The Tome was Old when Old was Young
From the Betrayal to the Present, the history of the Dark Elves is rife with violence and Evil
The dark elves breach the gate to their prison under the dwarven capitol of Uftlon and vie for freedom for themselves and their evil Mistress.
A tribal squabble over a little orcish raiding throws the entire universe into peril, and unites a race of warmongering brutes into a genocidal horde with revenge on their mind.