So wasn't sure which area of the forum this should go, so I put it here in the eldar forums, since there was a sticky thread on DIY craftworlds.
I am working on creating my own custom craftworld, and eldar are a bit more tricky when creating your own DIY army than any of those human armies. Color scheme was probably the easiest, as i have settled on the bulk of my craftworld being done in lupercal green. I will be accenting this with black, and going for a polished obsidian look, which will most be helmets and accent armor plates. While a rather dark color scheme, i decided to brighten it with markings and weapons in Bone (wraith bone look here). All my gem stones and eye lens's will be done in purple (not a magenta or red tinted purple, more of a blue violet shade). With the colors scheme worked and and tested in the DoW series of games, It has really grown on me and I like the color scheme. Sadly I am waiting on the new release of the new start collecting box before I can work out a model, that and the paint from forgeworld is in route still.
After that I worked out a craftworld name I like. My craftworld is dubbed Kor'anar. I really like the way it rolls off the tonque but after looking through some elvish words (tolkien's elves), i found that word but it was spelled with a C and had no apostrophe in it. In elvish it translates as solar year. After looking up the word's that make up my variant spelling, i found that Kor means ultimate or supreme in some lanquage (I think mongolian), and Anar means Sun or Light. So that has me thinking about the background a little and researching into eldar lore.
My problem is coming up with a craftworld symbol. Something I can paint on my figures to show their craftworld. I haven't been able to figure out any symbols I like or really what would represent my craftworld.
So the idea I have running for my craftworld is that it was originally referred to as "First light", which is in reference to my craftworlds past, being one of the first craftworlds to take to the stars, after the fall, they were seen as the first or one of the first craftworlds to start the Eldar Paths. However over time they chapter became lost in the warp. I orginally wanted them to be stuck in the Maelstrom and not the eye of terror. However I could not find any concrete proof when the Maelstrom was formed, specifically if it was formed after the eye of terror or before. All the fluff points to the eye forming from the fall, but the maelstrom seems to be more of a natural storm. I could say that perhaps the craftworld decided to hide out in the maelstrom with the coming of the Mon'keigh, and became lost adrift in the maelstrom. While at first they were the most sociable of the craftworlds, often maintaining good relations with almost all of them, spreading the light or the paths to the other survivors of their race, but because of their time spent in isolation, this changed them.
Anyways, the idea is that because of their time spent in the warp, they have had to defend themselves from warp entities (not really slaanesh but others), and perhaps now, the craftworld as a whole is more dedicated to Isha than they are Khaine, as they may have heard rumors of her existance. They have also lost several aspect shrines and can only field certain aspect warriors, namely I choose not to field swooping hawks and shining spears, and still debating on scorpions. They are also a heavy matriarchal society now, and they never field guardians, instead they field only aspect warriors and wraith constructs due to the loss of their population due to the repeated warp entity invasions. They also have very few jet bikes and vypers, and they do see rangers on the field of battle but never more than one unit.
Anyways, I am still torn as to what to do for the symbol, so I wanted to get some help or advice from the forums. perhaps you guys have some ideas that might spark me towards a direction I didn't think of. Right now, I am bounced around ideas of a shadow sun (opposite of the first light idea), but my few sketches felt non eldar-ish or too small and basic. I have looked at doing some ideas using a flame with a tear drop in the center, but it didn't feel right either. I also thought about adding a spider idea to the mix, perhaps focusing on warp spiders in the craftworld, and these were more promising sketches, but still not sure if it fits. The spider idea was basically a tear drop with spider legs coming off from it to create sort of a diamond shape around the tear drop. I also thought about using a phoenix idea but it didn't really fit either and even a dragon theme, but I don't want to feel like I am taking from sam-hain at this point either.
Thanks in advance for any and all ideas. I feel I have hit a rut brainstorming on my own, so trying to expand out the ideas and thoughts to bounce more. Also, if I can find a good site to host my pics I will gladly post pics of my army(armies), here.