Asuryani - Descent into Decadence: The catalyst that brought about the Aeldari race's fall came from the very depths of the Aeldari's collective psyche, the innate need to fuel their passions and indulge in every extreme of sensation.The Aeldari had long outgrown the need for physical labour or manual agriculture due to the highly advanced and automated nature of their technology. Society society provided all the required necessities of life without individual effort, leaving long Terran centuries for the Aeldari to spend sating their every desire.Fuelled by an inexhaustible curiosity, many gave way to their most hedonistic impulses. Exotic cults sprang up across the Aeldari domains that eclipsed the noble pursuits of old, each dedicated to esoteric knowledge or sensual excess. The core of the Aeldari race began to look inwards, inexorably seeking new ways to explore the full range of emotion and sensation.With no need to perform substantial work or labour, the Aeldari began to pursue their curiosities and desires with all the dedication that only their species could muster. In the later days of Aeldari civilisation, cults devoted to exotic knowledge, physical pleasures, and ever-more outrageous forms of entertainment sprang up.It did not take long for many of the Aeldari to pursue a darker path to achieve instant fulfillment as they came to revel in unbridled hedonism and violence. Such behaviour was perilously decadent and, in the end, corrosive to the soul of the race. The pursuit of excess gradually became a blight upon the whole society.Many of the Aeldari grew uneasy with the actions of their comrades, and the wisest of the Seers warned that this path could lead only to evil and suffering for the entire species. As these pleasure cults gained a tighter hold over their society, the Aeldari became increasingly divided.Those who saw the foulness that corrupted their people for what it was early on became known as Exodites, fleeing to found colony worlds on the fringes of the Aeldari Empire. As the civilisation slid further into anarchy, others repented of their ways in the days just before disaster struck and left the central worlds of their empire to settle in the outlying regions of the galaxy, where they built great worldships called craftworlds.Other Aeldari stayed on the homeworlds to try and alter the path their people had taken. Most continued to glut themselves on the pursuits of the depraved.The heartfelt sorrow of those left who mourned the loss of innocence eventually turned to bitterness and spite. In time, brother fought brother, and sadistic killers stalked the shadows in search of victims for their vile lusts.No life was spared in the pursuit of pleasures both murderous and perverse. A sickness of vice overtook the Aeldari race, and blood flowed through the streets amidst the bestial roar of the crowd.Their hidden, interdimensional realms within the Webway became sprawling palaces of avarice and sadism, and entire worlds were bent to the pursuit of the darkest of sensations. As the moral corruption of the Aeldari people tightened its stranglehold, echoes of their ecstasy and agony began to ripple through time and space.In the parallel dimension of the Immaterium, the reflections of these intense experiences began to coalesce, for the shifting tides of the Empyrean can take form around intense emotion emitted by thinking beings in realspace. Slowly, silently, a nascent god of excess grew strong in the depths of the Warp.