2 The Eldar and the Warp problem

For those who know Warhammer and its lore, this is boring for you. But there are things that the MC will say and state his opinions about the Eldar and the 'problems' they created.

The next chapter will be better, I hope.

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(Neoth POV)

As the years passed, I guided the leaders of powerful countries and closely followed those who were smart enough to create great technological innovations. It started with my uncle. I made him into a skilled and charismatic leader. I gave him the mental command to train and used my understanding of swordfighting and other weapons, to make him the most skilled fighter around.

Using these new skills of my uncle I had him gather a following. It was rather small at first. But using the right words and subtle manipulations from my side, I made the people listen to him. My uncle helps hunt for food and gives them ideas about how to handle the crops. Those of higher positions, take notice of him and want to have him in their ranks. They want to control him and use him to their benefit. I of course make my uncle accept that. Time is all it takes. 

Given his now 'higher' station, my uncle continues to showcase just how good and 'brilliant' he is. He now has a bigger audience that listens to his ideas and his rank inevitably rises over time. Using my vast and growing psychic powers, I use assassination attempts against my uncle to further his political rise. He 'miraculously' survives all the attacks on his person. How can he do that? Is he favoured by a higher power?

Why am I doing things this way? Why not just take over the minds of the entire world? 

I want to have humans develop naturally. I want them to rise to the level they had at the Age of Technology and then take it even further. 

But why am I not doing it myself then? 

I have other things to do right now. I will become the Emperor in the future, so I will use this time to prepare for it and guide humanity on the sides.

As the saying goes: In the grim darkness of the future ... there is only war.

So things will come regardless. I can't stop the damage the Old Ones and in turn, the Eldar have done during the War in Heaven. So what happened, exactly?

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(A/N Some context for those who don't know.)

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Roughly 60 million years ago, the Eldar were "adopted" or alternatively "created" by the Old Ones. The Old Ones, a race now long extinct were embroiled in a long war, called the War in Heaven, against the C'tan and their slaves the Necrontyr and, being desperate, raised many warrior races. These include the Eldar, the Kroks and the technology mimicking Jokaero. The Kroks would later become the Orks.

The C'tan's weakness was their vulnerability to the powers of the Warp and the Old Ones fostered the psychic potential and abilities of the Eldar to high standards. The efforts of the Old Ones were largely successful but had disastrous side effects. The C'tan were defeated, but through the manipulations of the Old Ones the Warp was thrown into turmoil. 

As the Eldar used their powers more and more, fighting and killing, the hate and pain were reflected in the warp. It began to bleed into the material universe, the beings began to develop malicious intent against the physical world, the negative emotions forming into powerful entities that wished to take over this other dimension that was causing them so much pain.

When the Eldar were left without the influence of the Old Ones, who had by then been extinguished, the Eldar were left at a point, where they were left entirely to forge their own way forward in the universe.

Once the War in Heaven was finished and the Eldar had defeated the Necrons, the C'tan were shattered across the universe by the Necrons, more on that later, who then retreated into their tomb worlds, leaving the Eldar as the most powerful force in the universe. They had forces that could crush anyone who opposed them. 

This of course left the Eldar in an advantageous position in terms of societal advancement and growth. And they did grow, in both technology and population and most important their collective psychic power. 

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A golden age of unequalled growth in which they spread their knowledge and culture wider than any that had gone before it. Such was their own dominance, that over millennia they filled themselves with a great arrogance. A sense that all other races were below them. All around them, stood evidence of this, both in technological success, their psychic powers and the beauty with which they inhabited new worlds far and wide. 

They were at the pinnacle of achievement. Not only did they live long lives, but when they did die, their souls would return to the collective aether, to be reborn into a new body. A psychic reincarnation. This enabled the Eldar to achieve a height of cultural technology, that would and could never be equaled again.

Over the vast periods of time involved literally millions of years, the Eldar reigned supreme. Their strength, pride, arrogance and avarice grew. And here lies the important part of the problem which is or was the Eldar Empire. What came after that is imperative to the development of the Universe and the changes that the Warp experienced. 

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Imagine you are so advanced, that you don't really have to do anything yourself anymore. You are unchallenged in the universe, in both strength and intellect. What would happen then? 

The Eldar's sensibility and self-control waned and became less and less. They were so advanced, that they no longer needed to perform any physical or menial tasks, nor did they need to work to support their society. 

Their only causes were either self-betterment, the pursuit of knowledge and most often, and important of all ... to indulge their desires ... no matter how extreme.

Let's go back to the question, what would happen if you had everything, without having to work for it?

Simple, you grew bored. And that fact, is important. Except for me, someone who had the power of a Meta Essence, this is the natural result of things. If you no longer have to work, you grow bored. There is nothing left for you to do, so you try to seek things that interest you and cull your boredom. You look for excitement, no matter how extreme it might seem to others.

While this may seem a deplorable thing to do, one must remember that the Eldar have far more powerful and overbearing emotions than humans. This led them to indulge in ever more perverse ways to satisfy their desires. Be it through violence, cruelty, torture, sex or depravity. Over time, it became harder and harder for these extreme fanatics, dedicated to dark pleasures to satisfy their decadent desires. 

Why did that happen, though? Because, as you become desensitised over time, you have to push it further and further to achieve any enjoyment from it at all. So their acts became more violent and more creative. Soon the streets were running with blood. The Eldar in their lives, where they had literally nothing other to do, than pleasure addiction, it was like a disease infecting the whole of their race.

They slaughtered one another at the slightest whim and feasted on the corpses of their fellow kin.

Billions upon billions of Eldar spread across worlds throughout the universe, all cascading towards the darkest epitome of emotional worship. 

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The Eldar culture begins to fragment, some leave the webway and all of the technology that they've come to depend on and join with nature on the Exodite worlds, and some begin to focus on their mental powers turning to a more monastic lifestyle often isolating themselves from the empire in Craftworlds. But the main body of them turned more and more inwards, becoming decadent hedonists with no moral compass.

But where lies the problem with that? Is that not good for the human race? They are destroying their Empire no?

Not exactly. 

The Eldar ignored the truth of what they could face if they didn't control their extremely powerful emotions. As stated, the Eldar were created for one purpose only, to destroy the Necrons and the C'tan through the use of psychic power and Warp manipulation. This means that they all have a powerful link to the Warp. 

Over millions of years of sliding towards depravity, the Eldar's psychic emanations began to create form. This was continually added to and strengthened as things became progressively worse. 

Souls of departed Eldar cultists and sacrifices formed a massive ball of negative psychic energy. This would cause such an imbalance in the Warp dimension, that it would result in the immense psychic storms which humanity will experience as the 'Age of Strife'. 

Between the Eldar's intense psychic energy and humanity's newfound powers, the warp explodes, and the Age of Strife and the Long Night isolate all of the future human colonies. But the Eldar could still move through the rapidly diminishing Webway, so they just didn't care.

However in the end the Eldar did not jump from the cliff but were pushed over the edge from behind.

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So in the end, this tells me that the Warp can't be fixed. But do I really need to fix it? Personally, I don't need the Warp. Neither for using my Psyker powers nor to travel. I will simply use the already existing Webway, take it over and push the Eldar out, or create a new one entirely. Will that be possible? Who knows.

The Webway is a labyrinthine dimension utilised by the Eldar for faster-than-light travel, without suffering from the risk of the tides of the Warp. It was the ancient Eldar who mastered the original Webway network. At the height of their empire, they used it to travel thousands of light years safely yet quickly and linked all their worlds. Their starships were thus able to move from one end of the galaxy to the other without entering real space.

As I said, I have my work cut out for me. I have no time to 'rule' humanity right now. I had to prepare for the eventual and inevitable war.

In the grim darkness of the future ... there is only war and I have seen it. 

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I continued to 'guide' things behind the scenes, while my uncle rose higher on the power ladder and led his people toward greatness. The technological advancements which would have taken hundreds of years to be made, instead only took a few decades. I gave the scientists, ideas of how to improve anything and watched as they prospered. 

The success my uncle had, led to their country starting to rise to power. The military was more advanced and their food production yielded more food for the populace. However, instead of becoming arrogant, I used my powers and removed their arrogance, making them humble. I didn't want to repeat human history or the Eldar history. That would be counterproductive. 

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This way the years passed. Meanwhile, I was in the process of finding the necessary materials I needed to create my Adeptus Custodes. In the future, there will be countless humans in the Universe, but right now, there are very few. That wasn't something I could use against the war against the Ancient Eldar or even the Silent King if I encountered him on his travels. 

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I needed firepower, or better yet, I needed manpower to work the Imperator Sominium and the Phalanx. So I went ahead and gathered the necessary materials to create the Adeptus Custodes first. This was both due to an emotional and a logical reason. 

For one, I loved the Custodes, back in my last life. Secondly, they are absolute beasts in battle and would help me tremendously in all of my plans. 

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Please give me some ideas about what he could do before shit hits the fan. I am actually thinking about a 'confrontation' between the Big E and the Silent King before he returns.

What do you think?