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=== The Avatar of Khaine ===

See [[Nobledark_Imperium_Notable_People#Khaine|Khaine]]

==== The Avatar of Biel-Tan ====

Biel-Tan hasn't deployed an Avatar of Khaine for nearly one hundred years. This wouldn't be surprising for a lesser or more peaceable craftworld, but this is Biel-Tan; the most well-known, influential, and martially famous craftworld. That Khaela Mensha Khaine hasn't made an appearance in a year, much less a near century, would provoke suspicion. 

However, among the Eldar, it's considered a bit of a faux pas to ask about this. The Inquisition is another matter entirely though, and they already know the answer. 

Biel-Tan's avatar has been awake this entire time. Biel-Tan summoned the avatar for the Ghoul Campaign to help a desperate sword wind against a siege of orks with daemon support. The avatar of war led the survivors — many of whom were wounded — to victory against the orks, culminating in the avatar decapitating the bloodthirster Yel'Grazruk and shattering the spirit of the enemy. The sword wind rejoiced.

Then they noticed the avatar wasn't gone. It had followed the fleeing enemy, killing as many as it could reach. The next day, the avatar was still killing. And the next. On the fifteenth day, it ran out of enemies to kill and came back, planted its sword at the center of the Biel-Tan fortifications, and waited.

After the twentieth day, the Biel-Tan forces found themselves very worried indeed. The burning avatar still smoldered, glaring out at the horizon. In the face of their persistent god, the Eldar finally attempted to psychically contact the avatar; a hazardous venture for even the most skilled warlock. 

After the warlock stopped chanting in a dead language, she managed to sputter out "Khaine waits for his chariot". No one knew what that referred to. But when the autarch ordered the sword wind back to Biel-Tan, the avatar followed, marched through the craftworld, and returned to his temple, still burning. 

The avatar has sat there since, waiting for his chariot.