I forgot this was coming.
And this is NEW banner art. Well done
@The Red Devil , now we have four April Fools banners. We appreciate your dedication to keeping L-O so awesome.
I've been a huge Warhammer Fantasy fan for a long but I'm only a casual fan of 40K, so take my thoughts with a grain of salt.
I really really like the grand backstory to the Eldar. How they used to be the dominant power in galaxy but their technology progressed to the point where they didn't have to struggle anymore, and had nothing to do to pass the time, so they turned to greater and greater acts of debauchery just so they could feel something.
Then their collective debauchery birth Slaanesh and Slaanesh ended up killing and eating the souls of roughly 99% of the Eldar.
The Eldar that survived were among the most and the least depraved.
The ones that saw the depravity engulfing Eldar society as undesirable, said "I'm getting away from you sickos" and they created Craftworlds and flew to the edges of the galaxy. They were far away enough from Ground Zero of Slaanesh that Slaanesh couldn't reach them. These are the Craft World Elder.
Some of the Eldar saw the growing decadence of their society and said "Oh yeah, I can top that! Hold my blood wine!" The ones that were really in the geographic and cultural center of the Eldar's debauchery that they were so close to Slaanesh that Slaanesh only got a tiny hold of their souls and didn't eat their souls.
But in order to keep Slaanesh from eating their souls, they have to inflict pain on others. These are the Dark Eldar.
In my opinion, the Eldar might have the coolest backstory in all of 40K and that is saying something because both the Imperium and the Necrons have badass lore.
The problem, in my opinion, is that lore wise, after their epic beginning, both the Craftworld Eldar and the Dark Eldar are basically footnotes or speed bumps in the galactic struggles of the other factions.
I may or may not a collect a 40K army at some point in the future. I seriously considered the Craftworld Eldar as the army to collect. I like their general aesthetics, I like their large amount of pyskers, and I like their epic backstory. But they didn't stick the landing. Besides their epic backstory, their lore just do it for me.
Though if they allied with the Slann, that would change things...