Hey I'm all for it, this is why I'm subbed to this channel and partly why I am an eldar main in dawn of war, I would get into the table top but I refuse to until I get a 3d printer because fuck GW and them hating the eldar that they refuse to update their models.
Guilliman cursed, glaring heatedly at the Eldar stood before him. “Damn you Eldrad, will you ever forsake these vexing mind games and your fixation on vague portents of doom?! “LOL.” Replied Eldrad. “LMAO.”
As a Deathwatch fan (More because I’m a fan of XCOM), I would like to apologize to the spess elfs for flubbing of the creation of the David Bowie Elf God. Especially to that poor Harlequin that was genuinely begging that Watch Captain to think ahead for an microsecond.
My party’s +5 charisma character plays her character like Eldrad - shows that the skill of the swordswoman is more important than the size of the sword
I want a story of an eldar farseer, but he is actually near sighted. So he's constantly seeing into the future and accurately predicting future events, but then bumps into things every 20 feet.
As a custodes fan I can say that you're right. Eldar should get their time to shine. And if anyone is gonna clown on them it should be the followers of the clown god.
Eldrad is a funny character to me. He always seems to get most future events correct, but always can't prevent it from happening due to fucking up. Either his fault or not. Reminds me of the story of the Princess of Troy Cassandra who kept telling people about what's gonna happen but got ignored with the city getting destroyed and her enslaved and later killed by a jealous wife. While not having the same fate it's still tragic that he can't prevent the events from happening or ends up causing said event.
That's pretty much the Eldar's lot, isn't it? Find out some bad shit is about to happen, try and warn people or do something against it, only for the thing to happen anyway, because something something fate.
He is the space elf version of Bardock, father of Goku. Also he isn't dead yet, there's still time for him to be killed by the jealous lover of a slaver.
@@Sammy9262actually it's less something something fate and more the death watch would doom the entire galaxy to Chaos or tyranid vore if it meant spiting one Eldar. They're determined to see the galaxy burn forever no matter what.
While i can't remember how it was written when they fought the custodes I just imagined it as the 7 harlequins managed to take smaller groups of custodes until they could consolidate, and it makes sense that one on one it should be up in the air since a smaller faster opponent with armour piercing is the kind of enemy they would logically struggle against
@@yeetman1344 basically haha. Their main weapon the Harlequins Kiss is the one I was talking about, but they have a few other weapons similar that just allow them to punch through ceramite etc.
@@yeetman1344 yeah 😂 it's pretty insane how it works tbh, the Eldar for being a "superior" race really have some messed up weapons haha. Even the shuriken catapult is a microfilament ninja star that shoots out at insane fire rates and literally shreds the target apart. They also have this weapon that shoots a webbed net and essentially does what that laser grid in the first resident evil movie does 😂
The Harlequins beating a bunch of Custodes sounds pretty believable to me. It sounds better than some other fights in the setting. Like that time Grimnar and his Wolf Guard killed a Grey Knight Grandmaster and his paladin bodyguards while walking away with hardly a scratch on them. Then of course there's all the times the Avatar of Khaine gets owned.
I hate the Space Wolves, or rather most Astartes, with a passion but for some reason I couldn't keep a straight face when I read that segment of Grey Knights getting stomped by the Space Furries.
@@dankmemes7796It would be my re believable if the Harlequins each had to, like, sacrifice themselves to take out each Custodian, due to the fact that assuming the Harlequins Kiss weapon being able to pierce their armor and liquifying the Custodes in said armor, the Custodes would still be quick enough to retaliate in the time that the Harlequins take to pull their weapon arm out of melee range. It's believable that they could KILL the Custodes, but that doesn't imply superior combat skill when they have a one-hit-kill weapon.
You all dramatically overestimate the Harlequins. The Custodes teleport troops of Hive Tyrants into the palace on Tuesdays _for fun._ I doubt the scary clown men could even so much as scratch them, let alone kill them. Didn’t the author also admit that he confused the Ten Thousand with the Lucifer Blacks?(the guards of the _outer_ palace, whereas the custodians are the guardians of the _inner_ palace)
My fellow custodes fans always remember. If a Harlequin player brings up that time they killed a bunch of custodians. Remind them that..... They are totally right. ( they need this. We can take a single L, they don't have much)
*queue that video of Danny Devito slowly crying while whispering* "I get it... I get it now..." You are right. I will be nicer to the Harlequin player. All one (1) of them.
I recommend you read the Jain Zar book if you want to see a young, Pre-Horus Heresy Eldrad. He's absolutely great. Young, powerful, and completely assured of himself, treating his senior Farseers like the charlatans that they are and doing his own thing on the side while jamming his guitar (I'm not joking on that last part)
I remember reading that in the battle of Haranshemash, Eldrad was literaly over a mountain of daemons and just spamming his powers. Said battle is also one of the most impressive ones that GW unfortunally will never write a novel about, an absolute bloodbath where Fuegan kills 32 "daemon lords" and Skulltaker kills 20 exarchs.
I don't care if anyone disagrees with me, but the Imperium still stands, the eldar haven't died out, chaos is still held back and the galaxy as a whole hasn't been consumed by darkness yet is because of Eldrad's efforts for all these thousands of years. And after doing all that, when fate decides to fuck him over despite it all, he still continues to try and keep the dying light alive as long as he can for this unappreciative galaxy. THAT is why I think he's the true hero of the galaxy. That is why he's one of my favourite characters in the entire setting.
My personal favourite is Ahriman and I think his personal unwanted fuck ups and his hatred for chaos is one of the main things keeping the galaxy safe from chaos. Having one of the main guys on your team being randomly a genius or completely incompetent while playing against you half the time doesn't help, but what are you gonna do, let Skarbrand or Kharn devise the master plan?
In Ghost Warrior we get a tour of Eldrads house and its just about as different to any other faction leaders as you can get, made him far more likable to me.
I loved it when he pretty much told yvraine that most of his belongings were just stuff he got, instead of saying a fancy mean of war trophies, gifts from other craftworlds that owed him, or achievements that no other eldar got. He just used a basic monkeigh description for it.
Let it NEVER be forgotten that Abaddon got his arms ripped off in a melee fight to 40k equivalent to Teclis, IE an elf who's old AF and sickly to the point of being useless at melee
Man I wouldn’t call Eldrad incompetent. He just has a whole lot of shit working against him. The spite of the chaos gods, the ignorance and prejudice of the Imperium, half his race being living embodiments of sadism, all kinds of shit. After Ulthwe gave him the boot it was pretty clear that the only ones that ever truly, TRULY had his back were the harlequins. I mean, I know Barthusa Narek helped him take out most of the ranking members of the Cabal, but Barthusa was only in it because Eldrad promised that he would pull some strings to put Lorgar within sniping distance of Barthusa. Like, Eldrad’s last true friend died of a mortal wound dealt to him by Ferrus Manus, when his friend tried to warn Ferrus of the heresy. Since then, Eldrad’s been largely on his own.
I dislike his complete inhability at making himself clear because he always wants as few as possible people to know the plan, which generally ends up in other people not even being able to follow it correctly even if they tried. The other exiles are a good example.
They did not confuse the Custodes for anyone else, it's noted in the text that the weaker Lucifer Blacks gave way to the Custodes the further they got into the palace, and that they were a match for the Harlequins
There's a loyalist Word Bearer Dreadnought who became the Seraphim of The Emperor When he saw daemons attacking the planet he was on he walked out and pulled a Lich from Adventure Time by speaking one word and caused the Daemons to drop dead
Their are like 3 loyalist word bearers an older one who was killed for not abandoning the emperor, the one who worked for eldrad and malcador and the one who became a dreadnaught/living saint and helped edit the early imperial creed
If a couple of normal ass harlequins can murder a bunch of custodians im guessing a solitaire can just walts into the realms of chaos, murder slanesh and get back in time for lunch
Firstly, that's underestimating Harlequins just a bit, secondly, I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if Solitares *do* go on walks through the warp slaying Daemons on the regular.
I recently started playing dnd for the first time. My first character, half-orc fighter, got kidnapped by Strahd pretty fast so now I'm playing a wood ELF druid. My fellow party members are 2 half-ELVES and a human. We speak to one another in ELVISH a lot just so the human can't understand. Love me some orks but ELF is really fun. also I love your content :) also also you can't spell self without ELF. checkmate mon-keigh
Always a fan of Uldrad, and he deserves a full on win, even if it's a story where he inevitably finally meets his end. Also is it just me, or does that up close artwork shot of his actual face make him look a LITTLE like Hugo Weaving? Every time I see that art, I can't help but think it.
it's not just you man, I keep thinking Eldrad is WH40K's version of Elrond's movie version or some shit cause of that fanart has him look like Hugo Weaving for some reason, though to be fair a 40K version of Elrond would have been badass as hell
I have completely fallen in love with your channel since Friday. Been digesting every single vid while playing Warhammer 3. However, can you please tell me what songs you are using in the background? I hear an FTL song but thats all I recognize though the others sound familiar. Anyway, thank you for rekindling my absolute adoration for WHFB. Well, you and Total War: Warhammer but you sealed the deal. Wish I still had my 4th edition Dwarf book now... Also! Your love of the treacherous elves has made me reexamine them. When I was a kid I didn't like the elves because the dwarfs didn't but three decades later I am giving them another go. So again, thank you and keep up the good work! edit: just joined your channel. I always forget that option exists.
i dont know or care about warhammer fantasy or even 40k anymore but i watch your videos because they make me feel very comfortable for the 10-50 minutes they last. Thanks for that. No idea why thats my reaction though.
I definitely 100% do want lotara to step on me, but I actually do love her character, she literally shot a world eaters captain in the head because he was supposed to defend the ship but decided to join the fighting on the planet, and when she shot him, her first thought was “wicked headshot”
12:58 within this same story we had the Black Templars willingly let Eldar get within a planet’s distance of a primarch’s body because GW needed a deus ex to get the 8th edition setting retcon-shake-up
The gameplay loop of banished is always "wow this is going great we're expanding our civilisation so much!" to "oh god we flew too close to the sun, death spiral", no wonder you're a fan
He's ignored by other eldar because he's the only one who doesn't do the elf/eldar thing of "oh no I can't tell you to not touch or do this thing or why". He will actually just say it.
If Eldrad is the Phoenix Lord of the Seers, then theoretically, if he died, another Seer could wear his armour and bring him back. All the other Phoenix Lords have been resurrected multiple times, but Eldrad is still sitting on his first life, KD is 6trillion/0.
I maybe remember it wrong, but I thought the big E and his webway project is "Human creating their own sub-wrap tunnels" not just go in and takes over elf tunnels. Like yeah maybe they accidentally connect each other once in a while. But considering how the wrap is infinite large, chance are they are not ever gonna touch.
Eldrad, probably: "Once again the galaxy is quick to bury me... How could my own brothers believe that what transpired did not unfold exactly as I planned. Of course I could not have planned for an ambush *BY MY OWN FORCES!*..."
16:30. I think I remember that scene. It was basically Eldrad subtly including himself in with all the other immortal Eldar and Jain Zar responded to it as if that was fine before catching what he did. He basically did a bit of trolling, but I don't remember her disagreeing that hard with the idea and that he might one day be immortal.
"Sometimes the greatest of heroes are often those who are either shunned or hated, their deeds misread and their legacy tarnished by those they try to protect, yet still, they fight on know the price to pay is worth the suffering," - Goliath, Gargoyles Father of Taldeer and Macha, vanquisher of Abbadon the Despoiler, savior of Vulkan, greatest seer among his kind, RESPECT!
Well the only comment I really have is I really like the f****** music that you put in the background in this one and the other Space Wolves which I just watched
Hahah, damn, I miss old ifunny in a weird way. What a niche and precise reference that is also perfectly accurate. Good times, thanks for nostalgia and vid :)
Custodes beat Harlequins lore wise ever time. The only thing that could give the Harlequins a chance is if they have Solitaries. Tabletop different story as Custodes are strong but technically can lose to guardsmen so you know. Then the books are just Chaos. Really depends on the writer. None the less great Vid love to see Eldrad being a chad and the Eldar actually doing something. 👍
