Eldar Gods (that are alive)

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**origarmi chicken**

I want to know which Eldar Gods are alive.
I know that khaine is alive and so is the laughing god.
The dark eldar have the dark muses which are treated like gods.

are there any more that are alive

**Tmonster**

Most of the dark muses aren't alive but dead.. But the memory of them still lives on

**origarmi chicken**

Oh o.k thanks

**Saintspirit**

Cegorach (The Laughing God) is alive, he slipped into the webway before Slaanesh could catch him. Khaine got splitted into several fragments, which is now the Avatars of Khaine. Isha is said by some to have been saved from Slaanesh by Nurgle, and she is now trapped inside a cage in the garden of Nurgle. Then there's Ynnead, god of the dead, who grows stronger the more Eldar who dies.

**origarmi chicken**

I forgot about Ynnead :(
But I did not know about Isha! Thanks!!!

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are there any mor Eldar gods?

**Saintspirit**

That are dead, yes, there is f.ex. Kurnous, Aruryan, Morai-heg, Vaul, Lileath...

**ChronoCupcake**

Seeing as Asuryan the king of the Eldar gods is dead theres not really much hope for them on a whole, Dont expect this every to actually appear in the fluff but I wouldnt be to surprised if after the Rhana Dhandra the Eldar phoenix lords ascend to godhood in some form or another. But hey thats just me.

**Tmonster**

well two of the Phoenix Lords die at the end of the universe, and all of them fight there, that means that after the materium and the immaterium are destroyed there will be some phoenix lords left. Weird isn't it

**origarmi chicken**

Thanks and ChronoCupcake I think that is reasnoble (sorry can't spell) It would be cool if they did.

**Eldrad**

What the heck did happen to Asuryan any ways i mean if he was thee king of all gods he must have been taken by suprise or somthing. I think that the only reason he died would have to be that he was side tract by protecting the eldar kind of like how The God Emperor was when he was fighting Houres. But yes it is sad to say that most of them are dead.

**Zarathstra**

Eldrad wrote:What the heck did happen to Asuryan any ways i mean if he was thee king of all gods he must have been taken by suprise or somthing. I think that the only reason he died would have to be that he was side tract by protecting the eldar kind of like how The God Emperor was when he was fighting Houres. But yes it is sad to say that most of them are dead.

Well, "powerful" doesn't necessarily equal "good at fighting," but I think some of the fluff states that Slaanesh took the Eldar gods by surprise, and by the time Asuryan could intervene, Slaanesh had devoured enough of the other gods to more than equal his power. Khaine only held his own because he was the god of War, and therefore much more skilled in combat than any of the others. Or it could have had something to do with the Fall, and Asuryan was too weak from the death of so many of his followers to put up a fight.

**Pilau Rice**

Zarathstra wrote:Khaine only held his own because he was the god of War, and therefore much more skilled in combat than any of the others.

From WD 127

When Kaela Mensha Khaine, the Bloody Handed God of the Eldar, fought with Slaanesh the Lord of Pleasure, he was quickly overwhelmed and his energy captured by the newborn God. For the Bloody Handed God was as much a part of Slaanesh as of Khorne - being a product of that part of the Eldar nature which finds gratification in murder and pleasure in bloody violence. Khorne the Blood God, the Patron of War, Murder and Battle, roared with rage to discover one of his own taken from him in this way. Then Khorne and Slaanesh clashed headlong, the Blood God fighting to recover the portion of his power that had been robbed from him, Slaanesh driven by his uncontrollable hunger to consume everything in his path. The Bloody Handed God of the Eldar was tossed this way and that, at first grasped by Slaanesh, then tugged back into the compass of Khorne.

Eventually the rage of the Blood God and the passion of the Lord of Pleasure were exhausted, and the boundaries between them were established. Like a leaf in the eye of a hurricane, Kaela Mensha Khaine fell among the calm, down through the Realm of Chaos and into the material universe. As he entered the material universe he divided into many shards of energy, scattering his power so that neither Khorne or Slaanesh could ever find him again. Each shard entered the body of an Eldar, filling the body with his own mind, possessing it, so that it became a virtually indestructible blood-lusting murderer - the material manifestation of the Bloody Handed God. These are the Avatars of the Bloody Handed God.

**Just Dave**

To be fair Pilau that's fairly old fluff and these days Khaine's fate is generally seen as a bit different in that (IIRC), he dueled with slaanesh for a while but was eventually defeated, Slaanesh however wasn't powerful enough/was too exhausted to 'destroy' Khaine, so instead he was shattered into 1000's of pieces, becoming the Avatars of today.
I guess this may or may not be due to his being imbued with the Power of Khorne, but AFAIK this is the general story for Khaine in the modern 40K.

As for the rest, only the laughing god is still alive. Although some claim the laughing god is the deciever (C'tan).
Isha MAY be a prisoner of Nurgle.
Ynnead isn't actually confirmed as existing.

**Pilau Rice**

True it's old, but I think that's the most up to date account or telling of it.

I think it if wasn't for the intervention of Khorne then Khaine would be another name on the list of dead Eldar Gods.

Don't have the Eldar codex, which I guess would be the best source.

I do like this telling of it and the link between Khaine and Khorne.

**origarmi chicken**

Thanks eveyone

I did not know about Kahaine's connection with Khorne

**DarknessEternal**

Tmonster wrote:well two of the Phoenix Lords die at the end of the universe, and all of them fight there, that means that after the materium and the immaterium are destroyed there will be some phoenix lords left. Weird isn't it

Rhana Dhandra isn't the end of the universe. It's the end of the Eldar and Chaos. It's engineered to specifically not be the end of everything else.

**Tmonster**

DarknessEternal wrote:
Tmonster wrote:well two of the Phoenix Lords die at the end of the universe, and all of them fight there, that means that after the materium and the immaterium are destroyed there will be some phoenix lords left. Weird isn't it

Rhana Dhandra isn't the end of the universe. It's the end of the Eldar and Chaos. It's engineered to specifically not be the end of everything else.

Lexicanum states that it is also the end of the materium and the immaterium http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Rhana_Dandra

**Footsloggin**

Just Dave wrote:He dueled with slaanesh for a while but was eventually defeated, Slaanesh however wasn't powerful enough/was too exhausted to 'destroy' Khaine, so instead he was shattered into 1000's of pieces, becoming the Avatars of today.

Make that one less piece (I would think), one of Khaine's Avatar's is possesed by Heartslayer in the Chaos Daemon's codex...

**DarknessEternal**

Tmonster wrote:
Lexicanum states that it is also the end of the materium and the immaterium http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Rhana_Dandra

Yay for retcons.