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Hey folks!

I've been playing Eldar for a few years now, but I've never really picked a CW for them nor have I worked on their fluff much. But since I got back into 40k after a year-long hiatus, I've started making up a background for my Eldar specifically, something interesting, but not out of place in the setting.

The rought draft of what I envisioned isn't anything new in fiction or in real world, depending on whether you give the Native American spiritualism any weight. The idea is that a young Farseer from the craftworld Alaitoc had a vision of a garden, a place of hope and renewal where the Eldar race could find some measure of peace from the galaxy at war. An expeditionary force was gathered and they went searching for the place from her dreams. After some decades of searching, they found it. A garden world, pulsing with psychic energy. Every living thing there had some measure of innate psychic ability. The world was everything they ever dreamed of and more and they rested there for a time. During that time, the Farseer that led them there had been receiving stronger and stronger visions, leading her to believe there was some sort of a well of psychic power nearby, somehow untainted by Daemons. After years of searching, she found it. The world itself was the well. The planet was alive.

To make the long story short(especially as I don't currently have a long story to tell, just a rough idea), there is a planet that is somehow a living organism, with a "soul" as it were, whose fractions are nestled in each indigenous organism. A bird would be killed by a predator and its soul would travel back into the planet, only to be reborn as something else. It is a self-sufficient circle, completely independent from the rest of the Warp. Those Eldar that found it were of course fascinated by it and they decided to make it their home. And in time, they learned how to plant their soulstones into the planet, the same way normal Eldar plant them into the Infinity Circuit, becoming a part of the world itself. Their way of life is different than the normal Eldar, though not by much. They still have Paths, but instead of different aspects of War, they serve different aspects of nature. They have Temples dedicated to each element and one aspect to embody that element. Shining Spears for Water, Fire Dragons for Fire, Swooping Hawks for Air and Warp Spiders for Earth. Dire Avengers are the Phoenix Guard, taking something from each Temple, training in all disciplines. They serve as each Temple's Guardians.

What do you think of such an idea? A Maiden world that for some reason managed to get cut off from the Warp and gradually build a serene universe within a universe and that the Eldar can actually use this in the same way they use their infinity circuits in the craftworlds.

Sounds like the Avatar movie to me sounds pretty cool why not make them a mix between the exodites and craft world eldar, blend the 2 together or something?

I'd say just call them exodites, because that's exactly what they are. Always gives you a chance to model some of the creatures they encounter as steeds.. unless you like perfectly good antigrav technology.

My Eldar come from an exodite world as well, ours is a webway pocket from olden times, one of the waystations on the way to the black library. Completely contained in the webway with the gate deep in an asteroid field.