The Tears of Isha take their name from the mother-goddess of the Aeldari pantheon, she who was said to love the living things of the galaxy above all else, and who weeps still for the ruin of her children. To the Aeldari, Isha embodies compassion, healing, and the aching grief of a race that has watched its own glory crumble into dust and ash.
In the myths of the dying kindred, Isha was imprisoned by Khaine and later held captive by Nurgle, forced to endure the Plague God's foul experiments, and her every tear is said to hold both sorrow and the promise of renewal. A relic bearing her name is thus doubly potent, invoking the goddess's grace to mend and to console amid the endless wars of the long twilight.
Where the Tears of Isha are borne, the Aeldari take heart that the mother of their people has not wholly abandoned them. In a galaxy that offers their kind only slow extinction, the relic is a fragile vessel of hope, a reminder that even a doomed race may still be watched over by a weeping goddess who remembers what they once were.
The reliquary continues
