A pregnant drukhari would be easy prey for her enemies. Plus, Drukhari don't really love each other, even for sex. They are more into rape, and I can only guess that if a drukhari rapes another, it must end in murder for one of the two.
They're the very picture of sterile self-indulgence; they use sex merely for selfish pleasure without caring about either their partner or their children. This, in my eyes, is actually the greatest sign of their decadence and corruption - obviously, the torture and shit is absolutely awful as well, but such overwhelming self-indulgence is disgusting, and can only come out of an unbelievably arrogant and wicked heart.
@@CantusTropus The Druhkari may be the only few 40K factions that deserved to be wiped off from existence... If Commoragh was suddenly invaded by Chaos Undivided, I wouldn't shed a tear...
Khorne: Violence, murder, and bloodshed. Also Bravery, honesty, and honor. Tzeench: Scheming, mutation, and betrayal. Also hope, change, and adaptation Nurgle: sickness, decay, and death. Also fortitude, family, and acceptance. Slaneesh: Suffering, excess, and pain. Also love, art, and beauty. Dark Eldar: Eternal, endless torment. Also really enjoying your job.
Remember that Dark Eldars had literally no Codex for ten whole years, and they STILL got more love and attention from GW than the freaking Ynnead. I'm still mad.
stay mad bro I have to print out bootleg red scorpions decals because forgeworld is too lazy to make legit ones themselves after the first batch (which was around a decade ago) this despite them featured in a couple of 40ks major book series 2 of which are fan favorites mostly because they didnt blow cock but still even we space marines who play the correct faction get jipped by this company
I'm sorry are you complaining about a sub Faction of a subfaction of a subfaction that was in 3 books isn't getting the support that an entire Faction SHOULD be getting?
@@liaratsoni8556 Chaos gods are aspects of life focused into an entity. Nurgle didn't for instance pop into existence when somebody worshipped plagues. Nurgle exists because no matter what, humans and every other organic race gets sick and in delirium or desperation cries out for succor from the pain. A warrior might pray to any god that would hear him or her to allow them to strike down one more foe as they carve through a battlefield. A scientist desperately seeking a breakthrough. An artist obsessing over the most minute, unmattering details because they seek pure perfection. Aspects of humanity. By and large, of most races with cultures that aren't practically just... automatons. Looking at you, Tau and Necrons. Chaos is the " evil army " yes, but they're also the rawest form of emotions that make humans... human. Eldar... eldar. So on. Unfortunately, the Emperor never was going to win. Chaos will always exist so long as one race with free will exists somewhere. Free will, aspirations and the ability to " feel. " You're not beholden to the Inquisition. This is real life. Don't have to go " LALALALALA NOT LISTENING NOT CRITICALLY THINKING ABOUT THE SUBTEXT RIFE IN JUST ABOUT EVERY CHAOS LEGION'S STORY LALALALALA! " - or most chaos tribes in Fantasy. Heck, the Empire is rife with Chaos corruption because you can't keep a peasant from crying out for succor when dying of cancer. Someone to enjoy more extreme kinks a bit too much. Someone to want to surpass their betters. Someone to want to just be a champion in battle. All of those things empower chaos gods. They really are... just the universe's constants made manifest.
Athiests: I don’t need a God to have morals and do good. Drukhari: I don’t need a chaos god to tell me to do the most depraved shit anyone can imagine.
For reasons I don't want to think about, because I can't afford the therapy bills, that is not comforting. I would choose death over being "rebuilt" by the Dark Eldar. I would rather be eaten alive by Tyranids.
In Age of Sigmar the dark elves are chaotic good guys. They're still sadistic assholes but they stay as part of ordertide factions because they despise Slaanesh and the forces of chaos.
That kinda makes sense because their predecessors in Warhammer Fantasy were also more or less opposed to Chaos...er, with a lot of notable exceptions. Although no one in their right mind considered *them* part of the ordertide.
not quite, the daughters of khaine were only allied with sigmar because morathi saw use in him, shes now ended that alliance and has become one with khaine, they arent quite DE in their ability to cause pain but they do love random murders and sacrifices. From morathi's point of view everything that the faction does and is. as well as all the other factions are just stepping stones on her road to getting everyone, EVERYONE to worship her. also she used to be a slaaanesh worshipper and prabbay sees slaanesh more as a rival now than a legitimate threat (especially as slaanesh has been put away)
It really is a hit and miss with playing Dark Eldar. In a three way combat patrol game, this guy's incubi slaughtered my space marines. All my weapons would hit and wound and the feel no pain save would still keep them up, but massive amounts of his kabalites were decimated by this other guy's 8th edition rules thousand sons.
Is it possible that a Drukhari would die, get cought by slaneesh, then be revived back to life? If so, I imagine at least some of them would TRY to attmept this kind of stuff.
@@nobleman9393it's why soulstones work, and how Eldar could do their massive debauchery before birthing Slaanesh. It used to be that when aeldari would 'die' they'd literally come back to life a short time later, but now with Slaanesh they can't do that coz Slaanesh eats their souls before they can respawn
Worthwhile note, in the massive-playtest-turned-lore-story that was the introduction of the Ynnari, one of the ways in which they were *scary*-powerful came up when the Drukhari attacked them. Yvraine took this personally, and hit them with some death god magic. That rebounded all the way back to Comorragh and *burned out sections of Haemonculus labs* . Straight up said "nope" to a perfectly-reliable form of immortality. Also funny that, however hard they may hit on tabletop, lore-wise those are almost all just glorified hunting rifles. They still have (some of) the utter bullshit Eldar ultratech, the stuff that equaled or sometimes surpassed the Necrons. They just *choose* not to use it. This is why they struggle with armor, lore-wise. Because using their good stuff would cause them all the problems innumerated in the video, and it's hard to take captives if you wiped a whole continent clean of sentient life with a piece of jewelry.
1:54 People hate Tau so much. But they don't seem to realize that we would not get lovely stories like this without them. Without drone-swarms, and OP railguns, no other naive species would live long enough for our twisted amusement.
What i like about the tau is that they learn fast and considering how their technology improves faster then any other race then can be the biggest threat to the galaxy in 50k if they are left alone And since most species dont really see them as a threat this is very likely to happen They also have a lot of power to compell other races to their cause and are even immune to chaos since their souls are so weak they cant be picked up by any demons
Dark Eldar - Nurgle Bois seems like a match made in heaven, DE feed them poisons, NB don't die enjoy the 'new juice' flip it around DE get semi-immortal torture subjects, NB spread their special flavour among the captives
I belive the Dark Eldar are the vast mayority of Eldar in existance both due to Commoragh beeing the rough size of a solar system and the prefferred method of breeding of dark eldar beeing mass cloning. A normal Eldar begins his life as a child working in a factory and either dies, gets promoted due to agression or just runs away to join another faction as somebody who can be trusted because he doesn't have a good murder motif yet has a need to eat imported slave suffering. There are also mostly unique Eldar Astartes-grade monsters made by the Heamonculi but there isn't many of them and get killed often due to racism attrition among dark eldar and naturally born dark eldar are automaticly nobility was everyone feels you have a more complete soul due to natural birth.
The GW shop that appears at 11:36 is my hometown local in Plymouth (UK). I went back there today after a few years away. Still the same two blokes running it after nearly 20 years. Plymouth is sadly still an utterly godforsaken place where the air tastes of Lynx deodorant, sticky pound shop carpets and bitter disappointment which hasn't advanced economically or culturally since 2007. I'm glad I escaped.
I started 40k many moons ago by collecting Dark Eldar, when I was a literal edgy 12 year old, back when they first came out and were in the starter set. Mostly because they were Dark Elves (which I already collected) in space, I still enjoy the over the top villainy of both, it's why I also collected Skaven.
If drukhari lost their touch with the warp (their psychic abilities) then what particular interest would slaanesh still have with them? I mean, dark eldar are essentialy on the same level of spiritual energy as the tau now?
They still have the ability to use Psychic powers it's just doing so would turn their soul from a small flame hidden by the pain of torture into a great beacon for Slaanesh to snap up.
When you have a Exam comming Up learned 3 hours today and right before bed this Video pops Up: time to forget everything I learned today and get Something Important into my head
Fuck i started the video and already paused cause I'm laughing too much at the yoda cbt remix and cant concentrate on what you're saying. Great choice of music, 10/10
All the fancy names GW came up with for their 'races', came from their desire to trademark everything. 'Dark Eldar' is too generic to trademark. They're extremely litigious, which is funny considering how utterly derivative 99% of their 'lore' is.
As my friend once said. "Cry all you want, that won't un skin the orphanage." He is the nicest person I know, yet becomes a terrifying person when he plays.
I kinda wish they weren't Fetlife in war game form instead just leaned into the Psychic vampire mixed with Criminal family mixed with classic fairytale monster thing
Last time (long ago) I had a gane aginst D-Eldar it was fun... my Space Marines were based on a US Armored Cav (sort of) meaning every one Fights everyone Rides as I recall the force was 4 Stronos Razor back each with 6SM 1 Las cannon 1 plasma gun. 2 Whirl - Whif... (nearly useless but nice against these guys) 1 predator annihilator 3 Landspeeder Typhon (Mutli Melta) 0 repeat zero of the Battle Kites made it across the board. Open Topped was made even the W-Wiff effective .. very fun.
it's no joke when they say Dark eldar games last 2-3 turns. I used to play them back in 5th edition and winning with them was all about thinking two turns ahead and memorizing every single little rule including rolling for night fight. I would either wipe out my opponent's Army or I'd get blasted into oblivion by turn 3. I'm not sure how they play now but i can't imagine it's too different
Like that you described their system of morality and loyalty as being modeled on Starscream it does drive home that they really are as pathetic as they are despicable.
Dark Eldar aren't actually super invulnerable. It's implied numerous times they're only one real nasty dysjunction or psychic fuckup away from Comorragh being flooded out the ass with daemons. Will it happen? No because GeeDubs likes money but realistically they and Tau share a spot for most vulnerable faction in the setting alongside Tau
What happens if your opponent is necrons. They don't have souls to torture. They don't have flesh to biomass. They teleport away or self-destruct at defeat, so cannot be studied by Mechanicus. So...who even wants to fight Necrons? Why would you want to fight necrons? there is no benefit!
No the dark eldar wouldn't flay pary the platypus and send his head back to Phineas and Ferb. They'd hook it up to cybernetics first so the damn platypus head would still be alive and screaming when they open the box .that's dark eldar !
Maybe it’s difference of definition, but I don’t think “edgy” is the way to describe them. When I think of someone as edgy, I think of a person over-exaggerating their own suffering, while claiming to be a far harder personality than they actually are. Dark Eldar do neither of those things. Yes, they take an ultimately unnecessary step to preserve themselves, but they aren’t constantly _lamenting_ their circumstances, at least as far as I know. If anything, they make no idle threats, and care not a thing about how bad you feel about them, because either way, they _can_ and _will_ inflict just as much suffering on you as they claim to be capable of. Not edgy, just sadistic and theatrical as fuck.
I know this is an old video and no one will see this comment, but I have to voice my dissappointment. Maybe I missed it, but I don't think you mentioned that although they don't serve any of the chaos gods, at least one of them should serve them. They are the remnants of the pleasure cults that birthed Slaanesh! She may eat their souls, but she wouldn't be around without the Drukhari. And in true asshole fashion, they never apologize for it.
It never occurred to me until you brought it up, but Dark Eldar probably love the current state of forever-war, don't they? Everyone fighting everyone, murder on a galactic scale, no sissy hugbox funtimes.
If things started changing then their slaves might not be as easy to steal so yeah, the Deldar love the fact no ones winning in this shitshow. It only benefits them.
Yeah they arent that fond of war, because they REALLY wont endure a prolonged conflict, they arent Khone after all. They love inflicting suffering however, so a good raid on an undefended world to bring home a few toys thats more to their liking.
I think we have a different notion of "edgy". Having spikes on your armour is edgy. Turning people into rape-able furniture for thousands of years is abhorrent.
There's also barely anything indicating they're into BDSM and sexual games, they just torture and cause suffering usually in a non-sexual manner. If their slaves were sexually tortured they'd eventually start enjoying it, and then no more pain to feed to Slaneesh.
@@martinbaranyi2129 i thought they liked the extremes. Extreme pleasure and extreme pain. Preferably both at the same time, hence the bdsm memes. Because extreme emotions cause more energy to form in the warp, which thet use to feed and cast magic with .
I read somewhere that a dark eldar scientist literally turned himself into a sentient beam of light That's both fucking awesome and hilarious They're the mustache twirling villain of this universe and nobody can change my mind
Yeah I forget that dude's name, but he literally just teleports all over the galaxy in a giant flash of light and announces to everyone that he's the greatest scientist to ever live, and then just zips away. Leaving everyone in the room extremely confused and permanently blinded.
As a T'au player (both tabletop and Dawn of War), playing against Dark Eldar is possibly the most aggravating thing possible, but it's still funny that someone quite accurately describe Commorragh and how evil they can be
On tabletop? Not much since everyone wants to get into melee range and most army’s (if not all) have better melee then T’au. In universe? Hell no! The army with the most common sense to actually stay away from the giant ass super soldiers in dump trunk thick armor, if there’s one thing I know the T’au for the most it’s their range game
@@pancreasnowork9939 if your interested in a interesting deldar moment One drukhari when they joined the ynnari literally cried in joy to ynnead since they dont have to delight in torment to survive
@@Stevie-Jhere’s the thing, tzeench could plan to send them to like, super hell or something dumb like that, but because the orkz believe it leads to comaragh, it does, completely fucking tzeench’s plans in the process
@@nicholasthompson6152Honestly, the Drukharii are so insane, that I can imagine one of them purposely letting an Ork Waagh in. Either to dick over a rival or just to liven things up for a bit.
Actually I’d imagine the fight would go like this. A dark elder force attacks an orc war boss with the webway portals all across the planet. Millions of orcs suddenly see a spiky elf attack and run away. The orcs chase after them through the portals. Directly into the machine guns that fire paralysis darts. Millions of orcs get captured. But what about a real waaagh? Basically someone betrays Vect and attacks an orc fleet lead by Ghazgull. Millions upon billions of orcs poor into the city. Now go read up on the demon invasion and imagine that but replace demons with orcs. That’s an orc invasion of Vect’s realm.
The fact that they can't use warp stuff due to slaanesh makes me imagine they're just sending some random smuck on a suicide mission just to make someone's day worse
An abridged summary of the Drukhari… Lelith: “Hey, it’s your favorite Egirl, Lelith Hesperax.” *proceeds to kills people with her hair blades* Rakarth: *doing experiments so horrible that the other Dark Eldar find them traumatizing* Drahza: *killing everything with his massive sword* “Mediocre.” Mandrakes leader: *pops out of the shadows* “Hey kids, wanna see a dead body?” Lord Vect: *watching all this play out* “Hi, I’m Asdrubael Vect, and welcome to Jackass!”
I like how the lore pros makes these guys out to be the absolute edgiest Mary Sues of all time but the Cons basically say “Yah despite all that, they are basically irrelevant to the entire universe, they’re like just a special flavor of Chaos once in a while”
They're irrelevant because they have a hidden impenetrable fortress and they just wanna hang out there and party hard while giving no shits about conquering or saving the universe.
I’ve kinda abused the liberties of flavor and made my army a chaotic neutral band of mercenaries that broke away from Commorragh and only torture Orks and Tyranids. Someone once asked me why even play Dark Eldar at that point and I just said I just think they look neat.
There would be zero point in torturing Tyranids. They wouldn't give any sustenance to Slaanesh it would be a waste of time to try and get screams from a fledgling in a hive mind.
Don't know unless you try. Maybe they could try to find some wat to torture or at least annoy the hivemind. Maybe doing some horrible genetics experiments to try and make a cancer tyranid variation is viable.
For anyone interested in getting some more depth on Dark Eldar lore I highly suggest the Path of the Dark Eldar omnibus or just Path of the Outcast (first book in the series I think) to dip your toes in. It's got some great examples of daily life on multiple social levels in Commoragh, the political conflicts in the city, how inter-kabal fighting works, how Vect's government works, how Commoragh works as a location/sub-dimension shit, and excellent depictions of weapons and vehicles to get a basic idea of how you might want to paint energy effects. I'm pretty sure it's pre-Ynnari becoming a bigger deal and pre- Big Dysjunction so it's kind of dated but it's a pretty good read.
Only books i read about 40k and i loved it since Drukhari are my favs...it really gives an idea of how powerful and frightening Vect is...loved how the Solitaire was looking for a way to get as far away from him every chance he got XD
I'm inspired to find the time to write the following: the Space Wolves get the idea in their bacon-addled brains to gather the entire chapter and assault Commorragh. They Primaris up as many of their number as possible; perhaps this isn't allowed by Cawl so they have to steal the means and puzzle it out on their own. Then, of course, they get slaughtered. Vect laughs his ass off as it happens and the few survivors are put into gladiatorial combat forever. This hands the Space Marines a massive loss, makes the Drukhari look like a legitimate power, and bonus points if in the epilogue Leman Russ returns and demands to know what happened to his children. Guilliman tries to explain the Space Wolves were dumbasses and Russ slaps the shit out of his brother. In addition to not playing Space Marine favorites, you have some of the family drama Space Marine fans really love. Everybody wins. Except the Space Wolves.
one problem the Inquisition has to my knowledge purged fenris and declared the space wolves renegades partly because of magnus but mostly because they are sill mad about the months of shame with the wulfen being he excuse for the purge
CBT elves, AKA, too edgy to be funny, to elvish to be serious. Also thanks for the explanation, all I know about deldar is lore and that they are paper thin.
Probably why when I play DoW1, I never use the Dark Eldar and even forgot about them. In fact I am wondering if there are Dark Eldar in the game and mistake Chaos as Dark Eldar
You should check out the audio fanstory called "Warboss Gitslaya in Commoragh" by Noman here on youtube. It pits DE against orks. I think he made the edginess of the DE way more interesting through humour, and letting them be a contrast against the orks and their shenanigans.
I normally do Chaos Space Marines of the Iron Warriors Legion, but I started a Drukhari army last year and I’m loving them. Rules and lore, seeing my evil little goth elves rip through my mate’s Black Templars was brilliant.
The Cenobites are so much less evil than the DEs; Pinhead and co actually believe they’re helping expand their victims consciousness and they practice what they preach on themselves as well.
