Enough people had trouble accessing it including myself so here it is again, hopefully for real this time. Anyways, as I said last time, Why don't you Iyanden some bitches?
@@menelar479, indeed. I prefer Craftworld Iybraesil's color scheme. Grey-Blue and White, it looks very nice without hurting the eyes or other sensory equipment.
I just imagine a chaos space marine questioning how the dark eldar are the super villains of 40 when one of them rides in on a barge screaming "PRESENTATION!"
The thank you was more than that, they basically said they'd grant any boon within their power as thanks and the Grey Knights, who themselves don't want for much but do have this maximum secrecy thing that means all their great deeds go unsung, simply asked that the members of the Grey Knights who had died in clearing the demons from the craft world be remembered by the Eldar. The Eldar in turn pledged to write their names into the long history of their own craft world. If there's one thing Eldar can do really well, it's remember the ancient past. The only one's better for that are Necrons.
i always thought the eldar were more anime inspired than any other faction in 40k. I thought the tau just have more believable looking mechs. They remind me of the titans from titanfall more than gundam.
@@dank_smirk2ndchannel200 it's honestly werid coincidence that space elves use ninja star guns. I know they're not actually ninja stars and more like the cd guns from cod and far cry but still.
@@kostakatsoulis2922 Eldar in general aren't so bad. I mean, they are superior assholes, but they won't try to genocide you for no reason even if it's just because they think you aren't worth their time. Considering everyone else we got that's not too bad.
So there is ONE moment I know of where the Hive Mind screamed in pain. When I believe Behemoth was invading Baal in devastation of baal, the Hive mind was dealt a MASSIVE blow when the eye of terror ripped open from the fall of cadia. The book even says that for a moment, the hivemind experienced death before it wrangled its tyranids back into control. So technically abaddon hurt the tyranids as well.
@@andrewamann2821 abaddon could blow up the entire galaxy and corpse simps would still say it doesn't count because he dropped a blackstone fortress on cadia smh my head.
@@FeatherResonance Two points: 1. It will never happen like that, and you know it. 2. He still wouldn't be that impressive when compared against the OG imperialist force... The Necrons.
So if I can just state on both accounts, Abaddon's success at cadia really shouldn't be understated. Like yeah he had to sacrifice such a massive resource, but just look at the result. The galaxy is split in half by chaos, and thus they're able to run more freely. It was an absolute success. That said, the reason why I'd say it doesn't entirely count for Abbadon is that he had no idea it would happen. It wasn't a clever ploy to attack the hive mind specifically, it was him throwing a hissy fit and rage quitting like a Melee tournament. And even with the galaxy split in half, when he should have all the advantage in the universe, he's STILL being pushed back because of Guilliman's return. THe damage done to the Tyranids was by all accounts accidental. So, both right, both wrong.
Regarding the Invader destroying Idharae, let's just focus on the fact : -that saving this Craftworld is the reason Eldrad Ulthran started the 2nd War for Armageddon (and the 3rd and all subsequent conflict in which Ghazghkull messed the Imperium). -that Craftworld Alaitoc destroyed the Invader's Homeworld in revenge later on. They did their service to us Space Elves, even after death.
As a craftworld player I am so happy to have one TH-camr who can actually be positive about the Eldar for once instead of pushing them aside to talk about more imperium stuff.
Iyanden is the Eldar equiviliant of the Lamenters space marine chapters. The only consolation is that everyone of their dead populace is able to come back as wraithguards that's almost as stronk as a dreadnought.
More space elves is always a good thing. Also if any Eldar faction could successfully pull off "love can Bloom", its Iyanden, not Bel-Tan. btw while everyone is screeching over Becca vs Lucy, Kiwi best girl.
I fucking hate this stupid overspammed anime I wish it’d get out of my fucking face for a god damn day even on a Warhammer 40k lore video I still get CYBERPUNK CYBERPUNK Jesus FUCKING Christ let me have a fucking breather you’re already filling every corner of the internet with this shit.
the craftworld somehow survives lamenters grade shitstorms thrown their way (given maimed to shit but thats still the better outcome) and manage to bounce back from it somewhat. Plus they curb their arrogance enough to get some alliances going? now thats just chad energy right there.
10:32 The Ultramarines managed to kill a Norm Queen, which is basically a top tier Tyranid leader. It was felt across the entire Hive Mind. Unfortunately whenever the Hive Mind detects a Norm Queen being killed an automatic response is triggered, causing every other Tyranid Hive Fleet to crate two more Norm Queens
This is the most Iyanden lore I've seen in one video, they were already the coolest Craftworld because of their necessary reliance on Wraith units, then I found out they got cooler. And also Prince Yriel is the Eldar equivalent of the Dread Pirate Roberts. No amount of words you say to me will convince me otherwise, I won't let you.
My Iyanden Army basically consists of a Spirit Seer, a Farseer with Warlocks, 2 Wraith Lords, and an Avatar of Khaine, you'd be shocked how well it works.
Not so much. I played mostly in 2nd/3rd edition. Wraithlords were so OP in that edition, I finally got pissed at my best friend and challenged him to a special, no-points-value, match: me playing that one Wraithlord, versus literally every other 40k unit we collectively owned. My Chaos army, my loyalist Space Marine army, the rest of his Eldar army, and his Space Wolf army with IG detachment, somewhere north of 10,000 points in total. I won. Pretty easily in fact. The first few rounds were some John McClane BS to take down the units actually capable of dealing wounds to the Wraithlord. But once Abaddon, the Bloodthirster, Papa Smurf, my Land Raider, Eldrad, the Fire Prism grav tank, the Wolf Guard, Logan Grimnar, and Bjorn the Fell-Handed were off the table, nothing left even got a roll to wound which meant I full cleared the table. Eventually. The funniest part of the match was when he accused me of cheesing the column of smoke rules to break line of sight.
Ork fangirl speaking, thanks for giving us a better appreciation of the spindly older siblings. And for something *different*. Really a big fan of the wraith units. Ghosts piloting bone robots that were sung into reality? That's metal.
Please make this kind of content for all the Craftworlds please! I love Elves too and it sucks how everyone is "haha, knife ear cringe" that they never get touched on in lore videos except to show the same Greek hubris tale for the quintillionth time.
40k Lore not focussed on the Imperium or backtracking to the same background event over and over (e.g. war in heaven/birth of slaanesh)? OMG thank you!
Asurian, deep in the depths of a demon gods intestine suddenly senses the prince depart with the remains of his fractured psyche: "hold on, I gotta tweet about this"
I have a little homebrew Iyanden focused campaign for Dark Heresy where an inquisition strike team is hunting a Iyanden Warlock who's experimenting with manipulating human souls, a much more acceptable use of canon fodder than precious Eldar souls. This is obviously unacceptable to the Imperium lmao. It was about a Warlock and his team infiltrating a Prison planet to cause mass die off in order to raise a modified army of wraithguard.
Honestly the eldar should take a page from the t'au's playbook and just take humans and other species as auxiliaries or as "clients" or have them under protectorates of sorts, y'know offer some sweet magic SPACE elf tech to help life suck slightly less for folks and have some (willing) eldar dudes and babes join the houses or hosts of these other races for...ensuring "bounded alliances" with some eager vassals and BOOM, eldar empire reborn! (I mean Lyanden kinda does this already but I mean have more of that!) Would not even be THAT hard to convince whole sectors or territories of the Imperium or other civilizations to defect to the eldar's banner(s?), again the t'au proves it's more than possible and can be successfully done repeatedly, with a lot of patience atleast, which the "elgi" in SPACE if nothing else have TONS of being so ridiculously long lived and all!
Man that little bit of armor piercing resistance is super useful for eldar especially when you consider that there is no such thing as an eldar unit that's not a glass Cannon.
I love humans and aliens working together in settings where it's insanely rare. That's why I love halo stories with humans and sangheili living together in colonies.
6:40, hey despite how Hollywood protray’s him Hades is actually a pretty decent guy. He arguably has the most stable marriage in Greek mythology as well despite kidnapping his wife.
Iyanden Is my main, and I picked them due to the idea of them being basically Eldar Necromancers. So it is nice to see a fellow elf simp. Iyanden and Tyrion for life.
I can imagine all the Imperium-lovers furiously smashing that "thumbs down" button for your impudence to show any other faction than Imperium in positive light and also mocking Imperium so hilariously (That reaction of yours on space marine group taking entire craftworld themselves? Bulls-eye!). Good job!
@@calebbarnhouse496 well, that is kinda how the are portraid in the lore and most people dont actually play the table top, so they dont see how hilariously impossible this is.
So is their relationship with humanity how they've been able to create their Aldi/Lidl/Ikea corporate juggernaut. Thanks for opening my eyes to the color coded treachery of these terrifying space elves. Well played for Orctober Mr. NoWork, well played indeed.
Thank you so much for shining some good light on the Eldar. A faction I've constantly been interested in, but have never found anyone speaking positively of.
Fun fact for the whole hive mind hurty gurty. In Dante's book, when chaos came down and nuked most of the nids on Baal (stupid as fuck I know) the hive mind actually felt what it was like to die for like 3 seconds, and was the most scared the hive mind ever had been. That's the only other time the hive went ouchy.
Legit question, why was that stupid? Pulling a Shakuras and nuking a planet when it's currently more nids than dirt seems like a pretty good idea to me, but I'm also fairly entry-level when it comes to Warhammer lore
@@subatomicseal7789 great question! First off welcome to the lore haha. I'd recommend you read the book series, as it was overall good. But if you don't care for spoilers, the answer is below So it wasn't a actual nuke chaos dropped on Baal like an inquisitor would do. It was more like khorne showed up, did the whole "blinking into existence" thing chaos likes to do. Problem is when they did that, a laughably large amount of the nid forces on the planet were for some reason wiped from reality, they got absolutely slaughtered out of the blue. For me it just felt like chaos being too op because the author wasn't allowed to have the nids wipe out the Blood angels home world
@@adrinkwithjam1134Doesn't that coincide with the opening of the Great Rift? Which made millions of Psykers die and destroyed countless lives? A galaxy wide rift that pours daemons? To be fair if anything can make the hive mind feel like dying The Cicatrix Maledictum is one of those things.
I'm not only sure the eldar can make Wraithbone sextoys, but they do or at least did it often. Weather or not they attach it on a raithguard depends on the consent of said guard.
Virgin humans Live short lives Inquisition exists For le emperor Have small hats Chad eldar Have tall hats Super undead mechas Are all wizards Have immortal demigod warriors Real gods that aren't hypocrite's
Chad Sigma Grindset Tau: Accept everyone who wants to join, cause everyone can work for the betterment of society. Use actual tactics. Melee fights? In the 41 millenia? Cringe. No need for any of that bs magic stuff, cause they have the power of science and logic. Mechas. Actual health care. New kids around the block, achieved to survive this far without major screw ups.
Absolute CHADS OF ALL CHADS ORKS!: Like to FIGHT only need to FIGHT Love to FIGHT looking for a good FIGHT did I mention like to FIGHT??????? I did? Well then- WAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGHH!!!!!!!!
Elves: Physically Weak Fucked over not only themselves but everyone else because they like Scat and Feet Act Arrogant despite their empire being litterally nothing Half of them are crack addicts regarding inflicting pain Nice try elf simp, but the Orks, Necrons and the GUARD! are the only chad factions in this franchise.
I am a Saim-Hann elf at heart, but if it wasn't for Saim-Hann I would've loved join Iyanden with their wraith constructs. My 2nd favorite of the known craftworlds.
Great video, although I would say it would be fair to mention that Craftworld Idharae was severely weakened after the battles with Hive Fleet Naga, and the Invaders attacked them only 50 years after the battles with Hive Fleet Naga. And to top it off The Legion of The Damned was also there helping The Invaders. Not to mention any other Imperial Navy ships that would usually support space engagements of this size. And don't quote me on this, but I am pretty sure The Legion blew out the great dome of the Craftworld, and that is what killed most of the eldar on board. To end the story off after the whole Idharae campaign, the eldar just destroyed the Fortress Monastery of the Invaders and killed off the entire homeworld of the Invaders. Then they had to become a fleet based chapter.
Whelp, you've done it. Your elf simping, and my undying love for unique styles of necromancy have lead me to buy my first GW minis. Iyanden schemed Eldar army here we come! I fear finishing your backlog, because I'm pretty sure that Nagash guy might own my soul and wallet in the coming days...
I think these Eldar would get along with the Forerunners the most if they were to appear in the Warhammer 40k galaxy. And probably would call for the Forerunners to spare some Imperium worlds they are friends with and allow them to remain sovereign.
@@thorshammer7883 id say at the end forerunners are stronger than the old ones cus people forget they have neural physics basically the power of the warp without the negtives
@@cjscott48843 i swear its stated in one of the pieces i read that the forerunners have a basic understanding of neural physics because they use the domain which is neuralphysical construct made by the precusors to house information in the milkyway galaxy and its fed into their suits or head pieces if i remember correctly how would they do that if they diden't understand how to use neural physics when they made their suits
If I ever decide to collect Eldar, I will collect the Lyanden Craftworld. I still got some old Eldar minis somewhere, so that would be some good practice.
That makes no logistics or even narrative sense how a chapter of Space Marines could purge a entire Craftworld population which have weapon systems on it and super human strength armies with armor and vehicles. Unless that chapter of specific Space Marines had like continent level or bare minimum country busting strength there is no possible way they could directly kill all those Eldar themselves because Space Marines scale usually within wall or buliding tier of strength. They would need entire navy fleets and an entire invasion force of dozens of millions with other special chapters with advance weaponry backing them up to be capable to achieve such a thing. Maybe even unsaid factors or unsaid allies. Imperium narrative propaganda I say that is to fit their version of history.
@@alyssinclair8598 Maybe we can interpret some of it as largely vague unknown factors or Imperium propaganda as it would be fitting and easy for the Imperium to commit alot of history fraud and give to their populations on alot of planets.
In the Night Lords trilogy in which Space Marines are depicted as very powerful, Astartes have a tough time with Eldari Warriors, so yeah, the fuck did they kill an entire Craftworld?!
If there's one additional downside to Iyanden, it's that if you start an army, you're signing up to paint A LOT of yellow. It's like playing Imperial Fists or Lamenters, you're in for a world of hurt. Actually I have a second downside(?): the paint scheme is basically a palette inversion of the Ultramarines. So, depends on what your opinion on that is.
@@pancreasnowork9939 Protoss golden starfleet can glass entire planets can time stasis shoot blackholes that can destroy anything in a molecular level and have slipspace tech Al’s antimatter weapons so yeah eldar are no match spear of adun planet level buster attacks the eldar are no match 🗿
@@pancreasnowork9939 Protoss golden starfleet can glass entire planets can time stasis shoot blackholes that can destroy anything in a molecular level and have slipspace tech Al’s antimatter weapons so yeah eldar are no match spear of adun planet level buster attacks the eldar are no match 🗿
@@pancreasnowork9939 Protoss golden starfleet can glass entire planets can time stasis shoot blackholes that can destroy anything in a molecular level and have slipspace tech Al’s antimatter weapons so yeah eldar are no match spear of adun planet level buster attacks the eldar are no match 🗿
"if anyone has any other instances in lore where someone hurt the tyranids so bad the hive mind itself was in agony, please let me know" you're not going to believe this, but the ultramarines did this once, sort of. Chief Librarian Tigurus, the second most powerful human psyker alive in 40k, managed to tap into the hive minds collective consciousness to read fleet movements, idk if it caused the hive mind pain but i do remember hearing that somewhere. Also this has since been retconned for obvious reasons but I think it still counts.
yeah not surprised it was the Ultramarines, everyone else the imperial guard, the other chapters, navy should just all go on holiday and leave everything to the ultrasmurfs.
I am going to say it. That elf hurting the hivemind with how badly he beat the tyranids is up there with Eltharion looking at a near immortal demi-god lich and saying square up with nothing but his fists
As far as I can recall the Hive mind was wounded by , I think, Dante in the devastation of Baal before it was factory reset by the opening of the Cirtic Maledictum. And yeah the the human (Astropath)who made contact with Hive mind in that book got K.O'ed.
Now Talk about the truly Best Eldars, The Harlequins. By far my favourite Xeno faction (With Necrons), and not so Many things are Cooler than Ninja Clowns
Hey I want you to know that it’s far too late in the rabbit hole for me to switch right now in 40k as I’m deep into Necrons and White Scars, but for AoS I’ll definitely be doing elves, probably deepkin but who knows we’ll see what happens by the time do or don’t realm lords come out
There is one other incident of the hive mind feeling pain. And that was when it attempted to hijack one of the Imperial Knights. Apparently as it was being eaten one of the former operators whose Soul was bound to the control throne decided to somehow kill itself. When it did so it cost chain reaction of pain and if that caused the tyranids to cut all connection lest the knowledge of what death was spread to the rest of the hive
Been playing Iyanden for around 10 years by now. I entered warhammer back when this craftwold’s lore was more like “we’re very sad, traumatized and hate the space bugs with a burning passion,” although I don’t mind the more recent lore development. By the way, the sad necromancy elves had mediocre rules ever since unique craftworld bonuses became a thing, and Yriel had only one EXTREMELY specific instance of being good in the last 4 editions of the game.
I’ve been thinking about getting back into the hobby lately (last time I was collecting the current wraithlord model was new 💀) have been wanting to dive into Aeldari, but haven’t been able to make up my mind on a craftworld. This video has pretty thoroughly solidified Iyanden in my mind. Good fun, thank you!
I want to pick an Army from each faction. For Eldar, I now choose Iyanden, tnx Pancreas 👍 Also, I greatly appreciate the AoE2 music, very beautiful, very powerful 👌
We need more videos on more craftworlds! You talk about how the elves and eldar need more love, then go make a video about the space marines, the Imperium, or halo.
Not only do I get to listen to someone speak about my favourite faction, but I get to listen to some AoM bangers at the same time. This has to be the best Warhammer lore/tabletop channel for that reason alone.
Ah, Iyanden... the Craftworld whose motto might as well be a line from the Supreme Being of "Time Bandits." "Dead? No excuse for laying off work." Also, I like the Space-Elves AND the Ultra-Smurfs.
Oh, I looooooove the eldar sooooo much now, probably as much as pancreasnowork, you could even say he doesnt need to keep uploading eldar content as the love for them is already so high ;) PD: good video
Smurf wizard Varro Tigurius didn't go insane and was able to make his presence known to the Hive Mind, and while he didn't hurt it it's still impressive.
So since Craftworlds seem to get merc'd every other week in 40k Space Marine lore, what happens to the Eldar souls chilling in their infinity circuits when the Craftworld blows up?
As a few other folks have mentioned the Cicatrix opening basically hard-reset the Hive Mind (and scared the crap out of it to boot), and they *avoid* Tomb Worlds of sufficient development, but you are correct so far as I know in that Yriel is the only canon being to personally and in an immediate action cause what we would understand as the sensation of actual pain to the Hive Mind. Cicatrix was a team effort at best and Tomb Worlds only really give a spook, so I personally wouldn’t count either.
I don't know why exactly, but after watching a dozen or more of your other videos this is the video that makes me want to subscribe. Huh. Well, in any case, you're doing great.
And the ability to buff wraith guard units that unlimited range that is really useful as most soccer can only bump buff within a specific range of the model or their own unit.
Do you ever wonder if there was ever a pre-Slaanesh Eldar serial killer whose manifesto started with, "The hedonist revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the Eldar race"?
I knew about these guys before and already thought they were really cool but I was surprised they helped out the Dark Angels hunt down a fallen. Thats dope.
I'm a ulthwe fan (eldrad is the real hero of the galaxy), but I have a soft spot for lyanden. My proper introduction to them was the ghost warrior novel, and they're presented in such a sad and haunting manner in the first chapter. I wouldn't wanna be one, but wraith constructs are extremely cool.
Pancreas is why I have respect for elves and made me realize how brain dead the elf hate can get to where you swear the elf hater entire brain is just water. Edit: when I heard that a Space Marine Chapter wiped out an Entire Craftworld, I’m happy that the Custodes got easily killed by Harlequins (Initially anyway, the tears of the soy boy imperium fan boys might’ve forced a retcon to just be Imperial Guards+3 to be slaughtered instead) Edit Edit: Iyanden are Chads, especially because they are actually nice guys in 40k standard
Ok that opening was absolutely hilarious Also, when the great rift happened, so many Tyranid died at once that the Hive Mind actually got knocked out for a bit
Enough people had trouble accessing it including myself so here it is again, hopefully for real this time.
Anyways, as I said last time, Why don't you Iyanden some bitches?
and just for posterity's sake, as I said last time, "Only 25.4 subs left to go!"
Yeah, I had some weird "try again" issue.
I would fuck any female Aeldari for the most part. No Deldar or certain others.
If these guys is such chads, how come i ain't got a hardon?
Awesome. Thank you!
Being dead is no excuse to stop being superior. Sending in the Wraithguard armed with D-cannons will do that.
Neither is it an excuse to have colour choice so abominable, the stasis field i deployed got stroke about 5 minutes after i placed one in it
@@menelar479, indeed. I prefer Craftworld Iybraesil's color scheme. Grey-Blue and White, it looks very nice without hurting the eyes or other sensory equipment.
@@enoughothis Biel-Tan supremacy!
*several necrons are typing*
Even in Death they still serve?
I just imagine a chaos space marine questioning how the dark eldar are the super villains of 40 when one of them rides in on a barge screaming "PRESENTATION!"
Yeah, at least Chaos CAN be honorable, meanwhile a Dark Eldar does not respect anyone at all, even their fellow Eldar and even themselves.
@@kostakatsoulis2922 indeed, although I was mainly just loving the megamind reference
To be fair the Thousand Sons do have some amazing bling/sweet drip/ classy presentation.
I agree that most warbands can't manage that though.
"There is no Tooth Fairy, there is no Santa Clause, and there is no Emperor of Mankind."
@@nohrianscum9791 at least not anymore.
Wait… HERESY!
I like how the standard for a goody two shoes is "they sometimes engage in diplomacy and also said thank you exactly once"
😊😊😊
Such is the galaxy of warhammer 40k
The thank you was more than that, they basically said they'd grant any boon within their power as thanks and the Grey Knights, who themselves don't want for much but do have this maximum secrecy thing that means all their great deeds go unsung, simply asked that the members of the Grey Knights who had died in clearing the demons from the craft world be remembered by the Eldar. The Eldar in turn pledged to write their names into the long history of their own craft world. If there's one thing Eldar can do really well, it's remember the ancient past. The only one's better for that are Necrons.
@@seekingabsolution1907 Every boss in Mechanicus blabering for a minute at least about his past achievments was priceless.
In the grim darkness of the far future, there are no "please"s and "thank you"s
Pancreas No Work is the closest thing to a father I've ever had
Inb4 he abandons the channel like our father's abandoned us 😭
Wow, I leave for cigs 25 years ago and all of a sudden I’m not the closest thing to a father you have
Oh no
Stunning and brave
Unlike our real dad, Pancreas really did just step out for cigarettes and was back in 20 minutes
Iyanden saw the Tau, noticed the Gundam, said "Hold our beer", and turned like 90% of their army into bone EVAs.
i always thought the eldar were more anime inspired than any other faction in 40k. I thought the tau just have more believable looking mechs. They remind me of the titans from titanfall more than gundam.
@@jonathanathor117 the Eldar have guns that use shuriken as ammunition and avoid sex to study the blade, of course they’re anime inspired.
@@dank_smirk2ndchannel200 it's honestly werid coincidence that space elves use ninja star guns. I know they're not actually ninja stars and more like the cd guns from cod and far cry but still.
Iyanden basically being mostly undead is fitting for spooktober
Spooky Scary Wraith constructs.
@@fumarc4501 send shurikens down your spine
Send shivers down your spine
Spooktober? I think what you really mean is ORKTOBER! WAAAAAGH!
You know, I like these guys. They're like the Eldar equivalent of the Lamenters, constantly their shit kicked in but still here and still fighting
and yellow!
@@joeblogg2957 true dat, and also surprisingly nice for everything they've been through
@@kostakatsoulis2922 Eldar in general aren't so bad. I mean, they are superior assholes, but they won't try to genocide you for no reason even if it's just because they think you aren't worth their time. Considering everyone else we got that's not too bad.
@@BIGESTblade Biel-Tan is the only exception. They want genocide.
@@BIGESTblade yeah they're not too bad(mostly), although they are basically the hippies of the Eldar race, so...
So there is ONE moment I know of where the Hive Mind screamed in pain. When I believe Behemoth was invading Baal in devastation of baal, the Hive mind was dealt a MASSIVE blow when the eye of terror ripped open from the fall of cadia. The book even says that for a moment, the hivemind experienced death before it wrangled its tyranids back into control. So technically abaddon hurt the tyranids as well.
But he had to drop a Blackstone Fortress on a planet to do it... Abaddon uses sweatlord effort for mediocre outcomes.
@@andrewamann2821 abaddon could blow up the entire galaxy and corpse simps would still say it doesn't count because he dropped a blackstone fortress on cadia smh my head.
@@FeatherResonance Two points:
1. It will never happen like that, and you know it.
2. He still wouldn't be that impressive when compared against the OG imperialist force... The Necrons.
So if I can just state on both accounts, Abaddon's success at cadia really shouldn't be understated. Like yeah he had to sacrifice such a massive resource, but just look at the result. The galaxy is split in half by chaos, and thus they're able to run more freely. It was an absolute success.
That said, the reason why I'd say it doesn't entirely count for Abbadon is that he had no idea it would happen. It wasn't a clever ploy to attack the hive mind specifically, it was him throwing a hissy fit and rage quitting like a Melee tournament. And even with the galaxy split in half, when he should have all the advantage in the universe, he's STILL being pushed back because of Guilliman's return. THe damage done to the Tyranids was by all accounts accidental.
So, both right, both wrong.
@@andrewamann2821 splitting the fucking imperium in 2 is a mediocre outcome? Im not even a chaos fan but this is just stupid
Regarding the Invader destroying Idharae, let's just focus on the fact :
-that saving this Craftworld is the reason Eldrad Ulthran started the 2nd War for Armageddon (and the 3rd and all subsequent conflict in which Ghazghkull messed the Imperium).
-that Craftworld Alaitoc destroyed the Invader's Homeworld in revenge later on.
They did their service to us Space Elves, even after death.
Gulliman: So lion it has been a while.. un is that an eldar next to you?
Lion: Yes, he is cool.
He wouldn't be surprised, he has y'vraine lol
As a craftworld player I am so happy to have one TH-camr who can actually be positive about the Eldar for once instead of pushing them aside to talk about more imperium stuff.
Yeah, no shit. Everyone hates Eldar when Eldar actually just want everybody to leave them alone. We are getting way too much shit.
Anything is better in 40k when it's not the Imperium getting the spotlight.
@@NevaehCyanide No kidding! When the leagues of votann got announced and released I felt so happy with 40k
@@harrykearns5508 Hope they dont get the Tau treatment.I want a somewhat good empire to show how batshit insane the galaxy is.
@@ionutbalta6607 If it’s not centered around the imperium they likely will
Iyanden is the Eldar equiviliant of the Lamenters space marine chapters. The only consolation is that everyone of their dead populace is able to come back as wraithguards that's almost as stronk as a dreadnought.
Most of the Eldars are dead?
*Best Craftworld ever.*
Once again funny but also awful, thank you for throwing it back.
@@pancreasnowork9939 Rock and Stone, m8.
@@giacomoromano8842 Rock and Stone brother!
@@tanker00v25 Did I hear Rock and Stone?! Deep Rock Kindred for life!
I LOVE THE SMELL OF ELF CARCASS IN THE MORNIN.
More space elves is always a good thing. Also if any Eldar faction could successfully pull off "love can Bloom", its Iyanden, not Bel-Tan.
btw while everyone is screeching over Becca vs Lucy, Kiwi best girl.
Aesthetic wise? Sure.
She died to me when she did the thing though.
Factually incorrect. Lucy and Rebecca are both severely toxic, and kiwi is a backstabbing bitch. Dorio on the otherhand, is mommy
Kiwi?!
David's mom has got it going on
I fucking hate this stupid overspammed anime I wish it’d get out of my fucking face for a god damn day even on a Warhammer 40k lore video I still get CYBERPUNK CYBERPUNK Jesus FUCKING Christ let me have a fucking breather you’re already filling every corner of the internet with this shit.
the craftworld somehow survives lamenters grade shitstorms thrown their way (given maimed to shit but thats still the better outcome) and manage to bounce back from it somewhat. Plus they curb their arrogance enough to get some alliances going? now thats just chad energy right there.
and are probable responsible for the tau
10:32
The Ultramarines managed to kill a Norm Queen, which is basically a top tier Tyranid leader. It was felt across the entire Hive Mind. Unfortunately whenever the Hive Mind detects a Norm Queen being killed an automatic response is triggered, causing every other Tyranid Hive Fleet to crate two more Norm Queens
This is the most Iyanden lore I've seen in one video, they were already the coolest Craftworld because of their necessary reliance on Wraith units, then I found out they got cooler. And also Prince Yriel is the Eldar equivalent of the Dread Pirate Roberts. No amount of words you say to me will convince me otherwise, I won't let you.
As you wish
My Iyanden Army basically consists of a Spirit Seer, a Farseer with Warlocks, 2 Wraith Lords, and an Avatar of Khaine, you'd be shocked how well it works.
Sounds good
Not so much. I played mostly in 2nd/3rd edition.
Wraithlords were so OP in that edition, I finally got pissed at my best friend and challenged him to a special, no-points-value, match: me playing that one Wraithlord, versus literally every other 40k unit we collectively owned. My Chaos army, my loyalist Space Marine army, the rest of his Eldar army, and his Space Wolf army with IG detachment, somewhere north of 10,000 points in total.
I won. Pretty easily in fact. The first few rounds were some John McClane BS to take down the units actually capable of dealing wounds to the Wraithlord. But once Abaddon, the Bloodthirster, Papa Smurf, my Land Raider, Eldrad, the Fire Prism grav tank, the Wolf Guard, Logan Grimnar, and Bjorn the Fell-Handed were off the table, nothing left even got a roll to wound which meant I full cleared the table. Eventually.
The funniest part of the match was when he accused me of cheesing the column of smoke rules to break line of sight.
Ork fangirl speaking, thanks for giving us a better appreciation of the spindly older siblings.
And for something *different*.
Really a big fan of the wraith units. Ghosts piloting bone robots that were sung into reality? That's metal.
As an eldar fanboi this is not only what i deserve this is what i want
It's what we all deserve cousin. We're all gonna make it.
We’ll all be saved from She Who Thirsts one day brother.
Please make this kind of content for all the Craftworlds please! I love Elves too and it sucks how everyone is "haha, knife ear cringe" that they never get touched on in lore videos except to show the same Greek hubris tale for the quintillionth time.
Haha, knife ear fleshbag cringe.
Haha, knife ear xenos cringe.
Still look better than the dwarves
Yeah 40k community is full of npcs
Fuck Elves. Only good Elf is a dead Elf. "Only thing worse than a tree is an elf." Gotrek Gurnisson.
jokes on you, i'm already an elf simp
Finding another channel that likes Warhammer elves is real refreshing, I find the empire/imperium focus so many people have gets really boring
Craftworld eldar have rapidly become my favourite warhammer 40k faction, so I can indeed say they are chads
40k Lore not focussed on the Imperium or backtracking to the same background event over and over (e.g. war in heaven/birth of slaanesh)? OMG thank you!
Asurian, deep in the depths of a demon gods intestine suddenly senses the prince depart with the remains of his fractured psyche: "hold on, I gotta tweet about this"
I have a little homebrew Iyanden focused campaign for Dark Heresy where an inquisition strike team is hunting a Iyanden Warlock who's experimenting with manipulating human souls, a much more acceptable use of canon fodder than precious Eldar souls. This is obviously unacceptable to the Imperium lmao. It was about a Warlock and his team infiltrating a Prison planet to cause mass die off in order to raise a modified army of wraithguard.
Honestly the eldar should take a page from the t'au's playbook and just take humans and other species as auxiliaries or as "clients" or have them under protectorates of sorts, y'know offer some sweet magic SPACE elf tech to help life suck slightly less for folks and have some (willing) eldar dudes and babes join the houses or hosts of these other races for...ensuring "bounded alliances" with some eager vassals and BOOM, eldar empire reborn! (I mean Lyanden kinda does this already but I mean have more of that!) Would not even be THAT hard to convince whole sectors or territories of the Imperium or other civilizations to defect to the eldar's banner(s?), again the t'au proves it's more than possible and can be successfully done repeatedly, with a lot of patience atleast, which the "elgi" in SPACE if nothing else have TONS of being so ridiculously long lived and all!
Man that little bit of armor piercing resistance is super useful for eldar especially when you consider that there is no such thing as an eldar unit that's not a glass Cannon.
As an Eldar and Nid only player, I'd like to thank you for your dedication
Fed up with all the endlessssss imperial content
I love humans and aliens working together in settings where it's insanely rare. That's why I love halo stories with humans and sangheili living together in colonies.
6:40, hey despite how Hollywood protray’s him Hades is actually a pretty decent guy. He arguably has the most stable marriage in Greek mythology as well despite kidnapping his wife.
Hadeeznutz
the virgin Ynnari Death-Cultist VS *THE CHAD CRAFTWORLD INDEPENDENT NATIONALIST*
Iyanden Is my main, and I picked them due to the idea of them being basically Eldar Necromancers. So it is nice to see a fellow elf simp. Iyanden and Tyrion for life.
I can imagine all the Imperium-lovers furiously smashing that "thumbs down" button for your impudence to show any other faction than Imperium in positive light and also mocking Imperium so hilariously (That reaction of yours on space marine group taking entire craftworld themselves? Bulls-eye!). Good job!
People really will just think a chapter of space marines can conquer every syfy universe in the world with no casualties
@@calebbarnhouse496 yes, yes they will
@@myduckisonqauck7227 The Xeelee Sequence and Terrahypt got a few things to say about that
@@calebbarnhouse496 well, that is kinda how the are portraid in the lore and most people dont actually play the table top, so they dont see how hilariously impossible this is.
@@taan1424 no, even the ultramarine don't come close to that
So is their relationship with humanity how they've been able to create their Aldi/Lidl/Ikea corporate juggernaut. Thanks for opening my eyes to the color coded treachery of these terrifying space elves. Well played for Orctober Mr. NoWork, well played indeed.
Thank you so much for shining some good light on the Eldar. A faction I've constantly been interested in, but have never found anyone speaking positively of.
Same
Still kinda salty Iyanna Arienal isn't a major character in the Ynnari storyline though.
Fun fact for the whole hive mind hurty gurty. In Dante's book, when chaos came down and nuked most of the nids on Baal (stupid as fuck I know) the hive mind actually felt what it was like to die for like 3 seconds, and was the most scared the hive mind ever had been. That's the only other time the hive went ouchy.
I’m going to say that blows the Eldar’s case out of the water. Damn space elves can’t even make a hive mind feel pain the best way.
Legit question, why was that stupid? Pulling a Shakuras and nuking a planet when it's currently more nids than dirt seems like a pretty good idea to me, but I'm also fairly entry-level when it comes to Warhammer lore
@@subatomicseal7789 great question! First off welcome to the lore haha. I'd recommend you read the book series, as it was overall good. But if you don't care for spoilers, the answer is below
So it wasn't a actual nuke chaos dropped on Baal like an inquisitor would do. It was more like khorne showed up, did the whole "blinking into existence" thing chaos likes to do. Problem is when they did that, a laughably large amount of the nid forces on the planet were for some reason wiped from reality, they got absolutely slaughtered out of the blue. For me it just felt like chaos being too op because the author wasn't allowed to have the nids wipe out the Blood angels home world
@@adrinkwithjam1134Doesn't that coincide with the opening of the Great Rift? Which made millions of Psykers die and destroyed countless lives? A galaxy wide rift that pours daemons? To be fair if anything can make the hive mind feel like dying The Cicatrix Maledictum is one of those things.
I'm not only sure the eldar can make Wraithbone sextoys, but they do or at least did it often. Weather or not they attach it on a raithguard depends on the consent of said guard.
Ah, yes, Iyanden. Home of the Eldar's TRUE lord and savior, Prince Yriel.
P.S. Fuck you, TH-cam.
Virgin humans
Live short lives
Inquisition exists
For le emperor
Have small hats
Chad eldar
Have tall hats
Super undead mechas
Are all wizards
Have immortal demigod warriors
Real gods that aren't hypocrite's
Chad Sigma Grindset Tau:
Accept everyone who wants to join, cause everyone can work for the betterment of society.
Use actual tactics.
Melee fights? In the 41 millenia? Cringe.
No need for any of that bs magic stuff, cause they have the power of science and logic.
Mechas.
Actual health care.
New kids around the block, achieved to survive this far without major screw ups.
Mega cock Necrons.
Absolute CHADS OF ALL CHADS ORKS!:
Like to FIGHT
only need to FIGHT
Love to FIGHT
looking for a good FIGHT
did I mention like to FIGHT???????
I did? Well then-
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGHH!!!!!!!!
Elves:
Physically Weak
Fucked over not only themselves but everyone else because they like Scat and Feet
Act Arrogant despite their empire being litterally nothing
Half of them are crack addicts regarding inflicting pain
Nice try elf simp, but the Orks, Necrons and the GUARD! are the only chad factions in this franchise.
Greatest of all, the nids:
*OM NOM NOM*
Remember, being dead doesn’t stop you from beating the shit out of the assholes who killed you.
I am a Saim-Hann elf at heart, but if it wasn't for Saim-Hann I would've loved join Iyanden with their wraith constructs. My 2nd favorite of the known craftworlds.
Great video, although I would say it would be fair to mention that Craftworld Idharae was severely weakened after the battles with Hive Fleet Naga, and the Invaders attacked them only 50 years after the battles with Hive Fleet Naga. And to top it off The Legion of The Damned was also there helping The Invaders. Not to mention any other Imperial Navy ships that would usually support space engagements of this size.
And don't quote me on this, but I am pretty sure The Legion blew out the great dome of the Craftworld, and that is what killed most of the eldar on board.
To end the story off after the whole Idharae campaign, the eldar just destroyed the Fortress Monastery of the Invaders and killed off the entire homeworld of the Invaders. Then they had to become a fleet based chapter.
Whelp, you've done it. Your elf simping, and my undying love for unique styles of necromancy have lead me to buy my first GW minis. Iyanden schemed Eldar army here we come! I fear finishing your backlog, because I'm pretty sure that Nagash guy might own my soul and wallet in the coming days...
I think these Eldar would get along with the Forerunners the most if they were to appear in the Warhammer 40k galaxy. And probably would call for the Forerunners to spare some Imperium worlds they are friends with and allow them to remain sovereign.
I mean the Eldar were created by the Old Ones who are more or less like the Forerunners.
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Not exactly as powerful though on many front.
@@thorshammer7883 id say at the end forerunners are stronger than the old ones cus people forget they have neural physics basically the power of the warp without the negtives
@@lordsathariel4384 that would be the precursors not the forerunners.
@@cjscott48843 i swear its stated in one of the pieces i read that the forerunners have a basic understanding of neural physics because they use the domain which is neuralphysical construct made by the precusors to house information in the milkyway galaxy and its fed into their suits or head pieces if i remember correctly how would they do that if they diden't understand how to use neural physics when they made their suits
If I ever decide to collect Eldar, I will collect the Lyanden Craftworld. I still got some old Eldar minis somewhere, so that would be some good practice.
That makes no logistics or even narrative sense how a chapter of Space Marines could purge a entire Craftworld population which have weapon systems on it and super human strength armies with armor and vehicles.
Unless that chapter of specific Space Marines had like continent level or bare minimum country busting strength there is no possible way they could directly kill all those Eldar themselves because Space Marines scale usually within wall or buliding tier of strength. They would need entire navy fleets and an entire invasion force of dozens of millions with other special chapters with advance weaponry backing them up to be capable to achieve such a thing. Maybe even unsaid factors or unsaid allies.
Imperium narrative propaganda I say that is to fit their version of history.
there is no way to make anything space marines do make sense without multiplying the amount of them by 10-100
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Maybe we can interpret some of it as largely vague unknown factors or Imperium propaganda as it would be fitting and easy for the Imperium to commit alot of history fraud and give to their populations on alot of planets.
Its because GW Likes gulping Space Marine and Imperium spunk more than a Trap Ho
In the Night Lords trilogy in which Space Marines are depicted as very powerful, Astartes have a tough time with Eldari Warriors, so yeah, the fuck did they kill an entire Craftworld?!
@@nobleman9393
Writers makes things up as they go along. And many people seek to claim outerversal scaling in Warhammer 40k makes narrative sense.
Only 1 eldar faction can make me happy...MURDEROUS SPACE CLOWNS, LET THE TROLLING BEGIN!
That art work at 3:11 is so pretty.
Your videos on the Eldar are converting me- they're pretty awesome!
If there's one additional downside to Iyanden, it's that if you start an army, you're signing up to paint A LOT of yellow. It's like playing Imperial Fists or Lamenters, you're in for a world of hurt.
Actually I have a second downside(?): the paint scheme is basically a palette inversion of the Ultramarines. So, depends on what your opinion on that is.
No Way! They made Marge Simpson into a Warhammer Army.
You brought it back and I both thank and curse you for this.
FUCK. Everything leads to Homer.
@@pancreasnowork9939 Protoss golden starfleet can glass entire planets can time stasis shoot blackholes that can destroy anything in a molecular level and have slipspace tech Al’s antimatter weapons so yeah eldar are no match spear of adun planet level buster attacks the eldar are no match 🗿
@@pancreasnowork9939 Protoss golden starfleet can glass entire planets can time stasis shoot blackholes that can destroy anything in a molecular level and have slipspace tech Al’s antimatter weapons so yeah eldar are no match spear of adun planet level buster attacks the eldar are no match 🗿
@@pancreasnowork9939 Protoss golden starfleet can glass entire planets can time stasis shoot blackholes that can destroy anything in a molecular level and have slipspace tech Al’s antimatter weapons so yeah eldar are no match spear of adun planet level buster attacks the eldar are no match 🗿
"if anyone has any other instances in lore where someone hurt the tyranids so bad the hive mind itself was in agony, please let me know" you're not going to believe this, but the ultramarines did this once, sort of. Chief Librarian Tigurus, the second most powerful human psyker alive in 40k, managed to tap into the hive minds collective consciousness to read fleet movements, idk if it caused the hive mind pain but i do remember hearing that somewhere. Also this has since been retconned for obvious reasons but I think it still counts.
yeah not surprised it was the Ultramarines, everyone else the imperial guard, the other chapters, navy should just all go on holiday and leave everything to the ultrasmurfs.
Bruh
I am going to say it. That elf hurting the hivemind with how badly he beat the tyranids is up there with Eltharion looking at a near immortal demi-god lich and saying square up with nothing but his fists
Anything the ultrasmurfs do should be disregarded.
As far as I can recall the Hive mind was wounded by , I think, Dante in the devastation of Baal before it was factory reset by the opening of the Cirtic Maledictum. And yeah the the human (Astropath)who made contact with Hive mind in that book got K.O'ed.
Chaos also hurt the Hive Mind. The Rift opening caused it to die for 13 seconds.
Now Talk about the truly Best Eldars, The Harlequins. By far my favourite Xeno faction (With Necrons), and not so Many things are Cooler than Ninja Clowns
Hey I want you to know that it’s far too late in the rabbit hole for me to switch right now in 40k as I’m deep into Necrons and White Scars, but for AoS I’ll definitely be doing elves, probably deepkin but who knows we’ll see what happens by the time do or don’t realm lords come out
There is one other incident of the hive mind feeling pain. And that was when it attempted to hijack one of the Imperial Knights. Apparently as it was being eaten one of the former operators whose Soul was bound to the control throne decided to somehow kill itself. When it did so it cost chain reaction of pain and if that caused the tyranids to cut all connection lest the knowledge of what death was spread to the rest of the hive
Fair enough.
You have me liking a Craftworld.... Or even the knife ears in general. They seem pretty awesome.
I'm getting into eldar on the table top and I would love to hear more eldar lore from u
Been playing Iyanden for around 10 years by now.
I entered warhammer back when this craftwold’s lore was more like “we’re very sad, traumatized and hate the space bugs with a burning passion,” although I don’t mind the more recent lore development.
By the way, the sad necromancy elves had mediocre rules ever since unique craftworld bonuses became a thing, and Yriel had only one EXTREMELY specific instance of being good in the last 4 editions of the game.
I’ve been thinking about getting back into the hobby lately (last time I was collecting the current wraithlord model was new 💀) have been wanting to dive into Aeldari, but haven’t been able to make up my mind on a craftworld.
This video has pretty thoroughly solidified Iyanden in my mind. Good fun, thank you!
You need to do videos on all the Craft-worlds and on the harlequins
I want to pick an Army from each faction. For Eldar, I now choose Iyanden, tnx Pancreas 👍
Also, I greatly appreciate the AoE2 music, very beautiful, very powerful 👌
I usually don’t care about elves in settings but in 40k they absolutely my favorite!
“I will be as petulant as I want”
I see why you like them so much
We need more videos on more craftworlds! You talk about how the elves and eldar need more love, then go make a video about the space marines, the Imperium, or halo.
Not only do I get to listen to someone speak about my favourite faction, but I get to listen to some AoM bangers at the same time. This has to be the best Warhammer lore/tabletop channel for that reason alone.
Partnerships that could help unfuck the galaxy take 1: Farsight Enclaves and Iyanden Eldar
I dont play or understand warhammer but your commentary is amazing
Ah, Iyanden... the Craftworld whose motto might as well be a line from the Supreme Being of "Time Bandits."
"Dead? No excuse for laying off work."
Also, I like the Space-Elves AND the Ultra-Smurfs.
Really appreciate the extra entertainment with the absolute flood of weird news
The insulin deprived man returns! Listen close and listen well. The master of elves speaks
Oh, I looooooove the eldar sooooo much now, probably as much as pancreasnowork, you could even say he doesnt need to keep uploading eldar content as the love for them is already so high ;)
PD: good video
18:10 I love how the Scattershield makes the Wraithknight look like it's about to d-d-d-duel.
The anger in your voice whenever you talk about something GW wrote badly and/or the perennial Astartes favoritism gives me life.
wraithbussy getting wraithboned is the final plotpoint of 40k
rewatch for the watch time for you. love the work you do
Smurf wizard Varro Tigurius didn't go insane and was able to make his presence known to the Hive Mind, and while he didn't hurt it it's still impressive.
He is Ultramarine. Ultramarines are not impressive (despite the efforts of GW to say otherwise) xD
You know that if you start doing Subfactions, you'll have to cover. The space wolves eventually...
So since Craftworlds seem to get merc'd every other week in 40k Space Marine lore, what happens to the Eldar souls chilling in their infinity circuits when the Craftworld blows up?
As a few other folks have mentioned the Cicatrix opening basically hard-reset the Hive Mind (and scared the crap out of it to boot), and they *avoid* Tomb Worlds of sufficient development, but you are correct so far as I know in that Yriel is the only canon being to personally and in an immediate action cause what we would understand as the sensation of actual pain to the Hive Mind.
Cicatrix was a team effort at best and Tomb Worlds only really give a spook, so I personally wouldn’t count either.
A video on the wood elves/sylvaneth would be pretty cool for orc/orktober
I don't know why exactly, but after watching a dozen or more of your other videos this is the video that makes me want to subscribe. Huh. Well, in any case, you're doing great.
0:25.
Majorkill: I m a joke too you?
And the ability to buff wraith guard units that unlimited range that is really useful as most soccer can only bump buff within a specific range of the model or their own unit.
I am more of a Saim-han fun but you truly made me put the depressed necromancers on the I like list
The best Space elf craft world is the least elf of the space elves. Who would have guessed? 😂
Do you ever wonder if there was ever a pre-Slaanesh Eldar serial killer whose manifesto started with, "The hedonist revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the Eldar race"?
While watching these videos I was actually contemplating if we have created Slaanesh for real.
Absolute chadhood, in the face of this greenskin madness.
Iyanden are my favourites too ;D
I knew about these guys before and already thought they were really cool but I was surprised they helped out the Dark Angels hunt down a fallen. Thats dope.
“Dammed knife ears”
-Gotrek Gurnerson: Skavenslayer
I'm a ulthwe fan (eldrad is the real hero of the galaxy), but I have a soft spot for lyanden. My proper introduction to them was the ghost warrior novel, and they're presented in such a sad and haunting manner in the first chapter. I wouldn't wanna be one, but wraith constructs are extremely cool.
please use the ultramarine theme song every time you talk about them. please
Good to see a video on Iyanden, my favourite Craftworld.
Pancreas is why I have respect for elves and made me realize how brain dead the elf hate can get to where you swear the elf hater entire brain is just water.
Edit: when I heard that a Space Marine Chapter wiped out an Entire Craftworld, I’m happy that the Custodes got easily killed by Harlequins (Initially anyway, the tears of the soy boy imperium fan boys might’ve forced a retcon to just be Imperial Guards+3 to be slaughtered instead)
Edit Edit: Iyanden are Chads, especially because they are actually nice guys in 40k standard
Ok that opening was absolutely hilarious
Also, when the great rift happened, so many Tyranid died at once that the Hive Mind actually got knocked out for a bit
Ultramarines: Eldar edition
:^)
Heresy.
@@isaiahsmith6016 hello, inquisitor? Yes, this one right here.
Thank you.