Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25507520-20150422230011/@comment-6078851-20150510144710

wow...

first off, eldar are not "basically immortal", not even close. yes they can live multiple human generations but they generally don't live much over 1,000 years, so to say that they're "basically immortal" shows a clear misunderstanding of the term 'immortal'. also, the plural of eldar is eldar.

as for the spirit stones, do you even know what they are for? they are used to store eldar souls in order to prevent them being consumed within the warp and to allow the infusing of a new being, and are 'designed' to allow a soul to be moved. how else do you think they move from spirit stones to an infinity circuit, and then from the infinity circuits to ynnead? as for the shaman comment, grow up: what you were supposed to get from that was that if the shaman had something to safegaurd their souls they would have used it, as the eldar are doing with spirit stones, during the transition between death and rebirth. also, the eldar don't practice reincarnation, as the shaman did, which is why i question the 'rebirth' of their species post-ynnead.

you have repeatedly shown that you don't know as much about eldar as you think you do: yes the eldar, in general but not unanimously, don't really care if humanity dies or not. they do indeed use humans, over and over again, and would happily sacrifice humanity to regain their empire, but again not all of them. but what they also do, is team up with humans in the fight against chaos - it's the one thing the eldar put aside their animosity towards humans for. and maybe even then the eldar let humans take the brunt of the casualties but that's totally fair - the eldar can't replace their numbers and humans breed like... well, humans. but time and again eldar willingly team up with humans to fight chaos.

any factual information regarding eldar i get from their codex (as well as this wiki) which is why i can say about the numbers slaanesh has devoured, my bad on that point, she did indeed consume the core of the eldar civilisation. as for ynnead only taking down slaanesh, that's not fact but simply the 'belief' of the eldar that believe. ynnead may not even come to exist. there are many instances of you taking what a character or a people believe and then saying "this is fact", when it's not.

now, regarding the potential power of ynnead: spirit stones have been a part of the eldar since at least the fall and although they are a dying race and don't have a great birth rate they have still been breeding for 15 to 20,000 years. craftworlds can number millions of inhabitants per-craftworld, and factoring in 15 to 20,000 years of breeding comes to billions of potential souls within spirit stones. obviously many die without getting into their spirit stones, or the stones are lost/destroyed before reaching an infinity circuit, but at the very least there is, as of right now, millions of eldar souls within infinity circuits waiting to birth ynnead. emps was birthed from a few thousand shaman (whose psychic might was a joke compared to eldar), so millions of eldar souls ought to create a being that will make a mockery of emps' power: it's a pretty simple equation.

and on emps and ynnead working together, i am referring to the fact of their monstrous intellects, and that they could see past the pathetic and petty attitudes of their respective races to fight against the common enemy, chaos.