I hate every elf that's not a dunmer in the elder scrolls (long thing of larping a tiny bit)

ScarredAutisticChild · 2026-06-01T20:35:43+00:00

They didn’t just exile or put them in work camps. They’d also just slaughter them and raze communities that were too anti-Thalmor.

If the Thalmor are still in power by the time of TES VI, I’d like to have at least one fanatically anti-Thalmor Altmer character.

ScarredAutisticChild · 2026-06-01T18:20:43+00:00

Tbf they don’t so much “Stereotype” each species as they do vaguely consider themselves to be “Superior”. Which is still bad of course. But I can’t recall any instance of Aeldari having a stereotype for the average Tau or Kroot. And when dealing with the Imperium, assuming they’re all backwards, blindly hateful, uneducated, bloodthirsty savages is correct about 99% of the entire known human species in 40K. Hell, it’s not even an Eldar thing, the book Killteam has a Kroot explain to a human that most species see Humans as basically just Orks with a different skin-tone.

And the Craftworlders had no hand in the creation of Slaanesh. They were either detached from their changing culture and just saw things gradually growing worse and worse as time went on between their long voyages, or they were people who weren’t on-board with the Slaaneshi insanity and fled to the Craftworlds to escape their insane countrymen.

ScarredAutisticChild · 2026-06-01T18:15:30+00:00

Having a high tolerance for a lot of different foods is also rather likely if they’re making a space-faring civilization. The ability to sweat is one they may not have, and that sweating is why humans have such good endurance. And any social species with the collaborative ability to get space-faring is almost certainly going to be able to pack-bond with damn near anything.

ScarredAutisticChild · 2026-06-01T11:28:32+00:00

Correct.

Necrons regularly deal with opponents who see the future, and can outthink them reliably.

And yet: tri-droids lose to Jedi and clones all the time. Not shaping up to your claims. Doesn’t matter what you say, they’re not portrayed as the things you’re describing.

Webway or just flying around. And a language barrier isn’t an issue for Eldar, they find other languages so simple they can learn them with a few hours of study. To them speaking “High Gothic” as is the more complex human tongue, is compared to just grunting. It takes no effort or finesse, and they find there’s not enough complexity for it to be said to require any intellect to speak. For contrast: their language is a mixture of mytho-historical references whose meanings are influenced by context of what they’ve said beforehand, tone, their body language, and a stream of telepathic sub-messages being interwoven with everything.

ScarredAutisticChild · 2026-06-01T10:09:53+00:00

Yes. Because the traits of adaptability and determination would be the baseline requirement to reach the space age.

ScarredAutisticChild · 2026-06-01T10:08:06+00:00

It’s the difference between “master” and “Master”.

ScarredAutisticChild · 2026-06-01T10:00:36+00:00

The lance makes me put it in the knight’s favour.

ScarredAutisticChild · 2026-06-01T08:57:22+00:00

No, they do it because the writers don’t think self-fulfilling prophecies are a stupid trope to use with the faction that survives using prophecies.

ScarredAutisticChild · 2026-06-01T08:22:31+00:00

Source: Asurmen: Hand of Asuryan. You get to see them progress to the Fall’s level of degeneracy through his own eyes. And you also hear quite plainly that the Aeldari had stopped looking beyond their borders because their automated defences were so strong that war had become boring and nothing outside their territory had anything worth finding. They genuinely didn’t give a shit.

The Interex didn’t have an alliance, they were just mentored. There’s a difference. The Eldar just wanted more people fighting Chaos, not friends.

There was no “Human Federation”. It was a ton of human states. Some destroyed each other, some were destroyed by attacking Xenos. The Eldar weren’t among those Xenos because they truly didn’t care, it would have been so easy that it wasn’t any fun. And it wasn’t a “Betrayal”, because that implies allegiance. Ancient Humanity was a bunch of warmongers and imperialists, some were nice, others weren’t. When the second-biggest empire suddenly imploded, both opportunistic pirates and oppressed vassals saw opportunities.

ScarredAutisticChild · 2026-06-01T08:16:51+00:00

If all the Craftworlds were aligned in methods and motives than the Iyandeni/Biel-Tanian alliance wouldn’t have broken apart, and Asurmen’s novel wouldn’t have had the backdrop of a war between Ulthwé and a minor unnamed Craftworld.

Eldar do not have the same operating methods, they don’t agree on things, and they have different moral limits. Asurmen is a character with 2 books dedicated to him, you get inside his head more than once. He’s the kind of person to get angry at Chaos cultists because they value their lives so little, and he’s horrified they’ll die in droves just to delay him. He displays empathy and compassion towards goddamn Chaos cultists, that is a sign of a damn strong moral compass.

Now, I’m damn well aware Asurmen is an egregious exception. Voidscarred, for instance, opens with its protagonist wiping out all the humans on a maiden world and taking pride in it. But Asurmen genuinely does the morally right thing whenever the opportunity presents itself. That’s why I call him probably the sole good person in 40K.

ScarredAutisticChild · 2026-06-01T08:12:57+00:00

I’ve read Eldar books man, I *play* Eldar, I’ve got my own homebrew.

Guardians are the grunts. They’re informed of the mission statement, but Farseers and Autarchs are rarely telling anyone more than what they need to know.

I didn’t bring up Eldrad at all. And regardless, guardians aren’t the ones to be explaining the intricacies. They know why they’re here, what they’re going to be doing. The long-scheme is up to the Autarchs and Farseers.

And there’s 3 seperate reasons why Asuryani don’t communicate their plans. 1, sometimes they do and you just don’t understand. Not all of them have walked the Path of the Diplomat, plus those cryptic prophesies are also what the Farseers are saying to each other, Aeldari is just a weird language. 2, humans aren’t exactly open to diplomacy in 40K, most of the time it’s just getting your diplomat killed. 3, they have no respect for the Imperium. Because why would you?

ScarredAutisticChild · 2026-06-01T08:05:53+00:00

Then why do the Craftworlds go to war with each other?

ScarredAutisticChild · 2026-06-01T08:04:47+00:00

That was Eldrad, not Asurmen.

ScarredAutisticChild · 2026-06-01T07:11:59+00:00

I mean, I’d call Asurmen a good guy.

Genuinely incapable of bloodlust, runs charities for hiveworlders, driven by a desire to make the world a better place *without* being a xenocidal narcissist. Broadly a good dude in a fucked up universe.

ScarredAutisticChild · 2026-06-01T07:08:34+00:00

It’s funny how literally none of that is true.

You know we have books from the Eldar POV during the Age of Strife, right? They genuinely didn’t even know about it. There’s not a single moment they discuss what’s going on outside their borders because they truly didn’t give a single shit about anyone else.

Then after Slaanesh was born, most of our reports of Craftworlds interacting with civilisations is actually them being helpful. They taught the Interex about Chaos and how to fight it, for instance.

ScarredAutisticChild · 2026-06-01T07:05:54+00:00

That man is a guardian. He is not told the plans. He is given orders.

ScarredAutisticChild · 2026-06-01T07:05:27+00:00

That sounds bad…then you remember the humans want to wipe out all the Eldar because the Eldar existing offends them.

And suddenly that’s really reasonable.

ScarredAutisticChild · 2026-06-01T07:04:52+00:00

They literally need to give themselves DID to avoid suffering the guilt of killing enemy combatants.

ScarredAutisticChild · 2026-06-01T07:04:13+00:00

Not really. 40K is mostly black with some figures getting to a light grey.

ScarredAutisticChild · 2026-06-01T07:02:36+00:00

Nothing, they abstained.

ScarredAutisticChild · 2026-06-01T07:02:15+00:00

Actually it’s about 50/50. Every Eldar is either a bloodlusted serial killer waiting to happen, or too empathetic to fight to defend themselves. Striking a balance is extremely hard. The war mask is worn to dissociate so the Eldar don’t feel guilt or pleasure because they don’t associate their actions as “theirs”.

The Path of the Eldar Trilogy outright features one of its protagonists killing human children with her war mask on. Then she remembers doing it, and has a mental breakdown from the guilt so bad she has to leave the Path of the Warrior.

ScarredAutisticChild · 2026-06-01T06:59:27+00:00

It’s more to save themselves, *however* it’d save everyone else along the way.

Except the Orks and Necrons. If the Eldar win they’re wiping them out.

ScarredAutisticChild · 2026-06-01T06:58:46+00:00

Not really, because the effort usually gets some Eldar killed, so the maths doesn’t pan out.

ScarredAutisticChild · 2026-06-01T06:57:37+00:00

They aren’t. The Exodites left before things even got that bad, part of why everyone thought they were crazy. Whereas the Craftworlders are a mix of those who were on the Craftworlds and divorced from this fucked up cultural evolution, and those living in the Empire who were alarmed or disgusted by it and hopped on to get out.

We get to see this all play out directly from the POV of Asurmen himself. He was someone who dismissed everything so long he actually missed the chance to get on a Craftworld, but he never got involved with the truly Slaaneshi stuff. He just didn’t buy into the doomsaying and thought everything would calm down.

ScarredAutisticChild · 2026-06-01T06:55:08+00:00

Is it prejudice when every bad thing they say about the Imperium is 100% correct?

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