History Characters / Warhammer40000XenoRaces

* MinorMajorCharacter: They don't have models, rules, and barely appear in ''[=WH40K=]'' media, but they are described in background fluff as having a powerful, organized empire in the Segmentum Pacificus the size of the [[NegativeSpaceWedgie Eye of Terror]], just a couple light-years from Holy Terra.

** Subverted with the Q'rol. Despite having an empire the size of the Eye of Terror, they don't really do much evil.

[[folder:Q'rol]]

* AchillesHeel: Warp technology remains outside of their grasp, but they do plan on
* TheGhost: Have no models, no rules, no playbooks, and aren't mentioned in most modern media.
* HiveMind: Comes with giant alien bees.

* MinorMajorCharacter: They don't have models, rules, and barely appear in WH40K media, but they are described in background fluff as having a powerful, organized empire in the Segmentum Pacificus the size of the [[NegativeSpaceWedgie Eye of Terror]], just a couple light-years from HolyTerra.

* InsectoidAliens: The Q'orl are large, eight-legged arthropods with probosces instead of hinged mouths, and live in a society divided between many biological castes and led by queens.

* StarfishLanguage: The Q'orl communicate primarily through pheromones released from pits on their shoulders.

[[folder:Stryxis]]
A race of merchants, wanderers and traders, the Stryxis can be met in the Koronus Expanse. They are infamous for their unpredictable nature, equally willing to partake in both mutually beneficial trade and piracy or slavery.

* XenomorphXerox: Black chitin like “skin”; check. A prehensile bladed tail; check. An eyeless face and maw filled with sharp teeth; check.

* AlienAnimals: They're essentially psychic alien cats somewhere between a lynx and a housecat in appearance, although they've never been sated to have any particular connection to Earth cats or, indeed, to terrestrial life of any sort.

In time, the Old Ones came into conflict with an alien race called the Necrontyr; while the Necrontyr were a powerful force themselves, they were not a match for the Old Ones and were easily confined to their world; however, unknown to the Old Ones, the Necrontyr managed to strike a terrible pact with an entity living inside their sun, turning themselves into soulless machines in exchange for power and the aid of its godlike kin. The resulting conflict shook the galaxy, and when the dust settled the Old Ones were no more and the galaxy lay in tattered ruins.

* AlienAnimals: They're essentially psychic alien cats somewhere between a lynx and a housecat in appearance, although they've never been sated to have any particular connection Earth cats or, indeed, to terrestrial life of any sort.

!!Animals and Monsters
[[folder:Ambulls]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ambull.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:An ambull with borewyrm larvae.]]

Ambulls are large, burrowing arthropod predators that were spread throughout the Imperium in a failed attempt at domestication and established large populations on multiple worlds. Ambulls debuted in the game's first edition, and have since appeared sporadically in side material.

* BigCreepyCrawlies: They resemble arthropods with the size and build of gorillas.
* ExtremeOmnivore: Ambulls are primarily carnivores, but at need can feed on anything, up to and including plasma.
* FantasticLivestock: They're a failed attempt at this. Their flesh is edible and they thrive in barren environments, so they were spread through the Imperium with the idea of using them as livestock on desert planets. However, their extreme aggressiveness and predatory habits made them very difficult to control, while their ability to dig through nearly any substance made keeping them corralled impossible. Consequently, these projects were eventually discontinued, although not before enough ambulls escaped into the wild to establish large feral populations throughout the galaxy.
* FastTunnelling: Ambulls can dig rapidly enough to use this as a method to pursue prey on the surface.
* FullConversionCyborg: Ambots are created by taking the central nervous systems of ambulls, implanting them with neural controllers, and wiring them in mechanical shells modeled after the ambulls' natural bodies; the resulting cyborg is then mainly used for excavation. This allows ambots to retain their natural digging instincts while benefiting from greater mechanical strength, endurance and built-in tools. Like servitors, this process also allows their Mechanicum creators to circumvent the Imperium's ban on AI.
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[[folder:Gyrinx]]
Feline beings with innate psychic powers, gyrinx often form strong bonds with psykers and travel alongside them.

* AlienAnimals: They're essentially psychic alien cats somewhere between a lynx and a housecat in appearance, although they've never been sated to have any particular connection Earth cats or, indeed, to terrestrial life of any sort.
* BondCreatures: Gyrinx are feline creatures who tend to be drawn to sapient psykers, with whom they form strong lifelong bonds.
* CatsAreMagic: Gyrinx are alien felines with minor psychic powers and the innate ability to form {{Familiar}} bonds with psykers.
* {{Familiar}}: Gyrinx often form mental bonds with aeldari and human psykers, enhancing the psyker's mental abilities from their PsychicPowers to their basic speed of thought and sharing perceptions and information.
* UncattyResemblance: Gyrinx who become bonded to psykers tend to adopt their masters' behavioral quirks, eventually coming to closely mimic their movements, gaits and expressions.

[[folder:Jokaero]]
[[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jokaero_weaponsmith.png]]

Apelike creatures with a mysterious affinity for technology, the Jokaero are otherwise seemingly normal, if fairly intelligent, animals. This status has allowed them to skirt around the Imperium's xenophobia, and the tinkering apes are often kept among the retinues of powerful people for their skill in making and repairing technological artifacts.

* AlienAnimals: They're almost identical to orangutans. Aside from their knowledge of technology, they're pretty much just apes, even though they were created millennia before earth apes by the [[AbusivePrecursors Old Ones]].
* BunnyEarsLawyer: While their exact depiction [[DependingOnTheWriter varies depending on the background material]], the Jokaero most commonly shown to be amazing artisans with peerless technical knowledge, creating incredible devices for the Imperium (most famously the powerful digital weapons used by some Inquisitors), yet many xenobiologists believe that they aren't even sapient with everything they create [[GeneticMemory coded directly into their genes]].
* EldritchStarship: Jokaero-made vessels tend to resemble polyhedral, open-frame lattices of metal that move as a result of their shape directly interacting with galaxy-spanning currents of energy that only the jokaero seem able to perceive. Their jokaero crews steer them by making physical alterations to the vessel's shape.
* FingerFirearms: Jokaero weapons, such as lasguns, plasma guns or needle weapons, are often miniaturized and intended to be worn as rings. They're often indistinguishable from normal jewelry until fired.
* GadgeteerGenius: Despite being, to all external appearances, cyborg orangutans, the Jokaero can create amazing technological marvels and there is no problem that they cannot solve by analyzing it long enough. Unfortunately, they also act like monkeys as well, so there's no telling whether they will cobble together a ring that doubles as an anti-matter gun capable of leveling a city block, or a [[MundaneUtility nuclear-powered banana peeler]]. They also happen to be natural escape artists, which can lead to a somewhat comical situation should anyone try to imprison them as their Gadgeteer Genius nature conflicts with their desire for freedom -- it's fairly common for a Jokaero to escape a prison cell, tinker with the cell to fix its technical shortcomings, and then become trapped by their own improved prison.
* GeneticMemory: The dominant line of thinking among Imperial scholars is that the jokaero don't truly, consciously understand the processes they use or the things they make; rather, the Old Ones coded their technological affinity into their genes, and all of their modern knowledge and aptitude is purely instinctual.
* IdiotSavant: Despite being thought to have nothing more than animal intelligence, the Jokaero have an instinctive understanding of technology that is thought to be encoded into their biology at a genetic level. Their prestigious technical abilities coupled with this limited intelligence has led to the Jokaero being barely tolerated by Imperial authorities with a number of more liberal Inquisitors of the Ordo Xenos recruiting the aliens into their retinues to provide them with advanced equipment. The LighterAndSofter ''Literature/WarhammerAdventures'' series presents them as smart enough to understand Gothic (and a chapter from that individual's perspective shows that he thinks humans are the stupid ones), but can't speak it; he does manage to talk to the local Tech Priest via what's essentially Bluetooth, though.
* ImpossibleGenius: Jokaero can take the most rudimentary of technological salvage and turn it into frighteningly effective pieces of functional technology that may not even resemble the bits it's cobbled together from. Left to their own devices, a group of Jokaero can turn a pile of junk and broken machinery into anything from a working starship to a laser cannon.

!!Sapient Races
[[folder:The Old Ones]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/old_ones_40k.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:One of the only known depictions of the Old Ones.]]

Little is known with certainty of the ancient people known to a few scholars and savants as the Old Ones, but ancient legends and fragmentary artifacts describe them as having been the first sapient beings to ever exist in the galaxy. Their mastery of technology and Warp-lore eclipsed those of all modern races and cultures, making them into beings that, from the perspective of everyone else, were functionally gods. The Old Ones are also believed to have experimented freely on the lifeforms they encountered -- the Aeldari, Orks and Jokaero are all thought to have been their creations.\\
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In time, the Old Ones came into conflict with an alien race called the Necrontyr; while the Necrontyr were a powerful force themselves, they were not a match for the Old Ones and were easily confined to their world; however, unknown to the Old Ones, the Necrontyr managed to strike a terrible pact with an entity living inside their sun, turning themselves into soulless machines in exchange for power and the aid of its godlike kin. The resulting conflict shook the galaxy, and when the dust settled the Old Ones were no more and the galaxy lay in tattered ruins.

* TheGhost: The Old Ones are mentioned often, and their effects on the galaxy -- ranging from their surviving created races to remnant artifacts and super weapons -- turn up with some regularity, but the Old Ones themselves have never been seen or described in any detail.
* {{Gotterdammerung}}: The godlike Old Ones and their empire were destroyed in the a cataclysmic, galaxy-sundering conflict with the Necrons and their C'tan masters, remembered in the lore of a few particularly ancient cultures as the War in Heaven.
* {{Precursors}}: The Old Ones are believed to have been the first sapient creatures to evolve in the galaxy. They created and guided many of the younger races of the galaxy such as the Aeldari, Orks and Jokaero, but were wiped out in a war against the Necrontyr and their C'tan masters.
* ShroudedInMyth: While the basic outline of the Old Ones and their history -- they existed a long time ago, wielded incredible power, made the Aeldari, Orks and some others, and were destroyed by the C'tan and Necrontyr -- is well-established, much else about them is deliberately obscure. Their precise nature, appearance and powers were never made clear, and background material often presents in-universe information about them as hopelessly mired in hundreds of millennia's worth of allegory, mistranscribing, and mythologizing. To modern galactics, little is known of their godlike predecessors, and every lead on their true nature simply obfuscates the picture and raises further questions.
* SufficientlyAdvancedAlien: In theory, the Old Ones were simply a physical, mortal race like all others, and their powers were simply the fruit of technology and of Warp manipulation -- which, while supernatural in nature, is in theory accessible to most sapient beings. However, their mastery of both fields was immense, and has never been equaled by anybody else. The Old Ones could and did shape worlds, create sapient species, and build machines and weapons capable of cataclysmic destruction; from the point of view of even the ancient Aeldari, they might as well have been gods.

!!The Slann
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/slann_40k.jpg]]

An ancient amphibious species who claim to be the most ancient sapient species in the galaxy. The Old Slann once ruled the stars, seeding worlds with life and teaching much of technology and Warp-lore to younger species, but have since faded and dwindled into only a few lingering holdouts that still wield terribly power from their days of glory.\\
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The Slann were a feature of the game's first edition, when it was still called ''Rogue Trader'', and served as a space-age version of the Slann as they then existed in ''Fantasy''. Out-of-universe, they're the earliest iteration of the Old Ones; as the setting changed as the editions went by, the Old Slann were reworked into the modern game's precursor race, while the modern holdouts ceased to be mentioned.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: The Slann featured fairly prominently in the first few editions of the game, but ceased to appear as the setting evolved.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The Slann are very representative of the earliest incarnations of ''Warhammer 40,000'', when it was more strictly ''Fantasy'' in space, the Gods of Chaos didn't yet exist, and background lore often differed significantly from its modern iterations, and represent the older incarnation of the ''Fantasy'' Slann as a wider species with strong martial traditions instead of a small number of sterile, barely mobile archwizards. As both settings evolved, the Slann ceased to either resemble their ''Fantasy'' counterparts or fit into the ''40k'' setting, the Old Slann of both worlds were renamed the Old Ones and moved firmly into the ancient past, and ''40k''[='s=] modern Slann remnants were quietly dropped.
* FrogMen: Physically, the Slann resemble large humanoid frogs, and retain a preference for warm, damp environments.
* ProudWarriorRace: The Slann are a highly martial race, and place a great deal of value on military service in their warbands. They fight for love of fighting, and value gallant defeats as much as victories, and most see a death in pitched battle as a perfectly honorable and desirable way to die.
* VestigialEmpire: In contrast to the modern Old Ones, which were utterly destroyed in a cataclysmic war, the Old Slann simply faded and declined over time, eventually becoming reduced to a small number of surviving colonies and outposts clinging to tattered remnants of their ancient power and glory.

[[folder:Rak'Gol]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rak_gol_marauder.png]]
A race of pirates and raiders, Rak'Gol populate the Koronus Expanse. These creatures attack unprovoked, and seem to care for nothing but slaughter. They are a relatively new threat, believed to originate from uncharted space.

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: The only inter-race interaction that Rak'Gol care about is combat. They make no effort to communicate, and attack everyone on sight.
* TheBattlestar: Two of their ship classes, ''Mangler'' and ''Butcher'', house launch bays for assault boats.
* BoardingParty: They ''love'' boarding. Their ships launch exclusively boarding torpedoes, and their hangars carry only assault boats. They almost never flee, and will continue to send boarders until either they or their enemies are all dead.
* {{Cyborg}}: Most Rak'Gol use crude bionic implants to enhance their performance. The higher the creature's rank, the more augmentations it typically will have.
* ILoveNuclearPower: Their [[PlanetOfHats hat]] as a race is usage of nuclear-powered everything. They widely use rad-beams as portable weapon, their ships fly on {{Orion Drive}}s, their [[EnergyWeapon lance]] equivalent, Roaring Beam, is ship-sized rad-beam, and they even have nuclear-powered ''melee weapons''. It helps that they are either immune to radiation, or are sturdy enough to ignore it.
* InsufficientlyAdvancedAlien: They can travel through warp, sure, but all of their other technology is primitive at best. Their most advanced non-warp technology are rad-beams, that no other race would use due to the massive radiation pollution[[note]]Imperium used these during the Great Crusade, but only as GodzillaThreshold[[/note]]. It's implied that they got these warp drives from someone else.
* MoreDakka: Batteries of so-called Howler Cannons are their warships' main weapons. They are relatively small, but numerous and fast-firing guns, highly effective on short range. There is a hand-held variant, called "howler rifle". They also employ an incredible number of turrets on their warships, making their light cruisers better protected from small crafts than other races' ''battleships''.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Their starships classes include ''Mangler'', ''Mauler'', and ''[[TheButcher Butcher]]''.
* OrionDrive: Their ships use "fission-pulse" drives, powered by atomic reactors. As such, Rak'Gol ships have high speed, but their maneuverability leaves much to be desired. Also, these drives irradiate the ship so much that other races can't stay inside of them for too long.
* RunningOnAllFours: They can run on all... eight, when chasing a prey.
* StarfishLanguage: Unlike almost every other race in the setting, Rak'Gol speak in rasps and screeches, and show no interest in communicating with anyone else.

* ImpossibleGenius: Jokaero can take the most rudimentary of technological salvage and turn it into frighteningly effective pieces of functional technology that may not even resemble the bits it's cobbled together from. Left to their own devices, a group of Jokaero can turn a pile of junk and broken machinery into anything from a working starship to a laser cannon

* ShroudedInMyth: The basic outline of the Old Ones and their history -- existed a long time ago, wielded incredible power, made the Aeldari, Orks and some others, were destroyed by the C'tan and Necrontyr -- is well-established, much else about them is deliberately obscure. Their precise nature, appearance and powers were never made clear, and background material often presents in-universe information about them as hopelessly mired in hundreds of millennia's worth of allegory, mistranscribing, and mythologizing. To modern galactics, little is known of their godlike predecessors, and every lead on their true nature simply obfuscates the picture and raises further questions.

* {{Precursors}}: The Old Ones, who are believed to be the first sentient creatures to evolve in the galaxy. They created and guided many of the younger races of the galaxy such as the Aeldari, Orks and Jokaero, but are thought to have been wiped out in a war against the Necrontyr and their C'tan masters.

[[folder:Rak'Gol]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rak_gol_marauder.png]]
A race of pirates and raiders, Rak'Gol populate the Koronus Expanse. These creatures attack unprovoked, and seem to care for nothing but slaughter. They are a relatively new threat, believed to originate from uncharted space.

* InsufficientlyAdvancedAlien: They can travel through warp, sure, but all of their other technology is primitive at best. Their most advanced non-warp technology are rad-beams, that no other race would use due to the massive radiation pollution[[note]]Imperium used these during The Great Crusade, but only as GodzillaThreshold[[/note]]. It's implied that they got these warp drives from someone else.
* MoreDakka: Batteries of so-called Howler Cannons are their warships' main weapon. They are relatively small, but numerous and fast-firing guns, highly effective on short range. There is a hand-held variant, called "howler rifle". They also employ an incredible number of turrets on their warships, making their light cruisers better protected from small crafts than other races' ''battleships''.

* OrionDrive: Their ships use "fission-pulse" drives, powered by atomic reactors. As such, Rak'Gol ships has high speed, but their maneuverability leaves much to be desired. Also, these drives irradiate the ship so much, that other races can't stay inside of them for too long.
* RunningOnAllFours: They can run on all… eight, when chasing a prey.

* ArtEvolution: The Enslavers' first decision in the ''Rogue Trader'' core book depicted them as roughly pear-shaped, wrinkled things with a single huge eye on their upper lobe and a cluster of short tentacles dangling from their lower body, in addition to a pair of longer, squid-like arms. From 3rd Edition on, they're instead shown as floating sac-like beings, with a small, chitin-covered head on their front bearing many small eyes and a distinct mouth.

* BondCreatures: Gyrinx are feline creatures who tend to be drawn to sapient psykers, with whom they form strong lifelong bonds.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: While their exact depiction [[DependingOnTheWriter varies depending on the background material]], the Jokaero most commonly shown to be amazing artisans with peerless technical knowledge, creating incredible devices for the Imperium (most famously the powerful digital weapons used by some Inquisitors), yet many xenobiologists believe that they aren't even sapient with everything they create [[GeneticMemory coded directly into their genes]].

** In third edition, the Hrud were rough expies of ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'''s Skaven, a race of [[RodentsOfUnusualSize rat-men]]. By fourth edition, they had been {{Ret Con}}ned into creatures with large eyes and exoskeletons. They still retain the aspect of sentient vermin, closely associated with trash and decay.

* ExtremeOmnivore: Ambulls are primarily carnivores, but at need can feed on anything, up to and including plasma.
* {{Familiar}}:
** Gyrinx often form mental bonds with aeldari and human psykers, enhancing the psyker's mental abilities from their PsychicPowers to their basic speed of thought and sharing perceptions and information.
** Wyvachs are small dragon-like animals that can form similar bonds with pyskers. A wyvach's master can see and hear through its familiar's eyes and ears, but if the two are separated for extended periods of time they become physically and psychologically weakened.
* FantasticLivestock:
** Grox are elephant-sized, extremely ill-tempered and aggressive reptiles that are widely farmed as the Imperium's primary source of meat. Farming grox requires them to be lobotomized, sedated through drugs or controlled through implants in their brains to tamp down on their intense territoriality; the Imperium goes through this trouble because grox meat is very good and nutritious, and because the creatures can live on diets of unpalatable roughage and even on dirt for short periods.
** Ambulls, giant four-limbed insectoids with apelike gaits, are a failed attempt at this. Their flesh is edible and they thrive in barren environments, so they were spread through the Imperium with the idea of using them as livestock on desert planets. However, their extreme aggressiveness and predatory habits made them very difficult to control, while their ability to dig through nearly any substance made keeping them corralled impossible. Consequently, these projects were eventually discontinued, although not before enough ambulls escaped into the wild to establish large feral populations throughout the galaxy.
* FingerFirearms: Jokaero weapons, such as lasguns, plasma guns or needle weapons, are often miniaturized and intended to be worn as rings. They're often indistinguishable from normal jewelry until fired.
* GadgeteerGenius: Despite being, to all external appearances, cyborg orangutans, the Jokaero are able to create amazing technological marvels and there is no problem that they cannot solve by analysing it long enough. Unfortunately, they also act like monkeys as well, so there's no telling whether they will cobble together a ring that doubles as an anti-matter gun capable of leveling a city block, or a [[MundaneUtility nuclear-powered banana peeler]]. They also happen to be natural escape artists, which can lead to a somewhat comical situation should anyone try to imprison them as their Gadgeteer Genius nature conflicts with their desire for freedom -- it's fairly common for a Jokaero to escape a prison cell, tinker with the cell to fix its technical shortcomings, then become trapped by their own improved prison.

* IdiotSavant: Despite being thought to have nothing more than animal intelligence, the Jokaero have an instinctive understanding of technology that is thought to be encoded into their biology at a genetic level. Their prestigious technical abilities coupled with this limited intelligence has led to the Jokaero being barely tolerated by Imperial authorities with a number of more liberal Inquisitors of the Ordo Xenos recruiting the aliens into their retinues to provide them with advanced equipment. The LighterAndSofter ''Literature/WarhammerAdventures'' series presents them as smart enough to understand Gothic (and a chapter from that individual's perspective shows that he thinks humans are the stupid ones), but can't speak it; he does manage to talk to the local Tech Priest via what's essentially Bluetooth, though.

* UncattyResemblance: Gyrinx who become bonded to psykers tend to adopt their masters' behavioral quirks, eventually coming to closely mimic their movements, gaits and expressions.

The alien factions in ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' are treated as...well, alien. Mankind had made non-aggression pacts with a number of alien races during the Age of Technology, but when human civilization fell apart during the Age of Strife, many of these aliens turned on human worlds and attacked them for plunder or simple destruction. A fundamental tenet of the Emperor's rise to power was the superiority of humans to all things alien. In the time since his interment in the Golden Throne, this has become a fundamental part of the Imperial Creed, albeit exaggerated from the Emperor's own views. A level of xenophobia which ranges from suspicion to virulent and violent hatred is cultivated in all parts of the Imperium, and "Fear the alien" and "Suffer not the alien to live" are common themes and catchphrases. The Inquisition's Ordo Xenos was specifically created to study alien races to discover weaknesses the Imperium can take advantage of, and works to crush or subvert alien influence on Imperial worlds or worlds the Imperium would like to control. They also work with the Deathwatch, a specialized division of the Space Marines consisting of Marines from many different chapters who have shown particular skill in fighting aliens.

* BatPeople: The khrave resemble humanoid carnivorous bats, with faces framed by winglike ears and mouths filled with fangs. Most are flightless, simply having two sets of humanoid arms, but some possess large wings as an additional pair of limbs.

* HumansByAnyOtherName: Humans are ''mon-keigh''[[note]]means "Lesser Being to be Destroyed", derived from the name of the legendary cannibalistic ogre-like creatures who invaded and subjugated Eldar lands before being wiped out the Eldar hero Elronhir[[/note]] to the Eldar, ''Gue'la''[[note]]just means "Human"[[/note]], ''Gue'vesa''[[note]]means "Human Helper", refers to humans who have embraced the Greater Good[[/note]], and ''Gue'ron'sha''[[note]]Refers to Space Marines, literally means "created human weapon"[[/note]] to the T'au, '' 'umiez'' or '' 'oomiez'' to the Orks, and the living to the Necrons. The nomadic species called the Fra’al apparently call humans '' Imp’Rals''. We're not sure what the Tyranids call us but we think it's something along the lines of "[[ToServeMan tasty]]".

* {{Precursors}}: The Old Ones, who are believed to be the first sentient creatures to evolve in the galaxy. The Old Ones created and guided many of the younger races of the galaxy such as the Aeldari, Orks and Jokaero, but are thought to have been wiped out in a war between the Necrontyr and their C'tan masters.
* PeeveGoblins: Popular folklore in Imperial hive cities and spaceship crews attributes "the bendies" (a common name for the Hrud, a species of highly secretive, diminutive aliens who often secretly inhabit other species' structures) with whatever goes wrong. Missing item? The bendies took it. A machine breaks? The bendies did it. Someone vanishes? The bendies took him.

* HumansByAnyOtherName: Humans are ''mon-keigh''[[note]]means "Lesser Being to be Destroyed", derived from the name of the legendary cannibalistic ogre-like creatures who invaded and subjugated Eldar lands before being wiped out the Eldar hero Elronhir[[/note]] to the Eldar, ''Gue'la''[[note]]just means "Human"[[/note]], ''Gue'vesa''[[note]]means "Human Helper", refers to humans who have embraced the Greater Good[[/note]], and ''Gue'ron'sha[[note]]Refers to Space Marines, literally means "created human weapon"[[/note]] to the T'au, '' 'umiez'' or '' 'oomiez'' to the Orks, and the living to the Necrons. The nomadic species called the Fra’al apparently call humans '' Imp’Rals''. We're not sure what the Tyranids call us but we think it's something along the lines of "[[ToServeMan tasty]]".

* HumansByAnyOtherName: Humans are ''mon-keigh''[[note]]means "Lesser Being to be Destroyed", derived from the name of the legendary cannibalistic ogre-like creatures who invaded and subjugated Eldar lands before being wiped out the Eldar hero Elronhir[[/note]] to the Eldar, ''Gue'la''[[note]]just means "Human"[[/note]] or ''Gue'vesa''[[note]]means "Human Helper", refers to humans who have embraced the Greater Good[[/note]] to the T'au, '' 'umiez'' or '' 'oomiez'' to the Orks, and the living to the Necrons. The nomadic species called the Fra’al apparently call humans '' Imp’Rals''. We're not sure what the Tyranids call us but we think it's something along the lines of "[[ToServeMan tasty]]".

* GadgeteerGenius: Despite being, to all external appearances, cyborg orangutans, the Jokaero are able to create amazing technological marvels and there is no problem that they cannot solve by analysing it long enough. Unfortunately, they also act like monkeys as well, so there's no telling whether they will cobble together a ring that doubles as an anti-matter gun capable of leveling a city block, or a [[MundaneUtility nuclear-powered banana peeler]]. They also happen to be natural escape artists, which can lead to a somewhat comical situation should anyone try to imprison them as their Gadgeteer Genius nature conflicts with their desire for freedom--it's fairly common for a Jokaero to escape a prison cell, tinker with the cell to fix its technical shortcomings, then become trapped by their own improved prison.

* TheDreaded: While barely mentioned in modern lore, in part because everything about them were sealed after the conflicts against them, the Rangda faced by the Imperium in the Rangdan Xenocides during the Great Crusade were apparently a threat of unprecedented proportions, being so nightmarishly powerful, advanced, dangerous and hostile to Humanity (and everyone else) the wars against them rivalled that of the Horus Heresy. They possessed fleets spearheaded by enormous battle-moons to rival the Imperial Armada, and fielded armies which matched and even mauled the Space Marine Legions - in fact, two Space Marine legions (the II and XI Legions) and their Primarchs were implied to have been wiped out or purged because of events that had to do with the Xenocides, and three more (including the Dark Angels and the Space Wolves) were decimated to the point they barely or never recovered by the time of the Horus Heresy. Nearly half the Imperium was destroyed in the Rangda's invasions, and things got so bad the Emperor had to directly intervene, and it is implied the Emperor had to [[GodzillaThreshold temporarily release]] the ''[[CapturedSuperEntity Void]] [[EldritchAbomination Dragon]]'' shard imprisoned in the [[ExtranormalPrison Noctis Labyrinth]] on Mars and let it destroy an entire star cluster to finally turn the war in the Imperium's favour. Once the Rangdan were finally defeated, the Emperor ordered [[{{Unperson}} all historical record of their monstrous race to be wiped]], such was the psychological and cultural scars that they inflicted on humankind; a very telling fact, given that not even the insidious Drukhari received this treatment.

* LizardFolk:
** The Loxatl are a minor race of quadrupedal mercenaries who resemble a cross between a salamander and a komodo dragon.
** The Rak'Gol are large, eight-limbed reptilian creatures with thick hides and a strong, PrehensileTail.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: The Rangda is barely mentioned in modern day 40K lore and even in the 30K Great Crusade/Horus Heresy narrative, on account of all information about the Rangdan Xenocides being sealed, but they were a big deal back in the day and had a major impact in events afterwards. For one thing, they were so nightmarishly powerful, advanced and dangerous that during the conflict against the Rangda, the Xenos nearly wiped out half the Imperium, badly decimated at least three Space Marine legions (notably the Dark Angels and the Space Wolves), and is implied to have done ''something'' to two other Legions (the Second and Eleventh) and their Primarchs that both had to be purged down to the very memories of their existence for the sake of Humanity. Even after the Rangda were defeated, the fallout from the conflict would have varying level of consequences for everyone - the Dark Angels for example lost their status as the most numerous and notable Legion due to the heavy losses they sustained, allowing their numbers to be surpassed by the likes of the Ultramarines and the Luna Wolves, and the expunging of the two lost Legions would plant seeds of doubt in some Primarchs that led to them turing traitor against the Imperium in the Horus Heresy.

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Due to the Imperium's xenophobia and the attitudes most aliens have toward humans, cooperation between humans and alien races tends to be strained at best and generally only occurs when a greater threat forces the two sides to work together. Rogue Traders and radical Inquisitors will often have better relations with aliens, making frequent use of xenos Private Military Contractors. In-game, the strained relations between such allies was the essential meaning of the "Allies of Convenience" and "Desperate Allies" levels in the Allies matrix of the 6th and 7th Edition rules. Allies at these levels were treated as enemy units, but couldn't be acted against by your primary detachment; they fought alongside each other but that's it. The difference was that at the Desperate Allies level, a die roll could potentially paralyze your forces, representing them being so paranoid about their "allies" that they'd spend all their time watching each other for betrayal instead of the real opponent.

* TheDreaded: While barely mentioned in modern lore, in part because everything about them were sealed after the conflicts against them, the Rangda faced by the Imperium in the Rangdan Xenocides during the Great Crusade were apparently a threat of unprecedented proportions, being so nightmarishly powerful, advanced, dangerous and hostile to Humanity (and everyone else) the wars against them rivalled that of the Horus Heresy. They possessed fleets spearheaded by enormous battle-moons to rival the Imperial Armada, and fielded armies which matched and even mauled the Space Marine Legions - in fact, two Space Marine legions (the II and XI Legions) and their Primarchs were implied to have been wiped out or purged because of events that had to do with the Xenocides, and three more (including the Dark Angels and the Space Wolves) were decimated to the point they barely or never recovered by the time of the Horus Heresy. Nearly half the Imperium was destroyed in the Rangda's invasions, and things got so bad the Emperor had to directly intervene, and it is implied the Emperor had to [[GodzillaThreshold temporarily release]] the ''[[CapturedSuperEntity Void]] [[EldritchAbomination Dragon]]'' shard imprisoned in the [[ExtranormalPrison Noctis Labyrinth]] on Mars and let it destroy an entire star cluster to finally turn the war in the Imperium's favour.

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: The [[JokeCharacter Jokaero]] are short, heavy-set, orange-furred xenos who resemble the orangutans of ancient Terra. The race rarely has much of a presence on the tabletop, beyond a single model for [[StateSec Inquisitorial]] forces, but are much loved by many veteran players.