Fall of the Eldar

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The Fall of the Eldar, one of the most under appreciated events in the 40k universe (seriously there is hardly any fluff about this time) had the dubious honour of setting up the scene for the fucked up galaxy we all know and love.

Fun fun fun!

History

The beginning of the end (fall) really started off with the War in Heaven between the makers of the Eldar, the Old Ones and the Necrons and their C'tan overlords. Other marvelous articles in this wiki have gone into much detail about this event so we won't take up much time except to say the resulting war fucked everyone over and everyone that didn't go to sleep got nom-nomed by psychic space terrors.

So in the aftermath the Eldar (who somehow survived but this hasn't been explained....) found the galaxy was theirs for the taking and so became it's rulers. Through a combination of their (read, creators') advanced technology, domination over their psychic powers, and long life spans, they had little to no opposition (any ork waaaarrrgghhh too stupid to start up most likely got dropped down a black hole or something).

So the Eldar, having had such dominance of the Galaxy for such a long time (read; thousands of years), started to lose interest in menial tasks and concentrated purely on pleasureable acts.

As these are Elves with their intelligence, longevity and enhanced senses, this meant sodomy and masochism. So much sodomy and masochism they fucked this charming specimen into existence.

Cue Galactic scale lulz.

The birth scream of the great pervert consumed most of the Eldar race instantly, even the ones who hadn't wanted to join in with the whole decadence thing. You see before that super special moment, a number of Eldar had been a bit uncomfortable with what they saw happening around them (mass rape, casual murder for lolz, and everything that makes hostel look like spongebob squarepants)and warned their fellows against it. Naturally they were laughed at and called nuns with pointy ears so the sensible elfs...elder got all they could onto big old trading ships called Craftworlds and hightailed it out of there as quickly as possible. Alas it was not good enough because the pervert still got them. Only the ones that had broken the speed limit and ignored the arbiters chasing after them managed to get far enough away in time.

Aftermath

Thus the Elfdar are now a fractured people. Some survived through hiding in a webway-city where said sodomy and masochism is not just acceptable, but encouraged. Others through noticing that the debauchery was getting out of hand and left long before the Fall to live hard lives on Death Worlds/floated away in living spacecraft, many of which did not escape in time, or dancing around the webway with their patron Cegorach.

This all paved the way for the Great Crusade, and all the Grimdark that followed.

Hilariously the Imperium seems vaguely aware the Eldar had a big old space empire at one point but ignores this fact because A. The Imperium won't keep their hands off their guns long enough for an Eldar to tell them about it (although the Eldar are so arrogant themselves they might think relaying the information is beneath them....) and B. The Imperium arrogantly seem to think anything that wiped out the Eldar was because because they are Xenos and humans with their handsome faces and clean skins are just sooooooooooo much better. Given that the Chaos Gods specifically stated that their interest in humanity is because mankind is the only species to ever claw its way back to the top after being fucked-over by chaos (where-as the Eldar sure-as-shit did not) and then survived ten thousand years of crap that is easily destroying Craftworlds at least proves that humans are better at surviving, overcoming, and just plain winning than the Eldar.