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Khaine — Bloody-Handed God of the Eldar

Khaine is the Bloody-Handed God of war of the eldar, whose manifestation, the Avatar, is a walking warrior of red-hot iron. In the Heresy corpus he is linked to the eldar dimension of the conflict (Signus, later interventions), where the Eldar acted on their own ends, pursuing the threads of the coming future. A neutral xenos power, neither loyalist nor traitor.

Category
Warp entity
Side
Neutrals
Key events
2 events
Forces
The eldar god of war; his manifestation is the Avatar of Khaine, a walking warrior of red-hot iron, awakened by the Eldar for war.

Fate

An eldar power acting on its own ends: at Signus he is linked with the awakening of the Red Thirst/Ragefire; in the late Heresy the Eldar intervened, pursuing visions of the future.

Key events

Sources

  1. WH40k Fandom: Khaine
  2. Lexicanum: Signus Campaign
  3. Atlas compilation · source check 2026
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