>>53481802I've just refined the fake skaven faction-lore i made yesterday and i gotta say....It looks pretty good.
The webway is far larger then the imperium once thought. The skaven's distant ancestors had been living down there ever since the old ones diapered and have been slowly evolving into the highly adapted creatures we see now. the eldar had only even been skimming the webway. A metaphorical ship over an immeasurably deep sea of screaming rats.
Skaven have only been intelligent for for around 100,000 years but their patron diety, the horned rat, aka the skaven god of malice, aka malal who has been crafting up a 13 member strong pantheon composed of things that skaven adore like spite, warpstone exposure, thievery, ect. Their new pantheon has only very recently been made and announced to the whole of skavendom.Now with an actually form of overall leadership Invasion of the galaxy at large is the logical next step.
As each of the new skaven gods (horned rat excluded) are practically newborns who are still growing in power They all seek to eventually eclipse each other which keeps each other in a delicate balance of power
Skaven Psykers are divided between the 13 pantheon members and skaven blanks are made into grey seers of the horned rat, The four primary clans from fantasy still exist by theme but they are not as overwhelmingly prominent as they were in fantasy as their own mini-factions. Warpstone is now a thing that skaven harvest from the deepest sections of the webway because warpstuff leeks into the webway and collects at the bottem (let's just go with that) and they use it to power all their stuff, to keep the lights on and as their primary source of food by using it to grow foods for them to eat.
When they're not coming out of the webway to strip inhabited star systems or to scour the ruins of a concluded battle they will be doing so to storm territory in realspace. to use as a stepping stone to do the same elsewhere.
