Dishonoredbr
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MUTANTWITCHWhy mutant, rather than witch?
Technically, psionic capability is a mutation. Witchcraft is a means for anyone to imitate those abilities. Not that your regular Imperial subject would know enough to tell the difference. Indeed "witch" would have been more fitting.Why mutant, rather than witch?
Where are Imperial X-men when you need them?!Technically, psionic capability is a mutation. Witchcraft is a means for anyone to imitate those abilities. Not that your regular Imperial subject would know enough to tell the difference. Indeed "witch" would have been more fitting.Why mutant, rather than witch?
Technically, psionic capability is a mutation. Witchcraft is a means for anyone to imitate those abilities. Not that your regular Imperial subject would know enough to tell the difference. Indeed "witch" would have been more fitting.Why mutant, rather than witch?
You don't have to be a psyker to learn chaos magic.Why mutant, rather than witch?
just very gayYou don't have to be a psyker to learn chaos magic.Why mutant, rather than witch?
Get better?Technically, psionic capability is a mutation. Witchcraft is a means for anyone to imitate those abilities. Not that your regular Imperial subject would know enough to tell the difference. Indeed "witch" would have been more fitting.Why mutant, rather than witch?
so what do you psyker capable of turning you into a newt ?
Is it? It's news to me.Afaik, it comes down to something simple.There is already datemine info that you can get him to switch to using a soulstone so most likely he does have a redemption arc of some kind.I'm curious to see how they write the dark eldar romance because it should ended the same way as Morinith romance from ME2, except it will feature a longer and more painful death.
A reminder that the definition between eldar and dark eldar is very weak and they cross over all the time.
A dark eldars soul is fully claimed by slaanesh, in the sense of sitting in its palace and being tormented.
A dark eldars soul is fully claimed by slaanesh, in the sense of sitting in its palace and being tormented.
Technically, Dark Eldar possess souls as normal, but their soul energy is constantly drained by Slaanesh, and replenished by consuming the soul energies of others.
Their souls are only claimed by Slaanesh after they die.
They don't use soulstones because a) they don't have (easy) access to them, b) most of the things DE do would sever their connection to a soulstone even if they formed one, and c) they see them as a weak solution to the problem, when soul consumption grants them effective immortality.
To be fair, most regular eldar don't use psychic powers either. It's kinda just the warlocks/farseers?
- But regular eldar can use them because of spirit stones
I believe the Slaanesh event happened because a large majority of planet based Elves were already full-on sadists and Slaanesh was the manifestation of their tastes rather than something forced on them. It is only the craftworld Eldar who are willing and able to resist the corruption, along with the smaller group of Harlequins who are protected by the laughing god.
See, this is dumb, because it's supposed to be more nuanced and reversed causality. The pre-fall eldar were horrendously decadent and perverse, and their centuries, species wide kink orgies is what created slaanesh. But slaanesh is not the god of torture porn, shem is the god of excess*. The dark eldar culture their all their perversity towards torture because it was the only way to gain reprieve from slaanesh. Craftworld and exodite eldar survived unscathed due to their distance to standard eldar culture, being essentially the hippies and amish of the eldar race.This is all just to justify their S&M hedonist torture culture btw.
It's dumb, but you go on one little harmless century long torture rape bender and people stereotype you as a murderer rapist.To be fair, most regular eldar don't use psychic powers either. It's kinda just the warlocks/farseers?
- But regular eldar can use them because of spirit stones
I think it could be argued that this is because the birth of slaanesh fucked up the warp hard (this is at least somewhat canon iirc, the birth of slaanesh coincided with major warp storms spawning in real space), so as a race they lost a lot of their powers.
I believe the Slaanesh event happened because a large majority of planet based Elves were already full-on sadists and Slaanesh was the manifestation of their tastes rather than something forced on them. It is only the craftworld Eldar who are willing and able to resist the corruption, along with the smaller group of Harlequins who are protected by the laughing god.See, this is dumb, because it's supposed to be more nuanced and reversed causality. The pre-fall eldar were horrendously decadent and perverse, and their centuries, species wide kink orgies is what created slaanesh. But slaanesh is not the god of torture porn, shem is the god of excess*. The dark eldar culture their all their perversity towards torture because it was the only way to gain reprieve from slaanesh. Craftworld and exodite eldar survived unscathed due to their distance to standard eldar culture, being essentially the hippies and amish of the eldar race.This is all just to justify their S&M hedonist torture culture btw.
Harlequins are a bit of a special case. Iirc in order to become a harlequin they have to let themselves be possessed by a slaaneshi daemon and cast it out through pure willpower. Doing so nullifies any claim slaanesh has on their soul, so they can roam free without soulstone or torture.
*Slaanesh I think is the most misunderstood chaos god, and tends to be simplified a lot. For a good description I recommend the opening lore blurb of the tome of excess black crusade supplement.
The problem with Eldar is that they very easily become obsessive-compulsive-autistic about things. All things. Hence why Craftworld Eldar use the path system to do one thing for a while and then switch to a different path before they overdo it. Excess is built into the race.But slaanesh is not the god of torture porn, shem is the god of excess
What you're describing there is the Solitaire, which is the member of a Harlequin troupe that represents Slaanesh in their performances. Because Harlequin performances are some kind of weird reflection of history, the Solitaire, by being the one to represent Slaanesh, forever damns their soul to Slaanesh with no hope of safety once the Solitaire dies.Harlequins are a bit of a special case. Iirc in order to become a harlequin they have to let themselves be possessed by a slaaneshi daemon and cast it out through pure willpower. Doing so nullifies any claim slaanesh has on their soul, so they can roam free without soulstone or torture.
This is the correct way of looking at both the Eldar and Slaanesh. The Eldar experience everything a thousand times more potently than a human does, from physical sensation to emotional response. Slaanesh is just the manifestation of that mindset - Do everything, do anything, to the point that it becomes an obsession, that it consumes you. This is what the Craftworlders seek to avoid with their rules.The problem with Eldar is that they very easily become obsessive-compulsive-autistic about things. All things. Hence why Craftworld Eldar use the path system to do one thing for a while and then switch to a different path before they overdo it. Excess is built into the race.But slaanesh is not the god of torture porn, shem is the god of excess
They can, as explained, but they LIKE their grimderp. In newer editions, they physically need to cause pain or they wither to death, not sure if it's related to SlaaIf dark eldar could just equip a soulstone to escape eternal torment by slaanesh they would, anything else is retardo grimdark.
They don't use psykers cuz their culture loathes them, but they can use super-psychic artifacts just fine, like a portable small mirror that traps your reflection and, upon shattering the mirror, causes physical wounds to the target (shame the weapon was underwhelming in the pnp). Or that magical sword that absorbs moisture that can turn someone to dust upon critting, insta-killing the target.
- Can't use them due to slutdemons homing in on your location
Remember they were supposed to be a weapon race that was forgotten about. No wonder they are insane.This is the correct way of looking at both the Eldar and Slaanesh.
Hm... that'd be news to me at least. Laughing god influence was what I remembered.Harlequins are a bit of a special case. Iirc in order to become a harlequin they have to let themselves be possessed by a slaaneshi daemon and cast it out through pure willpower. Doing so nullifies any claim slaanesh has on their soul, so they can roam free without soulstone or torture.