Editing Idoneth Deepkin (section)

==Idoneth, the AoS Drukhari?==
For many people a comparison between Drukhari and the Idoneth comes naturally. But beyond having something to do with souls there is nothing to this.

The Drukhari murder-raped a god into existence, before they were even technically called Drukhari. They seek every emotion and sensation, pleasure and pain alike and need the pain of others topping off their souls to even stay alive, and as the Harlequins and Craftworlders show, they don't have to do this... but the Drukhari would rather be sadistic parasites than change their ways. Idoneth are complete opposites of this. They went down in the ocean not just to hide from Teclis, but to numb their senses, to limit their perception of touch, warmth and sight. They didn't want to feed on others souls, but now they have no choice, and they fear feeding Slaanesh and refuse to make the pact with the devil.

Instead the Idoneth seek to solve the fault in their souls on their own. They developed the Soulbonding, using other races souls as fuel for their Namarti as a stopgap measure, while their Isharann still look for a way to find a permanent solution. For all the Idoneth, save for the Fuethan, the raids are a means to an end to buy as much time as the Isharann need - and for the Fuethan, it's also impulsive aggression not sadism. All the while the Drukhari indulge in the same debauchery that they have since their inception, never seeking to solve the underlying issue of their demise.

The entire society of the Idoneth has evolved to fix the flaw, every caste doing their highly specialised part in ensuring the survival and secrecy of their kind, and making sure that the Isharann will have all the time in the world to cure what Teclis could not. On the other side every part of Drukhari society has developed to be the worst kind of sadists, routinely backstabbing each other and not considering the loss of Eldar life as much of a tragedy.

In their quest to save and fix the vast majority of their race, the Idoneth soldiers were forced to resort to large scale violence. As it stands, Idoneth are not the grimdark Dark Eldar, they are cold, nobledark Elves of the sea. The ACTUAL AoS Dark Eldar equivalents are more along the lines of the [[Daughters of Khaine]], or [[Malekith|Malerion]] and his bunch whenever they scuttle out of whatever hole they've been hiding in.

They do however share a number of strong similarities that build a much stronger argument for the Drukhari being the counterpart of Idoneth over say the Daughters of Khaine. Both the Idoneth and Drukhari favour lightning fast, hit and run attacks using large numbers of flying vehicles or monsters in the case of Idoneth as their mounts move by "swimming" through the air thanks to the Ethersea creating an artificial magical ocean environment.

Both are the remnants of a more ancient form of their race, the Drukhari as survivors of the Fall who fled into the webway and the Idoneth as the successors to the Cythai. Both fled their near extinction to dwell in realms almost inaccessible to the other factions being Commoragh and its Subrealms and in the case of Idoneth the deep ocean.

Aside from the need to Vampiricly siphon the souls of other races to top up their own withering, fading souls a trait wholy unique to these two specific races the Court of the Blind King does reveal that the Idoneth inhabit an extremely political society filled with scheming, mutiny, back stabbing, assassination and jockeying for status to lead the raid on the surface world and win fame and power through a successful soul raid.

The only real similarity between Daughters of Khaine and Drukhari is Daughters of Khaine wear spikey armour? And are the remnant of WHFBs Druchii...?