It is a name the Aeldari will not speak, instead whispering Sai'lanthresh, translatable from the Aeldari Lexicon as "She Who Thirsts." In a heartbeat, the shining Aeldari civilisation that had lasted for aeons had its heart ripped out, leaving a pulsing afterbirth of pure Chaos in its place. No creature was ever conceived that was as terrible or perverse as the Chaos God Slaanesh. Too late, the Aeldari realised that they had created a god in their own hideous image, a god grown immense and potent by suckling upon the dark fodder of the Aeldari spirit. Slowly, the Great Enemy stirred towards wakefulness. They become entities of greater or lesser potency depending on the intensity of their origin.Īmidst the swirling psychic energy of the Empyrean, the corruption of the decadent Aeldari became manifest on a horrifying scale as the flood of raw emotions coalesced into a gestalt consciousness. Within the Warp, thoughts and emotions flow together, fed by fellow feelings until they achieve a consciousness of sorts. Slowly, silently, a nascent god of excess grew strong in the depths of the Warp. In the parallel dimension of the Warp, the reflections of these intense experiences began to coalesce, for the shifting psychic tides of the Empyrean can take form around intense emotion felt by large masses of sentient beings. As the moral corruption of the Aeldari tightened its stranglehold, echoes of ecstasy and agony began to ripple through time and space. Their hidden realms within the Webway became sprawling palaces of avarice and sadism, and entire worlds were bent to the pursuit of the darkest of sensations. Over the millennia, the core of the Aeldari species began to look inwards, inexorably seeking new ways to explore the full range of emotion and sensation which they felt so powerfully.Ī sickness of vice overtook the Aeldari, and blood flowed through the streets amidst the bestial roar of the crowd. The ancient Aeldari were taught about this arcane technology by the Old Ones, and quickly mastered the Labyrinth Dimension of the Webway, expanding their realms into the furthest corners of reality where they learned much about the universe that has since been forgotten. They created the Webway as a conduit that allowed its masters to travel at will to countless far-flung worlds without risking the fickle tides of the Warp. The Webway was created by the Old Ones, an ancient and technologically advanced intelligent species who established an interstellar empire across the Milky Way Galaxy tens of millions of standard years before the development of most of the other sentient species. The Webway is a hyper-dimensional construct that spans the dimensions of Creation, primarily defined by the fact that it sits between the material realm and the roiling tides of the Warp, an interstice comparable to the fabric of a veil cast over something foul.Īs with all of the Aeldari's most prized artefacts, the Webway was brought into being by psychic means, and the substance of its myriad corridors are protected by manner, methods and composition of their construction from incursions from the Warp.įlanked by statues of the Phoenix Lords, an Asuryani Exarch enters a craftworld Webway gate. The Webway has been described as an incredibly complex network of arteries and capillaries, a maze of glowing tunnels, and a mystic tapestry of hidden threads that spread across the veil between realspace and the Warp. It serves as the home of the vast Dark City of Commorragh and the hidden craftworld controlled by the Harlequins known as the Black Library.Īn Asuryani warhost stepping on a new world through the Webway. Today, it is utilised by the Aeldari Asuryani of the craftworlds and their Drukhari counterparts for faster-than-light travel. The Webway, also known as the Labyrinth Dimension, or the Labyrinthine Dimension in older texts, is an extra-dimensional space partitioned off from the Immaterium millions of Terran years ago by an extremely advanced xenos species known as the Old Ones. An ancient Aeldari city within the Webway.
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