A/N I'm not going to be putting as much effort in these sections, because I want to prioritise the main story.
The way I've organized it is by chapter. Some of these might be quite short. I'll just put any random bits of irony/references/foreshadowing I've made here.
TItle: I just thought it would be great to have an ironic title for a section that's in the Sea of Souls where there is no forwards or backwards, yet a linear sense of progression from one state to the next. i.e. Aeldari Pantheons existed, then died. For a place that doesn't have a concept of time, the very fact that these things have an order of occurrence is insane. There's no way an 'eternal' war can end, but it did.
Main Part: No real references to other books or real world events. There is a some foreshadowing here for future events.
I wrote about it somewhere else, but the events in the chapter are a very loose reference to the fate of the Aeldari.
If I had to add anything to the above...
The way I've organized it is by chapter. Some of these might be quite short. I'll just put any random bits of irony/references/foreshadowing I've made here.
TItle: I just thought it would be great to have an ironic title for a section that's in the Sea of Souls where there is no forwards or backwards, yet a linear sense of progression from one state to the next. i.e. Aeldari Pantheons existed, then died. For a place that doesn't have a concept of time, the very fact that these things have an order of occurrence is insane. There's no way an 'eternal' war can end, but it did.
Main Part: No real references to other books or real world events. There is a some foreshadowing here for future events.
Specifically, the Chaos gods infecting each other when they hit each other with their full might.
Isha using a Wraithbone spear to fight against the creatures of Nurgle, using her minions (the plants and animals), or a medium (the wind and ice) is also foreshadowing for that same future chapter.
Also, although I left the scale of Isha's domain vague on purpose, it's the size of several planets in real-space.
Isha using a Wraithbone spear to fight against the creatures of Nurgle, using her minions (the plants and animals), or a medium (the wind and ice) is also foreshadowing for that same future chapter.
Also, although I left the scale of Isha's domain vague on purpose, it's the size of several planets in real-space.
I wrote about it somewhere else, but the events in the chapter are a very loose reference to the fate of the Aeldari.
The acts of the gods are more symbolisms of what the canon Eldar did to rebuild.
Khaine drawing out his aspects and focussing on brutal training etc. was a nod to how the Eldar rebuilt part of their society by using the Aspect shrines to focus their minds and block out Slaanesh.
Morai Heg's pouch symbolises the way the Eldar split apart to follow their own paths; Corsair, Craftworlder, Outcast, Exodite, Commoragh, etc.
They're no longer the one united Eldar empire, but all chasing their own destinies.
Cegorach holding the strings of fate for the Harlequins is a nod to the fact that becoming a Harlequin is one way to prevent being soul sucked by Slaanesh.
Asuryan was more of a, "That would be kinda cool to have him do, rather than just be the guy that screwed up everything." sort of moment. Anyways, Slaanesh broke Asuryan's edict when she killed him a second time. (Isha's being freed from the tree being a foreshadowing of that.) Plus, the flames of Asuryan are a thing, and I needed a reason for them to fall out of the Warp so Eldar could collect them.
If I had to add anything to the above...
it would be that Asuryan's role as the one who commands the mortals elevated to gods and the one who binds the gods and restrains them to certain functions is a reference to a future plot point