Exodites - History: The Exodites are those Aeldari who, several Terran millennia before the Fall of the Aeldari, predicted the coming of the Great Enemy, "She Who Thirsts," the Chaos God Slaanesh, born of the growing decadence of the galaxy-spanning Aeldari civilisation. Some of the more far-sighted among the citizens of the Aeldari Empire noticed this.These few "dissidents" from the dark path began to tread openly, criticising the lax morals of their fellow citizens in the homeworlds, warning them against the hedonistic effects of limitless pleasure cults. Those who cried for restraint were often seen as deluded puritans at best, their calls for action mostly ignored.Soon the general collapse of Aeldari society into hedonistic excess convinced even the most resolute that their species was racing towards an inevitable disaster. Fearing this, some Aeldari decided to abandon their homeworlds and colonise new planets so recently formed that they were completely free of the creeping corruption. These Aeldari, like their counterparts of the craftworlds, remained untainted by the all-consuming change in their society, what later generations of the Craftworld Aeldari known as the Asuryani would call the "Path of Damnation." However, by the time of their homeworlds' destruction, the Exodites would represent only a small fraction of the Aeldari.These dissidents had by then come to be known as the "Exodites," uniquely far-sighted and pragmatic members of their race, and reviled by fellow Aeldari dedicated to the pleasure cults as dour fanatics obsessed with misery and self-denial. In fact, some were driven insane -- their dire premonitions ceaselessly haunting their every dream -- most likely an effect of the psychic ability all Aeldari innately possessed. Other Exodites were genuine survivalists who firmly chose exile on low-technology, hardship-strewn wilderness worlds over personal degradation and destruction.All of those who sought a new life began their exodus in an assortment of various Aeldari spacecraft. Many died during the course of their long journeys, some reached new worlds only to be slain by marauding Orks or their chosen colony planet's natural predators. But many more persevered and survived, heading into the galactic east, as far from the ancient Aeldari Empire's core worlds in the galactic northwest as they could reach.The Exodites settled upon worlds within the fringes of the Milky Way Galaxy as early as the 26th Millennium of the Imperial Calendar. Many of these savage worlds were harsh and life was inescapably brutal for a people unused to all forms of extensive physical labour and self-denial.When the final cataclysm of the Fall erupted in the 30th Millennium and the psychic birth pangs of Slaanesh consumed the Aeldari homeworlds, the majority of Exodite colonies were far enough away from the psychic epicentre of the new Chaos God's birth, and resisted its incessant pull upon their souls.The resultant psychic implosion wiped out the remaining doomed members of the Aeldari species, leaving a yawning hole in the fabric of space, a Warp rift which later came to be known as the Eye of Terror by the Imperium of Man.While many Aeldari craftworlds survived, able to ride out the resulting psychic shock wave by travelling far enough from its epicentre, the Exodites were already relatively safe -- or else they perished, their souls consumed by She Who Thirsts along with the rest of their people.