Quick answer, you don't want to know. Long answer, you really don't want to know.

Lord-Inquisitor Remleiz: "Their talent for genetic engineering and surgery is beyond compare..." Fabius Bile: "I heard that!"

I wish I could have my soul restored but instead, I keep sinking money into this damn hobby and all I get out of it is pain, suffering, and feelings of immense inadequacy at my minis painting....

"No tears please. It's a waste of good suffering."

So you’re telling me that despite the sweat goblins being the least deserving faction for immortality that they do it routinely. Man and they just give guardsmen flashlights not fair.

Slaneshii daemons just defend dark eldar souls so they have a chance of being resurrected. She Who Thirsts might be a hungry monster, but there is no reason to think she would want to pass up the constant free meals the drukhari give her.

Through pure, unadulterated, undiluted, unlimited, arrogance. And a dash hubris.

Necromancer; "I SHALL RESURRECT THE DEAD FROM THE ETERNAL ETHERS AND BRING THEM BACK FROM THE CLAWS OF THE DEVOURER!!, Homonculus ; "Please, you poser, hold my test tubes and LEARN!"

It's simple. It's just all of those Hellraiser Shenanigans!

Answer: It just works.

Finally, a new instance in a long-appreciated series!

The warp is weird

I remember this conversation back in adepteus podcastus and now the video is here, well worth the wait.

I kind of assumed it was a case of body and soul being similarly reconstructed. You take a little bit of physical remains, add in the dwindling whisp of the soul and they regrow together. An entirely new soul would be limp, like a copy of a copy of a copy.

Glad you addressed the possibility of the souls not being the original. After all, who's to say the resurrected aren't just clones with copied memories?

Duplicate souls? If so, then they keep feeding Slaanesh with hordes of souls. Worse for them, they keep sending themselves into eternal torture several times over.

I believe they do, but they operate on a short time limit, as if the soul of the eldar is consumed, then there is no coming back. Unless, by resurrecting them, the Haemonculi are capable of literally returning a devoured soul from a demon's essence.

this is one interesting video topic thinks for it

This probably explains why certain sections of the Inquisition tried using the dark eldar to save the emperor.....perhaps this is the "dark bargain".

Must take alot of effort to make video all the time bro. Keep it up we all appreciate and love them. 40k is the shiznit!

They just ask Slaanesh really nicely if she could give the soul back. Surprisingly cooperative for a Chaos God that one.

A very extremely awesome video as always 40k Theories.

Sounds like a bit like Horcruxes to be honest. Especially considering what the Drukari get up to makes Voldemort look like a toddler. Splitting the soul would explain why the Haemonculi can regrow it.

I've only ever heard of drukhari being resurrected by haemonculi within a week of their demise. Normally the haemonculi tell people that the process only works for those who've been dead for less than a day, but that's a lie they tell to prevent the occurrence of "disjunctions" (earthquake analogs which pulse through the webway and mess up Commoragh all the time). I've also heard that eldar souls tend to stay within their bodies for about a week before passing into the warp. Because the process has a higher likelihood of causing disjunctions if performed on those who've died for more than a day, I think the process pulls the entire soul of dismembered drukhari together from their remains wherever they may be. Thus transit of the soul through the Warp to return to the fragment within the care of a haemonculus needs to occur quickly, or else daemons will be attracted to the lingering essence like vultures to a carcass, waiting for it to pass into the Warp fully to be consumed.

I'm relatively new to WH40K but i thought eldar souls were immediately "sucked" upon death by slaanesh, is there an actual explanation aside from speculation or "it just works"?

Perhaps this is related to how exactly Slaanesh reaps her harvest from the Eldari and Drukkari. Instead of complete consumption, the fate of the souls captured is described as continuous suffering, which implies that the soul itself is left more or less intact and "milked" for negative emotions for as long as possible. Over time her grip of the captured soul grows stronger as it wears out, and eventually it is merged into her without trace, but until that moment a fragment may be "pulled out" somehow. In this case multiple resurrections would likely yield an effect similar to Necron "soul erosion", rendering the individual dull-sensed and disoriented.

I always figured the main piece regenerated into the original person, soul and all, while any extra pieces could be regenerated into psuedo-clones or new Drukhari. That would partially explain Commoragh's high population of a non-prolific species.

seeing this really gets me thinking about the possibilities of drukhari ressurrection, imagine the opportunity for storytelling that this could have say if one were stuck for even some time trying to evade daemonic entities, desperately trying to keep their soul together. Imagine the experience of an entire party of drukhari as they are picked off one by one, each of them suffering deaths worse than that of which they faced in the materium. It'd be very gruesome.

Could it be that maybe they recall the souls from the actual demon that consumed it?

Your question is predicated on the assumption that the Dark Eldar still have souls to resurrect. And even if they still *technically* do, I think we can all agree that they lost the right to say they have any a VERY long time ago.

can you use a Knight titan instead of using standard Dreadnaught chasis?

It's obviously the time of Warp. A soul entering into the warp enters into the past, present, and future. Just like how Horus is still doing his challenges into the 41st millennia. The souls are literally plucked from the moment of death, regardless of when. The only confining factor would be if the soul was currently existing outside of warp for that duration. It is probably possible for the Haemonculi to rebirth someone not even born yet if they had the genetic material. The Aeldari used to build with warp, creating and dismissing gods as needed prior to them birthing Slaanesh. The Haemonculi represent the surviving Drukhari experts on that knowledge.

Nice vid, rem

I know age of sigmar isn't 40k. However slaanesh consumed countless elven souls. Morathi, Malekith, Tyrion and Teclis (malekith's grand nephew's) trapped Slaanesh and smacked out the souls of countless consumed souls from Slaanesh. Those souls became new elves. So when a soul is consumed it isn't destroyed it just becomes a part of what consumed it. Plague bearers are actually consumed souls from nurgle that died from his Rot. You can't really destroy a soul either, just absorb it (the emperor is an exception to this rule destroying horus and his soul entirely). See ynead is just absorbed eldar souls. Slaanesh is really just an amalgamation of absorbed eldar who were consumed in the fall (the degenerate ones). Chaos don't destroy souls but absorb them and corrupt it. The idoneth deepkin are the damaged elven souls that were corrupt by Slaanesh. So the dark eldar are basically probably taking back the souls from Slaanesh and swapping them with human souls. The emperor is the same, an amalgamation of the human psyker shamans of ancient Terra.

I reckon the idea that a piece of a beings physical remains could be used as an anchor in realspace to pull or snatch a soul from the Warp. And from the perspective of a conscious soul cast into the Warp upon death, as long as some party in realspace pulls them out then daemons or other powers seeking to consume their soul would be unable to, as their arrival and their escape would be near simultaneous.

They created a storage space in the warp for the souls.

does someone know the name of the first music after the intro ?

I thought the Dark Eldar due to their circumstances did not have the psychic gifts that the other eldar have, if that is the case they may not stand out the same way as a craftworld eldars soul would in the warp.

I will need to dig through my Black Library Dark Eldar books to find it but there IS a time limit to it. After that time the resurrection has a greater and greater chance that when you "pull it back" it will bring a demon with it. In fact, that actually happens in one of the books where they pull the soul back and it has since been consumed so while the "whole" soul returns it also brought a demon back as well because the demon had consume the soul, which is less like "eating" and more like absorption. The Demon adds the Energy, thoughts, experiences, etc to it's own. Which is why the ancient dark eldar who was resurrected still had his thoughts, memories, etc but also was possessed, he was himself, but not. Sort of like how the Gal Vorbak were less "possessed" and more "amalgamated" with demons. Though it's hard to say because sometimes it seems consumption=destruction and other times it seems consumption=absorption. We do know that demons grow in power and awareness by "eating" each other and souls. So who knows.

Growing a soul takes time, for a soul vis the collection of memories one had in their life.

The aelves from Age of Sigmar manage to pry souls from Slaanesh’s belly, don’t they? Therefore it’s possible to get souls back after they’ve been caught by a demon. Of course the drukhari don’t have a caged Slaanesh or literal gods to help them, but it’s possible that the soul retains a spiritual connection to its former body which would potentially make it easier to retrieve it if you have the body and the Aeldari have hade hundreds of thousands of years to perfect their mastery of warp-borne-bullshit.

It's plot armor. Saves time from having to retcon something. Which could throw other things off.

Apparently, this is the primary reason the Haemonculi are against the Ynnari. With the Ynnari’s soul magics, they can provide a cheaper and safer form of immortality for the Eldar, which would essentially ruin the Haemonculi’s monopoly on immortality.

I wonder what Fabius' thoughts are on heamonculi.

Similar To the chaos god slaanesh most people could pinpoint the birth of slaanesh in age of strife but to the other chaos gods slaanesh has always existed the same thing could be with human souls or any souls theoretically when you die you soul slowly disintegrate but at the same time it doesn’t

Well, there's not enough in them for spirit stones to work. | 8:40 - It's there in some of the Harlequins, largely due to something involving their laughing god.

3:00 wait wait wait! Orks have souls?

While I am not sure if this is exactly canon, I think it is strongly implied that the Souls are 'immortal' in a sense and cannot be destroyed in any meaningful way. Split and sundered, maybe, but not outright destroyed. The Souls of Aeldari who perished with the birth of Slaanesh are told to be in eternal suffering, implying that even those who were at the epicenter of murderboning range and lost their very lives to the She-Who-Thirsts still exist in a sense. So perhaps whenever the body is fully regenerated, it just acts as a psykic beacon or an anchor that draws said soul back to reality, albeit terribly traumatized? This could be the case with any soul bearing species, or just Aeldari. Then again, this might be based on what I read on more fan related sites either, as I cannot exactly recall where I read this information.

I always thought that the Haemonculi were kinda similar to the Cenobites.

Whatever it is that ‘stained’ their souls after the Fall and caused them to wither presumably allows their souls to linger in their remains for a brief time.

This just brings me to the question as to why craftworld Eldar don't clone themselves, like warrior with spirit stone dies - stone gets recovered - they clone the warrior and with the stone they restore the soul to the cloned body, so they won't lose too many warriors. As for spirit stones not being available, the cloning would be only for existing Eldar, not to create new Vat Eldar like the Dark Eldar do.

Well... Lets hope they won't have BRILLIANT idea of restoring soul of Horus for some reason.

Maybe daemons don't consume eldar souls all at once but rather do it over a long period of time, which means as long as just a small sliver still remains the haemonculi can revive them

If the soul regrows with the body how would memory work?

Can this power be used on Craftworld Aeldari?

4:20 The warp has no real time Therefore souls who died millennia ago may only have existed in the warp for a brief time and thus can be saved

For me, I just assume that it works just like necromancy in dnd we're you forcefully bring back the soul even if they are captured by a god. The only thing that makes me think that this is true is do to the lore of how hereteks create demon engines by forcefully summoning demons and forcefully put the demon in a machine then force it to accept there commands, and at one point this happened so much that the chaos gods invaded the HellForges to stop them from mass producing demon engines.(Theoretically ,if they kept building more demon engines they could inevitably kill the chaos gods. Death by a billion tiny tears from there very flesh) This to me means that souls can be forcefully taken away from the chaos gods to be resurrected like they normally do, although they require the "essence" of that person to do it which would make more sense if "essence" was spiritual essence harvested from the remaining cells of the creature, rather than just being biological material for merely cloning sense you can't get memories from DNA or at least not much memories.

At this point, a dark eldar soul is nothing more than a necessary component to keep the body alive, with all the topping off and splintering and whatever else they do with it.

this would be supremely on possible if they decided to try out the emperor and have a small slither from him to maybe regain or reprocess the jakari religion or race cuz the emperor he's very powerful that is just a what-if story

The Drukhari make use of Horcruxes

I don't know if you've read them but actually the process is heavily explored in the "Path of the Renegade" novel in the Dark Eldar trilogy. SPOILER WARNING! An archaic and his allies plan to resurrect El'uriaq, master of the destroyed realm of Shaa-dom. in the Haemonculus labs warriors are regrown in crystal sarcophagus which hang above or below slaves being tortured and abused, it is implied that the corpse absorbs the suffering and soul stuff and it is exchanged into the warp to return their soul and empower their regrowth. However the haemonculus explains to bring back someone as long dead as El'uriaq would require a far larger and psychically powerful source of suffering and so they have to kidnap a world singer from a maiden world because the suffering of her soul would be so I tense that it would allow any resurrection. Unfortunately the novel shows the process can go horribly wrong as El'uriaqs body is regenerated but it is highjacked by a Daemon, one of the archons allies brought back during the same ritual seems to be reborn perfectly with his soul intact but the daemons interference in the ritual allowed a lesser Daemon to possess him also and slowly consume his soul from within over weeks, eventually taking over his body completely. So the process is a bit like the dark eldars daily routine of absorbing others suffering to rejuvenate themselves, but it is prone to flaws and issues if left too long as the book implies the soul maybe too far gone or corrupted by its time in the sea of souls.

possibly theory: They reverse time causing the soul to return

I call hax

Step 1: corpse Step 2: ??? Step 3: resurrection Step 4: profit

So if they had say a hand or fist, they could bring back the body and soul of someone 🤔

It's clear that they keep souls backed up on a thumb drive

Theory that might have been thrown out but what if the tyranhids were the original Old Ones?

if the soul is genetic then theoretically one could clone or genetically engineer an army of insanely powerful psykers, even a new emperor

It's Cyberdongs. No doubt.

"You solved the box, we came. Now you must come with us, taste our pleasures!"

Make me want to write my own story and have plot holes that never get answered

Why doesn't the Mechanicus simply isolate the pariah gene and infect a large self sustaining population with it? A planet full of people with a negative warp presence would be useful to recruit soldiers from instead of relying on random mutation. Also what would happen if someone who already has a soul has their DNA manipulated to suddenly have the pariah gene? Would their soul dissipate, or since their soul is already formed, would nothing happen?

They gotta pay with a sliver of their soul to respawn. This is the most video gamey tradeoff I've ever heard of.

Why doesn't Flabius Bile try to kidnap one then?

Rolled a 6

I always assumed it was bullshit and plot armour. The same way the majority of the Chaos Astartes Legions can renew.

When you got a new body but you don't know how to move your mind to it? Hit up 40k THEORIES

Something to do with magic I assume

This is just cosmic spam folder type of revival...... Okay I'll just question the possibility of a resurrection of the same dude can make two clones from one soul is in the plate at this point sounds completely normal and not ethical at all even though they question themselves if they are just imitations or they are just demons just saying this is just hard to understand how they aren't affiliated with chaos

Can't they resurrect sanguineus ???

Mayby it is all a lie. The Haemonculi just create clones of the dead and give them fake memories to fool everyone around. Meanwhile Slannesh enjoys her favourite dish.

Time to bring the emperor back before kitten and his mery men get back

if blanks don't have a soul then why psykers are so freak out by them? I think blanks have a soul, but it is a positive/negative relationship with regular souls

They use Flex tape

Ayy lmao

People with no soul? I believe the correct term is redhead

I think 40k is full of bad writers that don't bother to really think thru a lot of their decisions and you're wasting your time acting like their is logic to how anything in 40k works when various authors seem to have just done whatever the hell they wanted. Seriously the guys at GW need to hire one of those guys from Marvel or DC that are in charge of making sure canon does not get broken but then again all of their new content is just breaking canon anyways so fuggit!