Talk:Cosmic Otherness/@comment-24053170-20170818204115

In the warhammer 40k verse we have a lot of different factions and races that we all know about and have all been dealt with in some way or another.

Well apparently there was an encounter in the warhammer 40k verse, that not only has no connection to any of the established groups or factions, but doesn't even have any connection to any of the dimensions/realities that the series takes place in either!

Back in the 32nd Millennium, the Imperium discovered something truly alien and foreign, The Echoing Vault, a vast artifact from someplace...else, not from realspace, the Warp, the Webway, or any of the other established dimensions mentioned in the series.

It contained creatures that don't fit into any classification of xenos, true eldritch horrors which they dubbed the Harrowing. The attack of the Harrowing was the single worst battle in the entire Warhammer 40k timeline, even worse then the Horus Heresy. In fact it caused so much damage and death that had the Harrowing not been repelled, it would have actually ended all life in the galaxy.

Thats something that not even the Necrons or the Tyranids have managed to accomplish, and they have been trying almost forever to do so.

This conflict was awful, so destructive, so violent, that all records of it have been purged from both written records and memory as well.

And whats even worse? The Imperium didn't win the conflict. they merely repelled the Harrowing but didn't actually defeat them...because they couldn't.

The Harrowing or whatever they truly are, still exist and there is nothing that anyone could truly do to stop them if they returned.

Whatever they are, they are from outside of the warhammer 40k verse. Something that doesn't belong anywhere in it. They may even be from an entirely different universe or possibly from beyond creation itself....

They are the only examples of something that fits Cosmic Otherness in a series filled with creatures and beasts that only belong in the realm of nightmares.