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In honor of the new release of Codex: Eldar: Craftworlds, I went back and bought Codex: Eldars (6th Edition) and Iyanden: a Codex: Eldar supplement off a friend of mine for cheap. Now I knew that the Avatars of Khaine are not one-use-only items, and I knew that, from Lexicanum (and 1d4chan), Iyanden has had its Avatar destroyed during the Battle for Iyanden by the Swarmlord by hurling loads O' Carnifexes at him. Approximately 6 years later in the Battle of Duriel, Iyanden's Avatar was again awoken, and was not destroyed this time.

What I failed to see is where and how (if it exists) the regeneration process is described. It's certainly not in the AoK entry in the 6E codex, and I haven't found it in the supplement. So does it exists? Is it ever hinted at that the Avatars regenerate/revive after being destroyed?

Also, while we are at it, is there any official line from any edition that describes what happens to the Avatar after battle, when they are not destroyed? Thank you.

There is mention of that process in the 4th eddition codex of the eldars.

Foul Xenos daemon shard, your soul goes to Slaanesh!

Closest I can get to regeneration with them is in Dow they slowly regain their health. Don't think they can just respawning for free, but another exarch would do the trick. I'm also assuming if an avatar does survive, they just gather the army and keep marching on, it is an avatar of the war god, after all.

The Avatar itself, if destroyed, slowly reforms in the core of the Craftworld.

Whether destroyed or not, it isn't awake after the conflict it fought in. If it were, the entire Craft world would continue to be consumed by bloodlust.

A sacrifice - the 'Young King', which needn't be a Exarch (probably can't be for long-winded reasons' needs to be sacrificed to awaken the Avatar.

The CW Eldar can't just awaken one and have it sit around. The entire Craft world is mad with bloodlust while the Avatar is awake. So they are awoken for specific purposes, then returned to sleep after the fact.

Bharring wrote:
The Avatar itself, if destroyed, slowly reforms in the core of the Craftworld.

Whether destroyed or not, it isn't awake after the conflict it fought in. If it were, the entire Craft world would continue to be consumed by bloodlust.

A sacrifice - the 'Young King', which needn't be a Exarch (probably can't be for long-winded reasons' needs to be sacrificed to awaken the Avatar.

The CW Eldar can't just awaken one and have it sit around. The entire Craft world is mad with bloodlust while the Avatar is awake. So they are awoken for specific purposes, then returned to sleep after the fact.

You see, that's what I got from reading a thread on another form a while back, but I can't find the source of it.

epronovost wrote:
There is mention of that process in the 4th eddition codex of the eldars.

Thanks, but since I don't have the 4e codex, I don't suppose you can post the relevant lines, or at least give the page number?

Well, its an Avatar, a construction of stone and metal to give body to a God (or a fragment, in this case). Build another. But if the Avatar is summoned, its some serious gak going down. Look at Iyanden. They didn't summon the Avatar until after they realised the super-Hive Tyrant (Swarmlord? Unlikely) was tearing through theit Wraithguard and Wraithlords (no Wraithknights in 5th Ed Nids). Once it got destroyed that's when it truly became apocalyptic level of gak.

 lcmiracle wrote:
In honor of the new release of Codex: Eldar: Craftworlds, I went back and bought Codex: Eldars (6th Edition) and Iyanden: a Codex: Eldar supplement off a friend of mine for cheap. Now I knew that the Avatars of Khaine are not one-use-only items, and I knew that, from Lexicanum (and 1d4chan), Iyanden has had its Avatar destroyed during the Battle for Iyanden by the Swarmlord by hurling loads O' Carnifexes at him. Approximately 6 years later in the Battle of Duriel, Iyanden's Avatar was again awoken, and was not destroyed this time.

What I failed to see is where and how (if it exists) the regeneration process is described. It's certainly not in the AoK entry in the 6E codex, and I haven't found it in the supplement. So does it exists? Is it ever hinted at that the Avatars regenerate/revive after being destroyed?

Also, while we are at it, is there any official line from any edition that describes what happens to the Avatar after battle, when they are not destroyed? Thank you.

Clever joke, everybody knows Avatars are only summoned to be slain my heroes of other races to establish how cool they are. Can't survive lol.

 CShaffer wrote:

 lcmiracle wrote:
In honor of the new release of Codex: Eldar: Craftworlds, I went back and bought Codex: Eldars (6th Edition) and Iyanden: a Codex: Eldar supplement off a friend of mine for cheap. Now I knew that the Avatars of Khaine are not one-use-only items, and I knew that, from Lexicanum (and 1d4chan), Iyanden has had its Avatar destroyed during the Battle for Iyanden by the Swarmlord by hurling loads O' Carnifexes at him. Approximately 6 years later in the Battle of Duriel, Iyanden's Avatar was again awoken, and was not destroyed this time.

What I failed to see is where and how (if it exists) the regeneration process is described. It's certainly not in the AoK entry in the 6E codex, and I haven't found it in the supplement. So does it exists? Is it ever hinted at that the Avatars regenerate/revive after being destroyed?

Also, while we are at it, is there any official line from any edition that describes what happens to the Avatar after battle, when they are not destroyed? Thank you.

Clever joke, everybody knows Avatars are only summoned to be slain my heroes of other races to establish how cool they are. Can't survive lol.

Not nearly as bad as Bloodthirsters lol. Any vanilla hero with a name has killed 8 of the best combatant of the war god, sometimes all at once