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Having attained such power they devoted their lives to hedonism and the exploration of pleasure. Eventually, the powers 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 The Elohim 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}}
