The Eldars Greatest Weapons: The Aspect Warriors (Abit About Khaine Too)

I'm isander and I am and today we're going to be talking about the aspect Warriors as the ones who won out on the pole uh sorry Jean Steelers whoops uh whatever it gives me an opportunity to plan out my uh Jean stolen outfit if abidon doesn't win you're down to those two choices it's abidon and the Jean Stealers sound off in the comments whoever gets the most votes gets made the other disappears once again I am hard putting my thumb on the scale to keep abidon to his 13th poll or you could spite Koda choice is yours choice this is yours uh we also have a patreon where you can get a bonus episode every single week access to the Discord and a bunch of other perks all while helping us keep this show going so if you want to do that head on over to patreon.com isander Anda and now let us get into effectively lar job training lar job training yeah it's it's are we going to watch an employee safety video G somebody will come in and give us a speech about wearing helmets and three points of contact on a ladder yeah yeah I think so but I I don't think they have videos and proper uh workplace protection like steel toed boots no those are just bought for them those are just bought for them it's provided by the job okay but that that's basically what the aspect Warriors are it's a gig that they've taken up and before we get into why they've taken it up we need to get well before we even get into the gig we need to get into why they've taken it up and that is because I'm not going to mince words here the Eldar have lost so hard on almost every metric there's no other way around it it's just a fact look at where they started look at where they are now precisely they went from sundering Gods to crying about humanity and it's a really tragic story dude the poor elar it's feel bad for them yeah no they they they are veterans from the oldest of Wars they remember a time when humans were not what they are they remember a time when Orcs were definitely not what they are they remember a time when the necrons had skin still they go way back and there are some Eldar who are still alive to this day that know that and were there for that and that has an effect on the psyche yeah you pair that with the fact that the reason they lost so hard is because um there used to be three chaos gods and now there's four and the fourth one's their fault and um deao their fault hard their fault so wouldn't exist well then we enter to time Shenanigans because chaos always existed and hasn't if that makes sense oh yeah one of those things the warp is one of it's like a weird always there but this is when they were actually born yeah you know it's very weird it's very difficult I can't say for sure they wouldn't exist without the lar what I can say is they certainly helped they got the party started baby the lar was their Catalyst into the real into real space yep uh quick and dirty highlight reel uh they won really hard they served in this thing called the war in heaven uh beat the nekron's skin off effectively um and then kind of had a long Victory lap got really really really bored with that and decided to start seeking more and more pleasure out of entertainment it went from um it went from watching National Geographic documentaries to going on safaris to actually see the animals to locking yourself in a cage and fighting the animals to locking all the animals in a cage and yourself inv fighting them to a bunch of other weird stuff that we're not going to get into it it got out of a bunch of weird stuff that we could only discuss on patreon.com sander Anda yeah they anything you can imagine overdoing they overdid and then some I'm I it's it got it got so messy that out of it spawned the chaos God described as she who thirsts I mean just look up any art of sles at all ever you'll get the gimmick you will get the gimmick imagine what it takes to make that appear and leave a permanent hole that everyone has to navigate around now no no no imagine what it would take to summon that and then I don't know multiply it by a factor of what's sesh's lucky number I think six six multiply it by six corn is a yeah I think six are they literally 6789 yeah I think so that's funny because I know cor is eight uh zinch is nine I think NL seven I could be wrong oh boy am I going to get corrected if I'm wrong there I thinka six though they are literally 6789 yeah it's kind of funny yeah that's what they do but uh in everyone else's case with kaaos it's something they're vaguely aware of and kind of a problem you know like chaos is pretty equal opportunity these hands are rated E for everyone they will hit anyone they can if you get close enough K especially will uh SES though and the Eldar in a very weird situation where sure the other chaos Gods the Eldar don't really want to get near and vice versa the other chaos gods don't really want the Eldar near them but um the Eldar have sesh staring at them yeah from birth till death and I'm not talking like oh you know the neighbor across the street looking at me as I go to school no I'm talking there's a picture of you being born in the hospital and slashes in the background it's it's that level of intently I am always aware of all of your existence at any given moment in the frame you die I will steal your soul faster than God care no slanesh is you know that video or not that video that Meme image of everybody standing around um uh a freshly buried uh grave and there's one dude in front of it just going yeah slish is that I I've always preferred the the the one time Tom hard died from Tom and Jerry and you see his soul floating up leaving his body supposed to go to heaven the escalator is there and a hand just grabs it and Yanks it down I thought it was the escalator like fell out from under him as he was reaching the top no I remember a hand grabbing him and tracking him down straight to hell no I'm sorry there is no debate you don't get to see the Pearly Gates just straight down that has always been the way I interpret it so from birth till death that is just a thing that is on every eldar's mind slesh is just staring at your soul and the important licking their lips they definitely we are um the the important thing it's not really that much of a no there was a flash there was an internal debate and I logic won that day so I'm not going to say that um what what matters is Eldar are very psychic too they're very they feel things in ways not many others do so this isn't just something that they're taught in school like hey when you die sles is going to get you whoops it's it's they can feel they can feel sles on the periphery just kind of looking at me like you you're born and literally the moment you're reach some form of of of cognition you're like yeah I would say precognition you could feel it probably the Eldar are really like Eldar can just die from over stimulation that's a thing they they feel in ways part of why it's really hard to write for them they feel in such extremes that people can't even fathom to be to be to be fair to be fair I kind of feel it the last time I was in in arcade like a couple weeks ago oh God it was awful I felt like I was going to pass out yeah but now imagine if the arcade was telling you hey rip your tendons out and make a harp out of them yeah no no that that is the plight that haunts all the Eldar they have many different ways of coping some have gone full Amish they do not interact with any technology any Hedonism and ride dinosaurs to work it's really cool actually I I actually really like the exodites aesthetic yeah they're the equivalent of that one Co actually fun fact did you know there are still Costco with stables and hay bales yeah they're out in like rural Pennsylvania where there are still Amish because Amish people have money they just don't have visas that's it that's all that's the only difference they just they they they're all paper no plastic yes exactly so some Eldar have gone that route others have gone well what if we Double Down and so they have and sles is amused Enough by this that it it it buys them time effectively this does work say what you feel about the dark Dark Eldar it does buy them time which is kind of all they care about slanesh is sitting in the corner still licking their lips watching intently going I'm getting a lot more out of this than if I just ate your soul exactly that's that's what the dark ELD are up to others have I mean there's 101 Ways they've tried to skin this cat and all of them kind of work um the main ones we'll be talking about today are the craft worlds who got into the ships and their main survival stick is basically wearing a Pokeball around their neck and the second they die it'll open and capture them before sonash can and boom done that's it and from there it's shipped off into the middle of these massive ships that they call craft worlds and stored in basically a massive Vault full of every other Eldar who's died ever ever uh which means you don't technically not even in death will do the end for you because okay cool you're now uploaded into Google some kid's going to ask you how to water a plant but hey it's better than going to it's better than whatever sles has planned that that much we know I don't know what was coming after death but I know what was going to happen if she got me so I will stay right here comfortably very much so um in those ships they don't just keep um a hard drive full of every other lar uh they also have a piece of their God of War effectively just chained in there too as as awarding awarding token just like ah worse comes to worse anything tries to kill us we have that thing in the background yeah and they they do really good well because here was a really cool thing when when when your soul gets put in this flash drive effectively they can take it out and put it into a Mech effectively and have you fight again which is not taken lightly it's very weird it is like digging up a veteran's grave and putting him in some armor it's not nobody wants to do that listen I think it's kind of badass I'm not going to lie it's so so you want to go to Arlington and arm them I would love to see a George Washington zombie army a a zombie Revolutionary War not everyone in there is just like great at their job some of them are just decent it's every lar that died not every outstanding lar it's every lar that died so or at least that they could get to they couldn't get them all so it's it is in the same way you would see necromancy effectively if somebody could go into a graveyard right now raise them up as an army everyone should at least have some qualms about that no matter how effective they are as soldiers it's a little weird and you shouldn't do that unless you have to but you're telling me an American Gothic style story about a Revolutionary War era zombie army is not sound awesome awesome yes morally reprehensible yeah I mean yeah two things can be true at the same time that's why that's why it's a Gothic story and and so that's how they see it however the coolest thing they can do is they can also take that Shard of the god of war and put it into a Mech and have that thing fight it is so cool it never wins it is allergic to Victory how um it's a God of War yes that we can bring back however often we want so the writers tend to use it very aggressively as a how strong is this thing let's throw the Avatar of cane at it and then it loses and everyone goes wow that is strong yeah but like I don't know if you kill Kratos multiple times it's just the impact's now lost he's going to come back yeah no it has not because they they keep doing it it's really really really rare for them not to just lose outright as a function of plot it's one of the few problems I have with it because Kane is a real he's a whole thing man he is he's one of the Elder gods of course he's a whole thing and and the thing about Kane versus Korn is they are kind of the same it's two legally distinct entities if that makes sense they are both they are both gods of War rage blood you know that that's that's what they go for right however and this is best done in because they both deserve their own episodes so this this is a distin best made in those episodes but the quick and dirty is one is an artificial fa simile of something that's innate to Nature if that makes sense so it's the equivalent of uh if Kane is a nuclear reactor let's say corns the Sun and I know they use different processes I'm aware that's just for the purposes of illustration here well for for now Fusion reactors are on on the but but but that's kind of the the the the diff the main difference between them it does not mean one is not powerful it's just one is almost innate it's woven into the fabric one is a single like fragmentary portion of the larger the way I'm going to put it is cane did not need to happen corn already had and always would have you know I mean like Kane is described as having both hands perpetually just pouring with visera I mean think about it that's what he uses to get you you know so they are perpetually pouring with Visa because that is his job that's what he does every day um Korn has waterfalls of the stuff like he's got a moat at this point you know you look at any picture of corn ever there are a couple of things you will notice and it is skulls right next to the skull throne and you won't guess what all the water in that art is it's not water it's not water and that's a very you can immediately tell the different scales they operate in but that does not mean that Kane does not punch well above his weight um when every other Eldar God died he was one of the three who made it out and one got captured one threw pocket sand in another one's face and ran away and he died fighting and even then Kane didn't die fighting he was just shattered fighting so he's that guy he was going down just like screaming yeah yeah if I remember correctly Kane was one of the ones who for this is coming off of memory so accuracy dodgy um if I remember correctly Cain foresaw that the elar were going to cause this chaos they foresaw that he would die by their own hands and so he decided okay fine I'll kill them that way it doesn't happen I mean if you foresee hm the Elder are going to be the death of themselves and me well they can be I'll be the death of them then I I I think I'll be fine I don't know if they will but we'll figure it out I'll figure it EXA it'll be fine I think I don't remember Ken needs his own episode but the reason he's relevant is all of the aspect Warriors represent an aspect of him in a sense and you know there are also those shards that still float around and don't get used very well but they exist and they're very useful you know um if if um if karak has his whole clown troop running around this is what that this is what Kane has running around in his stad and all of them do a very different thing every Eldar will wind up on this path at some point um most of the time it's you choose your path as a distraction from sles um because like I said the Eldar feel things a lot um and one of the key lessons they learned which is a very important lesson uh Idol hands are the devil's play thing ah and in this case Idol hands brought forth the devil and we are now her play thing so Idle Hands mhm well the hands probably I don't know idle idle idle idle everything whatever whatever what matters is the the the if they stay busy they don't Jesus if they stay busy ear maybe they won't have to worry about thate or deal or think with the fact that slen is staring all the time at them so this is kind of the just their like don't think about it don't think about it don't think about it this is there I'm just going to go meditate in in the woods under a waterfall and like they can't touch me yes and this isn't like oh I've chosen the the path of the engineer let me go do my day job and then go no it is full total immersion it is I will not leave this path until I have mastered it and then it is this complete they see it as a mask that they can then put on in the future and then they go collect another mask they read the Five Rings yeah it's it's it's very it takes very it's a very Eastern approach to it so and that philosophy works really well with the elar specifically it kind of works with a human lifespan because you dedicate 10 years of your life to something you'll be fantastic at it you'll be great at it the problem is you got like 10 of those tops and two of them you're spent developing the other two you're probably not in good health so really you got six of them left you know yeah so good luck spending all 10 years there are limits to this and you also want to have fun too you know it can't just be work till I die we don't have sesh staring at us all the time and so there are some holes with that that aren't compatible with a normal human lifespan that the eldar's lifespan fixes because an Eldar can have a teenage rebellious phase can go fight in multiple Wars and then still dedicate a century to mastering a craft and still have a long life after that they could do all of that and be the equivalent of an lar 24 so it works really well for them and that's something you have to remember as you go down these paths is it sounds like how the hell are you supposed to master this and then move on it's a whole lifespan's worth of work and it is a human lifespan's worth of work and then some they just live a lot longer than we do I I I I do I do really really like uh that that's a common or not not even common I put it to the level of consistent a consistent character trait when it comes to elves is yeah sure you've got the like staring down their noses just like full full eccentric uh uh pretentious [ __ ] that are they are still pretentious I promise you that but the consistency is like I I it's sometimes it's kind kind kind of earned because they've lived so many so many of your lifespans they can do what you have done 10 times over in your Hundred Years of Living if that mhm I mean my favorite the problem with elves the way they're usually written is they are written about as competent as people are despite being 10 times older you know my favorite way that elves are portrayed is not that they are overly they're not overly filled with hubris per se it's more you go up to them and you say we're going to storm this and he's going to tell you that's a terrible idea because this this this is going to happen because he's already made that same mistake 10 times over then the human doesn't listen and that that that happen and the and the elf just goes I mean I've done this before I've done the song about it it's just it was going to happen like I it's got It's like that old person who can like it's going to rain and five minutes later it starts raining and you're just befuddled at how they managed that but they've lived here for long enough they can tell apply that it's going to rain to literally every aspect of life because they've spent how many hundreds of years living yeah yeah and so that I love the eler p I I again I really like elves cuz it's just of course that's what people would be if we lived for a thousand years boredom would be the main thing we fight if not death yeah you you could dedicate 10 years to I don't know underwater basket weaving just cuz what the what the hell else are you GNA do yeah it has to happen and then when somebody else comes up to you and it's just like I want to try underwater basket weaving you're just like here's what you're going to deal with yeah here's what you're going to or you alternatively get the fun of teaching because half of the fun of knowing something or actually I'm not going to say half the fun but a good chunk of fun is oh my God I know this and you're asking about it oh this is going to be great and if they're passionate and you're passionate too then it just goes on it creates a connection Point immediately so uh they they have every path imaginable you hit the nail on the head from underwater basket weaving to engineering to farming today we're going to be talking about the Warriors because it's 40K we don't see the lar Farm ever we see them stomp face I'd love to see the lar Farms you say the the craft old Eldar at least because they give me the same Vibes of um the quorans from Mass Effect if the quarians weren't constantly having to repair entire chunks of their ships because they're broke well the Eldar aren't broke but they are constantly servicing that ship because it is all they have like you you must understand an lar like green movement save the Earth is like H please patch that hole in the ship this needs to happen dude we're going to we're going to violently depressurize and everybody on the ship is going to die yeah and the problem is those ships are their whole world and then in the center of it is a Shard of their God and everyone who's ever lived on the ship so it's no wonder the Eldar would sacrifice whole swaths of the Galaxy before a single craft world was ever considered to be worth destroying because it's just it's not just a living place it's not just a house it's a home yeah and I mean when you think about how long the average Eldar lives too I mean you can see why they get so pretentious about people because one ELD our life is like 10 human lives 20 human lives lost and so they're like they'll figure it out they'll figure it out it's not our problem listen I I am of the I am the belief that all life is sacred all life is precious but but but but but but but I mean they've been around a while we only last 100 years if that yeah um you can get lost down the path you know and when you do you become like an exarc which is just a workaholic this is all you're ever going to do no matter what and you just love it love it love it to death uh the reason this is not necessarily a good thing is because the theory again is masks I'm supposed to compartmentalize this portion of myself here and this portion of myself here and this portion of myself here and that way I never think about that person staring behind my shoulder from birth till death man I really don't want to think about that cuz they're really only staring at one compartment of me and I can just add more compartments yeah yeah it's it's the difference between oh man I need to stop giving this guy crap because I don't even know the half of it but it's the it's the equivalent of um you know that most actors like disappear into a role reappear disappear into a role reappear right you need to stop giving him you need to I he just sounds like Elvis now and I like I don't it's the best example I have have okay of he has committed to the bit so hard that the bit is now kind of stuck to him and there's nothing inherently wrong with that it's pretty cool that he was able to commit to that level somehow I haven't seen Dune part two yet and I guess he's in Dune part two and I kind of want to hear what he sounds like probably Elvis it's it's that he doesn't play an Elvis style character I can tell you right there he's not the only one either this happens with me method actors too if I remember correctly there was an actor who developed a stutter after playing King who had a stutter and he never had one beforehand so you can just it's a thing that people do you can commit and I hate to use the term commit to the bit because it really does water down the significance of it but I mean it's a good image you can commit to something so hard that you become lost in it in a sense I mean isn't I don't know how valid this Colin Farrell I think is who it was I don't know how valid this uh this uh proposition is but I've heard some people say that uh Heath LED role in uh the Batman playing The Joker kind of screwed with his head a lot entirely Poss which led to his uh mental health issues I I'm not sure I have no idea what kind of stresses he was under but it I mean I heard he was really trying to get into the character there and the Joker is a messed up character well like you look at it to this day it's it's one of those things where somebody changed a character in such a way that it has now kind of changed how everyone sees it that's an impressive thing when you consider he was playing The Joker someone who was really well defined already who had already been around for what 60 70 years oh yeah the Joker's ancient and so it's it's the cost of doing something really really really really really well you have to get lost in it in a sense the problem is when you can't pull back you know and the elar are just as prone to that if not worse because I mean come on the nice thing for the lar is though um when that does happen when someone does get lost and it's say oh he's lost down the path of the warrior fantastic the shrine now has a full-time guard it's great cuz somebody needs to and you you this is all you want to do forever and I don't even know who you are anymore so be be a statue in the 41st Millennium there is only War we don't want for we need more Warriors I'm not going to complain about a surplus and they are also the ones who do the the whole ritual to awaken the Avatar of Kane so he can go out and get his jaw rocked again in this novel uh do they like full C to the lamb where they're just like ah I'm going to sacrifice myself to make the big guy bigger um not quite it's a whole thing we we'll get into that at some other point uh they are also the the ones who are chosen to become the the Phoenix Lords which is the god so remember those pokeballs we mentioned where your soul gets trapped in it and congratulations you get shipped off into a hard drive that's great it's whatever uh what they will do sometimes is they'll just inlay a bunch of those onto set of armor and when you put it on you have the experience of everyone who's died and been captured in those gems effectively while you wear the armor it's really cool you are basically perpetually hooked up to every other Warrior who wore this armor before you very helpful stuff it's the it's armor bound avasar State exactly now there are these things called Phoenix Lords they are the most powerful people and the ones who lead these paths uh they have their own armor and when you put it on you don't exist anymore your information just gets added to theirs and they are functionally back now some of them haven't died but a lot of them have died and all you do is just pick up the armor and throw it on some new work obsessed guy call good and he's back now and that's a whole thing whenever one comes back because they can accomplish a lot yeah some of them have struck fear into night Lord's Hearts others are faded to burn the whole galaxy to the ground and then some I'm still jar we talked about it in the patreon video I'm still Jarred about the Striking fear into their hearts yeah others have gone into the warp and back out dragging whole worlds with them effectively I mean they are so competent but there's only seven of them so they they're they're like El Prime marks I'll be dead honest that's basically what they are you need someone immensely powerful to have their like a soul strong enough to just subsume somebody else yeah immediately there's no debate you don't get a chance you don't get to oh wait but like I could nope doesn't matter all you know is now all I know moving on I it's the difference between armor found Avatar State and Abominations from tun I don't know ding so people who it's a long story it's a long story we need to watch Dune 2 yeah at some point um first up is the dire Avengers they are lar ultramarines I see of it blueberries all across the Galaxy they are named after some of the oldest I mean uh their Phoenix Lord is named after one of their older gods and so they're kind of like the first in if that makes sense um but they are just really well-rounded you know um they're not inherently good at any one thing they are just really good at everything and so you will see them the most just scattered in with armies because they're that useful they know the best I've heard it described is they are they can listen to the music of war and tell the Rhythm they are the ultramarines yeah pretty much some sometimes you don't need to say more than what's on the 10 are they blue too I don't remember they are blue of course they are a Games Workshop has their favorites don't they Blue's a lucky they really like James in his Workshop really do love the color blue Blue's a lucky color what I say I I can't I can't remember cuz lar have a lot of different color schemes but yeah it is actually blue they are seen as the elite of the elite they're usually seen kind of noble you you know this song and dance before the ultramarines heard but I do like I truly like the way it's described because it's not necessarily like the ultramarines where you will hear them think and it's theoretical practical theoretical practical it's very like I know how to think I was taught how to think in school and I am thinking according to what school taught me for them it's more like oh I I know the beat of this song and uh throw this in oh that works great with it it it is intuitive to the it's to the ultramarines logic gates the uh what are they called again the dire Avengers the dire Avengers are like chefs yeah yeah it's just like this could use a little bit a pinch more salt I I would say it kind of makes them feel like they're better at their job than the ultramarines because ultramarines have to think really hard it takes quite a bit of it takes that that that brow gets furrowed they use every wrinkle up there uh the the every time you see the dire Avengers described it just it it's natural to them is what it feels like almost they just know how to do this and I mean think about it they have a couple hundred well some of them have a couple hundred years on the ultramarine so yeah it would become natural become second nature to them I'd I'd imagine if an ultramarine had the same amount of time as an Eldar did it would become the same level of natural to them well at some point it depends cuz again Eldar feel things much more more than even Marines do so this it could just it could be how they maybe an ultramarine psycher no I think it could be a difference in how they rationalize it where ultramarines are aware of the underlying logic and maybe they're just they don't need to they I I know this song I can one of them is more left brain one of them is more right brain yeah either way it accomplishes the task and who's going to complain about it downside is it is an lar Force they do not win often uh not often at all however it's not like you ever see a full Army of them again they're scattered in with other things so their reputation stays unscathed they they they stick around just kind of like supporting generals like you need tactical advice I can give you that yep uh next up is the howling banshees most of their most of them are female actually there there are some guys in here but most of them are female and their main stick is a very elite melee Force you kind of really do not want to be near ever um they are called The Howling banshees because they have this shriek that is just genuinely mortifying for that's this the these These are the gals that made the night Lords feel a little bit of fear it's it's them yeah um it it is said that what their cries Herald nothing but death and Misfortune and the Eldar even think that when they like full bore or howling it can steal your soul so it's not great it's really and I don't mean I don't mean the Shang Tsung your soul is m r no I mean they can yank your soul out just enough for that person who's been watching this whole time to grab it oh oh yeah oh yeah oh I see they are really scary that's horrific yeah cuz it's not what I'm going to do to you it's what they're going to do to you they are they are fear incarnate they are icious and they represent um well what seeing Kane might feel like just ah great yeah this is this awesome this is not going to end well um next up is the souping Hawks they have some fun imagery bird people I assume uh they're yeah they're aeriel they're jump Troopers um but they are named after a bird in alari mythology which would just be this basically if you murdered someone their Spirit would go into a hawk and that Hawk would Circle you until you died which is that's a cool myth I like that myth that so tough it's a very fun myth that is such a good oh this guy's guilty immediately and so that is what they that is what they tend to do they tend to be that Hawk swooping around the guilty except um instead of just being this Omen that oh my God they did it it's more they just kill you yeah no it's more the Hawks getting Vengeance now now uh they their their Phoenix Lord is one of the more fun ones he's described as the fastest lar which is just saying so much because they're already I mean look at the they're very live and very they're superum Eldar will regularly be so fast that Marines need to go okay hold on let me Focus up here you know you know when you're playing a rhythm game and it's like whoa who okay okay I can I can keep up with this but now I'm thinking no no it's the difference between you're you're you're playing a fighting game with your your your little sibling or something and then they're like oh I beat you after you go easy on them and then you hit the yeah you lean forward yeah I love the lean forward yeah cuz I mean anyone who's played fighting games with anyone and they were holding back only to be told I beat you immediately leans forward you see the lean forward you it's it's over start crying now yeah immediately uh he's also very jovial and tends to be very happy and just the sight of him tends to make the Eldar immediately think oh we've won he's here and to be fair he's one of those Phoenix Lords that we've never had to recover his armor yeah he has lived through it all since the beginning I would assume it's cuz to kill him you have to catch him and to catch him good luck good good luck with that good luck so uh they they are so much fun and I really want to see more of them but we don't get to see too much of them sadly that sounds like I like the sound of them they're so much fun uh next up is the fire dragons under Fen Fen yeah I mean you can you can tell can you fego they they're the fire division they are the Napal division they are the war crimes division there's no there's every faction needs one they're the Ford Pinto division yeah yeah yeah yeah it's um only like five people will get that no if you've driven a car in America you will probably get that and if you haven't gone we should look it up uh uh they they are very they're fairly slow but again slow by Eldar standards so still much faster than most things um they will use explosives they you basically want to send these guys when the enem is fortified and the reason I quite like them the most is because fyan is destined to be the last of the Eldar apparently um they have their own version of Ragnarok it's all gonna end terribly every Eldar is gonna die every chaos God's gonna die everyone's gonna die but this guy will die but he'll be the last of them he'll be the last one to die he'll be going down fighting yeah no his his every every Eldar is destined to do something and the main shtick of it Cliff Notes is all the alar will die and that is a cost of permanently killing chaos which is again pretty cool the reason fuan matters so much to that is because he's fated to bind their concept of Destruction under his will and then wage a war against all of the eldar's enemies which is everything not elar and win before finally Landing the last blow and dying afterwards his again I think I mentioned this in the patreon video his entire gimmick is I'm going to kill all of you and then myself and I mean you look at the guy I mean he does not show up often but when he does he can look at whole battle lines and all of your skin will start to sizzle oh that's awesome I love that and depending on who it is that that totally does not make my skin crawl at all I mean for most humans that's it congratulations the elar one um a lot of the time Marines will do that and just eh whatever because Marines are just such listen Maybe maybe maybe it's cuz I'm like some form of made but I cannot I cannot tank out uh a full body third degree burns well Space Marines are supposed to um I am not a Space Marine they they do also get used in negotiation because uh one of my favorite uh lar negotiation tactics is um Rog this has happened once before a rogue Trader arrives to negotiate with the Eldar because they can do that they have the power to do that and the Eldar are rational beings they will cut a deal and so they go do that and as they're approaching the bargaining table uh the as as as they're approaching the bargaining table uh the fire dragons sneak on board the ship and detonate in a spectacular manner fundamentally altering the amount of Leverage every party at the table now has that didn't do it little underhanded but a Deal's a deal that'll do it you have no ships you have no guns you have no crew now let's talk the fire dragons the art of the deal it's your of the deal it's such a fun and it also shows again how kind of pretentious the alar can be cuz they don't even respect you enough to actually negotiate they just look look look look that thing that escaped the zoo exhibit is going to think it's so high and mighty and it's going to try and make a hard deal and whatever whatever whatever I just want to buy the car at that price so blow up his car and then if he wants a ride home he can sell me the car they're so full of themselves it is so much fun uh next up is the in scorpions and they are all about landing on your enemy as hard as you possibly can it is the Acme Anvil kind of thing uh if which I'm not going to lie uh most of the um most of the animal allegories here have made sense except for the I'm not going to lie this one doesn't make a lot of sense to me maybe it's just cuz I hate scorpions um imagine you're a scorpion sized thing and then you get hit by its stinger once fair enough you know it's it's the if if you are to speak softly and carry a big stick this is the big stick yeah it is sudden it is brutal and they have the unique privilege of having the only Phoenix Lord who has kind of fall into chaos kind of kind of he's not with the dark elar he's off doing his own thing he's become an incubus it's fun for the whole thing not fun for the whole family no not fun for the whole family um maybe fun for him nobody else nobody else at all nobody helps they have a new leader and they're now a bit more tempered but when they still land on you they they still land on you uh this has given them a unique chip on their shoulder though because um I've said this before I will say it again the lar are very full of themselves meaning that they will work together even if they don't agree because I'd rather work with that than whatever the hell that is that is right and so a lot of the time the Eldar the Amish Eldar will work with the World Eldar will work with the dark lar to accomplish something just on a look we're all lar here she's watching they're watching all of us man okay just can we please knock this out and everyone will go whatever yeah whatever whatever sure let's knock this out it's either that or I work with the Imperium and I don't want to do that nobody wants to do that at least no Eldar wants to do that the Striking scorpions hate that though they do not want to work with the dark elar at all they they would almost rather work with the Imperial well to be fair to be fair to be fair if your partner cheated on you with your best friend you're no longer friends with your best friend no no like they can go do their own thing you're going to move on yeah pretty much that makes sense um next up is the dark Reapers they've become so numb it's nothing but Edge it's nothing nothing but Edge Edge uh they have the unique privilege of having the only other Phoenix Lord who has not had to have his armor recovered he's himothy he has always had it on from he does not need a replacement he is perfectly fine he's also the only Eldar who is incapable of taking a loss incapable he does not understand the meaning of those words he only goes out and wins they represent Kane as a destroyer they accomplish that real hard they have some of the most heavy weaponry imaginable they have some of the most heavy armors imaginable and the Phoenix Lord at the head of it all has some tangible genuinely only lar winds under his belt and a gun scythe and a gun Scythe which is really cool and really edgy it's doesn't make it any less cool he really has become so numb yeah no he he has when everyone else is so busy with the 13th Black Crusade he dove into the eye of Terror to get his Craft World back and did so completely ignoring everything so cool and he only with each as time passes in 40K he only gets more and more menacing and so I am here for it next up are the knights and shining armor they're The Shining Spears their whole gimmick is they just ride in on jet bikes and and massive massive lances and just kind of skewer everything run back around skewer everything run back around it's very the nights of old where you're not changing how this battle is going very much but also man oh man am I glad that you're on my side because that's a big Lance and if it touched me I'd be dead it's like the sweeping Cavalry you use them as a sweeper yeah yeah their whole thing is basically Kane the hero that that that feeling of oh thank God he's here you're all dead now and that is what they're meant to represent sadly there's not too much about them unfortunate warp spiders are the best defense is a good offense I saw some art of these guys they look so Co very cool uh what they're named after is even cooler because remember how everyone dies goes onto a flash drive and then it's plugged into the massive massive data bank with everyone's soul in it yes sometimes demons get in there oh sometimes other things get in there that sounds like it's a bad time yeah um it not really because they have these things called warp spiders that live in there and they look for Souls that don't Bel along and if they do they will just eat it wholesale really and it's described as one demon pops up they just swarm around it and kill it it's it's very much so like you know how bees kill a wasp by swarming around it heating it up and then it dies yeah yeah okay yeah that's really cool but with psychic energy um so that's what these guys are named after and again they represent best defense great offense so you show up on an log world and they teleport behind you nothing Personnel kiddo you are dead so fast you like yeah sure walls are great they're super neat do you need listen listen listen listen listen listen listen do you need a front door if every time someone you didn't want to walked in had their neck broken like yeah sure it makes delivering mail way more Hazard us but like I don't need a friend door now and that's the approach they take of you arrived dead you just have to make sure that you leave a note for your Amazon delivery driver to not leave it on the inside stoop leave it on the stairs um yeah yeah that's perfect that's good no no no no no just keep don't don't get any closer don't get any closer go back to the car trust need put it in the door just trust just trust uh the way they accomplish this is even it's even cooler than that because they jump through the warp to get to you which the elar are very visible in the warp they're going right to where they they lurk and are watching and every time they do that they run the risk of sles just getting them yeah I was going to say that's some risky business right there yeah and it's even represented on the tabletop where there's a one in six chance they'll jump dead disappear gone slash got them that's whoops really cool it's so cool it's really cool they are very heavily respected among all of the shrines because y oh you're taking the biggest risk here yeah technically you're compartmentalizing yourself soes can't get to you but you're compartmentalizing yourself on their front lawn like that is so much sketchier it's it's like having a stalker and the only way you can get places is by moving through their living room frightening it's so cool uh and we also don't know who their Phoenix Lord is there's a chance no not at all there's a chance they were gotten by slesh we don't know okay yeah they just okay it's so cool that I think I found my new favorite aspect of the aspect Warriors um the next up are the shadow specters uh they're they have jump packs and they are really really re they're basically tank snipers for lack of a better term um they have these beam rifles that they can use and the most fun thing thing about it is they can join all the beams together to make one bigger beam oh they uh cross the streams yes uh there's not much more to them other than that I'll be dead honest some of these guys are kind of new and as such we don't have much on them another fairly new ones are the Crimson Hunters uh they're it's Top Gun it's it's way to yeah the these are the guys who we talked about in the patreon video and I said somebody if it's if it's a Top Gun somebody needs to make a custom army where it's just everybody in uh beach volleyball Garb yep the these are the guys uh they are all about Airborne Pursuit and superiority and they are really new so we don't know much more than that they do I mean they they do dominate in the air that much is known and they do use really really powerful Weaponry it's it's as as Air Forces oftentimes do yeah yeah I mean think of the A10 W A10 warthogs gun it's more of a gun with wings pretty much that's what that's I mean hell even the even the f-16's minigun is jarring and and the nicest thing about all these paths is so long as you don't commit to the bit too hard you can serve in multiple different ways the main thing about the paths is it makes you far more competent in complete Warrior um because you kind of don't need to give a PTSD says who is a effectively what the The Masks serve to accomplish it's detaching yourself from the action you are committing so that you are not personally harmed by and especially when it comes to the Eldar who feel things very intensely if they didn't put on this put on their Warface effectively to fight they wouldn't accomplish a thing listen listen the the the dude who has committed uh uh these atrocities and has like uh some sort of uh stress disorder over it is four compartments over there yeah it's not me you're talking to different comp compartment right now it it's that is not that is not who I am that is just something I am capable of and they they cope basically like that and if I mean listen war is hell for everyone involved and we already feel really badly once you go in and out of it but imagine for example you could murder someone on the battlefield effectively and physically feel what they're feeling in that moment feel their soul slipping away tangibly I'm not talking like it's one thing to look up another human in the eye and see the light fading that's horrific that is horrific I'm talking you can tangibly feel it too you can see why the art need to just kind of that's compartmentalize that's not who I am this is just something I can do job I can do and that's how I do it and um when they have to draft Eldar hor not on the path to accomplish a task because sometimes they do sometimes there's not enough people present currently um they have psychers in the background Just sh don't think about it sh don't think about it sh don't think about it just effectively shielding their minds so that they don't cuz if they didn't do that an Eldar would land One Kill Shot immediately break down crying immediately break down crying and be useless for the rest of their lives as they unpack this yeah because they're so like psychically empathetic that like oh I felt that dude's head blow up as I blew it up yeah mhm it's and this I love it when they delve into this with Pyers how horrific it can be because like the Thousand Suns occasionally will get ready to shoot someone and they will foresee exactly how it's going to go before it happens and it kind of messes with you it really it's one thing to pull the trigger and then see it happen and go oh that's horrific it's another to know this is exactly how I need to do it and then look at them still alive looking at you it's just like I see myself killing you yeah yeah being a psycher is not always great it's it's it's kind of a raw deal actually a lot of the time yeah sure lightening out the fingertips super fun whatever uh it's kind of a raw deal it can be a really tough time cuz you feel everything that you feel every death around you and also you have a badge on your lapel that says State sanctioned yeah which is not great not not well in the Imperium anyway the elor are more like a we know it's whatever because the ELD are all technically psychers to some extent they're just I love the lar because your average lar is what humans would consider a pyer and the best of the best that the lar have can plan by seeing into the future thousands of years like there there are whole orc Wars that have been redirected at humans because one guy sat down on H that's going to happen that's where they're going let's that may chip the paint on my 98 Honda craft world and So to avoid that from on the craft world and So to avoid my craft world from getting even maybe scratched let us blow up that planet which will then launch debris at that planet which will then knock it off kilter affecting the gravity on that planet which will then redirect their ship toward that planet which is going to be a hell of a fight and the humans have Marines anyway it's fine and this is just a thing there are so many conflicts that work out too and this this is the other this is the other shoe dropping for the alar because for every time they lose there's 101 conflicts you could look at and go H that trick out too well for you why did that trick out so well for you you weren't even involved there was somebody in the background who had uh foreseen this a thousand years ago and H looks like I'm going to be late to school in 3 weeks' be a shame if all the doors just wouldn't open one day weird weird all the locks were changed so nobody could open them massive power outage you say darn guess I won't have to make it so shreds you say yeah I that's the that's the fun of the lar there's also 101 other paths we didn't cover there's a path of command which you want to guess they make the best generals yeah pretty much uh you served in one aspect path and now you want to like oversee and Grand strategize the path of command sounds like a mechanic from a video game I've played before probably um there's also the path of the outcast which is okay are you are you an lar Rogue Trader now no it is so much cooler than that and a sign of a very functional Society it is the lar acknowledging that teenagers are [ __ ] and so they've provided them with a path where you can go off and be edgy I don't care uh and then you can figure it out do you want to come back to the craft world or do you want to go off and live a swash buck life doesn't matter to me and so they have that path and that way there's still like guard rails for the kid kid it could be a 200-year old person but there's still guard rails for the kid so that the second they leave slanesh doesn't just immediately grab them and take them away and that's so cool to me it's actually how you get like an Eldar in your party in the Rogue Trader game really they're an outcast oh mhm they're a reckless rebelling teenager yeah it's like no Mom I don't want to live on this craft I'm going to go off and do my own thing I'll get my own ship with Blackjack and I can't finish that line that Eldar is literally a minor stop well again they maybe just have the black check and that's if that's legal in their craft world yeah uh there is the path to uh well this is the path I was mentioning earlier where you can just see the future and the the The Logical extremes of this path are so ridiculous it's so so funny to me man you're preent up to a thousand years in it is it is it is listen Humanity has their moments of I can see where your sword's going to swing and I can dodge it perfectly these guys are Leaps and Bounds Beyond they know that you will beat them in a sword fight therefore they will kill your grandfather's best friend that way you never get introduced to your grandmother and they never hook up and you never happen oh because yeah I could sit there and H I can see your sword swings and I will Dodge them all before they happen or I could prevent you altogether H yeah it's scary it is hard proper good future sight to be fair there's only one guy who's that good and he's kind of a knob but man is he he'd be the guy who's just like that dude that dude's going to Dent my S2000 in 4,000 years I'm going to kill his bloodline yeah well and the problem with him specifically is um writing for him is exceptionally difficult because he's redirected whole Wars he can see thousands of years into the future and still gets beaten pretty regularly yeah and so sometimes sometimes the writers will want him nearby and this is make it make sense no this is let me be clear this is not me sliding any writers because oh gamees no that's a difficult character to write for it's just genuinely how okay cool this is the alar don't have that many named characters to begin with and people do like this character so I want to involve them in the novel and this is a story that they would be involved in but how the hell do I have him here and like not win immediately it's same problem Magnus has where he can never be anywhere because he's going to win two handly he should have seen this event a thousand years ago and planned for it and will win the the highest of the highest when it comes to psychers are a pain to write for no absolutely why Magnus regularly just kind of gets unsatisfactory win losses where he wins by body count but technically he's banished back into the warp with the sentence and all was according to plan and it's like was it was it you got thrown off sound C it sounds like cope and and so it's it's it's really genuinely tough to write for him I find he is best written about when he's not near the fight per se but actively still having an effect on it you know there's a few there's a few moments where the Eldar have won and it's very heavily implied because something he did like 500 years ago led to this I think it would be and that's the best way to do him I think it would be very cool to have him have like a struggle against like fate or something MH like a a Xenoblade Chronicles moment where he can see the future but like he can try and change it but how much can he do before it's like this is impossible this is fate well that would be fun the problem is he's again he's been written too competently no he's I'm not talking oh I it's not That's So Raven zoom into his eye sees an event and zooms out it is oh that's going to happen what if I take this course of action that'll happen and then if I take this course of action he can see he's so far ahead he's so many steps ahead he can explore the paths if he so chooses in some cases how do you write that genuinely you can't it's like near difficult but when they manage it oh my God is it cool um but before you get to that you have to walk the whole path of the sear to you know be able to see that and do any of that yeah uh and not every Eldar can even get to that level there's a little bit of innate Talent with that guy he's weird yeah yeah he's odd yeah regardless what does matter is they are dying there's no debate the alar on the back foot they are the closest things to the proper Losers of 40K because po because it's not even like they're losing relative to everyone else they're losing relative to themselves look at the highs of the lar nobody comes close not not even close they won they hard had a time period where they were the victors of 40K they they won they won life and then they threw it all away was it worth it it sounds ridiculous but the Eldar kind of peaked in high school it's just high school for them was 10,000 years ago 20 no way really I really hope high schoolers aren doing what the elar were doing H valid point but you're terrible what matters is today they are stuck trying to pick up the pieces and they have 101 ways to try and do that and all of them I love it because in every single path you can feel this there's this tinge of desperation in I just have to do this because if I don't oh my God are things going to get so much worse I just have to do this man if I focus on this maybe things will get better hopefully if not that f I will at least get everyone else I'm part of a Dying species and when I die somebody's going to snatch my soul out of me and do things with it things things but yeah that does bring an end to this episode you again have those two choices it is the Jean Steelers and abidon and then one of them will disappear forever never to be seen again until the 13th poll Jesus you're aggressive I I'm not putting any fingers on this k vote however you wish um any excuse to see Kota not wear the full Jean outfit would be fantastic I will I will I will even pull out the Jean shoes and I will put my feet on the desk thank you so much for watching this episode and as always thank you for being [Music] [Music] here for [Music] [Music] [Music] 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