Kurnous was the huntsman of the old Aeldari pantheon, a god of the wild places and the beasts that ran through them, crowned with antlers and clad in the raiment of the chase. Where other gods schemed or laboured, Kurnous coursed the endless forests of myth with hound and spear, and his laughter was the sound of the hunt in full cry. With the goddess Isha he was named parent of the Aeldari themselves, sowing the seed from which the ancient race sprang.
His bond with Isha proved his undoing. When Khaine seized the two lovers and bound them in chains, it was for their ransom that Vaul forged his hundred swords. Freed at terrible cost, Kurnous receded into the wilder reaches of the pantheon's tale, a father-god whose children would inherit both his fierce vitality and the seeds of their own ruin.
In the age of the Great Enemy, little of Kurnous survives save in the hunting rites and beast-lore of a scattered people. Some among the Drukhari invoke his name in their cruel sport, twisting the honest chase into torment for its own sake, while wilder Aeldari kindreds still feel the old huntsman's pulse when the quarry breaks and runs. The wild god endures as an echo, half-remembered, in the bloodline of a race that hunts still, though now the prey is oblivion.
The pantheon continues
