gather around children as I tell you as I tell you the fall of our ancestors, the birth of she-who-thirst, and the salvation of the Aeldar people.
if started in the twilight of our people's empire when corruption ran deep and our assorted turned on each other pursuing foul pleasures.

there was born a prince, adren pale soul

"why did they call him that grandma"

because he was born with a very weak soul, he could not feel emotions as deeply we do and his abilities were weaker than his peers, they called him that to mock him as a cripple. Little did they know what he would go on and achieve.

"after he reached adulthood he was given a planet to rule over as his father was a member of the noble council that governed the empire, some say that he had a vision of what is to come, some he was power-hungry that saw an opportunity but I think he saw what the empire was beyond saving and he decided to use any means possible to save what is worth saving of our species."

"what did he do"

he saw that the sane and disciplined were fleeing the empire on craftworlds, and those that stayed were having to deal with growing pleasure cults and violence in the street as society unraveled around them. he realized that his position was untenable he made a great gamble he sold his planet to a rival prince and used the wealth to buy a large army of mercenaries to support his sword soldiers in his invasion of the webway and conquest of Commorragh.

once he did, he did a great and terrible ritual that woke the gods, no one knows what he did but after the gods became active in the lives of their followers again. ... a long time ago

my prince the poison daggers say they are making progress into the inner city, the Kaine's own have finished taking control of the residential area and are hunting down the last of the stragglers

"good, good when we have backed the pleasure cults leadership backed to a wall, this will be over soon. Remind our commander to try and take as many prisoners as possible. I take my guards and get the surrender of the cult leaders myself"

leaving the ship command center I take a left down to the docks where a company of hover tanks are ready to take me to the last center of resistance in the city I had done it I had conquered the dark city well not the dark city yet, it still be a few thousand years before dark eldar will be a thing but I can certainly see where the depraved actions of the dark eldar are known in how the cults operate.

I stroll through memory lane as I walk the broken and rubble-filled streets. being reborn as a eldar was an experience I am just glad that this is before they are a hunted and dying species that have to worry about having their souls eaten by the god of rape.

I have to worry a it's birth at some unknown point in the future, so I am on the clock I also have to keep my new volatile emotions in check vulcan style
when I was reborn it was already the last days in the Aeldar empire, the rot is too deep and madness to great for it to be saved it and I know I can't stay governing the planet as I will be at ground zero and I can't just flee to the craftworld as that means that nothing will change that means it both damn a species to extinction and it means I share their fate.

So I pondered how I can save Aeldar civilization well that worth saving, But I also need to somehow save the eldar gods both because to stop our souls from being eaten and because the death of the gods somehow badly affect eldar fertility though I can't remember if it is because of isha capture or Asuryan binding his power to the race that caused it.

this explains why the race did not bounce back in the 10 thousand years before the imperium appeared to hunt them. and living in this time i can tell they are not the most fertility race to begin with.

Then it hit me the webway if the dark eldars can live in it with their debased lives without worry, then Commorragh could support can support a large population of normal eldar I just hope that Slaanesh soul-sucking is because of who the dark eldar are instead of where they live. killing the dark eldar before they can become a thing and taking their home by itself will automatically make the galaxy an infinitely better place on its own win, win.

I broke out of my pondering and I arrived into the inner city where the cult leaders' pleasure palaces are located. I just arrive as my mercenary swarm the defenses of the last bunkers and drag out its occupants

ahh hello disgusting scumbag so lovely to meet face to face

"do you think you get away with this I have allies in the core that"... crunch

" ah thank you I have a feeling he would have gotten annoying" nodding to the armored figure that just shattered his jaw

"sir, sir we have stumbled upon a cloning lab"

turning to the suddenly very pale cult leader "cloning that makes sense, as that is the only way to get someone to serve you is to grow them yourself, I am honestly not supposed you look like someone that breaks one of the greatest taboo for conveniences, not even your allies with being able to put up that much of a fuss, Once this is known in the unlikely scenario that they care about your death. take him away" I know this is done it time for the next step.
Gather the prisoners, I have a ritual to perform

I only ever seen one fic pre-fall of the eldar, this will that one is that the main character tries to save as much as possible before chaos comes around and ruins everyone's day