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4 of the 5 Crone Swords have been found........one remains missing..


Contenders for this mystical sword please....

I'm thinking The Burning Blade. Would be ironic.

Most likely candidate is the Dawn Blade, which grants its wielder life through the deaths of others(the true wielders of the Crone Swords become masters of life and death). Its name is even a parallel to the Twilight Spear.

The idea that Farsight could be holding the last Crone sword is amazing my guy!
What happens if we got all 5? Ynnead full form?

Knowing 40K? It'll be what brings about Rhana Dandra.

Knowing GW the Rhana Dandra has already been completely forgotten and any kind of story involving Eldar gods is gone because Ynnead is everything now.

pm713 wrote:
Knowing GW the Rhana Dandra has already been completely forgotten and any kind of story involving Eldar gods is gone because Ynnead is everything now.

The Rhana Dandra is mentioned in the Harlequins Codex and the Ynnari backstory, since the end of the Rhana Dandra was supposed to be the original birth of Ynnead and the Ynnari kind of prematurely rushed things. The events of Gathering Storm literally affected and opened Cegorah's book on the Rhana Dandra in the Black Library

 Platuan4th wrote:

pm713 wrote:
Knowing GW the Rhana Dandra has already been completely forgotten and any kind of story involving Eldar gods is gone because Ynnead is everything now.

The Rhana Dandra is mentioned in the Harlequins Codex and the Ynnari backstory, since the end of the Rhana Dandra was supposed to be the original birth of Ynnead and the Ynnari kind of prematurely rushed things. The events of Gathering Storm literally affected and opened Cegorah's book on the Rhana Dandra in the Black Library

So? That could easily be the end of things. GW aren't good at writing and they do not care about their players that much.

 Elian wrote:
The idea that Farsight could be holding the last Crone sword is amazing my guy!
What happens if we got all 5? Ynnead full form?

The old pantheon needs to be asembled first (to find the last sword). Yvraine realised this in "wild rider". But after that? Mabye a gods vs gods rematch?

Could our gods, even in their prime, defeat Slaneesh who's been feeding eldar souls for thousands of thousands of years?

 Elian wrote:
Could our gods, even in their prime, defeat Slaneesh who's been feeding eldar souls for thousands of thousands of years?

Not without Ynnead.

 Andersp90 wrote:

 Elian wrote:
Could our gods, even in their prime, defeat Slaneesh who's been feeding eldar souls for thousands of thousands of years?

Not without Ynnead.

Difficult. The chaos gods draw power from human and other emotions and primal forces. There power supply and so is quite vast.

Far as I know the eldar gods did not directly tie into the very emotions and such.

Yncarne isn't the Avatar many Aeldari want right now, but she's the Avatar Ynnead

But anyway, my vote is for the Dawn Blade as well.
I kinda remember in Gathering Storm that Yvraine sensed it was near at some point but a horde of daemons made them have to leave before finding it. Could Farsight have been near?

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Thanks to you guys i can't stop thinking about Farsight and the Ynnari going to do errands together!

It quite pleases me really since i play both of the races,
(for Tau i always play Farsight never played other septs because i don't like the Etherials)

 Galef wrote:
Yncarne isn't the Avatar many Aeldari want right now, but she's the Avatar Ynnead

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Don't worry, this didn't fly over everyone's head.

the missing crone sword is really excalibur, it's an old old sword currently sitting forgotten in a dusty vault on terra.

Slaanesh was defeated in WH AOS so why not in 40k.

 Galef wrote:
Yncarne isn't the Avatar many Aeldari want right now, but she's the Avatar Ynnead

Damn, great cross-reference there. =)

 Corennus wrote:
Slaanesh was defeated in WH AOS so why not in 40k.

I feel that everything in 40k is more overpowered than aos, but again i know next to nothing of the new lore

 Elian wrote:

 Corennus wrote:
Slaanesh was defeated in WH AOS so why not in 40k.

I feel that everything in 40k is more overpowered than aos, but again i know next to nothing of the new lore

I think aos just has flat out different rules for their chaos.

pm713 wrote:

 Elian wrote:

 Corennus wrote:
Slaanesh was defeated in WH AOS so why not in 40k.

I feel that everything in 40k is more overpowered than aos, but again i know next to nothing of the new lore

I think aos just has flat out different rules for their chaos.

Completely agree maybe it's even another kind of universe..

Contenders for the final Crone Sword

The Burning Blade

The Murdersword

Spear of Russ

Sword of Omens

Lion Sword

Wailing Doom




one of those definitely isn't

I don't think it's any of those. The Spear of Russ, Lion Sword and Burning Blade are all Imperial weapons made by the Imperium, the Wailing Doom would be a stupid thing to make about the Ynnari because that's Khaines weapon, the murdersword is meant to be an athame thingy but I don't know what the sword of omens is.

pm713 wrote:
I don't think it's any of those. The Spear of Russ, Lion Sword and Burning Blade are all Imperial weapons made by the Imperium, the Wailing Doom would be a stupid thing to make about the Ynnari because that's Khaines weapon, the murdersword is meant to be an athame thingy but I don't know what the sword of omens is.

I agree, but I'd like to add that it isn't THAT stupid for the Wailing Doom to be one. It's isn't because each Avatar of Khaine has one, so it can't be, however the Crone Swords WERE FORGED BY KHAINE out of the severed fingers of Morag Hai. So it isn't dumb for the reason you mentions, but dumb for other reasons

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 Galef wrote:

pm713 wrote:
I don't think it's any of those. The Spear of Russ, Lion Sword and Burning Blade are all Imperial weapons made by the Imperium, the Wailing Doom would be a stupid thing to make about the Ynnari because that's Khaines weapon, the murdersword is meant to be an athame thingy but I don't know what the sword of omens is.

I agree, but I'd like to add that it isn't THAT stupid for the Wailing Doom to be one. It's isn't because each Avatar of Khaine has one, so it can't be, however the Crone Swords WERE FORGED BY KHAINE out of the severed fingers of Morag Hai. So it isn't dumb for the reason you mentions, but dumb for other reasons

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They were forged by Vaul, seeing as he's the Smith God. Khaine just cut off the hand. Which raises the question of what happened to the palm if the fingers are swords? Is it a shield? A talisman? Is there just some hand lying on the ground somewhere?

pm713 wrote:
They were forged by Vaul, seeing as he's the Smith God. Khaine just cut off the hand.

Oh, yeah, that's right. But my point stands that Khaine has a valid connection to the Crone Swords.
Just because the Avatar of Khaine can't be Ynnari doesn't mean Khaine has no connection to them

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 Galef wrote:

pm713 wrote:
They were forged by Vaul, seeing as he's the Smith God. Khaine just cut off the hand.

Oh, yeah, that's right. But my point stands that Khaine has a valid connection to the Crone Swords.
Just because the Avatar of Khaine can't be Ynnari doesn't mean Khaine has no connection to them

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Khaine shouldn't. They already have exarchs being hostile towards the ynnari and GW should continue that rather than going "Ynnari are the best at everything and the only god related faction Eldar should ever have". Plus Khaine was notably hostile to other Eldar gods so why would Ynnead be different?

That's all fair, but I guess my point was that the 5th Crone sword cannot be a Wailing Doom since there is more than 1 Wailing Doom (every Avatar has one), not necessarily because Khiane "no likely" Ynnead

But as a side note, I do enough the parallel of Khaine vs Ynnead and Khorne vs Slaanesh

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didn-t vaul just forge like 100 swords for khaine? maybe Wailing doom is one of them

 Elian wrote:
didn-t vaul just forge like 100 swords for khaine? maybe Wailing doom is one of them

Why are you referring to Wailing Doom as "one" of them. There are dozens of Wailing Dooms, one for each Avatar of Khaine and thus one for each Craftworld and Maiden world.

Could it be ONE of the Wailing Dooms? Maybe, but I highly doubt it since, to my knowledge, no single Wailing Doom has been noted to have unusual qualities above the others (as we would expect for a Crone Sword).

I'm still betting it's the Dawn Blade. Not only does it have "control" over life essence (stealing it from its victims and prolonging Farsight's) but it has a nice play on its name when paired with Yriel's Twilight Spear

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 Galef wrote:

 Elian wrote:
didn-t vaul just forge like 100 swords for khaine? maybe Wailing doom is one of them

Why are you referring to Wailing Doom as "one" of them. There are dozens of Wailing Dooms, one for each Avatar of Khaine and thus one for each Craftworld and Maiden world.

Could it be ONE of the Wailing Dooms? Maybe, but I highly doubt it since, to my knowledge, no single Wailing Doom has been noted to have unusual qualities above the others (as we would expect for a Crone Sword).

I'm still betting it's the Dawn Blade. Not only does it have "control" over life essence (stealing it from its victims and prolonging Farsight's) but it has a nice play on its name when paired with Yriel's Twilight Spear

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Yeah i kind of agree with you but i'm just saying (and i know i'm not explain it very well) that i think it could be kind of cool if one of the Wailing doom was one of the crone sword.

But again as i stated before i'm down for the downblade for being one of them too