Asuryani Outcasts - Aeldari Corsairs: Aeldari Corsairs are those Asuryani Outcasts who have deliberately chosen to make their living by raiding the commerce of the other star-faring intelligent species of the Milky Way Galaxy, particularly the shipping of the Imperium of Man. They are a constant threat to Imperial merchant shipping, though they lack the ability to face off against a true Imperial Navy battlefleet of any real size.Aware that it was the ineffable power of their own whims and intense desires that brought about the downfall of their species and led to the birth of Slaanesh, the uncorrupted survivors of the Fall of the Aeldari, the Asuryani of the craftworlds, have developed a way to control their own inner natures. Every Asuryani chooses for themselves a discipline which they then make it their purpose to master. It may take many standard years to successfully accomplish this, perhaps more than a single, normal Human lifetime.Each discipline is called a Path, and each Path may necessitate further choices and specialisations. For example, the Path of the Warrior has many Aspects, and whilst all enable the Asuryani to master the skills of combat, each Warrior Aspect brings with it its own special techniques and abilities.Other Asuryani Paths include that of the Bonesinger, as the psycho-technicians of the craftworlds are called, who craft wraithbone and other psycho-plastic materials to fashion the material artefacts of the Aeldari civilisation. There are innumerable Paths, some of which are chosen only rarely, but each offers its followers a complete way of life during the time which they tread upon it.Sometimes the rigid constraints of the Asuryani Path are intolerable even for an Asuryani to bear; such individuals leave their craftworlds and become known as Outcasts. Set free within the universe they are dangerously vulnerable without the rigid mental protection offered by the Path.After many standard years of adventure and wandering, or sailing the seas of space aboard the pirate fleets, most Asuryani eventually return to the sanctuary of the Asuryani Paths. Aeldari pirates are always followers of the Path of the Outcast -- Asuryani who have found their way by ironically turning away from all Paths and abandoning their craftworld.These eldritch wanderers live quite apart from the orderly, disciplined Asuryani of the craftworlds, and form ravenous bands of pirates, corsairs and raiders. As with other outcasts, some of these eventually return to the Asuryani Path, or may retain some ties to their craftworld of origin.However, the willful and unaccountable actions of the Outcasts stand far apart from the carefully scryed and considered actions of the Craftworld Aeldari, and for the most part the Farseers show great reluctance for their own peoples to mix with the wayward and dangerous Outcasts.Outright alliance between fleets acting on the will of a craftworld's Seers and the more volatile, self-serving Aeldari Corsairs is relatively rare, but certainly not unknown. It usually only occurs when a knowledgeable Corsair leader of great influence is present, able to both satisfy the measured desires of the Seers at the same time that he can prove his raw might to the more aggressive Aeldari pirates.Such leaders, like the legendary Prince Yriel of Iyanden, are rare, but the fleets they command are invariably very powerful and capable of giving even the most potent forces of the Imperial Navy substantial opposition.Some Aeldari Corsairs have been known to hire themselves out as mercenary forces for various foolish and often very wealthy Human factions within the Imperium. A fleet of Corsairs can prove to be a powerful force on the battlefield for their patrons.But the fickleness of Aeldari Corsairs is legendary and more than one group of these xenos pirates has been known to suddenly change sides or even turn on their Human patrons after a battle is won to seize a greater share of the rewards. In these situations, the Corsairs' employers usually find their own blood coating the Outcasts' potent blades.