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a faster metabolism should make you live way less, not longer. that's why dogs live 7x shorter lives than we do, and turtles can live for hundreds of years.
Normally yes, but advanced medicine and genetic tweaking would be able to make this irrellevant, and that's not even taking whatever they can do with their psychic powers
You are all wrong, metabolism and lifespan are not directly related. The main reason for aging on earth are the telomeres. I am not going to explain it for you but google exists.
@@jonahhembach7765 I don't think you meant that telomeres themselves are responsible for aging, but telomeres shortening during the cell division process. And even then you are not correct. Degrading telomeres are just ONE of the dozens upon dozens of factors that contribute to aging. Mutations that happen to chromosomes outside of telomeres are just one such factor.
@@robertnelson9599 I mean if you can increase the standard of living the birth rate tends to go down (if you're sure you can successfully raise a child to adulthood to continue the family, no real reason to make extra just in case), if people were immortal we might just reach a stable population, of course if the population never goes down because of immortality it would just go up, but I could see some people choosing to die after a couple hundred years to just to see what comes next.
@@somerandomschmuck2547 even if humans became biologically immortal they'd still die of accidents, murder, starvation, the elements and so on. Probably of drug overdose. It would probably become the leading cause of death very quickly.
In my country 40K fiction is almost unknow and books about it no where to be found, only way is to learn what we can throught the web, so thanks for all the lore video.
Be mindful. Much of the lore is deliberately left ambiguous so that players can craft their own. A lot of it is speculation (deliberately) and unless you mess with the major players and events, you are pretty much free to do whatever you like.
Not sure in agree that the Necron are "even more limited in number than the Eldar" Last two Necron codex started there are billions of Necrons across millions of tombs. Granted they aren't all active yet, but I think it's a safe bet they're already outnumbering the Eldar but a comfortable margin. Other than that very minor qualm, a superb video!
And the Eldar managed to wipe out a large amount of tombs during the Great Sleep, it was their primary task before they fell into decadence and couldn't be arsed hunting down the rest.
I wonder what pisses the Eldar off more. The fact that they're responsible for half of the Galaxy's troubles, or the fact that they've become utterly insignificant?
You think they will take responsibility for the things they f*cked up? it´s the fault of the others not theirs. They just were bored and nobody stopped them from murderfuck slaneesh into life. Basically Eldar are space elves femnazis. everybody is at fault and not their
Psychoangel Yeah, I know, but the thing is...at the bottom of their hearts, they know, they absolutely know it's entirely their fault. Otherwise they wouldn't have both 1) changed their entire lifestyle, 2) resumed being such arrogant pricks. MY biggest problem with the Eldar is that they're so, damned, meddlesome. They just won't, fucking, learn...will they? I mean...I guess, in the end, it's all just GW's terrible writing but they always end up making the situation much worse for everyone involved and much more likely to end up in failure for them.
The Crimson Fucker They arrogance never disappeared. They still think they are right (Because they are more "experienced" in everything) and everybody else is wrong
Couldn't the Eldar have lessened their boredom by seeking to conquer new galaxies? It might have at least prevented them from murder-fucking a Chaos god into existence.
Well, intergalactic travel is quite unfeasible in 40k. The Warp does not seem to extend beyond the galaxy (or maybe it exists as bubbles around all galaxies with creatures with souls) and the only ones who have ever travelled between galaxies are the Tyranids, on Necron Overlord (allegedly) and maybe the Old Ones
@@MythosTheSophist Technically, the Warp does connect everywhere in the universe. The real issue is that other galaxies are so far away that there is no real metric to figure out how to reach one safely. Also, the psychic nature of Eldar makes it significantly more dangerous for them to travel through the Warp than humans or orks.
The Space Wolves: All of the might and martial prowess of a Space Marine combined with a mentality similar to that of an Ork. As the Eldar learned, a potent combination.
+Sam T you know what's strange they are all so slender and pretty that if you placed one male and female beside one another they would look almost exactly the same
+OrthodoxGod The Craftworld Eldar are *Grey* if that makes any sense. They want to destroy the Great Enemy (What they call Chaos) but would gladly sacrifice millions of humans to save a single Eldar. Craftworld Ulthwé has worked with the Imperium from time to time, but the alliance is always short lived.
Nemo7The7Pirate7 it would have still happened,slaanesh is a god of sex first and foremost,and what is wanking off if not sexual congress with ones self?
this is why uploading is the way to go they could have indulged in all the sensation they pleased for eternity without having any influence on the warp and not need to wait to reincarnate
One of the biggest plot holes in 40k is that the Eldar Empire and the Human Dark Age of Technology coincide. And both were supposedly galaxy-spanning and supreme. Arch?
Do they really? From my understanding the Eldar Empire was a thing for millions of years, which degraded heavily towards the tail end. The entirety of the Human Dark/Golden age happened within in a single lifetime of a modern Eldar. It would be quite reasonable for the degraded Eldar of that period to not even notice the human expansion, or to simply not care about it.
eh human empire was already galaxy wide before the emperor so interactions may have happened but we would never know since well no real records of that exsists anymore of that time, but remember the human domain pre-emperor is much like us today so yeah we are more cooperative and diplomatic and less bloodthirsty that your post emperor empire who wants to slay anything xeno
I just don't get how the Eldar and Man could have overlapping superpowerful galactic empires. What with the Eldar herding every other race into "pockets" or "zoos" etc. This needs to be reconciled somehow.
dIRECT0R They did not have overlapping superpowerful empires. The golden age of man happened just as the Eldar were too busy destroying their own society. The Eldar were supreme for millions of years, the golden age of man was withing the last 5000-10000 years of their dominance a period in which they mostly spent time murdering each other in weird sex rituals or something.
I always marvel about that such a giant "universe" as Warhammer 40K only plays in a galaxy which is a rather small part of our entire universe.. same goes for Star Trek and Star Wars.. the only franchise I now that really goes beyond that galaxy thing is Stargate... and they only travel to Andromeda.. except for the ship called "Destiny" which literally dives into suns to reload making it basically unlimited amount of time able to travel.
Your videos got me through some tough times a few years ago and I'm sure you'll never see a comment on a video from five(ish) years ago but I feel like I should still thank you all the same for the content, when your channel got hacked I was devastated, the thought that someone who had been such a large part of my life for so long could have been gone so abruptly SUCKED. But you're back and still going strong and praise the immortal Emperor for that. Thank you Arch, stay golden.
oh ya there is a massive demon army held in this artifact, but we're not going to tell you how to stop it or what kind of demons your chaos enemy is trying to summon. No no were just going to attack you because in you trying to beat the shit out f the smallish chaos SM lead warband at the door, you unwittingly let them out by killing enough of the enemy the sacrifice is still made . ugh anoying elves breaking the the universe every chance they get
+Genetic Heresy well, we, humans, genocided, plagued and schemed THREE chaos gods into existance, and unlike Eldar many of us willingly serve those chaos gods, so i doubt we have any say about that matter
+Waristheonlyanswer Not at all acording to the lore they were around more than 60 millions years before us. I understand the warp can be somewhat elastic but they were walled off bye the old ones eons before our ancestors evolved.
45:00 I get the feeling the imperium could be persuaded to come to the table with the eldar but they would have some hefty demands, not entirely unreasonable I should think but the eldar would never accept them. the biggest being that the Imperium would absolutely require whichever craftworld they were dealing with to cease any and all attacks on the imperium, direct or otherwise, in exchange for ignoring the settlements on the maiden world. This demand isn't really that unreasonable in my opinion but there would no doubt be several others the imperium would make, and thats IF they even entered into negotiations at all, the eldar would have to propose any meeting since the imperium can hardly call them up. ultimately the eldars pride is their worst enemy and greatest weakness.
That's quite clever as "the lost" are the exact kind of eldar that would have gone way to far with the pleasure cults, now instead the harms caused by their obsessive energies are contained.
I could listen to this stuff for hours! Never have I found a fantasy subject that interested me as much as the Eldar and Dark Eldar. Such a fascinating story and their complex history really is something to dive into and appreciate. Whoever came up with it all is a highly creative genius! Thanks for uploading and writing these. :)
Also, there is a theory that as the Eldar slowly fade away and die, that when the last Eldar dies, new Eldar god of death will arise and defeat Slaanesh, saving their souls.
***** Well, it's kinda confusing but in there is a theory some Inquisitors hold that there are certain immortal individuals in the galaxy called Sensei who hold a fragment of the Emperor's power, and if they're sacrificed when the Emperor dies (I hope the Inqusition isn't reading this *looks around nervously*), then the Emperor will either be reborn to his full glory or become a proper god and defeat Chaos. Naturally, it's considered absolute heresy by most of the Imperium though.
+Genetic Heresy There's a number of different theories floating around the Imperium (all of which are viewed as heretical by at least one part of the Ecclesiarchy and Inquisition). Guderian mentioned one that has a (small) number of followers within the Inquisition. The one that you were asking about is one that seems like it would be associated with the Machine Cult (hence the "omnissiah" part). In short, the Imperium is so vast that there are probably hundreds of different theories (each with thousands or even millions of followers) that are still in the minority when compared to the official Imperial Cult.
Bregil You gotta love a setting in which 38,000 years in the future you can be burned at the stake for believing a machine runs by scientific principles and not magic/faith. I love 40k.
+Bregil the funny thing about the machine god is that his followers don't even know how to make thing they just prey and it just works like the waage if i spelled that right
+Heinz Guderian Do Humans also go to the Warp when _they_ die? Doesn't the Dark Age of Technology overlap with the galactic domination of the Eldar Empire? How is that reconciled?
Space Knife-Ears gonna space knife-ear. This vid is going in the boo-wait, shit there's no Book of Grudges in the grimdarkness of the 41st millennium... Uhhh, I got nothing
@@emanuelpetreski4561 if you think only no life virgins are into 40k, than why are you here? If your correct, than the only possibility is YOU are also a no life virgin.
I think it's important to note that it was specifically the ancestors of the Dark Eldar that birthed Slaanesh, with the ancestors of craftworld Eldar choosing to reject the hedonistic ways of their kin. So Craftworld Eldar always had a stick up their asses, and Dark Eldar where always psychotic coomers.
42:57 ______Eldar: "We are the greatest race there ever was or ever will be. With this Maiden World we will begin anew and retake the galaxy from the pathetic Mon-keigh and... _*_shit."_* Imperium: *_" That's right, bitch. E X T E R M I N A T U S."_*
Eldar Farseer: "Monkheigh, your species will one day fall, and when this day comes, we will retake our rightful place as the dominant power of the stars" Imperial Guard General: "Yeah, we can fall, but at least we can gladly go without the weight of being the ones who LITERALLY MURDERFUCKED a 'god' into existence" Eldar Farseer: "...that's hurtful, Monkheigh" Imperial Guard General: "Suck it, pointy-eared princess."
I really like your videos. Gives me material for comparison with my knowledge of StarCraft lore. By the way, you talked about how most other races view the Eldar, but left out one. What are the relations between the Eldar and the Tau currently in the universe's timeline?
The two haven't had any major interactions.. But the eldar would believe the tau and their greater good to be naive.. But they really haven't met canonically.
+The Warden Taking into account what Arch said in a previous video, the Tau are the most diplomatic amongst the races and being more advanced than the rest. Wouldn't the Eldar be a bit more tolerant to them, enough to "strike a bargain" with them where the Tau help the Eldan protect a Maiden World from the other races until the Eldan get their civilization back on its feet?
helldrake77777 no... Eldar would immediately believe that the disbelief in daemons is what caused the daemons and therefore the tau need to be destroyed.. Eldar think like billion year old crazy shitheads that can't die.. Because, yaknow they are.
GirlyCat9001 Only ones I can think of are dow dark crusade and dow soulstorm. And they dont really get on too well. Tau being brain washed bluebarry apes after all. Granted perverted space elves arent too much better.
Depends on the faction. The Craftworld Eldar have mostly avoidet them, ignored them, or are unaware of them. The Harlequins don't care for them and you can bet your ass that the Exodites have no idea what a Tau is.Now, the Dark Eldar on the other Hand have had their fun Messing with the poor blueberries. They basicly offered them help against the Nids, and then brought up the idea of a "cultural exchange" .The Tau send 77 members of each caste and 7 Etherials to Commoragh. Aaaand, in typical asshole Dark Eldar Fashion, they turned them into Grotesques and sent them back to the Tau as "backup troops".
@@draochvar9646 And then went to the Kroot homeworld, taking thousands of the plant-looking dudes because they found their ability to steal DNA through consumed flesh to be very interesting.
well done sir. The Eldar lore has always confused me, but your video has really educated me on the matter. all the other videos and even the wiki have not been able to effectively explain the lore of the Eldar as you have been able to
I find the potential of Eldar/Tau dynamics intensely fascinating. Perhaps the latter originated as an Old One's attempt to better craft something similar to their prior mistake.
You ask what would be gained from eliminating them? Well what caused the age of strife in the first place? I even think the Emperor meant the webway project not just as a means to end our warp reliance but also as poetic revenge as we gain the opportunity wipe the eldar out.
Arch could you please talk with Vaults of terra to ask what he will be doing next so you two can both do a different subject. i love the 40k lore videos but there are so few that i would find it very sad if you would just be doing the same stuff
+TheRWS96 ehhhhh.... i think our styles are sufficiently different to make even the same topic 2 unique things. He is much more of a facts and information person while i try to keep more of a casual conversationalist tone in my videos.
that is true but i would like more warhammer 40k information and bothe of you well.. turn out not so many videos. i know that it tkaes a lot of work to make these vidoes but when there is a posibliaty i woul like more lore. one way or the other im looking forward to your next vidoe
Agreeing with Arch here. The styles are SO different......I think Vaults of Terra is like...a teacher. Tells you a lot of Information about something. Arch is more like the guy you meet in the bar who knows a lot of stuff about a topic and then just starts babbling and ...babbling and...babbling about it. And i cannot imagine VoT ever saying "murderfucking" XD
Oh there's plenty of lore mate :) But: what i can only recommend if you want the -good- lore is to get your hands on old codices and the like. Specially the old orc things are just plain hilarious. You'll find pdf copies of things like "ere we go" or "Waaagh da Orks", the rulebooks of the Rogue Trader Era on the interwebs with only a few minutes of effort. And specially 'waaagh da orks" was purely a fluffbook from what i can remember. Oh..and do yourself a favor and look up the rogue trader rules for the shockattackgun..you'll laugh yourself to bits! :P
the eldar are the reason that my guard regiment starts all campaigns with massed bombardment and orbital fire on any and all possible targets they ambushed me one too many times now every one pays the price
If the imperium were really smart about this, they'd look at any Eldar activity in the sector and when a planetary governor was assassinated, they'd make sure that his successor was exactly like him and followed his plans, throwing a wrench in the Eldar's works and discouraging further assassinations
My biggest problem with the Eldar in 40K is if they are so advance and wish to preserve more of their numbers, why are their troops not in a powered suit that would put the Tau and Space Marines suits to shame? The Eldar should also employ more drones that would put the Tau's to shame as well. In reality any Eldar soldier should be in an armored suit that's as tough as a terminator suit but can move like a Swooping Hawk or Warp Spider and carry hefty firepower, while commanding a small group of drones. If the Eldar had a force like this they'd be a much more serious threat to any army.
4:48 I bet the Eldar don't cringe anywhere _near_ as hard at our language as 2022 Arch would at hearing his own language back when this was produced.😂😂😂 Be nice if this was updated a bit but the original here should never ever be forgotten.😎
They had an apocalypse, just like humans with the Iron Men. Yet humans retained a bigger, more prosperous empire (yeah, standards are that low). Arrogance cost them everything, yet for all their discipline, they never conquered the source of their woes.
Altrantis in the words of the god emperor himself "it's okay sonny,if she does not return your advances then clearly she does not deserve your attention...take it from someone who most likely ravaged her great great great great(five hundred "greats" later)grandmother"
I think the Eldar models need to be updated. They should be taller and their helmets should be made without eyes/faces like those of a Spiritseer or Phantom Lord. Their technology is beyond two red glowing leses like those of the primitive mon-keigh. Also their vehicles need a complete overhaul (they look half-backed like a 2nd generation Carnifex compared to a 4th generation).
+Commissar_Dan They don't. Eldars move fast enough to just not get hit at all most times just forget about hitting an Eldars eye with those flashlights... and those primitive plasmaweapons blow up in those imperial hands rather than killing an enemy :P
Some correction is due: Other races, including humans, were using warp travel before the fall of Eldar civilization. The Age of Technology in human history, in which humans spread throughout the galaxy and developed all of their technology (which they would later forget their understanding of), all occurred before the birth of Slaanesh and the effect it had on the Warp. The very same warp storms that were created by this event, isolated human worlds from each other and were thereby instrumental in causing human interstellar civilization to descend into the Age of Strife.
i love playing as the eldar in dawn of war i like cloaking my buildings and hiding my army in the web way and sending my bone singer out to build more web ways around the map so i can appear and disappear were ever and when ever i want it's really fun
+SuperBadadan Indeed, and yet you have to admit that outcome is completely intentional. They were specifically designed (in a non-lore sense) to be the ultimate guerrilla fighters.
+MrAwsomenoob my favorite factions in this game were always the adeptus sororitas (because tons of flame throwers) and the Tau(holy mother of fire power)
5:48 only one way to see if that is true, we need one eldar, hell make it a farseer, the imperium is generous after all, and 1000 guardsmen on an open field. whoever wins is worth more than the other. all faithful citizens of the imperium can expect complimentary popcorn as well as butter annointed popcorn to watch the proceedings, "Go humans!" T-shirts can be purchased in the gift shop.
It's a pity that The Emperor didn't finish the Golden Throne. A human invasion and eventual takeover of the Webway would have been absolutely glorious!
They technically rule the Warp in its entirety, but they each have a separate realm, for example, Nurgle’s realm consists of a rotten forest made from every single contagion that has ever existed. The Warp kinda extends everywhere, but since reality is nonexistent, you can travel for a thousand years only to go about ten feet further in the real world.
48:19 the eldar never use the tyrannids. even THEY aren't that fucking stupid, to my knowledge only Inquisitor Kryptmann has ever attempted to use them in a manner similar to that the eldar employ lesser races in their schemes. He did this by capturing genestealers, sealing them on some hulks and sending those ships into ork occupied space. It worked...sorta. the tyrannids and orks were beating each other bloody for ages but the problem is that whichever side came out of it would be stronger than before, according to cannon this mess has since been cleaned up thanks to the intervention of the eldar who wiped out many embattled worlds from orbit (eldar exterminatus is apparently a thing) and believe it or not I think Ghazkull who apparently decided it would be fun to krump some nids
The birth of Slaanesh can be summed up as "Well that escalated quickly."
'I swear that's never happened before."-Eldar orgy attendee
''FUCK'' being screamed really really loudly summarises it quite well too.
"Fuck it.......literally"
"Murderfucked into existence" is my favourite explanation.
Eldar Craftworld: "I'll get my coat"
Eldar History can be summed up as one massive case of 'Oops'.
While being in the middle of the act.
Moris Kurth or one big case of "well shit"
Moris Kurth or I forgot to pull out
This seem to be a common theme with elves. Somewhere in their history they blew up the world...
God damn Elves, creating the god of surprise bu-
Degresse McFallagan How did it feel.
Painful
Degresse McFallagan this is why we wear steel underpants in the 17th legion my son
@Dylan Harshman *Dun Dunnnn*
you mean the Mighty Jignles ?
He is a God of suprise butsex :D
a faster metabolism should make you live way less, not longer.
that's why dogs live 7x shorter lives than we do, and turtles can live for hundreds of years.
Normally yes, but advanced medicine and genetic tweaking would be able to make this irrellevant, and that's not even taking whatever they can do with their psychic powers
You are all wrong, metabolism and lifespan are not directly related. The main reason for aging on earth are the telomeres.
I am not going to explain it for you but google exists.
Faster isnt exactly correct, more efficient is more correct so metabolism occurs quicker but not because cardiac output. Their systems are better.
@@jonahhembach7765 I don't think you meant that telomeres themselves are responsible for aging, but telomeres shortening during the cell division process. And even then you are not correct. Degrading telomeres are just ONE of the dozens upon dozens of factors that contribute to aging. Mutations that happen to chromosomes outside of telomeres are just one such factor.
Shhhhh, GW don't understand biology, ignore reality.
"We are a broken reflection of the eldar, and the eldar hate that."
Spoken well. Ty for making these lore videos, Arch! ☺
*Human Scientists:* "We might have found a way to make people near immortal."
*Me thinking about the Eldar:* "How about no?"
Immortality only sounds fun until you realize the human population will explode like the Big Bang.
Just use a suppression field like in Half-Life 2 or special drugs to make people temporarily sterile until our population gets too low.
@@robertnelson9599 Sounds great for nations with low birth rates.
@@robertnelson9599 I mean if you can increase the standard of living the birth rate tends to go down (if you're sure you can successfully raise a child to adulthood to continue the family, no real reason to make extra just in case), if people were immortal we might just reach a stable population, of course if the population never goes down because of immortality it would just go up, but I could see some people choosing to die after a couple hundred years to just to see what comes next.
@@somerandomschmuck2547 even if humans became biologically immortal they'd still die of accidents, murder, starvation, the elements and so on. Probably of drug overdose. It would probably become the leading cause of death very quickly.
In my country 40K fiction is almost unknow and books about it no where to be found, only way is to learn what we can throught the web, so thanks for all the lore video.
BoB Jones Same in my country
Be mindful. Much of the lore is deliberately left ambiguous so that players can craft their own. A lot of it is speculation (deliberately) and unless you mess with the major players and events, you are pretty much free to do whatever you like.
that's how it is in most countries. Even in Norway where Arch lives.
@RLS0812 what noon binnt moi moi
This is why we need to fight for our right to be nerds
"well si**" - some random eldar approximately 0.5 seconds before getting fu**** by slannesh
These should be renamed "Bedtime Stories with Uncle Arch"
Not sure in agree that the Necron are "even more limited in number than the Eldar"
Last two Necron codex started there are billions of Necrons across millions of tombs. Granted they aren't all active yet, but I think it's a safe bet they're already outnumbering the Eldar but a comfortable margin.
Other than that very minor qualm, a superb video!
Lee Jenkins a lot of them are basiclly useless a.k.a without higher brain functions or very damaged
And the Eldar managed to wipe out a large amount of tombs during the Great Sleep, it was their primary task before they fell into decadence and couldn't be arsed hunting down the rest.
I wonder what pisses the Eldar off more. The fact that they're responsible for half of the Galaxy's troubles, or the fact that they've become utterly insignificant?
You think they will take responsibility for the things they f*cked up?
it´s the fault of the others not theirs. They just were bored and nobody stopped them from murderfuck slaneesh into life.
Basically Eldar are space elves femnazis. everybody is at fault and not their
Psychoangel
Yeah, I know, but the thing is...at the bottom of their hearts, they know, they absolutely know it's entirely their fault. Otherwise they wouldn't have both 1) changed their entire lifestyle, 2) resumed being such arrogant pricks.
MY biggest problem with the Eldar is that they're so, damned, meddlesome. They just won't, fucking, learn...will they? I mean...I guess, in the end, it's all just GW's terrible writing but they always end up making the situation much worse for everyone involved and much more likely to end up in failure for them.
The Crimson Fucker They arrogance never disappeared. They still think they are right (Because they are more "experienced" in everything) and everybody else is wrong
The Crimson Fucker f*ck that throw the void dragon at them...
Psychoangel Yup! The Machine God approves of this plan!
Couldn't the Eldar have lessened their boredom by seeking to conquer new galaxies? It might have at least prevented them from murder-fucking a Chaos god into existence.
Carl Bates that would've just led to a universe wide orgy
Well, intergalactic travel is quite unfeasible in 40k. The Warp does not seem to extend beyond the galaxy (or maybe it exists as bubbles around all galaxies with creatures with souls) and the only ones who have ever travelled between galaxies are the Tyranids, on Necron Overlord (allegedly) and maybe the Old Ones
So they would have Birthed Korn instead, and Humans would be the ones with the reputation for being nasty coomers for birthing Slaanesh...
@@MythosTheSophist Technically, the Warp does connect everywhere in the universe. The real issue is that other galaxies are so far away that there is no real metric to figure out how to reach one safely. Also, the psychic nature of Eldar makes it significantly more dangerous for them to travel through the Warp than humans or orks.
@@patrickbuckley7259 But Eldar wargod Khaine already existed that is supposed to be different from khorne
"The most diplomatically minded of space marines": Even pre heresy that's an oxymoron. Space marines are little more than an unlocked loaded gun.
The Space Wolves: All of the might and martial prowess of a Space Marine combined with a mentality similar to that of an Ork. As the Eldar learned, a potent combination.
Is it weird I just refer to Eldar as "arrogant pricks" and Dark Eldar as "evil pricks"? xD
+OrthodoxGod I would put it up as an accomplishment of the Eldar that all genders and factions of them are considered pricks :)
Sam T xD
+Sam T you know what's strange they are all so slender and pretty that if you placed one male and female beside one another they would look almost exactly the same
+OrthodoxGod Really? I just call them frilly pantied space racists
+OrthodoxGod The Craftworld Eldar are *Grey* if that makes any sense. They want to destroy the Great Enemy (What they call Chaos) but would gladly sacrifice millions of humans to save a single Eldar. Craftworld Ulthwé has worked with the Imperium from time to time, but the alliance is always short lived.
If only Eldar had internet, they might never birthed Slaanesh.
Nemo7The7Pirate7 it would have still happened,slaanesh is a god of sex first and foremost,and what is wanking off if not sexual congress with ones self?
James.T .Adams
if you say so.
wouldn't it be worse? Tinder much?
No way, man, those Eldar are not easy to please; those spiritual beings don't have minds that small.
this is why uploading is the way to go they could have indulged in all the sensation they pleased for eternity without having any influence on the warp and not need to wait to reincarnate
Awesome thanks , was suffering from lore withdrawal symptoms until this video.
+George Lorenzen let the weekend begin
Amen Amen
George L r
One of the biggest plot holes in 40k is that the Eldar Empire and the Human Dark Age of Technology coincide. And both were supposedly galaxy-spanning and supreme. Arch?
before the emperor humans were more willing to cooperate after the emperor slaughter of xeno is everything
Do they really? From my understanding the Eldar Empire was a thing for millions of years, which degraded heavily towards the tail end. The entirety of the Human Dark/Golden age happened within in a single lifetime of a modern Eldar.
It would be quite reasonable for the degraded Eldar of that period to not even notice the human expansion, or to simply not care about it.
eh human empire was already galaxy wide before the emperor so interactions may have happened but we would never know since well no real records of that exsists anymore of that time, but remember the human domain pre-emperor is much like us today so yeah we are more cooperative and diplomatic and less bloodthirsty that your post emperor empire who wants to slay anything xeno
I just don't get how the Eldar and Man could have overlapping superpowerful galactic empires. What with the Eldar herding every other race into "pockets" or "zoos" etc. This needs to be reconciled somehow.
dIRECT0R They did not have overlapping superpowerful empires.
The golden age of man happened just as the Eldar were too busy destroying their own society. The Eldar were supreme for millions of years, the golden age of man was withing the last 5000-10000 years of their dominance a period in which they mostly spent time murdering each other in weird sex rituals or something.
Diplomatically minded Space Marine ....
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
Well there's that Chaos Space Marine that's a brutal Chaos Champion, he was supposedly very calm and collected individual during his loyalist days.
+majormajorasic Kharn?
Masterhand Don't know, it might be him.
Too many of them today to remember.
Masterhand Kharn is the voice of reason to Angron.
I'm sure the Dorn's angry boys consider a bullet to the head diplomacy, so there's that.
When I see an Elder, I quickly call for artillery strikes.
Give this guardsmen a medal!
I like the Eldar way of war, surgical strikes at what fuels the enemy and cut off the head of the beast
I always marvel about that such a giant "universe" as Warhammer 40K only plays in a galaxy which is a rather small part of our entire universe.. same goes for Star Trek and Star Wars.. the only franchise I now that really goes beyond that galaxy thing is Stargate... and they only travel to Andromeda.. except for the ship called "Destiny" which literally dives into suns to reload making it basically unlimited amount of time able to travel.
Eldar: When you shit your bed so spectacularly that it stains every bed in the galaxy.
Your videos got me through some tough times a few years ago and I'm sure you'll never see a comment on a video from five(ish) years ago but I feel like I should still thank you all the same for the content, when your channel got hacked I was devastated, the thought that someone who had been such a large part of my life for so long could have been gone so abruptly SUCKED. But you're back and still going strong and praise the immortal Emperor for that. Thank you Arch, stay golden.
These videos keep me going fam
Hey, I saw this comment fam.
You aren’t alone and I’m sure he appreciates it.
Some Craftworlds are as big as planets, even stars.
Slaanesh be like "Surprise Butt Sechz"
Yes, there is nothing like being fucked by a daemonette just before being ripped into pieces.
Fuckin space elves...
oh ya
there is a massive demon army held in this artifact, but we're not going to tell you how to stop it or what kind of demons your chaos enemy is trying to summon. No no were just going to attack you because in you trying to beat the shit out f the smallish chaos SM lead warband at the door, you unwittingly let them out by killing enough of the enemy the sacrifice is still made .
ugh anoying elves breaking the the universe every chance they get
+Genetic Heresy well, we, humans, genocided, plagued and schemed THREE chaos gods into existance, and unlike Eldar many of us willingly serve those chaos gods, so i doubt we have any say about that matter
+Genetic Heresy still from the facts we did like 90% of the 3 and like 10% at least of slaanesh :D
+Waristheonlyanswer Not at all acording to the lore they were around more than 60 millions years before us. I understand the warp can be somewhat elastic but they were walled off bye the old ones eons before our ancestors evolved.
+Genetic Heresy They didn't bring a chaos god into existence, they just gave her... he? it power.
I always like coming back to these older videos.
Man your audio quality really has improved since these old videos.
I wonder what kind of relations did humans have with the eldar during the golden age of technology, when humanity was at the edge of transcendence.
45:00 I get the feeling the imperium could be persuaded to come to the table with the eldar but they would have some hefty demands, not entirely unreasonable I should think but the eldar would never accept them. the biggest being that the Imperium would absolutely require whichever craftworld they were dealing with to cease any and all attacks on the imperium, direct or otherwise, in exchange for ignoring the settlements on the maiden world. This demand isn't really that unreasonable in my opinion but there would no doubt be several others the imperium would make, and thats IF they even entered into negotiations at all, the eldar would have to propose any meeting since the imperium can hardly call them up. ultimately the eldars pride is their worst enemy and greatest weakness.
May be 3 years late, but the effort put into your comment deserves a like ^^
Who else can't imagine Slaanesh as non other, than a hugely endowed futa?
You just know that Slaanesh in human form would be a hermaphrodite Astolfo.
37:36 Call of Duty: Eldar Warfare
***** 25
***** eww I hope that shit doesn't happen. Cod and ea must die at some point!
+Genetic Heresy xD just...than you for posting that
+The Warden ea and cod are like roaches they don't die....
+Sultan Ehm Eldar are far more careful with their lives then a call of duty player ever would, usually.
My favorite arch quote this episode: "poo flinging baboon high on LSD" :D
That's quite clever as "the lost" are the exact kind of eldar that would have gone way to far with the pleasure cults, now instead the harms caused by their obsessive energies are contained.
I could listen to this stuff for hours! Never have I found a fantasy subject that interested me as much as the Eldar and Dark Eldar. Such a fascinating story and their complex history really is something to dive into and appreciate. Whoever came up with it all is a highly creative genius! Thanks for uploading and writing these. :)
I'd totally be down to converse with an LSD laced chimp whenever it wanted.
Also, there is a theory that as the Eldar slowly fade away and die, that when the last Eldar dies, new Eldar god of death will arise and defeat Slaanesh, saving their souls.
***** Well, it's kinda confusing but in there is a theory some Inquisitors hold that there are certain immortal individuals in the galaxy called Sensei who hold a fragment of the Emperor's power, and if they're sacrificed when the Emperor dies (I hope the Inqusition isn't reading this *looks around nervously*), then the Emperor will either be reborn to his full glory or become a proper god and defeat Chaos. Naturally, it's considered absolute heresy by most of the Imperium though.
+Genetic Heresy There's a number of different theories floating around the Imperium (all of which are viewed as heretical by at least one part of the Ecclesiarchy and Inquisition). Guderian mentioned one that has a (small) number of followers within the Inquisition. The one that you were asking about is one that seems like it would be associated with the Machine Cult (hence the "omnissiah" part). In short, the Imperium is so vast that there are probably hundreds of different theories (each with thousands or even millions of followers) that are still in the minority when compared to the official Imperial Cult.
Bregil You gotta love a setting in which 38,000 years in the future you can be burned at the stake for believing a machine runs by scientific principles and not magic/faith. I love 40k.
+Bregil the funny thing about the machine god is that his followers don't even know how to make thing they just prey and it just works like the waage if i spelled that right
+Heinz Guderian Do Humans also go to the Warp when _they_ die?
Doesn't the Dark Age of Technology overlap with the galactic domination of the Eldar Empire? How is that reconciled?
Yay! Eldar! They are a favorite of the Magos Biologis I am assigned to. And a favorite of my... own... for different reasons.
... heresy?
oh and the fact they may foresee my bombardment is not a problem only victory is and a victory at any cost is still a victory
It doesn’t matter if they can predict your artillery if you shell out the whole area.
Utterly insignificant from what they once were.
Poetic.
Space Knife-Ears gonna space knife-ear. This vid is going in the boo-wait, shit there's no Book of Grudges in the grimdarkness of the 41st millennium...
Uhhh, I got nothing
+Spyder3107 The Vox-recorder of Grudges, maybe?
the book of grudges? theres two that i know of, Gullimons got one and so does Lorgar :/
Sooooo the eldar are a fallen race of space elves that get bored quite easily and OCD times 10.
Perfect while painting my army, thanks Arch
Francil K you need a girlfriend and a life
@@emanuelpetreski4561 ah yes the internet troll
@@emanuelpetreski4561 if you think only no life virgins are into 40k, than why are you here? If your correct, than the only possibility is YOU are also a no life virgin.
I think it's important to note that it was specifically the ancestors of the Dark Eldar that birthed Slaanesh, with the ancestors of craftworld Eldar choosing to reject the hedonistic ways of their kin. So Craftworld Eldar always had a stick up their asses, and Dark Eldar where always psychotic coomers.
42:57 ______Eldar: "We are the greatest race there ever was or ever will be. With this Maiden World we will begin anew and retake the galaxy from the pathetic Mon-keigh and... _*_shit."_*
Imperium: *_" That's right, bitch. E X T E R M I N A T U S."_*
Eldar, what a creative name to use for these guys
It's more creative than the Ultramarines granted Ultramarines is a much catchier name
Eldar Farseer: "Monkheigh, your species will one day fall, and when this day comes, we will retake our rightful place as the dominant power of the stars"
Imperial Guard General: "Yeah, we can fall, but at least we can gladly go without the weight of being the ones who LITERALLY MURDERFUCKED a 'god' into existence"
Eldar Farseer: "...that's hurtful, Monkheigh"
Imperial Guard General: "Suck it, pointy-eared princess."
Still a better love story than Twilight.
people say they wouldnt want to live in the 40k universe, but i would want to live as an eldar before the fall of the empire
Oh come on, we all know that space marines are secretly getting eldar booty.
I really like your videos. Gives me material for comparison with my knowledge of StarCraft lore. By the way, you talked about how most other races view the Eldar, but left out one. What are the relations between the Eldar and the Tau currently in the universe's timeline?
The two haven't had any major interactions.. But the eldar would believe the tau and their greater good to be naive.. But they really haven't met canonically.
+The Warden Aha. Thank you sir.
helldrake77777 notta problem! Still speculation as the two sadly haven't met..
+The Warden Taking into account what Arch said in a previous video, the Tau are the most diplomatic amongst the races and being more advanced than the rest. Wouldn't the Eldar be a bit more tolerant to them, enough to "strike a bargain" with them where the Tau help the Eldan protect a Maiden World from the other races until the Eldan get their civilization back on its feet?
helldrake77777 no... Eldar would immediately believe that the disbelief in daemons is what caused the daemons and therefore the tau need to be destroyed.. Eldar think like billion year old crazy shitheads that can't die.. Because, yaknow they are.
Arch, one question: Have the Eldar come across the Tau in any large numbers, as in, conflicts?
GirlyCat9001 Only ones I can think of are dow dark crusade and dow soulstorm. And they dont really get on too well. Tau being brain washed bluebarry apes after all. Granted perverted space elves arent too much better.
Depends on the faction. The Craftworld Eldar have mostly avoidet them, ignored them, or are unaware of them. The Harlequins don't care for them and you can bet your ass that the Exodites have no idea what a Tau is.Now, the Dark Eldar on the other Hand have had their fun Messing with the poor blueberries. They basicly offered them help against the Nids, and then brought up the idea of a "cultural exchange" .The Tau send 77 members of each caste and 7 Etherials to Commoragh. Aaaand, in typical asshole Dark Eldar Fashion, they turned them into Grotesques and sent them back to the Tau as "backup troops".
@@draochvar9646 they asked for ethereals after the second swap I think but I know they didn't actually give any of the ethereals over
There hasn't been any major contact yet.
@@draochvar9646 And then went to the Kroot homeworld, taking thousands of the plant-looking dudes because they found their ability to steal DNA through consumed flesh to be very interesting.
The Eldar are my favorite race. They have the most potential in the grand scheme of things.
after skaven they are my favorite too of the games workshop races.
well done sir. The Eldar lore has always confused me, but your video has really educated me on the matter. all the other videos and even the wiki have not been able to effectively explain the lore of the Eldar as you have been able to
I find the potential of Eldar/Tau dynamics intensely fascinating. Perhaps the latter originated as an Old One's attempt to better craft something similar to their prior mistake.
I think Tau are the old ones reborn?
You ask what would be gained from eliminating them? Well what caused the age of strife in the first place? I even think the Emperor meant the webway project not just as a means to end our warp reliance but also as poetic revenge as we gain the opportunity wipe the eldar out.
that dark angel vs eldar artwork though(dark angels fan here) absolutely a very good video as well, loved it.
restoring the eldar empire... so much yes... I guess there's nothing wrong in dreaming.
Arch could you please talk with Vaults of terra to ask what he will be doing next so you two can both do a different subject. i love the 40k lore videos but there are so few that i would find it very sad if you would just be doing the same stuff
+TheRWS96 ehhhhh.... i think our styles are sufficiently different to make even the same topic 2 unique things. He is much more of a facts and information person while i try to keep more of a casual conversationalist tone in my videos.
that is true but i would like more warhammer 40k information and bothe of you well.. turn out not so many videos. i know that it tkaes a lot of work to make these vidoes but when there is a posibliaty i woul like more lore.
one way or the other im looking forward to your next vidoe
Agreeing with Arch here. The styles are SO different......I think Vaults of Terra is like...a teacher. Tells you a lot of Information about something. Arch is more like the guy you meet in the bar who knows a lot of stuff about a topic and then just starts babbling and ...babbling and...babbling about it.
And i cannot imagine VoT ever saying "murderfucking" XD
That is true, but still i would love to have more Warhammer 40K Lore.
Oh there's plenty of lore mate :) But: what i can only recommend if you want the -good- lore is to get your hands on old codices and the like. Specially the old orc things are just plain hilarious. You'll find pdf copies of things like "ere we go" or "Waaagh da Orks", the rulebooks of the Rogue Trader Era on the interwebs with only a few minutes of effort. And specially 'waaagh da orks" was purely a fluffbook from what i can remember.
Oh..and do yourself a favor and look up the rogue trader rules for the shockattackgun..you'll laugh yourself to bits! :P
the eldar are the reason that my guard regiment starts all campaigns with massed bombardment and orbital fire on any and all possible targets they ambushed me one too many times now every one pays the price
If the imperium were really smart about this, they'd look at any Eldar activity in the sector and when a planetary governor was assassinated, they'd make sure that his successor was exactly like him and followed his plans, throwing a wrench in the Eldar's works and discouraging further assassinations
After the second governor and the announcement of the Third the Eldar would start targeting the Inquisitor messing with the farseers plan
My biggest problem with the Eldar in 40K is if they are so advance and wish to preserve more of their numbers, why are their troops not in a powered suit that would put the Tau and Space Marines suits to shame? The Eldar should also employ more drones that would put the Tau's to shame as well.
In reality any Eldar soldier should be in an armored suit that's as tough as a terminator suit but can move like a Swooping Hawk or Warp Spider and carry hefty firepower, while commanding a small group of drones. If the Eldar had a force like this they'd be a much more serious threat to any army.
What of the Dark, Exodite, and Corsair Eldar? Would probably make a good video idea... Just saying.
4:48 I bet the Eldar don't cringe anywhere _near_ as hard at our language as 2022 Arch would at hearing his own language back when this was produced.😂😂😂 Be nice if this was updated a bit but the original here should never ever be forgotten.😎
Lmao that lsd comment was strangly specific ;)
This was very good. Thank you. I'm looking forward to more lore-videos.
I see Arch has been cultivating his magnificent accent since these old videos.
23:40 Galactic drinking binge, i had to lol at that one
They had an apocalypse, just like humans with the Iron Men. Yet humans retained a bigger, more prosperous empire (yeah, standards are that low). Arrogance cost them everything, yet for all their discipline, they never conquered the source of their woes.
36:04 I think I may be an eldar, guys.
+Altrantis Quick! Go breed, make sure your intelligence past Down to the next generation!!!
Jasper Daugaard
I'm failing terribly at that. Much like the Eldar.
Altrantis in the words of the god emperor himself "it's okay sonny,if she does not return your advances then clearly she does not deserve your attention...take it from someone who most likely ravaged her great great great great(five hundred "greats" later)grandmother"
Warp spider
What a great way to start of the weekend thank you Arch! I absolute love these hour long lore videos.
I think the Eldar models need to be updated. They should be taller and their helmets should be made without eyes/faces like those of a Spiritseer or Phantom Lord. Their technology is beyond two red glowing leses like those of the primitive mon-keigh. Also their vehicles need a complete overhaul (they look half-backed like a 2nd generation Carnifex compared to a 4th generation).
Green stuff it.
+Commissar_Dan They don't. Eldars move fast enough to just not get hit at all most times just forget about hitting an Eldars eye with those flashlights... and those primitive plasmaweapons blow up in those imperial hands rather than killing an enemy :P
I have always liked the mon keigh wordplay. Heard it first in dawn of war 1. I was like: wait did he just call us monkeys?
If Eldars were to be realistic.... babyboomers.
Some correction is due: Other races, including humans, were using warp travel before the fall of Eldar civilization. The Age of Technology in human history, in which humans spread throughout the galaxy and developed all of their technology (which they would later forget their understanding of), all occurred before the birth of Slaanesh and the effect it had on the Warp. The very same warp storms that were created by this event, isolated human worlds from each other and were thereby instrumental in causing human interstellar civilization to descend into the Age of Strife.
Ork war boy: "Eldar breaks easy!" Do orks next!!!!!
please do more Eldar lore. I really want to learn more and I like your way of explaining lore.
Eldar got bored? They seriously needed overpriced miniature board games and video content creators who talked about the lore of said miniatures.
I love Warhammer Fantasy and 40K lore,and you Arch recount it Wonderfully. Earned a Sub.
If this is how the warp work. If the emperor died would he be reincarnated as a god in the warp?
Sounds like Eldar minds are constantly on psilocybin mushrooms :-D
i love playing as the eldar in dawn of war i like cloaking my buildings and hiding my army in the web way and sending my bone singer out to build more web ways around the map so i can appear and disappear were ever and when ever i want it's really fun
+MrAwsomenoob Eldar are the most frustrating damn race to fight ever.
+SuperBadadan Indeed, and yet you have to admit that outcome is completely intentional. They were specifically designed (in a non-lore sense) to be the ultimate guerrilla fighters.
+MrAwsomenoob my favorite factions in this game were always the adeptus sororitas (because tons of flame throwers) and the Tau(holy mother of fire power)
+1stshockarmy you disgust me fucking tau
Tau next please Arch
+The Warden but the imperium has been done so this is not in age order I don't think
+Ramsay Bolton that would have made a lot of since
5:48 only one way to see if that is true, we need one eldar, hell make it a farseer, the imperium is generous after all, and 1000 guardsmen on an open field. whoever wins is worth more than the other. all faithful citizens of the imperium can expect complimentary popcorn as well as butter annointed popcorn to watch the proceedings, "Go humans!" T-shirts can be purchased in the gift shop.
2 words
Eldrich Storm.
I would just like to say, "Love Can Bloom" XD
It's a pity that The Emperor didn't finish the Golden Throne. A human invasion and eventual takeover of the Webway would have been absolutely glorious!
BigJay7410 atleast he still has his text to speech device!
Thank you for your great content. Your lore videos have given me quite a bit of fluff to put into my black crusade campaign.
Eldar helmets, Gnome cones.
Why are there suddenly tons of ads on this video? What happened?
so long story short
pleasure cults came to life because of boredom
Question.
Do chaos gods rule the universe or the galaxy only and how far does the warp extend?
They technically rule the Warp in its entirety, but they each have a separate realm, for example, Nurgle’s realm consists of a rotten forest made from every single contagion that has ever existed. The Warp kinda extends everywhere, but since reality is nonexistent, you can travel for a thousand years only to go about ten feet further in the real world.
Ah knife ears, excellent. But it's no longer Friday, where's my video Arch?
It's so cool that you are so objective and don't favor any faction above others. I learned some much needed details about my beloved people, thanks.
I hit like as soon as he said that if he made 1 massive video he wouldn't get enough ad revenue. You deserve a like for that honesty!
48:26 iyanden* those damn capital I's are so tricky i used to make that mistake a lot
48:19 the eldar never use the tyrannids. even THEY aren't that fucking stupid, to my knowledge only Inquisitor Kryptmann has ever attempted to use them in a manner similar to that the eldar employ lesser races in their schemes. He did this by capturing genestealers, sealing them on some hulks and sending those ships into ork occupied space. It worked...sorta. the tyrannids and orks were beating each other bloody for ages but the problem is that whichever side came out of it would be stronger than before, according to cannon this mess has since been cleaned up thanks to the intervention of the eldar who wiped out many embattled worlds from orbit (eldar exterminatus is apparently a thing) and believe it or not I think Ghazkull who apparently decided it would be fun to krump some nids
And Slaanesh isn't a diety, he's an omnipresent being.
My take away: The Vulcans are right.
Nice videos, man; you can tell by your intonation and knowledge that you're clearly passionate about 40k!
i love your style of fleshing out the lore. good job!
My Heresy detector is burning!!!!!!
sgtdragonfire sorry(says the word bearer while taking a sip of blood crust coffee)that would be me,communion wafer?,they are quite good with tea