Do or Don't: Dark Eldar

[@rateros9006]

I love how playing dead by daylight might as well be a form of dark eldar torture

[@pancreasnowork9939]

If I had to choose between living in Commorragh and playing dead by daylight everyday it’d be a tough choice.

[@Hawkens4k]

@@pancreasnowork9939 So how's living in commorragh?

[@pancreasnowork9939]

@@Hawkens4k they’re making me play Dead by Daylight please send help

[@Hawkens4k]

@@pancreasnowork9939 sir I'm a hive ganger from a world run by an ogryn. I doubt I can send help.

[@PeachDragon_]

@@pancreasnowork9939 I AM COMING

[@alt0799]

Loving these do or dont videos!

[@alastairtivy-harris8129]

Ahh yes, the famous battle of Sekigahara in 1600 A.D Japan. Where Dark Eldar and Space Wolves clashed to determine the fate of the Shogunate.

[@Fwah13]

Perfect song for deldar

[@visceral.history]

Do or Don't: Tau, please. My blue boys need some love.

[@shadowfire6117]

“Dark eldar are one of the rarer armies to see” I wish

[@InquisitorShepard]

I wouldn't say doing a dark Eldar be a good idea but you do you.

[@ChoonMa]

Age of Empires music in the background. 👍

[@Ammonitemare1711]

Wait they literally have green goblin flyers

[@benjipercival-celik5913]

Dude that’s my warhammer store in the photo wtf. It’s in Plymouth

[@iang257]

Chaos: Natural order of existence, even if it's evil. Drukari: Just plain dicks.

[@TheSchultinator]

Well...not really *plain* dicks. More everything but plain dicks.

[@DrakusLuthos]

Chaos. Natural order. Lol.

[@theinternetpolice2078]

@@DrakusLuthos Ye, the chaos gods didnt always existence, iirc Nurgle was born because of the devastation humanity faced in the Black Plague

[@liaratsoni8556]

Chaos isn’t the natural order of existence wth are you talking about

[@Khornecussion]

@@liaratsoni8556 Chaos gods are aspects of life focused into an entity. Nurgle didn't for instance pop into existence when somebody worshipped plagues. Nurgle exists because no matter what, humans and every other organic race gets sick and in delirium or desperation cries out for succor from the pain. A warrior might pray to any god that would hear him or her to allow them to strike down one more foe as they carve through a battlefield. A scientist desperately seeking a breakthrough. An artist obsessing over the most minute, unmattering details because they seek pure perfection. Aspects of humanity. By and large, of most races with cultures that aren't practically just... automatons. Looking at you, Tau and Necrons. Chaos is the " evil army " yes, but they're also the rawest form of emotions that make humans... human. Eldar... eldar. So on. Unfortunately, the Emperor never was going to win. Chaos will always exist so long as one race with free will exists somewhere. Free will, aspirations and the ability to " feel. " You're not beholden to the Inquisition. This is real life. Don't have to go " LALALALALA NOT LISTENING NOT CRITICALLY THINKING ABOUT THE SUBTEXT RIFE IN JUST ABOUT EVERY CHAOS LEGION'S STORY LALALALALA! " - or most chaos tribes in Fantasy. Heck, the Empire is rife with Chaos corruption because you can't keep a peasant from crying out for succor when dying of cancer. Someone to enjoy more extreme kinks a bit too much. Someone to want to surpass their betters. Someone to want to just be a champion in battle. All of those things empower chaos gods. They really are... just the universe's constants made manifest.

[@ripleyriley]

It never occurred to me until you brought it up, but Dark Eldar probably love the current state of forever-war, don't they? Everyone fighting everyone, murder on a galactic scale, no sissy hugbox funtimes.

[@pancreasnowork9939]

If things started changing then their slaves might not be as easy to steal so yeah, the Deldar love the fact no ones winning in this shitshow. It only benefits them.

[@bobdole8830]

Yeah they arent that fond of war, because they REALLY wont endure a prolonged conflict, they arent Khone after all. They love inflicting suffering however, so a good raid on an undefended world to bring home a few toys thats more to their liking.

[@EggmovieX]

They literally called the current time period "The Age of Plenty", they love it

[@Bluecho4]

@@pancreasnowork9939 That, and the Orks, who get off on fighting. Literally, dying in war is part of their species's life cycle.

[@fumarc4501]

Deldar and Tzeentch love the current state of things.

[@_NIKOS9_NIKOS]

I find it ironic that they are one of the horniest factions in 40k and yet they mainly reproduce via cloning

[@justwannabehappy6735]

A pregnant drukhari would be easy prey for her enemies. Plus, Drukhari don't really love each other, even for sex. They are more into rape, and I can only guess that if a drukhari rapes another, it must end in murder for one of the two.

[@christianweibrecht6555]

I don't find it ironic because there's a difference between enjoying sex and been willing and able to create then raise kids

[@CantusTropus]

They're the very picture of sterile self-indulgence; they use sex merely for selfish pleasure without caring about either their partner or their children. This, in my eyes, is actually the greatest sign of their decadence and corruption - obviously, the torture and shit is absolutely awful as well, but such overwhelming self-indulgence is disgusting, and can only come out of an unbelievably arrogant and wicked heart.

[@aazreaal]

@@christianweibrecht6555 I suppose it's ironic because they don't have many natural births even through accidental pregnancies

[@陳潔明-w6y]

@@CantusTropus The Druhkari may be the only few 40K factions that deserved to be wiped off from existence... If Commoragh was suddenly invaded by Chaos Undivided, I wouldn't shed a tear...

[@alexrexaros9837]

Remember that Dark Eldars had literally no Codex for ten whole years, and they STILL got more love and attention from GW than the freaking Ynnead. I'm still mad.

[@thepopulargirl1784]

Are they their own faction or just a collection of of figures in the Elder army roster?

[@GumshoeClassic]

@@thepopulargirl1784 They are their own seperate faction.

[@Retard634]

stay mad bro I have to print out bootleg red scorpions decals because forgeworld is too lazy to make legit ones themselves after the first batch (which was around a decade ago) this despite them featured in a couple of 40ks major book series 2 of which are fan favorites mostly because they didnt blow cock but still even we space marines who play the correct faction get jipped by this company

[@hate2191]

I'm sorry are you complaining about a sub Faction of a subfaction of a subfaction that was in 3 books isn't getting the support that an entire Faction SHOULD be getting?

[@praisethesun.praisedeussol6051]

Fuck the Ynari honestly give other races everything they need then add faction's

[@chestedarmor5578]

"Cry all you want you can't untorture your chapter master" Damn, I want to play this army just to use this sentence during a game.

[@dragoon3219]

Khorne: Violence, murder, and bloodshed. Also Bravery, honesty, and honor. Tzeench: Scheming, mutation, and betrayal. Also hope, change, and adaptation Nurgle: sickness, decay, and death. Also fortitude, family, and acceptance. Slaneesh: Suffering, excess, and pain. Also love, art, and beauty. Dark Eldar: Eternal, endless torment. Also really enjoying your job.

[@heavystalin2419]

Are you a fucking heretic over there?

[@King_Thulsa_Doom]

Tyranids: Feed me Seymour...

[@redjirachi1]

I don't think Games Workshop remembers the Chaos Gods have positive qualities

[@heavystalin2419]

@@King_Thulsa_Doom Seymor of deez nuts *gotem*

[@cptndunsel2670]

​@@redjirachi1Yeah, it is annoying. This whole yin-yang aspect of the Chaos Gods feels like it would be interesting to explore.

[@MrCmon113]

I think we have a different notion of "edgy". Having spikes on your armour is edgy. Turning people into rape-able furniture for thousands of years is abhorrent.

[@ladosdominik1506]

And it's edgy too.

[@wildspirewarrior211]

Especially if you add spikes to the furniture ;)

[@martinbaranyi2129]

There's also barely anything indicating they're into BDSM and sexual games, they just torture and cause suffering usually in a non-sexual manner. If their slaves were sexually tortured they'd eventually start enjoying it, and then no more pain to feed to Slaneesh.

[@coenbaan1874]

@@martinbaranyi2129 i thought they liked the extremes. Extreme pleasure and extreme pain. Preferably both at the same time, hence the bdsm memes. Because extreme emotions cause more energy to form in the warp, which thet use to feed and cast magic with .

[@martinbaranyi2129]

@@coenbaan1874 Extreme pain for you, extreme pleasures for them.

[@magicalmagicmagician5223]

I read somewhere that a dark eldar scientist literally turned himself into a sentient beam of light That's both fucking awesome and hilarious They're the mustache twirling villain of this universe and nobody can change my mind

[@crackedhammer4612]

That’s sooo cool, and tbh I though you were gonna make a pickle Rick joke as I was reading it

[@judeblack4360]

The Nephrekh Dynasty would like to know your location

[@PrancingGoldfish]

Yeah I forget that dude's name, but he literally just teleports all over the galaxy in a giant flash of light and announces to everyone that he's the greatest scientist to ever live, and then just zips away. Leaving everyone in the room extremely confused and permanently blinded.

[@Lilliathi]

@@PrancingGoldfish Correct. Until he got caught in a crystal, and now he's a really cool battery.

[@mcloons3891]

@@PrancingGoldfish Vorsch

[@doctorcorvus1319]

As a T'au player (both tabletop and Dawn of War), playing against Dark Eldar is possibly the most aggravating thing possible, but it's still funny that someone quite accurately describe Commorragh and how evil they can be

[@Ironbattlemace]

"As a T'au player" Are you mad, saying these things out loud?

[@atanaspetkov580]

Is it true that T'au struggle against other ranged armies? I remember hearing that somewhere.

[@doctorcorvus1319]

On tabletop? Not much since everyone wants to get into melee range and most army’s (if not all) have better melee then T’au. In universe? Hell no! The army with the most common sense to actually stay away from the giant ass super soldiers in dump trunk thick armor, if there’s one thing I know the T’au for the most it’s their range game

[@King_Thulsa_Doom]

As a Drukhari player, I would like to propose something of a... ...Cultural exchange.

[@doctorcorvus1319]

I respectfully have to decline that offer

[@Hawkens4k]

Dark eldar have so much edge that they can make a tau bleed from across the galaxy when they mention their gun name.

[@michelecastellotti9172]

They can make everyone bleed with that much edge. Pretty sure they are why tau made riptides.

[@jonathanathor117]

If humans are carbon based life forms, then dark eldar are Bishmuth based.

[@maxydal3512]

Perfect choice of music for the intro and background. Quality stuff.

[@pancreasnowork9939]

I must endure

[@voidlux88]

@@pancreasnowork9939 maximum pain endure i must

[@pancreasnowork9939]

@@voidlux88 ok, here we go

[@ducklord2000]

@@pancreasnowork9939 AAARRRRGGG

[@lolbots686]

@@pancreasnowork9939 if your interested in a interesting deldar moment One drukhari when they joined the ynnari literally cried in joy to ynnead since they dont have to delight in torment to survive

[@fatfish2066]

I’m surprised there hasn’t been a story about a Waagh going to comaragh and since the fight is so big all the orks just converge there

[@nicholasthompson6152]

Wouldn't they need to find it first? Imagining a loony toons sign post that says Waagh this way with an arrow leading down a actual rabbit hole.

[@aloafoftoast7160]

@@Stevie-Jhere’s the thing, tzeench could plan to send them to like, super hell or something dumb like that, but because the orkz believe it leads to comaragh, it does, completely fucking tzeench’s plans in the process

[@cptndunsel2670]

​@@nicholasthompson6152Honestly, the Drukharii are so insane, that I can imagine one of them purposely letting an Ork Waagh in. Either to dick over a rival or just to liven things up for a bit.

[@kevinmccalister4602]

Actually I’d imagine the fight would go like this. A dark elder force attacks an orc war boss with the webway portals all across the planet. Millions of orcs suddenly see a spiky elf attack and run away. The orcs chase after them through the portals. Directly into the machine guns that fire paralysis darts. Millions of orcs get captured. But what about a real waaagh? Basically someone betrays Vect and attacks an orc fleet lead by Ghazgull. Millions upon billions of orcs poor into the city. Now go read up on the demon invasion and imagine that but replace demons with orcs. That’s an orc invasion of Vect’s realm.

[@thelonecustodes4344]

Very late, but if you still like the idea then "Da Big Dakka" by Mike Brooks is what you want.

[@bluskye2846]

so they're the ones posting all the gore porn on the Astronomican

[@Sqbrensbeve]

The fact that they can't use warp stuff due to slaanesh makes me imagine they're just sending some random smuck on a suicide mission just to make someone's day worse

[@runcmd1419]

Athiests: I don’t need a God to have morals and do good. Drukhari: I don’t need a chaos god to tell me to do the most depraved shit anyone can imagine.

[@masterzoroark6664]

"WE CAN REBUILD HIM! We have the TECHNOLOGY!" - a Humonculi after their client dies durring a raid

[@khylerbane4523]

Technology is a *strong* word for what they’re doing.

[@joshuasepeda3289]

For reasons I don't want to think about, because I can't afford the therapy bills, that is not comforting. I would choose death over being "rebuilt" by the Dark Eldar. I would rather be eaten alive by Tyranids.

[@CatroiOz]

​@@joshuasepeda3289death would mean eternal damnation in the clutch of slaanesh so no. You really wouldnt want that

[@davidfrancisco3502]

In Age of Sigmar the dark elves are chaotic good guys. They're still sadistic assholes but they stay as part of ordertide factions because they despise Slaanesh and the forces of chaos.

[@TheKolboShow]

That kinda makes sense because their predecessors in Warhammer Fantasy were also more or less opposed to Chaos...er, with a lot of notable exceptions. Although no one in their right mind considered *them* part of the ordertide.

[@davidfrancisco3502]

@@TheKolboShow The Idoneth Deepkin are like marine dark elves on Age of Sigmar Isn't? Their use of marine beasts as mounts and war beasts look dope.

[@robindarozzer]

not quite, the daughters of khaine were only allied with sigmar because morathi saw use in him, shes now ended that alliance and has become one with khaine, they arent quite DE in their ability to cause pain but they do love random murders and sacrifices. From morathi's point of view everything that the faction does and is. as well as all the other factions are just stepping stones on her road to getting everyone, EVERYONE to worship her. also she used to be a slaaanesh worshipper and prabbay sees slaanesh more as a rival now than a legitimate threat (especially as slaanesh has been put away)

[@LordAlbrecht]

@@robindarozzer I don't think he's talking about DoK as much as the rest of the dark elves that are now in Cities of Sigmar.

[@iamdanyboy1]

@@robindarozzer morathi is back? I thought they she was murder fucked by slaneesh in end times.

[@Predator20357]

I like how the lore pros makes these guys out to be the absolute edgiest Mary Sues of all time but the Cons basically say “Yah despite all that, they are basically irrelevant to the entire universe, they’re like just a special flavor of Chaos once in a while”

[@Lilliathi]

They're irrelevant because they have a hidden impenetrable fortress and they just wanna hang out there and party hard while giving no shits about conquering or saving the universe.

[@khylerbane4523]

An abridged summary of the Drukhari… Lelith: “Hey, it’s your favorite Egirl, Lelith Hesperax.” *proceeds to kills people with her hair blades* Rakarth: *doing experiments so horrible that the other Dark Eldar find them traumatizing* Drahza: *killing everything with his massive sword* “Mediocre.” Mandrakes leader: *pops out of the shadows* “Hey kids, wanna see a dead body?” Lord Vect: *watching all this play out* “Hi, I’m Asdrubael Vect, and welcome to Jackass!”

[@thatonehivetyrant1679]

I look forward to the harlequin one, especially to when you said that the eldar in general are afraid of them

[@Tall-Hobbit]

pretty sure you can’t play harlequins on their own because of the lack of models

[@jdcrosier2682]

That used to be the case, but I’m fairly sure that they are playable in their new codex.

[@aguywithalotofopinions412]

I’ve kinda abused the liberties of flavor and made my army a chaotic neutral band of mercenaries that broke away from Commorragh and only torture Orks and Tyranids. Someone once asked me why even play Dark Eldar at that point and I just said I just think they look neat.

[@voidwalkerbruh7426]

Go you

[@KarpetBurn]

There would be zero point in torturing Tyranids. They wouldn't give any sustenance to Slaanesh it would be a waste of time to try and get screams from a fledgling in a hive mind.

[@derpnip]

Don't know unless you try. Maybe they could try to find some wat to torture or at least annoy the hivemind. Maybe doing some horrible genetics experiments to try and make a cancer tyranid variation is viable.

[@Bersafor2]

For anyone interested in getting some more depth on Dark Eldar lore I highly suggest the Path of the Dark Eldar omnibus or just Path of the Outcast (first book in the series I think) to dip your toes in. It's got some great examples of daily life on multiple social levels in Commoragh, the political conflicts in the city, how inter-kabal fighting works, how Vect's government works, how Commoragh works as a location/sub-dimension shit, and excellent depictions of weapons and vehicles to get a basic idea of how you might want to paint energy effects. I'm pretty sure it's pre-Ynnari becoming a bigger deal and pre- Big Dysjunction so it's kind of dated but it's a pretty good read.

[@TheGhirix]

Only books i read about 40k and i loved it since Drukhari are my favs...it really gives an idea of how powerful and frightening Vect is...loved how the Solitaire was looking for a way to get as far away from him every chance he got XD

[@TySavage1]

The Orks and Drukhari are the only ones having fun out there, might as well join the party

[@marcinzysko1653]

Is it possible that a Drukhari would die, get cought by slaneesh, then be revived back to life? If so, I imagine at least some of them would TRY to attmept this kind of stuff.

[@GCHumanGuy]

Not possible since the soul has been consumed, what the revival clone is probably nothing more than an empty husk

[@marcinzysko1653]

@@GCHumanGuy yeah, but if they die, then their soul Must go instantly to slaneesh. How are their souls revived in this case?

[@toasterten1293]

@@marcinzysko1653 their souls arent immediately consumed, Slannesh likes to savor the soul

[@nobleman9393]

​@@marcinzysko1653 Eldar souls linger around for some time before going to the warp.

[@sev1120]

​@@nobleman9393it's why soulstones work, and how Eldar could do their massive debauchery before birthing Slaanesh. It used to be that when aeldari would 'die' they'd literally come back to life a short time later, but now with Slaanesh they can't do that coz Slaanesh eats their souls before they can respawn

[@Chaerea_Carmin-Slaanesh_Chosen]

Seeing my opponents face after I referred to his Drukari as sweat goblins reinvigorated MY soul.

[@BlueInkAlchemy]

I'm inspired to find the time to write the following: the Space Wolves get the idea in their bacon-addled brains to gather the entire chapter and assault Commorragh. They Primaris up as many of their number as possible; perhaps this isn't allowed by Cawl so they have to steal the means and puzzle it out on their own. Then, of course, they get slaughtered. Vect laughs his ass off as it happens and the few survivors are put into gladiatorial combat forever. This hands the Space Marines a massive loss, makes the Drukhari look like a legitimate power, and bonus points if in the epilogue Leman Russ returns and demands to know what happened to his children. Guilliman tries to explain the Space Wolves were dumbasses and Russ slaps the shit out of his brother. In addition to not playing Space Marine favorites, you have some of the family drama Space Marine fans really love. Everybody wins. Except the Space Wolves.

[@the.dandy.man2]

one problem the Inquisition has to my knowledge purged fenris and declared the space wolves renegades partly because of magnus but mostly because they are sill mad about the months of shame with the wulfen being he excuse for the purge

[@Court_of_Crows560]

I only support this because it leads to more dead space wolves.

[@Lilliathi]

The imperium doesn't have webway access, and even if they did, it's an endless labyrinth in which they wouldn't be able to find the place.

[@sovietunion7643]

ulric will have words with you for hating the space wolves. not even sigmar will protect you from the wolf father because they are still friends.

[@archmagosno9902]

CBT elves, AKA, too edgy to be funny, to elvish to be serious. Also thanks for the explanation, all I know about deldar is lore and that they are paper thin.

[@ethane1149]

I normally do Chaos Space Marines of the Iron Warriors Legion, but I started a Drukhari army last year and I’m loving them. Rules and lore, seeing my evil little goth elves rip through my mate’s Black Templars was brilliant.

[@brendansun7290]

It really is a hit and miss with playing Dark Eldar. In a three way combat patrol game, this guy's incubi slaughtered my space marines. All my weapons would hit and wound and the feel no pain save would still keep them up, but massive amounts of his kabalites were decimated by this other guy's 8th edition rules thousand sons.

[@MrSafior]

I prefer the cartoon villain like the Orks, over edgy villain like the Dark Eldar. It's make them look like less mary-sue.

[@Predator20357]

Probably why when I play DoW1, I never use the Dark Eldar and even forgot about them. In fact I am wondering if there are Dark Eldar in the game and mistake Chaos as Dark Eldar

[@theviewerofthegolden270]

You should check out the audio fanstory called "Warboss Gitslaya in Commoragh" by Noman here on youtube. It pits DE against orks. I think he made the edginess of the DE way more interesting through humour, and letting them be a contrast against the orks and their shenanigans.

[@Spartan135]

lol,the oh so glorious Ultrasmurfs are the only Mary Sues of WH40K. Especially it's a named character...

[@CatoSicarius903]

@@Spartan135 Ultramarines haven't been Mary Sue's since 5th.

[@Prince_of_Despair]

​@@theviewerofthegolden270in what planet is a drukhari a Mary sue? Do you even know what Mary Sue means?

[@venepskeuten9206]

Do: kill on sight Dont: do not kill on sight

[@marcinzysko1653]

If drukhari lost their touch with the warp (their psychic abilities) then what particular interest would slaanesh still have with them? I mean, dark eldar are essentialy on the same level of spiritual energy as the tau now?

[@justinedwards5300]

They still have the ability to use Psychic powers it's just doing so would turn their soul from a small flame hidden by the pain of torture into a great beacon for Slaanesh to snap up.

[@mohammedriadh4990]

They never lost it, they just don't use it

[@jdurthu4304]

Honestly if anyome playing warhammer calles any other person an "edgelord"... than jjst remember how stupid the lore of most of the imperium is. Big ass ships of imperium operated manually as slaves? Realy xd? Some SM chapters having 1/couple hundreds or thousands prople dying for 1 space marine made? Blood angels transtorming in a sargofagus full of blod? This whole universe is stupidly edgy. Fun, but stupidly edgy

[@justarandomname420]

Elven Cenobites. They have such sights to show you...

[@Detson404]

The Cenobites are so much less evil than the DEs; Pinhead and co actually believe they’re helping expand their victims consciousness and they practice what they preach on themselves as well.

[@malekiththeeternityking5433]

As cringe as the Dark Eldar are, what they did to the Tau is based

[@MrCmon113]

What they did to the Tau is literally all they are about.

[@malekiththeeternityking5433]

@@MrCmon113 well to anyother race it's cringe but to those ugly disgusting blue fish heads it's funny

[@michaelmouradian4386]

Dude you're straight up the best Warhammer youtuber on the platform lmfao.

[@andressotil4671]

Especially since Bruva Alfabusa was forced out. He will be remembered as the Emperor's finest.

[@tungstenwall474]

1:54 People hate Tau so much. But they don't seem to realize that we would not get lovely stories like this without them. Without drone-swarms, and OP railguns, no other naive species would live long enough for our twisted amusement.

[@WorshipperOfKhone]

*sips beer* So are you an communist or a weeb?

[@zix01vtuber]

Yes

[@valletas]

What i like about the tau is that they learn fast and considering how their technology improves faster then any other race then can be the biggest threat to the galaxy in 50k if they are left alone And since most species dont really see them as a threat this is very likely to happen They also have a lot of power to compell other races to their cause and are even immune to chaos since their souls are so weak they cant be picked up by any demons

[@karolkwiecjasz9356]

I belive the Dark Eldar are the vast mayority of Eldar in existance both due to Commoragh beeing the rough size of a solar system and the prefferred method of breeding of dark eldar beeing mass cloning. A normal Eldar begins his life as a child working in a factory and either dies, gets promoted due to agression or just runs away to join another faction as somebody who can be trusted because he doesn't have a good murder motif yet has a need to eat imported slave suffering. There are also mostly unique Eldar Astartes-grade monsters made by the Heamonculi but there isn't many of them and get killed often due to racism attrition among dark eldar and naturally born dark eldar are automaticly nobility was everyone feels you have a more complete soul due to natural birth.

[@Reznore587]

Yo it’s the kinky elves

[@unlimitedpanda5433]

nahh, thats daughters of khaine

[@Reznore587]

@@unlimitedpanda5433 that is also true

[@rudinipl4012]

You plan od doing Age of Sigmar after you do all if 40k? I would really like to see that?

[@pancreasnowork9939]

I was thinking the next one of these would be AoS. I’ve already done the Skaven so I’m not purposefully doing the 40K ones first instead of AoS, it just kinda ended up that way.

[@manuelkfc7916]

That introduction with Yoda and his rock was hilarious lmao.

[@christianweibrecht6555]

What I don't understand about these creatures is are all vat grown edge lords clones or new people? If they are new people that brings up a lot more questions

[@pancreasnowork9939]

It's a little bit of everything. Most Dark Eldar are vatborn, that is to say when a woman gets pregnant she sticks here baby in a tube and it grows into a Dark Eldar. Because showing emotion towards your child is weakness and if you're pregnant you can't go on raids and kill people very well. There are a few traditionally born Drukhari called Trueborn and they're elitist snobs because they were lucky enough to come out of a vagina. They also create monstrosities from their captured victims which is where the real edginess comes in.

[@christianweibrecht6555]

@@pancreasnowork9939 well that brings up many questions such as Why would dark elder ever want to create kids? Do the vat grown emerge as fully developed adults? How are naturally born raised? Etc

[@pancreasnowork9939]

@@christianweibrecht6555 the vats come out as fully grown adults yeah. As for why they’d want kids, well you get more people to torture the galaxy with of course. As for how Trueborn are raised, I don’t have specifics but they’re considered more or less to be nobility so presumably they’re raised well by the horrific standards of the Dark Eldar.

[@christianweibrecht6555]

@@pancreasnowork9939 thanks for response Now I'm imagining dark elf parents saying to their newborns "now that you're one minute old your a full grown adult so get out of my house and go torture people"

[@Pyre]

Worthwhile note, in the massive-playtest-turned-lore-story that was the introduction of the Ynnari, one of the ways in which they were *scary*-powerful came up when the Drukhari attacked them. Yvraine took this personally, and hit them with some death god magic. That rebounded all the way back to Comorragh and *burned out sections of Haemonculus labs* . Straight up said "nope" to a perfectly-reliable form of immortality. Also funny that, however hard they may hit on tabletop, lore-wise those are almost all just glorified hunting rifles. They still have (some of) the utter bullshit Eldar ultratech, the stuff that equaled or sometimes surpassed the Necrons. They just *choose* not to use it. This is why they struggle with armor, lore-wise. Because using their good stuff would cause them all the problems innumerated in the video, and it's hard to take captives if you wiped a whole continent clean of sentient life with a piece of jewelry.

[@trifontrifonov4297]

One of my favourite interactions with Drukari in 40k, was from the Space Marine novel "Brothers of the Snake". The final battle in the novel is the main character, a Space Marine veteran, against a single Dark Eldar. Its not even close. The SM get his shit kicked in. Its less of a fight and more of a torture session. The only reason he won in the end, after both of his arms were disabled , was due to his own cunning and poisonous acid spit and that the Eldar could not help himself and started gloating and touching himself.

[@ronnyrdr6553]

Lol that ending XD. But honestly i like the asuryani and drukhari words. Makes them sound not elf:eldar dark elf:dark eldar

[@Lord_Vesh]

I like their new names too, asuryani sounds graceful and elegant and drukhari sounds vampiric and cruel

[@czoborarpi]

But the drukhari is very similair to druchii...

[@cainfree6800]

Dark Eldar - Nurgle Bois seems like a match made in heaven, DE feed them poisons, NB don't die enjoy the 'new juice' flip it around DE get semi-immortal torture subjects, NB spread their special flavour among the captives

[@jamesoldham9995]

Nurgle Bois don't feel pain, so the DE wouldn't get anything from them.

[@morgymomo8535]

Dark elder aren't as fragile as people think. There "tanks" are T6 and don't have many wounds sure, but they all have 5+ invulves and the coven side of the army has access to stuff like -1 damage etc. They're more like an old bent piece of carboard that been dissolving in acid for a little but protected by a super shield that means 1/3 of your attacks ain't gon do shit. nice vid.

[@davidemelia6296]

All the fancy names GW came up with for their 'races', came from their desire to trademark everything. 'Dark Eldar' is too generic to trademark. They're extremely litigious, which is funny considering how utterly derivative 99% of their 'lore' is.

[@lam2142]

Well, we've covered most of the Warhammer 40K factions. Pancreas, you shall deny me no longer. Necrons pls.

[@aprinnyonbreak1290]

Dark Eldar vs either Tyranids or Necrons is always one of the funniest things to me. Those two are the absolute buzzkill factions.

[@DepressedDiego]

Dark Eldar were my first army, this was an enjoyable and accurate experience.

[@valoskii8773]

I would do a dark eldar *oh that's not what you meant*

[@rockjock3]

I thought the Deldar took every opportunity to avoid death because shuffling off their mortal coil, means their soul gets added to the all you can eat soul buffet as the guest of honor/main course for Slaanesh? How does them getting revived by a haemonculus from death square with that part of their lore?

[@blankblank8572]

If I remember correctly, they aren't actually being actively eaten when they die. Its not the sort of one and done thing like you think it is. Slaneesh doesn't just immediately digest their souls, she savors the flavor and slowly drains it over time. Don't get me wrong, souls do eventually dissipate and vanish entirely, but with how the Drukhari revive so quickly, they don't lose much. Though there are stories of Deldar who died for too long and came back visibly fucked up and in shambles mentally because Slaneesh ate a bit too much. The same goes for Harlequins but instead Cegorach is fist fighting slaneesh for clown souls.

[@rockjock3]

@Blank Blank Cool. I didn't know that part of the lore. Thanks for sharing that. 👍 Edit: I especially like Cegorach fighting for clown souls with slaanesh.

[@blankblank8572]

@@rockjock3 yeah, its pretty funny actually. He fist fights her for the Solitaires specifically since Slaneesh reaaaaaally hates them and takes pleasure in torturing their souls personally.

[@JCTooL1]

I got the Dark Eldar box set from GW when it first came out. I still have it and the postage box. I have some models to make still too. Im quite chuffed about that. Some of them are super spikey! I was a teenager and edgy as fuck haha

[@ravenRedwake]

7:15 in my experience, nobody who plays abaddon plays “a lot of chaos space marines” or any at all.

[@Salted_Fysh]

Eh. I never really liked the Dark Elder or the Druchii. They are just so incredibly edgy and honestly one-dimensional. It's hard to imagine a Drukhari doing anything but torturing people in their free time. How does the average Joe or Jane spend their time? What jobs do they have? What are their political views? How do they contribute to society? What do they get in return? Who does all the administration, bureaucracy and logistics involved in running an entire city? Do you ever get tired of inflicting suffering because honestly, it's not the most imaginative or varied form of hobby. Do Drukhari sit down and read books or play chess? Do they even have a personality beyond being evil? You know, average stuff like that. Pure evil characters or races are just kind of boring.

[@mondaysinsanity8193]

Tbh they do basically just torture thats essentially how they stay alive.

[@Lilliathi]

There's a lot of Dark Eldar civilians who do the important work, and then there's millions of slaves that do all the labour. In their spare time they essentially party.. sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll. They watch fights and death races in the arena as well. Of course they read books and play chess, their technology wouldn't be extremely advanced without doing some reading. Their politics are a bunch of evil mega-corporations/organized crime units that are all trying to crawl higher up the hierarchical pyramid, each specialized in manufacturing or researching different things. Just because you didn't look into the lore doesn't mean it's not there. What you see on the tabletop is just their raiders, which are the privileged peak of their society.

[@Salted_Fysh]

@@Lilliathi 'In their spare time they essentially party... sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll. They watch fights and death races in the arena as well.' Yeah, I return to my point of, one-dimensional and not very imaginative or engaging in the long-term. There's a reason most people have a very short and intense period of doing that before they decide it's not for them when they get older. Meanwhile the Druchii live for a lot lot longer. And you are assuming they read books and play chess because otherwise their technology wouldn't be as advanced. Except that doesn't follow. Their technological advancement is what they inherited from the Eldar Empire and literally nothing in Druchii society or known characters screams 'progress'. A bunch of evil mega-corporations and organized crime units trying to fuck each other over to go higher isn't politics or a government. Government is city planning, administration, paper pushing, education, public infrastructure etc. All of this is the background under which organized crime and corporations can work in the first place. They are inherently dependant entities. Do *you* see our resident BDSM edgelords with temper issues sitting in board meetings, creating commissions, reading through reports, doing accounting etc for hours upon hours every day just to keep day to day operations running? Cause I sure as hell don't. There's a reason there's not a single example of a functional anarchic gimme government in the entirety of human history. It doesn't work.

[@Lilliathi]

@@Salted_Fysh No, the haemonculi innovate new technologies all the time, as do the kabals themselves. They're not simply inherited like those of the Craftworlders. There's lots of progress, they make things worse and more terrible all the time. You're right, organized crime needs a society to exploit, but that doesn't mean it has to be their own society. Dark Eldar are parasites on the rest of the universe, their resources are stolen and so are their workers. An anarchic gimme government works when there's an endless empire to steal from. Their capital is a massive pirate port. I have no idea why you want lore about who pushes the paper. The kabals are meticulously organized, so I'm sure some civilians are doing that task, but who exactly wants to read about that? The other factions don't really have this written out either, apart from the imperium, because it gets all the attention.

[@szymonmolitoris4616]

Dark eldar are how evil some can be just to survive

[@kropela]

You just gave me a newfound appreciation for the Drukhari, solely because it finally clicked for about them being inspired by old fae folk tales. Thanks!

[@eizenbrook6777]

I genuinely love the Dark Eldar because they are hilariously Edgy

[@tcideh4929]

Is trying to survive on its own really evil? They have to do what we see as evil to survive. Does that make them evil? (Probably)

[@jonathanathor117]

"everything in warhammer is evil but being evil is kinda fun" "when everyone is the villain, then everyone is cool". Bricky

[@SirEggo2412]

The problem is these sick bastards enjoy what they do

[@mondaysinsanity8193]

Eh i could agree if they didnt reproduce but they super do. So that implies they kinda like it

[@ayylmao575]

They don’t need to do this to survive, they could always become more disciplined (and less completely fucking evil) like the Eldar, the fact they don’t is proof they enjoy this and wouldn’t want to change it for anything.

[@christiangibson2733]

....imagine being Griffith, that's what it's like

[@kingofsauce1319]

Just wanna say that Vect has one of if not the dopest rise to power stories in the setting. Feat salamanders

[@thekinginyellowmessiahofha6308]

Until you face the dreaded autocannon. Then you are nought but target practice for some terrified guardsmen.

[@rexringtail471]

I think there are far more of the Dark Kin than Craftworlders. Like, at least an order of magnitude more. Thats why there is the weird rump faction of 'corsairs' in the craftworld book. Originally, the eldar corsairs in lore were just Dark Eldar although it's more of a continuum from Craftworld-Corsair-DE than hard stops. So 99% of all the interactions Humans have with elves are going to be with Dark Eldar. Which explains a lot about why the craftworlders and Imperium rarely collaborate or ally despite having obvious shared interests and not really any competing objectives. If every time you have met a knife-ear in the last 10,000 years they torture porned your entire extended family to death, you likely aren't too keen on buddying up with their 'totally normal' cousins, regardless of practicalities.

[@your_stepbro1756]

Every single day of being an Imperial Fist player gets better and better because the only counter you need is to REINFORCE

[@macklegros]

Honestly they’re pretty tongue in cheek when it comes to the edge like no ones going to take them very seriously they’re so edgy they become goofy

[@MrCmon113]

Don't know what's wrong with you to see anything "tongue in cheek" about endless torture. There's literally zero humor to it.

[@crr4482]

@@MrCmon113 For me it just becomes so over the top that I can't take it seriously. It's like there's that area of torture that I can take seriously and disturbs me, but at some point it just becomes so unrealistic and darkly goofy that I can see it without being disturbed by it

[@macklegros]

Have you seen any of the Toxic Avenger movies? Horrible gory and violent but also basically a comedy, I’m sorry I’m not taking half naked drugged you spiky space elf pirates serious.

[@Azarune]

Halfway through the Aeldari Species~ Or like... 3/5! Your mix of lore and humor is always spot on! Best wishes

[@nukethenatelore]

Meta wise deldar are kinda the op faction. Most of the times you are playing them people will think you are just a meta nerd

[@k-leb4671]

It's difficult to imagine the Craftworld Eldar ever allying with the Dark Eldar when Incubi murder Aspect Warriors and destroy their soul stones.

[@nielsjensen4185]

They do that because despite all of that they're still Aeldari, making them default better than everyone else in the entire galaxy. Craftworld Aeldari can accept the Drukhari. What they'll never accept is the Chaos-worshipping Aeldari, those are usually KoS.

[@mrhyde4732]

0:36 So we're just gonna let Yoda fall to Slaanesh like that?

[@dank_smirk2ndchannel200]

Some like the Dark Eldar because of the edge. I like the Dark Eldar because of the whips and tentacles. I’m honestly just down bad.

[@GreasusGoldtooth]

I have to wonder, did the Dark Eldar send any of their own people back with the Tau? That seems like something the Tau would expect, and a great way for some Dark Eldar to get a free vacation plus information on the Tau.

[@garysuarez9614]

Jaghati...will find a way.

[@Daredhnu]

I started 40k many moons ago by collecting Dark Eldar, when I was a literal edgy 12 year old, back when they first came out and were in the starter set. Mostly because they were Dark Elves (which I already collected) in space, I still enjoy the over the top villainy of both, it's why I also collected Skaven.

[@Blundabus1337]

Ok, saying drukari isnt creative is a fair argument, but "dark eldar" wasnt very creative either.

[@lyndontuck7084]

The GW shop that appears at 11:36 is my hometown local in Plymouth (UK). I went back there today after a few years away. Still the same two blokes running it after nearly 20 years. Plymouth is sadly still an utterly godforsaken place where the air tastes of Lynx deodorant, sticky pound shop carpets and bitter disappointment which hasn't advanced economically or culturally since 2007. I'm glad I escaped.

[@stormeaglegaming5395]

I wonder if you can compare Gundam Factions to warhammer 40k

[@pancreasnowork9939]

No idea, I don’t know SHIT about Gundam besides the fact that the T’au clearly enjoy it. That being said I’m sure it’d piss people off if I said they can survive in 40K so…yeah they can survive just fine in 40K.

[@stormeaglegaming5395]

@@pancreasnowork9939 Well to start simple you could check out either Zeon or the Earth Fderation from og Gundam or any from the alternate titles if you wish , I hust want to hear your opinion about it .

[@dolpsum8492]

Lmao the yoda cbt Japan disco remix on the background.

[@crispinravlin4256]

I’m not a cop is exactly what a cop would say

[@BruderSenf]

i love playing the cracked up bdsm enthusiasts,play them since 3rd edition they are so ove the top cartoony evil and edgy as fuck,really love them xD

[@sonic4ever6]

If I remember correctly, I'm pretty sure they also put pointy bits and spikes on the INSIDE of their armor as well because they try to make everything painful, including to ones self. Bunch of crazed masochists

[@Potemking]

6:15 no no no da speed freekz can out speed dem pointy ears

[@tomobrouns8586]

Babe wake up, pancreasnowork uploaded

[@Ezekiel88210]

Fuck i started the video and already paused cause I'm laughing too much at the yoda cbt remix and cant concentrate on what you're saying. Great choice of music, 10/10

[@brandonlee934]

dark eldar are rare but top rated because they have a high skill floor, you need to be very good to win with them at all but if you are really good then you can dominate

[@hansyolo8277]

Dark Eldar rules? Well they've been at the top of the meta since their Codex came out so... good.

[@andarara-c1p]

This video was awesome! Make more of both Warhammer settings, please!

[@nightlock826]

Honestly; I find it funny that a pro to the dark eldar is that they are stable…in the lore nothing really changes for them so they can be their evil little selves with no new bs Mary sues or Primaris marines. Just the same thing different day.

[@redspyke8227]

"Whenever you wipe out a Space Marine player's Land Raider and they cry about it and call you an edgy bitch, blast Linkin Park and say they're right but that won't Un-Torture the chapter master." Fucking. Gold.

[@titanj7221]

Aren’t the dark Eldar feeding “the one who thirsts” but just don’t admit it?