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Hi, Dakka. Now, can Eldar get corrupted by Slaanesh?

Yup.

I love your one word posts. Pics?

Nope.

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The squiggly bits are waves of moral corruption...

Cute, but you misspelled the name of "Slaanesh" in the drawing, so I don't think it works out.

My edit-fu is strong...

Ok, but has there been any recorded corruption?

Yeah?

No, sorry, asking if you were the one who spelt it wrong.

Yes, they can, probably. It's why the Paths exist in a way.

Okay then...
Carry on.

You should get a /handwave "These aren't the edited posts you're looking for" ASCII-art pic going or something.

As to Eldar corrupted by Slaanesh... while I'm sure it's possible, I think Slaanesh just devours their souls and is done with them at that point. Why save a bon-bon when you have a whole box in the freezer?

Because it tastes better.

Yes. Eldar and DE are the same race, like Elf and Dark Elf. Its only the habits and belives that are different. Hell DE can even use Psionic, well if the wanted to get put to death that is.

Noir wrote:Yes. Eldar and DE are the same race, like Elf and Dark Elf. Its only the habits and belives that are different. Hell DE can even use Psionic, well if the wanted to get put to death that is.

DE have lost the latent psychic powers of their 'nicer' cousins...

Nicer? Heck, we are NOT fething nice.

Ogryn wrote:Nicer? Heck, we are NOT fething nice.

1) Since when were you a member of the Eldar race?
2) The Eldar don't take slaves and then torture their victims for months if not years on end until they die...

1) I just like thinking I am, as I play Eldar.
2) Think of Biel-Tan. It may be for their instinct, but not that nice.

I don't think they get corrupted so much as eaten.

It's a big universe...

I think they get corrupted, nut as they are so much more 'feeling'(not sure how to word that) it goes straight from 'porn for the porn god' to the sounds of omnomnom'in slaanesh

Wow Ogryn you make a thread for every single question in existence lol xD

Ever consider asking them in a whole related thread?

I remember in the older Codex's a reference to a corrupted 'Dark' Phoenix Lord, reputed to be the first stiking scorpion? Its probably been retconned but it was there.

KoganStyle wrote:I remember in the older Codex's a reference to a corrupted 'Dark' Phoenix Lord, reputed to be the first stiking scorpion? Its probably been retconned but it was there.

I thought he was corrupted in the same sense an Eldar outcast could fall to the depravity that Dark Eldar experience. In other words, not a corruption to Slaanesh, but a corruption to the inner self that is reflected in the Fall of the Eldar, a fall from grace to join the dark kindred.

But I could be wrong, but that would explain why Drazhar is often rumoured to be Ahra, the first Striking Scorpion.

You could be right, in the edition of the game that referenced it DE didn't exist, so it was assumed the Phoenix Lord had gone over to Slaanesh.

Its a nice bit of retconning to allude him to Drazhar.

Most things can be corrupted by chaos.

I guess they can, but Slaanesh seems to be more concerned with eating their souls more than corrupting them. Slaanesh got upset that the the beings who created him didn't actually want to be a part of him.

Durza beat me to it

Yes they can - try the GD 2011 chap book, which adds to the side story in Path of the warrior & seer about the Slaanesh artifact that is taken away to the BL by the white seers (think that was their title)

Eldar are very uncommonly corrupted, Craftworlders less so than others due to the paths. I still haven't read Path of the Seer, only Path of the Warrior so I don't know much about the corrupting artifact (except that the "easily corruptible humans" would've, if left alone with it, corrupted and/or destroyed a very large portion of the region - threatening even Alaitoc).

Then you get the chaos Eldar seers/monks on the old Crone Worlds, although whom they serve among the chaos gods... well... I haven't the foggiest.
Slaanesh seem more intent on eating the Eldar, though the others may have other designs in mind.

What we do know, though, is that the Eldar mind and psyche are highly resistant to influence, disease, and corruption (and mutation?) - although their moral code vary greatly.