Editing Everqueen (section)

===Astarielle===
Everything regarding the Everqueens prior to Astarielle, including their names and how many there were, save that Isha's oldest mortal daughter was the first and that she was succeeded by her own daughter, is lost to the current day High Elves.

Astarielle was the reigning Everqueen during the collapse of the [[Warp Gates]], and although the bulk of the [[Daemon]] forces went for the [[Lizardmen]], Ulthuan was their secondary target. The countryside was ravaged, the small and inexperienced armies of the Elves doing little other than slow the Daemons down. During the invasion, a badass world explorer Elf named [[Aenarion]] became [[Asuryan|Asuryan's]] mortal avatar, and with his strength (both his own and that granted by Asuryan) he more or less made the [[Daemons of Chaos]] look like unarmed children as he tore through them and pushed them back into the [[Warp]] wherever he went. The nobles of the Elves (at least, the ones who were still alive) swore allegiance to Aenarion, and Astarielle summoned him to her court to hit dat... which is actually kinda creepy, because Asuryan was Isha's father, so technically Asuryan was proxy-fucking his granddaughter on a pile of smoking Daemon corpses (but if you're at all familiar with the Greek pantheon, gods have a tendency to do whoever (or whatever) the fuck they've got a boner for right now, damn the consequences).

''Then'' shit kinda started going downhill.

Daemons of [[Khorne]] and [[Slaanesh]] (because [[Nurgle]] was mostly picking on the southwestern elves and the cavemen humans in the [[Old World]], and [[Tzeentch]] never really does jack shit in Fantasy) blitzed into the ancestral forest home of the elves, and burned/raped a fair amount of it down. Astarielle made a pact with the spirit of [[Warhammer Magic|Life Magic]], (Life Magic eats Chaos, and it was having a good ol' time unbeknownst to the Chaos Gods) to at some point in the future [[Wood Elves (Warhammer Fantasy)|send a group of Elves to serve nature forever as servants]]. In return, the Elves race in it's entirety was bound to the world (sadly making it difficult for them to reach Morr's afterlife, as Elf ghosts now are stuck adhering to gravity) and the ancient Treekin [[Durthu]] took Astarielle's children Yvraine and Morelion to safety from the burning forest. She then summoned Dryads (not the happy kind that hide in trees and get fucked by [[Beastmen|Satyrs]], these ones are spirits that possess plant bodies and turn them into [[Angry Marines]]). She then stood in the middle of the forest with her army and waited for the Daemons to come. Whatever happened isn't in the fluff, and is described as unable to be conveyed through mortal words (even that of Elves) and that none of the Daemons survived it.

Aenarion heard the news that Avelorn had fallen and, thinking that there were no survivors, went into a rage of epic proportions and drew a cursed sword of [[Khaine]] to become a living Elven WAAAGH!, making him (canonically) the strongest Elf to have ever lived. He also made shit decisions like marrying a [[Morathi|chick who liked hanging out with Daemonettes]], telling [[Malekith|his son by her he'd be badass forever and be king like his old man]], building a new kingdom out of the ruins of the most tainted land in Ulthuan, and similar full retard moves. Eventually his old buddy [[Caledor the Dragontamer]], who had come up with an awesome plan to actually BEAT Chaos decades ago, got sick of waiting for Aenarion to get off his ass and decided to start shit himself. High Elves went all over the world and set up magical rocks called [[Waystones]] covered in runes and gems, which vary in size from a large mountain to the size of a paperweight. Those rocks drain magic (which Daemons use to make themselves real) into the center of Ulthuan. Aenarion finally showed up, [[Awesome|personally fought and killed 4 avatars of the Chaos Gods themselves, suffered a mortal wound and managed to cross a HUGE continent to put that cursed sword back before dying]] (to be fair; he was carried by his also-mortally wounded-dragon, who actually made the journey. But still awesome!)

So after the smoke had cleared, the Elves decided there'd be two rulers of the race from now on: the Everqueen, who is the firstborn daughter of the last queen, and upon the death of the last queen and the passing of the Everqueen entity (now one soul stronger) into the princess she is crowned the new Everqueen. The second, the Phoenix King, is a male elf democratically elected from amongst the princes (AKA governors, not literally part of a royal family) of Ulthuan. After election, he's required to walk through a pyre in the Shrine of Asuryan. If he survives, he's buffed to badass levels and becomes king. So far nobody has died, although [[Malekith|one asshole has managed to burn himself to a crisp when he tried to declare himself king.]]

The king's first job is to produce a new queen with the Everqueen (up until this point the Everqueen was produced by the previous Everqueen's own husband, who was simply the man she favored most), who will be her future heir. He's got a year to knock her up (which seems to always be how long it takes), after which the two return to their spouses or lovers as they will.