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Seems odd to me that the Dark Eldar Codex doesn't have options for psykers, seeing as the Eldar are the most psychically active race in the galaxy.

What's up with this? Any explanation in the codex that I missed, or is this just one of those things?

The Dark Eldar treat psykers as playthings. They don't have them as they're probably all off being tortured etc in some experiment somewhere or the like.

Dark eldar are such juicy targets for Slaanesh that the minute one shows any psyker traces they are pretty much instantly gobbled up.

You would have to feed slaanesh a vast number of souls and be damn sneaky to avoid such a fate.

My guess is Slaanesh can "see" psykers easily and that an Archon wouldn't want to keep anyone around that can see anything resembling the future as he would be in constant threat. The story behind the Hellion Lord talks a little about how they deal with the likes of psykers within commorragh too.

They spent too much time getting off on pain and not using their powers that they have pretty much lost the ability to do so. To top it all off they don't want daemons finding thier way into the Dark city. This from the codex.

Where they live is halfway between the Warp and Real-space. Having a psyker about would be a bad idea. This has basically made the DE not use their psychic powers which have gradually disappeared.

The ban on Psychic powers in Commorragh is the single rule all Dark Eldar follow as a whole. Doing so would cause Slaneesh to grow in power within Commorragh, and no Dark Eldar would ever want that.

Yes, living in the webway zone is the key why there are no DE psykers.
Having psykers next to the warp is like allowing flamers in an oil refinery: Calling for trouble!

All that makes logical sense (as logical as it gets in 40k, anyway), but I've read in numerous places that Eldar (both dark and non) are all latent psykers of considerable strength. Perhaps they've suppressed this over time? I just think that this is something GW really could have had some fun with, in the vein of story-telling.

Shelegelah wrote:All that makes logical sense (as logical as it gets in 40k, anyway), but I've read in numerous places that Eldar (both dark and non) are all latent psykers of considerable strength. Perhaps they've suppressed this over time? I just think that this is something GW really could have had some fun with, in the vein of story-telling.

DE used to be latent psykers but centuries of suppressing it has basically bred it out of them, anyone with the sign of it is killed i would imagine.

Might all the cloning they do have some effect on it as well?

I think that they have quite strong spirits in resisting psychic powers but have learned themselves not to use psychic themselves for all the above reasons about Slaanesh. Otherwise they wouldn't need scourges to transmit messages between archons

It shouldn't do... though it might... depends if being psychic is in your DNA or random... more likely to be in your DNA so it shouldn't uness they take away the bits that make you psychic.

Which seems like something the Haemonculus would do.

Seems like something to do with the threat of slaanesh in the warp, I think.

Yeah, probably something to do with Slan. I always thought about this question too.

BuFFo wrote:The ban on Psychic powers in Commorragh is the single rule all Dark Eldar follow as a whole. Doing so would cause Slaneesh to grow in power within Commorragh, and no Dark Eldar would ever want that.

This.


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thedarksaint wrote:Might all the cloning they do have some effect on it as well?

DE aren't clones they're just in vitro.

They mentioned this in one of the White Dwarf issues when the DE dropped, pretty much saying how the DE's psychic potential has atrophied. (I would also imagine that the amount of self control involved in becoming a powerful psyker runs contrary to the social structure the DE have put in place)

In the entry of the new DE codex about Scourges, it says one of the reasons that Scourges are valued as messengers is because psychic communication of any kind is strictly forbidden.

Shelegelah wrote:Seems odd to me that the Dark Eldar Codex doesn't have options for psykers, seeing as the Eldar are the most psychically active race in the galaxy.

What's up with this? Any explanation in the codex that I missed, or is this just one of those things?

Whatever governs psychic ability has atrophied amongst the dark eldar. Likely in part to psykers not tending to have children in their society as they're too busy being tortured and killed. Besides its frowned upon having psykers in the Dark Eldar webway city as it could cause trouble with daemons. The webway dimension being so close to the warp and all.

thedarksaint wrote:Might all the cloning they do have some effect on it as well?

They do not clone ( for general procreation. Never know they might do all sorts of vile things with cloning tech otherwise ). Many Dark Eldar are raised in vats that cause accelerated maturation. This is why Trueborn are called such. As they have been raised naturally with the wealth and power of their Kabal at their whim.

this is all fine and dandy but the dark eldar STILL take psykers and torture them etc etc...so why are other psykers allowed into the dark city (as in why do they capture psykers and torture them full well knowing that other daemons are watching the psykers)

yevix wrote:this is all fine and dandy but the dark eldar STILL take psykers and torture them etc etc...so why are other psykers allowed into the dark city (as in why do they capture psykers and torture them full well knowing that other daemons are watching the psykers)

Uh, actually no. They're not.

It's why one of the Dark Eldar characters(The Hellion Baron, if I remember right) is considered "an outlaw". Because he brought a captured Psyker back into the Dark City. He was to be executed, but managed to escape.

Yeah, Baron Sathonyx brought a captured Farseer back, earning the wrath of his Kabal's Archon. And he was exiled, not sent to be executed. He killed the guards escorting him away, prompting the Archon to place a bounty on his head.

sexiest_hero wrote:They spent too much time getting off on pain and not using their powers that they have pretty much lost the ability to do so. To top it all off they don't want daemons finding thier way into the Dark city. This from the codex.

That's pretty much it. They also don't see the need for Psykers, as they're more interested in martial prowess.

hehe if their was a DE psyc in the webway well someone might just try and get in and what happens if it does it get in the webway all the eldar go bye and the black library is in the hands of the chaos gods.

A) Craftworld psykers use the webway all the time.
B) The warp already bleeds into the webway in places, leaving areas infested with daemons and other warp entities.
C) The Dark Eldar ban psykers from Commoragh because they don't want to chance drawing daemonic attention to their city, not because psykers are particularly hazardous to the webway.