So, i've been working away designing a mythos and philosophy to set me Eldar apart from the pack (i have no decided that they view The Path as a stop-gap and nothing more, and that if they keep following it their fight for survival is pointless, because they are killing themselves) and i decided that i would use a rendition of the 8 pointed Star of Chaos to represent their view on Harmony.
So as i was building this mythos and the characters therin, i doodled a few sketches of a 'friendlier' and more Eldar looking 8 pointed Star, and i started thinking...What exactly does it mean?
We know there are 4 Chaos gods, each of which could be considered one of the primary azimuths on the Star (North, East, South, West). But then what are the other points representative of? Are they demi-gods for which we have no real information or who have since been left unmentioned, such as Malak? Are they minor, hybrid domains, such as the Elemental Plane of Ice (which lies between the planes of Water and Air) in the Dungeons and Dragons cosmology?
And then what does the ring represent? Most depictions of the Star of Chaos have a circle either around the points, or at the center.
I unfortunately missed many of the early Chaos books, so i don't know if the symbology was covered earlier in the concept phases of Chaos. Or if it was really established at all.