Can the dark eldar cause a plague marine to break from pain?

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**Delvarus Centurion**

Salt donkey wrote:
So the new dark elder book mentions dark elder love capturing orks due to their high pain tolerance. This means orks requires more “creative” methods to break (so more fun for the dark eldar) and provides more substance to the dark eldar that breaks them. That led me to think of the question, can the dark eldar break an original legion deathguard space marine?

It’s tough to say so I’ll give my main argument for both sides.

The dark elder haemonculus have had many thousands of years to master their craft. They have experimented on and broken thousands if not hundreds of thousands of individuals. For many haemonculus this group has consisted of a large variety of races, and include the likes of space marine commanders. Some have conquered any and all challenges they’ve faced before. Can they break the plague marine?

On the other side there is the Deathguard unbroken. These space marines have had the misfortune of contracting the destroyer plague after Typhus tricked them, and where trapped in a state of agony for who knows how long. They eventually threw in the towel and submitted to Nurgle. After that they stopped feeling pain and are totally fine with the fact their bodies are literally falling apart. This means that plague marine both feels no pain currently and has already faced agonies unimaginable, meaning it will be quite hard to cause him pain worse than what he’s already faced.

So who wins? Is there any official lore on this topic? Love to hear your opinions!

Deathguard feel pain, they are just tough, they are only unpained by entropy and the effects of poison.

**Ginjitzu**

I think the real question is, would the Dark Eldar be able to torture and break your average dakkanaut? The answer, of course, is yes. They would force said dakkanaut to read thread upon thread of only the saltiest skub, while allowing them only to post answers that are both respectful towards people & relevant to the topic...

The horror...