Night of Revelations - Ynnead Stirs to Wakefulness: Inexorable, unstoppable, the Time of Ending tightened its stranglehold upon the twilight years of the 41st Millennium. Amongst those caught in its grip were the Aeldari, known at this time as the Eldar, the species of psychically gifted humanoid aliens that once ruled the stars. Brought low by their own pride and blind hedonism, they now skirted the precipice of oblivion. Only through the most desperate ploys could they hope to survive.Though the Aeldari long ago learned how to stave off the awful, soul-sucking attention of "She Who Thirsts" -- known as Slaanesh in the tongues of men -- they have not fully escaped the curse of the deity their hubris spawned.The Asuryani or "Eldar" of the Craftworlds sought to avoid disaster through asceticism and self-control, using Spirit Stones and Infinity Circuits as a refuge from Slaanesh, whereas the Drukhari Commorrites, still given to the excesses that brought their people low, inﬂicted suffering upon others in order to escape their own fate.The enigmatic Harlequins, having pledged their souls to the trickster god Cegorach, slip through Slaanesh's clawed grasp by always staying one step ahead. The Exodites, those puritans first to ﬂee the ancient Aeldari worlds, turned their backs on change, instead seeking harmony with the World Spirits of their verdant paradises.No matter the methods they use to escape the notice of the Dark God that haunts them, all Aeldari sacrifice much in the process. None can claim to be the equal of their ancient forebears, they who married physical excellence with prodigious psychic ability, safe in the knowledge that upon their deaths they would rejoin the endless cycle and be reborn.There are those amongst the Craftworld Eldar that seek a way back to those halcyon days. Their peers consider them dangerously deluded. To return to the glowing, incandescent existence of aeons past is to attract Slaanesh's gaze, and hence court the worst kind of disaster.Some Eldar refuse to abandon the glorious dream of building the ancient stellar empire anew, or at least burning bright before the end. First amongst these ambitious few is Eldrad Ulthran, the High Farseer of Craftworld Ulthwé.This arch-manipulator has been plucking at the strings of fate since before the dawn of the Imperium of Man. His prescience is like a diamond blade, sharpened by the intensity of his conviction. By weaving the tangled skeins of destiny, the Farseer guides his people to the most favourable of futures.Eldrad had long perceived a nascent presence in the Infinity Circuits of the Craftworlds, a distant heartbeat that pulses slow and steady behind the thrum of lost energies. It was comprised not of one life sign, but hundreds of billions -- the sum total of every dead Eldar's soul across the galaxy.Though individually these echoes were near-insignificant, together they formed something so strong that -- if it were brought to wakefulness -- it could prove potent enough to overcome the Eldar curse entirely.This is Ynnead, the slumbering god of the dead. The prophecies of the fabled Seer Kysaduras told that when every Eldar had passed from mortal existence, Ynnead would rise up and defeat Slaanesh forever more.It was Eldrad Ulthran who put into motion a plan to bring forth Ynnead without paying that terrible price, a ploy of such conceited ambition it could buckle the fabric of space and time. Enlisting the aid of the Harlequin Masque of the Midnight Sorrow, he stole away the fossilised crystal statues of long-dead Farseers from their Craftworlds and gathered them upon Coheria, a moon of the Imperial word of Port Demesnus covered in sands of potent psychoactive crystal.With his "Crystal Council" acting as a hyperspatial link to each Craftworld, Eldrad channelled the spirits of the Infinity Circuits onto Coheria. This was to produce a ﬂare of psychic activity bright enough to wake even Ynnead, but the intervention of the xenos-hunting Astartes Deathwatch shattered Eldrad's plan at the last. Though Ynnead stirred in his slumber, he did not fully awaken -- not yet, at least.