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Howard A Treesong wrote:

JohnHwangDD wrote:Perhaps you should have put down a wager with Yakface like I did. I wonder if anybody on the board is man enough to take you up on a wager when you're proven to be right.

Well you're on to get a dollar because there's no way on earth DE will be out by October.

With GW's new 2-month release windows, we won't able know for sure until August. Technically, there's enough time for DE to appear - we're not even into summer yet!

TBH, considering how Yakface was pretty adamant at the time, I figured I could be paying out Q1 2009. Ha!

I bet this time they will really finally release the codex. Its awesome.

G

Kroothawk wrote:@Black Blow Fly: So you've finally read my post on the first page then

I love it. A quote of my second hand write up of some of a third-hand's podcast, on another forum.

Breaking news!

Spotted! Dark Eldar at the studio!

OMG read on another forum that there was a link on another form to dakka that had a picture of the new dark eldar. I can not believe I found it!!!!!! I am so in the loop.

Wait...what's that on the screen in the background?

Albatross wrote:Wait...what's that on the screen in the background?

Dark Eldar Raider / codex

LunaHound wrote:

Albatross wrote:Wait...what's that on the screen in the background?

Dark Eldar Raider / codex

How the hell can you see it?, that pic is so farrrrrrrrrr away T_T.

Edit: Oh shuck it is DE thank god, these 5 years without a dex might finally end.

Farmer wrote:Edit: Oh shuck it is DE thank god, these 5 years without a dex might finally end.

Yeah, the 5 years since 1998 felt like 12 years to me (or 7 if you count the 2003 reprint)

uh..wow. To whoever made that out. I got 20/15 vision and if it weren't for the input I would have never spotted that at all.

That looks like a piece of older art of Commoragh thats been around for a while photoshopped in with Dark Eldar added in blurry letters. The fact that it needs to be blurry in the pic probably helps to conceal any photoshopaddry.

Woah! I thought it was the Lizardmen Army Book! Thank you, now I can scare the hell out of red-shirts. Oh and that horrid Wych model back a page or so, it is the worst repaint ever.

Tim the Biovore wrote:Woah! I thought it was the Lizardmen Army Book! Thank you, now I can scare the hell out of red-shirts. Oh and that horrid Wych model back a page or so, it is the worst repaint ever.

That's not just a witch, that's Kruellagh The Vile! Clever clever, GW!

That's just a photoshopped image though. It's pretty obviously reused art. Cleverly done, but not particularly well executed.

I can't really make it out, even with excessive photoshopping.

I guess it's possible it's "Dark Eldar"?

The colors look right.

Yeah, thanks Brother SRM, I forgot her name. I think I should say it now, but I love that picture. Just seeing a guy waving to a camera with an evil xenos in the frame makes me crack up.

And now that image looks quite Photoshopped to me. Look at the disturbance around the chair. It matches the background of the thing behing the Codex. So unless Codices are meant to have a half circle cut out from the bottom, that must be shopped.

Defiler wrote:I can't really make it out, even with excessive photoshopping.

I guess it's possible it's "Dark Eldar"?

The colors look right.

typical ;-; i'm crying behind my keyboard nao.

Black Blow Fly wrote:@ Kroothawk

Thanks for your post. It's appreciated and helps clarify better what I said. What I was told is that the dark eldar that survived were those that were off planet(s) and far away when the great fall occurred. Basically they were on party cruises. The dark eldar are thought of as the last of the original eldar since others like Exodites and Craftworlders came about later. So the dark eldar represent what was the mainstream eldar society prior to the great fall. We know that they at one time had their aspect warriors and it is commonly believed that the former leader of the Striking Scorpions split off with the dark eldar to create the Incubi.

While dark eldar and eldar are enemies there is a Black Library novel that was released a few years ago that revealed one craftworld had been infiltrated by the dark eldar and the ruling members of this craftworld had secretly succumbed to Slaanesh. There was also a short story in the old Inferno magazine that revealed the dark eldar had managed to penetrate the eldar matrix where the souls of dead eldar taken from their gemstones are stored (can't remember the correct terminology).

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Infinity circuit?

puma713 wrote:

Black Blow Fly wrote:@ Kroothawk

Thanks for your post. It's appreciated and helps clarify better what I said. What I was told is that the dark eldar that survived were those that were off planet(s) and far away when the great fall occurred. Basically they were on party cruises. The dark eldar are thought of as the last of the original eldar since others like Exodites and Craftworlders came about later. So the dark eldar represent what was the mainstream eldar society prior to the great fall. We know that they at one time had their aspect warriors and it is commonly believed that the former leader of the Striking Scorpions split off with the dark eldar to create the Incubi.

While dark eldar and eldar are enemies there is a Black Library novel that was released a few years ago that revealed one craftworld had been infiltrated by the dark eldar and the ruling members of this craftworld had secretly succumbed to Slaanesh. There was also a short story in the old Inferno magazine that revealed the dark eldar had managed to penetrate the eldar matrix where the souls of dead eldar taken from their gemstones are stored (can't remember the correct terminology).

G

Infinity circuit?

I believe he is talking about two novels;

The Deathwatch novel, Warrior Covenant (?) and C.S. Goto's Prophecy.

In Warrior Covenant, Ulthwe' appeared to have some deal with Lelith Hesperax, allowing slave raids to assist in the DE summoning a Slaanesh Greater Daemon of some sort. They used the Covenant of Isha, a pact with the Inquisition under Eldrad's adminsitrations (though possibly not Eldrad as the book alludes that this what the characters perceived) to lure Deathwatch members into the DE trap.

In Prophecy, a Craftworld near the Maelstrom just recovered from an internal civil-war among noble houses and it appears they have suffered under the influence of Slaanesh, thus prompting another internal conflict.

From what I've read so far about the DE (and I play them as well), they are the original eldar of the Fall. However, the Craftworlds were those eldar that wanted to escape the predations of their debauched kin, seeing their home empire morally implode, degrading every time they would come home. The Crafworld ships were built and developed for exploration among the galaxy and seeding maiden worlds. The Exodites were the ones that chose to stay on maiden worlds, living a more isolated, primitive life away from the home-empire, kind of like a monastic life cycle for them.

The Crone worlds were those eldar maiden worlds that were caught in the Eye of Terror once the birth of Slaanesh erupted; however, there's not much on these worlds other than some stories reporting 'chaos-eldar' and the like habiting on them, somehow surviving the psychic backlash. However, there are reports of eldar falling to chaos post-fall era, such as Ahra, the Father of the Striking Scorpions Aspect Temple, in which Karandhras takes over.

Anyway, this is just the available fluff I've read on about since circa '94, though some things have been retconned due to codex releases like when DE came out out in '98 which gave us kind of a clearer picture of what the eldar's background is really about.

That pic must be a shop.. My avatar will never be wrong.

Defiler wrote:I can't really make it out, even with excessive photoshopping.

I guess it's possible it's "Dark Eldar"?

The colors look right.

It's a colorized version of the picture on p.175 of the BBB shopped into a GW studio pic.

I guess April Fool's Day ain't over yet...

Defiler wrote:I can't really make it out, even with excessive photoshopping.

I guess it's possible it's "Dark Eldar"?

The colors look right.

Well, I hope for DE players that this isn't a shop, but something about the way the chair/screen border looks is funky to me.

Defiler wrote:I can't really make it out, even with excessive photoshopping.

I guess it's possible it's "Dark Eldar"?

The colors look right.

I swear you guys its real!

Says the Graeme Garden Bigfoot.

Bigfoot will protect your Human Horn(aka. the Wing Dang Doodle), though.

Defiler wrote:I can't really make it out, even with excessive photoshopping.

I guess it's possible it's "Dark Eldar"?

The colors look right.

What makes me feel that is isnt real

1) looks like to many letter for Dark Eldar (unless they are renaming them or it isnt in english)

@) and this is the biggy to me, the vertical edge of the codex is not parallel with the edge of the monitor, it is much farther away from the top edge than the bottom.

Well that's one clever hoax if it is one. I don't recognise it as the pic from the rulebook and there are enough letters for Dark Eldar (though would have expected thinner writing). Two things make me pause though...

1. The writing for "Dark Eldar" is a short thick font, not very Dark Eldary.

2. There are no discernable Dark Eldar in the pic. It just looks like space and black stuff.

You guys, that image is obviously photoshopped... I mean come on. The Greater Good is preparing for another expansion and we're due next.... so it can't be Dark Eldar next! *foams at the mouth* OR RED SHIRTS WILL DIE! *twitch*

You can even see Photoshop opened behind the pic, shame though...

@ defiler.

It looks more like the Space Wolves codex

Flashman wrote:The writing for "Dark Eldar" is a short thick font, not very Dark Eldary.

Except, of course, that all codices use exactly the same font for their titles.


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Also, who are the guys in the photo? I don't recognise any of them.