The Fall of the Eldar

Brought to us from the guys over at 40k wiki, is the next installment of their 40k narrative of the Warhammer 40k lore. This is number 9 out of a scheduled 20 videos being worked on.




via Raven Rock Entertainment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko5Kx-GQVFM&list=PLuTJkzZIAZK9vOsPiJ1Som4YLjuMFzLca&index=10&t=0s

The end of the Age of Strife was marked by a great flash of light seen across the galaxy. Within days of this event, the Warp Storms which had isolated the worlds of the galaxy for thousands of years at last began to dissipate, allowing the Emperor to begin his Great Crusade.

But the cause of that flash was the birth within the Immaterium of a terrible new entity of amoral hedonism called Slaanesh, the Dark Prince of Chaos. The price for the birth of the youngest of the Chaos Gods was nothing less than the near-extinction of the once immortal race known as the Aeldari.

The Aeldari had ruled a vast empire that was the technologically most powerful of the starfaring peoples of the Milky Way. But eons of excess and the uncontrolled pursuit of dark pleasures had slowly twisted their once great civilization into something horrific. Such wanton ways had slowly gestated a dark new being within the Empyrean. In one brief moment almost the entirety of the Aeldari species was eradicated by the psychic birth scream of this entity, which also created the great Warp rift called the Eye of Terror.

Yet some of the Aeldari survived, slowly evolving into distinct new factions – Exodites, Craftworld Asuryani, Drukhari and Harlequins—whose lifestyles differed based on their own adaptations to avoid the pull of Slaanesh upon their souls.

The Aeldari would prove to be both great foes of the newborn Imperium of Man as well as the strongest allies Humanity would ever know in the war to come against Slaanesh and its corrupt kin, who hungered within the Warp for the souls of Mankind…