Warhammer 40K is host to the most evil elves possible and I adore them

polygon.com:

Part of the fun of Warhammer 40,000 is that no one is really the “good guy” in the setting. Take the Imperium of Man, which largely serves as the point-of-view faction in 40K books and games. The Imperium is made up of a coalition of absolutely terrible sub-factions, including murderous nuns who torch their foes, indoctrinated child soldiers transformed into transhuman combat marines, and flesh-hating tech priests who make brain-computers by lobotomizing criminals.

But there’s one group of guys in the setting who are so comically evil, so ridiculously rude, that I can’t help but love them above all else. These aliens just aren’t happy unless they can fit a few war crimes in between breakfast and lunch. I’m talking, of course, about the Drukhari, also known as the Dark Eldar, or the most evil space elves who have ever existed.

Who are the Drukhari? They’re a specific culture of Aeldari, a species that once had a dominant galaxy-spanning empire. These psychically gifted elves achieved a post-scarcity society and enjoyed easy access to technology so sophisticated that it’s basically magic. Sounds like a pretty sweet setup, but this is the grimdark far future where there is only war, so obviously everything had to go terribly wrong. In the case of the Aeldari civilization, that meant falling to hedonism and excess.

In 40K, there’s a second, psychic realm that exists parallel to reality. The Warp, or the Immaterium, is a reflection of the universe’s psychic energy. Dark forces dwell in the Warp, feasting off extreme emotion, and the Aeldari unwittingly gave those forces a feast. While some factions decided to pack up and leave in favor of a nicer space neighborhood, many Aeldari chose to stay. The Aeldari empire eventually