I'm still working on this part, but if you have any questions,
comments, or suggestions, E-mail them to me.
The Eldar fell, and the Craftworlds
were launched. Slaanesh ate a lot of souls. But you already
knew all that, right? Among these Craftworlds were those of Biel-Tan
and Alaitoc, as well as Althawein,
which was the second-last Craftworld launched.
The Eldar of Althawein were just as all Eldar of the period were:
anxious and paranoid about the coming of Slaanesh. After the Aspect
shrines were founded on Althawein, weapons production began double timing
it. Only a few Eldar were recruited as Aspect Warriors when the invasions
began. First was a wave of Imperial scout vessels. Then came
the big and dumb, but powerful Orks. After a brief resting period
of about a hundred years, the Tyranids started wanting Althawein out of
the way. Due to being under this constant bombardment of starship
fire and shock troop invasion, the people of longtime ally Biel-Tan and
nearby Alaitoc came to the help of Althawein. With three combined
forces, all of the attackers ware eventually driven off. Althawein
had made its presence known. But, after eight generations, Chaos
was silently preparing to storm the Craftworld. They attacked the
Eldar, and ravaged the once-mighty Craftworld. A telepathic message
was sent to the two allies of Althawein's by a powerful Warlock.
That Warlock hid from the invading Traitor Space Marines until large forces
were sent from Biel-Tan and Alaitoc. These two forces were strong,
and after ten years of fighting aboard the giant starship, Chaos was driven
off forever. The Eldar which had retaken Althawein felt that they
had let their comrades down, and decided to stay and rebuild the Craftworld,
and make Althawein their home. Of all the original inhabitants, all
died but that single Warlock, who is now Chief Farseer Geldan Alshei, who
has sworn never to let any Eldar from his Craftworld die at the hands of
Chaos again.
Althawein's Craftworld colors are primarily blue and black, with highlights of red and green. The black is for mourning, the blue is the Eldar color of rebirth (I guess, unless you know otherwise...), red represents the blood that will be spilled to regain the Eldar's position in the galaxy, and green just looks cool. Wait until I get the gallery up and running....
Guardians wear blue armour and black helmets, with their squads designated by the color of their shoulder-pads (right now I have blue, green, orange, and white). Aspect Warriors wear the colors of their respective shrines. Vehicle crewmen wear the normal Guardian colors covered by light blue-grey (Shadow Grey) flight jackets. Seers wear dark blue cloaks with black helmets, and many colorful runes and such.
The symbol for the Craftworld is a heart (taken from Biel-Tan's symbol) with a sword (from Alaitoc) running through it. Imagine Alaitoc's symbol with the heart in place of the half-moon looking thing.