Asuryani - The Ynnari: Some amongst the imperilled Aeldari species believe they can be saved from the brink of oblivion by the awakening of Ynnead, the Aeldari god of the dead. By harnessing the strange spirit magic of this rising deity and drawing upon the energies of the Aeldari dead, they wage their crusade with exceptional vigour and aggression.It has been said for millennia that the Aeldari pantheon of gods is long shattered, destroyed by their mortal followers' hubris and the galactic terror that is Slaanesh. The ascension of She Who Thirsts was a cataclysm of galaxy-splitting magnitude. In a single instant, the psychic shock wave of the Dark God's birth destroyed the most part of the Aeldari Empire and triggered a permanent Warp Storm of unprecedented size -- the Eye of Terror.But the true doom of the Aeldari came in a more insidious form. As the Asuryani tell it, their metaphysical cycle of reincarnation into new bodies after their souls passed into the Warp for a time was severed by the violence of Slaanesh's birth, and the gods that once ruled over them were consumed. After a titanic duel with Slaanesh, Khaela Mensha Khaine -- the Aeldari god of war -- was shattered into a thousand pieces that would take refuge in the Infinity Circuits of the craftworlds.The others members of their pantheon, barring the Laughing God Cegorach, were devoured by the newly emergent Slaanesh. From that point on, when an Aeldari died, their soul would enter the Warp and likewise be consumed by She Who Thirsts, a destiny far worse than mere oblivion.The various factions of the Aeldari have sought ways to escape this fate, or at least allay it for a time. The Asuryani, for instance, wear psychocrystalline Waystones that act as safe havens, absorbing their souls upon the moment of death.Later these Spirit Stones are interred within a craftworld's Infinity Circuit, allowing the soul to transfer to a construct of relative safety and from then on spend existence in a safe but lifeless grey limbo.The Drukhari instead ensure others suffer in their stead, drawing on the psychic energy emitted by their pain to perpetually lengthen their lives. This is a devil's bargain that only postpones their inevitable consumption by Slaanesh. Small wonder that many Aeldari hailing from either faction were quick toseize on the possibility that there was another way to evade their nemesis -- and perhaps conquer it forever. This they called Ynnead.There is an ancient and controversial school of thought regarding mortality in Asuryani society, recently brought back to prominence by the prophecies of Kysaduras the Anchorite. It posits that when every one of the Aeldari species has died and passed into the Infinity Circuits of the craftworlds,their departed spirits will form a gestalt consciousness. In doing so they will awaken and empower a new Aeldari god, a deity of the dead with the power to defeat Slaanesh and end She Who Thirsts' baleful curse.Some amongst the Asuryani claim that though the time of ending is nigh, not all Aeldari must die to escape Slaanesh's clutches -- that there is a hidden path to be found amongst the darkness. Foremost amongst these is Eldrad Ulthran, the High Farseer of Craftworld Ulthwé.Upon the crystal sands of the moon of the Imperial world of Port Demesnus, Coheria, Eldrad put into motion the grand plan that would alter thecourse of his people's destiny. Under the cover of their roving visitations, the Harlequin Masque of the Midnight Sorrow -- acting on the instructions ofEldrad -- abducted the crystallised bodies of long-departed Farseers from each Asuryani craftworld's Dome of Crystal Seers. These they took to Coheria, for Eldrad had identified the moon as a site of extreme psychic potential.By harnessing Coheria's pure crystal sands and using each grain as a miniature Spirit Stone, Eldrad intended to perform a grand ritual wherein he would summon every departed spirit from every craftworld at the same time. The stolen Farseers' crystalline remains would provide potent hyperspatial links -- though the transfer would rob all power and light from the donor craftworlds for a time, Eldrad judged the sacrifice worthwhile.With such a vast concentration of departed souls in one place at one time, the High Farseer intended to awaken Ynnead prematurely and set him against the Aeldari's eternal nemesis.Perhaps, if Eldrad's machinations had been completed, he would have succeeded in his immensely ambitious plan. But the elite Imperial xenos-hunters of the Deathwatch had followed the actions of the Ulthwéans for many Terran years. Led by the prescient Brother-Captain Artemis, they launched a sudden strike against Eldrad and his allies just as he was conducting his grand ritual.Forced to protect himself from a searing plasma blast, the High Farseer lost focus. In the swirling tides of the Warp, the composite sentience of slumbering Ynnead stirred, but did not awaken. From that partial apotheosis a fragment of the greater consciousness was born -- an animus that soon possessed a warrior-dancer known as Yvraine who was fighting in the arenas of Commorragh. She became the high priestess of a new Aeldari religion, and has since led her followers across the stars, uniting Asuryani and Drukhari behind her as she goes.After becoming invested with Ynnead's power during what became kwown as the "Night of Revelations," Yvraine became able to draw the departing Aeldari souls of those around her into herself, where they live on -- not as half-real revenants or echoes of a former glory, but as willing allies. To outsiders, it seems as if Yvraine is talking to herself, listening to voices only she can hear, or changing personality in a heartbeat.Those who do not know of her creed think her insane, but the Ynnari know the truth: Yvraine's body harbours not just her own soul, but many others.The Ynnari or "Reborn" who follow Yvraine's lead -- the devoted warrior known as the Visarch and the dread Avatar known as the Yncarne foremost amongst them -- share her uncanny ability. They wear the Spirit Stones of the dead upon their person,drawing upon the energy and wisdom of the departed in times of need. With the doom of the Aeldari close at hand, their need for that deathly strength is greater than ever before.