Because of this, Aeldari are more intelligent but also far more intense than Humans.Īlthough an Aeldari and a Human can both feel grief or joy, the Aeldari's experience is likely to be far more extreme. The Aeldari mind, while similar in general to the Human psyche, is far more inclined towards emotional extremes. This can be seen in even their slightest gestures or the dexterity with which they manipulate small objects. The most obvious difference between Humans and Aeldari can only be seen when they move, for the movements of an Aeldari radiate a subtle grace which is impossible for a Human to emulate.
Their ears are also slightly pointed, but otherwise they could pass as Human at first glance. They possess longer and cleaner limbs, and fine ascetic features with penetrating and slightly slanted, almond-shaped eyes.
Written records, monuments and visual records were almost completely destroyed except for a few instances where they were taken aboard voidcraft fleeing from the doomed worlds.Īs a humanoid race, Aeldari are physically very similar to Humans, although not entirely identical by any means. The remnants of Aeldari culture that survived the cataclysm among the Asuryani preserved much of their species' history in the form of traditional stories, songs and dance. The Asuryani Warlock Arquellia of the Ulthwé Craftworld, wielding a Witchblade while being accompanied by her pet Grynix. The original Aeldari homeworld was destroyed during the catastrophic collapse of the Aeldari civilisation known as the Fall of the Aeldari. The Aeldari species has a long and complex spacefaring history, so long in fact that little is known for certain about the course of their physical evolution and early planet-bound existence. It is the use of these technologies and their pursuit of a rigid system of behavioural modification to keep their darker impulses in check that shape the Asuryani lifestyle and define their culture as distinct from that of the other Aeldari sub-cultures. The Asuryani rely on mystical technologies like psychocrystalline Spirit Stones and the psychoactive wraithbone Infinity Circuits that comprise the skeletons of their craftworlds to store their souls after death and prevent their consumption by Slaanesh. Now the Asuryani cling to survival by a thread, fighting the horrors of the galaxy with ritualised mental discipline and consummate martial skill. But over ten millennia ago, the Aeldari's overweening pride and their fall into hedonistic practices led to a cataclysm that all but eradicated their kind and led to the birth of the Chaos God Slaanesh.ĭespite their boundless power, the heart of their civilisation was torn out by this catastrophe of their own making, forcing many of the surviving Aeldari, now calling themselves "Eldar" to outsiders and "Asuryani" among themselves, to flee upon gigantic, continent-size starships once used for commerce and trade that they named craftworlds. The Aeldari Empire was without equal, and they counted themselves masters of the stars.
The Asuryani are a kindred of the Aeldari race who now live on vast, city-like starships called craftworlds. The Asuryani ( Aeldarix dolosus) ("Children of Asuryan" in the Aeldari Lexicon), also called Craftworld Aeldari as they were named before the fall of their lost realm, or the Eldar as they were long known to outsiders, are an ancient humanoid alien species whose vast empire once extended the width and breadth of the known galaxy. Rune for the Asuryani in the Aeldari Lexicon. There is no understanding them for there is nothing to understand – they are a random force in the universe." They are capricious and fickle, attacking without cause or warning. " Trust not in their appearance for the Eldar are as utterly alien to good, honest men as the vile Tyranids and savage Orks.
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