Much as I like this quote, I really wish there was more fluff not supplied by the Cultist Space Nazis. I realize I lied: I don't like that quote. It's one genocidal torturer's insights into a thing he has promised, and works feverishly, the galactic extermination of and is compelled by the culture around him and his own ground-in morals to regard as an evil existing only to deny human supremacy. What a repulsively moronic approach to lore. I like the Eldar for being commonly merciless but rarely cruel, and for not being completely blind to their own faults. I'm not concerned about staking out any higher moral ground in Warhammer 40,000, but I do have an attraction to intelligence and competence.
Well said! I totally agree that in case of the Eldar, humans are not a good source of information. Too many prejudices) And surely mon'keigh can't accept that they are but lesser species to us and are simply treated in due way. But even though this approach to lore is very human-centric, and the Eldar do not benefit form it, I like it. It gives much more personality to lore, than some usual outside source of complete information. With the 40K approach we have a lore, where there is a place for mystery and the unknown.
The Path of the Warrior series was so interesting because you get to see the eldar living their lives in a typical setting. Reading about them doing something as simple as having a meal makes them much more sympathetic than them being just mysterious wizards that have no emotions.
But those books aren't told by an unreliable narrator. They're narrated impartially. Unless I'm mistaking your point.
I think he means it is not benefiting the eldar because it "Humanizes" them / takes the "mystery" away. Yes we all would like to know how regular eldar life looks like, but to make it all-known takes the "magic" away, the unknown, etc. It's like if you would know who and what Q really is in Star Trek or if you would know all about the Furlinger in Stargate. It takes that special feeling and atmosphere they have away if you learn everything. EDIT: though it makes rp'ing harder ^^ Additional: Eldar ARE heartless, they train themselves to complete emotionless creatures to resist the chaos gods.
I prefer clarity to prejudiced obfuscation. I am not much enamored to learning through the eyes of the deliberately ignorant. I think feeding the assumption that "of course the Imperium is the crux of the setting" is foolishly limiting, and that the glut of Imperial Guard and Space Marine fiction is proof. I'd say backlash is inevitable, but the runes say nothing of when. Yes, ironic.
I can understand that point of view. Personally, knowing more about the grunts doesn't take me away from the thousands of years of lost Eldar myth and history and abandoned worlds. Eldar aren't emotionless. They just have to keep them heavily in check because theirs have much more magnitude to them.
All mystery has a shelf-life. Either you persist in investigating and you eventually discover it all, or you lose interest and depart for other cognitive curiosities. I suggest reviewing the topic of what drew people to the Eldar; very little of it involved what they didn't know. The Necron v. Newcron debate bears similar hallmarks. An eventual consequence worse then being miserly with a major faction is prompting it's adherents to "invent their own stories." Those ventures will be inevitably be repudiated, then mocked, and probably abandoned. If everyone could tell the same stories as the storyteller herself, they would. Eldar are quite the opposite of heartless. We are restrained, which is not the same thing in the least.
let me remind you eldar you are the cause of the chaos god slaanesh and stating that chaos has no free will of its own is a foolish statement not all chaos soldiers are mindless brutes there are thoughs that seek knowledge of the universe and learn from it. thoughs that would conquer the entire galaxy to bring what they would consider peace and so on and so on. if you think about it elder pretty much do the same thing peering into the future so they don't ultimately succumb to there fate of been a soul for slaanesh so don't say chaos has no free will cause we do pretty much whatever we want =P
