Cegorach is the Laughing God, the Great Harlequin, the trickster deity of the Aeldari pantheon and patron of freedom, laughter, and cunning. In the ancient myths he was the fool and the jester of the gods, the teller of tales whose jests concealed deeper truths. When Slaanesh was born and devoured the Aeldari pantheon, only two gods are said to have escaped: Khaine, who fought and was shattered, and Cegorach, who fled — and, laughing, survived.
Legend tells that Cegorach ran from the Great Enemy through the labyrinthine dimension of the webway, and that its ancient passages sheltered him where raw power could not. There he endures still, the last free god of his race, and his devoted servants are the Harlequins — the masked players of the Laughing God who dance between the craftworlds, the dark city, and the webway, performing the great myth-cycles and waging war as living art.
Cegorach's Harlequins keep the ancient tales alive, guard the secret ways, and strike against the servants of Chaos and death with blades hidden in whirling colour. Some whisper the Laughing God schemes even now to steal souls from the maw of Slaanesh, or to guide the Aeldari toward a destiny only he can foresee. To follow Cegorach is to embrace freedom and defiance in the face of certain doom, and to laugh — for in laughter, the trickster god teaches, there is a power that even death cannot silence.
The pantheon continues
