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originally posted by: Peeple
a reply to: Reverbs
Did you play the campaign? I thought it was pretty disturbing with the Annunaki mindsnatching the troops.
Because it's kind of what I believe is actually happening.
Zombie-thetan-brainslugs.
originally posted by: Peeple
a reply to: Reverbs
Timely time echoes? Haha...
Didn't know warhammer 40k just checked it out and dude...are those landscapes they're playing on handmade? Looks awesome. I love painting little minions. Was almost my favourite part of playing descent.
Now I will go and see if I can learn how to navigate 4chan...
Superficially, the Eldar appear very similar to humans, though they are generally taller and slimmer, with sharp features and pointed ears. They are long-lived by human standards, and most will live more than a thousand years unless they die from accident or disease. Eldar also have much faster metabolic rates than humans, and their cardiac and neurological systems are more advanced.
These traits manifest in their vastly heightened reactions and agility compared to humans. To them humans seem to move in slow motion with a certain degree of awkwardness, while to humans the Eldar can move with distracting grace and can be blindingly fast in combat. As a race they have a high level of psychic ability, which serves as the foundation of their technology.
The Eldar that actively cultivate their psyker potential seem to exhibit a much-extended lifespan as well, one proportional to their prowess. The Farseers of the Eldar can live for several thousand years. Eldar are mentally far superior to humans, and feel all emotions much more strongly, requiring the Eldar to exercise constant restraint to avoid mental breakdown
Emerging from the ruin of the War in Heaven, with the Old Ones destroyed and the Necrons in hidden hibernation, the Eldar quickly became the masters of the Galaxy. The technological and cultural accomplishments of the Eldar soon eclipsed those of any other race, and they developed a dismissive and condescending attitude to the other civilizations of the Galaxy. With their mastery of the Webway,
none were in a position to seriously threaten the state of the Eldar nation. When it came, the disaster was internal. Consumed by arrogance and with no need for substantial work or labour, the Eldar began to pursue any curiosity or desire. Rapidly, cults devoted to exotic knowledge, physical pleasure, and ever-more outrageous entertainment sprang up. It did not take long for many of the Eldar to take a darker path, descending into dark study, instant fulfillment and unbridled violence, beginning the Fall of the Eldar.
Many of the Eldar grew uneasy with the actions of their comrades, and the wisest of the Seers warned that the path could lead only to evil. Disgusted, some of the Eldar left the central worlds of the Empire to settle on the outlying regions, while others stayed to try and alter the path their race had taken.
While this would have been destructive within any society, it was even more damaging for the Eldar. Within the parallel realm of the Warp, the psychic emanations of these activities began to gather, strengthened by the souls of departed followers and cultists. As the Eldar vices grew, this collection did as well, until it eventually came into a life of its own. It finally came to consciousness as Slaanesh, Devourer of Souls and doom to the Eldar, for the psychic scream of its birth tore the souls from all the Eldar within a thousand light years of it.
Its awakening was so forceful that it tore a hole between physical space and the Warp, plunging the Eldar homeworlds into a limbo of partial existence. This region is now known as the Eye of Terror, and is now the home of the forces of Chaos. Many Eldar survived the Fall and remain trapped within the Eye on the homeworlds of the Eldar, the Crone World, and are enslaved to Slaanesh
The name "Eldar" comes from J.R.R. Tolkien's elves, who in their own language were called "the Eldar". The history of the Eldar in Warhammer 40,000 mimics that of Tolkien's elves, to the point that they are a "dwindling race" in the game universe, as the elves were in Middle-earth's Third Age. Incidentally, GW has actually copyrighted the term "Eldar".
originally posted by: Peeple
a reply to: Reverbs
Thanks for that BB. Interesting. Somehow more plausible than the annunaki thing.
That's probably actually it. Bridging the worlds, ours and the "star peoples". Pandoras box is a puzzle box...
Apparently today they're loading the magic-sphere up with this witches counter spell stuff (saw that on 4chan too)... even if it's bs how they approach it, loads of psychic energies channeled on hot air waiting to be redirected...
What are you doing today?
originally posted by: Peeple
a reply to: Reverbs
What I'm thinking is all alien stories from ancient demon/angel to modern ET imply telepathic activity. If humans have that too, just in a smaller quantity the fact they're all magic-ing today might indeed load up some sort of field.
I'd have said you hop over to the astral plane, sniff out the loose threads for me, I just need to find you and we set up an emergency beacon.
"SOS to all humanoids and humanophiles, Earth under siege"
originally posted by: Peeple
a reply to: Reverbs
What I'm thinking is all alien stories from ancient demon/angel to modern ET imply telepathic activity. If humans have that too, just in a smaller quantity the fact they're all magic-ing today might indeed load up some sort of field.
I'd have said you hop over to the astral plane, sniff out the loose threads for me, I just need to find you and we set up an emergency beacon.
"SOS to all humanoids and humanophiles, Earth under siege"
All of the particles flying around in the intermediate state, then, can't be thought of as physical. They're virtual particles. And that's the rub. The vacuum doesn't really have a physical existence of its own, it only appears as virtual interactions with real initial state particles.
Mathematically these black body photons appear as radiation from virtual particle interactions, hence the common intuition, but that interpretation is frame dependent and not physical.