Adeptus Ridiculous - ASPECT WARRIORS: BE NOT AFRAID. IN THE END, EVERYTHING BURNS | Warhammer 40k Lore

Episode Date: January 25, 2023

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Cursed. You guys can handle the curse stuff. I like curse stuff. I know you do. That's why you're the one who handles it. Yeah, I guess. You know, how. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Now that we're done being the way we are, are you ready for your quote, D.K. Oh, man.

The last like three episodes I knew what we were talking about, and now I don't. And I don't want to go back to being wrong. You see, you are only wrong if you get it wrong. You could still get it right. Yeah, but how often does that happen? Well, not often, no, but this one's not too hard. You say that every time, and I still miss it.

But it hit me with the quote. Let me, let's do this, let's do this. All right, now that's built up my confidence. Only when you have soared through the morning skies on wings of flame, can you understand the hawk? Only when you have fallen, screaming upon those who know they are already dead,

can you understand the banshee? Only when you have annihilated those who would oppose you, can you truly understand the power of the dragon. And only one who has traveled, but ultimately turned away from each of these paths

can understand the autark. Um, yeah, no idea. Um... Are you kidding? me. Nope. Hawk, Banshee,

Dragon, Autark. I don't know. When I heard Banshee, I immediately thought Eldar and that's immediately where my mind went to because, you know,

Banshee, but. Is Eldar your final guess? Yeah, sure. Yeah, it's Eldar. Ah, hey, look at me. Look at you. Look at me.

Look at you. Look at me. I told you. Look at me. Let's go. You really didn't get it quite properly, no. What do you mean? I said Eldar?

Because Manchi and whatever. Okay. You, mm, mm, all right. I did the thing. You technically did do the thing. Technically did do the thing as I repeated all of the major keywords in the statement. Yes. So today, well, I guess it depends on what shy titles and the thumbnail is.

for this episode because the episode is supposed to be the Eldar Phoenix Lords the Phoenix Lords Ooh

we're finally doing that huh? But in order for you to understand the Phoenix Lords you kind of

need to understand the aspect warriors and honestly the episode is probably mainly just going to be the aspect

warriors because we plan on doing a different episode for the individual named Phoenix Lords. Okay, so today we're doing Aspect Warriors and then each individual Phoenix Lord

going to get their own episode. So originally it was supposed to be Phoenix Lords and then the next one will be the named Phoenix Lords and about each individual one. There's not enough about just Phoenix Lords to really do a whole episode on and honestly you kind of need the backstory for the Aspect Warriors anyway.

So it's mainly Aspect Warriors, but like it's kind of the same thing, you know? So, you know, the thumbnail isn't really need to change. I think Ted's fine because it's still like the Phoenix Lord is just the leader of the aspect warriors. And we're still going to talk about them anyway. It's just there's going to be a lot of like backstory. You're going to have to understand. Okay. Okay.

Hey, I have nothing to do with making the thumbnail. So, hey, I'm cool. As the kids say, I'm all Gucci as the kids said. Oh, dude. For real, for real, on God. No caps detected. Here, my friend. God damn.

But no, I think Ted will be fine with the thumbnail. It's basically talking about the exact same thing anyway. So I'll be good. Anywho, let's talk about, you know what makes me upset, D.K. Eldar. What makes me even more upset? Talking about Eldar. Even more than that?

Playing against Eldar. Okay, okay, God damn it. Even more than that? Being an Eldar. All right, this isn't going to end. Actually kind of liking this. Ah, ha, ha, ha, wow. Yeah, you would hate that.

You would hate liking the Eldar. Ooh. I did the research on the paths of the various aspect warriors, and it's kind of really cool. and I kind of like it a lot and I'm mad at myself. Ah, you're going to start an Eldar army? Get some Aspect warriors, some Phoenix lords, huh?

Oh, please. Just because a few days of research on a topic doesn't make me immediately drop thousands of dollars on an army, especially because the Eldar models are very old. Stares longingly at the night lords. That was three whole books. Screw you, man.

Anyway, yes, so this actually was really interesting to me. I found the aspect of warriors to be pretty cool, and it adds a lot. So let's talk about the Eldar. Okay. The Eldar, the Eldari, the Assyrani, the whole deal. Post their debauchery and then fall to Slanesh, they, after moving to their craft worlds,

developed something called the Assyrani Path. Now, this is a rigid code of conduct. and behavior to keep them from falling into the grasp of Slanesh again. Okay. So it's also kind of just known as the path, you know, and there are actually quite a few different kinds of paths, but overall it is just the path, the Assyrani path, the Eldar path. Okay.

So just the path to avoid drinking that tall glass of Slenish? It's a path to keep you away from the possible. of the tall glass of Sleenech. It's like, you know, it's a path of discipline. It's a path of how you act and how you behave and how you think. It's, you know, study the blade, all that stuff. Yeah, which every L-DAR probably wants. No L-DAR wants their soul to go to Sla-Nesh.

Follow the path. Follow the path. Yep. So there's actually a ton of various paths you can go down. You have the path of awakening, which allows you to like learn. to analyze your surroundings. There's the path of the artisan, which is poets, musicians. There's the path of the botanist, the path of command. There's the path of the dreamer of grief, the healer, the mariner, the scholar, the seer, the shaper, etc., etc. There's also the path

of damnation. Oh, that doesn't sound like a good path to be on. What's that for like criminals and stuff? I think it's more of like, not necessarily a, a bad word. It's more like the path of damnation is when you screw up and you go to the jukari. Oh, okay. Or like they believe that the, they believe that the jukari have walked the path of damnation. Ah, okay. But the two main paths, the ones that get the most attention are the path of the seer and the path of the warrior. Now, the path of the seer is generally your wizard

Eldar, your classic magician Eldar, your farseers, your warlocks, your spirit seers, those kinds as the name suggests. As the name suggests. Spirit seers like to mess around with the Eldar dead. Warlocks

are like kind of just battle mages, so to speak. They also look really cool. Oh, they got that cool helmet. Yeah, they actually have okay helmets. And then of course there are Farsiers, which are a more way to help

govern the craft world, but also kind of see in the future. Farsiers are that old joke. Oh yeah, they got the spectacles. They got the binoculars. Yeah, the guards with the binoculars. You know, it's

definitely interesting. I must say, as someone who really likes old bushito you know like classic samurai old school I found that it's me people

we call the Tao webes you know because Gundam mecks they are Eldar I guess determines on what your classification of Webe is because Eldar are absolutely

significantly more Japanese inspired the The garb they wear, the, like, a lot of their units have, like, big flags on their back, kind of like the samurai did. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

They follow, like, certain paths and certain, like, methods and methodologies. It's very, very old-school Japanese, like, samurai kind of stuff. Very feudal Japan, got you. Very feudal Japan. It'll be even more so as it go. The Aspect Warriors are part of the path of the warrior. So the Eldar as a race, overall as a faction, are constantly in war because this is the 41st millennium.

Well, there's only war. Now, it is often divided into smaller specializations, and each of these are known as the warrior aspects. They embody some facet of the Eldar god of war, Cratos. Boy, Kane Boy So Kane is the Eldar god of war

That's why there's the avatar of Kane That whole thing Is the avatar of Kane The one that's always getting beat up Or is that's, I'm thinking of something else Nope, you got that right Yes, let's go That's right, it's the wharf of 40K Eldars

Yeah, yes, yes, the Wharf, of course I forgot that we used that description last time So The Being an Eldar going down the path of the warrior, has you maintaining one of these various specializations of, well, being a warrior. And these specializations are the aspect warriors, being part of one, it makes you an aspect warrior. So each aspect maintains a shrine, an aspect shrine,

which is kind of like a combination of temple and dojo on the craft world itself. where they practice and they master their version of the path of the warrior. Okay. There's an interesting philosophy in Eldar culture, which is putting on your war mask. That if you go to war, you put on your war mask. It's like not actually putting on a mask, like a methodology, a mindset. And you train with it on. And so then when you take off your war mask,

then live in peace with the rest of the craft world. However... Oh, that seems so samurai. It's extremely samurai. Oh, man. Some people, however, are not quite able... Because don't forget, like, Eldar are so hyper-emotional. Their emotions are so strong that some cannot take off their war mask.

And this is what happens when you become an ex-arck, which is E-X-A-R-C-H, Ex-R-R-E. Okay. So like with most other factions, like there's always like a sergeant kind of character. Like on the tabletop, if you have a squad of five, there's always like one guy that's a little bit better. He's that has like higher leadership and an extra attack or something. Yeah.

That's a sergeant or like a lieutenant or there's just like a higher rank person, you know? The Exarch is the Eldar variant. And Exarch is someone who has become lost on the path of the warrior. The excitement of battle, the training, the power of battle is almost a drug to them because of their stimulation in their hypersenses that they have lost the ability to, quote, cast aside their war mask and disassociate themselves between person and warrior. Oh, so they can never live in peace. They're just constantly at war and want them to fight. Oh, they must be a riot at parties. Well, exactly.

they don't party because they never leave their shrines. Oh. Okay. Also, did Chad just post a picture of an ex-arch? Is that what they look like? That looks like the ex-arch of the dire avengers, I believe. Wow. That is some armor.

Yeah, so that would be one of them. But, yeah, yeah, so an ex-arch is someone who does not leave their temple, except in times of high conclave or war. They stay in their temple unless it's time to fight, you know. They live in their temple. Their life is in the temple, in the dojo. The Exarch actually, they act as kind of a priest and guardian alike for the Aspect Shrine. They're armorers, their instructors, their martial instructors, their guides, they do all that stuff.

I don't know what you would call the Shaolin monk that lives at the temple the whole time and trains like other people like the leader the oh sure a sensei a sensei works yeah never leaves always warlike

they train new Eldar in the path of the warrior that whole thing so it's not a bad thing to be an exarch necessarily like that's not necessarily a negative title to have well it depends

being an exarch is a form of a leader in some way. But it also does mean that you were unable to cast off your war mask, which is a failing of your body or of your mind, I mean. Though in a sense, it depends because an Exxark will wear armor that is super ancient, which also goes in the idea of the sensei wearing old garb with old arcane weaponry. But it is lined with spirit stones because of the prior armor's prior,

of the prior armor's wearer, the previous exarchs, because they don't want to put the spirit stone into the craft world's infinity circuit because they do not want to absorb the essence of someone who cannot remove their war mask. Oh, that's cool. That's such a cool reason to have all this.

I like that a lot. So their armor is studded with the old exarch stones because putting it back in the craft world is considered a bad idea because they can't take off the mask and they don't want to absorb it. So they wear armor studded with these stones. So that's why his armor has those stones?

Oh, that's so cool. I dig that idea a lot. I like that a lot. Yeah, well, like when you first mentioned, an Exarch, I thought it was just like, oh, these are like outcasts and bad people because like they can't take off their war mask and they're dangerous because they're just

war, war, war, war, war, war, war. But sounds like they've got more of a teacher sensei role, which is cool. Well, it's a little, a little bit. The one that Shy Post is Azerman, and a Phoenix lord's a little different. Oh. Who is this

evil looking, dude? So that's fan art, but it's a howling banshee. And it just was a good example of like you can see the red dots are the studded spirit stones of the prior wearer for the armor. Yeah. Yeah. So kind of adds a little bit there, you know. That's dope.

Now, eggs arcs are cool. So that's the idea of the eggs arc. Now, moving ahead, we have the Phoenix Lord. Let's go. And the Phoenix Lord is actually the original founder of an aspect shrine. Oh. The OG. Oh, so they're a huge deal.

So somewhat, yeah. So they are the founder of the shrine, and they have transcended past mortality. Oh. The spirit stone of the original Phoenix Lord is infused into their armor. And when a Phoenix Lord dies in combat, the mightiest exarch of that temple takes their place. they then will dawn the armor of the Phoenix Lord. But the dead Phoenix Lord has the spirit stone on the armor. And whether it's because the soul is so old or because the power and the sheer strength of the Phoenix Lord is so high,

it will in a weird way take over the mind and soul of the new exarch. And I would say it's almost like possessing them, but it's not like a malicious possession. It's like a symbiotic. It's kind of remove their personality, and they become the new Phoenix Lord. So it's a different body, but the same person. Yeah, it's armor wearing a person,

not person wearing an armor. Oh, that's a really cool idea. And I imagine whoever the Exarch is probably doesn't, mind that because they're an exarch and then it's like oh hey I can be like I can transcend and become like this really cool Phoenix Lord

that I look up to and then there's so much stronger than me so I mean it's probably win win when a Phoenix Lord does eventually die well also you gain the Phoenix Lord's extreme power which you know goes along with their soul because they're so ancient

so Phoenix Lords each and every one of them being the founder of the shrine is also then the leader of this group of aspect warriors the number one and despite the fact that they die

plenty of times they may not plenty of times but they can die they will always have the same name because in a sense they're always the same person oh yeah yeah that makes sense example

the phoenix lord for the howling ban She's is a certain known as Jane Zar. Why do you say that, Brickie? I don't understand. A little familiar sounding, yeah? Yeah, that name does sound a little familiar,

but I don't know why you sound so bitter. Well, I do like the Iron Warriors, but so bitter is just my life. But do you remember what happens to Jane Zar at the end of the third book? Uh, doesn't she get exploded? Malcariens steps on her Oh, right, right, yeah, Malcarian finishes the job, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yes, she stabs Talos and then big explosion, boom, boom, boom, boom, and then she's like dying horribly and crawling away, and then Malcarian, the dreadnuck goes, and it's like, oh, look, a bug, crunch, crunch. But, of course, the armor is very evidently recovered. The spirit stone is very evidently recovered, so there will still be another Jane Tsar. But the killing of a Phoenix Lord is already quite the feat. But you were not killing necessarily Jane Tsar.

I guess killing Jane Tsar would be finding a way to destroy their spirit stone. Yeah, destroying the spirit stone and like melting down the armor or something. Sure, something like that. Has that ever happened? You know, I'm not quite sure I don't think so The Eldar see the future a lot And they tend to find a way to stop things

Because they're tricky dicky assholes Yeah And losing a Phoenix Lord would be a huge deal An enormous deal The founder of the Aspect Shrine You would basically lose an aspect shrine Wouldn't you? Because if you lost the Phoenix Lord

That shrine would crumble Not quite They could keep going in their own way but you are losing basically one of the big bad. It's like losing a primark. Like it's a very important figure out. So, aspect warriors themselves, there are, there's a lot. There's a lot of aspects or aspect temples.

If I'm not mistaken, there are one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fourteen, fourteen, fourteen, that I can think of. I know we will mainly only talk about one, two, three, four, five, six. seven, oh no. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven. So there's fourteen Phoenix Lords? There are, I, e, not quite. There are ten definitely that we're aware of. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

So does the other four just not have Phoenix Lords? They're either unknown, don't know where they are, or dead. Oh, well that's no good. So, okay, so for example, let's go with, like, Shia mentioned this, for example, like, there's Warp spiders, right? Warp spiders is a personal favorite Eldar mini of mine, mainly because I really liked, well, the minis suck, actually. They're absolutely terrible. But a favorite Eldar unit, because I loved them in the Dawn of War II game. They also just look really cool.

Oh, yes, they do. So warp spiders have a personal teleportation device, and they're able to kind of like flicker in, stab you flicker out, like zip ziz zizizz, ziz, they're really, really annoying. The minis are awful because they're so old. They're like 20 years old. That is a, that's a mega cannon. That, that cannon is bigger than him. It is a death spinner. I love that name. But the warp spiders are, as interesting as they are, they do not have a phoenix lord. They themselves, you know, actually, I'm not quite sure. I was going to research why in the next episode when we talk about individual Phoenix Lords,

but I have no idea. Oh, I guess that makes sense because you'd have to look up why they have. Yeah, the individual of Phoenix Lords, but it's like they don't have one, for example. But the other ones go along the lines of, first things first, you have the Dyer Avengers. Dyer Avengers are kind of your Jack of All Trades style one. they have advanced weaponry, melee, and shooting. They're just really good at dealing with all kinds of foes. They're a perfect Swiss Army knife,

except unlike the fact that Eldar do have guardians in general, which are like kind of a militia, because everyone needs to fight in the Eldar because there's so few of them. The Dyer Avengers are the specialized version. Okay. Okay. Cool. Very cool name, too. Oh, they're pretty neat, but their Phoenix Lord is a guy named Azerman, which is the guy we were posting earlier. Yes.

Welcome back to the conversation, Azerman. So Aserman is kind of a G. He is probably the most famous of all of the Phoenix Lords, mainly because he was the one who helped lead. Well, he founded the first ever. Aspect Shrine, the Shrine of Azur. He was the first ever shrine. And he was also the one who took the Eldar

after the fall and led them away from the horrors of Slanesh. Oh, so he is a very ancient Phoenix Lord. If he was there at the creation of Slanesh and

let's not do this anymore, guys. Yeah. Well, he actually, I guess he left before the fall of the net. She was the one who began the craft world to lead them away

before it was destroyed. Yeah. He's kind of the OG guy of, all right, this guy is like, okay, things are going downhill, things are being a problem. Azerman is the one.

He is leading us to freedom. Yeah, he's the voice of reason. And that goes along with the dire Avengers. A very Jack of All Trades, classic looking group. Okay. Cool. The next one,

we have are the swooping hawks. Now the swooping hawks are on the tabletop the worst thing ever created. And I hope they burn in the fiery depths of hell. Wow. Ah, so these are the ones that started your hatred towards the elder on the tabletop and ruined your life for so long, huh?

No, those were the planes. This is a more recent hatred. Oh. These swimming hawks have the ability to fly into your face, shoot you, and then fly away to the other side of the map, and you can never shoot them back. They're very annoying. Ooh, that does sound annoying. Ooh, they're very cool looking, though.

They look baller as hell, and in classic GW fashion, the minis look terrible. Oh, G-dub. A lot of the Eldar minis are very old. G-dub, what are you doing? What are you doing? So swooping hawks are on anti-gravity wings. They'll let them fly around. They're not very good.

It lets them fly around in the air, move at insanely high speeds. You know, the classic Eldar mega-fast type of thing. Oh, sure. They love going around. It's kind of interesting because the swimming hawk takes their name from the old hunting birds of the Eldar myth,

which are synonymous with the concept of vengeance and retribution. So in the ancient times, the Eldar believed that the spirit of a murdered Eldar would pass into a hawk and hover above the killer as a mark of guilt. Oh, cool. I like that little mythologist. Yeah, not bad. So they take that concept, but instead of a mark of guilt,

they act a bit more on it and murder you. Oof. Because, you know, they're weapons. They're very cool. Okay, I like this. I like this lore. I know, it's pretty good, right? This is dope, yeah.

These were also what Lucorapus fought at the end when he fought the flying Eldar. Oh, yeah, that would be these guys with the wings. And he ate their soul stones. And he ate their soul stones because he liked, hearing them scream in his stomach. Oh, no. Night lords. Night lords.

Oh, what a... I love the corifice. He's a great guy. Their phoenix lord is a guy known as Baharoth. Baharoth is also known as the cry of the wind, and he speaks in a soft, wind-like manner the whole time. Ooh, the cry of the wind. Why does it look like he's wearing a gimp suit?

Well, because most Eldar armor is kind of skin tight And also he's in the air flying around Yeah, it's okay, okay He's a Baharoth is also a unit used by by awful people Who should stop speaking and go away Because he's so good But his weapons are like the fury of the tempest And the shining blade

You know, pretty classic Eldari stuff. You know, his mini isn't too bad for looking like it's a disgustingly old thing. It doesn't look that bad. It has the classic issue that GW has where the scaling is kind of off. The limbs always look too small and the head too big. Yeah. It just needs to be like proportioned better. Yeah.

Yeah. But Bahra-Roth is. if they reworked it for modern times. Yeah. Agreed. So the Swoopinghawks after that are done. We now have the shining spears. Ooh.

And the shining spears are the rarest and most specialized of them all. They are the idea of the bright and clear virtue of the Eldar. Okay. The, um, oh, I didn't know, I lost my tab.

I had their, their lore. Oh, there we go. Um, the idea is they fight as an invincible weapon like the strike of lightning from Kane itself because they move in with extremely fast jet bikes and a gigantic lance Oh so they're like the white scars Of the of the

Aspect Warriors They're very very fast and they just come in it God knows how quick and just shank you with a powered out Eldar Lance Oh wow they're like they're they're they jihad Joust! They're Jetbike jousters! Yeah, a little bit. I like that. I don't like the mini, though.

Something about the mini looks. I think it's just too much white. It's just white on white with just little bits of blue. Yeah, you could color it up, just the page of. Yeah, that definitely needs a different coloration on it. But their Phoenix Lord is Dristanta, also known as the Tempest of Starlight. However, they are currently missing. Oh, that's no good. Yeah, we don't know where they are right now.

Unfortunate. Shining Spears have a little bit less lore, unfortunately, because of that one. But, you know, we can chat a bit more about it later on. Yeah. National, though, yeah, the Shining Spears, you know, they're fast or quick. The acceptance of the war mask is all about, like, speed, that kind of thing. Okay. The next one, I like a lot.

These are the fire dragons. Oh, hell yeah. Oh, wow, you like the fire dragons? Those are almost like some kind of salamander, right? I actually didn't put that two and two together. Once you see what they look like, you'll be like, okay, I get it. Okay, okay. Fire dragons are really cool.

They have the emphasis on, well, the dragon. But the idea is the pure destruction of their foes, full-on annihilation. everything must die every trace of you must be removed wow all right it is the pure brutality of war

and the idea that you just just not allowed you don't get to live you don't get to live you don't get to exist you don't get to exist oh I reposted Baharoth I'm so sorry epic embed failure laugh at this user there we go there he is

whoa yeah he's Whoa! They're very cool. They take this like savage delight in death. They like it. They enjoy it. They kind of are just, they just love the idea of burning things to the ground.

I mean, makes sense if you're a fire dragon. Yeah? Wow, they're cool. They're really cool. They have insanely good weapons called like the Dragon Fusion gun and something called the Firepike. They have flamers as well and all that But their Phoenix Lord is this guy named Fugin And Fugin

It looks like a baller Yeah Yeah Whoa He looks so cool dude He looks like he would fall to corn Immediately Or cane

Ah ha ha ha ha Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, indeed. No, shy, you got to show me the mini. Now that you've said it, you have to show it to me. It's so much worse, dude. I want to see it. It's so bad. You can't, you can't hit me with the, I'm not going to show you the mini because it's so embarrassing, and then not let me see it.

Show them the mini, shy. Oh, man, that's bad. Oh my God. What did they do to my boy? I know. Fugin's so cool too. Look what they did to my boy. They massacred him.

Oh, wow, that's bad. Ugh. It's so unfortunate, too, because Fugin is a total G. He's like a pure force of destruction. Just this, this never-ending power. He's got so much. So much strength going on him. Like I could have a whole, a whole like 20 minutes talking about him.

I wouldn't probably the next episode that we talk about them. But he is equipped with something called the Seer Song, which for my tabletop players is a one-shot strength 10 AP4 D6 plus force damage gun, which is like, that can do equivalent damage to a tow rail gun. Whoa. It's just like this one single lands that just melts everything. And he has an enormous axe. I'm assuming that's the giant gun that he's carrying. It might be the giant gun that he's carrying. He also has the axe called the fire axe,

which is a little bit more boring sounding. But it also does absolutely bop. So if you want to run him in tabletop, you have to run this dirt, derpy looking thing. Or you like convert him or something, but yeah. Oh man, that's so bad. He's known as the Burning Lance.

Oh, man. What a garbage mini. When the Shrine of Azur was eventually destroyed, they thought that he disappeared for centuries, but he reappeared during a battle of this plant called, oh, dear God. Haran Shumash? Which is, quote, the world of blood and tears.

Whoa. Okay. And he came back. He's a little bit, shopping and hot topic. A little bit. He's pretty cool, though. Very cool. The next one that I had actually never heard about until today are the Shadow Specters.

Ooh. They're apparently more recently rediscovered, and you can kind of think of them like a mixture of swooping hawks and fire dragons. And a little bit Dark Rebers, actually. They're highly mobile anti-infantry firepower that shoot from like a really, really long range and can't be seen well. Whoa, they're very cool looking. Yeah, I think their design is a bit better than most. They're a lot more regal, but like they're very, no, they look like, they look like Wisp. Warframe, look like Wisp.

Oh, yeah, they do look like Wisp. They don't have nearly the same size of the ass. But you know, it's going to say, yeah, you need a much bigger, you need more junk in that trunk. They need to be way more junk in the trunk. Mm-hmm, yeah. You need a much bigger, wow, that's cool. I love them. They look really cool, but they are unfortunately Forge World only, which is why they don't ever see them, yeah.

Oh, boo. Classic, classic G-Dos with that one. But their actual Phoenix Lord is called Erythil. or the shade of twilight. Which, again, Forge World stuff, so there's not a whole lot on them, at least in terms of what I've got for you today. They're so cool, though.

They're easily the coolest one we've seen today. I think I would agree with you. Yeah. I think I would agree with you. They look really, really cool. So dope. Oh, my God. So the next one,

I'm always unsure if I like these guys or not because I think they look awesome but I think their paint color their color scheme is what throws me off these are the striking scorpions Oh, I've seen some striking scorpions before Striking scorpions are the dedicated speed

and melee prowess kind of people they're incredibly fast, they're sneaky, they attack without warning, they just bounce out of nowhere and then rip you apart and then fade away. Just like a scorpion. Like a scorpion. They sting like a scorpion, quick and powerful,

dancing in and out of fights. It's the green that gets me. I don't love the green. Really? Because in that picture that Chai posted, they look great. That is the best picture of them, in my opinion. Yeah.

And being that you're a big salamanders guy, I figured the green wouldn't necessarily upset you. I don't like the green in salamander. I think the green is tacky. I think so. Ooh. Yeah, Minnie's terrible, of course,

naturally. Yikes. Yeah, that green, not great. They are, though, the whole idea of them is the hunt, right?

Using stealth shadow, cloaking in, cloaking out, bouncing back and forth. They're really, really cool overall in their use case. They're, of course,

like most Eldark, a little bit squishy, but they can come in and just rip people up. They do, they do look like, a little bit. Did they use poison at all

since they're striking scorpions? You know, that actually, let's see. They have their... Scorpion OX chainsword, which is a vicious blade with diamond-tooth edges that mangle and tear flesh.

It allows them to make use some of physical strength, etc. Scorpion's claw. It's a gauntlet that contains a built-in shirk and catapult, weapon is sheet, and a power field that enables the wheeler to tear

through you in the thickest battle plate. Oh, I guess not. Cool. Oh, yeah. I mean, I guess they're, I guess they're little scorpion claws, the closest thing you get to, like, the scorpion tail just... They're just really sharp, I guess, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Their Phoenix Lord is a guy named Carandross. And this is when the lore gets really fascinating for them. So, Carandross was not the original Phoenix Lord for striking scorpion. Oh, is this an example of someone donning the armor and sort of taken over? Not quite. So the original one was a guy known as Arrach, or the father of scorpions. Get that flam out. I know, I'm sorry.

They are the only Phoenix Lord to have ever completely been lost to the Eldar and their shrine. when their murderous nature, their constant, like dawning the war mask, eventually overwhelmed them and led them to become, have their consumption of their soul by chaos. This had them... Kind of sort of to chaos.

More so going down the path of damnation, where they became a life-destroying a monster like the Dukari were. Oh. So, They walked the path of damnation and eventually fled to the city of Kamaraan, where they became the first ever Drukari Incubi hierarchy, which, if you might, this might sound familiar,

they were, as the first incubi, they are, or they chains their name to none other than Dresar. Oh, Drazar with the Drizip! With the Drizip. Oh, that's how Drizhar became a thing? That is Drizhar. Drizhar is a fallen Phoenix Lord who walked the path of damnation and eventually founded the Incubi Temple in Comor. Oh, dope.

So the striking scorpions take this as a point of shame and really, really, aren't a big fan of the Dukar. Oh, they don't like the Dukari to begin with, but you know, sometimes... Especially the Incubian, I assume. Yeah, sometimes you know, the Drukari and the Eldor worked together for a common goal, but you're going to be hard pressed to get

the striking scorpions to work with the Incubi. I am actually surprised that the striking scorpions didn't just fall apart after learning that like, oh yeah, our Phoenix Lord, ah, he fell to the Drukari

and started a Jakari temple. Like, that seems like a back-breaking blow. It's, I mean, it's a point of great shame, especially to the Eldar with their heightened senses and their whole thing like that. So what happened? So, like, does, because obviously he took his armor with him, I assume. So is there basically no Phoenix Lord anymore for the striking scorpions? and they just have an exarch as their head honcho? So the idea that like the original founder of the temple, the Phoenix Lord,

like them going away is definitely a blow, but it's not like it's not like it's actually the thing that makes a Phoenix Lord, a Phoenix Lord. A Phoenix Lord is just a really, really powerful Eldar warrior who originally had like the founding type thing. But it becomes even more powerful because of how old and powerful their spirit stone is. The new phoenix lord of the striking scorpions is just someone who took up the mantle of the position and has continued to do so for a while, which is Carandras.

Oh, okay. So it's like, yeah, it sucks that Drizar, or whatever their original name was, is no longer the main founder of it, but it's not like the requirement to be a phoenix. It's like the end of the aspect warriors if you use the phoenix. Lord. Okay. It's not the requirement of the aspect of the Phoenix Lord to be the founder. It's the requirement to be the leader of the

temple and be the strongest. I guess I kind of figured it was almost like they were like the pillar of that aspect. And like without them, it's like, what do we do? Our leader's gone. I didn't know what to do. Also, that's a really, really sick picture of that striking scorpion. I'm assuming that's

Cranthros or whatever. Yep. He's got the, you can see like he's got some of the things on the top of his head. Looks like a little scorpion hat. I think, wasn't Cranthros? One of the minis that I made you and Kerioth try and guess by describing it? I think so. I think so, yes.

And Karioth was mad because he's like, oh, it's a striking scorpion, but it's a specific one, and you're a bastard. Yeah. Yeah, the classic. Yeah. The next one we have are the Dark Reapers. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Now this should be more than familiar to you. Me?

Oh, I can't under. Why is that, Bricky? Because you know their Phoenix Lord very well. Oh, Muggenra, Mauginra. Maugin Ra, the Dark Reapers, the aspect of death. They wear the visage of death on their face. They've got really high-powered, pretty strong weaponry. They're kind of like a heavy weapons group,

but the art of the dark and mollific powers of the Eldar God of War. Cain. Cain's Harvesting of Souls is the name of Mount Gondra's thing. But to go with the aspect of Cain, the aspect of death. Speaking of a hot topic, right? The miniature is new. Yeah, this is actually a remade version of the mini. But I always think they paint the helmet kind of funny. It looks a little bit like...

Yeah, I was going to say, it looks good, but that mask looks goofy. I do not like it. They remind me of... They ask those Mertos. Ah. A little bit? A little bit. It just, I don't know.

Something about it just looks wrong. Like, it just looks... Something about the way the mouth is painted on makes it look... comical to me. It is a little bit weird. I think they need to add either more or less. I almost feel like just blank white faces would be scarier. Like Slender Man looking thing.

Yeah. I think if it was just blank, it would look a lot better. But the Dark Reapers, of course, as we know, their Phoenix Lord is Maulginra. Mawg, the baller himself. His new, his old mini was pretty cool. His new one, oh, man. His new one looks absolutely fantastic. Oh, it's incredible.

It's amazing. The interesting thing is that the aspect there can be traced to an old craft world in the fall of the Eldar birth of Slenesh, etc. The craft world Alton Saar rode the psychic shockwaves out that destroyed the realms from Slanesh and was eventually caught in a gravity well in the eye of terror. and it did their best to fight against chaos but was unable to escape it

and within 500 years the craft rule was swallowed by the warp and nothing remained of the craft world except for Maugin Ra the mightiest exarch of the shrine and the dark reapers representing Kane's role as a destroyer man shy post his new mini again

and oh my god That's so cool. I mean, he's the grim fucking reaper. It's so edgy, but it's just so good. It's so good. He's the grim reaper for God's. He's literally the grim reaper, yeah, with the scythe and everything. Oh, it's so cool.

I have one quote of him, and it is, war is my master, death is my mistress. So, yeah, edgy is all hell, but come on, it's pretty great. Oh, it's so great. Yeah, Scyth gun is a vibe shot. That is... Scyth gun. It looks like a Scyth sniper.

A little bit. So there are two left I have. One, I'll skimp over pretty quickly, which is the Eagle Pilots. Eagle pilots don't have a whole lot on them. They're basically aspect warriors that follow the path of the Phoenix Lord Eamon Haracht,

which has a grand total of two sentences on the Wiki entirely. Oh. Just there's not a whole lot going on there. It is a aspect for pilots. They fly nightwing interceptors and fancy variations of planes. Oh, okay. It is one page long.

There's not a whole lot on this. It's basically just... They're pilots. The aspect warriors for pilots. Yes. Okay. The last one, though, is the howling banshees. Ah, ha.

The howling banshees. We know a little about the howling banches. We know plenty about the howling banshees. Yes, we do. All female only aspect warrior for highly mobile melee combat and Cain's ability to instill, instill fear into their foes. Shai said she has an entire folder of howling banshees. What does that mean? Yo, same here, shy.

Let's go. Hell yeah. You missed the conversation Shai and I were having, but I can't really, I guess I can't really judge you guys for having Howling Banshee folders. I have many of folders. Yes, many, four.

Hello, who is that? Yo, even I'm okay with that one. Bitch, ripped as hell. Let's go. Look at those. Let's go. Let's go. Let's look at those abs.

Look at those abs. Man, just cut my face. face all over those abs. Like a cheese grater. Like a cheese grater. Until it's a fine dust. Until it looks blank and white like the Dark Reaper's face.

Mm-mm-mm-mm. All right. So banshees are obviously a quick, high-speed melee troop. But they're, instead of like the striking scorpions that are meant to be like kind of fast jump-in, jump-out hunter killers,

the idea of the banshee is to, massively debilitate the enemy. They wear their specialized banshee mask, which is a constantly screaming mask. And what it does is it allows them to, it also has like this long mane of hair on the top, which has this psionic amplifier that magnify their screams to like ear piercing levels and kind of just turns your mind into jelly.

Your nervous system starts to kind of break. break down when you have terror and momentary paralysis. Like, it's like if someone were to just flashbang you mentally for a long while. Constantly. Yeah, constantly. You just can't undo it. So they charge a group of like a squad of guardsmen. The guardsmen are just like covering their ears and they just can't move and they just

get sliced up like easy pickings. Yeah, unless you're space Marines, it sounds like it's nearly impossible to deal with Howling Bansch. She was like, they are just so sensory overload. I mean, even, you know, they fought them a lot in the Nightlord books, and they were like, I can't take this damn screaming. I can't aim properly. But at least, at least they were able to sort of fight a little bit.

It sounds like if you're anything less than a space marine, you're just, you're not going to do anything. You're just going to be totally, like, debilitated and just you're going to go insane just from being around them. Oh yeah, I mean, I mean, yeah, a squad of guardsmen are not going to be able to deal with the all-female conglomerate that has decided to spend their entire life honing how good they can shriek. Yeah, pretty much. Like, I mean, man, they could cut through humans. Oh, they cut through people in game, too. They shred. Also, they did get brand new minis.

They're the most recent kit. They look very good. Well, they're pretty solid. I like those. They look like what most should look like, which is a modern day revitalization of the old school mini. What's going on with that one in the middle? It looks like it's got a gas mask on top of its mask,

or is that supposed to be... Oh, no, wait, that's a spirit stone, isn't it? That's a helmet, yeah. And a spirit stone. Because don't forget, the sergeants are exarchs. They have the spirit stone. stud and armor. Oh, yeah.

It's weird having the helmet on top of the mask. Well, I guess it's not that weird. Okay. I don't know why. It looked funny to me. Well, regardless, the idea is that when the Banshee units

charge something, the people they charge can't fight until they've fought, basically, because they're so debilitated. Oh, yeah. So it's incredibly hard to deal with a Banshee squad unless you shoot them down first. Because once they're on you, oh no. It's over. It's over. And then, of course, the

Phoenix Lord for the Howling Banshees is Jane Zahar herself, with her crazy spinning glave known as the silent death and the blade of destruction, which is pretty much a Naginata, if I'm not mistaken, it looks like one. Cool. Which I do love myself a Naginata. Also, I mean, to go along with them, yeah. Sure, sure Naginata, very cool Looks like she's also got like a shiriken That's the silent death

Throwing weapon she has Mm, love it Yep, they're all really cool Jane Tsar and the Howling Banshees are a great staple, very good on the tabletop Well, Jane Zarr is okay But the Howling Banshees are great on the tabletop They cut through everything

Everything And yeah, her mask is called Terror's Lament, which is a great, great name. There's a couple other aspect warrior shrines. There are the Crimson Hunters, which are like high-level planes. There's the Crystal Dragons,

the slicing orbs of Zandros, and the Eben Talons, but all of them don't seem to have much on them. And so I kind of scooted past them because I think only the Crimson hunters are the only thing you can even run on the tabletop, which are just better planes, basically. Cool.

Cool. As opposed to normal planes. It's like, you want regular planes or do you want Crimson Hunter planes? It's like, well, I guess I'll do a Crimson Hunter plane, I suppose. So your favorite is the Fire Dragons, I would assume. They're pretty cool. I must say I do like the,

Dark Reapers and the banshees actually quite a bit. I do think the banshees are really, really cool. Yeah, the howling banshees are so dope. So I would go with the howling banshees or, what were the specters? The shadow specters, what were they called? Yeah, shadow specters are really cool. There's not enough on them for me to call them my favorite,

but they look super dope. So dope. Yeah, I guess I'd go with the howling banshees. she's too. Or the Dark Reapers, because Malgan Ra. Malgan Ra is pretty cool. I really do like the Fire Dragons, though. If they had a better mini and Fugan got a better mini, I might go with them. Poor Fugan. In-game, they're kind of hilarious how you can run them, because you can basically just bring them out and be like, oh, hey, look, there's a vehicle. Die. Die a horrible,

horrible death. Barnes alive inside your tank. Because tanks don't have to be able to be. have a bottom so the fire can get in, right, Shai? Oh, right, the new Rogel Dorn tank. Mm-hmm. So, it's shenanigans. Yeah. But I do, I do really like the fire dragons.

They are, they're really cool. I think they're just an absolute blast. And, yeah, blast. And Fugin is just super fun. I would love to run Fugin on tabletop so I can just be like, hey here's my little tiny stubby guy that has a railgun shot basically repair yourself you should do it no because that means i have to buy an eldar army do it i have i have bought jane zar and the howling banshees i see you're already there you're so close yeah i actually

snipped their bodies apart and uh chained them to my night lord tanks did you really i actually did yeah Brilliant! Brilliant! I know who I am. I know exactly the kind of person I am. That is very on brand. Yeah.

Shai said, wouldn't that make it more satisfying? If you have your 20-year-old goofy minis absolutely wrecking some assholes brand-new Primarus Marines? No, because then you're like... No. Because then you're... The person with the Primaris Marines is like, That's fine. You know, I don't care if I lose.

I have these awesome new pretty minis that I painted up and look great. In fact, I would argue the guy, the guy who runs the crappy minis and beats everyone is more of a that guy than anything. Because he's like, no, I run Fugan because he's good. And because he's really good. He looks like shit, but he's so powerful. Yeah, maybe. Yeah, I guess that does kind of give off that guy energy, doesn't it? A little bit.

Aspects are great. Aspect Warriors of them are... They're so cool. They're so cool! I'm so mad at how cool they are. Every time we do an episode on the Eldar, I end up liking them more. Like, they just, they have so much cool stuff. How can you not like them? I don't know if I go that far, but I do think the Aspect Warriors are extremely cool.

I'm excited about the Phoenix Lord episode now, where we specifically talk about each one of them in detail. I enjoy this. This is good eating. It's going to be a little bit difficult on some of the Phoenix Lords. Like I'm pretty sure we can have an entire goddamn episode on Azerman. And probably there won't be as much lore

probably on like Fugin or Jane Zar. But I'm pretty sure like Bahraith I think has a ton of lore. They're a little bit iffy. But we'll find out. I haven't gone far enough into the looking. we'll see how it goes. All right. But I may be an Eldar, an elf hater, but yeah, James Workshop, please fix these.

They, they're, this is the cool part of Eldar. Please update them, God damn it. Yeah, they, the, from the minis I've seen, they really desperately need an update. And they're so cool. Like, I, I don't know how much money you'd make off of updated Eldar. I have to believe there are enough Eldar fans and El Dor. Eldar players out there that you would make a bubba bank. Bubba, ba bank.

Bubba bu bucks. Bubba blam. Yeah, you should... Eldor are a decently popular enough army. I really do think that they need to get the update. Yeah, run, you know, you can run another set of space marines. And then once you've made a hell of profit off of that, just run some Eldar. So even if it does tank a little bit, so what?

You made all your money off the space marines. Who cares? Update them. The deed is done. Mmm. All right, everybody. That's it for us today. Go out there and get your stuff. Well, no, don't buy the eggs.

Buy the Eldar. No, no, don't because... No, no, don't because... Buy Fugan. Immediately. Play Fugan at all of the tournaments. Be the stubby little guy and just... destroy worlds