Kaela Mensha Khaine is the Bloody-Handed God, the Aeldari deity of war, murder, and martial vengeance. In the mythic age before the Fall, Khaine was among the mightiest of the Aeldari pantheon, a god of terrible violence whose hands ran red with the blood of gods and mortals alike. His rivalry with Vaul the smith-god and his battles against the forces of Chaos are woven through the oldest legends of his people.
When Slaanesh was born in the cataclysm of the Fall, it devoured nearly the whole Aeldari pantheon — yet Khaine, god of war, alone stood and fought the Dark Prince. Though grievously wounded and shattered into fragments, he survived where the other gods perished, and his broken pieces fell to the Aeldari craftworlds. There each shard endures as an Avatar of Khaine, a molten idol of iron and blood that wakes to war when roused by ritual sacrifice, leading the Aeldari host into battle.
Among the Drukhari of the dark city, Khaine is remembered too, though they honour murder without the honour of open war. To all the scattered kindreds of the Aeldari, Khaine remains the god of the sword and the spear, patron of every warrior who takes up arms against the encroaching dark. His creed is simple and merciless: that some things can only be answered in blood, and that a proud people must fight, always, or die.
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