Zitat Umbra:
Text, albeit questionable as it is within the book
Xenology (which was penned by a self confessed heretic) speaks of a war between gods,
quite likely the Old Ones and the C'tan. According to this account, only one Old One survived the war -
Qah, the same god worshiped by the
Hrud. Then when the
Fall of the Eldar gave birth to
Slaanesh she at last killed Qah, chopping him into a million pieces and dooming them to linger in the cold of space. It is suggested that these shards of Qah in fact become the Umbra.
--> quite likely ist hier eine Interpretation, keine klare Aussage. Zum Thema "war between gods" kommt gleich noch was nach.
Zitat Old Ones:
The Old Ones also get an partial mention in
Liber Chaotica Slaanesh in the chapter
"Echoes of the Birth" where they are called the
"First Ones". This section covers the Eldar race, stating that they were raised by figures of shadow and light that were an ancient as well as powerful race. These First Ones are said to be the first to have reached into the starry night and to be older than gods yet mortal as well as subject to time. They are said to have left the Eldar and returned to the sky in order to allow their charges to develop over millennia. Afterwards, they returned in strange, vast vessels that were worn and scarred whilst light dim along with their shadows dispersing. This is because they were engaged in an unending war against the Yngir with the First Ones returning to inspect the Eldar and determine whether they were fit for the battle that lay ahead. The First Ones are known to have encouraged their younger race to focus their psychic abilities in order to create warp-derived beings as weapons against the the vampiric gods of starlight. The battle that continued was long and the First Ones dwindled in number to the point that they lost influence among the Eldar. Without their creators' wisdom,
the Eldar's warp-beings changed from sentient weapons into living gods of the Immaterium who were the first of their kind.
--> Old Gods sind nicht deckungsgleich mit Old Ones. Die Old Ones haben den Eldar (und anderen Völkern) beigebracht ihre eigenen warpgeborenen Götter zu erschaffen, die dann später, als die Old Ones weg waren, selbstständig geworden sind.
Artikel Slaanesh enthält zu Qah keine Aussagen.
Meine Analyse der Artikel: Slaanesh hat Qah zerschlagen, der ein Gott der Hrud war. Slaanesh ist als Chaosgott erst durch die Eldar entstanden, als es schon längst keine Old Ones mehr gab und die Eldar-Götter bereits selbständig geworden waren. Aus dieser Zeitfolge ergibt sich, dass Qah potentiell kein Old One ist, sondern ein Old God (siehe Unterscheidung oben).
Die Formulierungen in Xenology und Liber Slaanesh deuten darauf hin, dass es sich um absichtlich ungenaue Aussagen handelt. Die Kombination ergibt aber eben, dass die Old Ones nicht die genannten Götter sind.