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What were the Eldar like Pre-Fall? Did they still have the stuck up attitude they have now, or did they act differently when they weren't dying out? Mainly how did they treat other races, and what was their military strength like?

They were like the Dark Eldar. They were way more stuckup then they are today, the Fall humbled them a bit. Their military strength was easily beyond equal and more advanced then what exists today.

Harriticus wrote:They were like the Dark Eldar. They were way more stuckup then they are today, the Fall humbled them a bit. Their military strength was easily beyond equal and more advanced then what exists today.

Agreed. More or less, your average Eldar was like a Dark Eldar in that they were stuck up, arrogant, and would do anything that they pleased. They lived life to what would seem like terrifying extremes to a human. They believe and still do believe themselves to be far more important than the "lesser races". The key difference is that while pre-fall Eldar were as powerful psykers as 41st millenium Eldar, Dark Eldar abhor psykers even more than the Imperium. Commorragh would be found and attacked by The Great Enemy in an instant if they used their psychic powers and most of their psychic potential has atrophied.

Not all Eldar were like that, though. There were the Exodites who fled the larger Eldar settlements to settle on the exodite worlds on the fringes of the galaxy and who were largely untouched by The Fall.

Yeah, the Exodites and Craftworld types were the Eldar with the most restraint and humility to them.

Think about THAT one for a while.

Nicholas wrote:What were the Eldar like Pre-Fall? Did they still have the stuck up attitude they have now, or did they act differently when they weren't dying out? Mainly how did they treat other races, and what was their military strength like?

It depends how far before the fall. Just before they were like DE indeed, but I like to think of that time as during the fall, or rather the prologue to the fall.

Far earlier before the fall, Eldar were not really like DE, they created a lot of new and fantastic things, such as architecture and new a whole lot about the universe. Its when the new generations got arrogant because they never had to work or create anything that the eldar became decadent.

Arturius wrote:Yeah, the Exodites and Craftworld types were the Eldar with the most restraint and humility to them.

Think about THAT one for a while.

The 'humility' of the Eldar to other Eldar is very strong, they don't have to be nice to other species to still have humility.



Back to OP, during the great Eldar Empire the Eldar became so powerful and thier empire so automated that they had nothing to do. Due to the nature of the Eldar this ment that the vast majority fell to their darker urges. This happened in such a way that those Eldar didn't even notice the cultural change, it was only the craftworld Eldar (at that point they were the empires long distance traders) who noticed as they only returned to the core of the Empire every 100 years or so and those Eldar who would become the Exodites (which seem to be comparable to community groups holding on to older ideals)

Just before the Fall the Exodites and craftworlds left the core of the Empire after the dire warnings of Farseers, leavig most of the Eldar left in the core to be completely devoured by Slaanesh's birth, those Eldar that survived escaped into the webway and became Dark Eldar.

Out of all of the groups it is probably the Exodites that most closely resemble the Eldar before their empire was formed.