Kaela Mensha Khaine - History: Khaine is the god of the Aeldari Pantheon associated with battle, war, violence, murder and conflict. Many Imperial scholars believe him to be an embodiment of the Aeldari's racial passion as manifested in battle and warfare. Whether he is an ancient mortal cultural hero ascended to some form of divine status, a deliberately sculpted aspect of the Aeldari psyche in the Immaterium or an unrelated creation of the Old Ones' Warp-science is unknown, as is the case with all the Aeldari gods."Kaela Mensha" is not technically part of Khaine's name, but is actually a title he bears. It roughly translates from the Aeldari Lexicon as "Bloody-handed," a reference to the blood which eternally drips from his hands as a reminder of his murder of the ancient Aeldari mortal hero Eldanesh.During the War in Heaven between the Old Ones and the Necrons millions of Terran years ago, Khaine fought and defeated the C'tan known as the Nightbringer, shattering his necrodermis, although the resulting metal shards pierced his flesh, tainting his form with "the aspect of the Reaper." It is also said that this event precipitated the eventual Fall of the Aeldari: The Nightbringer planted the fear of death within all mortal creatures except the Orks, which enhanced the Aeldari's deep desire for self-preservation as a species.In the depths of the Warp, the beings of pure psychic energy created within the Immaterium during the turmoil of the War in Heaven would feast on these feelings and grow to sentience and self-awareness, setting into motion a chain of events that would close the Path of Rebirth, of reincarnation into the material universe, for Aeldari souls forever.Khaine is one of the three surviving gods of the Aeldari, alongside Isha, the goddess of healing, nature and fertility, and Cegorach, the Laughing God of art, deception and trickery. Sometime after Slaanesh's awakening in the 30th Millennium of the Imperial Calendar following the Fall of the Aeldari, the newly-formed Chaos God of pleasure and pain assaulted Khaine as he had all of the other Aeldari gods. Though their battle was vicious, Slaanesh had already absorbed the power of many billions of fallen Aeldari souls and the essences of most of the other Aeldari gods, and ultimately struck Khaine down. But before the Prince of Chaos could absorb the essence of the Aeldari war god, Khorne, the Chaos God of war and murder, battled Slaanesh for the power of Khaine, claiming the Aeldari deity as his property by right since they represented the same metaphysical forces.During the struggle between the Chaos Gods, Khaine was driven into the material world, where his psychic core shattered into a thousand pieces. Each piece came to rest at the heart of an Aeldari craftworld, where it hibernated within the craftworld's Infinity Circuit, but could be animated again to possess a metallic construct body and go to war when needed by the people of that craftworld. By sacrificing the body of an Exarch to Khaine on the eve of battle, this newborn Avatar of Khaine becomes a fiery, animated manifestation of the god, including the blood dripping from his hands, and the Avatar leads the Aeldari army of that craftworld into battle.Khaine's precise nature in the Aeldari cosmology is not well understood by Imperial scholars, although due to his interaction with the Chaos Gods, he appears to be an entity of the Warp, and is considered by some to be an incarnation of Order rather than Chaos. Recent information acquired by the Imperium implies that Khaine and the rest of the Aeldari gods may have been members of the first self-aware species in the galaxy known to the Aeldari as "the Ancients" and to the Imperium as the "Old Ones," who were the creators of the Aeldari and many of the other intelligent species of the galaxy.Some Imperial scholars believe that the Aeldari gods' mythological roles were then assigned to them in later eras by the Aeldari as an expression of that species' culture and psychological needs. But the Aeldari themselves insist that their gods were real beings and are not simply mythological expressions of the role played by their ancient creators.