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So, I'm semi-forcing my DH group to get along with an Eldar for awhile, who happens to know an ancient xeno language that the party needs translated for their Inquiry. The Eldar in question is going to need to interact with one of the party members, who has undergone extensive cybernetic reconstruction (most of it involuntarily) and that raised a question to me as the GM. Do the Eldar use cybernetics? If so, how do they view them? I'd gone through the scant few Eldar books I have, but couldn't find anything definitive, and so I turn to Dakka.

I guess the Eldar can produce various bionic/cybernetic parts through their use of wraithbone and advanced tech, but whether they do so I can't say. They'd probably want any such parts to look dynamic and sleek, extensions of themself instead of crude bolted-on prosthetics.

As for reactions to an enhanced human, who knows? Your typical arrogant Eldar wouldn't necessarily care at all - it's just a worthless human and whatever he's done to himself is irrelevant to the greater scheme of the universe.

They do use them, but eldar cybernetics tend to be indistinguishable from the real thing.

The only references to them at all is from a couple of Eldar characters for the Inquisitor game. One, a pirate prince who has an advanced bionic eye.

Prince Yriel has some eye thing doesn't he?

^ indeed he does, and it doesn't look to... 'integrated'

Yriel's eyepiece doesn't really sound like a cybernetic enhancement, more like a piece of equipment.

"He is also armed with the Eye of Wrath, a monocular device covering his left eye capable of unleashing a tempest of lightning upon unfortunate foes."

We had the same thing happen in out gaming group. Or GM (an eldar player) had one of our team enhanced with wraithbone in order to help an Eldar that he stumbled upon. the GM descried it as quasi-ceramic tattoos inlaid into his skin.

Hmm, I hadn't considered wraithbone cybernetics, looking more like the "nearly human" prosthesis we have now. Cool, thanks for the answers.

The Eldar, of course, is not going to offer to replace that character's augmetics with Eldar ones. Even if she could, the character wouldn't take them... but the character in question has the "Cybernetic Resurrection" trait and is, at the moment, little more than a brain and a couple glands in a robotic body.

One Mon-keigh is the same as another.

If anything the Eldar might treat the Cyborg as if he was a normal human, so better then other humans might treat him. Relatvly speaking of course.

I agree with the Wraithbone idea. I would bet the Eldar would have cool and sleek cybernetics like Ghost in the Shell-esque styles.

A similar thread to this came up only two weeks ago, iirc, and it was concluded there that according to fluff Eldar do use implants, though their technology is generally sophisticated enough that they are invisible to inspection. Eldar raiders and Dark Eldar were mentioned to be more likely to feature implants, especially of the visible kind, given how their access to aesthetic medical attention is somewhat... limited (especially for raiders/outcasts).