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jehts
jehts

Great line , great voice acting ! much impressed :D

-Eldar lover

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Kimoxxie
Kimoxxie

That.....may be best. So yes....very good.

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GeneralMischievous
GeneralMischievous

"He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster" and all that. Yeah, we are well clever and spooky. Nice work on the lines Branson.

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Eldar wraithlord... again. The previous set sounded far too... machine-like. I must admit that I love how the wraithguard set finished up, and I re-performed the wraithlord and edited it in order to be closer to their smaller comrades.

(Pretentious artsy discussion commencing in 3...2...1...)

Reconsidering the scripts for the wraithlord, it once again struck me how creepy the concept of eldar ghost warriors is, how existentially disturbing it is.

Speaking with GeneralMischievous (voice of the wraithguard, kommandos, chaos warhound and more) a while back, we remarked upon a comment on the UA preview of the wraithguard voice - that it sounded very much like a necron unit. And this, we agreed, actually seemed entirely fitting. Though it wasn't the original intent (the voices were actually inspired by: Youtube.com ), we agreed that this necron similarity is pretty appropriate.

In the 40K fluff, the Eldar are often viewed as the nemeses of the Necrons, and vice versa. The latter symbolising death and the undead, while the Eldar are those that embraced to their fullest the experiences and sensations of life, and now are the very race dangling on the precipice of extinction, clinging dearly to life.

The concept of ghost warriors betrays this aspect of the Eldar utterly, embracing death and using it for their own means. In the most recent eldar codex, the use of ghost warriors is described as 'abhorrent to the Eldar, and that to use wraithfighters is to 'teeter on the brink of atrocity'. The latter is described as a very controversial component of the eldar arsenal, what's more.

This hearkens beautifully to Christopher Dawson's aphorism, that "As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy".

To me this shows a really neat, if unintentional, result of a people pushed to the limits of their ethics in a fight for survival.

(/rant)