The Triumvirate of Ynnead - the Visarch, the Yncarne, and Yvraine - represent a new hope for the Aeldari in the Era Indomitus.
She made her way back to the craftworld of her birth, ripping free one of the fabled Croneswords from the wraithbone skeleton of Biel-Tan - and in the process, fracturing the world-ship into skeletal shards of its former glory. With the aid of the mysterious Drukhari swordsman known as the Visarch, Yvraine cut her way free from the daemonic infestation that rocked Commorragh soon after her ascension. That was the crux point of fate that saw the birth of a new Aeldari creed - in one mind-blasting moment Yvraine became a conduit for deathly psychic energies, invested with the ability to pass on her esoteric skills to those who joined her new and macabre doctrine. It was in the white-hot crucible of arena conflict she crossed the threshold of death and found herself infused with the energies of Ynnead. She eked out a new existence from the haunted streets of Commorragh, fighting tooth and nail to become part of the Wych Cults - such was her skill as a warrior that she rose to the rank of Succubus. An exile from Biel-Tan after following the Asuryani Paths of the Warrior and the Witch, Yvraine had walked every corner of Aeldari society - she had become an Outcast, then a Corsair commander, and finally, after a costly mutiny, fallen from grace entirely to become exiled from even the most roguish of Aeldari subcultures. Soon after Ynnead was first roused from slumbering potentiality, a fraction of his will and power was imparted to Yvraine, the Daughter of Shades. Some amongst the Seers and scholars in Aeldari society claim that time of ending, the Rhana Dandra, is nigh, but that not all Aeldari must die to escape Slaanesh's clutches - there is a new hope against the darkness.įoremost amongst these are the Seers of Ulthwé, whose psychic machinations led to a premature awakening for the Aeldari god of the dead. The Ynnari are comprised of units from all of the different Aeldari kindreds, including Asuryani, Drukhari and Harlequins. There has always been an obscure school of thought in Aeldari society that states when every member of their species has died the souls that have been saved from Slaanesh's curse will form a gestalt entity, awakening a new god in the Immaterium with the power to defeat She Who Thirsts forever. With their combined might the Ynnari have become a new force in the galaxy, and have been instrumental in several of the events that brought about the Era Indomitus of the Age of the Imperium, including the resurrection of the Primarch Roboute Guilliman. However, with the revelation that the Keeper of Secrets Shalaxi Hellbane discovered the fifth Cronesword on Belial IV before the Battle of Iyanden and has secreted it away in the Palace of Slaanesh in the Realm of Chaos, the promise of the Seventh Path now seems all-but-impossible to achieve. Yvraine, the Emissary of Ynnead, believes that when all five Croneswords are brought together they will act as a physical conduit for Ynnead, focussing enough power to fully awaken her god and destroy She Who Thirsts forever, restoring the ancient Aeldari's ability to reincarnate freely upon death from the Immaterium. This path requires the possession of all five of the legendary Croneswords of the Aeldari Crone Goddess Morai-Heg, the mistress of fate.Īccording to the legends, if the Croneswords of Morai-Heg are placed in the right hands, they will give their wielders dominion over life and death. They aim to achieve this in a ritual that would not require the sacrifice of the entire Aeldari species, using a method known as the "Seventh Path" or the "Seventh Way."
Under the leadership of the prophet Yvraine, the "Daughter of Shades," the Ynnari seek to fully awaken the Aeldari god of the dead Ynnead, who they believe can defeat Slaanesh and restore the Aeldari species' unity and its lost glory. The Ynnari, also known as " the Reborn," are a faction or religious sect of the Aeldari species comprised of members drawn from all of its other major factions, including the Asuryani, Aeldari Corsairs, Exodites, the Drukhari and the Harlequins. The Sign of the Phoenix, the Aeldari Lexicon rune that represents Ynnead. " The Whispering God gives new life, just as he takes it away."