The City of Sorrows was the largest city-state in all of Commorragh, as well as the center of its intricate politics and power.
Here, one could find the oldest noble bloodlines of the Eldar Empire, many of whom had either caused the Fall of the Eldar or were their direct descendants.
In other words, if one had to identify the legitimate heir among the Eldar's three existing branches, neither the Craftworld Eldar nor the Exodites could be considered inheritors of the Eldar Empire.
Instead, it was the Dark Eldar who had brought about Slaanesh who were the upper ruling class that escaped after the Empire's collapse.
So although outsiders had always held a poor opinion of the Dark Eldar, seeing them as bloodthirsty and cruel, these people truly were the legitimate heirs of the Eldar Empire.
The thirteen most powerful Supreme Lord Archons united to form a barely stable ruling order.
Asdrubael Vect, whose seniority and age meant even Slaanesh had to call him "big brother," was the leader and ruler of those thirteen Supreme Lord Archons.
The reason the City of Sorrows was the heart of Commorragh was not its age or history, but its extraordinarily special location: it lay within a multidimensional rift called Eilindachord.
From afar, the entire city appeared pitch-black and gloomy, vague and warped like some living organism. One section after another connected to dimensional cross-sections, eventually piecing together a structure beyond description.
A normal person could not glimpse the City of Sorrows in its entirety even over a lifetime.
Because, as described above, it did not simply exist within a single dimension. Its districts had been divided into multiple parts and stored within different dimensional cross-sections.
The advantage of this was that even if the fiercest war erupted and devastating weapons such as Cyclonic