Editing Eldar (section)

===Not-So-Dying Race===
You may have noticed that in most of the fluff the Eldar are described as a dying race. However, they've been slowly dying for the past 11,000 years, never seem to mind the heavy losses they take when they lose a battle, and for every one world lost there are a dozen more that pop up. The reason for this is that GW writers have different opinions on what the Eldar's "theme" is. [[Gav Thorpe]], who did most of their older fluff, views them as dying out, and only thinks there are a dozen craftworlds with a dozen million Eldar each. However, [[Phil Kelly]] thinks their theme is "holding on just barely and losses are only minor things, keeping the important stuff" and thinks there are hundreds of craftworlds, with the average housing a hundred million to half a billion Eldar. Humorously, [[Matt Ward]] seems to agree with Phil as the theme of his Iyanden book is definitely "rising through the ashes" (maybe Phil and Matt were sick of Eldar being treated as the galaxy's punching bag in 40K).

What we're saying is: as with the other species, Craftworld Eldar do take the time to reproduce, but the open question is whether they're technically dying out or if they managed to keep a net population growth rate over the 12 millennia or so since Slaanesh came <s>into the picture</s>. If the former, [[Grimdark|an intelligent species is still paying the price for the nuttery of their forebears and will until they're totally extinct]]; if the latter, [[Grimdark|a bunch of racist assholes who hate you (yes, ''you'') are on the upswing]], though all possibility of a total comeback is about on the same level of probability as Nurgle taking an antibiotic bath. Between all the wars and the occasional disaster (like Kher-ys, Malan'tai, Idharae, Iyanden and Biel-tan), one would think the galaxy is waging a slow war of attrition on their species. Fluff describes them going either way (giggity).

According to the 8th edition there are several factions of Eldar:
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|align=center|1. [[Elf|Aeldari]] (The Eldar race as a whole)
|align=center|[[Image: Eldar-Aeldari.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Aeldari-dying race my arse]]

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|align=center|2. [[Exodites]] (Amish space elves that ride dinosaurs)
|align=center|[[Image: Amish_space_elves.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Exodites-who needs advanced tech to get things done]]

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|align=center|3. [[Slaanesh|++REDACTED++]] cough'''CHAOS ELDAR'''cough
|align=center|[[Image: Chaos-elves.jpg|thumb|right|150px|<s>Chaos Eldar</s>-Come join the dark side, we have <s>cookies</s> DAEMON HOOKERS]]

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|align=center|4. [[Craftworld|Asuryani]] (By comparison they can be considered the sensible Elves)
|align=center|[[Image: Crafworld Farseer.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Craftworlds]]

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|align=center|5. Corsairs (Space elf pirates who love to have a good time)
|align=center|[[Image: Eldar-corsairs.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Corsairs-Eldar but with more bling]]
 
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|align=center|6. [[Eldar Ranger|Outcasts]] (Rebellious young space elves who want to explore the galaxy)
|align=center|[[Image: Outcasts.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Outcasts]]

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|align=center|7. [[Dark Eldar|Drukhari]] (Pray they don't take you alive)
|align=center|[[Image: Incubi_Warrior.png|thumb|right|150px|Drukhari]]

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|align=center|8. [[Harlequins]] (Terrifying killer space clowns)
|align=center|[[Image: Harleqin_master.png|thumb|right|150px|Harlequins]]

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|align=center|9. [[Ynnari]] (Followers of their new God of the Dead)
|align=center|[[Image: The Ynnari.jpg|thumb|right|150px|The Ynnari trinity]]
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