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The pointy eared space elf tossers aren't really good or evil over all, they're just an entire race of well... elves.

If all the craftworld eldar die, ynnead the god of the dead will arise and *possibly* defeat slaanesh.
So why aren't the Dark Eldar staging extreme genocide against the craftworlds?

No more slaanesh = even bigger party for the Dark Eldar. So the eldar are evil, as their continued existence is keeping slaanesh alive...
They should also be supporting their Dark Eldar allies more as well, as every life the de lose strengthens slaanesh.

Wasn't the legend 'when all the Eldar die' ?

DE aren't into suicide.

If it is just the CWE, the DE would still have difficulty committing genocide on the Eldar, as DE excel in surprise attacks against weaker foes, not suicide runs against planet-sized spaceships bristling with weapons and surrounded by massive fleets

Sure, they could do a lot of damage en masse, but not enough to be worth it.

Doubly so if they did manage to take out a craftworld, as the other craftworlds would then be a tad annoyed and they know where Commorragh is.

 Ascalam wrote:
Wasn't the legend 'when all the Eldar die' ?

DE aren't into suicide.

If it is just the CWE, the DE would still have difficulty committing genocide on the Eldar, as DE excel in surprise attacks against weaker foes, not suicide runs against planet-sized spaceships bristling with weapons and surrounded by massive fleets

Sure, they could do a lot of damage en masse, but not enough to be worth it.

Doubly so if they did manage to take out a craftworld, as the other craftworlds would then be a tad annoyed and they know where Commorragh is.

Dark Eldar souls don't go towards Ynnead - they don't use soul stones or world spirits. When They die, they get munched by she who thirsts. Which is why they are obssessed with not dying. They know where they're going.

I voted Neutral, because Evil really doesn't fit them. They fight to survive, as most races in 40k, and they don't really randomly attack other races. If I would have voted anything else, it would have been Good, because they have been, as already stated, fighting back Evil since just about forever.

Good guys? No, they won't help anyone else unless they think it benefits them somewhere in the future. Bad guys? No, they don't go around killing stuff for the laughs.

I'm of the impression that every race "thinks" they are the good guys. The imperium probably think they're doing the right thing when they declare exterminatus on a planet but in today's culture that's pretty fething evil. I think Good and Evil are just perspectives that can change based on personal or cultural bias.

There's definitely forces of evil in 40k, but there are no forces of good at all. There are just forces that oppose evil. Craftworld, Exodite, and Harlequin Eldar are some of those.

That doesn't really have anything to do with good, because also in that group are the Imperium, Orks, and Necrons.

Neutral.

They have good intention but sometimes they execute them in a worst possible way.

Need the category of "pragmatic" and "amoral".

They look at other beings like insects that if they sting or invade their home are to be exterminated.

With our present cultural views of "race supremists" they would be considered evil but "normal" in the 40k universe.

It is all about perspective.

 Talizvar wrote:


They look at other beings like insects that if they sting or invade their home are to be exterminated.

well said

I think they have the "don't hurt me and I won't hurt you" mentality and are more about the survival of their species than anything else.