Editing Warhammer Meta-Setting (section)

====The Fantasy Cycle====
This is [[Warhammer Fantasy]] as we know it - It is comprised of one planet, two moons and one star, has some different Gods from different pantheons and, of course, Chaos. The Fantasy world was destroyed in the [[The End Times]], when Chaos upped its game, Archaon went berserk, Sigmar came back into the current Emperor's body, the Chaos moon was blown up and the First Necromancer ate three gods. Long story.

The gods of this world were leftovers from the last one, according to [[Lileath]], who first revealed the existence of the cycle during the End Times. The first beings to have an influence on the created world seem to be the Old Ones, who ''supposedly'' created all the races, including, but not limited to, the humans, elves, ogres, halflings and dwarves, all in the pursuit of making the perfect anti-chaotic race (Elves were first and despite their great magic, frailty and low fertility made them unable to stop Chaos alone, the Dwarfs were next and while they were able to make Chaos free Runes and were tough but were too stubborn to adapt to daemon trickery, then humans who were capable of adapting but were vulnerable to corruption more than the other two, then they tried others like the Sky Titans who were magically adept like elves and tough like dwarvers but were too isolated, some others who were presumably wiped out or quickly abandoned to be the minor races around and the last two were the Halflings who were a prototype of the ogres and are resistant to mutation and the ogres made capable of reproducing like humans tougher than dwarves and had occasional magical talent but who were left half finished, unable to be given a culture and with no knowledge not naturally acquired and left extremely gluttonous as the Chaos invasion came). When that didn't end well (all races being susceptible to Chaos in one way or other, the Dwarfs eastern colonies turning to Chaos God Hashut as the [[Chaos Dwarfs]] and individual Elves like [[Dechala]] turning to Chaos), they created the Lizardmen, who worked, but were both misplaced (being placed far from anything of importance in the continent of Lustria or not!South America) and too few to do an actual difference as the first incursion killed the most powerful of the [[Slann]] leader caste and severely damaged the cities. It's unclear how much of the old fluff is still holding about the creation of the other races, but since the elven gods are also leftovers from an old universe it's unlikely. It can be assumed that the Old Ones fashioned the templates based on the surviving gods.

Speaking of elven gods, the elven pantheon is one of the most active ones in the Fantasy world, as all of them ([[Asuryan]] especially) are actively battling Chaos. As they are now fluffed to have been survivors of the old proto cycle this make sense.

Timelines from the High Elf army book (7th edition is the copy I'm looking at) say that a cycle lasts longer then 4 and a half thousand years. For a point of reference the bronze age was roughly 4,000 years ago.