Hemlock Wraithfighter

"The howling scream of Hemlock's passege... once heard, it can never be forgotten. Every night it echoes in my mind like a trapped soul; I know I will carry it to my grave. It was a sound of pure anguish, of the dead torn from their rest to terrify the living."

- Illithrys Goldmane, Everguard of Alaitoc

The Hemlock Wraithfighter is an Eldar psychic fighter aircraft. The Hemlock Wraithfighter is the subject of much controversy among he Craftworlds, for it is a weapon of utmost terror. To use such a device is to teeter on the brink of atrocity. Only the most dire of circumstances could force the Eldar to employ such abhorrent device, and those who do so have a stain upon their soul that is not easily erased. Yet the Autarchs know that they have little option -- they must use every weapon in their quest for survival.

The Hemlock blends the psuchic abilities of its Spiritseer pilot with the sinister gestalt energies of the Eldar dead. The co-pilots of these uncanny devices are not living beings at all but Spirit Stones that contain the essences of the departed Eldar. Just as the Ghost Warriors that accompany the warhosts to battle are inhabited by the spectres of the past, the Hemlock has a psychically reactove wraithbone core that functions a little like a miniature Infinity Circuit, thrumming with the essence of the otherworld. The spirits within the Hemlock's hull can operate the craft's basic functions should the rendered senseless, which is a just as well given the constant mental strain of sharing a weapon-shell with the brotherhood of the departed. Each Spiritseer pilot risks being driven slowly insane by the whispering voices within his Hemlock or, after communing with his co-pilots one time too many, having his spirit forever join the ghosts within the craft and leaving behind nothing more than an empty husk.

A herald of woe, the Hemlock Wraithfighter’s presence claws at the minds of the foe long before they hear the craft’s engines or see its forboding shape. The aircraft moves with terrifying grace and speed, appearing to those on the ground as a flickering phantom darting through the pall that rises above the battlefield. As the Spiritseer pilot manoeuvres the craft, his mind sifts the disembodied thoughts of his spectral co-pilot just as his mortal senses scan the horizon for foes. No creature is safe from the Hemlock, not man, nor Daemon, nor monstrous beast.

Rune
The rune of the Hemlock Wraithfighter bears the horns of the Hunter of Fates atop the skeletal symbol of the revenant-brought-to-life. It is the same rune used for the Cutting of the Crone’s Cord, an act by which a warrior severs the connection between body and soul -- and in doing so risks the wrath of Morai-Heg’s own shade, for such is the work of a god, not a mortal.

Wargear

 * Two Heavy D-Scythes
 * Mindshock Pod