The Solitaire is less a person than a fate, the loneliest and most dreaded role in all the Dance Without End. In the great myth-cycle of the Aeldari fall, someone must portray She Who Thirsts, the Great Enemy whose birth doomed the race, and to take that role is to be damned. The Player who becomes a Solitaire severs every bond with kin and masque, gives up name and companionship, and dances thereafter alone, for it is said that in performing the role of Slaanesh they have promised their soul to the very god they portray.
A Solitaire's skill is beyond mortal reckoning. They move faster than sight, faster than thought, a blur of monomolecular blades that no warrior can follow and no formation can withstand. Cegorach unleashes them only when the myth demands a death that nothing living can prevent, and they cut through the mightiest champions like a whisper through silk.
Yet for all their peerless artistry, the Solitaires are figures of profound tragedy, warriors who have accepted damnation so that the Dance may be complete, dancing forever apart, laughing and alone, at the very edge of the abyss their people fear above all else.
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CegorachThe Laughing GodThe trickster deity of the Aeldari and the last of their gods to walk free, who fled the birth of Slaanesh laughing and has plotted the downfall of the Great Enemy ever since.
Sylandri VeilwalkerThe VeilwalkerA Shadowseer of uncommon power whose true masque none can name, walking the Hidden Ways as an emissary of Cegorach to nudge the schemes of lesser beings toward his ends.