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Sir Pseudonymous wrote:
Are you actually attempting to seriously respond to a list that includes "because you're Batman" and "Any questions? Questions are Heresy!" as steps?

Generally speaking, that is what one does in a debate, no?

Eldar are in no position to be arrogant, this is a race that was mind raped by a porn god that they created, because of their own mistakes, thus creating another threat to the universe and themselves. Go Go Eldar!

For all them saying how Humans are screwing things up, we didn't create a chaos god

Reanimator wrote:Eldar are rightly aware of their martial prowess, see path of the warrior for details therein. However humanity as a whole, impressive genetic manipulation or not, still register very low on an eldar's scale of quality. For a race that is eons older than humanity, let alone the last 10 millennia under the emperor, our sense of modernity and achievement pales when you consider what they had achieved. This, tempered with the fact they lost all of it because of their own pride and lack of self control would leave them even less likely to acknowledge any lacking of their own versus that of any of the younger races.

Having read the old Eldar Codex, and seeing the way they behave in Dawn of War, I think they still view all of humanity as foolish overconfident conquerors. What Reanimator said about their pride and lack of self control causing their own destruction, I think they possibly recognize the same kind of pride in the Astartes, but without their tempered culture that saved them from complete self destruction, they probably see humans as making the same mistakes they did, but with an even more barbaric culture and naive brashness from their standards, so even more dangerously insane than they were pre-fall. I think they respect the threat and power of the Marines as something to either be manipulated or avoided, but I don't think they "respect" the Marines as a cultural achievement at all. Perhaps in the same way you would "respect" the mentally handicapped 250-pounds-of-muscle wrestling champion at the special olympics? He's not much for a philosophical conversation, but wow can he fight.

Grey Templar wrote:For all them saying how Humans are screwing things up, we didn't create a chaos god

At least not yet... ( the Emperor might be as powerful as one if his soul is to be released... ).

yes, but the Emperor would actually be a nice Chaos God(although he still might dispute his divinity )

Well, the Eldar needed to be destroyed by the danger within. No external force was a threat.

The Imperium is just falling apart so they'll never get to that situation.