, and by the time the [[Imperium of Man]] was created, those who still remembered them thought them to be truly gone...

However, [[grimdark|this is 40k]], and if something can ruin the galaxy, it will make its way to it. The Enslavers have appeared from time to time to feed upon sapient species once again, although these ones are not nearly as powerful as those from the days of the Old Ones. Well, that or the sheer blind fanatical faith of the Imperium and its effect on the Warp makes them a relative non-issue. The Calixis Sector was victim to an Enslaver infestation in 260.993.M41, however it was repelled by the forces of Mankind. Nowadays, the [[Inquisition]] keeps an eye on these abominations, considering that a quick response is the key to keep them at bay, and that the damage they can do is far greater than any form of [[Exterminatus]]

It is also believed that [[Trazyn the Infinite]] has a carcass of an Enslaver in his collection. Considering how dangerous these beings are, as well as Trazyn's somewhat lacking security in regards to live specimens (remember when he tried to make a zoo of Tyranids, [[fail|only for them to escape and run amok in the planet?]]). It is good to know that the thing is actually a dessiccated corpse... <s>or at least, we believe it to be so</s>. Trazyn personally makes sure it’s dead every time he enters the room containing it... every time.