Battle fleet gothic eldar6/24/2023 ![]() Of the few survivors of the Pleasure Cults, some remained sane and able. A great warp rift was created, encompassing the entire Eldar empire and creating the Eye of Terror. Most were driven mad, their minds trapped half in the real world and half in the swirling insanity of the Warp. The souls of almost every Eldar were stripped from them in an instant and devoured by the new-born Chaos god. An almighty psychic shockwave scythed across the galaxy. The process lasted for thousands of years, corresponding to mankind's Age of Strife, although when Slaanesh finally came into being, the results with the universe were apocalyptic and sudden. Within the warp the decadent Eldar civilization was giving shape to a Power of Chaos, which grew and grew over thousands of years, getting stronger and more defined until suddenly it sparked into an intelligence – a shatteringly huge and malign intelligence, with an immense and bottomless thirst for Eldar souls. The millennia of Eldar hedonism had made a massive impact in the psychic realm of Chaos. Meanwhile, something terrible was stirring in the Warp. Some Eldar hated what their race had become and left the Homeworlds for the virgin Maiden Worlds, or left on the newly-constructed Craftworlds, leaving the Pleasure Cults to their madness. Sects called Pleasure Cults were formed, dedicated to achieving the highest levels of hedonistic sensation, and their ceremonies and practices became ever more wild, eventually devolving into violence and sacrifice of their own kind. Tradition and order disintegrated as they limited the pursuit of pleasure. The descent into decadence spanned millennia. They began to explore more and more the arts of pleasure, delving ever deeper into hedonism. ![]() With all menial work taken care of for them, the Eldar became indolent and decadent. Life on the Eldar worlds was idyllic, with fantastically sophisticated machines to take care of all labour and manufacturing required, leaving the Eldar free to indulge in other, more aesthetic pursuits. The C'tan and Necrons, ancient foes of the Eldar, were long ago defeated and still remained dormant. The humans were not yet virulently xenophobic and did not have a large domain, and the Tyranid Hive Fleets were unknown. The Eldar lived in relative peace-barbarian races such as the Orks were kept at easily manageable numbers and never had the strength to threaten the might of the Eldar empire. It is the strength of their souls that was one of the causes of their downfall.īefore the Fall, the Eldar had an immense galaxy-spanning empire comprising millions of worlds, larger and more powerful than even the Imperium of Man at the height of its power. They are all latent psychics and have the ability to become very powerful psykers with training. Eldar are able to affect the nether-realm much more than most other races. Similarly, an Eldar's soul is much brighter in the Warp than those of 'lesser' sentients. All of this means that an Eldar experiences the universe and all its sensations to a greatly heightened degree. They are extremely intelligent their thought processes are much faster than a human’s. Their emotions can be so strong that a human’s are merely pale shadows by comparison. Their senses are extremely sharp, able to perceive incredible levels of detail. To understand the reasons for the Fall, you must know something of the Eldar mind and soul.Īn Eldar's mind is incredibly complex. It was an event so terrible that not only did it kill trillions of Eldar, but it breached the gap between real space and the warp, and gave birth to a Chaos God. The origins of the Dark Eldar can be found in the Fall, the great cataclysm that nearly destroyed the entire Eldar race.
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