"Quantity has a quality of its own" -not a stupid panzee git You gitz ar jus so daft ya kantz fink fast enuff kompar'd to da ORKS We'z jus brain'eer den you'z
It just seems beyond wishful thinking that this theoretical Ynnead would somehow not only defeat Slaanesh, but all 4 chaos gods. For Slaanesh alone, the sheer power difference just doesn't give the theory much merit. Slaanesh was born in the death of the Eldar Empire, trillions of trillions of screaming souls born in the debauchery of a galaxywide hegemony, and that was just its birth. Ynnead is made up of only the Craftworld Eldar that managed to have their soulstones returned to the infinity circuit. Are Eldar souls large? Sure, but the population is small and long lived, and they aren't even the only Eldar around. The Dark Eldar feed Slaanesh with a constant siphoning of their souls, the misery they spread, and their continuous debauchery, in both life and death adding to Slannesh's already substantial power. Add to that the excesses of the Chaos Marines and the secretive corruptions of the Imperium. And who even knows where the Exodites factor in to this, I think their World Spirits are pretty independent entities. So we have Slaanesh being born in a significantly larger population base and continuing to grow at a more substancial pace, and Ynead, questionably being born to a much smaller population and fed at a significantly lower pace, yet somehow, it's going to defeat not only the Chaos God that ate all your other gods, but also going to ROLFstomp all 4? That's just downright delusional. Even if the Exodite souls also somehow get absorbed into this fairy tale god I still doubt it would be able to compete with Slaanesh alone.
The infinity circuits house all the Craftworld Eldar for the last 10,000 years though, since The Fall: Slaanesh was born at the height of our empire - but only ate those alive at the time. So despite being much smaller by numbers now - over time we can accumulate more Eldar souls than lived before the fall. Plus, our souls then were undisciplined, vain, and childish. We have developed the Paths as a means to focus our will into a perfection of soul: ex. the Path of War cultivates within us with the skill of Khaine. When Ynnead comes, our souls are not simply Eldar anymore - but the aspects of the gods we lost to Her. We know this works, because we know it was our vanity and excess that birthed Her - therefore we are not accidentally making another god - but carefully crafting a god as the culmination of millennia of galactic effort combined across the entire Eldar race. Think of the movie GATTACA, Slaanesh is a child born naturally - imperfect and flawed, capable of great and terrible things, but ultimately imperfect. Ynnead is a gene-spliced perfect being - carefully crafted to select the best traits amongst all the Eldar. Our process for god-making has improved significantly since we made Slaanesh. Plus, we don't plan on birthing Ynnead any time soon - it may be many millennia before we will be ready - hence why we have such a long and dissasociative view from the galactic power struggles: in our grand design, the Imperium of Monkeys is just blip in our addendum. Many more Eldar souls will be required before Ynnead rises. Also - I'm not sure I'd say Ynnead will consume all the Chaos Gods - for most of them we care little about. Our Great Enemy is Slaanesh, the rest we couldn't really be too bothered with - She was our mistake, and she is our problem to correct.
Such hubris, the puny eldar unbelievers think they can just craft gods at their whim. Trillions of them dying screaming should have taught them humility. There is a deeper, primordial truth, you can either accept it or perish. In the end all your grand and arrogant designs will come to nothing and fail. You will decay and despair and feed nurgle, the legions of khorne will rip you to shreds, tzeentch will plan your undoing and slaanesh will consume you all. Know These things for they will come to pass.
We created one of your vaunted pantheon by mistake. We can make gods in error. So I understand your fear and anger at the prospect of what we will create by design. That anger will be your downfall as it lacks restraint. The Eldar lacked restraint and that led to The Fall. It will be the demise of Chaos too unless you learn, a certain, shall we say, reserve. But then Chaos by it's nature cannot be reserved and in your judgement of the Eldar and praise of your Ruinous Powers you forget to mention Malal, a being that exists due to the other Lords of the Immaterium's inablility to stop squabbling, quell their selfish desires for one moment and truly focus on their goals. Without this focus The Lords of the Immaterium are, frankly, immaterial. The Eldar have had issues with humility and still do. The Path tasks them to master their arrogance every day and when you consider how gifted they are their continued dedication to their singular roles gives them an outlet to achieve great things and remain humble. As to what will pass. Whatever will be, will be. Still, Ynnead calls, It waits, It grows. In victory we survive and in defeat we transend. How then can we fail?
What are you talking about with the only eating those alive at the time bit? That's plainly not true. Only those that are wearing their soulstone, or Exodites and their world spirit, don't get nommed by Slaanesh. A corsair that thinks the soulstone is just a silly trinket and trades it for booze and a hooker feeds Slaanesh upon death. The Dark Eldar are continuously having their soul drained by Slaanesh. So that's plainly false, lots of your species are still being eaten. An elite minority of Dark Eldar can make a deal to respawn and escape for a time, but most of them aren't important enough. Kabalite Warriors certainly aren't going to afford it. Not to mention, human souls are claimed by Slaanesh in their billions, and while they may not be as large, there's a lot more of them, and Slaanesh had a larger starting point. Space Marines have large souls, and Slaaneshi space marines die and add their power to Slaanesh. As for your Gattaca example, you do realize that is a self defeating argument. In that movie the imperfect form surpassed that of the perfect one, because the imperfect human did not hold back. This is the same concept with Slaanesh, it is the Prince of Excess. And if I recall correctly, there's only one Craftworld that even puts that much stock in the Ynnead theory, I've certainly never heard of a conscious attempt at godcrafting. Not even going into the purely subjective nature of perfection, but Slaanesh too seeks perfection, and it takes its fill of souls from a galactic pallet. And, you know, groups like the Emperor's Children feeding their god with planetary scale sacrifices of horror and debauchery. Imperium of Monkeys, lol, you Eldar have learned so little since the fall. Arrogance is Pride in excess, you serve your true god well, little elf.
Ah, poor Eldar how little you understand about the universe! It's adorable really, Slaanesh is the 'perfect' child and always was. if you just accepted her into your hearts perhaps you would of been able to die with some amount of dignity but what can you expect from Xeno filth eh? Instead you bargain, and you plead, you gut each other and heap your soulstones on her alter in attempts to save yourselves, only to be devoured anyway. you talk of mastery and power yet you fear to let go of yourselves and grasp true strength. That is why Slaanesh consumes you, that is why Slaanesh hunts you every waking moment, you could of been favored but you threw it all away. Mankind is ascendant, we aren't afraid to indulge in our excesses, in doing so Slaanesh seeks to bond with us. She has become our strength and I can tell you this: Slaanesh has always existed, across time and space in every dimension and at every moment, because the second you gave 'birth' to her in the warp she existed everywhere simultaneously, she may be the reason you created her to begin with! a god in every sense of the word. Telling that you think the only way to beat her involves every single one of you dying and you still aren't sure! Don't worry though, most of you will become one with a much more *worthy* god instead. But struggle anyway! the fight amuses me.
