They're in an active competition with the black Templars, meanwhile either of them have yet to truly realize that the necrons are kind of winning this out of sheer hubris
@@cthulhubecausewhynot1182 we weren't bringing fantasy into this, but yeah if we are they're up there Edit: although is it really racism if they treat every other thing including their own faction members the same way?
My favorite Craftworld is Iybraesil, a matriarchal Craftworld, it produces more Howling Banshees and female Autarchs than usual. It is also a minor Craftworld and thus G.W. mostly forgets it exists which is GOOD.
I think my favorite part about them is that they made legitimate friends with the Tallarn Desert Raiders. "We will purge those filthy humans from every maiden world until- oh hey, Abdul! Coming for lunch today?"
its hilarious. I am just imagining an Eldar going into a vehement racist rant against those damn humans. Then Abdul walks in, the eldar stops mid speech, and says "Hello friend!"
Important thing you missed: Biel-Tan has actually recovered alot numbers-wise because they've started to recruit from Exodite Worlds, which means they're actually doing alot to politically reunify the Eldar and actually using common sense to recover as a faction while maintaining their previous status-quo. One of the best parts about Biel-Tan is how, despite arguably being the worst Craftworld morally, their drive and obsession to reclaim the Empire makes them the most successful because they actually have hope and a vision for the future beyond mere survival.
The key of being a murder hobo is to always be on the move to avoid authorities. Beil tan being a whole frackin planet means they’re way ahead of everyone
My favourite Harlequin analogue for Biel-Tan has gotta be the Masque of the Frozen Stars. They can quite literally be described as "racist pranksters" whose entire modus operandi is trolling the other races of the galaxy. One of their best moments was that time their Shadowseers psychically projected the illusion of a maiden world onto a Star, getting an entire Hive Fleet to fly straight into it
Dawn of War is how I was introduced to these guys. I think this might be my favorite Craftworld. They're badass, they never let a defeat keep them down for long, and we fought side by side on Tartarus. And they're one of the most active lore-wise. "Attacking a Maiden World? Made the mistake of existing near Eldar in general? That was a mistake." If I ever get get Eldar models, these would be my Eldar. Glory to Khaine! Glory to the Eldar!
Aww the monkey is projecting again, how pathetic. All Aeldari are honest and will let you know exactly what they think of you. Now go back to being a de facto slave in a *hive* city, *insect.*
I mean a lot of the Aeldari are not really that racist, at least not beyond the extremely obvious sentiment of "we will always prioritise our own kind above any others" that isn't at all racist and is a natural and correct thought process in such a hostile galaxy - if you don't act that way, your species will die. The degree to which Aeldari are xenophobic is grossly exaggerated just because they're not humans. Sure, they'll make other species act as meat shields for them wherever possible, but that's hardly racist, that's wanting to protect your own species from dying when its continued survival is already uncertain. It's coldly utilitarian, not hateful or cruel. I think you can confidently say that the majority of Aeldari do not really hate humans (at least Asuryani and Exodites - Drukhari are a pretty hateful bunch). It's absolutely true that they generally have a low opinion of humanity, considering them annoying pests and dumb brutes who are easily corruptible, and who are more than a little disgusting and often get in the way. However, even by far the most racist and xenophobic Aeldari of Biel-Tan don't want to destroy humanity in principle, they are just willing to be exceptionally violent to reclaim what they believe is theirs, and they're willing to ally with humans on occasion. The Aeldari are the most intelligent species in 40k and are able to recognise that humanity is extremely diverse and that humans exist on a spectrum between good and evil. Humans can be wretched or noble, treacherous or loyal, enemies or allies. The Aeldari hate some humans, but they don't hate humanity, and have a lot of respect for the humans they do like. They know that humans are intelligent (though less intelligent than them) and have a lot of empathy for them, which is why the War-Mask is a thing, as without it they'd find it extremely difficult to kill humans and would be permanently tortured by the memory of it.
I do find it awesome that the original craftworlds were named after Pagan festivals on the wheel of the year. Biel-Tan = Beltane, Saim-hann = Samhain etc
I want in 11th edition for the big lore step forward to be Biel-Tan securing a Tau-empire sized section of the galaxy where they have ~100 worlds just for themselves and are able to get the eldar population up into the billions again by settling them. It would be nice for their numbers to actually increase and for there to be eldar planets rather than just having the number of eldar decreasing. That means that the prospect of an Aeldari empire returning is no longer a laughable fringe idea but actually something that people in the setting have to take as a serious threat. Seems only fair now that the imperium is pulling all of their loyalist primarchs out of the galactic refrigerator and every other faction has *something* which is cranking their power levels up.
They’ve been practically carving out an empire for 11000 years by this point. And if GW decides to do soemthing nuts with the craft world itself maybe they could go all in
If you want the Eldar to have a win in 40k I don’t think that’s the way to do. Firstly Eldar population growth is low because they seem to have a natural low population growth anyway. And the fact they have to actively suppress their emotions probably isn’t conductive to procreation. What kind of mother and father would want to bring a child into a world where there is a malevolent goddess constantly thirsting for their soul so it can subject them to everlasting torture and torment when they die? Eldar population growth is also dependent on their supply of souls stones, which are extremely dangerous to harvest. So saddling any Craftworld with 100 sparsely populated worlds to defend would just be denying the Eldar one of their last remaining advantages. Strategic mobility, as the Craftworld would be entirely restricted to a single sector of space trying desperately to defend borders it doesn’t have the manpower to hold. Humans, Orcks and Tyranids can all afford those types of losses. A dying race like the Eldar cannot. If you want to see the Eldar get a much deserved win, I’d go one of two ways. Either allow them to use their reawakened and still surviving Gods and Goddesses to deal Slannesh a mortal blow in the warp, freeing untold billions or tormented Aeldari souls from her clutches. Eldar souls never die. We’ve seen they can be transplanted into wraithbone constructs, and even into cloned bodies grown in a test tube within Commorragh. Or like as happened with the Orks and the Krork, establish the Eldar in 40k are a watered down ‘de-evolved’ version of a much more powerful Aeldari super race that existed 60 million years ago during the war in heaven. Then have then slowly begin to re-evolve into that super-race, where they can shed their material forms for immaterial ones at will. Imagine how powerful an evolved Eldar race would be that possessed both Commorragh and the Dark City’s ability to clone billions of warriors a day connected via the Webway to every Craftworld. They’d have complete strategic access to the galaxy, no permanent territory to defend, and the ability to replace huge losses within hours of warriors being, as their souls can just be put into cloned bodies or wraithbone, over and over and over again.
Yeah, no. You "just" asked the eldar be reworked into basically another faction and given more victories than they managed to collect in 11.000 years, in the span of a century. If this is the "rare eldar w" fan ask for, then doesn't surprise me they get it so rarely.
Wow an eldar craft world that does something and doesn’t sit in a pool of piss and tears crying about how bad everything is while never changing anything
@@mrtortoise3766 No it's just how GW is you want 10 more space marine books right??? There are less than 10 tau/necron books combining both factions I've read all of them all are good, GW just dick rides space marines almost as much as the reddit tier 40k fans, in both the novels and tabletop 30 year old warp spider models anyone?
@@churchilltank659 GW doesn’t dickride the space marines for no reason, they do it because space marine models and books get the most sales, and the only reason they would get the most sales is because the general audience finds them more interesting than the xenos, don’t get me wrong I like the xenos too I’m a necron fan but I don’t pretend that GW dickrides space marines just because they love space marines and hate eldar
I love how these guys are ment to be most evil the Craftworld Eldar have ro offer but they are still Saints when compared to most of the other factions, just because of the fact that they are willing to spare and relocate the population of the planets that surrender after their first warning (yes the bar I 40k is THAT low).
It's why I tend to roll my eyes at the "there are no good guys in 40K" line. Yes, every faction could be the bad guys in a "normal" setting... but as much as the Eldar tendency to view Eldar life as orders of magnitude more valuable than that of aliens, that Craftworlders place any value on the lives of aliens at all makes them a lot better than most of the Imperium (and there are references floating around that suggest that many craftworlds have normal diplomatic relations with other species, just not the ones trying to kill them. Craftworld Eldar are one of a very short list of factions that could win in the end and not result in a terrible state of affairs because we've seen that outcome - they ruled until the Fall and mostly kept the more aggressive races in check while leaving everyone else alone.
@@Draxynnic only reason they didn't wipe out humanity was because they're still racking from the fallout of a near extinction event. If they start to return in strength wiping out humans would be on their priority once again since humans are the main cause of chaos being so powerful
@@joshjonson2368 That might be the case now, and from any perspective but the human perspective, who'd blame them? Humans have become a xenocidal species that are just as great a threat to everyone else as the Tyranids, Chaos, and Orks. While there is some difference in that humans CAN be engaged in diplomacy and thus there is SOME hope of changing that, the Great Crusade and its aftermath is probably the greatest mass extinction event for sapient life in the galaxy since the aftermath of the War in Heaven, and I'm not even sure it doesn't beat that. More importantly, remember that the original rise of human spacefaring civilisation happened during the height of the Eldar empire where they DID have the ability to squash them like a bug if they so chose. They didn't. Every race that reached the stars from the end of the War in Heaven to M30 or so did so in the context of an Eldar empire that could have exterminated them (with the exception of the orks that were hard to exterminate altogether, but the Eldar did smack them down from being Krork), but didn't. Including humanity. One could argue that this was in the context of relaxing their grip due to the Fall having already have started, but if the Eldar had behaved like the Imperium does, it wouldn't have mattered - they'd have colonised every world in the galaxy and exterminated all competition. The Eldar might be regretting that decision now, but the Eldar were the undisputed dominant power in the galaxy for millions of years... and they allowed other races space to grow. While if the Imperium didn't have its attention tied up by the Tyranids, Chaos, and other threats, it would have wiped out every nonhuman sapient species that was not able to adapt to living on spaceships travelling through the void or other places the Imperium would find hard to reach. In short, we've seen what Eldar hegemony looked like. Compared to anything before or since, except MAYBE the Old One hegemony before the War in Heaven started, it was a golden age for a diversity of civilisations.
@@joshjonson2368 Look at the galaxy from the perspective of an innocent and peaceful alien race just taking its first steps into the stars with no intentions to harm anyone. Humans in 40K are, from their perspective, the bad guys - an existential threat, in fact. The Craftworld Eldar aren't. That' the thing with the 40k setting - the "there are no good guys" framing only works because humans are clearly bad guys in the setting, and therefore any actual good guys would be trying whatever they could to restrain the xenocidal impulses of humans... which makes them bad guys from the viewpoint of humanity. From the viewpoint of anyone ELSE, though, the Craftworld Eldar will leave you alone unless you pose a threat to them or move onto a world they've claimed. In the latter case, they'll usually at least give you a warning, and might even help you move. The former case is, of course, the scary one because they might pre-emptively punish you for something they predicted your descendants might do thousands of years in the future - but that's still a case of a credible threat. The Imperium will wipe you out just because they think your homeworld would be better as just another human colony. Something that the Tau, for instance canonically only avoided due to deus ex warp storm. Countless other species didn't have the benefit of that (I personally don't actually consider it to be plot armour as some people claim, it's survivorship bias - with hundreds or thousands of species wiped out by the Imperium, the ones we hear about are those that were lucky enough to avoid routine extermination somehow).
Necrons awakening be like: "If you're with the government or the church, get the #$%@ off my property. Which, considering I own this planet, is effectively everywhere."
It was fun hearing you talk about Biel tan on the tabletop, as that's basically how I love running them. Hilariously enough the more fluffy Biel tan lists tended to do better for me as people tend to break out a lot of heavy anti tank when they hear eldar in my gaming club. Suddenly they don't have enough infantry clear and the banshees are in their faces
20:40 White is fine to paint with brush, unlike yellow - starting with base of very light grey, give black (or blue) wash into recesses, remove stains outside recesses with said light grey and highlight with pure white
Biel-Tan: when you take the Nationalist Militarism of Europe during WWI and multiply it by 100 and add a more than fair dose of space-elf magic shenanigans.
So eldar nazi germany, technically those folks in ww2 also only wipe out "inferior races" that... happen to occupy their land, but is willing to deport them if the ppl living on "occupied land" agrees to a masd exodus
I really like Eldar lore. I wish they sold better so GW would let them out of the basement. I'm not saying they have to sit at the table with the favorite children, but could they at least get to go into the living room?
It's a vicious cycle - people know they're the redheaded stepchildren so they don't invest in them unless the rules writers mess up and make them overpowered. Mind you, I hear that did happen recently, so maybe there's a chance?
It's a good day when pancreasnowork speaks about my favorite species in 40k, the Aeldari...then reminds me how much GW hates any and all Aeldari factions despite the Craftworlders at least being the Deuteragonists of the setting....*cries in space elf*
I recently started getting into Eldar, and have been building an army for them. I really enjoy these more long-form videos about the different craft worlds, and I'm looking forward to Alaitoc whenever or if that happens.
@theliato3809 I mean I love the fact that Isha is a healer God and essentially life itself, according to lore she is friendly and open to all races as long they "cherish and value" life itself. Which in my opinion this makes a very "Good" god and I feel for a warhammer 40k universe they need more "good gods" in warhammer fantasy they have the privilege to have active "good gods" constantly fighting choas such as sigma himself but in warhammer 40k all "good gods" seems to either MIA, hiding, or even cripple like the emperor himself. The emperor is somewhat active in recent lore so I'm glad he starting to more active I just wish story starts to go somewhere.
Because it is the Necrons who are made in the Universe’s image. Necron supremacy forever! But in reality Necrons lately have been absolutely b-slapping the other factions esp Anrakyr The Traveler who is on a warpath to unite all Necrons no matter ideology or philosophy.
No. Unlike the necron body wrath bodies are temporary. Think of it like a robot controled by your soul/mind. After the war you get to go back to the infinity circet/purgetory.
Dreadnaughts and their equivalents like the Ork’s Killa Kanz also qualify, though most corpse worshippers are too brainwashed to be boo hoo about it and Orks can be split but usually welcome more killing power.
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I gotta say man I love the elder and necrons vids dude they’ve got me thru some rough shit, I’m looking forward to the next stream here’s to the blunt of nagash m8 👍
I want a three book series about the reforming of their craftworld and a revitalisation of their birth rates. If every Major faction is getting buffed from the great Rift they deserve so too!
One of the more frustrating things regarding the 40k universe and story line is, especially for those who want good story telling in the first place, is the ever looming "why don't they just work together" aspect of everything that happens in said universe. This is why, in my opinion, Fantasy had such zealous fans as you were more likely to find friendships and allies. In 40k it gets frustrating as you find out in most stories the reason why you won't have factions work together cause "well it's a wargame duh". But the subject of this video pretty much going "cause working with others is stupid" is actually pretty funny
A rather easy answer to that is the warp and chaos breed desperation that helps stop things from reaching that level of cooperation. Though it’s not like it doesn’t happen at all
Literally thats why the setting is _grimdark_ You could have all the factions unite under the power of friendship and defeat chaos, orks and tyranids. But thats literally not the kind of stories we are here for.
@@leandrocastello309 100% agree, there's just at some point you struggle with a suspension of belief when it would make so much sense for even just TWO people within the universe to work together, but the setting demands they fight cause muh grimdark. And not like that doesn't happen either, there's just the moments when you want to scream at a book or a character for not being an asshole for ONE second
@@ninnoofthelastunicorn2693 yeah, but the worst offenders of that is the imperium. And they have the justification of 11.000 years of ignorance and indoctrination. It is a running theme that main flaws of the imperium do more damage to itself than any of its enemies ever could hope to.
Refusing to see a common goal in such a manner as every capable major power in 40k has works far better when, “Because we just don’t like you” is the exception and not the rule.
Biel-Tan are the Imperial Japanese of the Eldar army - heedlessly wasting lives they can't replace. I love them for this, as the Adeptus Mechanicus is always in need of xenos specimens.
You picking a fight? The empire were the good guys in Star Wars. The suffering and death under the republics were just on a whole different level, the empire brought order and peace.
Unless you happened to be nonhuman. Or express disagreement with any of their policies. Or happen to live somewhere they consider militarily significant. Or a long list of other things, including just being in a normal place at the wrong time.
I know you said that the color scheme is a bit iffy... but... I heckin' love Green & White together. If I wasn't so committed to the T'au and diplomacy first... Boy, would I field Aeldari supremacists.
I suspect the reason why most Aspect Warriors haven't been updated in so long is because their appearances are so unique that Games Workshop can't make the dual-use boxes they've become so fond of in the past couple of decades. Maybe they need to make the Crystal Dragons an actual thing so they could make a combo box with Fire Dragons?
Haha hell yeah! Would love to here about other craftworlds! Primarily alaitoc! I think they used to be the aeldari poster boys in older editions? I love their old art where they have like tiger stripes on their helmets!
To me they give off that same energy as that one ss officer in come and see and I love that spiteful angle to them. They just glow with that immeasurable anger I think more of the craftworlders should have instead of being a slightly sappier version of the Asur
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JK it’s taking me forever to make it
Hoping for more BattleTech and Elder Scrolls lore videos!
More Warhammer is always good too of course :)
Fu Eldar d rider. Shitty models, shitty lore.
B-T is so toxic that even the dark eldar leave them be.
no matter how powerfull the eldar. they never beat nor exterminate all humans.
"Casual racism implies the existence of competitive racism, and we intend to win." Biel-Tan Exarch, probably.
They're in an active competition with the black Templars, meanwhile either of them have yet to truly realize that the necrons are kind of winning this out of sheer hubris
So they are Pelinal Whitestrake the species. Except they are ironically elves
Bold words from someone that’s not a Skaven.
@@cthulhubecausewhynot1182 we weren't bringing fantasy into this, but yeah if we are they're up there
Edit: although is it really racism if they treat every other thing including their own faction members the same way?
Racism Competition Detected
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Biel-Tan: *Nervous Sweating*
The only thing I think I know about this craftworld is a certain hot farseer who has certain relations with the blood ravens
sauce brother..
@@doragonzxthere is no sauce. It’s just fanfic from the Dow games. Especially with their reunion with 3.
The question stands, sauce?
The farseer's name is Macha. Now you can look for the sauce in the sauce aisle (i.e. a search engine)
@@mutonfutontry 1d4chan if it still exists.
"War crimes? That would require the enemy has any rights" - Biel-Tan
"War... crime? What are you some kind of commie Tau?"
A Warcrime would imply we are at war.
We are not.
Destroying an insect infestation is not war.
‘Finally we agree on something.’
- The Imperium.
"Hey, I‘m Saul Goodman, did you know you DON'T have rights?"
War crimes are based no matter the context
My favorite Craftworld is Iybraesil, a matriarchal Craftworld, it produces more Howling Banshees and female Autarchs than usual. It is also a minor Craftworld and thus G.W. mostly forgets it exists which is GOOD.
My favorite Craftworld is Morrigan.
I'm torn between the minor Craftworlds of Pirate-y Lugganath and TANKS MORE TANKS Yme-Loc
@@llamaboss1434 I understand that reference...
Is it your favorite because there are a lot of hot elf women there?
@@lorenzorodriguez9481 I can't speak for them but it's mine for that exact reason, hot elf Amazons in space let's gooo!
I think my favorite part about them is that they made legitimate friends with the Tallarn Desert Raiders.
"We will purge those filthy humans from every maiden world until- oh hey, Abdul! Coming for lunch today?"
its hilarious. I am just imagining an Eldar going into a vehement racist rant against those damn humans. Then Abdul walks in, the eldar stops mid speech, and says "Hello friend!"
@@bonefetcherbrimley7740that is literally friendship with the homies if y'all arent being racist assholes to each other you aint friends
@bonefetcherbrimley7740 "Oh don't worry, he's one of the good ones!"
Source?
@@bonefetcherbrimley7740I have this sudden image of the Shelby guy "making somesing beddar" for a bunch of Biel-Tan Aspect Warriors. 😂😂😂
Important thing you missed: Biel-Tan has actually recovered alot numbers-wise because they've started to recruit from Exodite Worlds, which means they're actually doing alot to politically reunify the Eldar and actually using common sense to recover as a faction while maintaining their previous status-quo. One of the best parts about Biel-Tan is how, despite arguably being the worst Craftworld morally, their drive and obsession to reclaim the Empire makes them the most successful because they actually have hope and a vision for the future beyond mere survival.
19:05 I assume the Exodites are the ones living on those maiden worlds?
@@UGNAvalonyes
@@UGNAvalon tbh i prefer exodites
The craft world broke before the biel-tan did
@@SamNo27 fuck I should’ve said that in the video
@@pancreasnowork9939at least you can reupload right?
Damn Biel Tan really be on that competitive racism, professional style
There's casual racism, and then there's hardcore racism.
@@samiamtheman7379 And by god Biel Tan be tryharding
Not just professional, but better than a human could do it. They're Eldar after all!
The key of being a murder hobo is to always be on the move to avoid authorities.
Beil tan being a whole frackin planet means they’re way ahead of everyone
And now that they’ve decentralized onto a whole fleet of ships, it’s now even Harder to catch them! ;D
My favourite Harlequin analogue for Biel-Tan has gotta be the Masque of the Frozen Stars. They can quite literally be described as "racist pranksters" whose entire modus operandi is trolling the other races of the galaxy. One of their best moments was that time their Shadowseers psychically projected the illusion of a maiden world onto a Star, getting an entire Hive Fleet to fly straight into it
“Ooh~ this buffet is warm too! Good for the metaboli- AAGGHH!!! IT BURNS!! IT BURNS!! 💀”
*The Tyranid Overmind declined to comment in interview following the incident, but offhandedly remarked it was having "an off day" that day.*
@@markkiefer3243”I have a lot to micro okay? Sometimes you forget to check on progress”
"Curse you Biel!!"
“I hearby vow, you shall rue this day!”
"Behold, a true Imperium warrior! And I, Igon!"
We do like slaanesh
"Your Fears made flesh!"
The corruption of Kyras, Exterminatus of Typhon, and Blood Raven civil war is entirely because Macha refused to explain herself to Angelos
Sounds like Warcraft 3 as well: the explainer is being all cryptic and the explainees have no patience for it.
Dawn of War is how I was introduced to these guys. I think this might be my favorite Craftworld. They're badass, they never let a defeat keep them down for long, and we fought side by side on Tartarus. And they're one of the most active lore-wise. "Attacking a Maiden World? Made the mistake of existing near Eldar in general? That was a mistake." If I ever get get Eldar models, these would be my Eldar. Glory to Khaine! Glory to the Eldar!
Ah yes the elves that don't lie about how they really feel about other species
Aww the monkey is projecting again, how pathetic. All Aeldari are honest and will let you know exactly what they think of you.
Now go back to being a de facto slave in a *hive* city, *insect.*
Not ALL Eldar are this level of racist come on man 😂
Funny you say that in a setting with Imperium in it. They are like super-elves without the diplomacy then, isn't it?
I mean they are just like humanity in that regard, seems fair
I mean a lot of the Aeldari are not really that racist, at least not beyond the extremely obvious sentiment of "we will always prioritise our own kind above any others" that isn't at all racist and is a natural and correct thought process in such a hostile galaxy - if you don't act that way, your species will die. The degree to which Aeldari are xenophobic is grossly exaggerated just because they're not humans. Sure, they'll make other species act as meat shields for them wherever possible, but that's hardly racist, that's wanting to protect your own species from dying when its continued survival is already uncertain. It's coldly utilitarian, not hateful or cruel.
I think you can confidently say that the majority of Aeldari do not really hate humans (at least Asuryani and Exodites - Drukhari are a pretty hateful bunch). It's absolutely true that they generally have a low opinion of humanity, considering them annoying pests and dumb brutes who are easily corruptible, and who are more than a little disgusting and often get in the way. However, even by far the most racist and xenophobic Aeldari of Biel-Tan don't want to destroy humanity in principle, they are just willing to be exceptionally violent to reclaim what they believe is theirs, and they're willing to ally with humans on occasion.
The Aeldari are the most intelligent species in 40k and are able to recognise that humanity is extremely diverse and that humans exist on a spectrum between good and evil. Humans can be wretched or noble, treacherous or loyal, enemies or allies. The Aeldari hate some humans, but they don't hate humanity, and have a lot of respect for the humans they do like. They know that humans are intelligent (though less intelligent than them) and have a lot of empathy for them, which is why the War-Mask is a thing, as without it they'd find it extremely difficult to kill humans and would be permanently tortured by the memory of it.
Wow, found this one so early that Biel Tan was still whole when I showed up.
"Swordwind might as well be the Butterknifebreeze" Ha! Tremendous.
Since the "Biel-Tan would turn them into fertilizer" line I've been waiting for this.
I do find it awesome that the original craftworlds were named after Pagan festivals on the wheel of the year. Biel-Tan = Beltane, Saim-hann = Samhain etc
biel tan and iyanden could be roommates at this point. one has a whole craftworld, the other has the population to fill it.
Imperium is so cool, that even the Eldar like to rolplay as them.
imperium biggest weapon is their plot armor, even eldar will kneel if the writer say so
@@hellatze Basically 40k lore for the most part.
"Rightful rule of the galaxy" is determined the same way as four motorists meeting on a four-way intersection. Right of way belongs to the strongest.
I want in 11th edition for the big lore step forward to be Biel-Tan securing a Tau-empire sized section of the galaxy where they have ~100 worlds just for themselves and are able to get the eldar population up into the billions again by settling them. It would be nice for their numbers to actually increase and for there to be eldar planets rather than just having the number of eldar decreasing. That means that the prospect of an Aeldari empire returning is no longer a laughable fringe idea but actually something that people in the setting have to take as a serious threat. Seems only fair now that the imperium is pulling all of their loyalist primarchs out of the galactic refrigerator and every other faction has *something* which is cranking their power levels up.
They’ve been practically carving out an empire for 11000 years by this point.
And if GW decides to do soemthing nuts with the craft world itself maybe they could go all in
GW letting the Eldar have a win without Imperium help?
That's impossible
If you want the Eldar to have a win in 40k I don’t think that’s the way to do. Firstly Eldar population growth is low because they seem to have a natural low population growth anyway. And the fact they have to actively suppress their emotions probably isn’t conductive to procreation. What kind of mother and father would want to bring a child into a world where there is a malevolent goddess constantly thirsting for their soul so it can subject them to everlasting torture and torment when they die?
Eldar population growth is also dependent on their supply of souls stones, which are extremely dangerous to harvest. So saddling any Craftworld with 100 sparsely populated worlds to defend would just be denying the Eldar one of their last remaining advantages. Strategic mobility, as the Craftworld would be entirely restricted to a single sector of space trying desperately to defend borders it doesn’t have the manpower to hold. Humans, Orcks and Tyranids can all afford those types of losses.
A dying race like the Eldar cannot.
If you want to see the Eldar get a much deserved win, I’d go one of two ways.
Either allow them to use their reawakened and still surviving Gods and Goddesses to deal Slannesh a mortal blow in the warp, freeing untold billions or tormented Aeldari souls from her clutches. Eldar souls never die. We’ve seen they can be transplanted into wraithbone constructs, and even into cloned bodies grown in a test tube within Commorragh.
Or like as happened with the Orks and the Krork, establish the Eldar in 40k are a watered down ‘de-evolved’ version of a much more powerful Aeldari super race that existed 60 million years ago during the war in heaven. Then have then slowly begin to re-evolve into that super-race, where they can shed their material forms for immaterial ones at will.
Imagine how powerful an evolved Eldar race would be that possessed both Commorragh and the Dark City’s ability to clone billions of warriors a day connected via the Webway to every Craftworld. They’d have complete strategic access to the galaxy, no permanent territory to defend, and the ability to replace huge losses within hours of warriors being, as their souls can just be put into cloned bodies or wraithbone, over and over and over again.
Yeah, no. You "just" asked the eldar be reworked into basically another faction and given more victories than they managed to collect in 11.000 years, in the span of a century.
If this is the "rare eldar w" fan ask for, then doesn't surprise me they get it so rarely.
Without soul stones it does not matter what their population is and most of them are hidden in the crone worlds.
Considering his comments on Teclis, the ending of this video isn't even the most elf-simp I've seen this man...
Wow an eldar craft world that does something and doesn’t sit in a pool of piss and tears crying about how bad everything is while never changing anything
Hey Don’t blame the eldar blame GW who does nothing with them, who have them stay in stagnation
Yeah they been trying to do plenty. Yay for cancelled novels
@@rain6353 couldn’t have been much if whatever it was was so boring the series got canned
@@mrtortoise3766 No it's just how GW is you want 10 more space marine books right??? There are less than 10 tau/necron books combining both factions I've read all of them all are good, GW just dick rides space marines almost as much as the reddit tier 40k fans, in both the novels and tabletop 30 year old warp spider models anyone?
@@churchilltank659 GW doesn’t dickride the space marines for no reason, they do it because space marine models and books get the most sales, and the only reason they would get the most sales is because the general audience finds them more interesting than the xenos, don’t get me wrong I like the xenos too I’m a necron fan but I don’t pretend that GW dickrides space marines just because they love space marines and hate eldar
I'm a simple woman. I see an Eldar lore video, I like.
Ah the infamous 1% of pancreas viewers
AAAAAAAAAAAAH, A WOMAN!HELP!
Im part of that 1%. Be not afraid of us, man-things
@@everythingsalright1121 too late
@@everythingsalright1121 you talk like a skaven… fortunately such things as giant rats living under our very feet are mearly stories
So they're a horde army, their main strategy is to just charge, they have toughness 3, and they're green... These are just fancy Orks!
Pancreas wanting to be inducted into an Eldar harem , confirmed.
I love how these guys are ment to be most evil the Craftworld Eldar have ro offer but they are still Saints when compared to most of the other factions, just because of the fact that they are willing to spare and relocate the population of the planets that surrender after their first warning (yes the bar I 40k is THAT low).
It's why I tend to roll my eyes at the "there are no good guys in 40K" line. Yes, every faction could be the bad guys in a "normal" setting... but as much as the Eldar tendency to view Eldar life as orders of magnitude more valuable than that of aliens, that Craftworlders place any value on the lives of aliens at all makes them a lot better than most of the Imperium (and there are references floating around that suggest that many craftworlds have normal diplomatic relations with other species, just not the ones trying to kill them. Craftworld Eldar are one of a very short list of factions that could win in the end and not result in a terrible state of affairs because we've seen that outcome - they ruled until the Fall and mostly kept the more aggressive races in check while leaving everyone else alone.
Nah no such thing as a good alien, if they could they'd send every human into comorragh and if you're a sane human you'd want them destroyed utterly
@@Draxynnic only reason they didn't wipe out humanity was because they're still racking from the fallout of a near extinction event. If they start to return in strength wiping out humans would be on their priority once again since humans are the main cause of chaos being so powerful
@@joshjonson2368 That might be the case now, and from any perspective but the human perspective, who'd blame them? Humans have become a xenocidal species that are just as great a threat to everyone else as the Tyranids, Chaos, and Orks. While there is some difference in that humans CAN be engaged in diplomacy and thus there is SOME hope of changing that, the Great Crusade and its aftermath is probably the greatest mass extinction event for sapient life in the galaxy since the aftermath of the War in Heaven, and I'm not even sure it doesn't beat that.
More importantly, remember that the original rise of human spacefaring civilisation happened during the height of the Eldar empire where they DID have the ability to squash them like a bug if they so chose. They didn't. Every race that reached the stars from the end of the War in Heaven to M30 or so did so in the context of an Eldar empire that could have exterminated them (with the exception of the orks that were hard to exterminate altogether, but the Eldar did smack them down from being Krork), but didn't. Including humanity. One could argue that this was in the context of relaxing their grip due to the Fall having already have started, but if the Eldar had behaved like the Imperium does, it wouldn't have mattered - they'd have colonised every world in the galaxy and exterminated all competition.
The Eldar might be regretting that decision now, but the Eldar were the undisputed dominant power in the galaxy for millions of years... and they allowed other races space to grow. While if the Imperium didn't have its attention tied up by the Tyranids, Chaos, and other threats, it would have wiped out every nonhuman sapient species that was not able to adapt to living on spaceships travelling through the void or other places the Imperium would find hard to reach.
In short, we've seen what Eldar hegemony looked like. Compared to anything before or since, except MAYBE the Old One hegemony before the War in Heaven started, it was a golden age for a diversity of civilisations.
@@joshjonson2368 Look at the galaxy from the perspective of an innocent and peaceful alien race just taking its first steps into the stars with no intentions to harm anyone. Humans in 40K are, from their perspective, the bad guys - an existential threat, in fact. The Craftworld Eldar aren't.
That' the thing with the 40k setting - the "there are no good guys" framing only works because humans are clearly bad guys in the setting, and therefore any actual good guys would be trying whatever they could to restrain the xenocidal impulses of humans... which makes them bad guys from the viewpoint of humanity. From the viewpoint of anyone ELSE, though, the Craftworld Eldar will leave you alone unless you pose a threat to them or move onto a world they've claimed. In the latter case, they'll usually at least give you a warning, and might even help you move. The former case is, of course, the scary one because they might pre-emptively punish you for something they predicted your descendants might do thousands of years in the future - but that's still a case of a credible threat. The Imperium will wipe you out just because they think your homeworld would be better as just another human colony. Something that the Tau, for instance canonically only avoided due to deus ex warp storm. Countless other species didn't have the benefit of that (I personally don't actually consider it to be plot armour as some people claim, it's survivorship bias - with hundreds or thousands of species wiped out by the Imperium, the ones we hear about are those that were lucky enough to avoid routine extermination somehow).
Correction, Necrons are still active reigning champions in the "Galactic Race Haters League."
Necrons awakening be like: "If you're with the government or the church, get the #$%@ off my property. Which, considering I own this planet, is effectively everywhere."
Gold medalists in "Get off my lawn!"
@samiamtheman7379 Took me a moment to remember that reference.
Give an elf a bolter…
21:20 best closing statement ever.
It was fun hearing you talk about Biel tan on the tabletop, as that's basically how I love running them. Hilariously enough the more fluffy Biel tan lists tended to do better for me as people tend to break out a lot of heavy anti tank when they hear eldar in my gaming club. Suddenly they don't have enough infantry clear and the banshees are in their faces
I like the space dragon elves. Purely because space and dragon are two words that exponentially increase the quality of all things.
20:40 White is fine to paint with brush, unlike yellow - starting with base of very light grey, give black (or blue) wash into recesses, remove stains outside recesses with said light grey and highlight with pure white
As a very wise people from other game would say "Hippity Hoppity, get the f out of my property"
I was thinking about getting into Eldar, specifically Biel-Tan. This must be a sign from Khaine to do so!
Biel-Tan on most Imperal worlds: 😡
Biel-Tan on Tallarn: 🤝
That ending bit...true poetry.
Biel-Tan: when you take the Nationalist Militarism of Europe during WWI and multiply it by 100 and add a more than fair dose of space-elf magic shenanigans.
So eldar nazi germany, technically those folks in ww2 also only wipe out "inferior races" that... happen to occupy their land, but is willing to deport them if the ppl living on "occupied land" agrees to a masd exodus
Skarbrand vs Khaine, a battle of "the guy who dies to make the new guy look strong".
Put that way, them both dying makes a lot of sense.
Angron is like the premium version of the Avatar of Khaine at this point
Worf vs Worf
If you can find a way to talk your way out of conflict during a khornate invasion; it is at least a very psychically effective option.
I really like Eldar lore. I wish they sold better so GW would let them out of the basement. I'm not saying they have to sit at the table with the favorite children, but could they at least get to go into the living room?
It's a vicious cycle - people know they're the redheaded stepchildren so they don't invest in them unless the rules writers mess up and make them overpowered. Mind you, I hear that did happen recently, so maybe there's a chance?
"The existance of casual racism implies the existence of competetive racism, which I intend to win" - Biel Tan slogan
guys wake up! Pancreas is talking about Eldar again
"not even the imperium is best at xenophobia", yknow, maybe pancreas aint wrong about them knife ears
It's a good day when pancreasnowork speaks about my favorite species in 40k, the Aeldari...then reminds me how much GW hates any and all Aeldari factions despite the Craftworlders at least being the Deuteragonists of the setting....*cries in space elf*
Eldar my beloved. Why must GW hate you so?
Wat, we been eating quite well outside of books these days. Maybe one day we will return to our former glory… oh wait..
Its because of ear shape
I recently started getting into Eldar, and have been building an army for them. I really enjoy these more long-form videos about the different craft worlds, and I'm looking forward to Alaitoc whenever or if that happens.
Ah, my fav of the Craftworld Eldar gets the Pancreas spotlight. A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.
Ah an eldar simp video
Good, its been too long since we had one
A video ABOUT ELVES? This is another grudge in the book for not doing a dwarf centric episode.
It's always a good day when Pancreas uploads an eldar video
Thank Isha more Elves.
cute pfp
@@Cook_A_BurraThe kookaburra chef is pretty epic
I kinda wish 🤞 Isha is more active and has legit followers and even a milita faction that is dedicated to her 😕
@@messageinthebottle1673she just gotta get outta the mad manse and she’ll be in business
@theliato3809 I mean I love the fact that Isha is a healer God and essentially life itself, according to lore she is friendly and open to all races as long they "cherish and value" life itself. Which in my opinion this makes a very "Good" god and I feel for a warhammer 40k universe they need more "good gods" in warhammer fantasy they have the privilege to have active "good gods" constantly fighting choas such as sigma himself but in warhammer 40k all "good gods" seems to either MIA, hiding, or even cripple like the emperor himself. The emperor is somewhat active in recent lore so I'm glad he starting to more active I just wish story starts to go somewhere.
Your Eldar simpery always seems to memory hole Tyranids and Necrons existing.
Because it is the Necrons who are made in the Universe’s image. Necron supremacy forever! But in reality Necrons lately have been absolutely b-slapping the other factions esp Anrakyr The Traveler who is on a warpath to unite all Necrons no matter ideology or philosophy.
Time for Eldar simping. I'm all for it.
Slop for the slop god! Elves for the elven throne!
If anyone thinks the actions of Biel-Tan aren't justified, then they probably had it coming anyways
Damn, sounds like a pretty formidable eldar faction. We may need TWO unnamed random space marine chapters to wipe them out
Dude you are all of my favourite things on RUclips. Space shooting game lore and comedy 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
My favorite new W40K lore fix drops a new one just when I needed it.
In tournaments during 3rd and 4th, no craftwork’s was more dangerous than Alaitoc, would love to see an episode on that craftworld.
Watching this while recovering from acute pancreatitis, channeling the power of the chaos god pancreasnowork for his dark organ healing powers
Love having a video for each craft world. Legend!
This is the best thing that's happened to me this month. Thank you. Now back to distilling 1700 pages of homebrew datasheets......
tarkin was actually a hero of the people....
depending what caste, race, planet you live on, species, social position youre from that is
between wraithguard and necrons a lot of ppl in 40k are put in robot bodies. are the wraithguard as boo hoo about it as the crons seem to be
No.
Unlike the necron body wrath bodies are temporary.
Think of it like a robot controled by your soul/mind.
After the war you get to go back to the infinity circet/purgetory.
Dreadnaughts and their equivalents like the Ork’s Killa Kanz also qualify, though most corpse worshippers are too brainwashed to be boo hoo about it and Orks can be split but usually welcome more killing power.
I'm a simple man, I see a pancreasnowork vid, I click
These guys have always been one of my top three favorite craftworlds, alongside ulthwe and Iyanden.
Another 20min of Pancreaself simping. ❤
Greetings, comment for the algorithm gods
your lore stuff convinced me to buy the first 6 books of gotrek and felix, so far they have been a good read so thank you
Speaking as a Tech Priest fan, the Mechanicum is pure evil, and it's only slightly better then the Imperium
Let's go new pancreasnowork video!!!
Edit: Nice to see Eldar lore that has them win shit and fuck up the imperium.
Name a better duo than Diabetes and eldar simping
Diabetes and Coca Cola, trust me I am Mexican.
Pelinal whitestrake dissappeared from cyrrodill to go after Beil Tan
the Necrons might have something to saya bout this
Another cool Eldar lore video!
i bet orks love running into Biel-Tan eldar, since unlike other panzees (no offense is just the ork word for eldar) they can provide a proper scrap
The racist ones except that one time Biel-Tan thought the Tallarn Desert Raiders were cool and allied them and it's even like... long term and stuff
I gotta say man I love the elder and necrons vids dude they’ve got me thru some rough shit, I’m looking forward to the next stream here’s to the blunt of nagash m8 👍
Ah Biel-Tan my beloved, you were so perfect to play in 9th edition, give me back my Exarch Powers GW!!!!
I want a three book series about the reforming of their craftworld and a revitalisation of their birth rates. If every Major faction is getting buffed from the great Rift they deserve so too!
One of the more frustrating things regarding the 40k universe and story line is, especially for those who want good story telling in the first place, is the ever looming "why don't they just work together" aspect of everything that happens in said universe. This is why, in my opinion, Fantasy had such zealous fans as you were more likely to find friendships and allies.
In 40k it gets frustrating as you find out in most stories the reason why you won't have factions work together cause "well it's a wargame duh".
But the subject of this video pretty much going "cause working with others is stupid" is actually pretty funny
A rather easy answer to that is the warp and chaos breed desperation that helps stop things from reaching that level of cooperation.
Though it’s not like it doesn’t happen at all
Literally thats why the setting is _grimdark_
You could have all the factions unite under the power of friendship and defeat chaos, orks and tyranids. But thats literally not the kind of stories we are here for.
@@leandrocastello309 100% agree, there's just at some point you struggle with a suspension of belief when it would make so much sense for even just TWO people within the universe to work together, but the setting demands they fight cause muh grimdark.
And not like that doesn't happen either, there's just the moments when you want to scream at a book or a character for not being an asshole for ONE second
@@ninnoofthelastunicorn2693 yeah, but the worst offenders of that is the imperium. And they have the justification of 11.000 years of ignorance and indoctrination.
It is a running theme that main flaws of the imperium do more damage to itself than any of its enemies ever could hope to.
Refusing to see a common goal in such a manner as every capable major power in 40k has works far better when, “Because we just don’t like you” is the exception and not the rule.
Biel-Tan are the Imperial Japanese of the Eldar army - heedlessly wasting lives they can't replace. I love them for this, as the Adeptus Mechanicus is always in need of xenos specimens.
You picking a fight?
The empire were the good guys in Star Wars.
The suffering and death under the republics were just on a whole different level, the empire brought order and peace.
Unless you happened to be nonhuman. Or express disagreement with any of their policies. Or happen to live somewhere they consider militarily significant. Or a long list of other things, including just being in a normal place at the wrong time.
I know you said that the color scheme is a bit iffy... but... I heckin' love Green & White together. If I wasn't so committed to the T'au and diplomacy first...
Boy, would I field Aeldari supremacists.
I suspect the reason why most Aspect Warriors haven't been updated in so long is because their appearances are so unique that Games Workshop can't make the dual-use boxes they've become so fond of in the past couple of decades. Maybe they need to make the Crystal Dragons an actual thing so they could make a combo box with Fire Dragons?
Very glad to see more craftworld coverage, cant wait to see saim hann
"Do you want to be smart?" No, its why I watch your videos
I'd love to see a beal tan eldar shout "suffer not the xeno still live" to a black Templar and watch the Templar lose their damn mind
Haha hell yeah! Would love to here about other craftworlds! Primarily alaitoc! I think they used to be the aeldari poster boys in older editions? I love their old art where they have like tiger stripes on their helmets!
It makes me happy to here that iyanden is someone else's favourite craftworld 😆 biel tan is probably my second.
To me they give off that same energy as that one ss officer in come and see and I love that spiteful angle to them. They just glow with that immeasurable anger I think more of the craftworlders should have instead of being a slightly sappier version of the Asur
My pancreas do work, why didn’t u pay for premium organs before downloading????
Love that artwork of Valhallans fighting Eldar
„Bahzhakhain“ translated to low gothic means „Swordwind“.
Translated to german it means „Blitzkrieg“.
Bruh. The rightful rulers of the W40K galaxy are big wholesome chonky psychic Big Changus-sized froggos. It is what it is.
You can always get majorkill eldar phoenix lords, they are really cool and reasonably priced and you can get all of them for under a hundred bucks.
Love me some hot elf empire
With Iyanden and Biel-Tan done I'm going to presume Colin is either going to stall Alaitoc till the end, or forget they exist.