The alternative term 'Dark Eldar,' or Eladrith Ynneas in the Aeldari tongue, was first coined by the Drukhari archon and Supreme Overlord of Commorragh Asdrubael Vect in the 32nd Millennium. Like their cousins of the craftworlds, the Drukhari are an ancient and highly advanced alien race of fey humanoids. The Drukhari ( Aeldarix malum) (pronounced Druh-KAR-ee) or 'Dark Ones' in the Aeldari Lexicon, also known to outsiders as the Dark Eldar, are a forsaken and corrupt Aeldari kindred, the sadistic, malicious counterparts of the Asuryani.

Rune representing the Drukhari or 'Dark Ones' in the Aeldari Lexicon. Dread and agony are our meat and wine, and they are plentiful indeed!' ' We are the lords of despair, masters of terror.