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The '''Elohim''' were a mysterious [[xenos]] species that once inhabited, among other worlds, the planet [[Aghoru]].{{Fn|1}}
== History ==
In the legends of the Aghoru people, the Elohim evolved their forms to such perfect physical beauty that they fell in love with their own appearances. They had the ability to changed change the forms of plants , thus allowing them to establish a build enormous organic constructs, scattered around their vast empire of worlds. {{Fn|1d}} Having attained such power they devoting devoted their lives to hedonism and the exploration of pleasure. Eventually, the powers that they harnessed in pursuit of these pleasures turned on them, and led to the almost-instantaneous and nearly-complete extinction of their race. {{Fn|1d}} Most of those who survived this catastrophe became the [[Daiesthai]], a perverted and dark foil of the Elohim. Eventually, the Daiesthai were forced into hiding and imprisoned in "the Mountain" on Aghoru, an artificial construct said to "eat men." The Aghoru interred the corpses of their dead in the Mountain, trying to placate the hunger of these sleeping monsters. They also placed a pair of immense [[Titan]]s at the entrance to the Mountain's valley, supposedly to guard against the return of the monsters.{{Fn|1d}}
During the [[Great Crusade]], some of the [[Thousand Sons]] who arrived to effect Aghoru's compliance with the [[Imperium]] dismissed these legends as simplistic creation myths, used, like so many others, to teach and control the population.{{Fn|1a}} However, it was indisputable that the corpses interred in the Mountain were gone by the following year, as if consumed by some unknown process.{{Fn|1b}}
==Connection with the Eldar==
{{Spoiler|source=A Thousand Sons}}
The Elohim are analogous to the Eldar, the Aghoru legend contains many parallels to the [[Fall of the Eldar]]. *The Aghoru legend closely parallels what is known about the [[Fall of the Eldar]], and the subsequent collapse of their [[Eldar Empire|empire]] and the division of their species into [[Dark Eldar|factions]].{{Fn|1d}}
*The [[psychic]] [[remembrancer]] [[Camille Shivani]] excavated an Elohim helmet on Aghoru that appeared to have been organically grown, rather than constructed (similar to [[Wraithbone]]); the relic conferred upon her the memories of a furious, yet sad, warrior dancer in the midst of her sisterhood (similar to the [[Howling Banshee]]s).{{Fn|1c}}
* The Titans found at the valley entrance appear appeared strikingly similar to known [[Eldar Titan]]s.{{Fn|1a}}{{Fn|1d}}** Large, curved, structures for faces.{{Fn|1a}}** Both are were armed with [[lance weaponsweapon]]s. One fires fired at several [[Land Raider]]s, vapourising them (similar to the Eldar's anti-vehicle Eldar [[Brightlance]] weapons).{{Fn|1e}}** When the '"bejeweled head' " of the titan was cracked, it unleashed a [[psychic scream]] of some sort.{{Fn|1e}}** The Titans were bone -coloured, and when one titan's armour was damaged the '"[[Wraithbone|bone-like material' ]]" of its construction was exposed.{{Fn|1e}}* The Thousand Sons' 2nd [[Fellowship ]]'s [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]], [[Phosis T'Kar]], and [[Ahzek Ahriman]], then Chief [[Chief Librarian]], liken likened the aforementioned Titans to Eldar designs.{{Fn|1a}}
Whether the Elohim were in fact Eldar remains unconfirmed.
