Chaotic Eldar
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Chaotic Eldar are Aeldari who have fallen to Chaos.[1] They are Mutants,[5] monstrosities,[4] newly chaos-tainted[8] and the truly damned millennia-old survivors of the Fall: the Renegade Eldar Chaos Champions[1][2]. To the rest of the Aeldari, Chaotic Eldar are kin no more, forever lost, intentionally forgotten and unacknowledged.[1]
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History
Most of the Chaotic Eldar now survive on the Crone Worlds in the Eye of Terror. Asuryani Rangers who venture into the Eye of Terror make dealings with the Chaotic Eldar for Spirit Stones, Shuriken Casters, and other artifacts of the Eldar Empire. Expeditions are made regularly to the Tyrakesh Archeomarket on Arach-Cyn[4]; Inquisitor Bronislaw Czevak has also had dealings at the market. Others survive throughout the Galaxy as isolated bands of chaos-devoted Pirates.[8][10]
There are unknowable varieties of Chaotic Eldar Mutants, but one stable ab-strain are the Shriekers of Belial IV which have taken on bat-like features[5]. Apothecary Arrian Zorzi described their genetic code as being degraded to the point of indecipherability[5].
Notable Chaotic Eldar
- Mannax Grimblood – An Eldar Mutant Champion, a renegade survivor who is possibly millions of years old and still battles.[3]
- Gorhu – An ancient renegade from before the Fall of the Eldar but whose Chaos-created Armour prevented him from being slain while sapping his intelligence and ability to learn, driving him to madness and flight never to be seen again.[11]
Asuryani
- Windrider Clan Sylthach – A former Saim-Hann clan who conjured Daemons of Nurgle into their Waystones out of despair when their home was cut from the Craftworld, and survive as Eldar Corsairs.[8]
- The Possessed Wraithknight within the Wraithship Plague Hulk Festerax above Kefa Primaris which marched as if blinded, dribbling green fluid and heavily corroded the only evidence of an Eldar within the intestinal growths spilling forth from its pilot-chamber.[15]
Drukhari
- Maless Darkblade – a Drukhari Reaver who became Possessed by the Daemon within the Vault of Wishes on Skurminal and agreed to allow the demon to "commit cruelties undreamed of" using her body.[16]
- The Dysjunction caused by the revival of El'uriaq affected the protections between Commorragh in the Webway and the Warp, allowing several Dark Eldar to become corrupted by the Chaos Powers:[13a]
- Azoruakh and Xhakoruakh – Two rival Mandrake kings who, during the Dysjunction of El'uriaq fell to two different Chaos powers[13a]: Azoruakh to Tzeentch, growing additional fingers and a bird-like claw for a foot,[13b] Xhakoruakh to Nurgle, growing into a great bulbous mandrake and wielding a rusted, oozing scythe.[13a] Both were, separately, decapitated by Kheradruakh the Decapitator[13a][13c] their skulls now sit opposite each other in his collection.[13d]
- Caraeis – Biel-Tanni Warlock who, in working with the Incubus Morr to attempt to remove the Dragon Aspect of the Maiden World Lileathanir, implanted by the raiding party of the Kabal of the White Flames as they stole the Worldsinger from the World Shrine, instead invited its corruption into himself becoming a conduit for a Lord of Change.[12]
- Xelian – Warrior Queen of the Kabal of the Blades of Desire who, during the Dysjunction of El'Uriaq was corrupted by Khorne. Xelian betrayed Yllithian to Vect but was slain by the Harlequin Motley who recognized her Khornate corruption, trapping her soul within a crimson gem.[13d]
- Yllithian – Archon of the Kabal of the White Flames who orchestrated a plan to resurrect El'uriaq the Tyrand of Shaa-Dom, which resulted in a Dysjunction. Through information provided by the Harlequin Motley, Vect surmised that the Dysjunction itself had been brought about as Yllithian had been manipulated by the Architect of Fate. Vect returned his soul to his original Glass Plague-affected body, rather than release his soul to Chaos.[13d]
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3. ++REDACTED++, a bat-like creature of Aeldari descent[6]
Maless Darkblade opens the Vault of Wishes[16]
Trivia
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- Maless Darkblade is the Warhammer 40,000 equivalent of the Warhammer Fantasy character Malus Darkblade, created for the Warhammer Monthly 63 "Hammer Time!" event which saw alternate versions of comic protagonists from one reality appear in the other.[16]
See also
- The Cursus of Alganar - One of the Gateways of the Gods now buried beneath the dunes of Tallarn, predates the Fall. When activated it's carvings become Eldar creatures twisted with an uncanny evil locked together by sorcerous bond in a sickening embrace of depraved passion which manifests a portal to another part of the galaxy from which Daemons of Chaos emerge.[7]
- Aspect Shell - Armour with empty Spirit Stones Possessed by Daemons on Craftworld Lu'Nasad.[9]
- Kaarja Salombar - Captain of the Moonblade and Queen to the 'corsairs' of the Iron Warriors Bloodborn Warband who served M'kar. It is speculated by her appearance, inhuman abilities, and choice of title is speculated that Kaarja is either partly or fully Aeldari.[10]
- The Isha-ann Pleasure Cult within the leadership of Craftworld Kaelor which manipulated the craftworld so that its Infinity Circuit would be exposed to the raw Warp of the Maelstrom.[14]
Sources
- 1: Codex: Eldar (2nd Edition), pg. 20
- 2: White Dwarf 104 (UK), pgs. 50,52 - Chaotic Eldar Renegade
- 3: Citadel Combat Cards: Chaos (card game)
- 4: Atlas Infernal (Novel) - ACT I, CANTO VII
- 5: Fabius Bile: Manflayer (Novel), Chapter 3
- 6: Warhammer 40,000 8th Edition Rulebook, pg. 113
- 7: Codex: Imperial Guard (2nd Edition) pgs. 15-17
- 8: Codex: Death Guard (8th Edition), pg. 22 - The Serpent and the Fly
- 9: Rogue Trader: Fallen Suns, pg. 65
- 10: The Chapter's Due (Novel), Ch. 7
- 11: Warhammer 40,000: Rites of War Instruction Manual, pg. 86 (last accessed 12/2/2025)
- 12: Path of the Incubus (Novel), Chapter 24 – Sacrifice
- 13: Path of the Archon (Novel):
- 14: Eldar Prophecy (Novel), Chapter Ten
- 15: Stormcaller (Novel), Chapter 12
- 16: Warhammer Monthly 63 - Maless Darkblade
