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Thinking of reverting the changes on this article. Current version has a lot of run on sentances, and cuts the bio down to almost nothing. Easier to revert than it is to rewrite. While it's nice to have concise writting it shouldn't be done at the cost of details that flush out a very minor character for which not much is written. Things like the tyranid invasion provide a useful backdrop and give a frame of reference for a character who exact dates are not given. Also the exarch listed at the end of the original article is named in 3rd edition, but unamed in 4th ed. This provides a level of ambiguity that GW seems to love in their fiction, but still spells out pretty clearly that the Exarch is Althenian, there aren't actually that many exarch's running around. Anyways just giving a heads up so we can write a better article, avoid constant back and forth editing on the article, and let folks weigh in in case I'm being overly sentimental about my own writing ;). --User:Anntar2 10:50, 23 June 2010 (GMT)

Oh cool, I made the changes to the article and I'm up for improving it. I always liked the fluff of Iyanden. I did some googling to see if Iyanna is mentioned in any other sources other than the 3rd and 4th eldar codexes and found there's art of her from the old Dark Millennium card game. So I added that picture to the article :)
I don't think you should revert everything though. About her Wraithlord, it doesn't spell out that its Althenian. The 3ed eldar codex includes a story of her summoning Althenian's spirit back, but doesn't say he's her Wraithlord. The story could just as easily refer to her summoning another wraith and not her own one. After checking what you wrote originally about "It is possible this Exarch is Althenian...", yeah maybe we should add something back in along those lines. Like not that it's a fact but that it's a possibility? I'll let you add that.
I took out that Tyranid invasion sentence because it had nothing to do with Iyanna. That's more relevant under the Iyanden article, which is linked to. --Icaterus 12:23, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
I realise this conversation is long over, but since it's still up I'll reply to avoid confusion with anyone who finds this later. Valedor (Novel) settles the "Althenian" question, so I added it in with a citation. —PeeterEgonMomus 08:14, 16 December 2020 (UTC)
You've done good.--Darkelf77 (talk) 09:02, 16 December 2020 (UTC)