Choose your Eldar!

Some quick news everyone! Last Friday the Developers of the upcoming 40k MMO; Eternal Crusade, announced that its first community faction vote will go live this Wednesday. For any who don't know, this is the first of 4 community votes for founders to choose which additional racial sub-faction can be added to the game. Eldar are first up on this, with the choices being Craftworlds Mymeara, Altansar, and Yme Loc. All have pretty unique looks and very interesting backgrounds. If you need more info, the latest live stream contains all the info on these choices. (here's the link to that video; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Ccs2bd38g ) If you are excited to play as your favorite space elfs but have yet to become a founder, then you are encouraged to do so now so that you can have active participation in choosing what goes into the game for this faction. Signing up is quick and easy and is as simple as going to eternalcrusade.com, creating an account, and buying any one of the founder packs available, but hurry, the voting begins on Wednesday. Hope to see you there. More info on the craftworlds can be found below. :)

All info below sourced via Lexicanum. Should be helpful for those who aren't sure what to vote for. :) Here is a link to the site for those who have yet to become founders: https://www.eternalcrusade.com/

 Craftworld Altansar

Altansar is an Eldar Craftworld which was caught in the Eye of Terror, the only escapee being Phoenix Lord Maugan Ra. Its symbol was a Broken Chain, referencing the escape of Kurnous and Isha from the dungeons of Khaine but also the shattering of the links that bound Vaul to his anvil.^[3a] It has since returned but is now held to great suspicion by other Eldar, for how could any Eldar remain untouched by the predations of Chaos for so many millennia?

Typical Warrior	Basic Data		Rune Symbol
	Name	Altansar
	Meaning	The Broken Chain[3a]
	Current location	Segmentum Solar
	Main colours	Deep red with black details[1b]
	Reputation	Shadowy, under suspicion
	Main enemy	Chaos

History
Altansar was one of the many Craftworlds surviving the Fall of the Eldar race. It rode out the psychic shock waves that destroyed the Eldar empire but was subsequently caught in the gravity well of the Eye of Terror. Although the Eldar of Altansar struggled valiantly against the encroachment of Chaos, their doom was inevitable, and within five hundred years of the Fall, their Craftworld was swallowed into the warp. Among the entirety of Altansar's population, only the Phoenix Lord Maugan Ra escaped the Craftworld's consumption by Chaos.^[1a][3b]
Ten thousand years later (in M41), Abaddon the Despoiler emerged from the insane reality of the Eye of Terror, at the head of the Thirteenth Black Crusade. The Chaos Legions' intrusion into reality left a rift which bridged the material universe and the universe of the warp. Through this opening Maugan Ra counter-invaded the Eye to undertake a quest in search of the remains of his people. Leaving a silvered trail of soulfire behind him, Maugan Ra eventually found the remains of his Craftworld. He found that the Eldar of Altansar had survived ten thousand years within the Eye. Maugan Ra guided the remnants of his Craftworld out of the Eye and against Abaddon's forces to deny him ultimate victory. However, there was no welcome nor celebration from the other Craftworlds; Altansar is regarded with open suspicion and hostility.^[1a][3b] Its inhabitants are known to speak in whispers and to never remove their helmets, this which gives credence to the suspicions of other Eldar.^[3b]

Ghosts of Altansar
During the 13th Black Crusade, Maugan Ra returned to the area to find a great rend in the fabric of space, caused by the emergence of the Chaos fleet. It was through this that he managed to finally free his home Craftworld from the Eye and proceeded to use his warriors to help fight in the Black Crusade itself.^[1a] Currently Altansar is somewhere close to Terra, although how it has managed to get there without Imperial retaliation is unknown.^{[Needs Citation]}

 Craftworld Mymeara

Mymeara is an Eldar Craftworld. Its symbol is the Cursing Eye, referencing the omniscient abilities of Asuryan who could kill enemies in a single instant.^[2]

Typical Warrior	Basic Data		Rune Symbol
	Name	Mymeara
	Meaning	unknown
	Current location	Unknown
	Main colours	Teal, Blue
	Favoured unit	Shadow Spectres[1]
	Speciality	Unknown
	Reputation	Isolationist[1]
	Main enemy	Imperium

History
Mymeara was originally a normal world that had escaped the Fall of the Eldar as its location was on the extreme limits of the Eldar empire and the corrupting influence of pleasure cults had barely reached them. However in the end, the Mymearans descended into the depravity and madness of their race. The wisest of the Craftworld's elders had foreseen this fate and spent the last decades constructing a mighty Craftworld. The world-ship was completed as the world began to descend into wholesale bloodshed and slaughter, and only half of Mymeara's original population was on board when the Craftworld set sail. Lost in their grief for the death of their race and believing themselves alone in the galaxy, the Craftworld drifted through the stars for many years.^[1]
However their assumptions were soon proven wrong and the Craftworld had to fight for its very survival against Orks. Hundreds of thousands of Mymearans died in these wars, and the only hope for Mymeara during this time came from Irillyth, the Phoenix Lord of the Shadow Spectres. Through his wisdom the warriors of Mymeara learned how to combine the aspects of stealth, speed, and firepower to decimate their foes and soon set about clearing a safe path through the galaxy for their world-vessel.^[1]
Irillyth's presence upon the Craftworld however was short, and the Phoenix Lord left to fight the fledgling Imperium when he was certain Mymeara had been spared destruction. Mymeara then found a region of space that had not yet been infested by other races, and using their technology hid themselves away. There, they have remained for centuries.^[1]

The Doom of Mymeara
Sometime in M41, Mymeara managed to locate Irillyth once more, this time upon the Human Ice World of Betalis III. Irillyth's armour, which held his spirit, was intact. Mymeara would enter into an alliance with Craftworld Alaitoc as well as Eldar Corsairs to recover their beloved Phoenix Lord's armour before it was discovered by human miners. In the ensuing Betalis Campaign, the Eldar alliance proved successful in recovering Irillyth.^[1]

 

^{Craftworld Yme-Loc}

Yme-Loc is one of the lesser known Eldar Craftworlds, known to be located close to the Eye of Terror between 989.M39 and 341.M40. Yme-Loc Eldar are talented artisans, and their armies are supported by powerful Engines of Vaul and Titans. Though it is not openly spoken of, the Craftworld also possesses an arcane engine of destruction that can destroy a continent in a single night.^[2]
The symbol of Yme-Loc, the Crucible of Souls, reference the crucible within which the smith-god Vaul forged weapons of purest Wraithsteel alloy with the spirits of the victorious in order to wage the War in Heaven. It was in this crucible that the original Swords of Vaul were created. Yme-Loc finds this rune appropiate for they claim that the Eldar's fate is theirs to forge.^[2]

Typical Warrior	Basic Data		Rune Symbol
	Name	Yme-Loc
	Current location	Segmentum Obscurus[1]
	Main colours	Grey with orange details
	Favoured unit	Grav-tanks, Titans
	Reputation	Talented artisans