Editing Setting:Brighthammer 40,000/Lords of Order (section)

== History ==
The terrible Great Old Ones, after having mastered the evolution of life in the Materium, set their sights upon the (then) calm waves of the Immaterium. Soon discovering how to form living beings in their image, they set upon creating entire races to empower their Warp creations. Under threat of tremendous torture or the destruction of the entire world, countless [[../Warp Horrors|Warp Horrors]] were born and enslaved by the Great Old Ones.

Some of them, often spirits that were only formed by bitter resentment against the "official" gods and half-formed curses underneath prayers, were not made to like this fate or existence in the least and, once the inevitable rebellion started to topple the Old Ones, sided with rebels. Among those were the [[../Eldar|Eldar]] Gods (already a formidable force in their own right) and countless lesser spirits.

Some of the spirits started merging together during those centuries; if by right of conquest or simple similarity in existence, nobody knows. This process was sped up after the ascension of the [[../Orks|Ork]] brainboyz Gork and Mork and the rise of the Universal Destroyer.

Finally, three of the four Lords of Order (Nurgle, Khorne and Tzeentch) became their modern form. Holding the chaos of the Destroyer back was, for a while, paramount. Nevertheless, the Initiates of Order's teaching were a great support and soon they were openly worshiped.

As the Destroyer was vanquished with the help of the newly created Slaanesh, the three Lords of Order became four without overt conflict.

When the Adepts of Unified Order formed, the Lords supported them in their conflict against the empire. Only tithes in the form of several Primarchs and assurances that the Initiates of Order (and with them, any worship of the four Lords) would not be suppressed, stopped a war between the Lords and the Emperor.

As they are by their nature beings of stasis, the Lords have gone back to guarding their worshippers, soothing the tides of the Warp, and surveying their domains.