The "ai generated" shy is easily the worst, the Bricky one is absurd enough that it doesnt hit the uncanny valley in the way Shy does.

On the subject of soulstones and wraithbone: my favorite Wraithlord quote from Dawn of War 2 "You are our children. Dead though we are, we shall not abandon you."

Space Marine Dreadnought: "Even in death, I still serve" Any random Craftworld Eldar: "Bitch, please"

It's fascinating that eldar have essentially created AI that is inherently loyal to their race because they were once living Eldar.

according to the designer, the bumps on Eldar armor/vehicles that aren't gems are basically compartments for the circuitry and stuff that runs it. The same designer also said only beveled bumps are meant to be gems. And yeah, it is one soul per walker. If you look at their backs you'll see a big rune. That's the cover for the chamber that holds the soulstone (it'd be kind of silly to place an eldar soul on the edge of a gun)

Eldar: Screw you, materializes your immaterium

Me a Skaven enjoyer hearing that wraithbone is crystalized warp energy: "Can I snort it?"

"Sorry grandma, you gotta get into the Wraithguard."

If that is an Eldar playing a saxophone, you guys really missed out on an Epic Sax meme opportunity

I swear, Wraithbone constructs (and Eldar in general) are one of those things that GW seems to have the hardest time depicting as badass as the codexes claims them to be. Like the lore always says how tough and fast it is and how it can repair itself from damage but we always see them getting destroyed by the stupidest stuff. I'll never forget how the Eldar are supposedly faster than a bullet but in a Hammer and Bolter episode we see a Dreadnought slowly walk behind a group of them, rehearse a speech and then gun all of them down as they just stood there.

The trick with "psychoplastic" is that it uses the older, archaic but not entirely phased-out definition of plastic that the material type called "plastic" is named after - so it basically means "you can easily shape it with psychic powers".

“Look, it changes as I play!”

The novel "Farseer" by William King is a good one, to be fair the protagonist is human, but it is 100% centered on the Eldar and the Maiden Worlds etc Also some of the coolest Eldar weapon stuff I've ever seen.

Honestly, this thumbnail art is genuinely gorgeous in how it depicts beauty of Eldar and the melancholy wraithbone construct represents while having this awe inspiring gaze of wraithbone into great beyond as marches with dignity even beyond the grave with the hopes of Eldar race for the future.

I love seeing Bricky slowly come around to how cool the Eldar actually are

The Infinity symbol on wraiths is indeed the eldar rune for the infinity circuit.

17:45 That is legitimately a better idea than the in canon Lore. As Eldar age, their bones actually do turn into crystal, and I could totally see some faction going.. "I want those crystals, ....for reasons...."

Most Eldar weapons are fired by Psychic signals of the wielder, but its not hard to give them a trigger for non psychic mon' keigh to use when trading.

Tonight on the Ridiculous Tour: Bricky reveals that he can play the bagpipes surprisingly well, but is currently banned from doing so due to [redacted]. DK locks and loads to deal with the undead menace, because he's been preparing for this moment for years, no undead monster is going to get _his_ brains! And Shy is in the lab, raising the lightning rod, because the undead we're apparently dealing with this week had to come from somewhere! The fools, Shy will destroy them all! All this and more, after today's sponsor!

Hearing Heavenly being mentioned in an episode of adeptus ridiculous was NOT on my bingo card

Who agrees we need an aeldari world circuit in lore where enough exodites have died and caused a planet to become alive, kinda like Mogo from green lantern corps?

Something to point out the Path of the Seer is for all eldar psykers. Each discipline of the Eldar is broken up into the path system which to help resist the old eldar ways. Each path takes you down different subsections of the eldar world. So Path of the Seer, Path of Command, and Path of the Warrior, are the main big 3 that warhammer mainly concerns itself. Seers are then broken up into essentially temples, Farseers, Spirit Seers, and Bonesingers. The three are the main "lost" in the path eldar that are there, where Warlocks are more intraining eldar who have walked several paths. To add to the wraithbone subsection all those little dots on eldar armor is more like a matrix, essentially key points of the item allow communication between wraithbone. Armor and items in general have these sections to allow it. Spirit Stones are most often location on the chest, or the heart of a suit. The ones on the top are not a spirit stone. As an addenum Wraith Knights are pilot by living pilots most times, there is an example of twins or familal members both controlling at the same time. So its more like Gypsy Danger from Pacific Rim, you need two pilots in order to control such a monster. Sometimes you have a dead family member helping you control it sometimes you don't. Heres a fun bit of lore from the Lexi : "The psychic link between an Eldar and their twin is like no other, and this bond allows them to sense the proximity, mood, and even thoughts of their counterpart. If the twin were to die, the surviving brother or sister will often fade away in sympathy. Sometimes, when such a division takes place, the surviving twin will sacrifice what is left of his life to pilot a Wraithknight. The essence of the dead twin is transferred into a Spirit Stone attached to the machine, whilst the surviving sibling is put into a near-permanent trance within his cockpit." Spirit stones are a limited quality, they are often called the Tears of Isha. Isha in her way tried to get around the blockage set up by Asuryan that prevented Isha from talking to her Children ( the eldar), and so she had Vaul create the Spirit Stones. These would allow her to communicate with them. So in an essence they are communication device with their now trapped god. Sometimes she will whisper to them cures and other things to help prevent catastrophe. Khaine found out about Isha's treachery and basically started a War in Heaven 2.0, where Asuryan the idiot, let Khaine do whatever he wished to her and her husband Kurnous the god of the hunt imprisoned. And tortured.. Which then started ALA a god war between Vaul and Khaine... So yeah it led to kerfuffle. And eldar mythology is so cool. For Eldar books I'd recommend the Eldar books about the Phoenix Lord Asurmen as his book shows prefall eldar society, and 'during' fall eldar.

A few things on Eldar lore: Old Lore had the Old Ones wanting their creatins to fight the War In Heaven - Eldar and Krorks, to be able to harness warp energy and natural materials specifically to counteract the Necrons destroying/stealing all organic matter

“Poor Heavenly. Able to walk in flesh and V-Tuber realm. Still cannot find a maiden”

Previously On Warhammer 40k's Walking Eldars and Soulstones.

Fabius Bile unintentionally make a Bonesinger along with a number of Noise Marines who can shape Wraithbone! It’s in the Fabius Bile trilogy! Really recommend it for Future Novels!

A neat thing about soul stones is that they are a heavily limited resource. The only place in the galaxy they can be made is on the Eldar home worlds, but those don't exist anymore, and very few Eldar dive into the eye of terror to try and dig some up, so every soul stone lost is both a soul lost, and a loss of ability to bring back future souls from battle. This is part of why Eldar are so hesitant to fight, as they are losing both their population and the ability to protect their dead.

So happy to see you guys cover Eldar again ^^ Regarding their novels, Valedor is probably the best one to check out - both them, Dark Eldar and Tyranids are done justice in that one!

I've read the "Path of the Eldar" trilogy, and its both really wonderful and frustrating. I really enjoy the look into how the Eldar think and how the Eldar function, it comes across as both really understandable and alien. ...But this is the era of books where Space Marines had to be top dog, and so when the Space Marines show up to a fight you have them punching way above their weight. All the really cool build up about all the epic things the Eldar characters can do sort of dissolves into nothing at that point, and this was a trilogy that was supposed to be ABOUT the Eldar. I'm happy I read them, but what I wouldn't give to change some key points out of frustration.

DK would LOVE the Ossiarch Bonereapers from Age of Sigmar - they literally use bones to make EVERYTHING, and go around like Tax Collectors demanding BONES OR DEATH :D

It's confirmed, Shy was a genestealer all along.

Bricky you damn mon-keigh, you didn't mention the most badass aspect of spirit stones: how they are harvested in basically suicide missions to crone worlds where they rain down from the tainted skies

wraithbone is one of those things i feel is underutilized, like the actual constructs are basically just treated as robot and the bonesingers are magic repairment, but what about a powerful psychic construct whos gimmick is exerting complete control over their construct body to shift it into whatever weapon they need and patch up holes, basically eldar venom

The utilization of Wraithbone and SoulStones are important plot points in The Fabius Bile trilogy. (really just generally important for the character current day)

if the spirit strone is destroyed the soul inside goes to the warp, if the construct is destroyed but the stone remains intact then the soul stays in the stone.

I love how DK and Bricky are having an existential crisis over the Warp Spiders being older than them and I'm sitting here like "I was 5 years old when the Warp Spider was released T___________T"

IIRC, the Webway is made out of wraithbone, so it would make sense if the Old Ones were the first ones to master the crafting of said material and taught it to the Aeldari.

DK is now finally at the point basically all eldar enjoyers are. Absolutely sick lore, going extremely deep and epic, and then in the books they get absolutely bodied in favour to your human/space marine protagonists. I have not read a single book of them that actually utilises them to their full narrative potential.

Imperium's disobedient child soldiers: go in the walls. Dead Eldars: go in the walls, floor, ship, constructs... They just had to dunk on those poor children.

I think the singing refers to resonance changing the matter of the warp

Therapist: Chaos version of Adeptus Ridiculous doesnt exist and cant hurt you This Video 07:10

The thing with the pheonix lords are also somewhat true with aspect warriors as well, when a new aspect warrior exarch is given theyre armor they can communicate with each exarch before them via the infinity circuit, in a way these people will constantly be dealing with theyre predecessors always judging them on everything they do

Loved this episode, soul gems tend to have a gold band around them, the other gem lumps on armour and vehicles are more like technology housings for sensors and gubbins. Wish I was a guest on this one, could have told you about where way stones originate, about the wraith blades, the way craftworlds are in a symphonic relationship with the eldar, the way dark eldar saved a craftworld cos they found it funny how they had to use necromancy to defend themselves ect lol.

Missed out on the coolest wraith constructs. Asdrubael Vects most feared weapon and started in the Path of the Dark Eldar series as the worst thing he’s ever done The Castigators are captured wraith lords stuffed full of hundreds of captured spirit stones, strapped to the brim with high power drukhari weapons and blades they’re driven mad by the swarms of frightened and angry Aeldari souls. Their arrival means total annihilation

Ok but how fun would it be if Shy could interject in real-time with her TTS while they're recording

The AI bros are gonna be all up in arms over that segment.

DK needs to be exposed to the Fabulous Bill trilogy and how much meddling the Eldar do in the affairs of humans.

Me: Oh this time I'll listen to that episode just as a podcast, at work, while cleaning the kitchen. DK and Bricky: Decide to pass half the podcast commenting on images I can't see.

Bricky's AI interpretation is the hardest to look at, but Shy's feels the most like an AI actually drew it

When Bricky was describing AI-generated Shy and bringing up giant boobed anime AI-generated art I can't be the only one thinking we were getting massive boobed anime girl short stack Shy.

Shy AI hits the uncanny valley of AI generation so perfectly if I did not know i would 100% say it's AI generated.

Y'all missed your chance to get pancreasnowork on the pod, it would finally be his time to shine

Fun fact - there's a faction of tech-priests described in the Second Edition of Dark Heresy called the Bone Collectors who claim to have discovered a way for machines to make wraithbone. They are classified as hereteks, although for the same reason that some Xenarites are called hereteks rather than being DarkMech.

Grettings from Argentina , I've started listening last year by chance looking for celestine lore because i play commander and damn it was a Good golddiggin, you are awesome guys and shy . I'm just a little argentinian guy. Hope you never have diarrhea

The Tau leader is technically a V-tuber as its a hologram of the guy the imperial vindicare. Aun'Va is a V-tuber for the greater good

According to Lexicanum, Bonesingers follow the Path of the Seer, which makes sense since that's the Path for unlocking your psychic potential. The fandom wiki says that it's the Path of the Seer, but also that it's a sub-path of the Path of the Artisan, the Path of Shaping.

A lot of the little bulbs on eldar constructs and vehicles are not soul stones, they are just blisters in the shell. You can pick out which are meant to be soul stones while painting, and on larger things they are framed, like on the wraith knight. "This world seems distant, but I walk it again." DoW2 Wraithlords were cooooool

I've always heard that the protruding areas on the armor and constructs that aren't soulstones or waystones are sensors. Some people paint all of them like gems will others only paint the actual soulstone like a gem.

The main character of my 40k/Dark Heresy continuity Attelus Kaltos had his bone structure replaced with Wraithbone by a Farseer who was formally a Bonesinger. She can communicate and use his body as a conduit for her power. She can also heal him but have to be careful not to be detected by other psykers. She also made him super human using other methods. He's like a combination of Wolverine and Captain America for 40k, lol.

truly love your job, were it not for you i dont think i would know half of the stuff i know about warhamer, glad i found your podcast, *shy*

A few comments: after experiencing some warp inhibiting things, eldar made physical backup triggers on all weapons, that's not a mistake from that one prisoner thing. Additionally, a large majority of Aeldari miniatures are updated save warp spiders, most phoenix lords, and the fire dragons. Most aspect warriors and rangers are great! plus new scorpions! There's SO many new aledari sculpts! The wraiths also are something I adore. Love my Aeldari army! Loved the topic!

Yall I just got Forza. Wondering if I should make a 40k inspired livery on my Crown Vic?

Really appreciate yall starting a podcast episode by looking at images. Really helps the audio-only experience...

The Infinity Circuit is actually connected to almost all things on an Eldar ship, being the Eldar's primary means of sending and receiving messages to other parts of Craftworlds. Most of the souls in the Infinity Circuit avoid the space on each Craftworld that's designated for the Path of the Warrior though.

Those damn knife ears are pretty ....... Acceptable.

Shuriken catapults and pistols are psychically linked to the wielder so they can just will it to fire, but they also have a trigger in case something is messing with psychic links

I know that there's a _Jain Zar_ book, and an Asurmen book, and the _Paths of the Eldar_ trilogy exists, but I don't know of many Eldar books beyond that. In other books, Eldar mostly fall into two categories - troublemakers, or exposition (like in _Hereticus_ when the Eldar show up to talk about Yssarile and stuff).

Woooo here at premiere! Perfect thing to listen to whilst at work.

43:46 I can't believe it took until doing this episode for it to finally click with Bricky how much sense that paint job makes.

Finally some more Eldar stuff :D

i like that shy ended up as some weird looking greek harpie

Wraith constructs can be a single soul, or an amalgamation of multiple souls that have become one sort of entity, particularly if they were that way prior to getting put in a wraith like higher ranking aspect warriors.

It's bizare to me that considering most 40k hardcore players are Eldar fans but GW ignore them the most. It's like they made them so powerful they forgot about them

For what it's worth, there's a Legends datasheet for the Bonesinger. They are pretty much an Eldar techmarine tbh.

I’m currently reading through the Deathwatch trilogy by C. S. Goto. The second book deals heavily with Eldar, and specifically the Shining Spears. They’re C. S. Goto books, so bear that knowledge in mind, but they’re not the worst things I’ve ever read.

We heat things up and apply pressure to create new elements and materials. In a universe where emotions are another law of physics, singing stuff into creation kind of makes sense.

44:10 Looks incredible, but the only thing going through my head is "oh fuck, the harliquins got their hands on one".

Next Book Club: Jain Zar! It's pretty good, voiced by Minthara from BG3, gives great insight to all Eldar lore AND it's the only Eldar Audiobook.

The Jain-Zar Howling Banshee book is unironically really good. You should read it,it's a hidden jem of the Black Library.

i tend to assume the multiple stones all over eldar infantry and vehicles serve one of two purposes, or both. On infantry, its most likely the multiple stones are a failsafe in case some of them are broken or destroyed in combat, so their souls have a much greater chance of being captured after death. On vehicles, knights, titans etc, it may take multiple soul stones to power and operate. Stones could also be used to power their armor and weapons.

That poster is awesome.

43:13 THE MARGE SIMPSON ONE NOOOO DONT DO MY CRAFTWORLD DIRTY LIKE THAT NOOOO

FYI ADR crew, in case you didn't know, Horse Face inquisitor in Gaunt's Ghost, Heldane, was the interrogator psyker guy in Eisenhorn Book 1. You guys should really read book 2...

When there was the 9th Edition and Eldar still had the 8th Edition codex, that was the time when Eldar was really really weak. Funny enough that was the time I started playing 40k and picked Craftworlds as my first army. I didn't have a great time! But Wraiths are cool AF and helped me win those few games I did.

Books 2 and 3 of the Fabius Bile series would also have helped out for this one. Lots of wraithbone crafting and soulstone huffing going on in those.

I like to imagine Aeldar weapons would still function on a mechanical level in the hands of anyone, but if you wanted to change the settings, or switch the safety on/off, fire modes, etc. You would need to be a psyker to interract with it more directly.

Yes! Elves, i’ve been getting into them, perfect timing my boys!

The famous bile omnibus (the second book I think?) has a great view into wraithbone and how it grows and acts psychically

I'm making a Wraithknight right now! Perfect timing!

Just want to point out the bird in Bricky's damnation meme is the same pose as a warhount titan, complete with the toes.

In short, only some of the "armor bumps" are crystals, and only some of the crystals are soulstones. Most of them are just compartments for sensors and stuff, or just decoration. The ones that are "supposed" to be painted as crystals usually have a raised border or socket around them.

Cause I’m in too deep, and. I’m tryin to keep, up above in my head, instead of going under. That song was a Lego rockband classic

Speaking of Eldar books,I do highly recommend both the Path of the Eldar and Path of the Dark Eldar series. In path of warrior for example you get detail on how wraithbone is shaped due to our character being a sculptor, in path of the seer you get a lot of info on the craft world's on how their advanced circuitry functions, and in path of the outcast you get descriptions of what it's like to interface with a craft directly (there are different levels of interfacing, think difference between telling an autopilot where to drive vs controling the car directly. I couldn't help but notice all the questions in this episode that are directly explained on those books. They do a great job of world building the Eldar societies.

One of the hammer and bolter episodes is about an Eldar trying to find the spirit stone of his mother if i recall correctly. Its pretty sad. It's Eldar, of course it's sad. Lol

Very helpful ability for the dwindling Eldar race.

I think the Eldar would say that they learned how to make and use Wraithbone from their gods. I don't know if that's literally true, but I think it's how the Eldar understand the situation. A bit of lore that's actually super inconsistent is the difference between Spiritseers and other Eldar seers. Spiritseers are sometimes treated as a separate specialization that requires specific training and dedication, while other times the lore acts like all Eldar seers can commune with souls in the Infinity Circuit and put them in wraith constructs.

For Eldar books, the "Path of the Eldar" trilogy does a good job of giving a view into how Eldar society functions. It does however have some iffy bits, especially in how it depicts space marines as more powerful than they actually are. Still a good read IMO if you wanna learn more about Eldar. Also, the second book has a scene where you get to see how they insert the souls into wraith constructs. For Wraithguard its is random civilian spirits, but in order to power a wraithlord they actually need a stronger soul so they grab either a dead hero or a dormant exarch from one of the aspect shrines. AFAIK wraithbone is mostly just used as a construction material. It can channel psychic power, but that is not the only power source the eldar use. E.g. most weapons work perfectly fine as they have all the relevant mechanisms, they do not have a spirit stone in them. That's saved for the extra special character weapons and the like.

Maybe the things on the Eldar weapons are really soulstones, but the Eldar weaponsmiths/bonesingers-in-charge-of-weapons just thought that painting over an obvious weak spot would help in keeping them from being sniped or cut off by the enemy

Only you guys could get me a pure imperialist to enjoy an hour discussion about xenos technomancy

Also there are rumblings that Asurman is getting a new model, really hope so! As most of the Phoenix Lords are not even available to buy.