Aeldari Titans

Eldar Titans are large mechanical, bipedal war machines produced by the Eldar. Similar to the lumbering Titans produced by the Imperium of Man, Eldar Titans combine grace, speed and deadly firepower. These tall, slim war engines are built towards the aesthetic, leaning towards grace and beauty rather than functionality.

Revenant Scout Titan

The Revenant is the smallest Eldar Titan, comparable to the Imperial Warhound Titan. All Eldar Titans are agile and graceful constructs, but the Revenant's compact size allows it to move with a swiftness and smoothness quite simply impossible for the war machines of other races. The Revenant also mounts a number of powerful jump jets on its leggy frame, turning its movement into a series of drifting leaps, or even gentle floating sweeps over the battlefield. Despite this almost ethereal grace, Revenant Titans are well-armed, powerful adversaries. Their pace, agility and ability to leap difficult terrain allows them harry the enemy lines in quick scouting raids before disappearing with the same terrifying speed. Revenant Titan crews are small, guided partially by the spirits contained within their wraithbone core, as is the case with all Eldar Titans. Where the larger Eldar Titans are sometimes crewed by twins or triplets, the smaller Revenants are often manned by just one of a pair of siblings, the second of whom will pilot a further Revenant, leading to the Titans hunting in packs, psychically linked to one another by the inherent bloodties of their twin pilots.

Phantom Titan

An Eldar Phantom Titan standing ready for war.

Eldar Titans are very different from the machine-constructs of other races. They benefit not only from the experience of their crew (who are raised with Titans from birth), but from the collective consciousness of Spirit Stones contained within the Titan, housing the souls of numerous dead Eldar. Phantom Titans are built around a Wraithbone core which permits the spirits contained within it to flow freely through the whole construct. This gives the Eldar Titan a consciousness of its own which, combined with its living crew, makes the Phantom such a deadly fighting machine.

Eldar births are rare, and new generations emerge only ever few hundred years, so every child is cherished in a manner other, younger races find hard to understand. Most revered of all are the rare occurrences of twin, or even triple births. Such sets of siblings are considered fated by the Eldar, and invariably find positions of great power within Eldar society. Many of these twins and triplets form crews for the Eldar Titans, where the natural emotional bonds between siblings, the Eldar's latent psychic powers and the special relationship between pilot, machine and spirit stones contained within combine to create a mastery of control few amongst even the Eldar could hope to achieve. Most sorrowful, yet most skilled, of all are those Eldar who have lost their kin to the depredations of a violent galaxy. These mourning Eldar often inter the spirit stones of their dead brothers and sisters within the wraithbone shell of a Titan and then take to the machine themselves, seldom emerging, preferring instead to remain within the Titan where they can yet commune with their lost siblings.

Phantom Titans are similar to Imperial Titans but show typical Eldar attributes. They are slimmer in build and much faster. Their weaponry is less about raw firepower and more about well-aimed crucial hits. For defense they use a Holo-Field which makes them harder to "see" and thus more difficult to target; the advantage is that they can avoid damage completely. However, Holo-Fields do not actually deflect firepower like Imperial Void Shields and Ork Power Fields. What makes Phantom Titans distinctive from those of lesser races is their crew. In addition to the living, the souls and memories of ancient Eldar warriors are maintained in the wraithbone matrix of the Titan.

Warlock Titan

A Warlock Titan contains within its wraithbone core, the spirits of mighty Eldar Seers and Warlocks. As they were powerful psykers in life, so too are they in death. The psychic strength of these dead spirits, focused and amplified by the titan's wraithbone structure is phenomenal, far outstripping the powers of the living. This potent psychic ability combined with the smooth agility of the Eldar Titans and their sophisticated weaponry, places the Warlock Titan at the very pinnacle of Eldar achievement in the realm of psychic engineering. Warlock Titans have an insight into the future or possible futures and they act in conjunction with the ebb and flow of the fates, moving with them in perfect synchronisation.

Sources

• Imperial Armour Volume Eleven - The Doom of Mymeara, pp. 203, 207
• Epic Swordwind Part 1, "Eldar Forces", pg. 24