This video is a prime example of why I think Arch is a top-notch lore master. He keeps having to force himself back on the topic because he keeps waffling off track when trying to explain things. It is hilarious, and you often learn something completely tangential in the process.
He is the best WH lore channel just like Tex when he releases a Battletech video. Most people just read the wiki. The fact he didnt bitch out when GW made empty lawsuit threats against youtube channels helps too 😄
He is the only Warhammer lore guy I watch know and I have one army only. So bad what GW has done to the hole community. I’ve lost count how many times I watched an arch video and spent hundreds at GW. I spent £650 when the Vrak lore videos came out. GW are just stupid simple as that
Something just struck me: Wouldn’t it be cooler if the reason the Eldar doesn’t have that many children was because they so utterly fear losing themselves to pleasure if they engage in intercourse that they force themselves to abstain for decades or even centuries, and formalizing the affair to the degree that it is almost a ritualistic endeavor? It would tie-in with their lore and backstory much better than just them becoming randomly almost infertile for no good reason.
Eldar don't really have that um, enjoyment. Unlike humans who need a lot of stimuli to trigger the biological function, Eldar are more of a one pump and done. If it wasn't for the fact that they are conceived in phases, they would be only one thrust to do the deed. Even then it is months even years between the next in from the last out.
@@Marinealver So, the vaunted Aeldari are basically fish when it comes to sex? Yeah, that makes no sense really, when they gave birth to a chaos god whose highest wish is to murder-fuck anything that can be r*ped and killed… Not saying you’re wrong, per se, just that the lore is quite confusing and maybe a bit contradictory.
Maybe the reason the Exodites figured out what they did, and the Craftworlds took forever to come up with an anti-Slaanesh device, is exactly because the Craftworlders were focused on coming up with some kind of hypercomplicated super technical solution, and the Exodites were not blinded by those preconceptions.
I agree - while I think the irony of the exodites dooming themselves would be delicious, I allways liked the World Spirit as an idea because I thought of its shrines etc. as an nice callback to the Waystones of Warhammer Fantasy since they are a bit of an equivalent of the Wood Elves. Perhaps it would be more interesting to make the World Spirits even more arcane and psychic in nature, going for an completely psychic solution instead of the techno-psychic solution of the Infinity Circuits - more raw and pure for sure, perhaps even powered by belief - but also more wild and unpredictable, as is to expect when binding your soul to a fucking planet.
I like that idea, like the Exodites used a combination of mental fortitude and warp fuckery to create the World Spirits as psychic repositories, as if the world itself was a crude Infinity Circuit or some other sort of well to keep their souls bonded to the world. It could also be that they need to constantly add souls to keep what would amount to their psychic shield up, which would tie into their violent culture, since keeping a constant supply of souls would keep them from all getting eaten by The Thirsty Bitch.
Lets be real... at one time a lot of the lore was contrived because people kept wanting to play different kinds of games with their play army guys. It's the 5-year-old logic that if you're playing with army men and your friend shows up with his dinosaur well now the army guys are fighting off a dino attack. Cause your army guys are cool and your friend's dinosaur is cool and you both want to play with your cool toys together.
Okay, and what's wrong with that? That's basically the same logic behind Imperial/Chaos Knights and Titans, isn't it? Giant mechs that tower over toy soldiers and are incredibly difficult to bring down because people like the challenge.
@@jagnestormskull3178 reminds me of my wife's cat...the biggest bane to my Nurgle Army is not other armies or my children, but that doggone cat! His nickname whilst I'm painting is Catus Titanicus. Sorry but of a waffle but your guys comments reminded me of him.
@@michaelclark7787 may he find the biggest yarn ball in heaven (Your comment spoke of him in the past tense, if he is still scratching and meowing, sorry about the misinterpretation)
That is what they were in 2nd edition, a calvary option like the Rough Riders, their Craftworld counterparts were also introduced in that edition (Shining Spears). The problem besides having no model support is that they had a poor point to performance ratio, they were essentially a Guardian stat line with a Laser Lance, riding a mount with a stat line similar to Death Rider tier mount. Shining Spears had the improve Aspect Warrior stat line, same Laser Lance and the Jetbikes back then were ridiculously faster than the Exodite mounts.
To me, these World Spirits almost sound like the results of Eldar God Forging. Maybe while the craft world Eldar where busy panicking and searching Crone Worlds the Exodites just picked up the old technique and dreamed spiritual hoblah up, he'll maybe these crystals are some form of wraith bone that had either been forgotten about or specially made by the Exodites.
The thing that Arch isn't mentioning is that "psychoactive crystals" of all varieties (including Wraithbone) can just be summoned (for lack of a better word) by Wraithsingers. Exodite Worlds wouldn't need to have them already existing on those worlds if the founder of the Exodite movement designed these World Spirits as a network of psychoactive crystal altars and distributed the blueprints to any Exodites. God Forging seems unlikely because there are so many different World Spirits. If it was just one "Galaxy Spirit," or "Ynnead Precarnate," maybe it could be God Forging, but there doesn't seem to be evidence of that.
We can also say that Exodites living on planet's that didn't naturally have materials/structures that were easily turned into these Infinity Circuit substitutes died out, so only ones with World Spirits are left.
Ah yes, the Amish Eldar. I've always thought that they would be a cool and interesting addition to the Eldar roster, even if they can't be their own full faction. They could be a mini faction like the Harlequins, maybe?
At least make Exodite Dragon Knights a cavalry unit under Craftworld and/or Ynnari. Dinosaurs with laser cannons are cool, and you will likely never change my mind on that subject.
Tribal Eldar with Dinosaurs with laser cannons for mounts. Lion sure would love this kind of Eldar waifu. And he and Guilliman can chat together about their waifus and their benefits. Guilliman has a Dark Eldar, while Lion has a Dinosaur with laser cannons on it.
Seeing how the Lion grew up in the wilderness, that almost nakes sense, but then again Elves are inferior being with ego's the size of the eye of terror so fuck em, not I dont mean like that... or do I... *collapses in self doubt i horror*
One thing to point out is that "living in a harsh world" has a benefit of a sort for an eldar. And that it can bring an excitement. Excitement is what I believe to be a recourse on its own in eldar society. Too much/too hardcore can make your soul being eaten by slanesh. To little/ too boring can make it wither. Having a healthy source of excitement like such is a way of living for a race as sensitive.
I don't have a problem with the exodites finding a solution to the slaanesh problem first. They aren't actually technologically inferior to the craftworlds they just choose to live their day to day life in a more rural way. They set up their worlds to keep their population as strong and hardy as the original war in the heavens eldar. So really they should be considered more as the custodians of the Eldar. Incredible elite troops who are tougher than the other eldar and have stronger psychic weapons and abilities.
The amazing trazyn book, infinite and the divine, shows some of the exodites at war. Raptor cavalry, brontosaurus heavy battle tanks, and a few others. Repurposing some of the seraphon/lizard men dinosaurs and creating an exodite range could work wonders. But that would present the same issues as the wood elves in old warhammer fantasy. Namely, narratively they’re only ever going to be defending their home rather 99.9% of the time rather than getting out there and doing something. Even if you count the webway, the logistics of transporting *dinosaurs through it* is probably beyond them.
You can always say that whatever battle they are fighting off world they're doing it because future-sight says need to do thing there. As for logistics, only Arch would care about that so it's somewhat okay to ignore. You could probably say stasis or psychic powers helps move them.
This is why they would likely not make a full-blown faction, but being a miniature faction like the Harlequins that ally with and supplement the Craftworld Eldar would be cool. You could easily make enough units to be able to field an all Exodite force if you want that (Harlequins have what, 8 units including characters?), while still keeping them as a supplement for Craftworlds.
You could introduce a lore reason for them to become expansionist/adventurist. For example they could make them conquer new worlds to allow for population expansion. Or introduce a new character that encourages them to interfeir offworld, etc. Anyway lore wise they have access to the same technology as the craftworld. They just choose to do things the more labour intensive way alot of the time. It's why they still have lasers and had gaint robots. They could easily introduce some form of interweb transporter.
@@matthiuskoenig3378 Ynari going to them and calling for a new empire to be forged? World spirits serving as new gods for an eldar pantheon under ynari.
According to the very old chaos god books, Slaanesh existed long long before the space elves. What the Eldar did was make Slaanesh aware of the material world, and rip a hole in reality. The no-longer canon lore, goes into great details of how Slaanesh was imprisoned and space elf souls where slowly + painfully extracted from -IT.
Well no, it thinks it's more accurate to say that once slaanesh was born, it was always present due to non-linear time in the warp. Once something exists there its always been there.
They change it a lot the version I remember and heard several times was that the warp was tame and still until the edlar and old ones started drawing upon it and sucking it into their war against dem boys.
Makes me wonder if there's different varieties of Eldar Exodite for the worlds they live on. Say a Maori like type of Exodite that live solely on a massive ocean world, a frozen over hellscape like Fenris, or a giant dead desert world with little green.
I can see there being different types of paradise worlds (rolling hills and crass lands, vs woodlands, vs jungle, vs mountainous, vs oceanic. After all the perfect natural environment is subjective. Infact most exofite worlds probably have all of the above mentioned environments.
I thought that psychoactive crystals (including Wraithbone) of all manner could just be summoned (for lack of a better word) by Wraithseers. Exodite Worlds wouldn't need to have them already existing on those worlds if the founder of the Exodite movement designed these World Spirits as a network of psychoactive crystal altars and distributed the blueprints to any Exodites.
You forgot to mention the weird Animal-Gods that the Exodites have , the serpent,cobra,scorpion gods that represent different mindsets. They're a weird situation of spirits that I'd like to see expanded,
I don't know if this is Canon, as it came from a 1d4chan page, but I like the idea that if an outsider invades an Exodite Planet, the planet's World Soul turns hostile towards the invader and makes that planet as dangerous as a Death World for said invader.
Maybe Slanesh doesnt have a claim on ALL Eldar, but just the ones that commited depravity and their bloodlines, so the Exodites trough living in a more puritanical way maybe are totally free from slanesh, i know thats not how it currently stands in the lore but with a couple retcons i feel like that explaination would be more interesting
First time I saw them mentioned was in the Titan legion codex for Space Marine/ 40k epic. The boxed set where you got 2 Mega Gargants and an Emperetor Titian. The context was with the introduction of the Knights
James workshop not exploiting this part of their lore always struck me as very strange. I mean what kid doesn't love dinosaurs?!? It's pretty much MADE FOR their intended target audience. Dinos with guns, 6yold me would've been all over that shit and it's a lot more parent friendly too. Missing out on this is like shooting themselves in the foot really.... Ooor modern kids really think boring, blue spacemen are the hot shit no idea maybe l'm just old.
I remember seeing the 'coming soon' range of 6mm exodites models that were in the Titan Legions catalog included with the box set. Since I'd been a huge fan of Dino Riders as a kid it made me want Eldar despite my dislike of all things elvish. Especially as the lore for Imperial Knights had them fighting the exodites for control of Dinosaur herds. Herds they raised the way us Texans do cows, and other livestock. Sadly those concept models never came to pass, and in time even the original KNights lore was changed to edit the exodites out. Plus they got rid of the bit about all knights being dinosaur ranching space cowboys.... There was also a short story included in one of the early Inferno Anthologies that came out in the late 90s. All in all it was a neat story with a bit of dork angels lore driving the plot. There were also a few chapters devoted to them in the Craftworld trilogy that came out in the early 2000s. Most of which was in the Farseer novel IIRC. Oh, and the Infinite and Divine. Which has the most recent 'modern' interpretation of the faction Which gives me some hope that we'll finally see actual models. After all, we got Knights after they began appearing in the Heresy novels.
One thing that Arch missed about the American Indian warfare is that nomadic people generally require a larger % of their population to provide for the tribe, so their type of warfare evolved to minimize losses, because winning a decisive battle doesn't matter if your tribe starves afterward.
Erm, about the World Spirits, I am pretty certain ALL Exodite Worlds have at least one entrance to the Webway, which means that they do indeed all have access to the Crone Worlds, even if the journey might be difficult. As those particular crystals as far as I remember can ONLY be found on the Crone Worlds, it means that both the Craftworld and Exodite Aeldari HAD to go to them. The fact their technology is not as advanced as the Craftworld Aeldari does not mean a huge amount travel wise considering they still have those active Webway Portals. The Exodites can still get to them, just as the Craftworlders can.... EDIT: And don't forget, while the Exodites technology may not be up to the Craftworlders, these are STILL Aeldari, which means they STILL have that vast Psychic potential that is common to the Eldar (sue me, I got sick of using the new name!). The soul stones, Infinity circuit, and world spirit are as much psychic constructs as they are technological ones, and in that respect the Exodites are no more backwards than the Craftworlders.....
The thing about warfare driving advancement reminded me of a conversation I had back in college. Someone, I can't remember who now, was talking about how once we solve mankinds problems on Earth that then we'll finally be able to colonize space. I disagreed and started shooting holes in their utopian ideals. One thing I did was to ask a question. That in this utopian future, which is free of strife, humanity would be free to pursue any endeavor that intrests them. They said yes, you could do and become whatever you wanted. Okay, I said, then I would spend my life making rifles, weapons and so on. I'd devote my existence to the craft like the fabled blacksmiths of old. No, they say, their would be a need for guns or weapons of any kind. I replied that if we could do and become anything, then why couldn't I spend my time making weapons? Why would you stop me? Who would do so? How would one do it in a utopian world? His answer was that people would prevent me, laws would, any weapon made would be destroyed because thwur wouldn't be a need for them. So their is a need for my beautiful rifles then, I said. Because you've just proved that humanity will always have conflict and thus the need for weapons. The rest of the conversations went more or less along those lines.
I think if the exodites were to get a codex it'd be a Ranger-Cavalry-LizardmenDinoMonster . The rangers shoot from a far while the dino-riders goes in for the kill.
another connection with the amish is that the amish do not abandon all tech either. depending on sect of course, but usually the intent is to not use tech that overly detracts from your own work, so you can see tech that doesnt detract from this ethos in some of those communities.
Closer to Mennonites than Amish. They can have modern vehicles and farming equipment, electricity, phone lines, firearms, yadda yadda. Pretty good and decent folk. Big on crop, cattle, and fish farming around here. Unfortunately I haven't seen a Triceratops parked at the local hardware stores yet.🤔
Hey arch, thanks for all you do. I've listened to a lot of your lore vids and find them all amazing. Especially your vid on skaven. Just wondering, are you going to cover anything from 10e 40k?
Going full Rasczak at 14:00 there, Arch. I could almost feel the stump on my shoulder. "The empire Eldar probably wouldn't say anything about the Exodites, sir, because they were destroyed - from the asshole outwards."
Given, not the most versed on 40k lore, but my first thought on the talk of the world spirit thingamajig is the knife eared Amish could have kept the most advanced bit of old eldar tech: their own afterlife. Cause when the society around you is going murder hobo levels of degenerate, who would want to queue with the freaks in line back to living. Of course, in this idea it wouldn't be what it was. Much more local. Hell, the 'world spitit' could be analogous to human machine spirits. So many pysker souls pass through they imparted a spirit to it and over time the cart got put before the horse in exodite memory. Or a needed defense to she who thirsts. Meh, random musing from someone only the Horse Heresy deep in the universe.
What’s also worth noting about the concept of the world spirit is that apparently it already existed before the fall. In the Infinite and the Divine, the book starts with Trazyn breaking apart an expedite world spirit as part of a heist. This occurred immediately after the fall itself and the world spirit had already been there for quite some time. Long enough for it to be established and properly settled into the main room of a temple dedicated to it. I don’t think anyone really knows what to do with the timeline of the exodites.
So… if it’s an Exodite fishing village would they have sharks with fricking laser beams attached to their heads? *holds a pinky finger to the corner of the mouth*
I always wanted to play a Exodite Faction, but then the Haemonculus Covens came out and well... Fleshcrafting Necromancers just hit all the right buttons for me. Also since the Chaos Dwarf DLC for W:TW was announced, think we might get a new Chaos Dwarf video? its always nice to see someone who has a passion for them talk about them.
My head canon is that The Laughing God looks after the Exodites and "lead" them unwittingly through chicanery to settle on worlds with the needed psychic crystal world tree things. I also like to think they're part of his master plan to finally defeat she who thirst, but that's probably just me finding the idea of distracting Slaanesh with the galaxy's most flamboyant and deadly dance troupes just to kill her with Amish dinosaur herders hilarious.
My head canon for the Exodites is that their ancestors got a beef with being the former servants of the Old Ones and therefore got some perverse pleasure in dominating reptilian creatures. When most of the other Eldar enjoyed a far more diverse choises of excess, the Exodites focused theirs on one particular creature that bears certain resemblance to their once great masters.
Like the webway, if you try hard enough you can link your very everything to the material plane, the warp is just the landfill before find out recycling was a thing.
Just wanted to leave a quick comment of thanks. I’ve been binge watching your vids really since New Years and seeing how deep this lore is and intricate - for good or I’ll depending on the author - you’ve moved me to start ordering some books and building my own set of models (I know Raven Guard get little love but they appeal to me and how I play other games.). I don’t know if I’ll ever actually play the game or not. I am in a rather rural area that has few if any players within hundreds of km. But I don’t think I need to to enjoy this world and to start a new hobby - model building - that I haven’t done in 30 years. Thanks again.
To be fair... Arches idea at 26:45 is a good one. I would certainly do watch the craftworld Eldar get screwed for a long time before handing them a solution. On the other hand, i am whit the Iron Legion, so... yeah. Point and laugh it is, i gues.
Arch, the Exodites protect their souls by storing them the World Spirits they have at the heart of their planets. That's why they don't have or need soulstones - as long as they stay safely on their homeworld. Should they ever leave it...
Archeological evidence suggests that the _inception_ of agrarianism, and basic writing and math, was the desire for _beer._ They figured out how to make bread out of wild grains, which they would then cultivate by picking which seeds to plant before moving on during their nomadic stage, which can be made anywhere, however bread was used to make beer at some point - it's a real thing, look it up. The desire for more beer led to establishing more permanent settlements. This led to counting the grain, then establishing trade and even currency to exchange grain (and later money) in exchange for other things, paying your inevitable taxes and keeping tabs of meeting quotas and etc. etc. you get the idea. Even though the formation of settlements caused a host of new problems - disease, crime, war, etc. - it was largely considered worth it so that people could make a safer-than-water, sorta nutritious beverage that also took the edge off.
As a Mon'Keigh. Even the Amish eldar seem extremely advanced. Image you a guards man get told to bayonet charge a dinosaur with a sword wielding eldar on its back.
Not sure if this checks out logically, but bear with me. Distance affected the aeldari. Drukhari got it worst, unable to utilize soul stones because of their proximity. The Aeldari were next closest, having most of their soul still and able to capture it within the soulstone before Slannesh claimed it upon death. The exodites were already long gone at this point, so they had the most distance between themselves and the birth of Slannesh, maybe not affecting their souls at all. I'm no exodite expert, but would it be possible that the "world spirit" is how the exodites can be reborn? Aeldari used to go hang out in the warp until they were reborn, but the birth of Slannesh stopped that. Maybe the exodites did something to their planet, placed a piece of the warp or webway in the center of it, and binded the souls of the exodite people to the world somehow. If they were the ones who were most adept at manipulating the warp, it may have been possible, especially if they wanted to keep themselves separate from Aeldari society at large by only rebirthing exodite souls. Not too sure if this actually could work, but it sounds interesting in my head
Considering how F-ing old the Eldar are it wouldn't really surprise me if they visited (really) Old Earth, looked at the dinosaurs and thought "Hah, neat", then took a bunch of dinos with them. And there for the Eldar "dragons" look like Earth dinosaurs. I have NO basis for this, but it sounds awesome.
A thought on Exodite society and why it is that way: Saim-hann was the first(?) craftworld to leave the eldar empire and their society to this day is more a confederation of clans than the more classic craftworld community. If the exodites were the first to leave than it would be logical that they were even more clanish than the later Saim-hann and rather than deciding to split into warring clans it was simply the natural state for them that they reverted to once safe from their empires perversions.
make an in for the fantasy version of the lizard man( i know it supposed to be the old ones but still could be cool)and to make it competitive you make em master of personal shield kinda like the gungan army in sw(could use the fantasy dark eldar cavalry as mount for a fast kit ,)like a heavy krieg death rider
I have an idea for the plot hole you found. What if they designed the world soul when they first settled, an alternative to the constant resurrection that the eldar used as part of their...lavish lifestyle. The fact that it protected them against she who thirsts could be a coincidence, and even could have been what the eldar based their infinity circuit off of.
I think the expedites have the backup for their souls because they were the equivalent of propers saw the warp going insane and already found a way with their magic psyker abilities.
I think it would be a really cool idea that they could borrow from “Rouge Trooper” Every time they kill somebody or somebody dies, their soul gets transferred into a weapon or an object or some thing and the more people you kill with it the stronger it gets or something They’re close connection to nature, or something might allow them to possess their mount or whatever
I could very easily see an Eldar Exodite Kill Team coming into existence lately, just to test the waters. As far as planetary defence, well, there's always the Catachan excuse. They did deliberately pick some of the most difficult places to live in the galaxy, and if Catachan is anything to go by, the galaxy's most awful fauna can handle itself just fine, thank you. Not to mention these are ELDAR, and can likely survive on worlds humanity wouldn't even dream of colonizing. Hence why they're safe from the Imperium, Orks, and Chaos at least.
Well, that's 3 minutes of Raid ads that I just had to skip. That's 10% of the video. I hope Arch gets these metrics on how much of his video we're skipping.
imagine a videogame like ARK, but you play as an exodite on a hostile world. not only would you have to deal with all sorts of nasty beasties, harsh weather, dangerous flora even, but also primitive orks, the odd stray tyranid, savage humans lost to the imperium (maybe even ab humans). and then maybe even offworld threats: a rogue traders landing party, space marines wondering if your world would make a good chapter homeworld, dark eldar raids, even obscure things like non daemonic warp entities.
This video is a prime example of why I think Arch is a top-notch lore master. He keeps having to force himself back on the topic because he keeps waffling off track when trying to explain things. It is hilarious, and you often learn something completely tangential in the process.
And yet a certain Aussie f**khead called him one of the worst UA-cam lore channels....
He is the best WH lore channel just like Tex when he releases a Battletech video. Most people just read the wiki.
The fact he didnt bitch out when GW made empty lawsuit threats against youtube channels helps too 😄
Arch, Baldemort and Oculus Imperialis are the best lore channel out there
He is the only Warhammer lore guy I watch know and I have one army only. So bad what GW has done to the hole community. I’ve lost count how many times I watched an arch video and spent hundreds at GW. I spent £650 when the Vrak lore videos came out. GW are just stupid simple as that
@@lucho9911 never leave out luetin
Something just struck me: Wouldn’t it be cooler if the reason the Eldar doesn’t have that many children was because they so utterly fear losing themselves to pleasure if they engage in intercourse that they force themselves to abstain for decades or even centuries, and formalizing the affair to the degree that it is almost a ritualistic endeavor? It would tie-in with their lore and backstory much better than just them becoming randomly almost infertile for no good reason.
Add to that the fear of dooming their children to Slaanesh, and you could have a justifiable anti-natalist Eldar society.
We know that regular sex is a thing for the eldar we see this in path of the warrior
Eldar don't really have that um, enjoyment. Unlike humans who need a lot of stimuli to trigger the biological function, Eldar are more of a one pump and done. If it wasn't for the fact that they are conceived in phases, they would be only one thrust to do the deed. Even then it is months even years between the next in from the last out.
@Marked Ashamed except we do know they enjoy sex there is nothing to suggest it is a one pump and done deal for them
@@Marinealver So, the vaunted Aeldari are basically fish when it comes to sex? Yeah, that makes no sense really, when they gave birth to a chaos god whose highest wish is to murder-fuck anything that can be r*ped and killed… Not saying you’re wrong, per se, just that the lore is quite confusing and maybe a bit contradictory.
Maybe the reason the Exodites figured out what they did, and the Craftworlds took forever to come up with an anti-Slaanesh device, is exactly because the Craftworlders were focused on coming up with some kind of hypercomplicated super technical solution, and the Exodites were not blinded by those preconceptions.
Exodite: Hmm... My soul lives in this meat puppet while I live... So Souls like organic matter... Guy's I got an idea.
I agree - while I think the irony of the exodites dooming themselves would be delicious, I allways liked the World Spirit as an idea because I thought of its shrines etc. as an nice callback to the Waystones of Warhammer Fantasy since they are a bit of an equivalent of the Wood Elves. Perhaps it would be more interesting to make the World Spirits even more arcane and psychic in nature, going for an completely psychic solution instead of the techno-psychic solution of the Infinity Circuits - more raw and pure for sure, perhaps even powered by belief - but also more wild and unpredictable, as is to expect when binding your soul to a fucking planet.
I like that idea, like the Exodites used a combination of mental fortitude and warp fuckery to create the World Spirits as psychic repositories, as if the world itself was a crude Infinity Circuit or some other sort of well to keep their souls bonded to the world. It could also be that they need to constantly add souls to keep what would amount to their psychic shield up, which would tie into their violent culture, since keeping a constant supply of souls would keep them from all getting eaten by The Thirsty Bitch.
Lets be real... at one time a lot of the lore was contrived because people kept wanting to play different kinds of games with their play army guys. It's the 5-year-old logic that if you're playing with army men and your friend shows up with his dinosaur well now the army guys are fighting off a dino attack. Cause your army guys are cool and your friend's dinosaur is cool and you both want to play with your cool toys together.
Then your douch-buddy brings his dog who REALLY likes plastic and suddenly Boom terranids
Okay, and what's wrong with that? That's basically the same logic behind Imperial/Chaos Knights and Titans, isn't it? Giant mechs that tower over toy soldiers and are incredibly difficult to bring down because people like the challenge.
@@jagnestormskull3178 Didn't say there was anything wrong with that. It's part of the fun.
@@jagnestormskull3178 reminds me of my wife's cat...the biggest bane to my Nurgle Army is not other armies or my children, but that doggone cat!
His nickname whilst I'm painting is Catus Titanicus.
Sorry but of a waffle but your guys comments reminded me of him.
@@michaelclark7787 may he find the biggest yarn ball in heaven
(Your comment spoke of him in the past tense, if he is still scratching and meowing, sorry about the misinterpretation)
Exodites as auxiliaries for the Craftworld Eldar is a genius idea !
That is what they were in 2nd edition, a calvary option like the Rough Riders, their Craftworld counterparts were also introduced in that edition (Shining Spears). The problem besides having no model support is that they had a poor point to performance ratio, they were essentially a Guardian stat line with a Laser Lance, riding a mount with a stat line similar to Death Rider tier mount. Shining Spears had the improve Aspect Warrior stat line, same Laser Lance and the Jetbikes back then were ridiculously faster than the Exodite mounts.
Them being their own army faction would be better, it's woocd elves IN SPACE!
Sometimes you need an obligatory dinosaur in your army.
You could do it in the nineties
@@franciscorui the issue is that you'd need a reason for them to be out in the greater galaxy. I'm open to either really.
To me, these World Spirits almost sound like the results of Eldar God Forging. Maybe while the craft world Eldar where busy panicking and searching Crone Worlds the Exodites just picked up the old technique and dreamed spiritual hoblah up, he'll maybe these crystals are some form of wraith bone that had either been forgotten about or specially made by the Exodites.
Why not the remains of long forgotten battles during the War in Heaven? Surely a lot of warp schennanigs must have been going on.
Well technically, or more accurately Believably, I think worlds in the 40k universe are alive in a sense. Especially those with life on them.
The thing that Arch isn't mentioning is that "psychoactive crystals" of all varieties (including Wraithbone) can just be summoned (for lack of a better word) by Wraithsingers. Exodite Worlds wouldn't need to have them already existing on those worlds if the founder of the Exodite movement designed these World Spirits as a network of psychoactive crystal altars and distributed the blueprints to any Exodites. God Forging seems unlikely because there are so many different World Spirits. If it was just one "Galaxy Spirit," or "Ynnead Precarnate," maybe it could be God Forging, but there doesn't seem to be evidence of that.
We can also say that Exodites living on planet's that didn't naturally have materials/structures that were easily turned into these Infinity Circuit substitutes died out, so only ones with World Spirits are left.
@@RipOffProductionsLLC Huh, Eldar ruins would be interesting to find.
I love that the Eldar version of roughing it is basically playing Minecraft in creative mode.
Ah yes, the Amish Eldar. I've always thought that they would be a cool and interesting addition to the Eldar roster, even if they can't be their own full faction. They could be a mini faction like the Harlequins, maybe?
make an in for the fantasy version of the lizard man( i know it supposed to be the old ones but still could be cool)
If squats can get their own faction then so can the exodites.
@Ben Gale Hey, the Corsairs got models in Kill Team, anything is possible
At least make Exodite Dragon Knights a cavalry unit under Craftworld and/or Ynnari. Dinosaurs with laser cannons are cool, and you will likely never change my mind on that subject.
3d printing space elves on dinosaurs it is then
Tribal Eldar with Dinosaurs with laser cannons for mounts. Lion sure would love this kind of Eldar waifu. And he and Guilliman can chat together about their waifus and their benefits. Guilliman has a Dark Eldar, while Lion has a Dinosaur with laser cannons on it.
What kinda heresy is this?
*smacks dinosaur* this baby with get you 500 miles on a single tree.
@@magikmann3952 Who became a Drukarii before becoming the chosen of Ynead. It's in her lore.
Seeing how the Lion grew up in the wilderness, that almost nakes sense, but then again Elves are inferior being with ego's the size of the eye of terror so fuck em, not I dont mean like that... or do I... *collapses in self doubt i horror*
Yvraine turned her back on the Dark Eldar Way when she became the Herald of Ynnead though.
this video's title should have been "Arch rants about the Amish for 35 minutes and advocates for a return to medieval warfare"
Based
"They move in herds...they do move in herds"
*Salamanders cocking the heavy flamer*
One thing to point out is that "living in a harsh world" has a benefit of a sort for an eldar. And that it can bring an excitement.
Excitement is what I believe to be a recourse on its own in eldar society. Too much/too hardcore can make your soul being eaten by slanesh. To little/ too boring can make it wither. Having a healthy source of excitement like such is a way of living for a race as sensitive.
I don't have a problem with the exodites finding a solution to the slaanesh problem first. They aren't actually technologically inferior to the craftworlds they just choose to live their day to day life in a more rural way. They set up their worlds to keep their population as strong and hardy as the original war in the heavens eldar. So really they should be considered more as the custodians of the Eldar. Incredible elite troops who are tougher than the other eldar and have stronger psychic weapons and abilities.
The amazing trazyn book, infinite and the divine, shows some of the exodites at war. Raptor cavalry, brontosaurus heavy battle tanks, and a few others. Repurposing some of the seraphon/lizard men dinosaurs and creating an exodite range could work wonders.
But that would present the same issues as the wood elves in old warhammer fantasy. Namely, narratively they’re only ever going to be defending their home rather 99.9% of the time rather than getting out there and doing something.
Even if you count the webway, the logistics of transporting *dinosaurs through it* is probably beyond them.
You can always say that whatever battle they are fighting off world they're doing it because future-sight says need to do thing there.
As for logistics, only Arch would care about that so it's somewhat okay to ignore. You could probably say stasis or psychic powers helps move them.
This is why they would likely not make a full-blown faction, but being a miniature faction like the Harlequins that ally with and supplement the Craftworld Eldar would be cool. You could easily make enough units to be able to field an all Exodite force if you want that (Harlequins have what, 8 units including characters?), while still keeping them as a supplement for Craftworlds.
You could introduce a lore reason for them to become expansionist/adventurist. For example they could make them conquer new worlds to allow for population expansion.
Or introduce a new character that encourages them to interfeir offworld, etc.
Anyway lore wise they have access to the same technology as the craftworld. They just choose to do things the more labour intensive way alot of the time. It's why they still have lasers and had gaint robots. They could easily introduce some form of interweb transporter.
@@matthiuskoenig3378 Ynari going to them and calling for a new empire to be forged? World spirits serving as new gods for an eldar pantheon under ynari.
They had 4 variants of knight titans to fight the knight worlds The Bright Stalion and Destroyer were cool
27:00 Eldar acting actively malicious, that's never happened before.
Independence Day meets Jurassic park = Eldar exodites (the summer blockbuster you never knew you wanted) 😂
I'd have taken an army of Amish Eldar of the ''Leagues of Votann'' any day.
I'd still kill for Exodites to become a mini faction like Eldar Corsairs and Harlequins
According to the very old chaos god books, Slaanesh existed long long before the space elves.
What the Eldar did was make Slaanesh aware of the material world, and rip a hole in reality.
The no-longer canon lore, goes into great details of how Slaanesh was imprisoned and space elf souls where slowly + painfully extracted from -IT.
Well no, it thinks it's more accurate to say that once slaanesh was born, it was always present due to non-linear time in the warp. Once something exists there its always been there.
They change it a lot the version I remember and heard several times was that the warp was tame and still until the edlar and old ones started drawing upon it and sucking it into their war against dem boys.
Makes me wonder if there's different varieties of Eldar Exodite for the worlds they live on. Say a Maori like type of Exodite that live solely on a massive ocean world, a frozen over hellscape like Fenris, or a giant dead desert world with little green.
The Maiden Worlds are all stated to be Paradise Worlds, so I doubt it.
I can see there being different types of paradise worlds (rolling hills and crass lands, vs woodlands, vs jungle, vs mountainous, vs oceanic. After all the perfect natural environment is subjective. Infact most exofite worlds probably have all of the above mentioned environments.
I thought that psychoactive crystals (including Wraithbone) of all manner could just be summoned (for lack of a better word) by Wraithseers. Exodite Worlds wouldn't need to have them already existing on those worlds if the founder of the Exodite movement designed these World Spirits as a network of psychoactive crystal altars and distributed the blueprints to any Exodites.
You forgot to mention the weird Animal-Gods that the Exodites have , the serpent,cobra,scorpion gods that represent different mindsets. They're a weird situation of spirits that I'd like to see expanded,
It would also give a new window into the claims by the space wolves of world spirits.
I don't know if this is Canon, as it came from a 1d4chan page, but I like the idea that if an outsider invades an Exodite Planet, the planet's World Soul turns hostile towards the invader and makes that planet as dangerous as a Death World for said invader.
Is 1d4chan still available or is it down?
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I always wanted the Exodites to be given a full codex.
The original imperial knights lore had them battling with the expedites and their 4 main knights as well as dinosaurs
Maybe Slanesh doesnt have a claim on ALL Eldar, but just the ones that commited depravity and their bloodlines, so the Exodites trough living in a more puritanical way maybe are totally free from slanesh, i know thats not how it currently stands in the lore but with a couple retcons i feel like that explaination would be more interesting
First time I saw them mentioned was in the Titan legion codex for Space Marine/ 40k epic. The boxed set where you got 2 Mega Gargants and an Emperetor Titian. The context was with the introduction of the Knights
James workshop not exploiting this part of their lore always struck me as very strange.
I mean what kid doesn't love dinosaurs?!?
It's pretty much MADE FOR their intended target audience.
Dinos with guns, 6yold me would've been all over that shit and it's a lot more parent friendly too.
Missing out on this is like shooting themselves in the foot really....
Ooor modern kids really think boring, blue spacemen are the hot shit no idea maybe l'm just old.
I remember seeing the 'coming soon' range of 6mm exodites models that were in the Titan Legions catalog included with the box set. Since I'd been a huge fan of Dino Riders as a kid it made me want Eldar despite my dislike of all things elvish.
Especially as the lore for Imperial Knights had them fighting the exodites for control of Dinosaur herds. Herds they raised the way us Texans do cows, and other livestock.
Sadly those concept models never came to pass, and in time even the original KNights lore was changed to edit the exodites out. Plus they got rid of the bit about all knights being dinosaur ranching space cowboys....
There was also a short story included in one of the early Inferno Anthologies that came out in the late 90s. All in all it was a neat story with a bit of dork angels lore driving the plot. There were also a few chapters devoted to them in the Craftworld trilogy that came out in the early 2000s. Most of which was in the Farseer novel IIRC.
Oh, and the Infinite and Divine. Which has the most recent 'modern' interpretation of the faction Which gives me some hope that we'll finally see actual models. After all, we got Knights after they began appearing in the Heresy novels.
So basically if the unabomber was a faction of space elves.
One thing that Arch missed about the American Indian warfare is that nomadic people generally require a larger % of their population to provide for the tribe, so their type of warfare evolved to minimize losses, because winning a decisive battle doesn't matter if your tribe starves afterward.
The exidutite eldar used WARP FUCKERY to protect themselves from slannesh.
Hell humans talk about the pyschic power of crystals in real life.
Erm, about the World Spirits, I am pretty certain ALL Exodite Worlds have at least one entrance to the Webway, which means that they do indeed all have access to the Crone Worlds, even if the journey might be difficult. As those particular crystals as far as I remember can ONLY be found on the Crone Worlds, it means that both the Craftworld and Exodite Aeldari HAD to go to them.
The fact their technology is not as advanced as the Craftworld Aeldari does not mean a huge amount travel wise considering they still have those active Webway Portals. The Exodites can still get to them, just as the Craftworlders can....
EDIT: And don't forget, while the Exodites technology may not be up to the Craftworlders, these are STILL Aeldari, which means they STILL have that vast Psychic potential that is common to the Eldar (sue me, I got sick of using the new name!). The soul stones, Infinity circuit, and world spirit are as much psychic constructs as they are technological ones, and in that respect the Exodites are no more backwards than the Craftworlders.....
The thing about warfare driving advancement reminded me of a conversation I had back in college.
Someone, I can't remember who now, was talking about how once we solve mankinds problems on Earth that then we'll finally be able to colonize space. I disagreed and started shooting holes in their utopian ideals.
One thing I did was to ask a question. That in this utopian future, which is free of strife, humanity would be free to pursue any endeavor that intrests them.
They said yes, you could do and become whatever you wanted.
Okay, I said, then I would spend my life making rifles, weapons and so on. I'd devote my existence to the craft like the fabled blacksmiths of old.
No, they say, their would be a need for guns or weapons of any kind.
I replied that if we could do and become anything, then why couldn't I spend my time making weapons? Why would you stop me? Who would do so? How would one do it in a utopian world?
His answer was that people would prevent me, laws would, any weapon made would be destroyed because thwur wouldn't be a need for them.
So their is a need for my beautiful rifles then, I said. Because you've just proved that humanity will always have conflict and thus the need for weapons.
The rest of the conversations went more or less along those lines.
I think I saw an army made for them, a citbash of Lizardman and Eldar. They looked cool.
40k has lizardmen? Or is it the Warhammer fantasy lizardmen? I thought those guys and the wood elves would make for a great team.
I think if the exodites were to get a codex it'd be a Ranger-Cavalry-LizardmenDinoMonster .
The rangers shoot from a far while the dino-riders goes in for the kill.
Ah yes, the Elves cosplaying as Lizardmen
another connection with the amish is that the amish do not abandon all tech either. depending on sect of course, but usually the intent is to not use tech that overly detracts from your own work, so you can see tech that doesnt detract from this ethos in some of those communities.
Closer to Mennonites than Amish. They can have modern vehicles and farming equipment, electricity, phone lines, firearms, yadda yadda. Pretty good and decent folk. Big on crop, cattle, and fish farming around here. Unfortunately I haven't seen a Triceratops parked at the local hardware stores yet.🤔
so basically someone at GW played a cold one heavy Dark Elf army and wanted it to be playable in 40k
Great now maybe the lion can have an elder waifu like Robute.
Rowboat
Hey arch, thanks for all you do. I've listened to a lot of your lore vids and find them all amazing. Especially your vid on skaven. Just wondering, are you going to cover anything from 10e 40k?
Ah, space elf protestants.
Fuck me. Thats the best description i have ever heard
Space elf Amish - pretty spot on
Man if only they had a kit bash rule system to merge the lizardmen dinos to eldar
I camt wait for Arch's thoughts om Lion El Johnsons return
We have Space High Elves and Space Dark Elves.
What about the Wood Elves?
Damn!
Yeah, I would love a Dino-Riders like faction in 40k :D
Going full Rasczak at 14:00 there, Arch. I could almost feel the stump on my shoulder.
"The empire Eldar probably wouldn't say anything about the Exodites, sir, because they were destroyed - from the asshole outwards."
...there's a title I never thought I'd see.
I approve.
Given, not the most versed on 40k lore, but my first thought on the talk of the world spirit thingamajig is the knife eared Amish could have kept the most advanced bit of old eldar tech: their own afterlife. Cause when the society around you is going murder hobo levels of degenerate, who would want to queue with the freaks in line back to living.
Of course, in this idea it wouldn't be what it was. Much more local. Hell, the 'world spitit' could be analogous to human machine spirits. So many pysker souls pass through they imparted a spirit to it and over time the cart got put before the horse in exodite memory. Or a needed defense to she who thirsts.
Meh, random musing from someone only the Horse Heresy deep in the universe.
23:51... waaaaaaaait...didn't Fenris have a "World Spirit" too?
What’s also worth noting about the concept of the world spirit is that apparently it already existed before the fall. In the Infinite and the Divine, the book starts with Trazyn breaking apart an expedite world spirit as part of a heist. This occurred immediately after the fall itself and the world spirit had already been there for quite some time. Long enough for it to be established and properly settled into the main room of a temple dedicated to it. I don’t think anyone really knows what to do with the timeline of the exodites.
I know you're not a fan of #CurrentWH40K Arch, but I'd like to know what your thoughts/opinions are on the Arks of Omen situation and Vashtorr.
So… if it’s an Exodite fishing village would they have sharks with fricking laser beams attached to their heads? *holds a pinky finger to the corner of the mouth*
DINO RIDERS HARNESS THE POWER
I remember when the idea was first pitched…it was called Dino Riders and it was a toy line and cartoon show when I was a kid in the late 80s early 90s
I always wanted to play a Exodite Faction, but then the Haemonculus Covens came out and well... Fleshcrafting Necromancers just hit all the right buttons for me.
Also since the Chaos Dwarf DLC for W:TW was announced, think we might get a new Chaos Dwarf video? its always nice to see someone who has a passion for them talk about them.
My head canon is that The Laughing God looks after the Exodites and "lead" them unwittingly through chicanery to settle on worlds with the needed psychic crystal world tree things.
I also like to think they're part of his master plan to finally defeat she who thirst, but that's probably just me finding the idea of distracting Slaanesh with the galaxy's most flamboyant and deadly dance troupes just to kill her with Amish dinosaur herders hilarious.
My head canon for the Exodites is that their ancestors got a beef with being the former servants of the Old Ones and therefore got some perverse pleasure in dominating reptilian creatures. When most of the other Eldar enjoyed a far more diverse choises of excess, the Exodites focused theirs on one particular creature that bears certain resemblance to their once great masters.
Now I want to see a Not true space elves riding Dinosaur's vs Tyranids fight...
Damn warhammer even has a faction for the Amish! Truly a faction for everyone.
Like the webway, if you try hard enough you can link your very everything to the material plane, the warp is just the landfill before find out recycling was a thing.
Best part of this video is arch taking the khorne pill
Just wanted to leave a quick comment of thanks. I’ve been binge watching your vids really since New Years and seeing how deep this lore is and intricate - for good or I’ll depending on the author - you’ve moved me to start ordering some books and building my own set of models (I know Raven Guard get little love but they appeal to me and how I play other games.).
I don’t know if I’ll ever actually play the game or not. I am in a rather rural area that has few if any players within hundreds of km. But I don’t think I need to to enjoy this world and to start a new hobby - model building - that I haven’t done in 30 years. Thanks again.
To be fair... Arches idea at 26:45 is a good one. I would certainly do watch the craftworld Eldar get screwed for a long time before handing them a solution. On the other hand, i am whit the Iron Legion, so... yeah. Point and laugh it is, i gues.
It was great when lads showed up in GW stores with kitbashed Dino Rider toys!
One but an Avatar of Kane on one!
O.P to say the least!
Nice lore video. Also really hope Arch make some lore videos about Dark Angels now and what he thinks about the Lion return.🦁
An army of these dino riding amish would be very cool to build and paint. Not to mention it would be awsome to see table top wise.
If their infinity circuit is a freaking glowing tree I'm going to loose it.
Exodite Wraithguard should grow out of the World Tree and be "Groot-like". Kurnoth Hunters from Age of Sigmar could be kitbashed to reflect this.
Arch, the Exodites protect their souls by storing them the World Spirits they have at the heart of their planets. That's why they don't have or need soulstones - as long as they stay safely on their homeworld. Should they ever leave it...
Archeological evidence suggests that the _inception_ of agrarianism, and basic writing and math, was the desire for _beer._ They figured out how to make bread out of wild grains, which they would then cultivate by picking which seeds to plant before moving on during their nomadic stage, which can be made anywhere, however bread was used to make beer at some point - it's a real thing, look it up. The desire for more beer led to establishing more permanent settlements. This led to counting the grain, then establishing trade and even currency to exchange grain (and later money) in exchange for other things, paying your inevitable taxes and keeping tabs of meeting quotas and etc. etc. you get the idea.
Even though the formation of settlements caused a host of new problems - disease, crime, war, etc. - it was largely considered worth it so that people could make a safer-than-water, sorta nutritious beverage that also took the edge off.
Yes.
Eldar lore.
Having Arch do Babylon 5 lore vids is my ultimate wet dream... i think it would fit him very wel.
The new revealed Seraphons models will provide superb convertion for an Exodites army, when GW remember they exist.
Return to Mon-Keigh, underrated pun
As a Mon'Keigh. Even the Amish eldar seem extremely advanced. Image you a guards man get told to bayonet charge a dinosaur with a sword wielding eldar on its back.
Not sure if this checks out logically, but bear with me. Distance affected the aeldari. Drukhari got it worst, unable to utilize soul stones because of their proximity. The Aeldari were next closest, having most of their soul still and able to capture it within the soulstone before Slannesh claimed it upon death. The exodites were already long gone at this point, so they had the most distance between themselves and the birth of Slannesh, maybe not affecting their souls at all.
I'm no exodite expert, but would it be possible that the "world spirit" is how the exodites can be reborn? Aeldari used to go hang out in the warp until they were reborn, but the birth of Slannesh stopped that. Maybe the exodites did something to their planet, placed a piece of the warp or webway in the center of it, and binded the souls of the exodite people to the world somehow. If they were the ones who were most adept at manipulating the warp, it may have been possible, especially if they wanted to keep themselves separate from Aeldari society at large by only rebirthing exodite souls.
Not too sure if this actually could work, but it sounds interesting in my head
Considering how F-ing old the Eldar are it wouldn't really surprise me if they visited (really) Old Earth, looked at the dinosaurs and thought "Hah, neat", then took a bunch of dinos with them. And there for the Eldar "dragons" look like Earth dinosaurs.
I have NO basis for this, but it sounds awesome.
A thought on Exodite society and why it is that way: Saim-hann was the first(?) craftworld to leave the eldar empire and their society to this day is more a confederation of clans than the more classic craftworld community. If the exodites were the first to leave than it would be logical that they were even more clanish than the later Saim-hann and rather than deciding to split into warring clans it was simply the natural state for them that they reverted to once safe from their empires perversions.
In "The Infinite and the Divine" one of the large T-rex-like dinos chew Trazyn (a Necron) to pieces, so yeah...
Giant laser weapons and buildings strapped on dinosaurs. Basically the Ark survival technology
make an in for the fantasy version of the lizard man( i know it supposed to be the old ones but still could be cool)and to make it competitive you make em master of personal shield kinda like the gungan army in sw(could use the fantasy dark eldar cavalry as mount for a fast kit ,)like a heavy krieg death rider
I love Eldar lore ... ths you so much man you re the best .... great video hope we see more soon
I have an idea for the plot hole you found. What if they designed the world soul when they first settled, an alternative to the constant resurrection that the eldar used as part of their...lavish lifestyle. The fact that it protected them against she who thirsts could be a coincidence, and even could have been what the eldar based their infinity circuit off of.
23:22 the exodites have a world spirits, instead of an infinity stone network- as per the Eldar 2nd Edition codex
I have a hunch that Sundowner from Metal Gear Rising would find his mood kindred in Arch given their thoughts on war
I think the expedites have the backup for their souls because they were the equivalent of propers saw the warp going insane and already found a way with their magic psyker abilities.
I think it would be a really cool idea that they could borrow from “Rouge Trooper”
Every time they kill somebody or somebody dies, their soul gets transferred into a weapon or an object or some thing and the more people you kill with it the stronger it gets or something
They’re close connection to nature, or something might allow them to possess their mount or whatever
They control their mounts psychically (according to jes goodwin)
Honestly if there was a Total War 40k which there will be mark my words we need an Exodites faction.
There won't.
Deyz juz Snakebitez but wiff moar dakka an snazz.......LOOT EM BOYZ
"... bathing in wine..."
Yeah, sure, that red liquid was definitely wine...
I could very easily see an Eldar Exodite Kill Team coming into existence lately, just to test the waters. As far as planetary defence, well, there's always the Catachan excuse. They did deliberately pick some of the most difficult places to live in the galaxy, and if Catachan is anything to go by, the galaxy's most awful fauna can handle itself just fine, thank you. Not to mention these are ELDAR, and can likely survive on worlds humanity wouldn't even dream of colonizing. Hence why they're safe from the Imperium, Orks, and Chaos at least.
Well, that's 3 minutes of Raid ads that I just had to skip. That's 10% of the video. I hope Arch gets these metrics on how much of his video we're skipping.
Return to Monke. Space Amish people. Okay where is the button to hand Arch $? After that video starts at 8:27.
imagine a videogame like ARK, but you play as an exodite on a hostile world. not only would you have to deal with all sorts of nasty beasties, harsh weather, dangerous flora even, but also primitive orks, the odd stray tyranid, savage humans lost to the imperium (maybe even ab humans). and then maybe even offworld threats: a rogue traders landing party, space marines wondering if your world would make a good chapter homeworld, dark eldar raids, even obscure things like non daemonic warp entities.
That's it....... I'm building an amish eldar kill team
I am patiently and eagerly awaiting the Lion and Arks of Omen video.
You expect Arch to talk about New Lore? You'll probably be waiting a while (though there's always a chance!)
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I think he would. Either here or on his other channel.
Space wood elfes ... Now that is something i didn't hear a while !
4:06
I thought I was having a stroke.
I know all about this already. I watched the Dino Riders cartoon as a kid.