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"Killing your entire race to kill your gods..." Necrons: Hey! I've seen this one, its a classic!

After the birth of Slaanesh, the Eldar realized that their death god may not be the god you want, but they're the god Ynnead...

Ah the Ynnari… The last hope for the Eldar storyline to advance and for the Eldar to become a major player in the 40K storyline… currently floating face down dead in the water… don’t worry Eldar fans, Leman Russ will probably rescue Isha and preform your plot for you, because Xenos only exist to further the Space Marines’ character arcs… Fuck GW.

If you want to imagine the impossible GW could release the next edition with a box of Ynnari Vs Emperors Children to focus the story on the rise of the new god and make everyone lose their minds.

Yvraine: "I'm the herald of death itself. Who dares to stand in front of me as an equal?" Roboute Guilliman: "Hello there."

When Bricky started talking about "you can't kill Slaanesh because you can't kill/erase a faction" I bursted out in laughter because that made me remember the End Times, in Warhammer Fantasy, exist

"I'm here to kill Chaos." -Yvraine, circa 999.M41, probably.

The fact that the Dru'kari just "Le Yoinked," a hive tyrant is crazy.

Ynnead IS a god of death, true, but also rebirth. Everyone seems to overlook that.

The way the Ynarri were built up and then dropped unceremoniously makes a lot more sense when taken in context of what was likely happening behind the scenes at the time. The whole Fall of Cadia era, which this Ynarri plotline was enmeshed in, was being developed concurrently with the End Times over in Warhammer Fantasy. An event that, funnily enough, ended that game, to be replaced by Age of Sigmar. There's good reason to believe that GW was planning on rebooting 40K, much as they did with Fantasy. And the whole Fall of Cadia, Great Rift, Rise of the Ynead stuff would have culminated in that reboot. In essence, GW were setting things up to bring 40K to an end, so a new version of 40K could be started (where presumably GW made all the lore and background changes they wanted). In that light, the Ynarri story having such potential to annihilate the status quo in such a final way wasn't so bad, because the whole setting would be tied up with a little bow immediately afterwards. Ynead would be born, kill Slaanesh, usher in an age of prosperity for the Eldar, etc, etc. It wouldn't be a problem, because that version of 40K would be over and a new one would start. That, I think, was the plan. Then the End Times over in Fantasy actually happened, and everyone HATED IT. Hated it and everything having to do with the death of Warhammer Fantasy and the initial version of Age of Sigmar. I cannot understate just how botched that entire situation was by GW. Therefore, it's not unreasonable to assume that GW looked at the backlash against the Fantasy reboot, and got cold feet about rebooting 40K. The game that was the company's real money maker. So, while the tracks were still being laid for the Ynarri and books were in the works or being released, GW backpedaled. 40K still got a major rework, with the Great Rift and the Primaris Marines and the return of Guilliman, etc, etc. But it was a significantly scaled back shift in the status quo. Importantly, the setting as established would continue to exist. It just advanced forward in the timeline, with some aspects moved around or altered. In effect, GW canceled the 40K apocalypse. And that left the Eldar and the Ynarri out to dry, because their whole plotline was building towards that setting-ending event. Nothing has been done with the Ynarri, because their old story is non-viable. And no one has figured out or wants to figure out a replacement narrative. So the faction is kind of spinning its wheels, trapped in narrative limbo. Kept around because their minis still sell and people are invested in it. But more out of obligation, than any desire on GW's part to "finish" that story.

This are the Emo Elves, not to be confused with Edgy Elves. Emo elves can be kind.

Ynnari Ending in two sentences. Slaanesh: You think you can just take this Crone Sword, and walk away alive?! Yvraine: Yeah...

Yvraine: “We’ve entered the warp. Now lets not do anything that will draw attention to ourselves.” Draigo: *appears out of nowhere* “Greetlings, have you seen my sword anywhere? I can not find it.” Eldrad: “It’s in your hand, Mon Keigh.”

Yvraine: "Well, me an' Ynnead... [lights a smoke] We have an, understanding." The Visarch: "We're on a mission from God."

Petition to make bricky listen to "The Hand of Darkness" short story so he can hear how they pronounce Ynead and die a little inside.

Anime reference aside, Yvrane is basically 40k's Elminster. For those not aware, El started out as a rogue/fighter banged a goddess of magic, became a priest of said goddess, and *theeen* built up to being *the* archmage. So yeah. Also poor eldar.

Just because you can't kill slanesh doesn't mean they should be shelved. What would be more grimdark and fun than seeing the Eldar persist and struggle against their inevitable doom while being relevant and shaping events

I just want to see more of Yvraine and the rest of the Ynnari. Could you imagine what it’s like for a Craftworld and Drukhari to work side-by-side after fighting each other for millennia and for Yvraine to try and constantly keep everyone from killing each-other? That sounds pretty interesting! And since it’s on everyone’s minds (because gods know it is) I know everyone ships Guilliman and Yvraine (whether serious or just for the memes/fanfiction) but I honestly just want to see more interactions between the two, like talking about what it’s like to be a leader of a faction constantly on doom’s door, what it’s like to feel like your the only one of your kind (since Yvraine is the only known chosen of Ynnead), and to be seen as an icon to your people. Friendly banter (non-romantic) would honestly be pretty funny.😂

it would be so cool if there is a book coming out where the Ynnari have to cooprate with Trazyn(Who wants to enter the warp and cannot be corupted since he has no soul and is a master of takening other peoples stuff) and pull of the greatest heist of all time. all ending with Trazyn just nicking the sword for himself because of course he does

I'd put money on the 40k Fulgrim model weilding the last sword. Fulgrim would certainly think he should have it. Might even snatch it himself during a visit, and that gets it back into the real world with the inevitable EC release. Then just another decade of the Ynarri chasing Fulgrim. Hey, its progress.

Im kinda sad you guys didnt mentioned the cultural aspects of the ynnari since its a big deal for the faction. In the books we see eldar crying from happiness as yvraine breaks their soul Stones and set their souls free, something thought impossible; we see aspect warriors and drukhari fighting alongside each others and living eldars being able to interact with the soulstones of their loved ones in ways never thought possible before. More than anything, the ynnari are a backlass to a culture afraid of letting go from legacy. They're equaly hated and beloved by many eldar factions vc they're disruptive to traditions, bc diferently than other eldar factions, they have hope for the future since they actually have a plan better than "survive until you die"!

Yay an Eldar episode. I wonder if Bricky can go one episode without mentioning his hatred of elves. Edit: Mostly.

Me normally when a video comes out: "Only an hour? Come on, there's so much more to talk about!" Me watching this episode: _"How the f*ck did they stretch this out to an hour? Jesus."_

You mad lads did it! My favourite faction finally gets a video!!!

To let DK know Vastorr got a detachment in the new Chaos Marine Codex and he currently slaps… he slaps hard.

plot device: *exists* DK: "is this anime?"

The Ældari Shinigami

I will forever mourn the loss of being able to watch Magnus royally fuck up Ynead's birth somehow in TTS

Man DK's ending howl of "Slaanesh prevails!" Is such a good sound bite

It's such a shame that they came up with one of the coolest concepts for how to continue the Eldar story, and then they got Gav Thorpe to write the trilogy, and then canned the third book when he inevitably botched it. Why? Because GW cannot stand when it's someone other than the Imperium or Chaos progressing the narrative

Only person to ever infiltrate Slannesh's palace was The Changeling, daemon of Tzeentch. Snuck in, stole a single hair from Slannesh and escaped. Ynnari, harlequinns and Tzeentch teaming up to fuck up Slannesh doing sort of what happened in Age of Sigmar with Slannesh imprisoned or weakened. We'd need an entire new range of Eldar and change in the narrative to accomondate it.

Ho nooo Bricky skipped the part where the death watch guy said "I'd rather see holy terra burn and the empire crumble than trust a filthy Xeno" when Eldrad said please just wait 3 sec I finish this and you can kill all of us, that'll help you defeat chaos too.

49:30 Fabius Bile literally just stared at Slaanesh and said "I just see stars. Da phuq is everyone freaking out about" *while* hemorrhaging and getting a heart attack from just straight up staring a Chaos God in the face.

I'm putting my money on the sigmar route: Slanesh gonna throw up a bunch of souls. She's not dead but now the elder have more than before but same problem

The new Lelith Hesperx book by Mike Brooks that will come out later this year will have the Ynnari in it. It was already confirmed in the warhammer-community article that presented the novel. But as usual, if is not a space marine novel no one online will ever talk about it.

“It’s very on the nose but it does look cool, so I’m okay with it.” Isn’t this basically the tagline for 40K?

In AoS Slaanesh is sealed away and doesn’t play a huge part, but her armies are still playable and have a huge influence in the setting. They could easily have the Drukari and Vect take up the role of new Slaanesh forces.

In Dark Imperium, Guilliman straight up think "the only Eldar I trust is Eldrad Ulthran". So, if there's a ship to build between Guilliman andn Eldar, it's not with Yvraine XD

So Yvraine has the power of the Eldar Gods AND Anime on her side.

It's a shame, because the concept of the Ynnari is actually what got me interested in the Eldar when I first diving into 40k. Oh how naive I was, before I knew about GW's hatred of the Eldar.

One of the coolest parts of the ynnari is they they bring in some dark eldar. It makes them seem more like the subfaction of the overall aeldari race rather than just mustache twirling torture elves.

So Ynnead is a sort of... low-tier god, you could say.

Trazynn when he learns he can collect the Eldar equivalent of Exodia by fighting god avatars, and venturing in the palace of Slaanesh, just to do absolutely nothing with it. 👌👌👌

I mean, they could use the AoS option where Slaanesh is imprisoned outside of time and space, unable to contact the mortal realms. Then the big named demon just does shit in their name, no change.

Just love the Ynnari. Too bad that Yvraine revived some Rubrics in front of Ahriman just to immediately make the Yncarne eat their souls, and as a Thousand Sons player I’m obligated to despise the faction & ignore the fact that Ahriman had chucked Yvraine into the Warp first.

Speaking of vtubers, are you going to invite our favorite legally distinct bug over next time you do an episode on the Tyranids?

"Sits on their hands and do nothing despite it probably selling well if they did it". Me: Weird that sounds similar to a Guard sub-faction that all looked like desert raiders but no one apparently liked, and were discontinued from my understanding. Yet I think they looked awesome because they didn't look like the regular guard. Just wish I could remember what they were called.

Basically with Ynnead the Eldar are pulling the, "I brought you into this world, I can take you out of it", card on Slaanesh.

Ynnari have this extremely anime feeling of reckless, iconoclastic hope that is such a welcome thing to see. Especially for a faction whose entire thing is stumbling and sleepwalking along on their way to extinction. Its a very good implementation of hope being a form of rebellion that the weight of grimdark can't snuff out. By letting the Ynnari plot die, its not just GW ignoring Eldar or saying get back in your corner... its GW confirming that the eldar only exist to be a pillow princess for other peoples plots, that they can more easily be canned by corporate decision than they can try to change their fate. And thats extremely uncomfortable to see.

Hold up, this is just the plot of Power Rangers Lost Galaxy

Hey guys, been listening to you all since day 1. and just want to say you guys (bricky, Dk, and shy you guys made my 3 years of being blind significantly more bearable and your shows where one of the highlights that kept me going through)

*After the awakening of Ynnead* Vect: *panicking* “That was Insane! I was NOT in control of that situation!” Rakarth: *having a crisis* “We can’t keep doing this.” Sythrac: *trying to keep it together* “Why you do this, Master?” Vect: “I Don’t Know! Maybe I hate myself, may I think I deserve to die, may it just who I am and who i can only be, I don’t know!” Lelith: *thousand yard stare after what she just seen* Mandrakes leader: *hands shaking* “Look at this, look at my hands.” * Tahril: “We need a vacation.”

God I love the WARHAMMER LORE podcast you guys do! I just keep coming back to it everytime.

DK: Makes jokes about Guilliman/Yvrain Iskandar Khayon: *Laughs in cannon Drukhari waifu*

I could see it happening where they do finally manage to manifest Ynnead and he does battle Slaanesh directly, and it looks like he's going to win (despite the fact Slaanesh ripped open almost the entire Eldar pantheon single-handedly, but prophecies and stuff I guess) when the other Chaos Gods intervene, since while they are opposed to Slaanesh they're not going to let some outsider god steal their kill. Then Cegorach shows up with the shards of Khaine ready to unite and resurrect, and also with Isha who used the distraction to escape Nurgle's garden. Apocalyptic god battle ensues. The Eldar gods have to retreat, but they get two of their number back in the process. This way they can build on what's there without having to massively overhaul anything.

I mostly have to wonder why the eldar think this might work, as their dead god is supposed to be made of eldar souls who are said to be distracted by desiring their old life & frequently day-dreaming or something like that. Especially as, ya know, newborn Slaanesh already ate more souls then there are in the craftworlds pre-Ynnead

"Max 30 minutes of lore" Longer video than the Iron Hands video LMAO i am in great pain

pregnant yvraine poster when?

I cant remember if you mentioned it in the TSons episode but one of my favourite parts is Yvraine being stuck in the Webway with a bunch of her followers and gets attacked by Ahriman who teleports her into the Warp. To escape she resurrects a bunch of Rubrics to flesh (who promptly get murdered by angry Eldar) that are very confused and think the Great Crusade is still going on. Ahriman goes wtf and Yvraine uses the distraction to escape.

Aw yes, the sub-faction that was doomed from the word go.

The way out of this conundrum is to make Yneed sever the connection that the Aeldarii and Ynnarii have with She Who Thirsts by using the power of 4 of the 5 swords, making a pocket in the Warp where the Aeldarii souls go when they die. But since Slaneesh wants those souls, she is constantly trying to destroy the pocket, making so that the dead Aeldarii need to help with the protection of the pocket against the God of Excess. It kinda keeps the status quo of the game, while also giving the setting a BIG change that can have a Nth of repercussions (they can even kill some major characters for that).

We in the 40k fandom will meme Yvraine x Guilliman until GW makes it canon!

Something I would like to add is that in Age of Sigmar lore something akin to "Slannesh dying to save the elves" is currently whats happened. The way AoS handled it is that Slannesh is tricked and imprisoned in a paradox realm where the new Aelf pantheon then cut out and siphon elf souls from. Technically Slannesh is "missing" from the chaos pantheon in AoS, it is even shown with Archeon's model where his mount has a head for each of the chaos gods, except Slannesh because they are missing. But her essence is still there, the realms of Slannesh is still in the warp, just the throne room is empty. A big plot line for AoS Slannesh armies right now is the search for their missing god. Really interesting stuff. I can definitly see a out for GW in that Reborn Ynead god could fight slannesh forever in the warp while harliquinn clown god does a sneaky and yoinks the souls to get reborn. But Slannesh is still extremely powerful so some Eldar souls get sent to Slannesh but there is hope that Ynead and Kekgod could rescue some souls.

Bricky: You can't delete an army people play GW: GOOD BYE BEASTS OF CHAOS PLAYERS

It’s incredibly lore accurate that when the chaos gods win an imperial servant deploys the terminus decree. We are all proud of shy for ending chaos once and for all

What's horrifying is whta likely also went down when the Dark Eldar captured the Hive Tyrant was they probably also visited some civilians and asked them "hey innocent individuals would you like to escape with us away from this attacking Hive Fleet?" And then that goes exactly how you think it would

If Bricky was 20 years older he would of gave Billy Mays a run for his money

Since Gaewokeshop has been doing what they do best; I want to see a direction taken where some Marines and guardsmen alike display a desire to work with the Eldar to bring about a future where humanity and eldar fight on the same side. It begins with a cessation of hostilities between humanity and the Eldar, slowly a sentiment develops to reach out directly to one another and in deliberations it's uncovered that 1. The Eldar that aren't drukhari would rather not fight humans. 2. Surprised but elated by this, the imperial liaison who is flanked by ranking space Marines and guardsmen agree that they'd rather not fight the Eldar. 3. Further discussion lays out who the Eldar see as a threat and why; and the Imperium agrees and lays out who they see as a threat; to which the Eldar concur. 4. The talks end with an exchange of insignias and callsigns as well as dedicated communication relays to directly get into contact when necessary; with the aforementioned identifying markers being exchanged to denote friendly forces for if and when they run into each other unintentionally. I'd also like to see some Eldar develop an affinity for bolter weaponry; death jesters would have a field day

I wouldn't mind if this progressed the story a bit, heresy as it might be. For example, somehow the 5 swords are reunited, Ynead cuts off all Eldar souls from Slaanesh, but the united Eldar now are locked in an eternal war against She Who Thirsts (and GW loves deadlocks, right?). You could make it so now Slaanesh is more fixated in humanity or something. After all, endless passion and suffering should exist anywhere in the universe for Them to feed upon.

My dad was the head chef for two of Emeril’s restaurants in Vegas. Got to to meet him once, and like to use him as my “met this famous person” guy. And I can say with absolute certainty that no one in the zoomer demographic has a damn clue who he is.

Anyone else looking forward to when "pilled" and "coded" leaves popular vocabulary?

3rd Option: bring Guilliman in the Palace of Slaanesh and make the Emperor burn the place. In the confusion steal the sword.

If there's one thing brickey hates more than eldar it's pregnant eldar

If they get all 5 swords they can summon CAPTAIN PLANET

They could get away with killing or defeating Slaanesh, they've been sealed away in AoS for a while now without problems. The Slaaneshi daemons are still around.

So remember how scarbrand betrayed khorne, maybe a slaneshi greater daemon could steal that sword away for some reason

27:30 Ya kinda needed to mention Ynnead's birth was very similar to Slannesh's. Aka a large majority of those watching the birth from the arena seats got slurped on the spot, leaving only bone dust. These were the Ruling Elite of Commorragh, who got insta-snuffed, leaving most of the city was leaderless, and to say this caused an uproar and a riot is an understatement. As usual Vect survived this.

Rejoice fellow knife-ear connoisseur's, Half-elf manufacturers, Sons of Guiliman, unprotected bow sharpshooters and immortality enjoyers! For the Elf-Waifu episode has finally arrived 🧝‍♂️❤! Guiliman himself would be proud!

The only people who hate the elves more than Bricky, GW.

"you can't kill Slanessh!" Pan over to AOS that did in fact kill Slanessh.

I would love a book about 7 guardsman and one eldar on an adventure to steal the sword from the all seeing eye of slynesh

I had a stupid idea for an allied unit to run with guardsmen and space marines. you can run 1 group of Custodian Guardsmen from the aquilan shield with any 1 of your none monster/vehicle characters, you could also attach it to a battleline unit but you must pay the full cost of the unit for 1 model as the aquilan shield cannot be bothered to protect the entire squad.

I mean, AoS did something pretty similar where the Elves united, defeated Slaanesh, stole back all their souls and imprisonned him. You could still play Slaaneshi forces, it's just that they're the ones seeking their God and a way tofree her now instead of the Elves ^^ It's like, you can't kill Cadia, they're THE Guard army.... But you can explode the planet and have the Cadians become a nomad culture XD

"My brother in the Imperium, Sanguinus didn't die for this shit"

"Sanguinius didn't die for this heresy" needs to be a new shirt

Age of Sigmar had Slaanesh trapped between realms with its factions attempting to find a way to locate and release them.

Whoever wrote psychic awakening: ynnari plot is dead bc last sword in slaanesh palace. (Us the fans): Yvraine can break into the palace of slaanesh with harlequin tears and believing really hard.

Yvraine needs to ask Guilliman to order Draigo to just go to Slaanesh's realm, P1$$ on her fruit punch and recover the sword. He already raided all of the Chaos Gods realms before.

DK has been very good at getting quotes these past few episodes. I'm so proud of him, his 40k brainrot is finally reaching its terminal stage!

My brother and I joke every time about the Eldar and end it with “Fuck you Watch Captain Artemis.”

Yvraine has the power of god *and* anime on her side. Nothing can stop her now!

I'm just imagining the eldar needing to get a crone sword out of slaaneshes palace. The laughing god, "bring me kaldor drago, a webway gate, and some duct tape."

Maybe when Fulgrim returns he will wield the last Cronesword? it would set up a clear target and make a clear advisary.

Oh neat, saw they got added to the DoW1 Soulstorm Unification mod and I had no idea what was up with them, glad I have this to watch now

Whenever I hear about Eldar lore, I think it's really fucking cool and interesting. Then I look at their model range...

I'm already betting there are artists who've already put out artwork of bricky's description of yvraine as diner worker

There was a theory floating about some time ago that Farsight's Dawn Blade, is one of the Krone Swords.

in the end, they'll just ask draigo to get the sword for them and it's over in an evening.

Honestly it would be better if slaanesh is put in an eternal stalemate with the Ynnari’s god of death instead of killing her off and it would allow the Eldar to slowly re-populate now that Slaanesh is somewhat distracted.🤔🐱