Adeptus Ridiculous - ELDAR OF THE LIVING DEAD: WRAITHBONE & SOULSTONES | Warhammer 40k Lore

Episode Date: March 20, 2024

https://www.patreon.com/AdeptusRidiculoushttps://www.adeptusridiculous.com/https://twitter.com/AdRidiculoushttps://orchideight.com/collections/adeptus-ridiculousSpirit Stones are made out of psycho-receptive crystals called waystones, which are grown from something similar to Wraithbone. At the moment of the Eldar's death, the stone acts like a 'psychic trap', absorbing their psychic self and preventing it from entering the warp and being consumed by the nemesis of the Eldar race: Slaanesh.Wraithbone is a psycho-plastic substance used by the Eldar for many different tasks, including the construction of buildings, ships and weapons.Wraithbone is essentially solidified warp energy that is manipulated by a Bonesinger into any shape that is required. It is stronger than any known plasteel and harder to damage than adamantium, and will naturally repair itself, though the process can be sped up by a Bonesinger. Being created from the warp, Wraithbone has innate psychic abilities allowing it to be used as a communications pathway as well as structural support. It carries psychic energy much as a cable carrying current does, as well as containing psychic shields to protect the occupants from the warp.Support the show

My name is D.K. Diamante's. His name is Bricky, and I am going to mess up a quote today. Pretty much guaranteed. But before I do, if you enjoy today's episode and you want to support the podcast, consider heading over to patreon.com slash adeptus or ridiculous where you can get access to the discord, bloopers if they happen. The $15 tier gets you access to all of our posters in crispy HD digital format. And, ooh, By the way, Bricky, new poster, today, are you ready to see? I, yeah, I guess. Honestly, at this point, like, we've gone so far into both the good and the bad. I just genuinely don't know which one this is. This hits all of your current interests, I think. So here is the new poster for you. Okay.

Oh, it does. It hits. All of your current interests. This is great. Right? Great stuff. It's the collaboration you never knew you needed. I love how the castor kid has just got like the thumbs up.

Yeah, whatever. He's trying to give them. Yeah. This is going to do gangbusters, my friends. Oh, yes. It was, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm. I tried to convince shy to make them. both big-boobbed anime women,

but she didn't want to do that. I mean, honestly, it's not necessarily a Warhammer-related thing, but if I got my tomboy Eagle One pilot poster, I would be more than okay with that. Hell

yeah. Also, on a somewhat unrelated note, Ted actually hit us with the his interpretation of each of us if we were put through an AI filter. It's artwork that he did.

But yeah, the request that we had. The request of an artist drawing what they think an AI would poorly draw of us. Yes, he did it. Okay, I want to see, I want to see this. Okay, so let's see. He had a little, little, little, he had a little, just a little note. So I heard you wanted an artist's interpretation of AI generated art. Well, you're in luck.

And by luck, I mean, you probably shouldn't ask me things because the result will most likely be the worst thing you've ever seen for my own entertainment. So I present to you my interpretation of view of the episode were thrown through a prompt generator. D.K. was particularly challenging because he's already a cat. Thankfully, he mentioned Barrett from the critically acclaimed video game Final Fantasy Rebirth, making the brainstorm process easier. but drawing Deky as bear would imply he would benefit positively from this exercise.

So he made me Kate Sith instead. You probably don't know who that is, do you? I do not know who Kate Sith is. It's the cat character. You know, when they drop the plate and then it shifts awkwardly to cat character. Yes, for like 10 seconds, and I was so confused. That's Kate Sith. It's a character from Final Fantasy 7.

He rides this big fat muggle and he's, yeah. He's great in the new game, but yeah. That's wild to me. But it looks pretty good. I mean, you've gone like, like, I'm hitting the oh, fuck, go back button here. We've gone too far into the cat world here, but that is what we asked for. That is, that is. What do you got for shy?

Well, okay. Or my first. Well, yeah, we'll do yours next. As, let's see. And speaking of curse for Bricky, it was something quite ridiculous, adeptus ridiculous. Weh, whew, whey, whey, whey. The result is 100% D.K.'s fault. And from a simple misunderstanding over being a little horse and the overuse of a Tim Allen reference.

He says this is quintessentially, the absolute worst thing I've ever done and is deleting it off his hard drive once it's done. Oh, boy. there you go sir you are just a little horse holy buckets holy buckets

that is the worst thing I've ever it's not it's not the worst thing I've ever seen but in a hyperbolic fashion that is the worst thing I've ever seen yeah that looks like it was thrown right through an AI filter

on through. Is this what the Inquisitor with the equine face is supposed to look like in Gonskos? That's him. That's totally him. He's got the equine face. Yeah. Tim Allen looks like a serial killer in a Law and Order special victims episode. Oh, yeah, he totally does.

He uses the wrench on his victims. Yeah. That's so bad. Holy hell, dude. And as someone who peruses art on different websites, the amount of AI-generated slop of balloon women with massive badoncarus is akin to some kind of psychological propaganda. I'm sorry in advance, Shai, but authenticity must be maintained even if the result is

straight up cursed. And this is Shai's AI interpretation. There you go. Oh my God. Too many arms, too many fingers, too many wings. It's, you know. Oh, that's so, that's the worst by far. I don't know if it's the worst.

Yours is, yours. No, but, but Ted went with the, with the early, I mean, let's be honest, AI models are getting really good right now. But, um, he went with the, the, like, initial AI that, like, there's so many, her her like hands are look like toes look like feet but they're not and it's oh my God

as a reminder to our host that make requests of me know that your wish is not granted without a price it's a monkey's paw with each bringing untold consequences hope this little exercise has been as enlightening and traumatizing as it has been for me see you next week

Ted Zero there you go I got it I don't you know what check and vote on which one they think is the worst because um i think it's yours i think yours is gonna clear i don't know man i i think the the effort into doing the the incorrect AI like too many hands too many fingers thing makes me more upset oh okay okay okay because like me as a horse is pretty cursed don't get me wrong um and tim allen is is not a great addition to this no he's to haunt my dreams for a while.

But they look, they look correct for the most part, except for Tim Allen has one too many fingers. Yeah, yeah. Shise does look just weird. That's true. You're just a cat. Yeah, I'm just a cute cat, but that's Kate Sith, you know? He's just a little guy. In rebirth,

he is adorable. He's just a little guy. He's great. You know me. I do. I do. You still play it. It's a good game. Even if he don't understand. It's still a good game. I didn't like the original remake. Eh, that's because you didn't play the original game. This is different. Right. And so, I don't know if I don't know. It doesn't

matter. Are you ready, sir? This was a very long opening, but it was worth it. I was really hoping you just forget the quote and all this stuff. I was just kind of hoping you'd forget the quote. So like, okay, so it is a couple quotes. It's a couple of, all right. I've got like, I'm going to you do two. Okay. And one one kind of will prime you and the other one should set you up for a home run or at least like second base. All right. Well, like you know, let's

give it a shot. You know what? Let's let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Casey takes the plate. A warrior may become as skill with a blade as he wishes, but he is still subject to the fickle whim of his destiny and his doom. We who walk the path of the seer take destiny into our own hands,

and we'll doom as our blade. This seems like some kind of far-sight, far-seer deal. Lots of blades makes me think Eldar. Future site makes me think Eldar. I'm not sure if there's like a specific warrior enclave that sees into the future or something, maybe. But I'm gonna go with another Eldar episode

where we're doing some future site people. Okay, all right. So we're primed up. You're up to bat. Okay, okay, okay. Am I close? I'm not telling you yet. Second quote,

such vile alien necromancy is despicable. It is right that we view with suspicion any who use these illicit methods. Even if we are forced to work with them, we are not to trust them. All right, so this is definitely some sort of Imperium. thing. No, it's not. Wow, really vile alien stuff? First quote was more related to the topic.

Second quote is, it's like, first quote sets up the faction, second quote sets up the concept. It just was said by an inquisitor. Oh, oh, I, well, obviously it was said by an inquisitor. Um, yeah. The other quote I have makes it too easy, so. Yeah, all, all's I got is some sort of, uh, far sight, some future. your stuff.

I don't know. Think Eldar and think necromancy. Eldard? Vile alien necromancy. What could that mean? I mean, kind of sounds like something that Dr. Kari would do, you know, with their

horrible experiments and bring the dead back to life and they're always doing stuff with the soul stones like we talked about. That's technically necromancy because they're using they're dead to literally power everything. So are we doing maybe like the infinity matrix or just a soulstone episode?

Okay. That's close enough. Shai is here a little bit late today, so she's not able to yell at D.K. So he gets me today, which is better or worse. You're much nicer than Shai when I am big dumb about the quote. So you're correct. We remember in the last episode we talked a little bit about the whole like, ooh, Raithbone and spirit stones and all that kind of jazz?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the, yeah, that's what the soul stone powers up. That's what everything's made out of. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So today is, after 12 minutes of already talking, we are, uh, today is, is wraithbone. It's wraith bone and like wraith stuff and spirit stones and just, okay.

Honestly, it's just like Eldar necromancy. Yeah, I mean, basically. I hadn't real like until that last quote I hadn't really put together that like using soulstones was basically just pseudo necromancy but it kind of is because you're using dead spirits to like power stuff and move big old pseudo knights. So yeah I mean it basically is just yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you know as with most Eldar things I don't initially understand it as well as I would like. and then like most Eldar things, I look it up and I'm like, wait a minute, this is actually

really cool. How come there isn't more books about this? And then... Because they're not in the Imperium. That and also because as far as I'm aware, viewers can correct me. There are not a lot of great Eldar books. I'm pretty sure the best Eldar books are like fine, too decent and not much past that. Like, I don't know anyone who's ever like, oh, you gotta read the, the, this Eldar thing, you know? You gotta read the Eldar book. You gotta.

Yeah, I haven't really heard that either. Ironically, yet, though, the Eldar probably have some of like the most in-depth, man, the most in-depth lore, but, you know, they're kind of second fiddle. Like, the Imperium obviously take the largest amount of space in the Warhammer world. I guess you could say chaos is not. number two, but like, when it comes to the aliens, Eldar are basically top dog when it comes to all of their stuff, their lore, you know, they were around in the beginning times. Everything else came afterwards.

The only times I remember the Eldar showing up in Warhammer books that we've read is kind of just like, uh-oh, the Eldar showed up and now they're causing trouble too. And it's never really like this super in-depth thing. Apparently in Big DACA, you get a lot of Dracari stuff. I still haven't started that. I probably should. But yeah, it seems like they're always like kind of sort of second fiddle and they always kind of just show up.

Well, so that is a little bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy because we do choose the books and the books we've chosen have not been Eldar books. That's fair too, yeah. I guess we really haven't delved into Eldar-centric books, yeah. That being said, you know, you are right. the end of the Night Lord's trilogy is when Eldar kind of show up and cause problems and at the end of war boss Eldar show

up and cause problems. They sure do. So it is what it is. And you know, Eldar actually play a pretty major role in Rogue Trader as well. Uh-oh, yeah. Apparently they steal a son. If you can get past Act 3 without having horrible, horrible

bugs. Oh. So anyway, Raithbone. Raith bones. Raith bone. is kind of Eldar basically

make everything out of this stuff. There's very little they don't make out of it. It has a soul stone in it, it's made out of Wraithbone, and that's literally all of their stuff. It's a lot of their stuff. So basically, the

verbatim definition of Wraithbone is it is a psychoplastic substance utilized for the construction of buildings, ships, and weapons. This is basically the way to take warp energy, actual energy from the warp, and solidify it, crystallize it, turn it into a physical piece of matter, which isn't like unheard of as a concept. You know, sometimes the warp will leak and that's how you get demons on stuff. And, you know,

it might be more of like a gaseous looking form, all the weird purpley like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what kind of stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So where, where does Wraithbone come from? Well, you're probably going to get to that. Because you said it was like a psychoplastic. It's a psychoplastic substance. It is, is the, is the layman's definition, I suppose.

Raithbone is solid warp energy It's solidified warp energy But certain Eldar people Because they are All psychic To varying degrees

There is a particular role In the Eldar Society Called a Bone Singer Which is like the coolest name I've ever heard It's taking all of my willpower Not to make the joke That is sitting right there

Bonesaw Bone Well yeah I was gonna be like Yeah I can sing to Anyway, forget about it. Oh, oh, I was thinking... It was a boner joke, you know? I was thinking, bone saw is ready.

Bone saw is ready. I'm giving you three minutes free show. Three minutes of playtime. The wrong sign of history, Spider-Me. I love my husband, too, Spider-Man. Anyway, Raythe-Bone. Raythbone. So the bone singers are members of the Eldar,

and that's one of the paths. you can go across is the the path of bones. The path of bones. Bones. Yeah, I guess for some reason, whenever people talk about Wraithbone, I just assumed it was like bones that they harvested from, I don't know, more dead Eldar or something or somewhere, like when Eldar's body finally gives away and their soul goes into the soul, so it's like, oh, harvest the bones so we can make constructs and the dead pilot, the skeleton bones of whatever,

You know, just complete necromancy. That's some, like, lion's son of the forest shit right there. I mean, well, yeah, I guess a little bit. These chains are made of the iron and the blood of the whole planet. God, the whole damn planet. Just to chain down one prime mark for a little bit.

Yeah. Anyway, no, Wraithbone is not bones. It is solidified warp energy. Yeah. Much like, maybe not much like, but you know, you think about stuff like dry ice, you know, or maybe just any kind of gaseous thing that can turn into a liquid that can turn into a solid. You know, there are states of matter. Warp energy can be due to the Eldar's innate psychic ability sung, I guess, into a solid piece of matter. God, that makes Wreathbone so much cooler that it's just solidified warp energy.

They just like sing to the warp and they just like construct it into stuff. That's cool. It is really cool. And I mean, it's a very difficult process. Hence why I'm sure, yeah. Yeah, hence why there is an entire path for this. But it is an incredibly strong substance. It's stronger than any nonplastial.

It's tougher to damage than a lot of adamantium. And it will also naturally heal itself and repair itself. a lot like the Necron's necrodermis, though I don't think as fast. Still, I mean, that you basically have self-healing material is pretty great. And you've got an endless supply. It's not like with humans or it's like, Ruh, we're running out of lumber for some reason.

You got an endless supply of war energy. You're never going to run out of that. While true, you got to think of it in another way. if you're constantly building up Wraith bone because you're a psycher, what are you tempting as an Eldar? Oh, that's true. I guess Slanish would be like, what's that? I tasted in the air. Yeah.

Mmm. So. Big sniffa. Big, big sniffer emo. Yeah, exactly. But, yeah, so, you know, doing psychic stuff as an Eldar is already a really tough. path to walk because you then tempts Lanesh a bit more. And so, you know, the more psychic stuff you use, the more you open up the warp hole suck theory that I've made that one time.

But, you know, you are a much more potent hole because you are Eldar. Whoa, hey, I am not a potent hole, all right? Just you calm down with that, all right? I, I, I'm looking to settle down with the right female, all right? I am not a potent hole. You stop that. If you keep saying, settling down with the right female, you're not going to get any bitches. That's true.

Excuse me, madam. You seem like the right female attending this emporium of liqueurs. Bones singer this, bone singer that. How about you bone some bitches? Oh, man. We, yeah, I'm going to be forever alone, dude.

I am forever alone. Listen, there's a, there's a gentleman that I'm doing a co-lapse stream with tomorrow named Heavenly Father. Oh, I know him. He's great. He's crazy, but great. And I will always remember the meme I saw years ago of like, oh, Heavenly Father, the only man to walk the path of the flesh and V-tuber yet remains maidenless.

And Buddy, I think you could just replace Heavenly Father with D.K. Diamantis, and you got it. Yep, pretty much. Pretty much. When's the Bricky V-Tuber debut, man? You are just one... I got my V-tuber already. No, actual V-tuber. No.

You know, brother. Enough money. With the right cost. Anyway. Anyway. Speaking of V-T-E-T-E-T-Ubers... Guaranteed. No, no, no, no.

It wouldn't be that. Maybe someone else. It'd be a different fact. actually. It'd be the Tao. It'd be this how. It would have L-Dar. Or Tao-Dembers. Yep, yep, yep. God damn it. We're off the rails. This is what happens.

Oh, yeah, this is what happens. Well, even if she was here, we would just tell her to shut up and keep doing it. So, yeah, it's fine. That doesn't end well for either of us. She keeps staring. The most recent image in the chat is still her. She just keeps staring into my soul. I hate it.

Back on topic, Brickie. TALOS. TALOS. So, Wraithbone, right? So, yes, it's built up like this way. But, Wraithbone, as its own right, is almost like a, I want to say processor,

but I'm not good enough at computer hardware to really be 100% sure. So maybe like a circuit board. Basically, Wraithbone acts like a gigantic, it is a circuit. It's both a hardened material, simultaneously a circuit. So when Eldar, because crystallized warp energy or solidify, whatever, when Eldar commune with it, psychically, they operate it like a machine. It has psychic network and pathways.

So your psychic impulses as an Eldar will travel through the wraithbone to do what you need to do. Fire the gun, fly left, fly right, activate shields, etc. Wow. Yeah. So who was the first person that realized they could do this? I don't know if you're going to get to it because it, how do they at one point be like, oh, I know, I'm going to blub-blib-blah-sing to you warp? And then, oh, wow, look, it made plastic that I can, that is an insanely good material, but also a circuit board. Like, who, who did that?

Well, I mean, this is a long time ago. Yeah. So I'm not 100, like, I don't know when they first discovered this. I mean, shit, man, I'm assuming it was during, like, the war in heaven. Yeah, I mean, it was probably before the Imperium was even a thing, right? Because it was probably during the Silent King's War 60 million years ago. Yeah. I don't know when they started doing, like, wraithbone.

It's just such a part of Eldar culture. Like, craft worlds, a craft world ship is made of wraithbone. Yeah. Yeah. It is a giant. gigantic wraithbone construct. And so... Because it's just such a crazy thing to be able to do to just like harness the warp in such a way that you solidify it into material that it's like, who, who, wow, that's a, that's a big brain thing to do.

So, yeah, anyway. Yeah, I mean, maybe it was taught to them by the old ones during the war in heaven. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, that would make sense. It's such a major part of Eldar culture. I'm not quite sure. If you look up like, for example, in Varel Brightshard, she's a famous Eldar Bone Singer

and she's famous for constructing the first Infinity Circuit on the Ayan, Ianden, whatever, Ian did like craft worlds. So, you know, that's a cool thing they did, but that's just for the one craft world.

And, you know, craft worlds were made as exited ships when they realized what was going on. Yeah, when they realized like, we should, you know what, we've gone too deep. Let's get out of here. Gone too deep.

I don't know that one, actually. I've gone too deep and I want to sleep. Shit. Yeah, hey, you hit me with a song that I didn't know the reference to. Nicely done. You would definitely get that one, damn. But anyhow, yeah, so craft worlds as well are giant wraith constructs too. So to describe it well, craft or sorry, Wraithbone is a

crystallized physical creation of warp energy that acts as a massive conductor slash circuit board for psykers. Specifically, certain Eldar are able to use this wraith bone in a certain way that makes them skilled to operate in whatever. This can be weapons. This can be a tank. This can be all kinds of stuff. Literally anything for an Eldar. Their armor, their guns, their their boots, their planes, their craft. That's so cool. That's actually really, really dope. And it can be, you know, rebuilt.

You can kind of like, can a bone singer melt down wraithbone, turn it back into the warp and then reform it into something else? So it's, I mean, I guess so. I believe so. Normally it's more like you repair it, you know? Sure. For example, you know, like, Rathbone will slowly heal itself, but a bone singer can heal it really quickly and just kind of like meld it up, you know?

Yeah, I cast mend, you know, on this particular stuff. Oh, yeah, and then the armor just immediately smooths out and, oh, that's cool. Yeah, so, for example, if you were, this is related to the spirit sear, bone singers themselves don't have models in the tabletop. I was about to ask, like, do they work as healers in the tabletop? So no, I think they had Bonesingers in like third edition a while ago. But they don't have it anymore. What they do have instead are things called spirit seers. This kind of is a good segue, I'd say.

Spirit seers, which I mentioned in the beginning, the path of the seer, is the entire ability for an Eldar to commune with the dead souls preserved in the craft world's infinity circuit. These are the literally necromancers. They speak with the dead. Yeah, they speak with the dead. Yep, they talk with all the souls swirling around in the infinity circuit. I assume they can also talk with a soul that's in a soul stone.

Because it's kind of the same thing. I would assume so. I mean, maybe they need to put it in the circuit first and then they can do it. Oh, sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah, okay, so actually speaking of, so spirit stones, soul stones, they're actually, they're there's psycho receptive crystals, but they're normally known as waystones. And they're grown not from Wraithbone,

like a similar kind of thing to Wraithbone, different kind of make. Still formed from Warp Energy, though? I would assume. Okay. And so the Waystone is, it's a, it's like, I guess it's maybe like a trap. It's like a ghost trap from like Ghostbusters.

Right. Well, yeah, yeah, that's, except they want to go in it. Well, when they die, they want to go in it. Or I guess they don't care. Like, it's not like a ghost that's being trapped in, you know, hell or something. It's just, you know. So. For the most part, it's like, okay, well, DK, which would you prefer?

Being stuck into the soul stone and then being put into the matrix of your ship or eternal damnation? Matrix? Yeah, matrix. Every time. Every time. Every time. No doubt about that. Yeah, definitely put me in the matrix. Let me power the ship. Yeah, even in death, I still serve. Yeah, yeah. That's a good point. They even got that. Hold on. I have the, I have, I have the meme for this. Ah, perfect. Damnation. Why is a-damation? What is that bird, though? I don't know.

Yish. So, right, so this is basically a psychic trap. So, you know, a scrawny L. El-Dar gets his head cut off by an Orcchchoppa. And instead of its soul being eaten by Sla-Nesh, it gets trapped into this tiny little soulstone. And the goal is that the remaining Eldar will then gather the missing stones and then bring them back to the craft world to put them in the Infinity Circuit. And that helps them power the ship because a craft world is made out of wraithbone and your psychic consciousness is in the stone. so you can psychically power the ship. Power the ship, yep, yep, okay.

Which is the infinity circuit. Yep, yep, or they'll put you in someone's armor or a, what is it, Raith Knight, knight, what are their knights called again? Ah, we'll get to that in a moment. Okay. But yeah, so, you know, that goes into the infinity circuit, and then, which is like the skeleton of a craft world,

and it allows it to, you know, people can, like, commune with the Infinity Circuit, which is literally talking to your ancestors and all that kind of jazz because, you know, it's a very feudal kind of Japanese style we got going on in the craft world Eldar here. Yep, they're pulling off the old

Mulan, you know, who is that? You know, right, right? Yeah, sure, why not? Talking with the ancestors and then Musu pops out, you know? Isn't Mulan Chinese? Yeah, but, you know. Well, yeah, the Eldar

grab a little bit from all kinds of Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know Eldar exonites, right? Yes, they're the dinosaur-riding ones, right? Or the lizard-riding ones? Yeah. Yeah, one of them bit Trazen and a half. Exactly.

That's how I remember them. I was like, oh, they're the ones from Trazen. Oh, dinosaurs. Yep, yep, yep, yep. Trazen, on a whole, did not like being dead. Very casually. I'm not a big fan of this dead thing. So if you are actually an exonite,

instead of having an infinity circuit, you have something called a world shrine because you're on like an exudite world. So in a sense, it's like you're working with like the world in a sense, the planet they're on, the exodite, the old school type thing instead of a craft world.

So it's the world shrine or the world spirit, you know? That's cool world shrine. That has a nice ring to it. It is. And so, you know, those are the general constant the spirit stones. There are also some neat other types of stones.

I think they got something called dreamstones. Oh, yeah, there are just dream stone. So like a dream stone, for example, you actually have it with you when you go to sleep to guard their minds from Slanesh, which is the high, besides using Saki Powers, one of the biggest, or what's the biggest weak points for the Eldar is when there's asleep.

Oh, really? Slanesh can get you when you, like, Slanesh is literally the boogeyman. or or boogie person boogie person boogie person god knows what slanesh is um but really slanesh can get an eldar while they're sleeping if they don't have a dreamstone so if you think about it when you're well so it's not like they just automatically get them it's to kind of help right to guard their minds from slenash when they sleep because when you think about it you know your mind travels a million miles a minute when you're asleep sure um and and you know you dream things that are just so out there. And then you've got to think about what an Eldar would dream with their heightened emotions and heightened everything. Yeah, it probably would be a little bit of a, I want to say a beacon, but yeah, if their dream wanders and it gets depraved enough, it probably could send off a little bit of a signal to a hungry chaos god. It's actually one of the things that humans like to use

to force away the warp from, like, from chaos. Sometimes, Navigators will have them to stop the horrible nightmares that they have from Exposures of the Warp. Oh, that's got to be an expensive thing to get from the Eldar. I'd be like, can we borrow one of your, or do they make their own dreamstones? Or how does a human get a dreamstone? The same way humans get all other kinds of alien artifacts. Oh, so they kill the Eldar and then take it from them? Or maybe a rogue trader trades with some Eldar perchance.

or an inquisitor finds a way to get some. You know, finds a way. Yeah. The rules apply a lot less with time. Yeah. A specialist is, oh, they're just Zenos.

It's fine. Whatever. We're the Imperium. We don't care about those filthy Zenos. Oh, yeah. I forgot. Our rogue trader friend, Janice,

the guy with the monocle, in the Pelhamunicle, they have a farce here as part of the retinue. they gave a dreamstone to him. Oh, okay. Yeah, I need stuff. Cool. So, though, the, so dreams stone's side, so the spirit seer, because you have your, you have

your spirit stones, your waystones first, so it's a waste stone, but then when you die and there's a soul inside of it, it becomes a spirit stone. So waist stone first, spirit stone second. The spirit seers, God, it's a lot of, a lot of that. A lot of seers. A lot of seers. A lot of stones. They follow the path of the seer,

which allows them to commune with the souls of dead Eldar, specifically in the Infinity Circuit, which is just, you know, in times of like peace is just kind of chilling, talk to your ancestors, keep the wisdom of the past alive, make sure things are good, you don't lose anything, et cetera, et cetera.

Life is good. But in times of war, they will use that ability to instead empower the living dead, which are the wraith constructs. The wraith guard, wraith guards, and wraith knights, as well as phantom titans, I assume. Okay, okay, okay, yep, yep, yep. You got to put your dead brothers' soulstone in there.

The path of sear is one of the harder paths to do as an Eldar, mainly because, one, the Eldar don't much like talking to the dead. Really? No, so, like, or bringing them back into battle. They don't much like that. The, you know, dreadnots in the Imperium are very much like, even in death I still serve and all that. Yeah.

But no, the forced use upon the dead and not allowing them to rest is pretty anti-Eldari. I mean, I guess that makes sense. sense? Well, not only is it anti-ELDAR where it's like, oh, you know, we got to just let him rest, but it's also a huge risk. Like, the fact that you could, like, put, you know, your dead

ancestor into a wraith construct. And then, whoops, that's a titan. You just got killed and you just lost your ancestor forever. That's a huge risk. You imagine, like, the genuine, um, what's the phrase?

Uh, like, the genuine, like, heart pain and dishonor. And Eldar would experience when they get revived into a wraith construct from their ancestor hundreds of years ago and a giant like tyrannid carnifex just just like just eats them. Rips them apart. Or just like just like bites them to death and that's it. You second death. You experience death the first time and then you get real.

Yeah. It's like God. What like what what horrid dishonesty. upon you for that kind of thing. At least the Eldar would be too dead to feel the dishonor. I mean, that's, you know. Yeah, but their soul is in that. Oh, that's right.

Well, I guess if they died that second time, would their soul go back to, what, would their soul go to the warp, or would it go back to a, a spirit stone? Yeah. I would have sued a spirit stone. But if they're in a wraith construct, wouldn't they already be in a soul? spirit stone and then if they get killed again and the spirit stone is lost i don't know i'm made this is too complicated too many hypotheticals there's a wraith construct there's plenty of stones on him

god yeah there's a couple of stones on that guy yeah yeah that's fair but aren't each of those a different person you know i actually don't know about that i thought that i thought for the most part that a a wraith construct would just be like one of the the dead ghost warriors for the most part but um I mean, I don't know, like, they all have the spirit stone that has them drawn out of the infinity circuit, of course. I don't know if it's maybe the combination of multiple dead Eldar, because there are a lot of stones on that guy. Yeah, there's like five on one side of his helmet. Right. Or if it's more like additional way stones to just help power the thing?

You know, that's a great question. I'm not sure. because I know, for example, a wraith knight is, it's like the whole Ava thing where it's like, it's, it's twins. It's one living Eldar. And then your dead brother. And then you're dead twin. Yeah.

And then you're dead twins. So there's only two. But the wraith knights are enormous. Yeah. So, you know, like, and they also have plenty of stones on them. So, you know, I'm, I'm willing to bet that a stone is assisting in the power against not one. dead person for every single one of them. Or maybe it is.

And the, or maybe it's like a conduit. Maybe assists with the conduit section. It's like nodes for the psychic energy. That's a great. Is that also why they have the infinity symbol on their helmet? Because it's like, you know, infinity matrix. I didn't even notice that. I don't know.

That could just be part of the craft world. Could be. Oh. Yeah. Yeah, no, because other, other rate contracts have different symbols on them. Oh, okay. Gotcha. That specific one had an infinity symbol, and I was like, well, Infinity Matrix is maybe where that guy came from.

And ym, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum. Actually, you know, it's actually a great, that is actually a fantastic question. There are a lot of, there are a lot of stones on that. A lot of stones. Yeah. Huh. I've been dead for thousands of years. What have you revived me into?

A dorsal fin on a wraith construct. Yeah, you get to be, you get to be thing number three. Watch our back. Hey, hey, you have entire familial line of 10 people on the barrel of the cannon. You have a generation, a family's whole generation, just the barrel. Watch the heat on the barrel guy. I got to be honest. The Eldar don't have a particularly large population, so I don't know if they can afford

that many dead souls. So I'm going to assume there's like a central spirit stone and then the rest is like, you know, nodes to power and yeah i i would i would agree as well that's that's that is if all of those stones each had a purse that's an awful lot of risk for one rate construct yeah all right yeah i think that's a fair fair guess i think that's that's fair yeah all right well regardless um so the spirit steer will obviously bring out the dead from the infinity circuit to enter in either the wraith guards or, you know, sometimes it's a wraith lord, which is a much larger one. And, of course, there's the wraith night.

But wraith constructs, for the most part, are just the living dead. Because that psychic, you know, instead of making a tank or a gun out of wraith bone, you've made a walker. And then you put the stone in there, and that psychic power allows you to control the walker. Yeah. God, I really, I never thought of the Eldar's necromancers, but now it's just like, yeah. That makes perfect sense as to, yeah, yeah, they're necromancers. They're dealing in necriments. They're dealing in dead souls.

They are reviving the dead and putting them in a body. Yeah, yeah, they're necromancers. I never look at them like that. I mean, like, granted, this is the path of the spirit seer for the necromancy. And it is not something the Eldar much love, but when you are so darn low on recruits, and your species is massively underpopulated. You got to do what you got to do. Yeah, you do.

You got to put the dead to work. You may remember the Eendon Craft World. It's the one with that horrible yellow and blue color that I hate so much. Oh, yeah. The one that looks like Marge Simpson. Yeah, yeah, the Marge Simpson one. That's right. Oh, man, those are awful.

Those are so bad. It's unfortunate too because they are actually a really neat craft world that got pretty bodied. And so they make the use of a ton of wraith constructs in their army because they need to. And so it's actually like an army of the walking, the living, the dead live again, the dead rise again. The walking dead. Actually, I just, uh, I remember something. See, they'll have the infinity symbol too. They do. Maybe this is specifically for the wraith guard.

Yeah, maybe, maybe. I must say there is, I didn't actually appreciate this back in the day. Well, I appreciate it because it looks amazing. But there is someone who actually painted, let me show you this. They painted an Eldar Raith Knight, like the Dea Sotomartos style, which I was like, Oh, what a great paint job. That's really cool. but now that you think about it

Oh, that makes so much sense. Yeah, that's totally on brand. Also, God, that's great. It's such a good paint job. That's so cool. Oh, my God. Yeah, it's such a good paint shop. That's amazing.

Let's go. Painter absolutely trusted. Like you said, so on brand. So on brand for what it is. Oh, that's great. Yeah, love it. Love it. Yeah.

So, you know, being the kind of, kind of the dead rise again thing. Also, spirit seers are a thing you can run in game, and you actually attach them as characters to lead wraith units. And you can actually revive your bodyguards, your bodyguard units up. Okay. I think because there's the concept that,

this is like the more religious aspect of the Eldar, but it's the idea of like each wraith construct, um is it's either rebuilt it's it's like isha's tears the tears of eisha oh uh who is currently as we know in nergles jar yeah i was going to say she's stuck in the jar and she is a lot of tears coming from that a lot of tears from that yeah um i like how i i'm wanting to the point where we get so deep into that meme where people will like start spreading the misinformation that that is the Nurgel actually has a jar that actually

contains Isha. Disclamor Isha is not actually in a jar in Nurgel's abode. That being said, spiritually Well, yes, spiritually, Eldar are kind of in the jar when they die, aren't they?

I mean, there is a certain jar. Yeah, yeah. Oh, I think Isha's tears are supposed to be the jewels. The communion jewels like the stones and stuff. Oh, okay. Oh, yeah.

Here we go. The Tears of Isha are spirit stones that contain the spirits from the most powerful and revered Eldar in ages past. That's right. So in game, the spirit seer has an ability called Tears of Isha, which is when it's your turn, if there's any wraith guard units that are dead, you can bring one back alive. That's pretty handy. Yeah. And it makes sense because, you know, you're rebuilding the wraithbone, you know?

Yeah, perfect sense. Yeah. Yeah. Love it. If I'm also not mistaken, we talked about this a bit before, the Aspect Warriors, the Phoenix Lord, like Jane Zarr and Azerman. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And Mowgin-Raw? Mowgin-Rong. Their armor is like, it's like a hollow armor shell of like a consciousness of the old Phoenix lords, right?

Because once you put it on. Oh, that's true. Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you're no longer, whoever you were, you are now Jane Zar. Yeah, you are the Phoenix Lord and you cease to be whoever you were before. Yeah. God, do Eldar just keep getting cooler and cooler?

Yeah, those bastards. Oh, they're great. You still have trauma from back when they would just steamroll everyone in the tabletop, huh? Still, even to this day, huh? You know, there has not been a single goddamn addition of Warhammer where Eldar have not been like a problem. Really? Every addition, Eldor are a problem? How do you, okay, how do you properly balance an army that's supposed to hit like freight trains and move away so they cannot be hit?

You know, like how do you properly balance an army that is hyper glass cannon, but the way you, you like are glass cannon is because you're so fast and you're moving so quick? That nobody can hit you. Yeah, you're like this sort of tribut. traditional, um, traditional glass cannon, but, you know, on, right. Like you're, you're, you know, on a rocket, it's like, it's like, it's like how they had to balance Genji for so damn long, you know, it's just. And then, and then, and then, and then, so, you know, Seventh Edition came around. And then, like, Raith, Raith Knights were insane as monstrous creatures. Then eighth edition came around, and they were giving you minus three to hit. And so I couldn't even shoot people with my guard army.

And then, then, the ninth edition came around. And they were actually, I mean, they were, they were very good in ninth edition, but they had like 5,000 psychic spells that took an hour. And then in 10th, they were the best army by far have been nerfed five times and are still like top five. So what you're saying is you're going to start an Eldar army.

If I, I think we talked about this. If I was to ever start an Eldar army, it would be an aspect warrior base army. It would be Jane Tsar and the Banshees. Hell yeah. Fugin and like the fire dragons. but I would only ever start an Eldar army if I knew that my minis were going to be recent

and not replaced soon. Right, right. And considering the fact that most of the Aspect Warriors and models, the Warp spiders just turned, I think, 30. Oh, and they have seen no addition in three decades? The Warp spiders were first released in 1994. The current Warp Spider miniature is older than I am. 1994 was 30 years ago?

Yes, sir. I don't like that. And you know what? Paint-wise, it's not terrible. It's the scale. Oh, yeah, it is this. They're so chunky and weirdly out of proportion. Yeah, that's not good.

Yeah, they are very stubby. I would honestly be hotter on the Eldar as a faction if their goddamn miniatures weren't so old because they recently updated the howling banshees and they look great. Oh yeah. I've seen the updated howling banshees

and they are phenomenal. Have you seen the updated Jane Tsar? I have and yeah. Oh yeah. Updated like there aren't too many updated minis that they miss on. No, the new the new sculpts they mostly hit

really hard. Super hard. So just, you know, you know, do that more G-dub. Yeah, just just do it. Just do it more. Just do it. Do it. What? What? You don't like money? Just do it. Yes. I'm actually, I'm actually pretty surprised they haven't made massive range refreshes to Eldar because it has been a while. And they're a popular, really popular faction that's always good. So it's like that

Do you not like money? Just print it. I think the big issue is that a lot of Eldar factions are, like they're only a little popular. The issue comes down to playing them. You have to be really good because of the style of Army. And so if you aren't and you miss position, you just die. But also no one wants to collect them because their models suck.

They're super old, yeah. Yeah. Which really sucks because when you do, talk about an episode like this and we talk about like oh hey your wave serpent which is an l-dar tank your wave serpent is actually made of wraithbone psychically powered by so the dude inside and then you're being reinforced by the squad of 10 living dead ancestors you know backed up yeah that's so cool sounding i love like god the elder just every episode we do on the eldar i am I become more and more a fan of them because they just, everything sounds so cool.

But then you look at the minis, you're like, oh. It's 30 years old. Yeah. And then, you know, we had that whole episode on the Phoenix Lord. It's like, fugin, like just the fiery revenant. And then, you know, you know, Malgan Raw. Malgan at least got the update, well, he had an updated mini right. And it looks so cool.

It's so edgy. Yeah. The thing is, though, is that Malgan Raw. Oh, did actually the Dark Reapers get their new update? I don't know. Dark Reapers 40K new. New. Oh, they did. I think they did.

Yeah. I don't like their heads. They look like egg. They look like egg. Oh, yeah, they do. I feel like you showed this to me at some point. And I was like, yeah, if they didn't have egg heads, they would be really, really great. I feel like at that point

you just need to like make it all black. Yeah, you make it all black. I mean, granted, they do have hooded variants and that's kind of cool. Oh yeah, with the hood, it's a lot better actually. Like with the hood, it really looks more like a skull and less like an egg. See, I like this.

This is official games workshop art, I believe. And I just like how like frustrated he looks. he's like He does He's pouting It's actually kind of crazy When you look at their guns too Because their guns are clearly

Wraithbone-made guns With all that weird curvature Oh yeah Stuff which actually You know it makes me wonder I don't know how to what extent These weapons Like they're made of Wraithbone often

But maybe not all the time And because I was thinking In like Warboss for example the human captive used a shirican pistol and shot his way out. But you think if it was Wraithbone, it would only work with a psychic signal sent by a psychic person. Yeah, by an Eldar, yeah. So I wonder if that was either just a quick slip-up on the act of the writer or if it was something that's... Or if they just work a little different.

Or maybe it just works a lot better in Eldar hands. Or maybe the wraith bone just makes the gun and you can still just shoot. the gun by the trigger. Also on that, on the, um, where it shows like their weapons, are all of those bulbs supposed to be soulstones? Or is that just the way that gun looks? And it's just sort of a paint issue.

I think it's a, ooh, that's a good question. I think it's a paint issue. Because if you were to look at the dark reapers themselves, you could see their soul stones on their chest and their helmet. The, like the, the, the, the light blue color. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's true. Yeah, yeah. So I think it might be a paint thing.

It just might be like a protruding section. They do look like little soulstone. Yeah, they do. They really do. Anyway. I don't think it was any other like soul stone interesting. You know what? Let's look at the shroud runners because they were recent.

It's such cool names too. God, the Elton. How could you not like Eldar? These are a new mini. They're pretty cool. they also have the weird soulstone looking section of their vehicle. Yeah, they also have like the little bulb that kind of sticks out that looks like it should be a soul stone, but it's not. Yeah, it probably isn't.

But I'm assuming that they do. Yeah. You know, maybe that kind of goes into the thing we talked about earlier where the soul stones that are just, or like the little stones that are littered across that rate construct are more so just parts of, conduits and that's what they are on these vehicles, for example. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because you can actually see, you know, maybe that's part of it. Maybe there's a difference between a waystone and a soul stone and a spirit stone is obviously when your soul is entered and then you use waystones as a way to help control your things.

Sure. I'll look this up. Hell yeah, brother. We are learning in real time. Okay, so waste stone. Yeah, so Waystone is the thing before, Spirit Stone, yeah. Okay.

You know, you know, yeah, because there's, what is it? Waystone, Dreamstone, Soulstone, and the tiers of Isha, of course. They like that joy. Yeah, I mean. Yeah, I guess, I guess in the most part, it's just, you know what? We'll get back to it. This is some deep, this is some deeper lore. Because you get the idea of soulstones and waste stones and all that stuff, but then there's the

what are the things that are that look like they should be stones but are not painted as stones or maybe maybe that's just the way they built it shy can she can use her brand new text speech uh service and then yell at us

and then give you all the answer chat answers chat specifically you can yell at bricky because I'm always the uninformed one shit you're right ha ha ha I don't get yelled Let's go, baby. This is the high class concept. You don't know enough to be yelled at. Yes.

Yes. Ignorance is bliss, baby. What a world we've, what a world we've entered. See, it is better to be stupid than it is to be smart. That's not where I thought you were going and I disagree. Well, that's the world I live in. That is the copium I am currently huffing. I am huffin it.

All right. Well, viewers, I hope you don't get too mad at me. I'm, you know, I'm not always the best when it comes to the Eldar stuff, but I try my best today. D.K. doesn't know any better, so. I don't know any better, but I know that this Wraithone stuff is so cool. And it has given me like a new perspective on the Eldar, because I never thought of him as I always just thought they were kind of like the speedy, you know, and clever. And I never considered them necromancers for some reason.

And now it's just like, oh, that's so cool. And they can just like weave the warp into their... That's so cool. I love it. I guess in a sense, not all of them are necromancers, you know, just the ones that are, you know, for that kind of thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But that's so cool. That's cool.

That's your bones seer architects and all that's so rock star every episode we do on the Eldar they just keep rising and rising. Rise up Eldar. Rise up, Eldar bros. Rise up. Rise up. Rise up Eldar Chadlings. Eldar Chavling. Yeah, Chadlings. You know when you're not quite up there at Chad status but you're climbing the ladder, you're a Chadling working your way up to Chadlings. Damn. God damn you. God damn you. I don't think that's a solid place to end it, right? Yeah, we'll call that one right there.

Well, all right. Post-Eldar gigacad, I guess, unless shy changes her mind to post-org gigacad. Either way. All right. Goodbye, world. Say you. Make sure that if you die, don't just enjoy eternal damnation.

You don't enjoy eternal damnation. Thank you.