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|Reputation= Crashed on [[Trollius]],<br>isolationist, cruel
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'''Ul-Khari''' is an [[Eldar]] [[Craftworld]] with a long history intertwined their former [[Maiden World]] [[Aral'dha]] within the [[Gilead System]].
==Overview==
[[File:Ul-Khari Ranger.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Ul-Khari [[Ranger]]{{Fn|1c}}]]The Asuryani of Ul-Khari are largely defined by their present struggle and recent tragedy. Tenacity in the face of hardship, loss, and scarce resources. The many orange banners fluttering in the cold wind and frozen environment gives their home an impression of an autumnal forest. Much of the outer sections of their vessel have become like graveyards, been abandoned in order to consolidate in within the more habitable and warmer interior sections. Many of The asuryani do what they can make make the craftworld feel less like a vacuous graveyard, rebuilding ruined [[wraithbone]] architecture to be more compact and comfortable, rather than monolithic and grandiose. With so many dead and so much ruined by the crash, most Asuryani have been forced to retread old [[Path]]s for the survival of their craftworld, shunted into new or old roles they had abandoned long ago out of practical necessity.{{Fn|2c}}
The Ul-Khari Asuryani have garnered an unjust reputation for cruelty. The recent hard times require every action to be weighed against available resources. Rather than wasting resources they don't have attacking a hard target that will pose little threat in a prophecy, they often strike currently vulnerable ones that will assuredly become a significant threat in the future. Such as obliterating an isolated group of [[guardsmen]] long before they are prophesied to cause a major daemonic incursion. Aeldari prophecy and early intervention has saved the Gilead system many times over and continues to do so.{{Fn|2c}}
===The Call===
Most Ul-Khari Aeldari experience a psychic vision known as the Call at least once in their lives, with varying clarity and force. The details of the vision are clouded in metaphor and symbolism, but the [[Seer]]s have arrived to a consensus: something real and tangible from the ancient [[Aeldari Empire]] was lost in the Gilead System.{{Fn|2c}}
The prevailing theory , espoused by Ul'Khari Seer [[Seleithe Taranlys]] , is that whatever the Call is guiding Ul-Khari towards might help restore their Craftworld's [[Avatar]]. All aeldari factions in the Gilead System know of this preoccupation the Ul-Khari craftworlders have and will sometimes use it to their advantage, sending would of a strong lead so that craftworlder agents might be sent to help investigate.{{Fn|2c}} ===World Rune===The world-rune of Ul-Khari has always underpinned their inherent persistence and tenacity in the face of hardship, even before the current crisis. With a few subtle alterations to the rune's elegant strokes is now means: ''"We will not be forgotten"''. This further expresses the reality of their new situation and hope for change.{{Fn|2d}}
==History==
[[File:Ul-Khari Autarch.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Ul-Khari [[Autarch]]{{Fn|2f}}]]
What would be known as the Gilead system was once part of the [[Eldar Empire]]. They would turn one of its barren worlds into a lush maiden world, which they named [[Aral'dha]], meaning 'flower of dawn'. These ancient aeldari would eventually depart from this living monument to their gods, returning to the heart of their empire. These eldar sensed something off about their society upon their return but thought little of it until the depraved rot was readily evident. Most of the aeldari who crafted the world would choose to depart their society, making their exodus aboard the craftworld Ul-Khari for their true home, Aral'dha.{{Fn|2a}}
Sometime prior to M30, Ul-Khari returned to the Gilead system where they found humanity deeply cemented in the system. Rather than attempting diplomacy or engaging the system in outright battle, the lone craftworld would instead choose subtler means to unseat the [[Mon-keigh]] squatters. Before these plans bore fruit the [[Fall of the Eldar|Fall of the Aeldari Empire]] occurred, and aeldari across the galaxy were forced to salvage what they could in the aftermath.{{Fn|2a}}
In [[M34]], after craftworld Ul-Khari learned how to preserve themselves after death with [[spirit stone]]s and the [[infinity circuit]] from their [[Iyanden|kin]], they returned to the Gilead System. They found it firmly under the control of [[Chaos]] and [[Slaanesh]]. They sent scouts through the webway to investigate the enemy more closely, and did the same to learn of the plans of the Imperium. Learning of the [[Julyanna Gilead]] was mustering a crusade to retake the system, Ul-Khari had hoped to defeat two foes at once. Believing the [[Gilead Crusade]] would quickly move on to other threats after conquering the system, Ul-Khari secretly aided the Imperial forces, unbeknownst to the Mon-Keigh. The Gilead Crusade's logistics were aided through subtle influence of the [[Navigator]]s and [[Astropath]]s, guiding and directing them as needed. The military forces on the ground would often find enemies withered by unseen rangers or flanked and distracted. The ignorant Imperials attributed much of this to their [[Emperor]], claiming their crusade was blessed.{{Fn|2a}}
A [[Harlequin]] [[Solitare]] also appeared to aid in this campaign, much to the dread of the asuryani. The Harlequin told an small assembled group of Ul-Khari asuryani that they must make their craftworld one with a planet in the Gilead System, as [[Cegorach]] had a grand joke to play and the Gilead System as the stage for it. Only one aeldari survived this meeting.{{Fn|2a}}
The Asuryani was apparent as they did not foresee the Imperials fortifying themselves in the system and using it as a staging point for many further crusades. The Ul-Khari who decried the aid given to the Imperials as foolish were proven correct, they simply traded one uninvited guest for another. The Imperial presence in the Gilead System would remain stronger than ever going into the future.{{Fn|2a}}
Ul-Khari would travel throughout the galaxy, learning more of the sorry state their once-great civilisation was now in. The craftworld would intermiddently return to their home, the Gilead System, keenly observant of their former maiden world home Aral'dha, now named [[Ostia]] by the Imperials.{{Fn|2a}}
===Collision===
At the end of [[M41]] the [[Great Rift]] would tear across the galaxy. Ul-Khari was traveling along the Gilead System's edge, when a [[warp rift]] tore open, having been caused by the Great Rift's violent sundering of [[realspace]]. By some cruel joke by the [[Weaver of Fate]], the rift ejected an entire planet. A frozen hellscape of a [[Hive World]] was hurled directly in the path of the craftworld. With no time to evade, the aeldari vessel crash-landed on the warp-forsaken world [[Trollius]], a long-dead world haunted by unknown terrors.{{Fn|1a}}{{Fn|1b}}
===Trollius===
[[File:Ul-Khari Wraithlord.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Ul-Khari [[Wraithlord]] aiding a yet living asuryani out from under debris.{{Fn|2c}}]]
The collision with with the rogue planet proved to be disastrous for Ul-Khari, as the giant [[Warp Storm]] caused by the [[Great Rift]]'s opening caused the long-dead and frozen [[Hive World]] [[Trollius]] to suddenly appear in front of the Craftworld. With no time to evade Trollius, Ul-Khari crashed into the Hive World, which resulted in the Craftworld being seriously damaged due to a devastating impact on the Hive World's surface.{{Fn|1}} Now Ul-Khari lingers there half-buried within the ice and permanently fused to its surface, so the only way to separate the stone from the [[wraithbone]] is to smash Trollius to pieces. Almost half of Ul-Khari was ruined beyond recognition in the collision. A significant portion of Ul-Khari's population survived the crash and now struggle to live on and pick up the pieces of their shattered Craftworld.{{Fn|2b}} Although they can depart their wrecked home through the [[webway]], doing so would comdemn untold numbers of souls within the craftworld's [[infinity circuit]] to greedy [[human]]s and hungry [[daemon]]s.{{Fn|3a}}
Daemons lurk on the warp-infused world and they hunger for the prize of [[soul stone]]s within the vulnerable ship. Although the Asuryani still have war machine and elite warriors at their disposal, if it wasn't for the intervention of Princess Greensteel and Rogue Trader Varonius, they would have been overrun by [[Dark Apostle]] [[Marloquence]] during the [[Tide of Red Frosts]].{{Fn|3a}}
==World RuneAeldari Allies==The world-rune of Ul-Khari has always underpinned a close relationship the the [[Harlequin]]s. The [[Masque of the Calamity Trail]] visits the trapped craftworld regularly and provide news of the system beyond their inherent persistence wrecked home. They also provide relief from boredom, misery, and tenacity fear along with being fierce allies when needed.{{Fn|2c}} The asuryani are loathe to ever actually admit they are in need of aid and would be significantly worse off if it wasn't for their local Aeldari allies. The [[Aeldari Corsair]] band known as the face [[Greensteel Warriors]] have devoted themselves to Ul-Khari's protection, although this isn't purely out of hardshipaltuism, as the Emerald [[Corsair Prince|Princess]] [[Ferianwyr]] has her own discrete personal goals behind this generous aid. Through her, the asuryani are even before more reluctantly allied with the current crisisHuman rogue trader Jakel Varonius, a close ally of the Greensteel Warriors. With {{Fn|2c}} The Ul-Khari Asuryani despise the [[Drukhari]] as a few subtle alterations to whole, but hold special loathing for [[Archon]] [[Kyrik Rhaul]]. The craftworlder's believe that the runearchon's elegant strokes recent increase in raids in the Gilead system is now means: ''"We will not be forgotten"a sign that she wishes to take advantage of Ul'Khari's weakness. In truth, a recent [[Dysjunction]] in [[Commorragh]] has left her with few system she can easily access. This further expresses Thus she only intends to increase the reality frequency of their new situation and hope for changeraids on Gilead.{{Fn|2d2c}}
==Notable Ul-Khari Eldar==
*[[Kurannin the Muse]] - [[Bonesinger]]{{Fn|2c}}
*[[Seleithe Taranlys]] - [[Seer]] and [[Loremaster (Eldar)|Loremaster]]{{Fn|2c}}
==Images==
<gallery mode="noline" mode="packed" heights="250px">
Ul-Khari Ranger and Skitarius.jpg|An Ul-Khari Ranger and a [[Skitarius]]{{Fn|2e}}
</gallery>
==See also==
**{{Endn|1a}}: pg. 43 - ''The Dark Imperium''
**{{Endn|1b}}: pg. 309 - ''Trollius''
**{{Endn|1c}}: pg. 107 - ''Ranger''
*2: [[Wrath & Glory - Aeldari - Inheritance of Embers]]:
**{{Endn|2a}}: pgpgs. 5 4-8 - ''An Ancient System''
**{{Endn|2b}}: pgs. 100-101 - ''Worlds of Bone''
**{{Endn|2c}}: pg. 103-113 - ''Ul-Khari Ornamentation''
**{{Endn|2d}}: pg. 102 - ''Craftworld Ul-Khari''
**{{Endn|2e}}: pg. 152
**{{Endn|2f}}: pg. 33
*3: [[Wrath & Glory: Forsaken System]]:
**{{Endn|3a}}: pgs. 56-57 - ''Craftworlders of Ul Khari''
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