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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2010/10/26 12:43:59
Subject: How to break Dark Eldar fluff
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Screaming Banshee
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*Sees Dark Eldar Warrior*
Me: Hai Mr. Eldar!
Warrior: What?
*I give him a spirit stone*
Warrior: Lolthx, dunno why I never got myself one of those.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2010/10/26 22:49:12
Subject: How to break Dark Eldar fluff
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Fresh-Faced New User
Bay City, MI
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He probably never got himself one of those because then his soul is in the hands of whichever dark eldar recovers his body after battle, and will inevitably be sacrificed to Slaanesh to invigorate the scavenger anyway.
Furthermore, if his soul is captured in a spirit stone, a haemonculus will never be able to restore his body from death as the process requires that some of the soul still linger within the corpse.
So basically getting a spirit stone delays sale to Slaanesh by one week and prohibits ressurection. Fail.
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Melissia wrote:In a galaxy where there is only war, Orks can only win. |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2010/10/27 00:39:09
Subject: Re:How to break Dark Eldar fluff
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Executing Exarch
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There's a quick paragraph in the new codex that describes Iyanden's troubles after the attack by the hive fleet. An Ork Waaagh! had started to move in the direction of Iyanden, and the Eldar of that craftworld began conducting raids to head the Waaagh! off before it could threaten the weakened craftworld. Unfortunately, even after Iyanden began its now well-known process of activating large numbers of wraithlords and wraithguard, it was looking like Iyanden wouldn't be able to stop the orks.
Fortunately, a large force of Dark Eldar suddenly arrived and allied themselves with Iyanden for the duration of the campaign. With the help of the Dark Eldar, Iyanden was able to divert the orks into taking a path away from the craft world. When asked by the craftworlders why they had joined the battle, the Dark Eldar replied that they thought necromancy was funny.
The Dark Eldar see being locked in a spirit stone as the equivalent of spending the rest of your existance in a sensory deprivation tank. You exist only in a tiny stone that is cut off from any and all outside stimuli until, inevitably, someone or something shatters the stone. The craftworlders deal with this problem by connecting the stones to the Infinity Circuit of the craftworld. The Dark Eldar have no equivalent.
Given the madness that would quickly ensue while trapped in such a state, having your soul devoured by The Great Enemy might actually be preferable. At least that ending would be quick...
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2010/10/27 01:33:40
Subject: Re:How to break Dark Eldar fluff
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Actually, this doesn't break DE fluff, but it seems you haven't read the new Codex yet or Gav Thorpe's novel.
The Spirit Stone catches the soul at the time of the death, in one piece. So it is either in the (living) body or in the Spirit stone.
DE live in the webway and face a constant soul leech. A spirit stone doesn't help.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2010/10/27 08:49:39
Subject: Re:How to break Dark Eldar fluff
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[DCM]
Et In Arcadia Ego
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Plus you're given your spirit stone when you're born and it takes a while to attune to a specific user.
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