How the Space Sharks Mentally Broke a Dark Eldar - Warhammer 40k

Today i wanted to share something a little different. In one of the newer warhammer 40k books called silent hunters there is a great moment where the space sharks capture a dark eldar and break him mentally. It offers a great insight into the psychology of it all and how they accomplished this on a lieutenant from one of the most sinister races in warhammer 40k.
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[@griffionwyvrus9063]

Space Shark using their Raven Guard ability for stealth and Night lord ability for pyschological warfare in its finest.

[@grahaldmills5930]

Psychological you mean?

[@cnut7383]

@@grahaldmills5930 why not both

[@griffionwyvrus9063]

@@grahaldmills5930 I didn't notice the spelling. I just click the auto correct without reading. 😅😅

[@grahaldmills5930]

@@griffionwyvrus9063 it's cool

[@mitchmitting102]

Uh...yes...their Raven Guard ability for stealth.....respected descendents of definitely Corvus.... They totally Night Lord loyalists

[@MultiCommissar]

Really warms one's heart that the ancient Terran tradition of waterboarding has been preserved so earnestly.

[@Ol_Bron]

Can't beat the classics.

[@dominusbalial835]

Truly Art and Culture at it's finest

[@gutterpheonix]

It's humanity's gift to the universe

[@comradesam3382]

Simplicity at its finest, waterboarding has been a technique used since fabric had been invented

[@robertbeja5291]

It would have been hilarious if they paired music with it. I am thinking something like 'Sweet Home Alabama'.

[@E100Omega123]

"Cousin, how did you manage to break a species dedicated to the art of torture?" "We were very boring."

[@thisgoddamusernamestoodamnlong]

Space marine: Go to time-out. Dark Eldar: NOOOOOOOOOOO!

[@cryptosporidium01]

Necron in the same context : "Aaaaaah ! Finally, a calm place to repose my circuits. Let it last a few centuries or more"

[@dr.michaelmarx3085]

Glory to the Infinite Empire!

[@lordgod9958]

A necron would also probably go crazy if they were in an active state for that long with no sensory input. At least a higher necron would

[@godemperorofmemekind4170]

@@lordgod9958they don’t mind it at all read infinite and the Divine they stand still for ages doing nothing all the time even the higher end ones

[@scarafereastra]

@@lordgod9958 Nah fam, the period of time required to pass inb order for them to even feel a tinge of discomfort would be well beyond the capabilities of the space marines or even the facility/dungeon to withstand. it would literally wait for them to wither

[@thedoomlord8618]

@@godemperorofmemekind4170 That's not entirely true. In Hammer and Bolter, Trazyn talks to one of his captured Mechanicus members. Upon waking him, the Techpriest reacted slightly annoyed, requesting to be kept in a mentally wake state, if freezing him is really that necessary, to which Trazyn wonders if that would not make him go insane, to be presented with sheer nothingness and the inability to move for aeons, to which the Techpriest replied that he would enjoy the time to go through calculations and what not, surprising Trazyn. (which indicates, that Trazyn would probably prefer to not do that himself)

[@-Blackberry]

They did the exact same thing to an Emperors Children marine in the latest episode of Hammer and Bolter, kept him in a sensory deprivation chamber to torture him. Be it Emperors Children or Dark Eldar, the worst torment for them is boredom.

[@cmanmonkeydog]

That’s the Exorcist chapter

[@codycurtin2295]

different chapter but still perfect thing to do to them!

[@pubefaceIV]

“Aren’t you going to call me a traitor or …” “DIE TRAITOROUS SCUM!!” “Ah there it is”

[@HowlFromBeyond]

Worked out great for the Exorcists too. Totally no draw backs at all.

[@Azorees-oj5zr]

@@HowlFromBeyond well yeah, they fucked up with Lucius not with their prisoner.

[@Garoslol]

Very normal loyalist chapter behaviour

[@cousinzeke4888]

They're Night Lords, what do you expect?

[@Peter_Turbo4]

@@cousinzeke4888also World Eaters.

[@Nonameisback999]

@@cousinzeke4888 more like the result of the Raven Guard, Night Lords, Space Wolves having a fucked up baby chapter

[@eldonte7775]

They decent from the terrain born Raven guard that Corax exiled. Their look like RG, and fight like RG but with more warcrimes, NL were just Warcrimes and nothing else

[@codycurtin2295]

From the looks of it just Night Lords and Raven Guard but regardless they still as brutal if they were Wolves! @@Nonameisback999

[@lorenzdistruzzi6928]

Almost felt sorry for the poor guy, then I remember he's a dark Eldar

[@censorduck]

I felt nothing but glea

[@noneofyourfckingbusiness8302]

Also the Space Marines captured him by baiting him with a mother and child he wanted to torture and kill. Xenos deserves no pity.

[@censorduck]

@noneofyourfckingbusiness8302 the mother giving him a kick in the ribs gave me so much delight.

[@carljohan9265]

It's hard to decide who is the most evil faction, chaos or dark eldar. Because arguments could be made for both.

[@crim1188]

@@carljohan9265 dark eldar they actively choose to be horrid goblins

[@Firepup740]

Giving a dark elder a cold shower. The equivalent of throwing a bar of soap at a nurglite.

[@aldrixlevy228]

Basically how to kill Slaanesh: complete lack of stimulus.

[@mightykanohii]

Slannesh and Nurgle hate each other

[@roguefisher4637]

@@mightykanohiiall chaos gods hate each other but they hate specific ones most. Korne is slaanesh and nurgle is tzeentch

[@Lastofthesigilites]

I imagine Slazzy would enjoy being tied up for a short while just to increase the enjoyment when they feel something again.

[@Kerrigan-QOB]

But that's just a theory, a game theory!

[@The_Horned_King]

Refreshing to see a deldar get what he deserves. No glamorous death, no cacophony of suffering. Just the crushing silence of the Void. That, and the indifferent gaze of the Void's hunters as he breaks before them.

[@jenniferlumiqued]

Not really their fault for causing so much pain, mainly bc they have to or else they all get their souls sucked up, if my soul was being sucked up by a dark god, I would probably try to torture some things if it stops the soul drain, just me tho

[@Cobra-mb2gx]

@@jenniferlumiqued well maybe if they felt guilty about it sure, but they sit there jacking off to it, taking pride and pleasure from the maximum agony and vileness they inflict on their victims. Not to mention they were responsible for creating Slaneesh in the first place because the dark eldar were doing those fucked up acts even BEFORE they were being thirsted by the dark god. And most of them still dont even regret it.

[@zcgamerandreacts2762]

​@@jenniferlumiquedwell fuck em. They brought it on themselves.

[@KaiserAfini]

​@@jenniferlumiquedThey have the option of stopping the soul drain by becoming craftworlders. Which means they choose being a blight upon the galaxy over embracing self discipline. They always had a way out, the fact they deliberately choose not to take it makes this karmic backlash well earned.

[@angelusumbrae]

​@KaiserAfini I didn't know that becoming a Craftworlder ends that for them. Where did you find that out? I have only heard how Dark Eldar joining up with Yvraine get a break from it... Regardless, they DO choose to not just be monstrous, but to truly revel in it.

[@janbfiala]

Reminds me of the old joke: One day, two parents come home early and hear some weird sounds coming from their son's room. When they quietly open the door, they see their son in a gimp suit, flogging his back with a leather knotted whip, the boy's moans muffled by a gag. They carefully close the door again, and look at each other. "What are we going to do?" asked the mother. The father replied "I don't know. Spanking him probably won't work."

[@dr.stronk9857]

Oh my god lol

[@WallNutBreaker524]

@@janbfiala that's messed up 💀

[@skevan6641]

I think he needs rehab, or a partner.

[@cleanerben9636]

This joke could go dark places very fast. Remove it!

[@TexMeta]

He’s been taken by chaos. Brother, get the flamer. The. Heavy. Flamer.

[@fangwu7576]

The dark elder taunts the abyss to make it illicit a reaction. Today the abyss stares back.

[@tdab3883]

Oh no, the abyss didn't stare back. Quite the opposite, the abyss didn't do anything at all

[@SoilentBeef]

The entire Imperium should use this as standard when handling Drukhari.

[@mightykanohii]

Probably also effective against Ork

[@Nudhul]

​@@mightykanohiithe ork would probably bash its own brains out against the wall trying to break through, in some manner of challenging its toughness.

[@Brandon-ff1yo]

@@Nudhulor literally die from not fighting enough seeing as its a biological need.

[@hydradominatus]

@@Nudhul nope they locked one in a cell with no fighting, it degenerated over months into this sad depressed chubby green thing with a beer belly. also grew smaller

[@vanconojl]

@@hydradominatus that one was not orky enough to fight the walls xD

[@LamborghiniDiabloSVPursuit]

If any of you wonder how bad this could possibly be. The hyper-sensitive mind of the Eldar perceives stimuli much more intensely than a normal human can, and the Dark Eldar's penchant for constant stimulation has upped this to an even higher degree. A few days of solitary confinement would feel anywhere between months or years of isolation to them. Add the withdrawal symptoms from whatever drugs they were taking, and you have enough true pain that Slaanesh themself probably noticed it.

[@BobelPop]

I suppose meditation is something they don't dabble in (at least the Dark Eldar).

[@jaelee1996]

​@@BobelPopBut mediation is a regular act for marines.

[@TexMeta]

Did you just respectfully refer to a chaos god with their proper pronoun? You HERETIC! *_BLAM_*

[@Ayookd293]

Awesome story

[@zarecht2968]

Man, imagine a Deathwatch Kill team made up of members from the Carcharodons, Black Dragons, Black Templars, Storm Giants, Mentors, Minotaurs, Flesh Tearers, Silver Skulls, Exorcists, and Marines Malevolent. That'd be a pretty wild bunch.

[@grimreminder5038]

Charcharodons and Black Dragons, yes. The rest? I wanna see who survives that blood bath, especially hearing a Marine Malevolent talk for any amount of time

[@ShortChangeSkelly]

Honestly I’m surprised the Space Sharks and Black Dragons don’t work together because they are both extremely genetically modified

[@Lazrael32]

@@ShortChangeSkelly because the sharks are extremely solitary. and a portion of the inquisition hates the black dragons.

[@mitchmitting102]

That killteam is going to absolutely murder fuck anything that comes their way. Just, nothing is going to withstand the sheer murderfuckery of these marines combined

[@TheEmperorsChampion964]

Oh man that sounds like fun!

[@00784865]

What people forget is that the sharks are also masters of psychological terror.

[@My10thAccount]

There’s a good reason why people say they’re related to the Night Lords and Sevitar in particular. They’re absolute horrors of the void in the form of Astartes.

[@VeryDeathlyShiny]

@@My10thAccount Yea, they are a chimera of Nightlord Loyalists and Ravenguard. Stealth and Fear... and they use it well.

[@centric3125]

It's like a small army of Arkhamverse Batmen who have perfect reasons as to why the 'no kill' rule no longer applies.

[@luckylarry71]

The Carcharodons Astra also managed to humble the CSMs of the Emperor's Children on occasion, when upon being fired at by a squad, surrounded by captive humans, the sharks responded with a couple of modest and controlled volleys aimed too high to cause any collateral damage, but also away from the CSM's vitals. This enraged the sons of Fulgrim, who viewed this as an insult. When the inevitable melee finally occurred, no amount of finesse and insatiable lust for violence could match the wild abandon in which the sharks ripped and tore their adversaries, while remaining utterly silent and almost distant throughout the entire combat. [Angels of Death: The Judges, In Their Hunger (Short Story) by David Annandale]

[@Tacoguy1000]

No way the space sharks were careful enough to avoid civilians. That isn't their MO.

[@luckylarry71]

@@Tacoguy1000 Agreed, most of them were actually local administration/upper class who were collaborating with the CSM to save their asses, before the sharks showed up. The reason why they were spared in the shootout is because once the CSM were dealt with, the surviving humans were judged first and then summarily executed

[@ReaperofValhalla]

@@Tacoguy1000probably to mentally mess with the CE if they knew it was their brand of chaos. Feed off the suffering of them or mess with the loyalists. Win-win for them. If they were Khornite then it’s blood for the blood god. Undivided probably means their death would summon something. Idk about Nurgle but killing them or the CE would mean a loss in some way. This way it gets the traitor’s emotional and fuck up along the way

[@vincentprime740]

@@Tacoguy1000 they dont care about normal people, but they also dont care about killing normal people. its just dont stay in their way in any method then u will be fine. it happens that u are unlucky to be in the way of the shark, else nothing bad happen

[@notusneo]

​@@ReaperofValhallaahh so they are avoiding civies casualities not because of saving civies in the first place but to wage a psychological war, totally on brand tbh

[@notare]

In one of the Salamanders books Vulkan He'Stan threatens a dark eldar with being buried alive and left alone for years to get them to talk.

[@Shadowdrag00n]

The black dragons in that book, kept a dark eldar in a box to torture it.

[@drakeevans3066]

That's what i love so much about them the space shark's will always turn the tables on their foes. My favorite has to be when they trap a hunt some Night Lords in complete silence.

[@angelolima8984]

Where can i find this story?

[@syedushherahmad311]

​@@angelolima8984i think its the w40k book "The Red Tithe

[@doughnutboyo6922]

This is a real form of torture that is still in use today(also by the USA). People have been subjected to this for months and are incredibly traumatised.

[@meidyot1672]

White Room

[@krieger8825]

I like quiet and lit places

[@ajman66]

Mostly by the USA*

[@uhohjrama]

And are punished if noise is made.

[@cleanerben9636]

Sounds awesome. Peace and quiet with my own mind.

[@TheSpicyLeg]

Even worse, such sensations are the offerings that the Dark Eldar make to Slaanesh. Without them, Slaanesh will pull on their souls, eventually devouring them.

[@echothegecko2875]

So much the better!

[@secondarytrollaccount]

Space sharks dont even have to brutalize you to be absolute menaces the most physical thing they did was hit him with the hose and while painful isnt the worst torture imaginable

[@Foffer1337]

For a Dark Eldar tho, this is absolutely brutal torture for them. Since Dark Eldars goes from a BDSM session on the daily, just as we drink a cup of coffee in the morning. The mental torture they put him through was far worse, than anything they could physically have done to him.

[@bruvathroatpuncher500]

This is why the Carcharodons are the imperium's TRUE apex predators something the Dark Eldar have to learn the hard way.

[@Mikazuchireborn]

Utakk thought his confinement was a tragedy. But now we realize... it's a comedy.

[@lupisvolk2420]

What is tragedy but comedy without the laughter.

[@gustavakerman2566]

And Utakk is the punchline

[@kaiju2296]

A narcissist vs psychopaths. Poor bastard never stood a chance.

[@jamesnicholls7535]

This is how someone discribes eating diner without KZbin

[@codycurtin2295]

This was such a fantastic book and such a humanizing look into one of the most inhumane and brutal chapters. As a fan of the previous space sharks books I loved a deeper look into Te Kuharangi. Also the twist about the "brothers" was heart wrenching.

[@cheguevara19]

The twist about them being brothers and him holding a grudge for 1,000 years was pure cringe, man. The cringiest of cringe that ever did cringe. He took Robbie MacNiven's consumate professionals and turned them in to squabbling siblings.

[@codycurtin2295]

@@cheguevara19 i think it adds great depth. Stoic destroyers can only go so far, and even with the previous books there still was a lot of emotions. Akai trying to fill the shoes of his previous commander and the contempt the other officers had for him in his new role. Them being actual brothers brings another development in this direction.

[@cheguevara19]

@@codycurtin2295 I agree with a few things. Not all space marines should be stoic, they and the primarchs parallel ancient gods and heroes and, if there's one thing you can say about gods and heroes, it's that they were incredibly fiery and open with their emotions. They certainly weren't perfect, anything but. However, they're also well beyond mortal concerns. They live for battle and they battle for their chapter and the Imperium. Trying to tear down his brother, one of the greatest warriors in the chapter, 1,000 years after their mother died and totally irregardless of the damage it could do to the chapter is simply counter to the ideals of duty and honour space marines aspire to, especially high ranking space marines. They should be exemplars, not squabbling children. It's like the difference between the consumate professionals in Star Trek TNG/DS9 and the spoiled brats of Discovery. And that's before we even get on to hypno-indoctrination, them often remembering next to nothing about their lives and the other ridiculous decisions, like hiding their relics on the edge of space guarded by one guy instead of on their flagship. It's just daft through and through. Bodyboarding on to a yacht filled with Drukhari and fighting them hand to hand unarmoured? It's just silly.

[@zanthimos]

That was satisfying and a little funny listening to him go nuts with boredom. It reminds me of a very old piece of lore from the original Dungeons & Dragons. "Boredom is the archenemy of all Kender" or something like that. If I remember correctly, the old lore says that the cruelest thing you can do to a member of the Kender race is lock him in a room with literally nothing to do. It made this story all the more funny when I remembered that tidbit. Also I got a question, when they opened the shutters and he gazed out into nothing, what was that supposed to mean? Like literally no stars? Or a blank wall that was designed to make him think he was staring into real space but with a lack of stars? Or could it be that they had literally left the entire galaxy all together and made him face out into the literal void between galaxies?!

[@wesleywood7749]

I think that maybe they were just facing the dome toward the dark side of a tidally locked planet/moon. If you're close enough there wouldn't be any light that the dark eldar could use to focus on being that you too are in the shadow of the planet/moon.

[@JeffGreff]

The space sharks hunt in the void so it is very possible they took him to the edge of the galaxy

[@JeffGreff]

@@techpriestessmicaela8441 I did not know that, that is very cool thank you. I guess this could just be an instance of a writer trying to do a cool thing but it not really fitting with how the world works. Or I could be wrong.

[@Doomseer]

The space sharks are one hundred percent one of the most badass chapters in the galaxy and the fact they could be of nightlord stock makes them all the more interesting to me.. Also really well done narration, I can tell you have a knack for it!

[@ThunderBirb]

Interestinly enough, they are Terran Raven Guard Corax exiled to the edge of the galaxy. But I read somewhere that they might use Nightlord Gene seed instead of Raven guard, unsure though

[@highmarshalbalian680]

@@ThunderBirbthey started as the RG exiled and picked up night lords and world eaters along the way and mixed the stock. They are the most successful Blackshield group

[@skylerrutherford9870]

I think that was genius in the way they broke him. Idk why they did it but it was awesome the way they did it

[@thedoomlord8618]

Because Dark Eldar strive for and live off of excess. They desperately need stimuly for their senses to be healthy and to keep slaneesh away. By depriving them of all those things, it's basically as if you were torturing humans by waterboarding, slowly burning them etc, aka the worst things imaginable without directly killing them lol

[@Nonameisback999]

Unironically kinda feel bad for this Eldar. The way this is described is basically what it's like to suffer a withdrawl from addiction.

[@secondarytrollaccount]

As your soul gets consumed by a dark God it's like withdrawals that are so bad you die

[@Azorees-oj5zr]

I don’t, the Dark Eldar deserves it.

[@secondarytrollaccount]

@@Azorees-oj5zr yea these sweat goblins do things to people that are literally unspeakable whatever they get they deserve

[@Nonameisback999]

@@Azorees-oj5zr oh of course, he probably and most likely did way worse to others. But as someone who suffered from addiction it kinda hit me hard regardless.

[@SalviHippo]

I’m glad i looked at the comment section before watching. As someone who has addiction as well and is currently still using with no intention of stopping, I wouldn’t be able to handle watching this rn. I’d need a rly good hit probably more than once while watching and I’m too low on material rn lol. Death? Doesn’t scare me one bit (other than the fact I’d be leaving my wife all alone and she can’t handle the world without me, just like I can’t without her.) withdrawal tho? That thing….that does scare me lol. I’d rather get shot in the head than go thru that.

[@inserisciunnome]

To his Credit, this guy really did prove he had WAAY More mental fortitude than Humans. Most of us would be broken by just the initial four days, this guy resisted for Weeks, and most impressively of all, he did so as a DARK Eldar. The fact he was used to Slaaneshi-levels excess would make you think he'd be far quicker to crack, but no

[@whiteeye3453]

Some people can windstan more

[@inserisciunnome]

@@AshuMishraKZbin that's solitary Confinement tho, Robert Maudsley AFAIK was still allowed time out in the open, phone calls, and visits from relatives, this guy was put in an actual sensory deprivation Room, wich Is much worse

[@Ch-ew9tm]

Didn’t prisons used to do this as punishment sometimes for months?

[@shadowscall7758]

​@@Ch-ew9tmno. Solitary confinement is not sensory deprivation.

[@alanbeck9907]

@@shadowscall7758 many prisons just put you in a concrete box with nothing in it and only take you out once a week to shower so it might as well be.

[@giominus7402]

Dark Eldar getting a small fraction of what they deserve.

[@hadesdogs4366]

Agreed unlike most space marine chapters who values courage, glory and honor above all else, where even the pragmatic ultramarines tend to get blinded by honor and glory where it becomes a disadvantage rather than battlefield effectiveness where they value an honorable duel or a more direct and personal approach rather than say the raven guard or fire hawks who have little values in the ways of honor and unlike most other space marine chapters who cry out their glories out loud, the hidden blade is just as effective as a weapon that can be seen

[@TheNightWatcher1385]

The imperium needs to get in contact with the SCP Foundation and see if they can borrow SCP-2701 “True Solitary” to use on the dark eldar. The sensory deprivation chamber from hell.

[@TehCrushinatorz]

Never thought the Carcharadons would such massive trolls.

[@ninocuric5290]

Now tell me that Charcharadon Astra aren't loyalist Night Lords I dare you

[@jalpat2272]

More like chimeric between night Lord and original sadistic terran Raven guard before corrax took over

[@GentlemanBystander]

The original Terran intake of the XIXth legion were basically more Night Lord versions of the Night Lords.

[@dannystuart-cummins4327]

Such a brutal chapter..... they break DE with the silent treatment and lack of entertainment.

[@bunglewungle261]

Bros first strategy was to seduce the space marines. 😂

[@krel3358]

I think they should have brought in a servitor or mechanicus adept to constantly talk to him about meaningless technical details and code scripts over and over again while at the same time feeding him lies that are as believable as truths so his entire reality is not only dropped to mundanity but also there is the aspect that within the boredom they created for him he could no longer process what was true or not. Constantly change the rules of his captors while making it seem like its his fault for breaking rules he was never told, ie changing the goal posts. Ie when he talks they blast him with the cold water, when he is silent they come in and talk to him and when he responds or complies with demands they blast him with the water. They should make it a point that they own him, he is not a superior being and they will do to him whatever they want while he will never be able to win or understand. The goal is total break down of the will and total submission by destroying the ego to the point he wouldnt even think of trying to escape, not even consider it was torture one way or the other. Its called learned helplessness where i believe the army put a dog in a box with 2 compartments and window in the middle it could jump through while both floors were electrified and could be activated to zap the dog promting it to jump through the window to the other side to avoid the zaps. Eventually the dog would break down and just accept the zaps without trying to escape. It works on humans too.

[@patuccaneven8027]

Sir this is wendy

[@bonefetcherbrimley7740]

I the fact they did that to a dog is awful! Poor dog.

[@TheProtronic]

Wowwwww! You've been planning this for a while.😅

[@rome229]

r/suspiciouslyspecific

[@sucloxsucloxsson]

Nigga typed this straight from the commorragh library computer

[@danmarusan2878]

Solitary confinement, a Rambo 1 style of shower, silence and boredom to break a Dark Eldar. Concidering that this is 40k this doesn't sound that cruel. At least when compared to what the Dark Eldar do to their victims. But since Dark Eldar are all about dark emotions and sadism to enhance their vitality it's like a drug withdrawal. Something some people concider a pretty hefty experience.

[@natanaelsantos3924]

As someone struggling with a certain addiction, i assure you. It's something i would wish upon no one, that feeling of having a part of you desire more and more of what it shouldn't and when it doesn't get, that's when the agony starts. It's like the most hungry of beats scratching and scratching and scratching until it gets what it wants.

[@ImaginaryNumb3r]

This is pure comedy gold. I love the Dark Eldar and this did justice to all parties involved.

[@WaaaghbossOrkamungus]

So basically they bullied a nerd, got it. Jokes aside, the Space Sharks are pretty neat. I especially love that they have a giant aquarium filled with ancient giant monster sharks on the bridge of their flagship. And as for the story here: I got kind of hooked on the part where the DEldar was appalled by the fact that humans could live like this, in a monotone and sterile environment. It's a subtle reminder that while they Eldar may be incredibly advanced in many ways, humanity is still as alien to them as they are to humans.

[@Azubrael]

Grimgor iz da best

[@Mamonar]

The first torture method that came to my mind was "Baby shark dut-du-dut-dut-du-du!"

[@dracodarastrix4175]

You should read the Salamander Trilogy. Vulkan Hestan (not the primarch) was not only able to speak the Eldar tongue but with the combination of promise and a threat, he was able to get webway portal open to the dark city from a haemonculus.Though what the space sharks did was brutal and got the same result. Vulkan's method was way faster.

[@michael3088]

it was ruse by Vect, he let them in on purpose

[@dracodarastrix4175]

@@michael3088 Really it has been a while since I read the book series, but I don't recall ever reading that Vect was involved.

[@elliotyourarobot]

Wasn't really brutal.

[@dracodarastrix4175]

@@elliotyourarobot From a Dark Eldar perspective it is. Considering stimulation is everything for them.

[@alan0004]

​@@dracodarastrix4175even regular humans would go insane in less than a day, if you are kept without any kind of stimulation

[@harlequinems]

I would have shut the eldar in a soundproof clear cell with one way speakers for him to hear all the kids playing with puppies around him while baby shark plays on loop😂

[@doomguy9049]

I always hated being grounded more than any other punishment as a kid so I can relate lol 😭

[@chaplaingilgamesh2964]

This actually made me feel bad for the poor guy. At the end of the video, even if he did escape, he would never be welcomed back to Commorragh. He would be an exile at best and murdered at worse

[@andrewamann2821]

Murder would probably be the best outcome... The haemonuli are always looking for materials.

[@natechi290]

Murder, being the worse? Oh no no no no. You'd WISH you were murdered instead. Here at Commorragh, all warm bodies are appreciated. May they be an instrument or chair

[@inserisciunnome]

He's an Eldar, he can Just become a craftworlder, can he not? Its not like Dark Eldar and normal craftworlders have Obvius phisical differences between them, its the same specie

[@natechi290]

@@inserisciunnome from what I remember, dark eldar will wither and die if they don't do the slaneeshi stuff. Inversely, they will be rejuvenated and revived when they do the slaneeshi stuff. As in, revived from death, with nothing but a finger. So no, he can't be a craftworld elder, he is technically, biologically different.

[@Tacoguy1000]

​@@natechi290Apparently, you can join the Ynnead bunch as a dark one if you repent hard enough.

[@ricoanderson6626]

Im sorry but i couldnt stop laughing imagine a skinNbones elf being flung into a wall by water and subsequently repeated everytime he wasnt expecting it.

[@ryandovaston2687]

I never thought a warhammer story with a dark eldar would make me laugh but every time they fired the water cannon it was the best punchline.

[@daimonx3621]

Great story, from an excellent book. Borther Zartath from the Black Dragons Chapter also did something similar to the captured Dark Eldar, but that xenos changed into so called 'Husk' very quiclky.

[@steveo9284]

Only thing better would be the twist; that a sister of silence or a 'blank' was just sitting on the otherside of the door.

[@thechameleos6334]

I fucking love the charcaradons, who the hell else would hose down a drukarii with a water hose. "I AM THOUSANDS YEARS OLD!! YOU CANT JU-" * High-powered water hose sounds * "I will forgive you for this slight, but only- " * High-pwered water hose sounds * "You will regret thi-" * SLAM *

[@gp-1542]

I’m fascinated how the idea of basically just literally ignoring them is torture for them I wonder if the same thing works with slaanesh followers

[@Brandon-ff1yo]

they actually did that in hammer and bolter, stuck a emperors children marine in whats effectively a fully covering perfectly fiting metal body glove, providing 0 stimulation.

[@porsche-sandoesnotundersta8184]

@@Brandon-ff1yo he got so deprived he looked like a pale bat.

[@licensed_beheader]

​@@porsche-sandoesnotundersta8184he always looked like a pale bat. Blessings of slaanesh

[@mobiusZero2]

Bruh, I read this book. Damn they really made the Space Sharks more scary than other factions

[@jahrusalem3658]

I saw the title and just thought: "Yep, totally something the Void Guppies would do."

[@DragonsHoardOfPlastic]

I love the mental image of a Space Shark casually blasting an Eldar with a firehose.

[@gigapuddi]

Boredom is a pretty common police interrogation tactic in real life. Lots of suspects are juet held in the interrogation room for hours and hours to be left alone with their thoughts and possible guilt

[@HalIOfFamer]

To be fair, I think there is a story from HH where the Deldar homonculluie have made the night lord's afraid of the dark.

[@FossorialFungus]

Haemonculi are like their surgeon/scientists, I'm pretty sure it was Mandrakes

[@Darknessblade4me]

@@guardsmengunner Nope it was a coven of haemonculi that decided to pay back the night lords for attacking their ship. the coven tracked down the warband as said warband was bullying an imperial world. then they plunged the entire planet into darkness. and then they send ther experiments and mandrakes in to harrass the crap out of the night lords warband. Ever since said warband is afraid of the dark

[@destyrian]

I think this is the funniest story in 40k. I'm not sure why. The brutality and sadism towards the brutal and sadistic... I don't know why it is so funny but it is.

[@jhetttiernan2623]

I know you don’t know me and I don’t know you but, you somehow knew EXACTLY what can get me to immediately click on a video: dark eldar getting impaled on the receiving end for once. Well played sir!

[@danielguy9370]

Am I the only one who chuckled when he "are you gonna--?" *WATER CANNON*

[@zeinfadel]

I mean... He is xenos. Usually that's a burn on meeting offense. He's lucky.

[@carroboi2981]

Considering if he doesn't do evil things to other people regularly he can feel his soul being slowly eaten by Slaanesh? No, this is much worse.

[@elchurcho2704]

More than 40k years later and still nothing beats the padded white room and the daily session with a chair, rag and a water bucket

[@gso619]

Were this happening to anything other than a dark eldar, it'd be such a dark and tragic story. As it stands, it's goddamn hilarious.

[@m0osefist]

In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only the time-out chair.

[@Kar4ever3]

Humans best weapon against Dark Eldar. The ability to think nothing. Just stare into the void and shut off the brain.

[@keltonsword3011]

The Codex Astartes had been edited to support this action

[@darrenrenna]

Great video! Love the Space Sharks and you really did the scene justice!

[@Artimata]

A loyalist nightlords doing good deeds 😊 edit: after all they are the expert of psychological warfare and underhanded tactics to break their opponents spacesharks really got that from the night lords

[@Brandon-ff1yo]

not only nightlords, but ravengaurd nightlord hybrids, but we definitely saw their nightlord come out here, and it was kind of funny.

[@highmarshalbalian680]

@@Brandon-ff1yoif y’all think this terrible book was good you should check out the amazing books Red Tithe and Outer Dark along with the short story Reaping time. You’ll find out it’s 3 legions that make up Carcharodon gene stock and that was confirmed by the author in an interview

[@younan5011]

one of the chaos space marines in one of the novels broke a dark eldar he injected his hand with tims to numb it and make it usless he then said after breaking boath his legs the next lot will go in th back of your neck therefore paralysis from the neck down and unable to die the dark eldar went nuts as he did not want to turn into a husk paralysed from the neck down as dwrk eldar dont realy die he told him everything he wanted to know

[@TheCorrodedMan]

“GET IN THE HORNY BOX!” _”REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-“_

[@benedictduggan7232]

Haven’t had this much fun since Leman Russ played a Mon Keigh baby game with some dark Eldar. The fact that this is canon and that this torture is done to a creature that deserve absolutely no pity makes this VERY enjoyable. Great video!

[@SebaztienHawke-ci5hm]

Hilarious how the supposedly superior alien can’t handle 3 days of nothing, when even an Imperial Guardsman would be completely mental/morally solid after that.

[@SirAshford]

Just came across your channel! Glad to have seen such a tale, Dark Eldar are one of my favourite factions, and it's definitely very, very well deserved to see one of them face at least a modicum of torture. Subscribed, looking forward to more 40k content!

[@aenarioncourts9516]

im beginning to believe that space sharks are.more of a night lords than a raven guard

[@Star_dragon8]

Space Sharks are Masters of Trolling

[@ReinaSaurus]

fun fact: the sharks actually enjoy staying in a silent cell (in cold salt water) or walking around endless corridors in a never changing environment

[@eldonte7775]

Like true Terrans from the Raven Guard Legion

[@JoshuaKevinPerry]

This is what the youngsters call "getting rekt."

[@UnboundUnreal]

I like the theory that they are one chapter with 2 bloodlines. They aren’t mixed geneseed. Ravenguard and loyalist Nightlords.

[@Artemisarrowzz]

I would add some World Eater on there, too. Mr. Red Wake's size and their bloodlust may be a hint of it.

[@UnboundUnreal]

@@Artemisarrowzz maybe the rest of angrons brain the nucarians pulled out sprouted legs and started kicking ass.

[@Artemisarrowzz]

@@UnboundUnreal lol Maybe Tyberos is his subconscious XD But for real now, since many loyalist from traitor legions were clustered together to survive after Istvaan and during the rest of the Heresy, I think it's not too far fetched to say the Sharks have 3 different types of genseed on their ranks, perhaps without realizing. Thus the Void Father could indeed be Big E, that one first captain from the Ravens and Jago Sevatarion, all at the same time, since it could be the mixed lore consequence of being a mongrel legion. I'm also 90% sure Jago and Rushal ended up with them, so...

[@UnboundUnreal]

@@Artemisarrowzz I like it you saw a lot of this sort of thing in the shattered legion anthologies

[@Artemisarrowzz]

@@UnboundUnreal And while I would love for GW to clarify this all one day, considering their writing and modern standards, I think it's better left to speculation lol

[@TemplarBlonic]

A reminder that the Dark Eldar deserve every bit of suffering they get. Imagine the atrocities of Imperial Japan but magnified. That’s Dark Eldar. They deserve to suffer.

[@bigsteveo_burrito1037]

Bro, not gonna lie, the beginning of the vid had me intrigued but the ending had me fulfilled. excellent work on storytelling.

[@hunterxkiller8732]

this just makes me respect the space sharks more

[@cain035]

I hope you keep making vids like these. It's great!!

[@nelsondisalvatore9812]

"We do a little trolling " - Space sharks

[@davewebster5120]

I liked this breakdown! Always good to see more 40k voices and content creators.

[@HateMachinist]

I have always wondered what would happen in a clash between a drukhari warband and a culexis assassin.

[@kylek1119]

Being near a regular blank is agony for an Elder, and a Culexis assassin is a blank specifically crafted to eliminate potent psykers like them. By the time the assassin is done toying with them, those Drukhari would be begging to be sent to Slaanesh.

[@michael3088]

@@kylek1119 Dark eldar lost their psycher power or atleas have it very sedated as a skill because it's forbidden for them to use them so i'd put money on it wouldn't do much facing blanks

[@somerandommen]

​@@michael3088They still have very powerful souls and would feel very ill

[@Fr33man]

3 days in a cell to crack a dark eldar? I'm amazed this isn't done en masse

[@servit0r]

That was most awesome, thanks for sharing this!

[@redfireeverstar2651]

In a universe where innocents needlessly suffer it's absolutely satisfying when it happens to someone who absolutely deserves it.

[@SrAntonio301]

What they don’t mention is this all happened in 3 hours

[@truck-kunsenpai1739]

Really? God damn

[@Plazma896]

? 4:37 3 days

[@XD-sc4ix]

​@@Plazma896to the drukhari it felt 3 days but actually only 3 hours passed

[@houseadams4841]

Love this book…. Need more Carcharadon Astra books in audible…

[@gigeorge6sic6]

That was awesome! And I enjoyed your narration

[@EzraeL91]

The most terrible thing is that this type of torture exists for real and it's incredibly effective. On a Dark Eldar, that litterally needs emotions to live it must be 1000 times worse!

[@RobouteGuilliman-M41]

Now THAT's how you treat those bastards!

[@hollowmass738]

great narration! a voice worthy of envy. subbed

[@eldorado6770]

I wish they had an Ogryn on board. As the door 🚪 opened, the dark elf heard a dimwitted voice yelling, "Purge the unclean." 🌊🚿

[@GamingSpoiler]

"When the Dark Angels and the inquisition have a child"

[@nobilesnovushomo58]

You know, for being great poets, they obviously never heard of the sound of silence