#aeldari rambles

[jean-dieu]

*unhinged voice* the fall of arlathan.... the fall of the aledari ... great elven empire falling..... *sobs*

[lolipop1920art]

Working on the c'tan thing

its going to be a video. 😁

[mathlann]

Okay I had a whole spiel typed but actually I think my main problem is I don't understand how Aeldari measure time in the Webway. Because its standard enough that the right path can lead you halfway across the galaxy in a few "days" but whose days are being measured? There's no sun for a day-night cycle. You can handwave with the Imperium because space travel is synced to the measurements of Holy Terra or whatever, but there's no standardized "place" for most Aeldari to be from in order to equivocate that. And so what are their measurements outside their own circadian rhythm? There's a theory in-universe that time flows differently in the Webway enough that a human might be able to age backwards in some areas and maybe some of that slow time energy is why Aeldari live so long themselves. They're maybe experiencing a day inside which would be maybe a week for humans. Which can work without examination if you keep to the idea that Aeldari dgaf about humans, but what about situations where they are having to interact with non-practically-immortal-anyways humans? Like your routes are more consistent than Warp Travel for sure, but you'd maybe need to factor in Realspace-to-Webway time along specific routes so you don't take a pit stop at the Commorragh 7-11 and find out its been three Realspace years since you were supposed to meet your human buddy for recaf. If that makes sense.

40k Lore is annoying because I know outside the broad strokes nothing matters outside what the plot needs but also all the parts im interested in are solidly in the "as the plot needs" area so there's very little to actually work with thats solid :/

[saysthenightingale]

nightingale discovers warhammer (2/???)

some people seemed to find it amusing so i'm back with my Zero Braincell rambling. apologies in advance

re: jaghatai khan. that is a choice of name. i wonder what he's into, could it be horses??

jaghatai being literally just genghis khan is quite amusing to me for another reason. this is because, considering the geographical location of my ancestry, it's somewhat probable that i'm related to genghis khan.

re: stupid names. corvus corax?!?! that's it. that's the comment.

there are things i could say about certain people in warhammer that would set feminism back to the Stone Age. so i will not say them unless prompted

ANY TYRANID FANS HERE?? PLEASE TALK TO ME ABOUT TYRANIDS. THEY ARE SILLY AND GOOFY AND SO COOL the part where the hive fleet came up from UNDER the galaxy is pog, although funny because it gives the vibe that the humans just fucking forgot that reality is three-dimensional (my favourite starcraft faction is the zerg if that helps)

i have been enlightened about the character of roboute guilliman and also the ultramarines. no, the ultramarines are not garen from league of legends, although it actually seems like they like to pretend that they're garen from league of legends.

does excel exist in warhammer? i feel like guilliman would really like the microsoft suite

over the moon to have had an intensely detailed and probably unnecessary conversation about konrad and sanguinius' teeth and dental physiology with @/vespire and @/darthcatboy . if anyone wants to talk speculative biology or just, like, actual biology with me please hit me up. light up my dms or my asks. please

my other interest is house of the dragon and i love shoving my hyperfixations together, so for some reason I just think it would be funny if some primarchs/astartes met aegon targaryen of “I HAVE NO WISH TO BE KING!! IM NOT SUITED” fame or rhaenyra “when im queen i will create a new order” targaryen.

targaryens also happen to act like they're above the rest of humanity and are seen as demigods! although not by virtue of genetic tampering, just, uh, their flying reptile nukes.

thanks to chemos-factories for egging me into warhammer ocs. you'll be seeing aeldari twins on here in a second

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

Ghost Warrior is awful, but I have to give Gav Thorpe credit for this line:

"Their words verged on nonsense--even more than the garbled ramblings of [Alorynis's] mistress and her not-mates--but their effect was clear."

It's fucking hilarious to know that during all of the sturm und drang of every Ynnari conversation, Alorynis is just rolling his eyes at all these silly aeldari and their silly gibberish.

Plus, now we know the three genders according to Cat Space Elf Felinid: Mom, The People Mom Is Banging, and The People Mom Isn't Banging.

[iocaiccre]

I (main blog @croik ) got into Warhammer during lockdown, and since then I've collected some 3000 points worth of a mix of Drukhari and Craftworld minis. I'm much more into the figures and lore than I am the actual game, so despite how much time I've spent in Battlescribe, I have no idea how to build a decent list from my collection and only bare knowledge of the rules. But that hasn't stopped me! I just picked the ones I thought looked cool.

Of course, since then I've developed lore to justify these choices. So I decided to make this side blog for Warhammer and particularly my efforts to paint these suckers and ramble about my space elves: Craftworld Iocaiccre, "far-flung" in the very literal sense, and their strange and uneasy alliance with the Kabal of the Incessant Drum.

I hope you find some amusement with them, and please share your custom Aeldari stories with me!

[neometalpussy]

not even like current or relevant lore. i rambled about the war in heaven and how cool the necron are. and a little bit about how sucks the aeldari are

infodumped to my friends about 40k for. ummm a normal amount of time. for a normal amount of time. it's taken a grip on my brain like a virus. you know, sort of like in the final stage of the war in heaven the Enslavers took a grip on

[corvid-gremlin-official]

Day 1 of posting an infodump or ramble about a random topic I know possibly too much about

And our first topic, chosen via an online spinner wheel, is my headcanons about the Dream SMP, Hermitcraft, and the Origins SMP! 

- c!Tommy’s hair got “browner” as he got older, so instead of the bright blond now it’s closer to a dirty-blond - o!Philza has an ocarina - c!Tommy has a fleece glove from his time with Technoblade in the Arctic; the fingertips are cut off because he wore it so much it got holes, and he lost its match so it’s just the one - Ghostbur was taken from limbo to Mumza’s realm after she finally found him; now reunited with Friend, he helps her look for others in limbo since someone (namely, XD) is keeping them from going to her realm - c!Techno has a gold streak in his hair fron the totem (and Michael kept trying to grab it when the Revengers rescued him from Sam) - by the same merit, c!Foolish’s hair is completely gold with a few single dark strands - an original L’Manberg flag (one before the big one that got burned; I headcanon they made this when they first started building) was maed of pieces of some of the original members’ items - Wilbur’s black jacket, Tommy’s red bandanna, Tubbo’s blue jeans, Fundy’s white shirt, Eret’s golden handkerchief, Niki supplied thread, and Jack sewed it all together - o!Tubbo is smaller than a human (not as small as Sneeg or an injured Charlie, but smaller than Wilbur or Phil) - c!Tommy wears yellow roses in his hair, knowing that they mean friendship (his friendship with Tubbo, who gave him the roses) but also feeling that they have another significance... another significance from another universe? without knowing what it is - on that note, he also wears blue flowers in his hair as another reminder of Ghostbur and Friend aside from his blue sweater - the Origins SMP is often filled with music - Niki, Ranboo, or Beau singing, Wilbur playing the lute, Phil on his ocarina, or Tubbo buzzing a harmony with actual bees - sometimes they’ll all do it together, especially in the Pub(e) - c!Connor makes killer mac and cheese (he learned how in prison) - c!Tommy can play the piano, his favorite songs to play are the L’Manberg National Anthem and Able Sisters; ask him to play That’s What I Like and he’ll murder you (he really will, Connor lost a life to this - maybe not canon, but painful nonetheless) - o!Ranboo can play the piano and sing very well, he will sing and play a number of things on the out-of-tune upright piano in the Pub(e)

- c!Tommy is very religious (church prime) and wears a prime necklace under his shirt - o!Wilbur’s favorite pens are made out of shed feathers from Tommy and Phil - o!Techno plays the violin - o!Jack and o!Scott are good at singing as well - c!Dream wears a dark green cloak and has scars and a long earring; manhunt!Dream or normal!Dream wears a bright green shirt and has freckles and no earring - c!Aimseys’ cane is carved with daisies and other significant symbols - and will be added to when other important things happen (Aimsey is very good at wood carving and other “small carpentry” things) - Grian came to Hermitcraft after abandoning the Watchers in favor of something a bit more fun; season 6!Grian had white wings since he had just joined, season 7!Grian had scarlet macaw wings (pesky bird), season 8!Grian had those wings but slightly sparkly (alchemist researcher), and season 9!Grian now has a weird purple haze around his wings (the rift) - hermit!Mumbo is a shapeshifter who takes on the form of what he eats (as evidenced in season 8). hence, somewhere along the line he has to eat people (or humanoids) to stay in his current form. my headcanon is that he takes the “corpses” every time someone dies (scar is a very common one) so that he can stay humanoid

these are all my headcanons for now, this being the pretty much extensive list

[crysdrawsthings]

Since they themselves are demons inhabiting a crystal body do the fuzzes have any opinions on or interesting encounters with Eldar Wraith Constructs (what with them being Eldar souls in a crystal, piloting warp reactive bone shells)

Great question!

I would imagine they find it a rather curious idea, probably kind of odd since this is not entirely how souls should work? But I bet there is a certain sense of "hey, same hat" moment about the whole thing.

Lacedrace, Lord of Change probably finds the whole thing with Eldar Spirit Stones a great field for future research, especially given how she was the one to initially coin in the idea of crystal bodies among Fuzzes. So I bet she is interested to study the whole thing, hoping as well to perfect her own work in the process and make being in real space even easier on five of them.

An'Hangra, Bloodthirster I would say, finds it really cool for the simple reason of Wraith Constructs being formidable and even legendary foes to clash with, and wanting to throw hands beyond death itself is something she can really relate to and approve.

Balthrag, Great Unclean One likely finds the idea slightly odder, as it seems to be... Very un-embracing of your decay and death, which is not something she really supports? Also, all these spaceships can really use more vegetation and bog there. I imagine she can actually find more common ground with Exodites and their very natural worlds?

Shanakay, Keeper of Secrets... Okay, l would personally assume that she, being a daemon of Slaanesh is on every "Kill on Sight" list existing between Eldar, so I feel like pretty much every encounter would be a combat encounter. Or stealth. I bet it pisses her off because she just knows that these pesky elves have some really unique skills she just must learn, but they are not sharing. Ugh.

[xenosgirlvents]

something I've been thinking of lately...the overlap of 40k’s fash and racist, or should I say white supremacist, fanbase, things like golden one, arch...it’s always overlapping only with the imperium.

these people are never fans of aeldari, of orks, of tyranids, of t’au (in fact 9/10 times they completely and absolutely hate aeldari and t’au). in fact a lot of these often even fall into some pretty predictable paradigms ‘aeldari are gay/girly/effete/not manly enough and so have to be bad and wrong and deviant’ and t’au are ‘dirty commies who lie and are clearly evil and dare to besmirch the holy name of the in-group’ and I just...it’s weird. this overlap with 40k exists, people have pointed it out, but it only exists with the imperium really.

whenever I meet one of these people, fans of Warhammer who seem to legitimately have some scary ideas...they’re always imperial players, generally space marine players. 

they never seem to play xenos at all. in fact they often hate xenos so much they seem to want them out of the setting, or approve of their only role in the setting being to get curbstomped again and again.

I don’t know i’m rambling but it just dawned on me recently I only ever see this overlap happening with the imperium, never with xenos. 

[corvid-gremlin-official]

i’ll go next - 

Cyberknife tries to hit on/flirt with one of the Syndicate members as they’re investigating him and gets nailed in the head by Philza Minecraft the only man ever throwing a pickaxe (it goes bonk and knocks him out)

since we didn't get to experience Cyberkinfe i vote we just make up fake lore and headcanons for him instead.

I'll go first

Cyberkinfe wears sunglasses indoors and has the same accent as Billiam

[lolipop1920art]

You know,

Captain Artemis stopping the Aeldari from summoning Ynnead story is frankly interesting if you looking at it from a writing perceptive.

Like a man who was taught since he was young that xenos deserve death for just existing from the people he fights for now destroys a chance to stop a devil that has not just affected the xenos but the imperium as well. Just because he hates them.

It's almost like the Imperium's xenophobia is a self destruction spiral of the it's accord and it will destroy any hope they have to stop chaos.

This may have been unintentional but god if it's not something good to think about.

[niqhtlord01]

In keeping with the musical tone I’ve found myself on inspiration struck me to for a rap battle of leaders from Dawn of War Dark Crusade!  That’s right folks! In the grim darkness of the 41st millennium there is only sick beats! Hit it!  O Kais: Greetings friends, i come with the greater good.  A teaching that I assure you is better then what you’ve heard. But I’ll say this just once, that you best lay down your arms; for our warriors are peerless as the light of shinning stars.  Any foolish to oppose us will be met with heavy fire, as we our fire teams advance and gun your down with their ire. You’ve all been fed lies and falsehoods, about the greater good; so keep your head down and you won’t suffer as those fools would.  Gorgutz: Ha! U’z funny! I nerl’y had a laugh.  Call’n dem boyz fihta’s, diz jus plin sad.  Sur yuz got the dakka and the nicest shiny bits, but gets clos to me and I’l rip ur guts out wit my fists!!  We Ork Boyz ar da best of dat derz no debate!  Uz jus a buncha blu panzies, who cant uz ur fists! Diz WAGH’s juz started and fiight’n uz made me bored.  Ur skulls not evn good nough to go atop me horn! 

Taldeer: Be it orks or tau, you are both simple minded.  Compared to the Aeldari you might as well be children.  We have come to this blighted world to fight our ancient foe,  but before that mighty conflict we must put up with this droll.  Your schemes and your battles, and wars are but childs play,  against a sifter of time who weaves the threads of fate.  But trying to convince you is just a waste of time.  Call in the warp spiders, they’ll be amused by their rhymes.  Eliphas: I’ll ask you to save the preaching for those who can hold a tone, your feeble ramblings are so screeching they make Slaanesh groan.  Like daggers through the cosmos the word bearers have arrived,  to proclaim the true power of which you should all subside.   The corpse emperor sits atop his fading golden throne, gazing down at a galaxy of which he used to own.  Now the warp has arisen, it’s might can’t be denied, with the sacrifices here we may catch our gods eyes!  Necrons: We have slept for centuries, our slumber undisturbed.  But now we rise again at the rapping of these weak words!  You speak of ancient powers but to us you are blades of grass.  Waiting to be paved over so history may advance.  Your flesh has made you frail, your rhythm uninspired.  We doubt you could even beat a lowly tomb spider!  But as weak as it is your skin has its uses,  The flayers need a skin jacket and yours fits.  Alexander: Stand aside metal men, the Guard has arrived.  Our concentrated lasguns will burn through your hide! The Emperor demands victory, and his will I will abide!  In his name I lead men to glorious future he has divined!  The threats of xenos and the heretic are nothing to be feared when the preaching commissars are marching at the rear!  Our enemies look to the skies hoping for salvation, but all they shall receive is predetermined artillery formations!  Thule: Not since the Heresy have I witnessed such madness.  As nearly every force in the galaxy now stands against us.  But battle brothers stand strong, stand proud, and hold our banner high! The Blood Ravens shall carry the day with great strides!  We shall burn the heretic and cast the alien far aside.  Even order blinded guardsmen must not be allowed to survive.  We are angels of death and war our eternal calling. Do not fail brothers for the emperor is watching.  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  I recently watched this rap battle for a game called Frostpunk  with such an amazing beat that I started thinking about it for other situations and this is how came about :3  Here’s a link to check it out yourself.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADwUlpdR_PA

[mathlann]

Requisite Disclaimer: I don't see the point in keeping this OC specific but, my game isn't your game etc. etc. I'm coming from a Sub! Marazhai perspective for context but just my interpretation.

So I've been rotating that Act 5 Kiss in my head for too long but I think I've pinned down what makes the Act 5 Kiss work, for me at least. Because inasmuch as the "Marazhai hates kissing" thing is fun, I don't think the actual Act of kissing (with or without teeth) is really what he's objecting to that first time. It's that the Rogue Trader is messing up the Game (ie, the terms of their fling/him teaching them how to be more Drukhari). And I think the Act 5 Kiss, or rather how you get it, is a fun bookend on ending the Game/re-balancing the dynamic?

Long-ass ramble under the cut

So, like I was saying above, the RT and Marazhai's relationship is pretty explicitly a Game that he's playing out of boredom. The Rogue Trader receives "[an education on] the true Aeldari soul" he receives "a fleeting titillation" until it's time for him to become Archon/become a Merc/join the clown show, whatever. He initiates the proposition, and he's the one setting the terms through the whole thing. It's up to the Rogue Trader to stay in their role and meet his standards, or they give up, or he gets bored and leaves. And a major part of his romance is that he's very action over words in regards to what he wants and how he feels.

As far as the first two kisses go, it's not the act itself it's the context imo. The first (bitey) kiss, he initiates, and it's during the lust/murder-high part of the Feast, which is what he invited the Rogue Trader to do. The Kiss Attempt™ by the Rogue Trader is the next morning after all that's worn off. And, granted the scene itself is pretty cozy, considering (he's literally leaning over the RT and telling them not to keep him waiting ie, next hookup) so it makes sense why the Rogue Trader might decide a goodbye kiss is appropriate. But it's a misstep I think because it's too intimate, bordering on sentimental, which is very much not the Drukhari way of doing things (it shows weakness). You aren't lovers in that way, the Rogue Trader is a toy/a pet, fun time is over and he's headed out. To try to pretend more than that is past the Game and an expression of weakness that needs to be put in its place as a "mon-keigh absurdity" as he'd say.

Compare that to the Branding, which is much more his style. It is, for all intents and purposes, a commitment scene, but he doesn't actually say "I want this," he's decided that the Rogue Trader has earned it from him. He talks around, but doesn't even explicitly say, he wants the RT to brand him either, (if asked, best he gives is "well....I mean after I've been so ~submissive~ you would let me just walk around without???? 👀"). And he threatens to walk out if the Rogue Trader keeps asking too many questions because again, he's the lead here and to say so would be to play his hand, which is a major no. If he grabs the RT like he's going to brand them....and it just so happens they have a mighty easy time grabbing that knife from him....well, there's the answer, no words needed. And if the Rogue Trader doesn't grab the knife, well, there's his answer. Y'all don't need to see each other anymore.

Which also makes the final Feast/Big confession hit the way it does because it is the first and only time he's being very direct in how he feels and what he wants, ie. they're equals and he wants the to keep up *all of this* for as long as they've got. And...that's a slip up irt his control of the situation/the Game that the Rogue Trader can exploit. To see:

And for extra juice, the actual threaten to break up line after this is "I am not interested. I think I have played enough with you" which is a nice reversal ie. "testing the limits of who is running the Game." Because if Marazhai's confession is a test, accepting fails it, they were too sentimental. Except he's not actually testing them and he gets genuinely upset and scared at the idea that the Rogue Trader would just leave him like that. Also, (at time of writing iirc), you can't get The Kiss™ if you didn't attempt it earlier at the first Feast. I think it's interesting if, perhaps, that bit of sentimentality made him assume the Rogue Trader was the one who was down bad/being sappy this whole time. Which was fun to play around with before, but now he's caught feelings and the Rogue Trader potentially out-manipulating him on that front only to "abandon" him now is a major blow to his, being, frankly.

And if the Rogue Trader pushes further with the "I do not hear enough pleading in your voice" line, the narration notes he's stuck between "despair and pride" while still refusing to say more because it's not in him to say what he wants with that kind of honesty. And again, like, he's Drukhari so you're never going to get an "I love you" out of him, and he wouldn't accept that from the Rogue Trader in turn, but he doesn't know how to otherwise show that because Drukhari aren't big on straightforward lovey dovey kiss stuff even when they actually feel it. So the Kiss™, a real (romantic) one is an olive branch in the "you don't have to say it but I'll believe you're being honest if you do this" sense but also the Rogue Trader winning irt "the Game is over, show me we're equals, I met you on your level (see: his bullshit), meet me on mine (mon-keigh absurdities)."

[thevisarch]

Solaria watched as the Ynnari contingent paraded through the waystation. This place was a station adrift in the webway, all Aeldari rubbed shoulders here, usually peacefully. But she'd never seen anything like this, the Ynnari had all but taken the waystation over, making it difficult to have a drink in peace. She turned to a nearby priest of Ynnead and growled, 'Let me have my drink without your ramblings. We've all heard the stories.' (@Solaria-the-seer)

The priest turned to face her flustered by her words. “How dare you! You mock our holy quest to save our species? Can’t you see it’s us who are making a difference in the world?!” Suddenly what at first looked like some sort of tall incubus put his hand on the priest’s chest. “It’s alright brother. She has the right to voice her complaints just as we have the right to express our faith. Preach to those who will listen.” The warrior was clad in ancient armor from before the fall of their empire and all showed immense respect. All the ynnari save two incubi left the establishment to join the rest.

[tearofisha]

Hello, my name is eldar Visarch. Have you heard of the good word of ynead?

"Only from the excited ramblings of Eldrad Ulthran, and his involvement with Ynnead got him exiled from our world. It is possible the God of Death might provide balance to She Who Thirsts, but at the cost of ever Aeldari life is it a risk worth taking?"-Aelinor Fatereader, Farseer of Ulthwe.