Editing Prince Yriel (section)

== The life and times of arrogance incarnate ==

The prince was once an [[Autarch]] and the fleet master of [[Craftworld Iyanden]], and was renowned for his [[tactical genius]] and daring leadership. It was a testament of his skill and ability at void warfare that he received the post of Autarch without having walked the [[Paths of the Eldar#Path of Command|Path of Command]], but had instead [[Black Seas|walked the Path of the Mariner]]. He trashed a [[Tyranid]] [[Hive Fleet]] and a [[Chaos]] Lord’s armada, and his deeds made him well feared and respected. It was the Chaos fleet that would be the turning point in Yriel’s career, however. In his recklessness, he stripped Iyanden of all its starship defenses and brought the battle to the enemy, focusing on defeating them once and for all above all else. It went pretty well, the Eldar managing to take apart the Chaos fleet while sustaining few losses, [[not as planned|except for one little thing...]] Faced with inevitable defeat, the Chaos Lord ordered to fire his last remaining [[exterminatus|cyclonic torpedo]] straight at the Craftworld (he'd probably saved that one up for a nifty mass sacrifice or something). With the entirety of Iyanden's ships busy fucking up Chaos' shit, the torpedo did reach its destination and inflicted huge damage, instantly killing many tens of thousands of Eldar along with destroying their soulstones (and [[Slaanesh|you know what the latter means]]). The Eldar's crushing victory was completely soured by that last low blow.

It should come as no surprise that Yriel was stripped of his rank for his overly bold strategy, since he'd been the one to throw everything Iyanden had to the last pleasure ship at the Chaos fleet, and the entire thing would have been avoided if the Prince had kept but a single squadron of fighters back in reserve to take out the torpedo. It was, however, a surprise to Yriel, who believed his actions were justified since Chaos would have come at them again and again if they hadn't been crushed and crushed good and it would have meant an even heavier cost for the Craftworld in the long run. Hurt in his pride at his kinsmen censure, Yriel became so enraged he went into self-imposed exile with many of his fellows followed him. With them, he started an Eldar corsair clan known as the Eldritch Raiders, which became one of the most feared Eldar pirate bands in the galaxy behind [[Duke Sliscus]] and his Sky Serpents. Many believe that Sliscus is Yriel's dad, if we put into account Yriel's mother meeting with someone from a darker path and his status as bastard of house Ulthanash, and the whole pirate thing runs in the family.

For years Yriel plied the stars, stealing from the rich, ignoring the poor, making raspberries at the [[Imperium]] who couldn't catch him even if he handed himself over to them. They tried to turn him against other clans of Eldar corsairs, but this backfired splendidly when he just absorbed them and made himself an even bigger menace.
 
When [[Hive Fleet Kraken]] arrived in the galaxy, one of its tentacles was heading directly towards Iyanden, which could not outrun the speed of the Tyrannic threat. When Yriel heard of the danger his Craftworld was in, he at first ignored it... but in the end, blood is thicker than arrogance, and he could not truly abandon his people. He and his raiders struck like the spear of [[Khaine]] against the Tyranids, tipping the scales in the favour of the Eldar. To save his people Yriel took up the cursed Spear of Twilight, which would doom its wielder by slowly burning their soul away to nothing while they wielded it (and do so instantly if they tried to discard the weapon) and turned it against the bugs, slaying the [[Hive Tyrant]] that lead the beasts (retcon'd by Guy Haley into the [[Swarmlord]] himself). Hailed as the saviour of the shattered craftworld, Yriel was reinstated as Autarch and master of the fleet. He then stabbed the Hive Mind. Well not really, but as a whole it yelled out in pain, so same thing.

Since then, Yriel has fought many battles and feels his time is soon to be over. However, a vision by the [[Harlequins|Harlequin]] Shadowseer Sylandri Veilwalker (who had earlier suggested to send the message of help to Yriel, was there when he took up the spear, and may or may not have had a thing with Yriel at some point) has shown him he still has much to do, and that the end times may be upon the Eldar. With a renewed spirit, Yriel steps forth to kick demon ass once more in the name of Iyanden.

Yriel is the very definition of an arrogant bastard. When the Ordo Xenos speculated that he and his raiders have [[Blood Ravens|procured]] no less than one thousand class IX or greater vessels over the past 50 years, Yriel felt insulted and immediately sent a spam message across the Imperium with all his Raiders’ conquests, totaling over eleven thousand ships because he was insulted at how much they underestimated him. He even included all the information on exactly who they had been taken from. Which is strange because he only turned up to help his Craftworld with a hundred ships... unless that tally was how many ships he plundered rather than stole and annexed into his fleet (it's possible he wouldn't use human ships in his fleet and deem humanity's technology inferior to the Eldar's, espeically since he's arrogant by Eldar standards). Eh, he’d probably already sold them or something or didn’t have any way to man them anyway.

Oh, and he's gay. Go figure (oh come on, we've always known he was an <s>whoopsie</s> Eldar; not that such a term would hold any meaning to the Eldar, who would probably laugh out loud at such a foolishly narrow minded and limiting notion; the idea of a person being either "straight" or "gay" really doesn't exist within Eldar society, much like the Orks, who really do find the human idea of "different genders" really odd). Except that homosexuality isn’t conductive to a society struggling to exist. Then again, considering the long fertilization periods the Eldar go through to have children, they probably have enough time in between to swing on the other side occasionally. After the whole stabbing the Hive Mind thing, he was so delirious that he accidentally stabbed, murdered, and absorbed the soul of his lover [[Lulz|who had just finished declaring his love for him]]. The absorbed soul of his lover actually saved his life and give him enough energy to survive a few more years.