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	\|Size=Unknown, presumed Galactic		\|Size=Unknown, presumed Galactic
	\|Head of State=(''Incumbent'') [[Asdrubael Vect]]		\|Head of State=(''Incumbent'') [[Asdrubael Vect]]
	\|Head of Government=~~Ythillian~~ Dynasty, Kraillach Dynasty, Xelian Dynasty (''prior to Vect''), Various [[Archon_(Warhammer_40,000)\|Archons]] (''current'')		\|Head of Government=Yllithian Dynasty, Kraillach Dynasty, Xelian Dynasty (''prior to Vect''), Various [[Archon_(Warhammer_40,000)\|Archons]] (''current'')
	\|Governmental Structure=[[Monarchy\|Authoritarian]] [[Noble\|Aristocracy]] (''M30-M35'')<br> Libertarian Meritocracy (''M35-current'')		\|Governmental Structure=[[Monarchy\|Authoritarian]] [[Noble\|Aristocracy]] (''M30-M35'')<br> Libertarian Meritocracy (''M35-current'')
	\|State Religion/Ideology=State Atheism/Secularism (''Post-Fall of the Eldar'') <br> Temple of Khaine, Dark Muses, Secularism (''32nd Millennium onward'')		\|State Religion/Ideology=State Atheism/Secularism (''Post-Fall of the Eldar'') <br> Temple of Khaine, Dark Muses, Secularism (''32nd Millennium onward'')

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Law and Order

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	*Obey the Kabals, unless doing so involves disobeying Vect (even then one may still suffer for disobeying the Kabals).		*Obey the Kabals, unless doing so involves disobeying Vect (even then one may still suffer for disobeying the Kabals).

	That's pretty much it. However, since there's no police force in Commorragh, the city has a lot of personal freedom where you can murder people whenever you want, stealing shit and play grimdark cyberpunk grand theft auto. However, killing the wrong or important people like a member of a Kabal or a Haemonculus can grant yourself an instant death sentence (note: the actual dying part of that probably won't be instant), where instead of people watching you get publicly execute, you will find a mob of fully armed Commorrites on your ass. The same goes to messing with the fighting arena (dark eldar need their entertainment), Haemonculi (dark eldar needs their healing and resurrection) and Scourges (dark eldar need their communication relays). Non-Commorrites without the protection of a Kabal such as corsairs and exiles tend to limit their adventuring to the ports and markets which are merely seedy and dangerous. Only the Harlequins enjoy the street cred to ~~wander~~ the dark city at will ~~without being regarded as prey~~, ~~and only because of~~ their ~~own~~ deserved reputation for gratuitous violence.		That's pretty much it. However, since there's no police force in Commorragh, the city has a lot of personal freedom where you can murder people whenever you want, stealing shit and play grimdark cyberpunk grand theft auto. However, killing the wrong or important people like a member of a Kabal or a Haemonculus can grant yourself an instant death sentence (note: the actual dying part of that probably won't be instant), where instead of people watching you get publicly execute, you will find a mob of fully armed Commorrites on your ass. The same goes to messing with the fighting arena (dark eldar need their entertainment), Haemonculi (dark eldar needs their healing and resurrection) and Scourges (dark eldar need their communication relays). Non-Commorrites without the protection of a Kabal such as corsairs and exiles tend to limit their adventuring to the ports and markets which are merely seedy and dangerous; paradoxically the safest place to be in Commorragh is surrounded by lots of heavily armed people you don't know. Only the Harlequins enjoy the street cred to leave the safety of the crowd; wandering the dark city's alleys as they will, they are protected by their deserved reputation for gratuitous spectacles of violence.

	The religious situation in the Dark City has been complex. Given their tendency towards selfish hedonism, Commorrites tend to play fast and loose with religion as a whole, with secularism as the main order of the day. Many in Commorragh outright dismiss religion and gods altogether for their own selfish desires. After the Fall of the Eldar, Slaanesh nommed all the Eldar gods save Khaine, Cegorach and Isha; coupled with their toxic culture, social Darwinist tendencies and selfishness, many decided to just abandon religion altogether - although atheism was never officially enforced it was encouraged (this is commemorated in-universe with Iconoclast's Mound, a mountainous landfill of various religious icons from all different races, beginning with Eldar religious icons when the Commorrites threw away their own beliefs). Later they learned that Khaine, Isha and Cegorach survived. Some Dark Eldar do revere Khaine and some occasionally join the ranks of the Harlequins, but most Dark Eldar are either non-religious or atheistic. Vect himself has some syncretized views on religion in Commorragh; he is a self-serving - as our frenemies at Tv Tropes say - naytheist (meaning he believes gods exist but refuses to worship or follow them), is dismissive of religiosity in all its forms unless he finds an adherent useful to him (unless they serve Chaos), and brushed off Ynnead as a myth until Ynnead awakened his power in Yvraine while in Commorragh, whereupon Vect's view on anything Ynnead changed from "it's a worthless myth" to "destroy it all".		The religious situation in the Dark City has been complex. Given their tendency towards selfish hedonism, Commorrites tend to play fast and loose with religion as a whole, with secularism as the main order of the day. Many in Commorragh outright dismiss religion and gods altogether for their own selfish desires. After the Fall of the Eldar, Slaanesh nommed all the Eldar gods save Khaine, Cegorach and Isha; coupled with their toxic culture, social Darwinist tendencies and selfishness, many decided to just abandon religion altogether - although atheism was never officially enforced it was encouraged (this is commemorated in-universe with Iconoclast's Mound, a mountainous landfill of various religious icons from all different races, beginning with Eldar religious icons when the Commorrites threw away their own beliefs). Later they learned that Khaine, Isha and Cegorach survived. Some Dark Eldar do revere Khaine and some occasionally join the ranks of the Harlequins, but most Dark Eldar are either non-religious or atheistic. Vect himself has some syncretized views on religion in Commorragh; he is a self-serving - as our frenemies at Tv Tropes say - naytheist (meaning he believes gods exist but refuses to worship or follow them), is dismissive of religiosity in all its forms unless he finds an adherent useful to him (unless they serve Chaos), and brushed off Ynnead as a myth until Ynnead awakened his power in Yvraine while in Commorragh, whereupon Vect's view on anything Ynnead changed from "it's a worthless myth" to "destroy it all".

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1d4chan>Piroko at 03:46, 30 May 2023

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	\|Military Force= [[Kabal\|Kabals,]] Wych Cults, Haemonculi Covens, [[Fleets of Commorragh]], [[Eldar Corsairs\| Corsairs]], and Mercenaries.		\|Military Force= [[Kabal\|Kabals,]] Wych Cults, Haemonculi Covens, [[Fleets of Commorragh]], [[Eldar Corsairs\| Corsairs]], and Mercenaries.
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	{{Topquote\|Is an Eldar not entitled to the sweat of his brow? 'No!' says ~~the Eldar in~~ the Exodite ~~Worlds~~, 'it belongs to the land.' 'No!' says the Harlequin, 'it belongs to Cegorach.' 'No!' says the ~~Eldar in the Craftworld~~, 'it belongs to everyone.' I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose... Commorragh. A city where the artist would not fear the censor; where the Haemonculus would not be bound by petty morality; where the Archon would not be constrained by the slave! And with the sweat of your brow, Commorragh can become your city as well.\|<s>Andrew Ryan</s> Asdrubael Vect on Commorragh}}		{{Topquote\|Is an Eldar not entitled to the sweat of his brow? 'No!' says the Exodite, 'it belongs to the land.' 'No!' says the Harlequin, 'it belongs to Cegorach.' 'No!' says the Craftworlder, 'it belongs to everyone.' I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose... Commorragh. A city where the artist would not fear the censor; where the Haemonculus would not be bound by petty morality; where the Archon would not be constrained by the slave! And with the sweat of your brow, Commorragh can become your city as well.\|<s>Andrew Ryan</s> Asdrubael Vect on Commorragh}}
	{{Topquote\|If the galaxy was a giant rundown town, Commorragh would be the local nightclub-turned-insane asylum.\|[[If the Emperor had a Text-to-Speech Device\|Big E making his opinion on the city clear]]		{{Topquote\|If the galaxy was a giant rundown town, Commorragh would be the local nightclub-turned-insane asylum.\|[[If the Emperor had a Text-to-Speech Device\|Big E making his opinion on the city clear]]
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1d4chan>Gilten at 07:37, 22 November 2022

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			[[File:Exodite commorragh.PNG\|600px\|thumb\|center\|Commorragh as it was shown in [[The Exodite]].]]

	{{Infobox 40k Nations		{{Infobox 40k Nations
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	{{Topquote\|If the galaxy was a giant rundown town, Commorragh would be the local nightclub-turned-insane asylum.\|[[If the Emperor had a Text-to-Speech Device\|Big E making his opinion on the city clear]]		{{Topquote\|If the galaxy was a giant rundown town, Commorragh would be the local nightclub-turned-insane asylum.\|[[If the Emperor had a Text-to-Speech Device\|Big E making his opinion on the city clear]]
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	~~[[File:Exodite commorragh.PNG\|600px\|thumb\|center\|Commorragh as it was shown in [[The Exodite]]. ]]~~

	'''Commorragh''' is the main realm (there really is no better word for it) of the [[Dark Eldar]]. It sits at the heart of the [[Webway]]. Games Workshop named them after the Mafia-esque Camorra clans of Naples and the Scriptural city Gommorrah. Other influences are the Mos Eisley spaceport (though Commorragh makes Mos Eisley look like an Amish community), Port Royal, BEIC-era Singapore, and, since elf, [[Erelhei-Cinlu]] and [[Menzoberranzan]]. If there is ONE place in the galaxy you don't want to end up in (except Daemon Worlds and New Jersey), it's Commorragh.		'''Commorragh''' is the main realm (there really is no better word for it) of the [[Dark Eldar]]. It sits at the heart of the [[Webway]]. Games Workshop named them after the Mafia-esque Camorra clans of Naples and the Scriptural city Gommorrah. Other influences are the Mos Eisley spaceport (though Commorragh makes Mos Eisley look like an Amish community), Port Royal, BEIC-era Singapore, and, since elf, [[Erelhei-Cinlu]] and [[Menzoberranzan]]. If there is ONE place in the galaxy you don't want to end up in (except Daemon Worlds and New Jersey), it's Commorragh.

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	Despite it being hidden in the Webway and being crazy heavily defended Commorragh has been invaded multiple times: often by [[Orks]], one time by [[Space Marines]] ([[Salamanders]] and their successors, fittingly) or [[Chaos Space Marines]] ([[Death Guard]] of all people), but mostly by Daemons. Almost '''all''' of these invasions were engineered by the Dark Eldar themselves to deal with their rivals in the ensuing chaos of battle. Denizens don't even consider these incidents threatening anymore. If anything your average Kabalite sees it as an upgraded version of a realspace raid - you get the joy of the hunt without leaving the Dark City and subjecting yourself to a withering influence of materium sucking half of the energy you take from torturing your quarry, AND you can backstab your competitors, superiors or aspiring underlings as there's no realspace raid truce to stop you. Sure, some would die in the fighting, but most invaders don't have body annihilating weapons, so the neighborhood Haemunculus can fire up a resurrection chamber and regenerate you from little more than a phalanx digit in their back-alley shop of horrors. Anyone who gets "accidentally" vaporized by "friendly" darklight fire certainly ''deserves'' to stay dead for not watching their back. Despite probably having one of the smallest populations for a faction in the galaxy, the fact that they are all in one "place" makes any attack a supremely risky proposition.		Despite it being hidden in the Webway and being crazy heavily defended Commorragh has been invaded multiple times: often by [[Orks]], one time by [[Space Marines]] ([[Salamanders]] and their successors, fittingly) or [[Chaos Space Marines]] ([[Death Guard]] of all people), but mostly by Daemons. Almost '''all''' of these invasions were engineered by the Dark Eldar themselves to deal with their rivals in the ensuing chaos of battle. Denizens don't even consider these incidents threatening anymore. If anything your average Kabalite sees it as an upgraded version of a realspace raid - you get the joy of the hunt without leaving the Dark City and subjecting yourself to a withering influence of materium sucking half of the energy you take from torturing your quarry, AND you can backstab your competitors, superiors or aspiring underlings as there's no realspace raid truce to stop you. Sure, some would die in the fighting, but most invaders don't have body annihilating weapons, so the neighborhood Haemunculus can fire up a resurrection chamber and regenerate you from little more than a phalanx digit in their back-alley shop of horrors. Anyone who gets "accidentally" vaporized by "friendly" darklight fire certainly ''deserves'' to stay dead for not watching their back. Despite probably having one of the smallest populations for a faction in the galaxy, the fact that they are all in one "place" makes any attack a supremely risky proposition.

	However, in at least three instances the forces of the [[Imperium]] have displayed that they can locate, enter and exit Commorragh, with both the [[Deathwatch]] and [[Space Wolves]] having done so and the forces of the [[Forge World]] Stygies also having marched an army right into the city before. While Imperium does have a lot of horrific planet-destroying weapons, marching into a Commorragh and blowing one likely won't work: the dark city is actually not one place, but thousands of webway nodes connected through ~~instnant~~-travel portals, so any WMD powerful enough would at best only destroy one district and make already dreadful Commorragh traffic a bit worse, as some other districts would have to redirect routes that led through destroyed districts. Considering Dark Eldar often destroy each ~~others~~ districts in their multiple internal conflicts, Imperium blowing up some wouldn't even register.		However, in at least three instances the forces of the [[Imperium]] have displayed that they can locate, enter and exit Commorragh, with both the [[Deathwatch]] and [[Space Wolves]] having done so and the forces of the [[Forge World]] Stygies also having marched an army right into the city before. While Imperium does have a lot of horrific planet-destroying weapons, marching into a Commorragh and blowing one likely won't work: the dark city is actually not one place, but thousands of webway nodes connected through instant-travel portals, so any WMD powerful enough would at best only destroy one district and make already dreadful Commorragh traffic a bit worse, as some other districts would have to redirect routes that led through destroyed districts. Considering Dark Eldar often destroy each other's districts in their multiple internal conflicts, Imperium blowing up some wouldn't even register.

	==The History of the Dark City==		==The History of the Dark City==

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A Tour Guide of Commorragh

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	[[File:Commorragh_Better.jpg\|thumb\|400px\|The skyline of Commorragh. Can--and will--be viewed from any angle.\|right]]		[[File:Commorragh_Better.jpg\|thumb\|400px\|The skyline of Commorragh. Can--and will--be viewed from any angle.\|right]]

	If you're not a Dark Eldar, Harlequin, or a badass mercenary, Commorragh can be difficult to get around in (if not outright impossible). It's a city that destroys the weak,take from the stupid, torments the slow, and kills the innocent. Of course, all the previous four will die with a whimper and with no dignity intact, it just varies on how and when. Despite popular theory, non-Eldar can prosper in Commorragh, since there are several parts where aliens live in towns and the most fearsome can be recruited into Dark Eldar Kabals. In particular, it's not unknown for Orks to be wildly successful in the fighting rings only to give their masters a good crumping and go free agent.		If you're not a Dark Eldar, Harlequin, or a badass mercenary, Commorragh can be difficult to get around in (if not outright impossible). It's a city that destroys the weak, take from the stupid, torments the slow, and kills the innocent. Of course, all the previous four will die with a whimper and with no dignity intact, it just varies on how and when. Despite popular theory, non-Eldar can prosper in Commorragh, since there are several parts where aliens live in towns and the most fearsome can be recruited into Dark Eldar Kabals. In particular, it's not unknown for Orks to be wildly successful in the fighting rings only to give their masters a good crumping and go free agent.

	A list of tips for newcomers.		A list of tips for newcomers.
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	* Head to the district called 'Null City' and become a badass alien mercenary (humans are aliens to Dark Eldar).		* Head to the district called 'Null City' and become a badass alien mercenary (humans are aliens to Dark Eldar).
	* Do. not. fuck. with. [[Asdrubael Vect]].		* Do. not. fuck. with. [[Asdrubael Vect]].
	* NO PSYKERS ALLOWED!!! (and that goes triple for anything that reeks of daemonic)		* NO PSYKERS ALLOWED, EVER!!! (and that goes triple for anything that reeks of daemonic)

	Otherwise.		Otherwise.

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A Tour Guide of Commorragh

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	[[File:Commorragh_Better.jpg\|thumb\|400px\|The skyline of Commorragh. Can--and will--be viewed from any angle.\|right]]		[[File:Commorragh_Better.jpg\|thumb\|400px\|The skyline of Commorragh. Can--and will--be viewed from any angle.\|right]]

	If you're not a Dark Eldar, Harlequin, or a badass mercenary, Commorragh can be difficult to get around in. It's a city that destroys the weak, torments the slow, and kills the ~~stupid~~. Of course, all the previous ~~three~~ will die, it just varies on how and when. Despite popular theory, non-Eldar can prosper in Commorragh, since there are several parts where aliens live in towns and the most fearsome can be recruited into Dark Eldar Kabals. In particular, it's not unknown for Orks to be wildly successful in the fighting rings only to give their masters a good crumping and go free agent.		If you're not a Dark Eldar, Harlequin, or a badass mercenary, Commorragh can be difficult to get around in (if not outright impossible). It's a city that destroys the weak,take from the stupid, torments the slow, and kills the innocent. Of course, all the previous four will die with a whimper and with no dignity intact, it just varies on how and when. Despite popular theory, non-Eldar can prosper in Commorragh, since there are several parts where aliens live in towns and the most fearsome can be recruited into Dark Eldar Kabals. In particular, it's not unknown for Orks to be wildly successful in the fighting rings only to give their masters a good crumping and go free agent.

	A list of tips for newcomers.		A list of tips for newcomers.
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	* Don't feed the Scourges, they're not pigeons, if you do expect things to end up like Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds!		* Don't feed the Scourges, they're not pigeons, if you do expect things to end up like Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds!
	* There's no night or day, just the dull, baleful glow of stolen stars. It also has many areas where light never reaches (Dark Eldar adapted by developing natural night vision).		* There's no night or day, just the dull, baleful glow of stolen stars. It also has many areas where light never reaches (Dark Eldar adapted by developing natural night vision).
	* In the shadows you can encounter Mandrakes, who will kill and/or eat you.		* In the shadows you can encounter Mandrakes, who will kill, torture, rape and/or eat you.
	* The unnatural geometry of Commmoragh can be extremely disorienting for visitors.		* The unnatural geometry of Commmoragh can be extremely disorienting for visitors.
	* That banging noise near Khaine's Gate isn't [[Skarbrand]] and his daemonic hordes (see [[If The Emperor Had a Text-To-Speech Device]]) it's absolutely nothing at all. NOTHING-AT-ALL!		* That banging noise near Khaine's Gate isn't [[Skarbrand]] and his daemonic hordes (see [[If The Emperor Had a Text-To-Speech Device]]) it's absolutely nothing at all. NOTHING-AT-ALL!
	* Commoragh could be called a "tourist trap" in the most literal sense of the word, as anyone who tours Commoragh will end up trapped in an arena or Haemonculus lab and end up as a meat puppet for some demented Haemonculus who thinks you'd look better with snake skin and swords for arms and legs!		* Commoragh could be called a "tourist trap" in the most literal sense of the word, as anyone who tours Commoragh will end up trapped in an arena or Haemonculus lab and end up as a meat puppet for some demented Haemonculus who thinks you'd look better with snake skin and swords for arms and legs!
	* Commoragh has free healthcare, just see Dr Haemonculus for the slightest cough.		* Commoragh has free healthcare, just see Dr Haemonculus for the slightest cough.
	* [[Reaver Jetbike]]s and [[Hellions]] HATE each other and they hate you, but while it's likely that the reavers would run you down for fun, the hellions aren't so sadistic, they'd give you a head start first! If you're being chased by one group of fliers, flee towards more fliers and then escape in the ensuing air battle.		* [[Reaver Jetbike]]s and [[Hellions]] HATE each other and they hate you too, but while it's likely that the reavers would run you down for fun, the hellions aren't as sadistic, they'd give you a head start first! If you're being chased by one group of fliers, flee towards more fliers and then escape in the ensuing air battle.
	* Don't go out alone... unless you're [[batman\|stupid powerful]], in which case going alone is always the best choice. Basically you have to balance being threatening enough to deter casual interest, without looking like you're out to fight a small war (because someone will take you up on it).		* Don't go out alone... unless you're [[batman\|stupid powerful]], in which case going alone is always the best choice. Basically you have to balance being threatening enough to deter casual interest, without looking like you're out to fight a small war (because someone will take you up on it).