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==Gods==
[[Image:Aeldari Pantheon.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The Aeldari Pantheon.{{Fn|6}}]]
The Pantheon of the Eldar is considered to have been destroyed by the creation of [[Slaanesh]] during the [[Fall of the Eldar]] as all gods were destroyed by She Who Thirsts – save three, [[Cegorach]] in the [[Webway]],{{Fn|17}} [[Khaine]] shattered among the Warhosts of the [[Asuryani]],{{Fn|18a}} and [[Isha]] (if rumors rumours are true) held captive by [[Nurgle]].{{Fn|1}} While the Eldar still revere all the gods and preserve their stories within the mythic cycles, they do not call on them for aid or hope for their intervention any longer.{{Fn|2a}} Since the Fall, the Aeldari have ceased worshiping their dead gods.{{Fn|6}}
===The Eldar Pantheon===
*'''[[Cegorach]] the Laughing God''' the '''Great Harlequin''', a trickster deity and artist. When all the other gods were destroyed, Cegorach fled [[Slaanesh]] until [[Khaine]] rose to do battle with it and in the melee escaped into the [[Webway]], as only he is said to know all the secrets of its passages.{{Fn|5b}} The master of the [[Harlequins]], Cegorach is the only Aeldari god that still remains at their original strength, even being said to walk among his children from time to time in the guise of a [[Great Harlequin]].{{Fn|17}} Together with [[Kurnous]] and [[Hoec]], who represent the body and mind, Cegorach is said to represent the soul of the [[Aeldari]].
*'''[[Kaela Mensha Khaine|Khaine]] the Lord of Murder''', also known as [[Kaela Mensha Khaine]] the '''Bloody Handed God''' for his role in killing [[Eldanesh]], is the [[Eldar]] God of War. He is the younger brother of Asuryan,{{Fn|5a}} and brother to [[Vaul]].{{Fn|6}} Khaine was the belligerent in the [[War in Heaven (Eldar)|War in Heaven]] waging war against [[Vaul]] for deceiving him to free the jailed the lovers [[Isha]] and [[Kurnous]].{{Fn|2a}} The mightiest of the gods to battle [[Slaanesh]] at her birth, while he was defeated he did not die – instead his substance scattered istelf into the cores of the [[Craftworld]]s{{Fn|18a}} where the [[Asuryani]] can summon his [[Avatar of Khaine|Avatars]] for war sacrificing an [[Exarch]] known as '''The Young King''' in the [[Avatar of Khaine#The Ritual of Awakening|Ritual of Awakening]].{{Fn|5b}} The only god still living among the [[Asuryani]], he forever tempts their [[Autarch]]s with war.{{Fn|21a}}
*[[Isha]] (rumoredrumoured).{{Fn|1}}{{Fn|24}} – see below.
'''Dead Gods''':
