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>eldar prophesies have a tendency to backfire in the dumbest ways or betray their allies in dumb ways
>this meme is supported by their early novels like Eldar Prophesy and Path of the Eldar (by known hacks CS Goto and Gav Thorpe) showing them as incompetent losers
>the eldar niche of being the ancient, elite super advanced race has been taken from them by the necrons
I can point to several instances of Eldar jobbing in the most pathetic ways. Shurikens are supposed to be armor piercing shredders, but there'll be marine bolter porn that has shuriken literally bounce off of power armor. Eldar armor is treated like paper even though its equivalent to marine armor. Marines are fast, but Eldar are faster, but this is never reflected. Eldar psykers are supposed to be the best but they job anyway. You get truly retarded things like the Eldar failing to kill a baby Angron somehow, or a single tyranid psyker managing to destroy an entire craftworld. The Night Lords will beat Banshees by shouting at them really loudly, I mean what the fuck?

Really the specific one that serves as microcosm of everything wrong with how Craftworld Eldar are written is the Avatar of Khaine. It will job in dumb ways that don't make much sense at all. And even when those losses get explained, the pattern still sticks. People like Gav Thorpe, ADB, they just don't like Eldar, and they're the main guys at BL.