A few of you people out there may know how hard it is trying to find a domain name that not only works with the theme and content of your site, its also hard trying to find a name that hasn't already been taken. As many of you know i'm not the most brightest of people when it come down to general knowledge that's because I wasted my youth either playing video games, board games or getting drunk, infact the only book i've ever read in my life was a Warhammer Codex
Anyway about two years ago I was rumaging about (as you do) and I came across this old Eldar Codex, I was having a quick flick though and thought some of the names was rather catchy, so I took a few notes and began checking for domain names, my first few choice's for website names had already but phoenixlords was good for go, I always intended to make a website about amusing stories, flaming things that piss me off in life and people I hate so the word PHOENIX worked well, I created a website themed with grey colours resembling ashes and have been writting and trying to inprove it ever since.
History of PhoenixLords
The Phoenix Lords are the most ancient of the Eldar Exarches. Like the Exarches of the shrines of the Warrior Aspects, the Phoenix Lords are immortal after a fashion. When a Phoenix Lord dies his place is taken by another who assumes his costume and identity. In this way the Phoenix Lord is reborn into a fresh cycle of existence. His suit includes a spirt stone which contains the spirt of all the previous Eldar who have become that Phoenix Lord. Yet, no matter what how many different individuals a Phoenix Lord may have been, his mind is forever the same, driven by the dominant personality of the first and greatest to wear the suit.
Unlike the Exarches of the Aspect shrines the Phoenix Lords have no shrines. Once, long ago,they may have belonged to shrines, but now these are long gone. Amongst the most powerful of all the Phoenix Lords are those who founded the Warrior Aspects immediately after the Fall. They were the first Aspect Warriors, they became the first Exarches and founded the very frist shrines. In time their Craftworlds were destroyed, or else their shrines were overtaken with disaster. The Aspect Warriors nurture the many stories of their heroic deeds. But they live not only in ledgend but in reality. Sometimes a Phoenix Lord vanishes for centuries,or millenia, and reappears in time of need, following the path of the Bloody Handed god across the universe.
The Phoenix Lords
Jain Zar - The Storm of Silence.The Phoenix Lord Jain Zar is extremely devoted to the shrines of the Warrior Aspects throughout the Craftworlds. She travels the webway Visiting the shrines and nurturing her spiritual descendants. Selected by Asurmen for her speed and felocity Jain Zar was the first of the Children of Asur. Jain Zar carries a deadly power blade in the form of the Blade of Destruction. She also uses the fearsome Jainas Mor, The Silent Death, A triple-bladed throwing weapon that always returns to her hand. Her Banshee mask is also a unique weapon of which the masks of the howling banshees are but pale imitations.
Baharroth - The Cry of the Wind.
Baharroth is the oldest of the Swooping Hawks, The first of the winged Exarches. He learned the arts of war from Asurmen himself, in the first and greatest Shrine of Asur, when the fall was a living memory in the minds of the Eldar. Since then he has been reborn many times. Innumerable battlefields have felt his anger. Coutless foes have fallen before his might. Baharroth is the Master of Flight it is said that his final battle will come fighting alongside the other Phoenix Lords at the Rhana Dandra, the battle between Chaos and the material universe that will end the destruction of both.
Maugan Ra - The Harvester of Souls.
Altansar was one of the many Craftworlds, both large and small, which survived the Fall. Although the Eldar of Altansar fought valiantly against the encroachment of Chaos, they were unable to escape their inevitable doom, and within five hundred years of the Fall of their Craftworld was swallowed into the warp. Of that world nothing now remains execpt for the Phoenix Lord known as Maugan Ra - The Harvester of Souls, most mighty exarch of the Shrine of the Dark Reapers.
Fuegan - The Burning Lance.
Fuegan learned the art of war in the Shrine of Asur. He later founded the Shrines of the Fire Dragons, and schooled them into the art of war with fire and flame. After the destruction of Asur Fuegan dissapeared for many centuries, before reappearing during the final battle of Haranshemash, The world of blood and tears. After that conflict Fuegan vanished into the Webway, and travelled its secret tunnels ever since, tracking down the enemies of his ancient forbears. Fuegan is armed with a massive and deadly Firepike and carries the Fire Axe. This ancient weapon glows with the heat of its forging. It has never cooled down since the day it was made, and the ruins upon its surface writhe in fiery agony.
Karandras - The Shadow Hunter.
Karandras is the most mysterious of the Phoenix Lords. No-one knows where his shrine originally lay, but perhaps it was one of the small Craftworlds which survived the Fall only to be destroyed soon after. The oldest and most sinister of the Exarches of the Striking Scorpions is the fallen Phoenix, Ashra - The Father of Scorpions, who burns with the dark light of Chaos, Karandras wears a unique and very potent mandiblaster helmet called the Scorpion's Bite. This ancient weapon is far more effective than the mandiblaster worn by the Striking Scorpion Aspect Warriors, and can inflict much more damage.
Asurmen - The Hand of Asuryan.
Of all the Phoenix Lords the oldest and most honoured is Asurmen. It was he who created the path of the warrior in the years following the Fall. In the time of the fall, Asurmen led his people into exile, abandoning his world to the horrors of the Warp. He founded the first of the Aspect Warrior shrines, the Shrine of Asur, upon a barren world his people settled. From the Shrine of Asur sprang the frist Aspect Warriors, and the Path of the warrior was opened for the very first time. Those Eldar learned at the feet of their master, and in their turn they assumed the mantle of Exarches before spreading throughout the galaxy. His Shrines were all dedicated to his own multi-complex skills, and his Aspect Warriors became the Dire Avengers. Asurmen carries into battle the potent Sword of Asur.
