40 Facts and Lore on the Dark Muses Warhammer 40K Do Dark Eldar Worship Slaanesh

welcome back to another episode of 40 facts about the 40k universe I am your host crush warning you were watching one mine syndicate today we continue talking about the Dark Eldar as we answer the question of who the Dark Eldar worship do they worship slen Ash do they worship other chaos gods the reality is that they worship these beings called the dark muses and also the the God of War the elder god of war but who the dark muses are is very interesting and we're gonna get into that in this video so if you're new to the channel subscribe we post Warhammer 40k content every single day and if you have any other questions just comment down below we'll create a video for you but with that said let's get into 40 facts under dark muses the Dark Eldar are mostly referred to as the Juke re in the Elder lexicon are the remnants of the hedonist and cruel elder faction that caused the birth of slain ash before the fall of the Eldar these individuals created sects called pleasure cults dedicated to achieving the highest levels of hedonistic sensation so outlandish were their practices that eventually they devolved into violence against each other and even the ritual sacrifice of their own kind during this time many of the Eldar that participated in these pleasure cults had already cast aside the many elder gods and goddesses that made up their ancient pantheon while many of them could still recognize and name the ancient gods few saw them as important it was the many technological advancements and peak supremacy of the elder Empire that fueled an overconfident population they had no need to concern themselves with matters such as daily survival manual labor or warding off of external threats eventually filled with arrogance the ancient elder saw no point on worshipping many gods that previous generations of elder had venerated within the warp the psychic manifestations of the elder deities grew weaker as fewer elder are prayed to them and the abundance of pleasure cults continued to grow manifesting in the warp until finally the Prince of pleasure / was born in one horrific moment the core worlds of the elder Empire were consumed and the elder race was reduced to a mere fraction of their former glory at that same moment along with trillions of Elder souls slash devoured all but a few Elder Gods only three Elder Gods were able to escape destruction the God of War Kane the goddess of fertility issue and the Laughing God said grow while many elder factions also survived it was only the Dark Eldar who interpreted the destruction of the many gods as a confirmation to the weakness of the ancient eldery mythology and proof that the deities never deserved the dracarys veneration in no means does this suggest that the Dark Eldar worships Laneige as a supreme god The Drew Carey hates Laneige as much as the rest of the elder race nor does this mean that every single Dark Eldar ceased to believe in the Elder mythology many Drakkar II enjoy reminiscing of the ancient stories of their dead culture especially when Harlequin masks performed their mesmerizing plays many Dark Eldar still venerate the God of War kala men chicane whose story of survival is told amongst the drew Carey and is still held in high regard in camera the tale of how before the Prince of pleasure could absorb cane corn the God of War battled Schley Nash for the power of Kain claiming the elder deity as his property by right since they represented the same metaphysical force during the struggle between the chaos gods Cain was driven into the material world where his psychic or was shattered into a thousand pieces each piece came to rest at the heart of the elder crafts worlds were hibernated within the craft worlds infinity circuit this tale serves as inspiration to the many Dark Eldar traders of Kimura but aside from the God of War the Dark Eldar also venerate the ancient and lesser powers known as the dark muses or the embodiments of selfish vice and who's worshipped by the ancient pleasure cult contributed to the demise of the al-douri gods the dark muses are truly powerful drew Carey from ages past who have essentially become folkloric figures of reverence much like the Imperium worships imperial saints worship of these beings started before the fall sometime between the 19th and 24th millennia by the imperial calendar when the traditional worship of the eldery gods began to wane as new sects and societies dedicated the hedonistic access began to rise in power amongst the ancient al dari many of these dark muses epitomize a particular form of ice for instance the evils of arrogance are personified by the dark muse violet violet is particularly popular as an ideal to which many Dark Eldar archons aspire to the most famous followers of violence are known as the Saiyans of violet and are known as the best aerial hunters of the Dark Eldar piloting aircraft such as the razor wing jet fighters and the void Raven bombers these Dark Eldar pilots will sometimes form mercenary aerial squadrons that will work for cabal's which calls and homunculus of the dark city the emergence of cults centered around a particular dark muse or multiple dark muses is common in Dark Eldar Society for instance there exist many mysterious sister hoods who are desired by powerful archons to serve as courtesans in their courts known as lemons these female true khari are renowned in camera for being both imaginative lovers and exceptional poisoners they descend from the cult of Lamia whose courtesan elite also worshiped the dark Muse Lily - and gained their knowledge of poisons from another dark muse known as shame ash father of poisons such as the Sisterhood's mastery that they can alter the poisons of others to enhance their effect knowing how best to maximize a weapons potency with a glance certain zi nog refers hold Seamus to be a mythical figure and others a historical one the tendency for elder myth to blur the line between the two has not helped what studies exist on the topic whether this Shay mesh was ever real his influence lives on in the deadly brews of his devoted followers this is true for most dark muses the stories of their hedonistic and twisted actions have existed since before the fall and many tales have become more legend than factual tellings there the less The Drew Carey of camera continued to worship these beings and enact ever stranger rituals and ceremonies in their honor sacrificing is a common form of worship in the Dark Eldar culture the majority of sacrifices to the dark muses take the form of human or other xeno offerings the quality of sacrifice also may vary depending on the fortune desired by the worshipers sacrificing a fresh slave compared to a virgin thrall it has already been subjected to horrible torture will foster different results the most desired sacrifice will always come in the form of Eldar ritual slaughtering to offer eldery blood is seen as the ultimate form of libation traditionalists which calls often seek the ritual favor of the dark muse Kali the mistress of blades with a sacrifice for good fortune before combat other which calls evoke the favor of the dark muse okati the red Crone before they enter any battle just like the Imperium the Dark Eldar will go to great lengths to recover artifacts or relics pertaining to these ancient beings much like an imperial priest might venerate an article of armor left behind by a famous general the juke-r II Revere the weapons or torture devices of these ancient al dari anest is known to be a dark muse particularly revered by the Cabal of the Onyx car the cabal searches for her ashes in the warp rift known as the screamin vortex in the segmental obscurus where the ashes are rumored to be held in a chalice on a pirate held world of sack grave it is even believed by many drew quarry at their current supreme overlord as jubail vac of the Cabal of the black heart may one day join the ranks of the dark muses though given his ability to cheat death again and again this may be an honor long in the coming and those were 40 facts and the dark muses I hope you guys enjoyed this video if you did don't forget to share it with your friends on Facebook Twitter whatever social media you guys use especially if they play elder or Dark Eldar see if they know about the dark muses this is something that was new to me don't forget that we are currently running a subscriber appreciation giveaway giveaways if you check out our daily check out the video titled daily life of a plague marine and horrible realities of chaos or sorry horrible realities of a Cornett Berserker we are running 2 starter set giveaways you can win some awesome plague marine stuff you could win some awesome coronet Berserker stuff if you are into chaos it's actually really funny because from my experience on the greater wall a lot of people believe that Dark Eldar worship chaos and they don't I mean I understand where you're coming from because when you think of Space Marines their opposite is chaos Space Marines when you think of Imperial Guard their opposite is chaos cultists or demons but it's not the same when you look at the Eldar and the Dark Eldar the Dark Eldar hate chaos as much as like an imperial Inquisitor would hate chaos especially slen ash they get consumed by slowness just the same if they are not protected and so they just don't worship chaos at all the dark muses are just like an interesting twist to the whole lore of the Dark Eldar it makes sense to a realistic extent because as I was reading the lore of the dark muses it kind of things started to click with reality so when you have the Dark Eldar who worship these dark muses who essentially are just other Dark Eldar or they were Eldar that were part of pleasure cults and they were like big names they were innovators in the form of torture and and pleasure when you look at human society like our society right now we are in the peak of like technology and it seems like we're kind of going away from religion so just like the Eldar once they were at their height of their power they didn't really need to rely on mythology so much anymore they kind of had control of their own thing what they started to do is like move towards pleasure and hedonism but at the same time just stop believing in the old guns that's kind of where humanity is right now I'm not saying that we're moving towards like heathenism but we are moving more towards pleasure like the Internet is just a big like place where you can fulfill that small little desire of pleasure but you can check your Instagram you can check the new prices for the for the new releases of Warhammer 40k so the Warhammer community like they're all just like little pleasureful hits in your mind every time and it's at the edge of your fingertips so like we're moving towards like that pleasureful or pleasure desiring world just like the Dark Eldar or the the elder who are going towards pleasure cults and then we're also kind of pushing away from religion at least in first world countries I feel as as as a country gets more educated they kind of like understand that Christianity Islam Buddhism all that stuff is nice and like it has its place but it's not what it used to be two old humans and what's happening is that instead of venerating people like Jesus allow whatever other figures from humanity's past become venerated so you see that as like we venerate people like Galileo especially when it comes to science it's like Galileo when when you look at history it's like whatever country you're from you're venerating a famous General George Washington or what have you and that usually is what's happening in like any civilization as the civilization gets better they start worshipping people of old not so much gods of old of course we're not psychically powered there's no warp so we're not going to manifest a chaos god of internet porn or something that's not gonna happen but um at least I hope that's not gonna happen but either way I found it interesting how like the same thing that's happening to the dark are the same thing that happen to the Dark Eldar and their worship of muses is kind of happening to our culture and like our worship of you know historical people historically big names and history and stuff like that but yeah tell me what you guys think don't forget about the giveaways if you guys enjoy our videos we have a patreon it's a simple dollar a month it helps us create more videos for you guys if you can't no worries just by liking commenting and ensuring it helps out the channel but yeah with that said I'll talk to you tomorrow this is Gershwin with one mind syndicate signing out [Music]

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Length: 14min 22sec (862 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 28 2018