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>The Old Ones' prized witch pets, the Slan, which had evaded combat against the Nectontyr using the Webway alongside their masters, found themselves forced to face us least we prevail murdering their beloved creators.
>The Slan, While effective in numbers at defending their masters, simply took too long to reproduce to keep up with the attrition of war against a foe that never fatigues nor dies.
>The Old Ones, in their desperation to save both themselves and their Slan, created disposable thrall species dedicated exclusively to war on their behalf.
>They uplifted the Aeldari, who's perpetual soul and ability to reincarnate from death would serve as their contest to our undeath.
>They created the Krorks, a fungal species who when killed multiply by releasing a cloud of spores which grow into more krorks, and who's reality defying technologies are made functional by only the limitations of their imagination, which presses itself on real-space directly without any use of the Empyrean, giving them the ability to make functional copies of all our technologies which can't be nullified by our empyric-supressing gloom technologies.
>There were so many other horrors, but these two were the most notorious thorns in our sides due to their reproductive capabilities.
>The Old Ones followed up on the creation of their disposable races by the construction of void fortresses able to rend back open the Empyrean which the Void Dragon sealed away.
