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====High Elves==== 
[[File:Adrian smith high elf warriors.jpg|left|thumb|300px|Somehow the actual elves look more alien than the [[Eldar|alien elves]]]]
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'''OH BOY, HERE WE GO'''...The "good guys" of WHFB. Although as a group they're dickish in the extreme like you'd expect, many of them are quite bro-tier and the reason the race is diminishing is because they overtax themselves to save the world every time they can from everyone they can, and humans are usually what counts as part of the world (except ones tainted by chaos of course). 
They have the strongest navy in the world, wear red/white/blue, bring giant eagles to battle, are snobby, the average citizen can't even name the leader of their closest ally, they send in their marines to unwinnable conflicts, they saved the collective ass of the [[Old World]] twice, their head of government is democratically elected...

Many 40k fans mistakenly confuse the Eldar lore with Elf lore. This is a major mistake, as Eldar are characterized as [[Eldrad|ultra-dick failures]] while no faction has a bigger ass-kicking and ass-saving record than the High Elves. 

High Elves defeated the first Chaos invasion into the world (unknown to themselves that they had distant magical help from the [[Lizardmen]]) and every invasion since. They established a network of [[Waystone|Waystones]] which pull the excess magic (which Daemons use to manifest) into Ulthuan and shoot it back into the Warp. 
High Elves taught the Empire magic, and save the ass of Bretonnia every time it gets invaded by something they can't beat. They patrol the world's oceans in giant magical aircraft carriers that launch dragons, and wreck the shit of anyone trying to launch a Black Crusade. They single-handedly keep the world from being swallowed up by the Warp and all the good factions respect them for it (even if that's the ONLY thing Dwarfs respect about them). 

The Everqueen of the High Elves and the hereditary ruler (who co-rules with her democratically elected male counterpart, the Phoenix King), is a being of IMMENSE magical power whose soul is made up of the combined souls of all her mothers leading back to the first Everqueen, who was the second daughter of [[Isha]]. The souls themselves reside with Isha, and as a whole they make up the Everqueen entity. 
Chaos is afraid of her (read that again: Chaos Gods in 40k only ''respect'' the God Emprah as their greatest enemy and an equal, but they're actually '''afraid''' of the Everqueen), and she can cleanse anything the Chaos Gods can corrupt. Her only weaknesses are that sadness saps her energy (you do NOT want to piss her off though) and the fact she's mortal means her daughter has to be protected.

High Elves are ethnically divided into ten major groups by region. [[Prince Imrik|Some are such pricks who treat even other High Elves like Eldar treat the Mon'keigh]], [[Eltharion|some are fatalistic jackasses with the personality of a secret service agent]], [[Alith Anar|some are revenge-obsessed sociopaths who make the Inquisition look like Lawful Good Paladins]], some are <strike>nutty professors</strike> wizards, and some are <strike>hippies</strike> murderhobo [[Bard|bards]] who are willing to make love AND war as the situation requires. In addition, High Elves have districts within major trade cities in all the good factions. 

High Elves would rather walk willingly into Slaanesh's open mouth than do anything beneficial to a Dark Elf and vice versa, a stark contrast to Eldar/Dark Eldar relations.  
When they die, High Elves are first nabbed by their patron god if said god liked them enough. Next, they can corpse-run to a Waystone (giant magical structures set up all over the world by their race to weaken Chaos and keep Daemons from manifesting) where they get to chill and manifest semi-solid bodies (which they will usually use to pick off troops from any evil races that wander by). Then, there's an evil goddess who got punished by [[Asuryan]] for trying to rape him while he was asleep and gets back at his rejection by taking High Elf souls (she doesn't care about any other Elf subraces) to torture like it's Christian hell. The final alternative is Slaanesh manages to snatch them from the material plane and either eats them or turns them into [[Daemonette]]s (yes, in Fantasy he still does this). All of Slaanesh's Greater Daemons are elves who in one way or another wound up in his employ (from [[N'kari]] who was an insipid noblewoman who wanted to be the center of attention, to Dechala who was a virgin sacrificed by her parents to Slaanesh for mercy and came back as a pissed off Medusa with an army of Daemonettes to butcher them). 
While Eldar must use soulstones to keep their soul safe, High Elves use them only to guard them in combat against Daemons and those who worship them. Otherwise, their only use is to link to the Waystone network and provide GPS navigation for the elves. 

[[Ulthuan]] is like paradise (for the most part, there's Chaos corrupted areas and random encounter tables of course) and elves will fuck, sing and enjoy the splendors of life without fear of taint as they must give themselves willingly to Chaos to be corrupted. The Cult of Pleasure, Slaanesh's Elf cult, takes root like Chaos cults in the [[Imperium]] and have to be [[Blam|purged]] by the High Elf [[Inquisition]] who are kung fu Elves in light armor who have swords as tall as their body but don't look weaboo. 

Eldar are all-powerful psykers, although humanity has potential to make stronger psykers than the average Eldar. High Elves on the other hand are constantly bathed in magical energy, more so than the rest of the world, but you have to actually LEARN to be a <strike>psyker</strike> wizard. Since High Elves have public education and being a wizard is a great job, there's more Elf wizards than human ones and they're typically more powerful (the fact you have to LEARN to be a wizard means that the only humans who can come close to badass Elf Loremasters are prodigies of Mary Sue proportions). Of course, one of the 10 High Elf ethnic groups have the old fashioned "every Elf is also a level 1 wizard" feature, but that's just them. 

Eldar have a multitude of different styles of combat and war, and a multitude of different philosophies related to them. High Elves have three basic flavours of badass warriors: stoic sumbitch priest who shrugs off cannonballs to the face, guy with giant axe who wrestles monsters then goes for an ale, and Witch Hunter with giant sword.  

High Elves are, to the very last, soldiers. Every poet is also a Spear<strike>man</strike>elf, every baker is also a wizard, and every secretary loads giant bolt throwers. They passed the point of desperation tens of thousands of years ago, putting High Elves in the position of Israelis.