Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25507520-20150422230011/@comment-6078851-20150509125037

the shaman decided to suicide because, over a long period of time and multiple generations, they were finding it harder to reincarnate because emergent forces within the warp would occasionally snack on a shaman soul. shaman souls may have been a delicacy but they were in no way pursued to the degree eldar souls are. also, if the shaman had access to spirit stone technology then they would have used it, since, as you rightly point out, it was a huge risk for them, and part of the risk was the fact that they only numbered at a few thousand.

relatively speaking slaanesh hasn't devoured much eldar souls since the majority of craftworld eldar souls, from the last 15 to 20,000 years, are within spirit stones or infinity circuits. as such, the sheer volume of highly psychic eldar souls that will go into the creation of ynnead ought to imbue it with far more power than emps, which in turn will make ynnead a far bigger threat to the chaos gods than emps.

and for the record, the only craftworld eldar i know of that wish to exterminate humanity is biel-tann. despite the inate arrogance of eldar there's very few who wish to exterminate other life forms.

i know that the eldar think ynnead could lead to the rebirth of the eldar empire but i've always wondered about their logic on this one: ynnead will be born after their deaths, so how could any empire be reborn when its citizenry are all dead? :)  or maybe that's why the exodites aren't part of this belief - they'll be the inheritors of the craftworlds' legacy of creating ynnead.

you can't see emps and ynnead teaming up against chaos, really? the one thing that has the eldar willingly team up with humans, repeatedly, is the fight against chaos. emps is the epitome of humanity and ynnead (if he/she/it comes to be) will be the epitome of the eldar, so to think they wouldn't team up against chaos is foolish. emps could really do with some back-up: the dude must be so tired from his ten thousand year fight that he'd love someone to tag-in :P