Dark Eldar
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"I will never forget what I saw at Obsidian Station. The bones of five thousand brave men lay scattered about the winding corridors. Their blood was slick upon the walls and floors of the dormitories. Their innards were hung from control panels like grotesque decorations of some insane celebration. But not a single skull was to be found; taken as sick trophies by these despicable attackers." - Inquisitor Absolvus
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[edit] Dark Eldar
[edit] Dark Eldar Traditions and Practices
Over time, Dark Eldar begin to suffer more and more from The Thirst. They develop an all-consuming and ever-increasing need to drink the souls of other beings. It is postulated that the cause of this is the Chaos God Slaanesh, the Great Enemy of the Eldar, who leeches the soul-essence of the Dark Eldar while they still live. Dark Eldar drink souls to stave off this leeching - perhaps by sating the thirst of Slaanesh, or perhaps by replenishing the essence of their own souls with that of the consumed one. Slaanesh will also consume the souls of Dark Eldar whole should they die. Dark Eldar are long-lived but not immortal; drinking souls has a rejuvinating effect that reverses aging, thus Dark Eldar need not fear falling into the clutches of Slaanesh due to death from old age, if they have a constant supply of souls. The usual source of souls are those of the many captives taken during Dark Eldar raids.
(The Thirst is the term used by Eldar to describe the constant, slow drain of their soul energies by Slaanesh, the Chaos God born from their hedonistic social collapse. Because Slaanesh was created by the Eldar in specific, it has a special connection with their soul energies. Therefore, even though the Eldar exist in the Materium, Slaanesh is still able to slowly feed on their souls, and once an Eldar's soul is separated from its body and returns to the Immaterium, Slaanesh consumes it in it's entirety, torturing the fallen Eldar for all eternity.
The Eldar combat The Thirst by encasing their souls in crystals, and adding the souls of their fallen brethren to the Infinity Circuit to prevent them from falling into the hands of Slaanesh.
The Dark Eldar have no such safeguards, and as such they traveled to The Webway, a dimension of their creation in between the Materium and Immaterium, where The Thirst is reduced as much as possible. It does still affect them, however, and so they go on raids frequently to collect slaves from which to harvest soul energy to replenish their own with.)
[edit] Dark Eldar Evolution
Once part of their sister species, the Eldar, the Pleasure Cultist ancestors of the Eldar race were the cause of the Fall. Before the Imperium rose to power, the Eldar ruled the galaxy and spread beauty and grace to all the worlds within it. Perfectly set in their power, they turned their energies inward in an attempt to improve themselves to the point of perfection. The Eldar sought to experience emotions and sensations to their fullest extent, disregarding the morality of their actions. Foreseeing a terrible outcome, the Seers of the Eldar warned against these "pleasure cults," warning that no good could come out of them. The Eldars' many excesses caused the Chaos God Slaanesh to be born, and its birthcries tore a hole in the centre of the Eldar Empire, leaving only a few Craftworlds that were on the fringes. The hole through which She Who Thirsts (the Eldar's name for Slaanesh) tore from the Warp still remains; it is known by the Imperium as the Eye of Terror.
The remaining Eldar were forced to decide to survive after the fall. The Eldar split into two factions: The first group decided to fight off Slaanesh, and to go the path of resistance. The second group decided that, by living in excess, Slaanesh would soon become bored and turn its attentions to other races. The two groups eventually split, and the larger kept the craftworlds and chose the path of resistance to Slaanesh, while the second group ran off and founded the city of Commorragh, choosing the path of giving in and indulging Slaanesh, so that one day it might become bored with the Eldar race and turn its attentions to the lesser races. The first group, and the larger of the two, are currently called the Craftworld Eldar. The smaller group is currently called the Dark Eldar.
[edit] Dark Eldar Appearance
Dark Eldar share almost all the physical traits as their Eldar counter-parts (Tall, slender bodies and pointed ears for example). However their skin tends to be paler then their Eldar cousins and adorn themselves with painful piercing, tattoos and dark, sinister clothing and armor.
[edit] Dark Eldar PCs
[edit] Dark Eldar Characteristics
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[edit] Fate
| d10 | 1-8 | 9-10 |
| Fate Points | 1 | 2 |
[edit] Dark Eldar Careers
Warrior
Wych
Assassin
Scum
Mandrake
Haemonculis
