Ynnead

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Yncarne, the Avatar of Ynnead looking like he's about to wreck Slaanesh's shit.

I am Death and Resurrection born anew! - Ynnead's motto in the 41st Millennium

"To the last, I grapple with thee; from hell's heart, I stab at thee; for hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee."

– Captain Ahab, Moby Dick

Ynnead is the Eldar God of the Dead. Or at least he will be, as he is currently being created. He is in godly limbo at the moment as the Eldar try to amass enough pure souls, or at least souls that have overcome petty desires, in the various Craftworlds' Infinity Circuits which are bonded together by the Eternal Matrix that links all the Infinity circuits and World Spirits together through the Webway, to give him enough mojo to become a proper god.

With the release of the Gathering Storm, it turns out that the Ynnead is a Anathema to the Chaos Gods and they are actually afraid of it - yeah, and Khorne wears high heels. On the other hand Slaanesh has already been put on a bus in Age of Sigmar and Ynnead is a pretty good way to put Slaanesh on a bus in 40k too.

Overview

Basically, Ynnead is the Eldar's last hope against Slaanesh. When the bitch-goddess was born, she devoured most of the Eldar race, and their souls, and most of their gods, and basically caused a lot of things to get badly screwed up, making a terrible mess in the toilet afterwards that the Eldar were forced to mop up. The crap on the wall that won't scrub off was that the surviving Eldar found Slaanesh was constantly hungering for their souls, laying in wait for the moment when any member of their race died to completely consume them. In the past the Eldar believed that when they died, their soul would be reincarnated. With Slaanesh's coming though, the Eldar's ability to reincarnate disappeared.

To save themselves from this fate, the Craftworld Eldar use spiritstones to trap their souls upon death. The spiritstone is then used to inter the soul within the infinity circuit of a craftworld, next to a carefully placed egg timer, where the soul is free to roam around and commingle with the other Eldar souls of the craftworld.

As more souls over time have been added to the infinity circuits, the Eldar Farseers have perceived something stirring from this collection of souls; this is Ynnead, a god formed from untainted Eldar souls and the power of Asuryan, the king of the Eldar gods, who passed on his power to the Farseers of the Eldar before he was devoured by Slaanesh. The Farseers believe that when the last Craftworld Eldar dies, Ynnead will be fully born and will rise up to cast down Slaanesh, destroying him/her/it forever.

It's unknown whether this is feasible or not considering Slaanesh's immense power, but Ynnead is the Eldar race's last, best hope for a better future, and so all their efforts go towards making him as strong as possible.

Slaanesh was born out of unbridled hedonism, giving him/her/it/xe the theme of extreme pleasure. Ynnead is born out of the dead post-fall Eldar who are vengeful but still optimistic stuck-ups, so Ynnead would theoretically be born out of the Eldar's vengeance and hopes for a better tomorrow. Assuming it follows the same process as Slaanesh; Ynnead probably won't go rogue and will follow the main purpose of its creation. Probably.

Could the Eldar have simply had a bunch of Farseers, Warlocks, and Exarchs of each Path commit ritual suicide to reincarnate as an Eldar-Emperor being like the ancient human shaman did? Probably, but these are Eldar. Their whole schtick is being cowardly pussy-tards. They would probably be too afraid of failing and being eaten to take such a chance. Or worse, it succeeds inside Slaanesh, further strengthening the abomination. That sounds about right for 40K.

The Gathering Storm

Ynnead is prematurely "born" during the 13th Black Crusade following the fall of Cadia. Eldrad Ulthran attempts to summon him early by stealing the fossilized bodies of all the dead Farseers of all the craftworlds and conducting an elaborate ritual on a crystal moon. It gets fucked up by the Deathwatch and only a tiny fraction of Ynnead enters the Materium.

After searching through space, this fragment discovers Yvraine. Due to her history she was considered the ultimate expression of being Eldar because apparently the true Eldar are supposed to travel all the paths of life, even the dark ones. With her is the Visarch, a former Exarch of the Dire Avengers who trained Yvraine and had his heart broken when she chose to leave rather than succeed him. He ended up sneaking into Comorragh, pretended to be an Incubus, and fought his way to Yvraine after she unlocked the power of The Sword of Sorrows actually had one of the severed fingers of Morai-Heg forged into a sword by Vaul. The Visarch would later get his own sweet croneblade The Sword of Silence when it was pulled from the heart of Craftworld Biel-Tan.

Together, Yvraine and the Visarch become the prophets of Ynnead, preaching that not ALL the Eldar have to die for Ynnead to be born. This ends up fracturing Eldar society at all levels, and Biel-Tan ends up tearing itself apart over whether or not this is actually Eldar heresy. The destruction of Biel-Tan causes all kinds of Warp holes to tear themselves into existence around the ruins, and Ynnead births an Avatar through them known as the Yncarne (get the pun?), the one-horned ghost-fire model that's been making the rounds in photos of the latest White Dwarf.

Yvraine, Visarch, and Yncarne are now gathering an army of all the branches of the Eldar race who believe they can fight Chaos without all having to hara-kiri, while those who don't believe in Ynnead are preparing to kill all the heretics for daring to alter the fate of the Eldar. Eldrad is himself imprisoned and placed on trial by the Eldar Inquisition, because he's not Eldar enough, and proposed, after his failure to birth Ynnead, allying with the Imperium of Man to defeat Chaos once and for all. Even if the other Eldar don't like the idea of becoming best buddies with the Imperium they still reluctantly agreed that they are still the best of a bad bunch, what with the other options being either the Orks or Tau both of who are either too "young" (translated as to naïve and inexperienced to face the forces of Chaos and lack the incredible power of any major faction) or simply too uncooperative and uncouth to be allied with (basically ever alien that isn’t a devoted Imperial citizen ordered to cooperate), that didn't stop Yvraine from helping to resurrect Roboute Guilliman, so perhaps an actual alliance may be possible.

It may also be that Ynnead simply disagrees with the stupidity of not allying with the only faction both willing and able and actively doing something against chaos. It could also be possible that once Guilliman gets in charge the Imperium will stop killing everything that isn't human and start killing everything that is a demon with them.

Name	Class	Value	Wargear	Quantity	References
Guardian	Troops (Aeldari)	9 Points	Mesh Armour, Shuriken Catapult and Plasma Grenades	60	[1]
Neophyte	Troops (Imperium)	14 Points	Boltgun, Bolt Pistol, Frag and Krak Grenades	21	[2]
Spider	Fast Attack (Aeldari)	18 Points	Heavy Aspect Armour, Death Spinner and Warp Jump Generator	162	[3]
Devastator	Troops (Imperium)	24 Points	Heavy Bolter, Bolt Pistol, Frag and Krak Grenades	3	[4]
Templar	Troops (Imperium)	29 Points	Plasma Gun, Bolt Pistol, Frag and Krak Grenades	3	[5]
Bazooka	Troops (Aeldari)	30 Points (No cost for 3 due to Guardian Battlehost)	Heavy Weapon Platform with Eldar Missile Launcher	6	[6]
Culverin	Heavy Support (Aeldari)	30 Points	Support Weapon with Pair of Guardians and Shadow Weaver	3	[7]
Blademaster	Elites (Imperium)	35 Points	Terminator Armour, Storm Bolter and Power Sword	5	[8]
Warlock	HQ (Aeldari)	40 Points	Rune Armour, Shuriken Pistol and Singing Spear	14	[9]
Terminator	Elites (Imperium)	40 Points	Terminator Armour, Storm Bolter and Chainfist	35	[10]
Exarch	Fast Attack (Aeldari)	58 Points	Heavy Aspect Armour, Death Spinner, Pair of Powerblades and Warp Jump Generator	18	[11]
Centurion	Elites (Imperium)	60 Points (70 Points for leader of every 6)	Twin-Linked Melagun, Hurricane Bolter and Dual Siege Drills	30	[12]
Cataphract	Elites (Imperium)	60 Points	Terminator Armour, Assault Cannon and Chainfist	10	[13]
Sergeant	Troops (Imperium)	64 Points	Plasma Pistol, Power Fist, Frag and Krak Grenades	3	[14]
Lancer	Elites (Imperium)	70 Points (80 Points for leader of every 6)	Twin-Linked Lascannon and Hurricane Bolter	6	[15]
War Walker	Heavy Support (Aeldari)	75 Points	Shuriken Cannon, Starcannon, Power Field and Spirit Stones	3	[16]
Vyper	Fast Attack (Aeldari)	85 Points	Shuriken Cannon, Starcannon, Holo-Field and Spirit Stones	6	[17]
Farseer	HQ (Aeldari)	105 Points	Rune Armour, Shuriken Pistol, Singing Spear and Ghosthelm	1	[18]
Dreadnought	Elites (Imperium)	135 Points	Seismic Hammers with Built-in Meltaguns, Hurricane Bolters, Searchlight, Smoke Launchers and Extra Armour	3	[19]
Champion	HQ (Imperium)	140 Points	Armour of Faith, Black Sword, Bolt Pistol, Frag and Krak Grenades	1	[20]
Chaplain	HQ (Imperium)	150 Points	Master-Crafted Plasma Pistol, Crozius Arcanum, Rosarius, Frag and Krak Grenades	1	[21]
Fire Prism	Heavy Support (Aeldari)	160 Points	Prism Cannon, Shuriken Cannon, Holo-Field and Spirit Stones	15	[22]
Marshall	HQ (Imperium)	180 Points	Sword of the High Marshalls, Combi-Melta, Iron Halo, Frag and Krak Grenades	1	[23]
Avatar	Lords of War (Aeldari)	195 Points	Wailing Doom	1	[24]
Raider	Heavy Support (Imperium)	275 Points	Twin-Linked Heavy Bolter, Dual Twin-Linked Lascannons, Storm Bolter, Multi-Melta, Searchlight, Smoke Launchers and Extra Armour	11	[25]
Wraithknight	Lords of War (Aeldari)	325 Points	Dual Heavy Wraithcannons and Dual Shuriken Cannons	1	[26]

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The Croneswords

The five Croneswords are legendary shapeshifting blades said to have been formed from the five broken fingers of the severed hand of Morai-Heg. According to legend, the five blades are imbued with a connection to Ynnead, and will reveal themselves when the unborn god begins to stir, where the blades will find their way into the right hands and lead to the eventual salvation of the Eldar race.

The blades are as follows:

Kha-vir, the Sword of Sorrows - The first awakened blade, appeared to Yvraine while in the fighting pits of Commoragh
Asu-var, the Sword of Silent Screams - Was pulled out of the Biel-Tan Infinity Circuit before the craftworld broke apart, is now held by the Visarch
Vilith-zhar, the Sword of Souls - Currently wielded by the Yncarne, was recovered from Belial IV.
The Spear of Twilight - Relic weapon of the Iyanden Craftworld, said to drain the life of its wielder. Had been wielded by Prince Yriel since the invasion of Hive Fleet Kraken, it's power awakened after Yriel fell to Nurgle daemons and resurrected him.
The fifth blade has not been found, but is currently being sought on the Necron infested Exodite World of Agarimethea by Nuadhu Fireheart of Craftworld Saim-Hann. (potentially a returned special character for the next codex?)