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===Wanderings===
Ul-Khari would travel throughout the galaxy, learning more of the sorry state their once-great civilisation was now in. The craftworld would intermittently 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}}
For over a century prior to their crash, Ul-Khari carefully charted courses through the galaxy to avoid potential conflict. Although their [[Guardian]]s have not been called to war for this century, their skills remain undimished as they now defend their home on Trollius.{{Fn|1d}}
===Collision===
At the end of [[M41]] the [[Great Rift|Dathedian]] tore across the galaxy. Ul-Khari was traveling along the Gilead System's edge, when a [[warp rift]] was created around the Gilead System due to the Great Rift's violent sundering of [[realspace]]. Tthe rift ejected a rogue planet directly at the craftworld. 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}} The tendrils of the Weaver of Fate appear to have arranged the collision, for unknown purposes.{{Fn|3a}}
Nearly half of the Craftworld was destroyed in the crash or entombed in ice. Aspect Shrines of the Striking Scorpians and Firedragons were lost.{{Fn|}} Although Craftworld Ul-Khari rarely summons their Wraithguard from slumber, their wraithbone groves are obsessively tended, and many of these survived the devestation. Ul-Khari has been forced to call on many of these [[Wraith Construct]]s to stand guard and defend the crashed vessel. The Great Rift has effected their [[Wraithsight]] and reliability. There are rumours that those few amongst the [[Varonius Floatilla]] would occasionally destroy their human ally's [[Sanctioned Psyker]]s. Those on Trollius itself sometimes pause to stare motionlessly up at Ostia for days at a time, lost in a trance.{{Fn|1e}}
===Trollius===
Although the asuryani of Ul-Khari are isolationists who would normally have no allies in a human-controlled system, they are now forced to work with lesser species to defend and repair their craftworld, while also preserving the Gilead system from [[Chaos]] and [[She Who Thirsts]].{{Fn|3a}} Ul-Khari's [[farseer]]s have struck a deal with the local [[rogue trader]] [[Jakel Varonius]]. Much to the chagrin of the diminished local [[Inquisition]], the details of this agreement remain unknown.{{Fn|1b}}
==Dangers on Trollius==Curiously, though Trollius is a Hive World, the Eldar of Ul-Khari have found its [[Hive]]s to be empty and there is no sign of what became of its previous population.{{Fn|1a}} There can be found icy statues of is evidence that the former human inhabitants around had attempted to flee some hivesunknown danger. Their last terrified moments preservedThe Asuryani tell their human allies that the ice itself has, flash frozen mid-stridewhat they describe as, as if they were all fleeing from something"emotional resonance". The most immediate threat to the craftworld is the environment. The unnatural ice of the dead hive world is malign and alive. It is psiThe The name given to it by the Asuryani rendered in [[Low Gothic]] is [[Winter's Last Cry]], a more literal translation would be 'the final howl of a doomed season, killing as it dies'. The [[Tyranid]]s trapped under the ice are a fairly lower concern than the ice itself.{{Fn|2c}} Guardians who venture forth into the snowstorms of the world return changed — some oddly silent, others with a simmering rage that boils over into a shocking ferocity.{{Fn|1d}}
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}}
The Ul-Khari Asuryani despise the [[Drukhari]] as a whole, but hold special loathing for [[Archon]] [[Kyrik Rhaul]]. The craftworlder's believe that the archon's recent increase in raids in the Gilead system is 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. Thus she only intends to increase the frequency of raids on Gilead.{{Fn|2c}}
==Notable Ul-Khari Eldar==
*[[Tylanriel Tarnalys]] - [[Farseer]] and acting figurehead{{Fn|3a}}
*[[Ishtá Indomi]] - [[Autarch]]{{Fn|2c}}
*[[Lanriel Taranlys]] - [[Farseer]]{{Fn|2c}}
*[[Asurmen-Alaya]] - [[Dire Avengers]] [[Exarch]]{{Fn|2c}}
*[[Kurannin the Muse]] - [[Bonesinger]]{{Fn|2c}}
*[[Seleithe Taranlys]] - [[Seer]] and [[Loremaster (Eldar)|Loremaster]]{{Fn|2c}}
*[[Tamalys]] - Farseer{{Fn|3a}}
*[[Kaelitha Nagith]] - Ranger{{Fn|3a}}
*[[Hyrene Olivaste]] - [[Storm Guardian]]{{Fn|3a}}
==Notable Wirtings==
*''[[Scrolls of the Ul-Khari]]'' - A history of the Craftworld stored on sheets of psychoreactive wraithbone.
*''[[Songs of Asuryman]]'' - Emotion-woven music evoking and representing their patron diety
*''[[Things Yet to Be]]'' - Millennia of prophecies from the exiled Farseer [[Unnias]], many of which are disturbingly proving to be accurate.
==Images==
**{{Endn|1b}}: pg. 309 - ''Trollius''
**{{Endn|1c}}: pg. 107 - ''Ranger''
**{{Endn|1d}}: pg. 361 - ''Guardian Defender''
**{{Endn|1e}}: pg. 362 - ''Wraithguard''
*2: [[Wrath & Glory - Aeldari - Inheritance of Embers]]:
**{{Endn|2a}}: pgs. 4-8 - ''An Ancient System''
