Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-95.148.187.34-20130120214333/@comment-2253300-20130311160127

Not really. Slaanesh's birth was exceptional. The Eldar have a greater psychic presence and much stronger emotions than humans do. That is why when they go bad, they REALLY go bad (i.e. Dark Eldar). The fall happened because the Eldar no longer had any great opponents to rally against, and all of the issues in their society had been solved. Manual labor was done by machines for instance. So all there was to do in the Eldar empire for the most part was to find ways to stave off boredom. They sought out pleasure, and as they became acclimated to each new sensation they wre forced to seek out ever more extreme experiences, and thus gradually became more debased. This increasing debauchery combined with their extremely powerful emotions and psychic presence is ultimately what led to the genesis of Slaaensh. The other gods just sort of happened gradually over time.