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== 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 change the forms of plants, thus allowing them to build enormous organic constructs, scattered around their vast empire of worlds.{{Fn|1d}}
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 form 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. 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}}
* The Titans found at the valley entrance appeared strikingly similar to known [[Eldar Titan]]s.{{Fn|1a}}{{Fn|1d}}
**Large, curved, structures for faces.{{Fn|1a}}
**Both were armed with [[lance]] weapons. One fired at several [[Land Raider]]s, vapourising them (similar to the Eldar's anti-vehicle [[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 titanTitan's armour was damaged the "[[Wraithbone|bone-like material]]" of its construction was exposed.{{Fn|1e}}
**In the special hardcover edition of ''[[A Thousand Sons]]'', [[Karl Richardson]]'s illustrations clearly depict the Titans guarding the valley as Eldar in appearance.{{Fn|1x}}
*The Thousand Sons 2nd [[Fellowship]]'s [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]], [[Phosis T'Kar]], and [[Ahzek Ahriman]], then [[Chief Librarian]], likened the aforementioned Titans to Eldar designs.{{Fn|1a}}
