Skin colour tends to vary a great deal, with blue and green being the most common, and yellow being well-represented. They are able to draw oxygen from water or other poorly oxygenated atmospheres directly through their skin and are also quite comfortable in watery surroundings. The Slann had originally evolved from amphibian stock and their appearance demonstrates their ancestry, as their hands are long as well as webbed with cool, moist skins, along with large heads and protruding eyes. During this time, the Old Slann not only taught the Eldar of the dangers of the Warp but also of its benefits.īy subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Some of the Eldar heeded their warnings, leaving their homeworlds for the Craftworlds. The Slann even forewarned the Eldar of the dangers they would face in the future, including the cataclysmic Fall. It is known that they were conscious of the existence of Warp Entities, which they called the Powers of Chaos. What their true reasons for doing so is unknown some believe that the Slann discovered some unknown secret of the cosmos or a spiritual truth or even gained a supreme mystical insight. This was followed by a retirement from active affairs in the galaxy and they engaged in a long period of indolence as well as introspection. Instead, it was believed that they had a sudden change in their racial motivations that led to them abandoning any desire for physical conquest or power.
There are no records of destructive wars or disasters that befell their empire.
The reasons for this change in behavior were not known. Thousands of years before mankind‘s first forays into space, the ancient Slann empire began to collapse. As their civilization dwindled, the pace of their empire slowed and they largely abandoned their genetic experiments. Through this contact, the Eldar learned many of the Old Slann’s arcane secrets of the universe. In this distant past, the Slann were known as the greatest of the spacefaring races and encountered the Eldar. Some credit the Slann with creating the modern races in the galaxy. Over the course of millennia, they experimented and played with the galaxy in this manner. On these they eradicated or moved dangerous species whilst seeding many worlds with promising stock. They encouraged the evolutionary process on countless worlds. At the height of their empire, they discovered and nurtured many primitive creatures. The Slann, also known as the Old Slann and as Slanni, are a sentient reptilian or amphibian alien species.Īmong all the races of the galaxy, the Slann claim to be one of the oldest, who evolved, matured and spread throughout space hundreds of thousands of years ago. Primogenitors who ruled the galaxy in the beginning – The Slann. Today we speak of the authors of life in both 40K and beyond.
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