Inspirational Friday 2018: Chas vs. Eldar (until 2/16)

[Kierdale]

For those who do not know it, Inspirational Friday is a (generally) fortnightly event within its home in the Chaos Space Marines forum (but open to all members of the B&C), in which a topic is set for members to write short (or long if the muse takes you) fluff/fan-fic pieces about their war bands, characters and models.

And here begins our third challenge of Inspirational Friday 2018: The Primordial Annihilator versus the Asuryani

One of the elder races, once with a galaxy-spanning Empire, the children of Isha brought about their own doom. Ignoring and forgetting the prophecies of the Old Ones, the Eldar became proud. They turned to hedonism and excess. Their society became divided as cults sprung up. Corruption spread and the aliens sought newer, more fulfilling sensations. At any cost. Their madness climaxed in the birth of the fourth god and the dark prince of Chaos – She Who Must Not Be Named: Slaanesh.

Slaanesh’s birth brought about the devastation of the Eldar Empire, tearing a hole in the fabric of reality and swallowing so many of their worlds. It is said that trillions died as the new god devoured their souls.

Only the Exodites, craftworld Eldar and the degenerates of Commorragh within the Webway, survived the end of their Empire. And for millennia they have been a dying race, only for the recent emergence of Ynnead, the Eldar god of death, to bring a seed of hope for their souls.

For those renegades and servants who bend their knee and dance to the will of Slaanesh, the hunting of Eldar is a pursuit unmatched in challenge or rewards, for their fay souls are the sweetest of morsels and likely to earn the greatest rewards from one’s patron.

Nurgle has a unique tie to the Eldar as within his garden he holds captive Isha: the mother of the Eldar herself! On a personal note I would dearly love to read a piece featuring this.

To the followers of Tzeentch their own mastery of the reading of the fates is rivaled only by that of the Eldar farseers.

And for those who harvest skulls for Khorne, what better challenge could there be than to pit oneself against the aspect warriors of the craftworlds: warriors who have dedicated their centuries-long (millennia-long?) lives to the honing of one aspect of combat?

I thought about limiting it to Craftworld Eldar only (or craftworlders and Exodites) and keeping Harlequins and the Dark Eldar for when they get their own codexes, but why shackle people?

IF2018: Chaos versus the Eldar runs until the sixteenth of February.

Let us be inspired.

And who shall judge this new challenge? That decision lies with our current judge: hushrong.

The winner of IF2018: Chaos versus the Eldar shall claim the Asuryani amulet:

And the honour of judging the next challenge (which they can forfeit to me if they so wish).

Please submit your entries (and any questions you might have) in the main IF thread linked to above.