Editing Advancing the Storyline (section)

==Yep, They're Doing It==
2017 barely had time to start before GeeDubs released ''Fall of Cadia''. With this, the clock has finally struck midnight and the year 41,000 officially begins. And this being 40k, instead of just dropping the Times Square Ball in a shower of fireworks and cheering, they drop the entire planet in a shower of shredded limbs and howling of the dead. [[Creed]] loses his arm AND [[Colour Sergeant Jarran Kell|Jarran Kell]], [[Abbadon]] loses his spleen, [[Trazyn]] shows up and gives the Imperium instructions on how to supercharge the pylons to the point that they close the [[Eye of Terror]] for a moment, and <s>the Chaos gods call a bullshit DM fiat and blow up the planet AFTER the Necron anti-warp pylons have been turned up to maximum</s> Abaddon sacrifices his [[Blackstone Fortress]] and rams the planet in a failed gambit to finally [[Awesome|kill Creed]], blowing up the [[Cadian Pylons|pylons]] and giving the Cadian 8th the best fucking last stand ever as the Eye opens up and spews forth all of the [[Chaos]] all over [[Cadia]]. Creed barely survives, and is taken by Trazyn as a souvenir before he can bleed out because this is Trazyn we're talking about here.

[[Eldrad]] got himself put on trial for being a dick even by [[Eldar]] standards, but was vindicated when it turned out he really did manage to awaken [[Ynnead]] early. The rebirth begins with Ynnead empowering his herald in Commorragh, which causes all sorts of strife in the Dark City, forcing Yvraine and some Dark Eldar defectors to flee Vect's wrath. Ynnead's fledgeling faction of followers has since rallied members of all three major Eldar factions to itself, with the goal of bringing Ynnead to its full strength. Following the near-destruction of Biel-Tan by Chaos, they resolved to seek an alliance with the Imperium against their common enemy- no tricks or deception this time, just an agreement to not kill each other while the Dark Gods are on their doorsteps.

And to cap it all off, [[Roboute Guilliman]] was [[Matt Ward|brought back to life]] with the help of said Eldar and became Lord Commander of the Imperium once again. Predictably, he was rather upset with how far the Imperium had fallen since he was last conscious and slaps the High Lords collective heads together to actually fix the Imperium.

[[Warhammer 40,000 8th edition]] has been putting all of the above into overdrive; when the giant Warp storm dividing the Imperium in half is one of the '''smaller''' changes seen thus far, you know things are going to be shaken up. Hard. Throughout 2019 and early 2020, GW released the [[Psychic Awakening]] series of books, an interconnected series of battles and stories that, despite its massive reach affecting every faction to some extent, it proved to change ultimately little in the narrative...
*A solid example of this "progression" would be any lore created since 8th launched that involves the Ynnari. Though they spent the better part of 8th edition flitting to and fro, going on adventures to reclaim the Croneswords and gather new allies, almost everything they manage to achieve is either completely negated by the price they paid to accomplish their goals or ultimately doesn't do anything for them or their cause whatsoever. It doesn't help that the Rise of the Ynnari series of books was canned, though it's not exactly hard to see how a series depicting the Ynnari constantly getting their collective cheeks clapped and accomplishing absolutely nothing for all the rape they endured wouldn't fly off the shelves.

Until the end, where they then introduced [[Warhammer 40,000 9th Edition]] right alongside the final book of Psychic Awakening, and just to match Bib Bobby G's return in 8th, 9th is seeing the [[Silent King]] make a dreadful return.