"Perfidious Eldar! They had the stars in their grasp and now are left to sift the dust of their once fabulous realm. For all their intellect and mysticism they could not contain the beast within them, nor tame the wild monsters of the Shadow. Why should we pay them any heed?" —Inquisitor Gründwald, Ordo Xenos The Aeldari, or the Eldar as they were long known to outsiders, are an ancient and ...
Aeldari, the archaic Eldar term for their entire species (mostly unused since the Fall, as it does not refer to the diaspora), [8] [57a] [Note 1] are an ancient naturally psychic race of elf-like humanoids created as weapons by the Old Ones to win the War in Heaven [18] in the aftermath of which their Empire dominated the Galaxy through its use of the Webway, [17] but their empire has since ...
Eldar (singular Elda) was the name given to the Elves by the Vala Oromë when he first found them wandering in the starlight of Cuiviénen. At first, the name was applied to all Elves, but after the summons of the Valar, it came to be used only for the West-elves [2] who followed the summons and began the Great Journey.
The Eldar (Quenya Tengwar: full spelling VmE6 or vowel-abbreviated spelling Vm6; IPA: [ˈeldar]; singular Elda; VmE; adjectival Eldarin; VmE7T5 or `Vm7T5; [ˈeldarin]), or Edhil (Sindarin), are those Elves who accepted to leave Cuiviénen and undertake the Great Journey to reach Valinor. Collectively they were sometimes called the Eldalië.[1][2] Some of them reached Aman and they were ...
Eldar Mythology, told through the Eldar Mythic Cycles, are ancient stories that bind the Eldar race together and form a basis for much of their thinking on their ancient past. The Mythic Cycles of the Eldar Empire tell of their pantheon of gods and heroes. [2a] The Asuryata is the mythic cycles sung by the Bards [8] of the Asuryani which tells of the Phoenix Lords and the fated end of all ...