Ynnead is the God of the Dead, the youngest and last of the Aeldari gods, a deity not yet fully born. Where the ancient pantheon was shattered in the Fall, Ynnead is a god of the future — a divine consciousness slowly coalescing from the souls of every Aeldari who has died since that catastrophe, gathered within the infinity circuits and spirit stones of the craftworlds.
According to prophecy, Ynnead will awaken to full godhood only when the entire Aeldari race has perished and every soul has passed into the collective. In that final hour the God of the Dead will rise in terrible majesty to destroy Slaanesh, the Great Enemy that has haunted the Aeldari since their fall, freeing their imprisoned souls and offering the race a chance at rebirth. Yet some among the Aeldari refuse to wait for extinction.
The seer Yvraine, the Emissary of Ynnead, and her followers the Ynnari seek to rouse the nascent god early, gathering both craftworld Aeldari and the Drukhari of Commorragh beneath a single banner in defiance of ancient enmities. To followers of Ynnead, death is not an ending but a promise — the seed from which the Aeldari might yet be reborn into a new age. In a race that has known only decline and doom for ten thousand years, Ynnead is the first true hope, terrible and fragile, that the dying might rise again.
The pantheon continues
