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 Imateria wrote:

 jreilly89 wrote:
Any chance this throws IG some stuff? If not, I'm going to be a little chuffed at Guard getting stuffed (again).

Why would you be pleased that the Guard don't get anything?

This may be an American / British english thing, but I'm certain I've read "chuffed" in a negative context instead of the British's positive one.

Pat 2 already??? That was rather fast. HOpe they release a whole lot of new models for eldar. It's one of the range that need the most love. Plastic Aspect warriors and avatar wouldn't hurt.

 Imateria wrote:

 jreilly89 wrote:
Any chance this throws IG some stuff? If not, I'm going to be a little chuffed at Guard getting stuffed (again).

Why would you be pleased that the Guard don't get anything?

Ah yes, when Americans use British slang.

 Kanluwen wrote:

Cosmic Schwung wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
The horizontal 'slashes' are a bit difficult to work with. There is no single rune where the 'slashes' match what we got in the image(one long, one medium, one short).

The runes can be heavily stylised and have little variations. Curved or straight can be exactly the same thing.

Runes can be heavily stylised, but you won't see elements left off or altered that dramatically. Runes are part of the Eldar's language.

You and I couldn't understand each other if we started doing curves/straight as "exactly the same thing".

Fair point. I guess what I was originally thinking is it's close enough to the autarch rune that it presumably denotes something in a similar role. I doubt we can pull much from specific elements since they're used all over the place on runes for very different things. We could probably come up with an awful lot of different interpretations!

 Imateria wrote:
The same way everyone else does, via their Spirit Stone.

Path of the Eldar actually covers this quite well, Eldar bodies dont last forever and if an Exarch's been around for a long time the body can where out and die, if this happens the Exarch goes into a sort of hibernaton waiting for the next person to get trapped on that particular path and who will put on the armour. Whilst in hibernation, their Spirit Stones can be used to animate Wraith Lords.

Ah, right. I thought since the souls of wearers became part of the suit they couldn't be removed, and that's why they never joined the infinity circuit. The 2nd ed codex really hammered home that the suit was the exarch so the thought of the collective soul being removed from it seemed odd. The bit about the body wearing out and going into hibernation must be something Gav changed. Previously the suit would consume the body so it wearing out couldn't actually happen.

Wait, shouldn't the WD be next week? Im guessing we'll see the Eldar stuff and second book but we won't see the surprise release if indeed a Primarch returns in this next book, same way the LoC wasn't shown in the current WD.

 unmercifulconker wrote:
Wait, shouldn't the WD be next week?

According to THIS it won't be until February 3rd.

 Crazyterran wrote:
They (some rumour people) said the loyal primarch would be coming before the next part, so that should be soon, I guess?

In before the guy in red isn't actually an Eldar, but a disguised Jaghatai Khan.

Yeah, you are definitely in before that comes up....

 Ghaz wrote:

 unmercifulconker wrote:
Wait, shouldn't the WD be next week?

According to THIS it won't be until February 3rd.

Arrgghhh thats miles away. Thanks for clearing that up for me.

 TheDraconicLord wrote:

 Imateria wrote:

 jreilly89 wrote:
Any chance this throws IG some stuff? If not, I'm going to be a little chuffed at Guard getting stuffed (again).

Why would you be pleased that the Guard don't get anything?

This may be an American / British english thing, but I'm certain I've read "chuffed" in a negative context instead of the British's positive one.

Hah, yeah it definitely is a negative thing in American slang (at least around my parts).

Are these the old chaos Eldar craftworld guys they are finally getting to? Took them long enough...

Been waiting on these guys since 2d edition.

Background reference for the uninitiated. ( Don't let your local commissar see you reading this!)

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2016/11/15/paths-of-the-eldar/

http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Fall_of_the_Eldar

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Slaanesh

 jreilly89 wrote:

 TheDraconicLord wrote:

 Imateria wrote:

 jreilly89 wrote:
Any chance this throws IG some stuff? If not, I'm going to be a little chuffed at Guard getting stuffed (again).

Why would you be pleased that the Guard don't get anything?

This may be an American / British english thing, but I'm certain I've read "chuffed" in a negative context instead of the British's positive one.

Hah, yeah it definitely is a negative thing in American slang (at least around my parts).

It's used for both pleased and displeased depending on who you're talking to but pleased is far more common. Chuffed and Chuff are also very useful catch-all expletives such as "chuffed off", "stick that up your chuff", "tighter than a duck's chuff", etc.

 n0t_u wrote:
"What do you mean we can't copyright Eldar? Throw some vowels at it right now!
Aeldari? Perfect!".

I hope that guy on dakka that makes the flash cartoons copyrighted "spees marinez" before GW tries to gobble it up in case Adeptus Astartes doesn't work out.

 jreilly89 wrote:

 TheDraconicLord wrote:

 Imateria wrote:

 jreilly89 wrote:
Any chance this throws IG some stuff? If not, I'm going to be a little chuffed at Guard getting stuffed (again).

Why would you be pleased that the Guard don't get anything?

This may be an American / British english thing, but I'm certain I've read "chuffed" in a negative context instead of the British's positive one.

Hah, yeah it definitely is a negative thing in American slang (at least around my parts).

Are you thinking about chaffed?

Back when the Iyanden supplement was released there was a slight difference between the spear on the cover of the actual book and the one on the cover shown in White Dwarf (June 2013).


The symbol in the video has the infinity-8 on top but the thing is quite similiar to the symbol on top of the spear on the covers, especially the second one, probably a draft. My guess is the symbol in the video is for the same character.

Edit: Maybe Iyanna Arienal? She had rules in Codex: Eldar 3rd Edition

It's not the same symbol.

The symbol on top of that spear is the symbol for "Warlocks"(delta with pincers and an "eye" in the center).

Upper right corner.

Warhams-77 wrote:
The symbol in the video has the infinity-8 on top but the thing is quite similiar to the symbol on top of the spear on the covers, especially the second one, probably a draft. My guess is the symbol in the video is for the same character.

Edit: Maybe Iyanna Arienal? She had rules in Codex: Eldar 3rd Edition

It might be incorporating part of the Spiritseer rune, but I doubt it's specifically for Iyanna or any other seer as all seer runes contain an eye.

 Crazyterran wrote:
They (some rumour people) said the loyal primarch would be coming before the next part, so that should be soon, I guess?

In before the guy in red isn't actually an Eldar, but a disguised Jaghatai Khan.

This idea needs to die in a fire. It's beyond me that people leap from Khan last seen pursuing DE into the webway and RUMORED to possibly be fighting tooth and nail in the arenas as entertainment, to somehow he has been given DE/CWE armor and tech and released to rejoin the imperium and apparently he is willing to parade around the same crew that watched him combat other imperial forces to the death in a piss soaked pit. So farfetched it hurts. Not to mention the model has zero aesthetic clues suggesting it's anything but eldar, beyond people somehow seeing that fog drenched image and the artwork and suggesting it's some sort of kong sized model. I must be drunk because I see a normal sized eldar positioned on rubble so you can see him.

Aeldari?

We were wrong. It's not the 40k End Times. It's the Trademarkening.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Aeldari?

We were wrong. It's not the 40k End Times. It's the Trademarkening.

We need a Marky Mark meme quick...

Except as covered, Eldar is already their copyright.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Except as covered, Eldar is already their copyright.

But is used in other places. Far easier to just mash the keyboard AoS style (or do it like their mostly nonsensical paint range) and slap a trademark at the end of it.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Except as covered, Eldar is already their copyright.

Except it isn't since Tolkien used it first top describe elves.

 Red Corsair wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Except as covered, Eldar is already their copyright.

Except it isn't since Tolkien used it first top describe elves.

Using does not = copyright.

Games workshop has Eldar copyrighted and if that doesn't blow your mind, they have Chaos copyrighted.
Bow down.

The Dark Eldar call themselves Eladrith Ynneas, which is the actual term Dark Eldar (this is from the Dark Eldar Codex). Ynneas clearly has some link with death or the darkness of death, so Eldar is Eladrith (or some conjugation thereof).

The rune I think has some link with Ynnead or Wraith construct technology. Why? The infinity symbol at the top has been used for anything related to Wraithguard, Wraithknights, or death. The rest of the rune as a whole though has resemblances to the Avatar symbol, with the size, tail, and pincer horns at the top of the triangle. The middle lines are not equal in length, and actually resembles elements of the Wraithguard rune. The pincers at the top could be similar to the Hemlock Wraithfighter element. All this plus putting the rune after the quote from Ahriman talking about the cycle of birth, life, death and the soul living again suggests either something with Ynnead, reincarnation, and/or Wraith construct technology.

 Nostromodamus wrote:
"Aeldari"

Oh dear...

All aeldari is is a way to refer to craftworld+harlequun+dark eldar+exodites with 1 word without confusion.

 BloodGrin wrote:

 Red Corsair wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Except as covered, Eldar is already their copyright.

Except it isn't since Tolkien used it first top describe elves.

Using does not = copyright.

Games workshop has Eldar copyrighted and if that doesn't blow your mind, they have Chaos copyrighted.
Bow down.

You probably shouldn't be posting in such a snotty know it all fashion when you're incorrectly using the term copyright instead of trademark. You can't copyright a single word.

 warboss wrote:

 BloodGrin wrote:

 Red Corsair wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Except as covered, Eldar is already their copyright.

Except it isn't since Tolkien used it first top describe elves.

Using does not = copyright.

Games workshop has Eldar copyrighted and if that doesn't blow your mind, they have Chaos copyrighted.
Bow down.

You probably shouldn't be posting in such a snotty know it all fashion when you're incorrectly using the term copyright instead of trademark. You can't copyright a single word.

I was answering a question, using the same verbage in said question no snot intended.

But thanks mate, hope that view is stunning from that high horse.


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ERJAK wrote:

 Nostromodamus wrote:
"Aeldari"

Oh dear...

All aeldari is is a way to refer to craftworld+harlequun+dark eldar+exodites with 1 word without confusion.

Correct, and he did use the term Ancient.
Could very well be referring to a name used before they were shattered.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Aeldari?

We were wrong. It's not the 40k End Times. It's the Trademarkening.

This made me lol.

But, yeah... if anyone still thinks that Warhammer 40,000 isn't about to have the AoS bomb dropped on it, I'm not sure what further proof you'd need.

Also, I'm calling it now: The rune is the new rune for the Avatar of Ynnead. Eldrad tried to pre-maturely birth Ynnead in Death Masque. He failed. Now he's going to try it a different way with the help of 'rybody. /team high five

Back on the topic of Aeldari - has the background ever set out what the Eldar refer to themselves as?

Warhammer of course had Asur, Asrai and Druchii as societies, but I'm not currently aware of 40k having equivalents?

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Back on the topic of Aeldari - has the background ever set out what the Eldar refer to themselves as?

Warhammer of course had Asur, Asrai and Druchii as societies, but I'm not currently aware of 40k having equivalents?

The Dark Eldar refer to themselves as Eladrith Ynneas.