This one was a lot of fun! I didn't know much about Aeldari before going into this, as most of my knowledge is from some games, and I'm not a huge fan of their overall aesthetic. But as the video was being made and I was drawing the pictures I grew to appreciate how unique they are. Support us here: www.patreon.com/Numbskulls / Tip Jar: ko-fi.com/numbskulls Check out my girlfriend's stuff: @karilynnedavies / twitter.com/KarilynneDavies
One of the other gods that survived was the Goddess isha she's the Goddess of fertility, nature, life, healing and growth she was abducted by nurgal So basically slannesh got ntr'd twice by her older brothers
It's a common misconception that the Drukhari are "left alone" by Slaanesh because of their depravity. Instead, the Drukhari are having their souls _slowly_ drained away by She Who Thirsts, but they can 'top up' and replenish their souls (and reinvigorate their bodies) by inflicting pain and terror on others and "feeding" upon those emotions... but that 'top up' is only temporary, and the older they get, the more and more they need to feed. The most ancient Drukhari, many thousands of years old, carry out grand atrocities simply to replenish their diminished spirit.
@@NUMBSKULLS It's why bloodsport in the arenas are so popular: terrified slaves being artfully massacred by gladiators is like an afternoon's entertainment and a good meal for the Dark Eldar. Bread and circuses.
@@TimonPOL91 In some ways, yes-there's a reason that, when desperate, the High Lords of Terra arranged to smuggle a Drukhari Haemonculus, an ancient torturer-scientist beyond compare, to Terra to fix the Golden Throne. But a thousand psykers a day is trivial compared to the Drukhari and their culture of torment, and it's actually only a fraction of the psykers brought to Terra each year: many are just executed as too unstable to live, a good portion are soul-bound to the Emperor to become Astropaths to communicate between worlds, some get sent to join the Choir of the Astronomican, and a small portion become the sanctioned psykers used by the Imperial Guard, Inquisition, etc.
Old Ones: "We cannot help you, races must develop on their own" Neks: Declares war. Old Ones: Artificially uplifts Eldar and Ork ancestors to fight the war.
From my understanding they only did that after the ctan turned the necrontyr into the necrons because after that the necrons started winning and killing old ones. Before that the necrontyr were barely able to put up a fight against the old ones but once the got a huge technological boost and the support of the material gods the ctan they were a unstoppable force.
@@jibjibs9401 what is most threatening ? : - keep your principle and left the C'tan and Necrontyr exterminating all life in the galaxy just for feeding the star lords - abandon your principle and sacrifice some species by crafting them into mighty war-machines to "protect" everything else, including yourself ? Yes, Orks and Aeldaris gone quite rogue unsupervised. It was desperate measure and the Old Ones doesn't wanted to let them live after their potential "win" against the C'tan.
The analogy I use to explain Drukhari vs Craftworlders is that after the biggest kegger/ orgy ever the Craftworlders went "Nope, we're off to AA and never partying again." The Drukhari thought to themselves, "You can't get hungover if the party never stops, whoo!"
A fun fact about the Eldar: we are shown on multiple occasions that people can jump between being dark eldar, corsairs (pirates that walk both sides), harlequins, and craftworlders. With this knowledge, you can come to an often overlooked conclusion: dark eldar (not born into absolute servitude) actively *choose* to be the absolute worst.
I don't think all those transitions work. Craftworlders can become Corsairs or Harlequins and in the case of Corsairs go back to being Craftworlders. Dark Eldar can become Harlequins but I don't think they would ever become Craftworlders or Dark Eldar again. Dark Eldar joining the Corsairs would be exceptionally rare as those still need a Spirit Stone to protect themselves. "Dark Eldar Corsairs" are most likely just a case of the Imperium mixing things up and not understanding the difference.
@@kaltaron1284 We know there are Dark Eldar that are also corsairs, Duke Traevelliath Sliscus being the prime example who is continuously called a drukhari and anhrathe. He's the leader of the Corsair coterie Sky Serpents, had an ex-craftworlder in his retinue alongside haemonculi and the typical alien mercenaries the dark eldar keep. Also, he's noted as being an inspiration for dark eldar and those exiled from Commorragh. Then of course we have Yvraine, who was a Craftworlder who walked the path of the seer, warrior and dancer before becoming a corsair leader and then a dark eldar gladiatrix. We have examples at least two examples of this happening, multiple references to Outcasts walking every path, and corsairs dabbling in both extremes of the eldar condition.
@@TheDemiurgeJ To be honest I haven't been keeping up with the lore so I didn't know that. Thanks for pointing it out. Doesn't mean that it makes much sense but whatever.
This is why Dark Eldar have been my favourite faction since they were introduced. If any Aeldari can stave off being consumed by Slaanesh through horrific acts of sadism and murder, then, as you say, that means the Drukhari have chosen this path consciously. I think this makes them the purest expression of evil in 40k, and probably the only race having more fun than the Dark Eldar are the Orks. I love villains that are genuinely, unapologetically villainous, and I think that's the Dark Eldar.
@@iDEATH I'm not sure the Dark Eldar really have that much fun. They constanly try to stave off their demise while having to watch their back against their own. And some like Vect have done that for 10 millenia by now. Some are most likely enjoying it but I would assume that there are others who just continue out of fear what awaits them if they give up or fail.
The laughing god is Chegorah. He's that guy in the webway guarding the Black Library where all the knowledge stuff is. Ahriman of the Thousand Sons was obsessed with getting in there at one point. The other Eldar god still alive is Isha, the goddess of healing. Nurgle has her in a cage and feeds her his new brews to see how long it takes her to heal from it. She whispers to the eldar of how to beat Nurgle's diseases.
One of the things I told Ava when I heard the raw recording (before video editing) is that it was alright that he didn't say Cegorach's name... nobody can pronounce it anyway
What is it with boyfriends and things that eat everything? Here's my Salamanders kill team with every little green guy nameplated and backstoried, and there are my boyfriend's nameless technicolor kroot, eating their faces.
@@danielmakaravage3381If I recall correctly, some other crop had the name potatoes before what we know as potatoes today. But it's still not a very good explanation since Tolkien is sort of picking and choosing a lot of things anyways.
It is said that the only reason Cegorach (The Laughing God) survived the Fall of the Aeldari is that he fled into the Webway while Slaanesh was busy fighting Khaine, hence why some Aeldari were still able to flock to his banner and become the Harlequins, carrying out the machinations of their deity, who is also known as the god of tricksters and artists, as well as 'The Great Fool'.
When you talk more about the Harlequins, the simplest way to describe them is "Imagine if the performers from Cirque Du Soleil were REALLY into The Art of War and were also super annoying Method Actors"
As for Eldar gods. Prior to She Who Thirsts, there were thousands. Not seven but thousands of Eldari gods and Slaanesh devoured them like an anteater. Three Eldar gods survived; Kain (Ares), Isha (think Persephone with healing elements) and the laughing god Cegorach (pretty much Loki). The 4th Eldar god, Ynnead, is a new addition having been born recently.
7:40 I mean you talk about the Spiderverse, but Eldar literally do have their own "spider-elves" called Warp Spiders. So yes, anyone CAN be Spiderman. There's an entire _subculture_ of Craftworld Eldar devoted to this principle!
Then there's the Craftworld Altansar(?) which was taken into and then spat out the warp..and now don't remove their helmets..(maybe Warp Spider origin?) "Why does the exarch need a [helmet]?" "To conceal 'er face..🤨"
I fucking love the jump-the-shark stuff like this lol it's so over the top that even if it's fake I can shrug and be like "makes sense" and that's beautiful
Eldar in fact have TWO ways to move after shooting, one at the end of their turn and one at the end of their opponent’s movement phase. Prenerf 10th eldar had a 65-70% winrate and had won something like 60% of all 25+ person events since 10th launched.
Someone who knows Warhammer explaining it to someone who doesn't is my favorite thing. And this one has nice pictures! I hope you talk about the other race raised by the Old Ones. My favorite mushroom boys.
Around minute 11, she asked what happens when you break an Eldari Soulstone, and while I dont know exactly what happens when it gets broken per se, I do know that according to the final Night Lords Omnibus book, that if its eaten, then the faint screams of the Eldari in question can be heard. And yes, a Night Lords Raptor I believe he was, ate like 7 or 8 Eldari Soulstones and kept having a weird tick that no one else understand, but he would randomly start banging his head and shouting at the voices to keep quiet, while sometimes laughing at their screams.
You underplay Alderi in 10th. They didn't just have to nerf the Alderi. They had to alter several core rules of the game because the Alderi exploited them so efficiently. Like these are core rules that everyone plays by and uses and they had to change them to begin to bring the Alderi into balance
@NUMBSKULLS When your core mechanic is getting to roll shitloads of dice at the start of the game (and a whole lot throughout the game too) and set them aside to use in place of rolls, ya know FUCKING CHEATING, you can magnify the power of anything that's SUPPOSED to be based on good luck. Abilities that are only supposed to happen 16% of the time (natural 6) are way more powerful when you can just put a 6 there from your special cheating collection whenever it's important.
You neglected to mention that the Exodites keep Slannesh away not only using spirit stones, but also by using the immense power of working hard and living harder. And by that I mean they basically live like they are in Ark: Survival Evolved
@@WolfBoy-om6dw the Aeldari Exodites live on worlds that were claimed by the original Aeldari empire but never fully colonized, deemed Maiden Worlds. These maiden worlds often featured vast jungles and dinosaurs. When you take that and the Exodites combining using minimalistic Aeldari tech and living off the land, creating a similar Alien-tech x Dinos aesthetic to Ark.
Also soulstones in Craftworlds are placed into "Infinity Circuits", the heart of the ship that is a city of souls. Instead Exodites souls go in "The World Soul", their planets are attuned in a way that recycles souls and let them get in sync with nature (mostly dinosaurs) and to do that forbode the use of advanced tech (practically they're Avatar's Na'vi).
The Eldar’s fall to hedonism is best seen like this… Eldar: “Post scarcity is getting boring. There is literally nothing to do.” Homunculi: “Hey kids, wanna invent the term murderboning?” Exodite and craftworlders: “AAAAAAAHHHH!” Proto-Drukhari: “Like coke after lent.” Homunculi: “Drink or drug? Or did you say choke?” Proto-Drukhari: *excited* “Yes!” *Meanwhile in the realm of souls/warp* Vaul: “Ah, should we stop this?” Isha: “What’s the worst that could possibly happen?” Cegorach: *clown laugh* Tzeentch: “Nyeee hee heee”
As the Fall happened: Cegorach: "SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT." *Fucks off.* Exodites: "Why is everyone falling over dead!?!" Isha: *Screams as she is dragged off by Nurgle.* Khaine: *Screams as he is struck so hard he SHATTERED.*
When I first saw the title on the necron video I was wary. I am so glad I took the chance I love this series, y'all are just so cute and nerdy. Thank you out for sharing your adventure into 40k. I guess I'm off to watch all the extended lord of the ring series....I had no idea about the pumpkin stuff.
The warp was basically the after life but after slanesh's birth she killed most of the eldar gods which controlled the warp/kept the warp in peace. The downfall gave rise to the chaos gods and it's basically hell but their are plenty of other warp enties just the chaos gods now owns the majority of the warp. (They're three surviving eldar gods one is captured by nurgle)
The Aeldari lore is so bare bones that an entire video about their lore went on a tangent 2/3 of the way to talk about LOTR. Come on GW! Give the space elves the love they deserve!
Battle focus (move shoot move) is gone in 10th edition, instead we have a stratagem where we can move one aeldari infantry unit at the end of the enemy movement phase (yes, in the enemy turn).
In whereas the Tyrannids are now more terrifying. As they now the bugs you want as far away from you as possible can have a stratagem that lets them run with all units during their shooting phase. And combine it with another stratagem where the troop that gets shot, gets a free run move against the people shooting at them.
My favorite thing us her asking the most innocent questions at the end, but they keep getting cut off coz the answers to those questions are terrifying and hilarious.
When it comes to the Eldar Gods you forgot the "Wife" of Nurgle, Isha the goddess of Life who he constantly gifts all sorts of plagues and such (because he loves her), while she tries to send out the cures to those diseases into the world in a back and forth tug of war. Then there's Ynnead the god of death who the Eldar really want to bring into existence to beat up Slaneesh a bit. An effort that Girlyman's big titty elf gf Yvraine is spearheading. This is the closest the Eldar have gotten to salvation in a long time.
As someone who is getting into warhammer and getting ready for their second war i love this series. First fight was with the space wolves now im running necrons!
The space elves on 10th’s start was absurdly strong. I luckily never played against them until the nerf but the horror stories I read was wow. I did face them in a 9th edition tournament and got my butt handed to me. I was playing guard and they just got their 9th codex and they were really good. Dude came in with three wrath knights (which is three big mechs controled by many soul stones). His Wrath knights just destroyed all my tanks. I got tabled in round 2
So the Webway is in the warp but isn't the warp. Think of it like a subway under the ocean. You can travel through it fast and safely, but if any of the tunnels get broken, then that tunnel gets flooded. This is important for a few plot points, such as why the Emperor had to deal with a flood of demons when Magnus came to warn him. Magnus broke a hole in one of the tunnels.
The big party that birthed Slaany is pretty much a great description of the formation of a micro quasar. "We had so much pleasure and fun that the star we orbit couldn't resist reaching out and joining in."
I have just discovered you guys while going on WH40K rabbit hole deep dive. I'm several of your lore videos in and I have come to the following conclusions: 1) Ava, you are a wonderful font of knowledge and I love your style and presentation. I love the sketches, animation, humor. Also: getting strong End of Evangelion Rei/Lilith vibes from that one image. Thank you for that one. 😄 2) Kari, You are delight to listen to, and you have me laughing way too much. Also you're a clearly a dangerous cinnamon roll and must be protected at all costs. 😄 Happily subscribed now and looking forward to your future content.
Eldar tech is powered up (willingly) by the SOULS of the DEAD? That's, so, freakin, METAL! WHY DON'T THEY ADVERTISE/LEAN ON THAT MORE OFTEN? My affinity towards the space elves would increase at least 10x more if THAT was their sales pitch
Not all of it. The soulstones are more like the AI equivalent and advanced targeting, autopilot, etc. Your average shuriken catapult is basically a SMG using "only" gravitational accelerator throwing monomolecular-edge discs at relativistic velocity. Meanwhile, the D-guns shoot you straight to hell. How's that for metal?
This series as a whole is amazing, love the back and forth banter. Makes me excited for when you guys make all the weeb gundam references with the Tau.
That Mariah Carey bit at the end had me rolling. I have a mental image now of her hitting the high note on ‘Emotions’ and just tearing a hole into the Warp… WHAT HAS BEEN SEEN CANNOT BE UNSEEN!!
So on tabletop eldar have a few move options 1: feigned retreat allows you to move /fall back, shoot, and charge all in the same turn 2:phantasm allows you to make a reflexive move of d6 inches whenever an enemy ends their movement within 9 inches of the targeted unit 3: fire and fade allows you to make a normal move after you’ve already shot 4:matchless agility makes one advance roll an automatic 6
I think it was mentioned that waystones (the things that can become soulstones) do pop up occasionally around places where the warp and the realworld are close, such as crone worlds but also near gateways. Still, if you want to stockpile them, you have to raid hell and come back.
The birth of Salneesh was basically a red mage LB3 in an alliance raid. No one wanted or needed this, and a lot of people are dead, and the raid is about to get wiped.
We were doing the Ivalice Raids a while ago and at one point a Red Mage decided to LB3 in the middle of an important mechanic. It was like getting flashbanged and when the screen faded from white everyone was down lmao
@jdcoolha I was in a group call when a friend did that to our group. I still hear them laughing in disbelief as we realize that 90% of the raid missed an AOE and died. Lmao.
16:28 This is accually an idea that I have had. I have made an WH40K OC: *Commissar Markus Grayson "smiling savage" Savage Sarrano.* He really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really hates the eldar. He has a gun that looks like an eldar pistol, but it has an ovoid shaped hole above the handle, right behind the barrel. Into this hole perfectly fits a spirit stone. When you put a spirit stone into the gun and pull the trigger, a very powerful beam of energy comes out of the barrel. And a loud screaming can be heard. I call this weapon: The soul gun. (If you have a better name. Please comment it)
I love hearing you guys discuss 40k lore, and as a huge Battletech nerd, I love hearing the super long name of your one patron who's apparently an even bigger Battletech nerd than me.
My favorite excerpt from Bricky was when he was talking about how BS Eldar are on tabletop. Apparently…they used to have an uncapped debuff when using flying vehicles that made the people shooting at them have to roll higher to hit. Since that debuff was uncapped, it meant that some guard regiments were ENTIRELY UNABLE to kill flying eldar vehicles because their dice only rolled up to a 6, and they needed to roll a 7. Oops. Thankfully in subsequent editions it was capped.
Kinda important note, the exodites' maiden worlds have a world spirit within them. Formed by the souls of the dead eldar there, like the infinity circuit. However this spirit is less like a power source like the IF and more like a pissed off concentration of all your ancestors so like when people invade the worlds, the world itself fights back. Sending natural disasters and shit. Pretty dope
This isn't my post, but it's too good not to share. Probably the funniest bit of Eldar lore I like is one of the reasons the Necrons went into hibernation was because with the Old Ones gone they expected the Eldar to basically self-destruct and decided to just wait it out. Then come modern 40k and the Necrons were proven basically 100% right. The only thing they couldn't foresee was the Eldar blowing themselves up so bad they basically started dragging all of reality with them via the Eye of Terror turned Great Rift.
no eldar had spiritstones when the birth of slaanesh happened the only thing that saved the craftworlders for a time was distance the rangers, the eldar that failed finding a path, whose soul is unable to find peace, go into the eye of terror and collect the remains of the permatortured eldar the refined fossils is what the spiritstones are made out of the soul of an eldar abused and sacrificed to protect the soul of an eldar think "path of the ranger" was the novel that talks about where the stones come from your semi right about it being a limited resource, its basically in the warp, so nothing stopping you from taking the same stone out twice, if you pick it up today, just pick it up from yesterday next time eldar also no longer get reborn, unless its dark eldar the pre fall eldar prettymuch grabbed the soul out of the warp and stuffed it into a new vatgrown body dark eldar still do it, just with a lot of extra torture, repaying the warp in souls before they get theirs out of it the craftworlders can not be reborn, only moved into the ship or a wraithguard as storage and powersource they dont grow new bodies, they cant get the soul out of the stone its eternal prison, but thats ok because the prison is the also keeping the danger out
We went with the reincarnation angle as a recent story showed Yvraine showing Eldar past lives. There is a bit of ambiguity but suffice to say most Eldar are stuck in their soulstones As for timing on Soulstones, we couldn't find anything concrete.
yvraine generally doesnt fit with any previous eldar lore thats why new eldar lore is such a mess the spiritstones being the slag of eldar souls being consumed in the birth kindof times them no way to be slag of the thing not yet happened even with the warptimeweirdness
@@ashardalondragnipurake The closest origin for the stones we could find was Aeldari religious myth, that they were made from Isha's tears, but again, nothing concrete as I can't find the source for that story, and the "Tears of Isha" take on a different meaning in Fantasy. Aeldari lore is all a clusterfuck.
Ah shit lol! In the Web Way, The Mighty Web Way Fuck I started laughing and woke my BF up and he was not happy. But I kept laughing because he needs to learn to appreciate this series!! Edit lol: MORE! MORE! MORE! Fuck! Go back! I almost choked on my pizza. Damn you!!
Ava, the Slannesh fan who respects boundaries: Ain’t nobody got time for that. Slannesh, to whom boundaries are Anathema: I absolutely have time for that.
An abridged summary of the Dark Eldar aka the Drukhari… Lelith: “Hey, it’s your favorite Egirl, Lelith Hesperax.” *proceeds to kills people with her hair blades* Rakarth: *doing experiments so horrible that the other Dark Eldar find them traumatizing* Drahza: *killing everything with his massive sword* “Mediocre.” Mandrakes leader: *pops out of the shadows* “Hey kids, wanna see a dead body?” Lord Vect: *watching all this play out* “Hi, I’m Asdrubal Vect, and welcome to Jackass!”
Love this series, really excited for the Sisters of Battle Episode. For the space marines, are you planning on making one big video explaining all chapters a little or one video per Primarch end then explaining their chapter?
@@NUMBSKULLS Makes sense, I've been getting into Warhammer about 1,5 years ago and naturally, there's new stuff I learn every day. Being bombarded with so much information at once would never stick around. But things like your videos really make me enjoy this franchise even more. Keep it up you two ;)
Not sure if anyone mentioned it, but the Move-Shoot-Move of Eldar was their 9th edition rules. In 10th the broken thing was that they: 1. Had the ability to move a unit *after* your opponent has finished moving all of their units (oh, you lined up a shot on one of my important units? my unit leaves) 2. Their Fate Dice mechanic just meant if you had a bunch of 6s, you won, due to how Devastating Wounds were ruled at first. They got the entire mechanic nerfed because, with a little bit of luck, one gun could take out like 5 Space Marine Terminators no problem from half the map away. 3. Their unit that had that really good gun was REALLY cheap for what it gave you, being two of those guns, a BUNCH of HP, and it was heavy-tank toughness for like... 3 of them (the max you can bring) wasn't even half your army.
with how much the eldar seem to be powered by ghosts, it feels intentionally appropriate for this to be available for everyone at the beginning of spooktober
The name of the laughing god is Cegorach(pronounced like Ke-gore-rack) He is the Aeldari god of Creativity, Artists, Deception and Trickery Absolutely love the Harlequins They're just such an interesting sub-faction to me Especially with what they're guarding
16:28 This is accually an idea that I have had. I have made an WH40K OC *Commissar Markus Grayson "smiling savage" Savage Sarrano.* He really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really hates the eldar. He has a gun that looks like an eldar pistol, but it has an ovoid shaped hole above the handle, right behind the barrel. Into this hole perfectly fits a spirit stone. When you put a spirit stone into the gun and pull the trigger, a very powerful beam of energy comes out of the barrel. And a loud screaming can be heard. I call this weapon: The soul gun. (If you have a better name. Please comment it)
Actually, the webway leads through the Warp. The tunnels are just isolated from the rest of the Warp. The thing is that the Old Ones built it before the War in Heaven. Before that, the Warp was pretty quiet and peaceful. That just comes with a huge problem: The tunnels can get damaged. Many parts of the webway needed to be abandoned because they were flooded by demons. It's possible to fix them, but it's incredibly dangerous.
In Tolkien Middle Earth actually was flat for a lot of Elven history. It only became round after Humans tried invading Valinor (Heaven) as a way to prevent them from ever doing it again. Since then only the Elves know how to sail flatly across the round ocean and reach the golden shores. So your joke that the world is flat to the Elves is actually kind of right.
Said it on another video but to be clear, Nurgle - old as the universe, entropy started as sson as the universe was born, Khorne and Tzeentch during Tera's medieval period, then yeah Slaneesh
Maybe I just made this up, but I've always thought that Khorne, Nurgle, and Tzeentch gained consciousness during the war in heaven. Khorne from all the killing, Nurgle from all the death and decay, and Tzeentch from the scheming of the C'tan and Necrons.
I think it might've been in "The Path" series, but there isn't a finite number of Soulstones. They appear in Crone worlds supposedly by grace of Isha being still alive, and her tears for her children becoming these stones at regular enough intervals, appearing from the fabric of the warp on these worlds. So raids into those worlds aren't going to stop any time soon. This also makes sense since she was also their Goddess of life and rebirth and was essentially responsible for sending the Eldar souls back to be born again before the Fall.
One thing you didn't mention that relates to the spirit stones slotting into their technology is the wraithbone they use to construct basically everything they use, from tanks to buildings to the craftworlds themselves. Wraithbone is a psychoactive crystalline substance that they can literally grow by drawing power from the warp. The occupied spirit stones slot straight into it and can be used to control things because of the nature of its psychoactive structure/circuitry. And also there's an infinity circuit in every craftworld where souls can be uploaded, so to speak, from spirit stones. These souls can be downloaded to spirit stones again (with some negotiation) in order to use them to pilot (to a degree) wraith constructs like the titans, dreadnoughts (aka wraithlords) and tanks.
there are actually warpspiders that maintain the webway i dont think its ever elaborated on what exactly they are but one of the warrior castes is named after them ironically thats the caste of warriors that keeps poking holes in reality for the spiders to fix
The Warp Spiders are like Ork Stormboyz. Using a really terrible way of transportation but it works wonders. But instead of melee weapons they basically carry machine guns or flamethrowers and chew through infantry with a toughness lower than 4 then just teleport away to be annoying. Fun fact also there Phoenix Lord is unknown, but some say it's just a giant spider that literally lives in the warp
@@ashardalondragnipurake no clue I just know when I played them against Thousand Sons, they chewed through Rubrics and the horde of Storm Guardians mauled the survivors to death including the supporting Striking Scorpions. It was a fun time
20:00 Fun fact, The Earth is flat in Tolkien's novels. It is based on ancient near east and anglo saxon mythology. He was also a Bible Scholar who even helped edit/translate the Jerusalem Bible. But he tried to accurately portray the beliefs of the time, so the middle earth is indeed flat.
For some reason I feel like when Khorne stepped in to fight Slanesh for Khaine’s soul, he did it partially out of some small amount of respect for Khaine as a fellow warrior.
This one was a lot of fun! I didn't know much about Aeldari before going into this, as most of my knowledge is from some games, and I'm not a huge fan of their overall aesthetic. But as the video was being made and I was drawing the pictures I grew to appreciate how unique they are.
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One of the other gods that survived was the Goddess isha she's the Goddess of fertility, nature, life, healing and growth she was abducted by nurgal
So basically slannesh got ntr'd twice by her older brothers
@@NABNOBODYYou should probably rewatch the part about gods surviving
@jdcoolha ah I was listening to this while eating breakfast I wasn't watching so I missed that
You Forgot About Isha
@@NABNOBODY Technically She was Rescued
It's a common misconception that the Drukhari are "left alone" by Slaanesh because of their depravity. Instead, the Drukhari are having their souls _slowly_ drained away by She Who Thirsts, but they can 'top up' and replenish their souls (and reinvigorate their bodies) by inflicting pain and terror on others and "feeding" upon those emotions... but that 'top up' is only temporary, and the older they get, the more and more they need to feed. The most ancient Drukhari, many thousands of years old, carry out grand atrocities simply to replenish their diminished spirit.
"Stan, buddy, my friend, my right-time-boy-- Could I turn you into a couch real quick? Feelin' a bit soul-drained lately and could use a pick-me-up."
@@NUMBSKULLS It's why bloodsport in the arenas are so popular: terrified slaves being artfully massacred by gladiators is like an afternoon's entertainment and a good meal for the Dark Eldar. Bread and circuses.
@@NUMBSKULLSFun Fact: The Drukhari torture other races because their souls produce more psychic energy than the Drukhari themselves can.
The similarities to the black ships and Big E are uncanny :D
@@TimonPOL91 In some ways, yes-there's a reason that, when desperate, the High Lords of Terra arranged to smuggle a Drukhari Haemonculus, an ancient torturer-scientist beyond compare, to Terra to fix the Golden Throne. But a thousand psykers a day is trivial compared to the Drukhari and their culture of torment, and it's actually only a fraction of the psykers brought to Terra each year: many are just executed as too unstable to live, a good portion are soul-bound to the Emperor to become Astropaths to communicate between worlds, some get sent to join the Choir of the Astronomican, and a small portion become the sanctioned psykers used by the Imperial Guard, Inquisition, etc.
Old Ones: "We cannot help you, races must develop on their own"
Neks: Declares war.
Old Ones: Artificially uplifts Eldar and Ork ancestors to fight the war.
From my understanding they only did that after the ctan turned the necrontyr into the necrons because after that the necrons started winning and killing old ones. Before that the necrontyr were barely able to put up a fight against the old ones but once the got a huge technological boost and the support of the material gods the ctan they were a unstoppable force.
@@assaultghost00 less of support from the ctan and more of enforced enslavement cause they ate their souls.
@@assaultghost00Yeah, that shows they’re hypocrites who will change their principles once they’re in danger but not when someone else is
@@jibjibs9401 what is most threatening ? :
- keep your principle and left the C'tan and Necrontyr exterminating all life in the galaxy just for feeding the star lords
- abandon your principle and sacrifice some species by crafting them into mighty war-machines to "protect" everything else, including yourself ?
Yes, Orks and Aeldaris gone quite rogue unsupervised. It was desperate measure and the Old Ones doesn't wanted to let them live after their potential "win" against the C'tan.
@@Dekuma I never said fighting the necrons wasn’t necessary only that their methods were hypocritical
The analogy I use to explain Drukhari vs Craftworlders is that after the biggest kegger/ orgy ever the Craftworlders went "Nope, we're off to AA and never partying again." The Drukhari thought to themselves, "You can't get hungover if the party never stops, whoo!"
Maybe those Drukhari are onto something...
Exodites in the far corner of the universe: "They don't know our souls aren't even forfeit.."
@@docthefaust4519technically they are, but they also get to ride dinosaurs and have soul stones so they are living their best lives
Exodites: “Kids these days.”
Your girlfriend is the most wholesome Slaanesh demon I've ever seen. Can't wait for her to find out about the Drukhari.
This is like my comfort series
Same ❤
yes
Same fr. I need more of these.
Same 😊
Same
A fun fact about the Eldar: we are shown on multiple occasions that people can jump between being dark eldar, corsairs (pirates that walk both sides), harlequins, and craftworlders. With this knowledge, you can come to an often overlooked conclusion: dark eldar (not born into absolute servitude) actively *choose* to be the absolute worst.
I don't think all those transitions work. Craftworlders can become Corsairs or Harlequins and in the case of Corsairs go back to being Craftworlders. Dark Eldar can become Harlequins but I don't think they would ever become Craftworlders or Dark Eldar again. Dark Eldar joining the Corsairs would be exceptionally rare as those still need a Spirit Stone to protect themselves. "Dark Eldar Corsairs" are most likely just a case of the Imperium mixing things up and not understanding the difference.
@@kaltaron1284 We know there are Dark Eldar that are also corsairs, Duke Traevelliath Sliscus being the prime example who is continuously called a drukhari and anhrathe. He's the leader of the Corsair coterie Sky Serpents, had an ex-craftworlder in his retinue alongside haemonculi and the typical alien mercenaries the dark eldar keep. Also, he's noted as being an inspiration for dark eldar and those exiled from Commorragh.
Then of course we have Yvraine, who was a Craftworlder who walked the path of the seer, warrior and dancer before becoming a corsair leader and then a dark eldar gladiatrix. We have examples at least two examples of this happening, multiple references to Outcasts walking every path, and corsairs dabbling in both extremes of the eldar condition.
@@TheDemiurgeJ To be honest I haven't been keeping up with the lore so I didn't know that. Thanks for pointing it out.
Doesn't mean that it makes much sense but whatever.
This is why Dark Eldar have been my favourite faction since they were introduced. If any Aeldari can stave off being consumed by Slaanesh through horrific acts of sadism and murder, then, as you say, that means the Drukhari have chosen this path consciously. I think this makes them the purest expression of evil in 40k, and probably the only race having more fun than the Dark Eldar are the Orks. I love villains that are genuinely, unapologetically villainous, and I think that's the Dark Eldar.
@@iDEATH I'm not sure the Dark Eldar really have that much fun. They constanly try to stave off their demise while having to watch their back against their own. And some like Vect have done that for 10 millenia by now.
Some are most likely enjoying it but I would assume that there are others who just continue out of fear what awaits them if they give up or fail.
Slight correction: three eldar gods survived. Isha was taken by Nurgle for “The Bad”tm
Was gunna write this too lol
24:32
@@NUMBSKULLS ok so that’s 3 accounted for, whose the fourth?
@@candykid7390 Ynnead, AKA can of worms we're not touching yet.
Am I stupid. Rewatching it I still cannot find the Isha part...
Nvm. It is the image. I was only liste, not watching.
The laughing god is Chegorah. He's that guy in the webway guarding the Black Library where all the knowledge stuff is. Ahriman of the Thousand Sons was obsessed with getting in there at one point. The other Eldar god still alive is Isha, the goddess of healing. Nurgle has her in a cage and feeds her his new brews to see how long it takes her to heal from it. She whispers to the eldar of how to beat Nurgle's diseases.
Chegorac....Cegorach?
One of the things I told Ava when I heard the raw recording (before video editing) is that it was alright that he didn't say Cegorach's name... nobody can pronounce it anyway
I love this series. It’s like when I explained Warhammer to my boyfriend, he actually really likes Tyranids and I like the guard and mechanicus :3
At least you know he loves your biomass.
Cute
NID GAAANG
@@JustAJauneArc * laughs in tau *
What is it with boyfriends and things that eat everything? Here's my Salamanders kill team with every little green guy nameplated and backstoried, and there are my boyfriend's nameless technicolor kroot, eating their faces.
Looked it up. There's no pumpkins in Middle Earth because Middle Earth is based on Medieval Europe and pumpkins are native to the Americas.
Ohhhh that makes a lot of sense, actually.
So are potatoes
@@danielmakaravage3381Wait, you're right...
So are corn, beans, and tomatoes.
@@danielmakaravage3381If I recall correctly, some other crop had the name potatoes before what we know as potatoes today. But it's still not a very good explanation since Tolkien is sort of picking and choosing a lot of things anyways.
@@SilverionX I think you're thinking of yams. What we call yams are American sweet potatoes, actual yams are from Africa and are much bigger.
If she knows star wars, you can call the death korps of Kreig "clone troopers without personalities."
They are just soldiers. Even to plo koon
Death Korps of Krieg and Night Lords have the same playlist of “Dark and depressing techno music”
nah that's the Night Lords and Blood Angels the Krieg listen to Sabaton and diggy diggy hole whilst digging trenches
Their personalities were removed to make space for the ability to hit targets with at least 50% accuracy
Clone armies but they really want to die
It is said that the only reason Cegorach (The Laughing God) survived the Fall of the Aeldari is that he fled into the Webway while Slaanesh was busy fighting Khaine, hence why some Aeldari were still able to flock to his banner and become the Harlequins, carrying out the machinations of their deity, who is also known as the god of tricksters and artists, as well as 'The Great Fool'.
BAZINGA
Ah the tried and tested strategy of "Every god for themselves!"
I gotta say, her using FFXIV to understand Warhammer concepts is cute and amuses me greatly.
Theirs also Isha the eldar god of health who nurgle saved/kidnapped to use as a test subject for his disease
24:32 I'm saving Isha for when we talk about Grandpa.
When you talk more about the Harlequins, the simplest way to describe them is
"Imagine if the performers from Cirque Du Soleil were REALLY into The Art of War and were also super annoying Method Actors"
As for Eldar gods. Prior to She Who Thirsts, there were thousands. Not seven but thousands of Eldari gods and Slaanesh devoured them like an anteater. Three Eldar gods survived; Kain (Ares), Isha (think Persephone with healing elements) and the laughing god Cegorach (pretty much Loki). The 4th Eldar god, Ynnead, is a new addition having been born recently.
7:40 I mean you talk about the Spiderverse, but Eldar literally do have their own "spider-elves" called Warp Spiders. So yes, anyone CAN be Spiderman. There's an entire _subculture_ of Craftworld Eldar devoted to this principle!
Warp Spiders are hipsters even among other aspect warriors.
Then there's the Craftworld Altansar(?) which was taken into and then spat out the warp..and now don't remove their helmets..(maybe Warp Spider origin?)
"Why does the exarch need a [helmet]?"
"To conceal 'er face..🤨"
I fucking love the jump-the-shark stuff like this lol it's so over the top that even if it's fake I can shrug and be like "makes sense" and that's beautiful
Eldar in fact have TWO ways to move after shooting, one at the end of their turn and one at the end of their opponent’s movement phase.
Prenerf 10th eldar had a 65-70% winrate and had won something like 60% of all 25+ person events since 10th launched.
19:00-19:35 Tolkien’s Elves are so light weight that they can walk on snow without falling into it or going through it.
Someone who knows Warhammer explaining it to someone who doesn't is my favorite thing. And this one has nice pictures! I hope you talk about the other race raised by the Old Ones. My favorite mushroom boys.
Around minute 11, she asked what happens when you break an Eldari Soulstone, and while I dont know exactly what happens when it gets broken per se, I do know that according to the final Night Lords Omnibus book, that if its eaten, then the faint screams of the Eldari in question can be heard.
And yes, a Night Lords Raptor I believe he was, ate like 7 or 8 Eldari Soulstones and kept having a weird tick that no one else understand, but he would randomly start banging his head and shouting at the voices to keep quiet, while sometimes laughing at their screams.
4:55 I think of the webway as a subway system through the warp while everyone else is stuck in traffic up above the webway
You underplay Alderi in 10th. They didn't just have to nerf the Alderi. They had to alter several core rules of the game because the Alderi exploited them so efficiently. Like these are core rules that everyone plays by and uses and they had to change them to begin to bring the Alderi into balance
That's insane.
@NUMBSKULLS When your core mechanic is getting to roll shitloads of dice at the start of the game (and a whole lot throughout the game too) and set them aside to use in place of rolls, ya know FUCKING CHEATING, you can magnify the power of anything that's SUPPOSED to be based on good luck. Abilities that are only supposed to happen 16% of the time (natural 6) are way more powerful when you can just put a 6 there from your special cheating collection whenever it's important.
You neglected to mention that the Exodites keep Slannesh away not only using spirit stones, but also by using the immense power of working hard and living harder. And by that I mean they basically live like they are in Ark: Survival Evolved
"Come on, men, there's work to be done* frostpunk
@@qberrygamz7049"THE CRAFTWORLD MUST SURVIVE!"
@FueganTheAnnihilator Can you elaborate on this please because I've played Ark survival evolved and I don't grok what you're saying.
@@WolfBoy-om6dw the Aeldari Exodites live on worlds that were claimed by the original Aeldari empire but never fully colonized, deemed Maiden Worlds. These maiden worlds often featured vast jungles and dinosaurs. When you take that and the Exodites combining using minimalistic Aeldari tech and living off the land, creating a similar Alien-tech x Dinos aesthetic to Ark.
@@BloodKnight003 Thanks for the Info!
Im loving this series and love the art as well. It really is a comfort watch and you guys are fnatastic together. Also love the last lines as well
Also soulstones in Craftworlds are placed into "Infinity Circuits", the heart of the ship that is a city of souls. Instead Exodites souls go in "The World Soul", their planets are attuned in a way that recycles souls and let them get in sync with nature (mostly dinosaurs) and to do that forbode the use of advanced tech (practically they're Avatar's Na'vi).
The Eldar’s fall to hedonism is best seen like this…
Eldar: “Post scarcity is getting boring. There is literally nothing to do.”
Homunculi: “Hey kids, wanna invent the term murderboning?”
Exodite and craftworlders: “AAAAAAAHHHH!”
Proto-Drukhari: “Like coke after lent.”
Homunculi: “Drink or drug? Or did you say choke?”
Proto-Drukhari: *excited* “Yes!”
*Meanwhile in the realm of souls/warp*
Vaul: “Ah, should we stop this?”
Isha: “What’s the worst that could possibly happen?”
Cegorach: *clown laugh*
Tzeentch: “Nyeee hee heee”
As the Fall happened:
Cegorach: "SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT." *Fucks off.*
Exodites: "Why is everyone falling over dead!?!"
Isha: *Screams as she is dragged off by Nurgle.*
Khaine: *Screams as he is struck so hard he SHATTERED.*
When I first saw the title on the necron video I was wary. I am so glad I took the chance I love this series, y'all are just so cute and nerdy. Thank you out for sharing your adventure into 40k.
I guess I'm off to watch all the extended lord of the ring series....I had no idea about the pumpkin stuff.
The warp was basically the after life but after slanesh's birth she killed most of the eldar gods which controlled the warp/kept the warp in peace. The downfall gave rise to the chaos gods and it's basically hell but their are plenty of other warp enties just the chaos gods now owns the majority of the warp. (They're three surviving eldar gods one is captured by nurgle)
The Aeldari lore is so bare bones that an entire video about their lore went on a tangent 2/3 of the way to talk about LOTR. Come on GW! Give the space elves the love they deserve!
Battle focus (move shoot move) is gone in 10th edition, instead we have a stratagem where we can move one aeldari infantry unit at the end of the enemy movement phase (yes, in the enemy turn).
In whereas the Tyrannids are now more terrifying. As they now the bugs you want as far away from you as possible can have a stratagem that lets them run with all units during their shooting phase. And combine it with another stratagem where the troop that gets shot, gets a free run move against the people shooting at them.
4:26 the warp is like the nether in Minecraft in terms of travel speeds, so 1mile in the warp is a bunch more in real space
They’re also both basically hell
My favorite thing us her asking the most innocent questions at the end, but they keep getting cut off coz the answers to those questions are terrifying and hilarious.
I assume the answer to this one was just the J Jonah Jameson laughing clip.
You should talk about the orks next because they relate to the aeldari
When it comes to the Eldar Gods you forgot the "Wife" of Nurgle, Isha the goddess of Life who he constantly gifts all sorts of plagues and such (because he loves her), while she tries to send out the cures to those diseases into the world in a back and forth tug of war.
Then there's Ynnead the god of death who the Eldar really want to bring into existence to beat up Slaneesh a bit. An effort that Girlyman's big titty elf gf Yvraine is spearheading. This is the closest the Eldar have gotten to salvation in a long time.
Until the warp threw at them its most unbeatable trump card: bad writing
Your (awesome) GF: "Do you think this is going to have a happy ending?"
Me: "If it did, it would be the first Warhammer story to do so."
Yeah, when we start getting into books and some of the series GW has released on Warhammer+, it's gonna be sad ;-;
As someone who is getting into warhammer and getting ready for their second war i love this series. First fight was with the space wolves now im running necrons!
The space elves on 10th’s start was absurdly strong. I luckily never played against them until the nerf but the horror stories I read was wow. I did face them in a 9th edition tournament and got my butt handed to me. I was playing guard and they just got their 9th codex and they were really good. Dude came in with three wrath knights (which is three big mechs controled by many soul stones). His Wrath knights just destroyed all my tanks. I got tabled in round 2
Damn.
@@NUMBSKULLS it was a fun game but was just horrorfying lore wise cause my poor guardsmen were just cut down
Also the continuing gag of cutting off the questions at the end is gold. I forget every time wnd it always makes me laugh audibly.
I didn't knew that the hot take I needed from an Eldar video was "The Emperor is Spiderman"
So the Webway is in the warp but isn't the warp. Think of it like a subway under the ocean. You can travel through it fast and safely, but if any of the tunnels get broken, then that tunnel gets flooded. This is important for a few plot points, such as why the Emperor had to deal with a flood of demons when Magnus came to warn him. Magnus broke a hole in one of the tunnels.
The big party that birthed Slaany is pretty much a great description of the formation of a micro quasar. "We had so much pleasure and fun that the star we orbit couldn't resist reaching out and joining in."
Aeldari culture before the collapse “that pencil sharpener looking fine as hell”
Aeldari is just letting the impulses win.
@@NUMBSKULLS self-control never had a shot
I have just discovered you guys while going on WH40K rabbit hole deep dive. I'm several of your lore videos in and I have come to the following conclusions:
1) Ava, you are a wonderful font of knowledge and I love your style and presentation. I love the sketches, animation, humor.
Also: getting strong End of Evangelion Rei/Lilith vibes from that one image. Thank you for that one. 😄
2) Kari, You are delight to listen to, and you have me laughing way too much. Also you're a clearly a dangerous cinnamon roll and must be protected at all costs. 😄
Happily subscribed now and looking forward to your future content.
You forgot Isha. She's still alive and currently trapped in the Garden of Nurgle.
Eldar tech is powered up (willingly) by the SOULS of the DEAD? That's, so, freakin, METAL! WHY DON'T THEY ADVERTISE/LEAN ON THAT MORE OFTEN? My affinity towards the space elves would increase at least 10x more if THAT was their sales pitch
Not all of it. The soulstones are more like the AI equivalent and advanced targeting, autopilot, etc.
Your average shuriken catapult is basically a SMG using "only" gravitational accelerator throwing monomolecular-edge discs at relativistic velocity. Meanwhile, the D-guns shoot you straight to hell. How's that for metal?
This series as a whole is amazing, love the back and forth banter. Makes me excited for when you guys make all the weeb gundam references with the Tau.
That Mariah Carey bit at the end had me rolling. I have a mental image now of her hitting the high note on ‘Emotions’ and just tearing a hole into the Warp…
WHAT HAS BEEN SEEN CANNOT BE UNSEEN!!
So on tabletop eldar have a few move options
1: feigned retreat allows you to move /fall back, shoot, and charge all in the same turn
2:phantasm allows you to make a reflexive move of d6 inches whenever an enemy ends their movement within 9 inches of the targeted unit
3: fire and fade allows you to make a normal move after you’ve already shot
4:matchless agility makes one advance roll an automatic 6
I think it was mentioned that waystones (the things that can become soulstones) do pop up occasionally around places where the warp and the realworld are close, such as crone worlds but also near gateways. Still, if you want to stockpile them, you have to raid hell and come back.
The birth of Salneesh was basically a red mage LB3 in an alliance raid.
No one wanted or needed this, and a lot of people are dead, and the raid is about to get wiped.
We were doing the Ivalice Raids a while ago and at one point a Red Mage decided to LB3 in the middle of an important mechanic.
It was like getting flashbanged and when the screen faded from white everyone was down lmao
I've been that Red mage... Ava hasn't seen it but I have.
@jdcoolha I was in a group call when a friend did that to our group. I still hear them laughing in disbelief as we realize that 90% of the raid missed an AOE and died. Lmao.
This was the perfect time for me to finish this video. Since I got to watch return of the rings extended edition in theaters this weeks wednesday.
I love the final question. It gets me every time
16:28 This is accually an idea that I have had.
I have made an WH40K OC:
*Commissar Markus Grayson "smiling savage" Savage Sarrano.*
He really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really hates the eldar.
He has a gun that looks like an eldar pistol, but it has an ovoid shaped hole above the handle, right behind the barrel. Into this hole perfectly fits a spirit stone.
When you put a spirit stone into the gun and pull the trigger, a very powerful beam of energy comes out of the barrel.
And a loud screaming can be heard.
I call this weapon: The soul gun.
(If you have a better name. Please comment it)
i love how you two discuss and examine this franchise
I look forward to you getting to the Votaan
I love hearing you guys discuss 40k lore, and as a huge Battletech nerd, I love hearing the super long name of your one patron who's apparently an even bigger Battletech nerd than me.
If you want to get a bit of an idea for the Exodites, The Infinite and the Devine has two interactions between Trazyn and an Exodite warrior.
My favorite excerpt from Bricky was when he was talking about how BS Eldar are on tabletop. Apparently…they used to have an uncapped debuff when using flying vehicles that made the people shooting at them have to roll higher to hit. Since that debuff was uncapped, it meant that some guard regiments were ENTIRELY UNABLE to kill flying eldar vehicles because their dice only rolled up to a 6, and they needed to roll a 7. Oops. Thankfully in subsequent editions it was capped.
Kinda important note, the exodites' maiden worlds have a world spirit within them. Formed by the souls of the dead eldar there, like the infinity circuit. However this spirit is less like a power source like the IF and more like a pissed off concentration of all your ancestors so like when people invade the worlds, the world itself fights back. Sending natural disasters and shit. Pretty dope
Slaanesh gets born and the Eldar be like
"SUCH DEVESTATION! THIS WAS NOT MY INTENTION!"
Love this series. Makes listening to lore I already know fun while painting. XD
The artwork in this series has had me rolling with laughter for the past two hours. Definitely a well earned sub. Love you guys
This isn't my post, but it's too good not to share.
Probably the funniest bit of Eldar lore I like is one of the reasons the Necrons went into hibernation was because with the Old Ones gone they expected the Eldar to basically self-destruct and decided to just wait it out.
Then come modern 40k and the Necrons were proven basically 100% right. The only thing they couldn't foresee was the Eldar blowing themselves up so bad they basically started dragging all of reality with them via the Eye of Terror turned Great Rift.
no eldar had spiritstones when the birth of slaanesh happened
the only thing that saved the craftworlders for a time was distance
the rangers, the eldar that failed finding a path, whose soul is unable to find peace, go into the eye of terror and collect the remains of the permatortured eldar
the refined fossils is what the spiritstones are made out of
the soul of an eldar abused and sacrificed to protect the soul of an eldar
think "path of the ranger" was the novel that talks about where the stones come from
your semi right about it being a limited resource, its basically in the warp, so nothing stopping you from taking the same stone out twice, if you pick it up today, just pick it up from yesterday next time
eldar also no longer get reborn, unless its dark eldar
the pre fall eldar prettymuch grabbed the soul out of the warp and stuffed it into a new vatgrown body
dark eldar still do it, just with a lot of extra torture, repaying the warp in souls before they get theirs out of it
the craftworlders can not be reborn, only moved into the ship or a wraithguard as storage and powersource
they dont grow new bodies, they cant get the soul out of the stone
its eternal prison, but thats ok because the prison is the also keeping the danger out
We went with the reincarnation angle as a recent story showed Yvraine showing Eldar past lives. There is a bit of ambiguity but suffice to say most Eldar are stuck in their soulstones
As for timing on Soulstones, we couldn't find anything concrete.
yvraine generally doesnt fit with any previous eldar lore
thats why new eldar lore is such a mess
the spiritstones being the slag of eldar souls being consumed in the birth kindof times them
no way to be slag of the thing not yet happened
even with the warptimeweirdness
@@ashardalondragnipurake The closest origin for the stones we could find was Aeldari religious myth, that they were made from Isha's tears, but again, nothing concrete as I can't find the source for that story, and the "Tears of Isha" take on a different meaning in Fantasy. Aeldari lore is all a clusterfuck.
@@jdcoolha i think its mentioned in path of the outcast
"The only thing you're going to catch ALL of, Ash, is THESE HANDS!"
Ah shit lol!
In the Web Way, The Mighty Web Way
Fuck I started laughing and woke my BF up and he was not happy. But I kept laughing because he needs to learn to appreciate this series!!
Edit lol: MORE! MORE! MORE!
Fuck! Go back!
I almost choked on my pizza. Damn you!!
20:07 jokes on you, my late father got me the extended edition box set when I was like....14 (love u dad)
Ava, the Slannesh fan who respects boundaries: Ain’t nobody got time for that.
Slannesh, to whom boundaries are Anathema: I absolutely have time for that.
I love these videos!! Please don’t stop!! ❤
Rolling the credits after a question about happy ending in 40k made me lose it
Legit get excited for these videos
An abridged summary of the Dark Eldar aka the Drukhari…
Lelith: “Hey, it’s your favorite Egirl, Lelith Hesperax.” *proceeds to kills people with her hair blades*
Rakarth: *doing experiments so horrible that the other Dark Eldar find them traumatizing*
Drahza: *killing everything with his massive sword* “Mediocre.”
Mandrakes leader: *pops out of the shadows* “Hey kids, wanna see a dead body?”
Lord Vect: *watching all this play out* “Hi, I’m Asdrubal Vect, and welcome to Jackass!”
I love the cut off questions at the end
Love this series, really excited for the Sisters of Battle Episode.
For the space marines, are you planning on making one big video explaining all chapters a little or one video per Primarch end then explaining their chapter?
We'll break down Space Marines in their own ways. I do NOT want to overwhelm Kari with all the Primarchs and their chapters in one go lmao
@@NUMBSKULLS Makes sense, I've been getting into Warhammer about 1,5 years ago and naturally, there's new stuff I learn every day. Being bombarded with so much information at once would never stick around. But things like your videos really make me enjoy this franchise even more.
Keep it up you two ;)
I legit kept watching my notifications for this video.
Well, to be fair, when the Elves first walked Middle-Earth, it _was_ flat.
Not sure if anyone mentioned it, but the Move-Shoot-Move of Eldar was their 9th edition rules. In 10th the broken thing was that they:
1. Had the ability to move a unit *after* your opponent has finished moving all of their units (oh, you lined up a shot on one of my important units? my unit leaves)
2. Their Fate Dice mechanic just meant if you had a bunch of 6s, you won, due to how Devastating Wounds were ruled at first. They got the entire mechanic nerfed because, with a little bit of luck, one gun could take out like 5 Space Marine Terminators no problem from half the map away.
3. Their unit that had that really good gun was REALLY cheap for what it gave you, being two of those guns, a BUNCH of HP, and it was heavy-tank toughness for like... 3 of them (the max you can bring) wasn't even half your army.
with how much the eldar seem to be powered by ghosts, it feels intentionally appropriate for this to be available for everyone at the beginning of spooktober
The name of the laughing god is Cegorach(pronounced like Ke-gore-rack) He is the Aeldari god of Creativity, Artists, Deception and Trickery
Absolutely love the Harlequins
They're just such an interesting sub-faction to me
Especially with what they're guarding
This is my favorite way to learn about Warhammer. Absolutely hilarious and the drawings are so cute.
16:28 This is accually an idea that I have had.
I have made an WH40K OC *Commissar Markus Grayson "smiling savage" Savage Sarrano.*
He really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really hates the eldar.
He has a gun that looks like an eldar pistol, but it has an ovoid shaped hole above the handle, right behind the barrel. Into this hole perfectly fits a spirit stone.
When you put a spirit stone into the gun and pull the trigger, a very powerful beam of energy comes out of the barrel.
And a loud screaming can be heard.
I call this weapon: The soul gun.
(If you have a better name. Please comment it)
Nice video to watch while we wait for maintenance today
Actually, the webway leads through the Warp. The tunnels are just isolated from the rest of the Warp. The thing is that the Old Ones built it before the War in Heaven. Before that, the Warp was pretty quiet and peaceful.
That just comes with a huge problem: The tunnels can get damaged. Many parts of the webway needed to be abandoned because they were flooded by demons. It's possible to fix them, but it's incredibly dangerous.
In Tolkien Middle Earth actually was flat for a lot of Elven history. It only became round after Humans tried invading Valinor (Heaven) as a way to prevent them from ever doing it again. Since then only the Elves know how to sail flatly across the round ocean and reach the golden shores. So your joke that the world is flat to the Elves is actually kind of right.
Said it on another video but to be clear, Nurgle - old as the universe, entropy started as sson as the universe was born, Khorne and Tzeentch during Tera's medieval period, then yeah Slaneesh
19:08 *Ahem* Newton's Third Law *Cough*
Maybe I just made this up, but I've always thought that Khorne, Nurgle, and Tzeentch gained consciousness during the war in heaven. Khorne from all the killing, Nurgle from all the death and decay, and Tzeentch from the scheming of the C'tan and Necrons.
The best questions are always the one she's cut off right at the end. Makes me do that sensible chuckle
Everyone mentioning Isha, you ahould rewatch 24:30. Apologies if you are audio only.
I think it might've been in "The Path" series, but there isn't a finite number of Soulstones. They appear in Crone worlds supposedly by grace of Isha being still alive, and her tears for her children becoming these stones at regular enough intervals, appearing from the fabric of the warp on these worlds. So raids into those worlds aren't going to stop any time soon. This also makes sense since she was also their Goddess of life and rebirth and was essentially responsible for sending the Eldar souls back to be born again before the Fall.
The Webway is a place you go on purpose
The Warp is a place you leave if you can
Just a point, The Eye of Terror isn't a warpstorm, it's straight up a tear in reality that connects Realspace and the warp.
You forgot Eldar goddess Isha who's stuck in Nurgle's jar, whispering cursers to his diseases for the people outside of the warp. XD
One thing you didn't mention that relates to the spirit stones slotting into their technology is the wraithbone they use to construct basically everything they use, from tanks to buildings to the craftworlds themselves. Wraithbone is a psychoactive crystalline substance that they can literally grow by drawing power from the warp. The occupied spirit stones slot straight into it and can be used to control things because of the nature of its psychoactive structure/circuitry.
And also there's an infinity circuit in every craftworld where souls can be uploaded, so to speak, from spirit stones. These souls can be downloaded to spirit stones again (with some negotiation) in order to use them to pilot (to a degree) wraith constructs like the titans, dreadnoughts (aka wraithlords) and tanks.
there are actually warpspiders
that maintain the webway
i dont think its ever elaborated on what exactly they are
but one of the warrior castes is named after them
ironically thats the caste of warriors that keeps poking holes in reality for the spiders to fix
The Warp Spiders are like Ork Stormboyz. Using a really terrible way of transportation but it works wonders. But instead of melee weapons they basically carry machine guns or flamethrowers and chew through infantry with a toughness lower than 4 then just teleport away to be annoying.
Fun fact also there Phoenix Lord is unknown, but some say it's just a giant spider that literally lives in the warp
@@starguy1o163 prettysure its monofilamentnetguns
weaponized knitting
@@ashardalondragnipurake no clue I just know when I played them against Thousand Sons, they chewed through Rubrics and the horde of Storm Guardians mauled the survivors to death including the supporting Striking Scorpions. It was a fun time
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Fun fact,
The Earth is flat in Tolkien's novels. It is based on ancient near east and anglo saxon mythology.
He was also a Bible Scholar who even helped edit/translate the Jerusalem Bible.
But he tried to accurately portray the beliefs of the time, so the middle earth is indeed flat.
For some reason I feel like when Khorne stepped in to fight Slanesh for Khaine’s soul, he did it partially out of some small amount of respect for Khaine as a fellow warrior.
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Excellent job as always!!!