For use in: >>46326422
For Eons we have kept silent watch over this Galaxy, cast down from heights your primitive minds cannot even begin to imagine. Roll the bones and give me a 1d10 to determine when the Imperium of man encountered this craftworld first.
Rolled 8 (1d10)
>>46344820
>>46344837
M39. Fairly recently relatively speaking, but these Eldar have been interacting with humans for at least 2000+ years. D8 for the biome of our ship home
>>46344884
A WRAITHGUARD FOR ANTS!
Rolled 3 (1d8)
>>46344862
>>46344939
Ice/Tundra. Willingly no less we are space snow elves, living in glittering spires of ice and permafrost.
Every Eldar lives upon a path that dictates the direction of their lives, to prevent distraction and degeneracy. Roll d10 to determine what the most common path on our craft world is
Rolled 9 (1d10)
>>46345021
>>46345047
9 gives us the paths of awakening/dreaming
Path of Awakening: Eldar on this Path learn to notice details that even other Eldar would miss. It is the opposite of the Path of Dreaming.
Path of Dreaming: Eldar on this Path learn to control their dreams. It is the opposite of the Path of Awakening.
Perhaps half or more of our number are in a meditative, hibernational slumber at any given time, letting centuries slip by in order to centre the self or deny she who thirsts their passions. Or perhaps it relates to prophecy and prophetic dreams? In any case, d10 for our military strength
Rolled 2 (1d10)
>>46345090
>>46345133
In terms of fighting populace, our numbers are Endangered. Perhaps this is because the bulk of the Eldar slumber, waiting for a time when it is safe for the people yet again. Our army is small, but each of them is likely to be worth 10 times a lesser races soldier. D8 for favored tactics
>>46344884
why do your images always seem to be so tiny?
Rolled 7 (1d8)
>>46345176
better not be some variation of guerrilla warfare
>>46345200
Phone. Accidentally licking shitty tiny pics
>>46345202
Nope nyukka SHOCK AND FUCKING AWE NUMBERS WHO GIVES A FUCK HIT HARD AND FAST AND THEY'LL THINK YOURE A LEGION
D10 for favored units
Rolled 5 (1d10)
>>46345239
>>46345250
Muthafucking jetbikes. We ice cavalry. Elf Knights. D10 for most common aspect warrior
Rolled 5 (1d10)
>>46345358
>>46345365
Howling banshees. Considering shock and awe, works well
Screaming sexy Eldar ice Knights. D10, who was/is our craftworlds greatest hero?
Rolled 8 (1d10)
>>46345430
>>46345452
Our hero is an autarch, a master of all forms of war. D8 for their deeds of legend
Rolled 6 (1d8)
>>46345497
>>46345511
Damn can we roll to see if he/she/it dies or not?
>>46345511
Fended off an Imperial invasion of the Craftworld, personally slaying hundreds of Space Marines, only to fall in a doomed raiding party to exact vengeance. This could explain why our military is so small, OR, such a sacrifice was necessary because the bulk of the craftworlds warriors slumber.
>>46345530
Sure, roll a d100, 50 or above the autarch survived.
Rolled 28 (1d100)
>>46345547
Rolled 35 (1d100)
>>46345547
>>46345556
RIP in peace anon, unless someone else wants to take a shot
>>46345568
>>46345556
Double ded, the dice have spoken.
1d8, who are our most useful pawns?
Rolled 4 (1d8)
>>46345590
>>46345595
Guess what we just rolled MINOR ALIENS
Now given the context of the system, we can roll for results, OR, choose the Hrud who are infesting part of the system. Thoughts?
Rolled 91 (1d100)
>>46345613
rolling.
>>46345626
What the fuck.is a xenarch?
>>46345649
From Lexicanum:
Xenarch
The Xenarch are an isolationist warp-worshiping xenos species whose empire is believed to reside in the Galactic north.[1]
Overview
It is rumoured that they are able to generate biological electro-plasma and are known to have created devices of an unknown alloy known as Xenarch Conduction Spines designed to focus as well as generate energy directly from Xenarch biology.[1] Their electrical weapons became highly prized as they utilized charge cells and capacitators that were beyond the capabilities of the Adeptus Mechanicus to manufacture.[2] One of their most notable weapons is the Xenarch death-arc, a rifle-sized weapon that unleashes a series of arcing bolts of lightning.[3]
Little contact had been made between the Imperium and the shadowy Xenarch empire that is located in the Northern Rim.[2] In 989.M41, Helbrecht of the Black Templars Chapter was responsible for the final subjugation of the Xenarch in the Sigilare Nebula.[4]
>>46345665
Interesting. Does anyone know where our fan system is located? Is it near the northern rim?
It looks like there was a xenarch fandex at one point but it's kill. Should we reroll or out this part on hold for now? I hate to chicken out when the dice give us a really rare outcome
>>46345775
Depends on where they're native to
So is anyone else thinking Simone Bisley-esque power metal elf bitches?
>>46345775
Keep it, we can always say it's a Xenarch expansion.
>>46345806
I was thinking snow elf Knights and elven Amazon's defending their slumbering brethren, who are all loaded into a "dream simulation" of Rana dandra. Basically the whole culture is militarized but only a small percentage are awake, the rest remain in hibernation and train endlessly in their Valhalla dreamscape, preparing for the end times.
Anyway d10 for our bitterest enemy, though we have a lot of potential choices in this system!
>>46345842
Snow elf amazon knights made me think of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt6VebqhTUE
Rolled 10 (1d10)
>>46345891
Rolled 1 (1d10)
>>46345891
Show me potato salad!
>>46345921
Roll twice. We have two bitterest enemies. 2d10!
>>46345927
You got Orks that's boring so I'm going with the reroll
Rolled 1, 6 = 7 (2d10)
>>46345944
>>46345992
Seems like fate really wants this Craftworld to hate the Orks.
Rolled 3, 2 = 5 (2d10)
>>46346103
Fuck fate.
>snow eldars that spend almost all their lives slumbering or meditating, thus in the times they spend awake they spend them being REALLY awake and making damn everyone else well aware that you have woken up and you are the kind of eldar that is angry in the morning
I like where this is going
>>46345992
Orks (again so it must be fate) and demons
>>46332013
For those not in the know, Grimsnagas waaagh is planning to rip a hole into the warp to go after and rescue/join Tuska the demon slayer from Khornes world. His whole impetus for being in the system is someone stole the very important pain engine he needs for his waaaghritual. someone. Perhaps it was these Eldar, trying to keep them from joining or strengthening their daemonic enemies. Or it could've been the dark Eldar stealing back whats theirs ( still have to roll them)
In any case , Eldar have been raiding human worlds in this system for quite some time. And their autarch hero was killed by the Imperium. And they hate orks. And they hate demons
But they're "allied" with the minor xenos race the Xenarch.
...maybe they're loosely affiliated with the Tau expansion here? Or the Eldar could be opening up a flank on both the humans and the Orks at the upper left corner by warp gating in Xenarchs, who are watp worshippers anyway so if they die, good.
Basically we want EVERYONE in this fucking system to die and will play them off each other to do it.
>>46346192
We got SM and IG with >>46346174
>>46346192
Maybe the inhabitants of this craftworld are descendants of the original rulers of this region of space during the reign of the Eldar Empire, and they see themselves as the rightful heirs to the sector? Thus, they have a zealous drive to wipe out nearly any other faction in Vasenica, which, in turn, is partly why they're low in numbers.
>>46346253
Fuck it we're at war with everyone. They can all die. But where do the Xenarchs come in?
>>46346316
We're gonna have the humans fight the humans, the Orks fight the 'Nids, the Necrons fight the Hrud, then have the Xenarchs fight the Tau. But the Xenarchs aren't in a good place to fight the Tau right now, so we gotta give them a hand so they're strong enough to die while killing all the Tau.
>>46346316
I suppose it kinda depends on how far their "Warp worshipping" goes. Maybe, due to the Eldar's strong command with psychic powers, the Xenarch worship them as demigods of sorts, and the Craftworlders see their religious compliance as acceptable pawnhood or vassalage.
If their Warp worship goes full Chaos, maybe the Craftworlders are only using them temporarily to get an upper-hand on the other mortal species in the sector, or the Craftworlders are in the midst of falling somehow.
>>46346385
Sounds good
>>46346274
Or maybe they just want to go back to sleep.
>>46346182
Yeah, the image of a huge artificial ice wall with hundreds of thousands of eldar frozen in it in rows, a mix between a natural ice sheet, a cryosleep chamber, and a psychic mind link matrix is really awesome. It gives a sense of alienness that you don't often get from vanilla eldar. It's the sort of thing a lost (and very fucked) human explorer could find, wipe some snow away from, realize that the wall is full of frozen faces, and have NO fucking idea what was going on.
>>46346470
Please this be canon now
>>46346470
That is a great fucking idea. Most of the craft world is slumbering in ice, waiting for...something. For the last war with Chaos, or for the Necrons to return, or for the time of the Eldar reascendancy.
>>46346470
You bet your fucking ass
Perhaps the Eldar even have more of their people frozen on Space Siberia or wherever the Death Shroud are headquartered. There's a couple ice worlds in the system, right?
>>46346499
Yeah, assuming it is basically hypertech eldar cryosleep, the question becomes: Eldar are insanely long lived, but these Eldar feel they need to live even longer. That something is worth putting the majority of their civilization in mindlinked suspended animation, almost the infinity circuit while they're still alive. What are they waiting for? What is so fucking important?
Maybe they are pitting the lesser people against each other, not to exterminate them, but to break them down.
They want them broken so they can be rebuilt into good little vassel peoples and servants.
When the Old Empire is remade anew they will need servants.
>>46346553
In my mind it's not necessarily about living longer (though that is a factor) but also protection. The awakened Eldar are protecting the sleepers and their dream. Perhaps they live in a matrix like illusion where all is well, and the Eldar are still unfallen. Maybe they've rejected reality for a dream, and every once in a while they have to wake select Eldar up to replenish the Watchers numbers, but they are loathe to rob them of peace and security. Any Eldar who dies immediately enters the infinity circuit, it goes without saying. Locked in ice and dreaming their peaceful dreams, they are truly safe from Slaanesh
>>46346579
Or, as I've also suggested, they're conserving their numbers for a big fucking war in the future, maybe even the end times
>>46346572
Throw everyone into a blender of the system and dominate whoever's left standing
>>46346553
Repopulation the Old Empire.
The craftworlds population is huge, it's just that most of it is dead but dreaming.
Their prophesy of the Final Battle is slightly different to the ones handed out to the other craftworlds. They are going to survive it and build a perfect kingdom in the rubble after the breaking of all things.
We kinda just made some necrony Eldar didn't we?
>>46346579
That's not bad. A massive pre-fall hallucination. What else could it be...Pooling their psychic energies, perhaps? Maybe frozen at the core of the craftworld is a horrifically powerful and ancient greater demon, and combined energy of the entire craftworld is keeping it bound? Maybe something is wrong with them? Like...a plague, slow acting from a human standpoint but lethal and voracious from the eldar point of view. Maybe vaguely supernatural, like drives you insane before killing you. The Watchers sacrifice their lives, knowing they are doomed to madness and painful death, hoping that they can find a cure for their sleeping brothers and sisters.
It hit me that the themes of elves, long slumbers, hefty xenophobia/territorialism, and warrior women share parallels with Warcraft III era Night Elves.
>>46346627
That might be a grimdark too far for me, I like the idea of it either being a war simulation for the coming battle, or a simulation of the prefall. The awakened cannot re-enter the dream, lest their thoughts touched by the outside world corrupt it
Fuck, maybe the sleepers even date back BEFORE the fall, and have been in cryo sleep since before even the birth of slaanesh, and the watchers just don't have the heart to wake them to... this.
>>46346470
>>46346488
>It's been three days since my last entry in this log. We left the ship, its failing systems no longer keeping the cold at bay, and headed to the distant mountains through the howling winds. As we left I noticed the thin skin separating this strange habit from the void had seemingly healed over the hole made by our falling vessel.
>Lacutius died first, his injuries turning septic. We mumbled some prayers and left his body to the snow. Pellarion died next, the thin fabrics of our clothes doing nothing against frostbite. When we tried to strip his corpse Lethis fought us. Albus stabbed her and we stripped her corpse too.
>I awoke the next day to find that Albus had left and taken our supplies while we slept. We could do nothing but curse him with blackening lips and head onward.
>As the mountains loomed over us Kor collapsed and refused to continue, whispering that he was going to go to sleep for a bit. I nodded, knowingly, and continued forth.
>They are mountains that are not mountains. Strange things growing from underneath the snow wrapped in ice that continue for kilometers into the sky. Faces embedded in the razor-edged ice like glass, their sleeping faces placid and unsettling. I am alone and will die soon, may the ice preserve me for the Emperor will not. The wind has ceased, but the howling continues.
>>46346670
Yeah I got a Nelf vibe early on and I had planned to try and go full viking elf, but then we rolled Jetbikes
>>46346692
Fuck you albus ;-;
>>46346682
While the pre fall simulation is really good generally, my issue with it is that it makes them less proactive than I'd like. If your whole jam is not waking people up, then you'd probably be best off just finding somewhere to hide for the foreseeable forever. That alone pushes me towards the Great Battle idea. They have a lot of scouts, because while farseers are usually right their prophesies are cloaked in mysticism and horseshit, and they REALLY don't want to awaken all the sleepers for a false alarm. They have to be sure it's the fight the farseers saw coming. So they scout, fuck with people, seek the various weird arcane signs they know to look for, and basically shock and awe motherfuckers from the back of jetbikes, swift and deadly as a howling winter storm.
>>46346692
That's some good shit anon.
>>46346733
Your right, they would want to hide and hunker down. But they have only been sighted in the last 2000 years, maybe the stirrings of the Necrons or the ongoing events of the Imperium have finally moved them to act
Your idea is really good too and I think it will be up to consensus because I can go any which way but loose on this
>>46346782
Bringing back >>46346519 for a moment, maybe it is the massive pre-fall matrix, but they have a scattering of linked, frozen outposts that are threatened by the various factions in the sector? The fear of losing minds from the utopia dream would be enough to push them to act.
>>46346782
What do you think it is like, to wake from Paradise and be born anew into a life of misery and death? Does it fill one with madness? Hatred? An emptiness deeper than the darkest night?
>And what would you do for the chance to return to that paradise for even a moment? Would you kill a man? Would you kill a thousand men?
>Heaven is a shining city upon a hill of corpses.
>>46346819
Particularly in imperial space, since the Eldar probably wouldn't build in Necron tombworlds. If even they knew at the time.
Or. Whatever powers the dream is simply failing
Maybe it's something the other races are doing.
Maybe all their pyschic back chatter is stirring the warp and making the dreamers slightly uncomfortable. Time to murder everyone
>>46346693
No, actually it works really well for Arctic!Night Elves. Remember that the Huntresses have loyal Tiger mounts that accompany them into war? We could have the Jet Bikes emulate that, maybe have them be remotely controlled by their Rider or speedy version of the Wraithlords, with a Spirit Stone controlling it while their partner rides or does battle elsewhere.
>>46347379
>elfdar Amazon riding bike with her husband's spirit stone in it
Thatsmyfetish
Though I think perhaps some sort of alien form of machinespirits would be better. Maybe spirit stones for Gyrinx so they really are riding cats.
>>46347544
That would involve A LOT of genetic manipulation and shit to get the Gyrinx juuuuuuuuuuuuust right.
>>46347588
Yeah, justna spitball, not a great idea desu.
Do Eldar have machine spirits?
>>46344820
How big is that exactly?
>>46347601
Not sure to be honest, other then the Spirit Stones running all their stuff. Hold on a mo' lemme check.
>>46347622
Craftworlds are basically supposed to be inhabitable worlds but in ship form, hence the name. So pretty fucking big, even by 40k standards.
>>46347623
>>46347601
Okay, checked and the Eldar use the Soul within the Spirit Stone as a kind of machine spirit.
>>46347544
I very much approve of this picture. That meme is the best.
>>46347622
Lemme give ya a quick scale.
The pic here is inside part of a Craftworld.
>>46347601
Yes and no.
Craftworld eldar have entire warships piloted by spiritstones (and the one lonely spirit seer who keeps them going). So the technology is very much there, if you want something less humanoid then wraithlord/guard
>>46347729
So the Eldar accidentally pushed their own shit in in the past destroying the majority of their empire right? So how many are actually left by the time of 40k? Millions/billions/trillions?
>>46348232
>as many as the plot demands
>>46346819
>>46346856
I feel like the utopia dream idea is contrary to the Craftworld lifestyle. They try to deny pleasure in order to avoid feeding She Who Thirsts.
>>46350697
It works perfectly in the right context.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20137;&version=NIV
>>46350978
So it's sort of a "remember where you came from" lesson instead of a "neet with a VR headset" kinda thing?
That could work.
>>46351202
I'd also imagine that the Craftworld itself, while enormous, can't really support a large population at any single given time.
>>46347636
So the size of a planet?
>>46352158
It depends. They're arcologies that can vary in size from housing billions to less that 100,000 people. Some of the smaller ones are nothing more than really large spaceships modified into spacefaring cities.
> "That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even the Great Enemy may die."
>>46352752
Nice, thanks.
can I contribute with writefaggotry?
>>46354709
Contribute all you like.
bamp
So, colors? White and blues to go with the ice theme? Or is that too on-the-nose?
>>46348232
It isn't known how many craft worlds there are for sure otherwise it might be possible to estimate.
>>46349097
This is probably as close to an answer as you'll get.
>>46360809
blue/green?
Coeth wake up from her trance as she heard the tramp of boots outside her quarters. She looked back at the weapon she had been polishing while her mind had wandered off. She could see her reflection in it. A hard face with grey eyes and long green hair stared back from the weapon.
The farseer had spoken. The time to fight was drawing near. She was the autarch of this host, and when they would leave the craftworld, she would lead. She saw the banshees that were her escort stand outside her door, still as statues. It was time. She left her helmet in her room. She wouldn't need it. She preferred the wind in her hair instead. She was wild at heart, and war was her calling.
As they walked through the halls of ages, her heart began beating faster. She saw her kind, sleeping and dreaming, enjoying the glories of ages past. She wondered where their dreams took them, and what wonders they saw. Perhaps they saw Isha walking among them, the stars in her hair. Perhaps they saw the eldar empire at it's height before they had fallen to their own pride.
Perhaps they dreamed of simple lives in the eaves of forests, like she had dreamed once, with him. They had come upon his sleeping chamber, and she saw the face within. Her eyes softened for a moment as she touched the ice, not feeling the cold. A man, with hair much like her own stared back, sleeping. Coeth longed for the day she would grow tired and earn her rest. Then she sleep in the empty cell to the man's right. This is what she fought for.
For those who dreamed.
How's that for a page 10 save huh?
Also, a nice comfy warcry right?
For those who dream
>>46360809
How about an ice white? Y'know, like a white that has the barest hint of blue in it, alongside a darker blue?
>>46366445
how about a prismatic armor, just splitting light
>>46346519
I'm fine with that. Having a secret amount of them on Siberis with the Death Consuls could add a bit of fluff to them on why they don't particularly fight craftworld Eldar, is what they have their own, and also gives a reason as to why their is so much Inquisitorial suspicion on their planet, as well as why they send them packing every time they come around.
Is everyone fine with this?
>>46346626
The irony.
Ah well, I should really be heading for bed now.
>>46366495
The spelling and grammatical errors, why!?
Ah, well, goodnight for reals.
>>46366495
sounds good.
Also siberis has badass giant tigers like the nightelves do. So due to the eldar stasis chambers being present on the planet, the idea of the huntmaster as a planet spirit takes shape.
The humans see it and start worshipping it. Due to their own chapter history, the Death Consuls don't mess with the CWE or exodites, going so far as to have a bare minimum truce with the Ice elves.
>>46345021
Maybe you're snow elves so that you keep your passions under wraps and suffer for the sins of your forebears.
>>46366567
nah, it doesn't work like that. We ended up creating snow NightElves IN SPACE
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