Editing Asuryan (section)

==Warhammer Fantasy==
The High Elves worship the same set of gods as the Eldar do, with a few minor changes here and there, but theirs are all still alive. Since [[Chaos]] (called the Ruinous Powers more often in Fantasy) came as a result of the [[Old Ones]] fucking up their attempts at protecting the world from Chaos instead of anything the elves did (quite the contrary, the High Elves actually manage to beat Chaos back into the Warp constantly and even fight alongside other races towards common goals with regularity), Khaine never heard any prophesy about mortal elves harming him and thus never had a reason to kill them, so the War in Heaven never happened. In addition, gods are much more powerful and themselves can provide at least some opposition to the Chaos gods on a cosmic scale, rather than just the Emperor (and [[Gork and Mork]], of course) in 40K.

The Fantasy version of Asuryan is not called the Phoenix King, because that title belongs to one of the two rulers of [[Ulthuan]] whom he personally judges and blesses ([[Malekith|or throws into a deep frier, pisses on, and drops back into the mortal world for being an egocentric dick]]). Instead, he is known as the Emperor of the Heavens and the Creator. Might just be an old one according to the Obernarn Stone.

According to two legends, Asuryan was the first true god, and was around when Chaos first broke into the world. The dark gang took the other fledgling gods by surprise and Khorne slew Asuryan while he and the others were putting up a last stand, but he returned at the last moment in a fiery blaze and beat back the entire Chaos host. Since then he's sat atop his temple in a pose like Karl-Franz from ''Shadow of the Horned Rat'', grumpily staring down at the world and usually observing rather than acting while holding the flame of life in his hand, though he's said to adjudicate disputes between the gods to prevent literal holy wars.

He has a plan, one so well crafted that [[Tzeentch]]'s plans are mere hiccups here and there. It ends with an ultimate battle between good and evil, and if good wins the Chaos Gods will fall and be forever banished into the Warp and thus be unable to meddle in mortal affairs ever again. The overall outcome of that battle isn't certain, except a few things like the fact dragons will go extinct in it one way or the other. [[Sigmar]] may or may not be in on this plan, but he is a part of it. Asuryan's shrine is so blessed that Daemons require a very powerful Greater Daemon, on [[N'kari]]'s level, to even manifest with any degree of stability near it, and the fire coming from it is a death sentence. His monks and priests are immune to fear since they know Asuryan's plan for everything including their ultimate fates (kinda sucks upon being inducted into the order when you find out in three months you're going to be killed by ten [[Warriors of Chaos]] and your soul will be eaten by Slaanesh, but HEY at least you know it's coming). Finally, High Elves take the name they call themselves (Asur) from his name (with [[Wood Elves (Warhammer)|Wood Elves]] calling themselves Asrai, and [[Dark Elves (Warhammer)|Dark Elves]] being known as Druchii).
===The End Times===

According to the <strike>skub</strike> fluff from the third bookset of [[The End Times]], Asuryan and his daughter are actually refugees from a previous world that was overrun by Chaos, part of a cosmic cycle that is doomed to repeat itself unto infinity. Though Asuryan perishes during the End Times, the former Wood Elf Araloth is sent to a new world by [[Lileath]] with their daughter, to be the new Asuryan of the next world. Unfortunately for Lileath, when Duke Jerrod of Bretonnia confronts her, no doubt pissed off after learning that the god his people were serving turned out to be a two-faced manipulative bitch, Be'lakor eavesdrops and learns about Lileath's safehaven. As a result, the Chaos gods murderrape it before Araloth has a chance to make anything out of it, most likely doing the same thing to both Araloth and his daughter in the process. In the ''[[The End Times]]: [[Khaine]]'' fluff book, when Asuryan dies, the Wood Elf Araloth sees under his helmet -- and sees his own face looking back. The reason behind this gets revealed (sorta) at the book's end.