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I think the best part about Slaanesh is that he/she/it is made of Eldar souls. Page 4 of the 4th edition Eldar codex says " Amidst the swirling psychic energy of the Empyrean, the corruption of the decadent Eldar became manifest as their departing spirits began to coalesce into a gestalt consciousness."

Basically Slaanesh isn't just the emotions of the eldar but also their departing souls.

This leads me to believe that it does not burn the eldar's sense of superiority that humans are favored by the predator they created because humans are not favored. Eldar are. Humans just happen to be an appetizer for the true meal.

 DarknessEternal wrote:

Certainly, those quivering piles of almost-beings that used to be their most devout and successful servants would totally attest to that.

Lorgar and the other Princes would disagree.

 DarknessEternal wrote:

 Gunhead1 wrote:
I never have heard of an eldar going to chaos, but I have not read all the fluff so I'm just going by what I know.

Arhra, the Fallen Phoenix, the Scorpion Father, (probably Drahzar).

Also, the Decapitator and every Mandrake.
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Arhra is mentioned as burning "with the dark light of Chaos," but there is nothing explicitly stating he bowed down to the Ruinous Powers. It's possible it's just the poetic wording of the eldar referring to his fall to the dark kin. There is also nothing daemonic about Drazhar that is outwardly apparent. If he were a daemon or daemonically tainted, there would be a lot more to worry about in Commorragh. Mandrakes also are not necessarily Eldar that turned to Chaos. No one is certain as to what they are exactly, all there is are rumors and conjecture.

At any rate, Slaanesh has already claimed the soul of every eldar. I highly doubt they care the great enemy has shifted its attention elsewhere momentarily.

There is a blurb somewhere about the few eldar still living in the Eye, and that sometimes one of them dedicates himself to one of the Four and that these eldar are among the most dangerous of the Chaos gods' servants.

I'm pretty sure that the Eldar are OK with Slaanesh wanting to spend time with other people. Even the most microscopic fraction of time spent messing with Humans is that much less time spent messing with the Eldar.

I think they just think less of humans for liking Slaanesh, but the eldar pull faces at said humans when their backs are turned.

I don't see any evidence in published or licensed sources that humans are Slaanesh's "chosen people."

I don't see any evidence in published or licensed sources that humans are Slaanesh's "chosen people."

First Heretic says that humans are the chosen people of Chaos, Legion pretty much confirms it with the cabal saying that Chaos could not survive without humanity.

ZSO, SAHAAL wrote:

I don't see any evidence in published or licensed sources that humans are Slaanesh's "chosen people."

First Heretic says that humans are the chosen people of Chaos, Legion pretty much confirms it with the cabal saying that Chaos could not survive without humanity.

I might take Lorgar's word with a grain of salt, but the word of the cabal goes where it belongs: in the trash.

Yeah, when a single guy says something that doesn't make it true.
It's like the "if we loose we win" Ork quote. It's not established fluff that Orks never loose, it's established fluff that some Ork said that. Nothing more.

And if Chaos can't live without humanity it definitely does not imply any choice. Chaos did not chose humans as their beloved people, it simply does not have any other choice now.

Other races are either shielded from its influence or generate too few 'chaos energy' to even bother. Humans are an easy and tasty pray for fat, bloated and ever hungry Chaos gods.