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YRIEL’S RAIDERS

by Matt Keefe

Although Eldar Corsairs are a constant threat to merchant shipping, they very rarely pose a major

threat to Imperial battlefleets. The same cannot be said of the dozens of fleets of Eldar ships that

protect each Eldar Craftworld. Each of these Craftworld warfleets is a deadly and highly potent force

that is capable of laying waste to an entire sub-sector.

Over fifty years before the Tyranid assault, High Admiral

Yriel had led Iyanden fleet. Although he was considered

one of the greatest Eldar naval tacticians to have ever

lived, his character was flawed by the sin of pride. When

Iyanden had been threatened by a Chaos space fleet

raiding out of the Eye of Terror, Yriel had led the fleet on

a pre-emptive attack on the Chaos Fleet's flagship, leaving

Iyanden Craftworld unprotected. He only returned just in

time to stop a suicide attack by a small flotilla of Chaos

raider ships, who nonetheless managed to damage the

Craftworld. Expecting to be feted and honoured for his

victory, Yriel was deeply angered when he was called upon

to defend his course of action. Claiming that his record

should speak for itself, Yriel refused to enter into the

debate, leaving his old friend Kelmon no choice but to

elect a new High Admiral in his place. Bitter with rage,

Yriel vowed that he would never set foot on Iyanden

again. He and a small band of followers left the Craftworld

and formed an Eldar raider company that became the

single most powerful Eldar pirate force operating in the

galaxy.

When he heard of the Tyranid's assault on Iyanden, Yriel

did his best to ignore the terrible peril that threatened his

old Craftworld. But proud though he was, righteously

angry though he was, Yriel could not leave lyanden to its

fate in this, its very darkest hour. Battling his way through

the Tyranids' psychic blockade, Yriel swept to the aid of his

people. He arrived just in time.

Like a thunderbolt from the blue Yriel and his raider fleet

smashed into the Tyranid Hive Swarms. He was quickly

joined by the few remaining craft of lyanden's fleet, and

together the combined Eldar space fleets tore the Tyranid

Swarms apart. Two more waves of Tyranid Hive Swarms

attacked the Craftworld, only to meet the same fate. Not a

single Tyranid ship reached the Craftworld, though the

cost to the Raiders was dear. Bloodied but unbowed the

Raiders prepared to sell their lives to the last in order to

turn back the next wave of Tyranids. On the bridges of the

Craftworld and of the circling Eldar ships vigilant eyes

watched the scanners, waiting for the first tell-tale blip

that would indicate the direction of the next assault.

Minutes passed, then hours, and with a growing sense of

wonder the Eldar realised that no more Tyranid Swarms

were coming - the assault was over. The Hive Fleet had

been destroyed!

But on Iyanden Craftworld the war went on. The Tyranid

Hordes that had been fighting a tenacious rearguard

action awaiting the aid of the rest of the Hive Fleet now

turned like cornered rats and hurled themselves at the

Eldar. Caught by surprise the Eldar staggered back,

desperately trying to hold the suicidal Tyramd onslaught.

The Fortress of the Red Moon fell to a surprise attack. and

for a moment it seemed that with victory within their

grasp the Eldar would be defeated. But, for the second

time, Yriel led his Raiders to the rescue of the Craftworld.

Disembarking from their orbiting spacecraft the Raiders

joined with the battered defenders of Iyanden Craftworld

and, yard by yard. step by step, forced the Tyranids back.

A final wild charge led by the Tyranid Hive Tyrant was

annihilated by the combined efforts of the Avatar, Yriel

and the Ghost Warriors. and then in a series of vicious

one-sided battles the last of the Tyranids were hunted

down and destroyed. The Tyranid attack on Iyanden

Craftworld was over. The Tyranids had been defeated.

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FLAME OF ASURYAN, YRIEL’S FLAGSHIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320 points

It is here that the most powerful and wise of

Iyanden’s leaders gather for all talk of war and it is

here that the armies of Iyanden muster when the

time comes. There is no place more sacred, nor

more heavily guarded within the entire Craftworld.

At the centre of this great shrine burns a constant

flickering fire, the Flame of Asuryan itself – a beacon,

a symbol of hope to the Eldar of the Craftworld. It is

said that the Flame of Asuryan is the burning fire

with which the Eldar will claim victory over all who

would attack the Craftworld, though it is also said

that should the flamed ever go out, Iyanden’s light

will diminish also. When Yriel led the Craftworld’s

fleet, he was considered to be the favoured of

Asuryan, and amongst his many great titles earned

himself the honorific of ‘Bearer of the Flame’, and

duly renamed his flagship The Flame of Asuryan

accordingly.

The Flame of Asuryan is magnificent, even by the

standard of Dragonships. It bears three great sails –

one born upon its long elegant spine, and another

pair each mounted atop the great outriggers to its

flanks, both of which also bear deadly pulsar lances.

The Flame of Asuryan bore Yriel to many great

victories at the head of the Iyanden fleet and he

would give little thought to parting with the vessel

once his own rank was lost and his own place

amongst the Craftworld taken from him. Instead, he

and his most loyal followers departed, Yriel himself

still aboard his mighty flagship. By such means did

the Flame of Asuryan come to depart the Craftworld

of Iyanden.

When Hivefleet Kraken descended upon Iyanden,

Yriel made no attempt to aid his former home, but

when the Tyranids overran Iyanden and threatened

the Shrine of Asuryan itself, he could no longer

ignore its calling. Returning at the head of a mighty

fleet of raiders who he had gathered about him in his

years of exile, Yriel smashed aside the Tyranid fleet.

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Notes: The Flame of Asuryan carries the most fearsome members of Yriel’s own pirate warband, which count as an Aspect

Warrior Fighting Crew.

A t the heart of Iyanden lies the Shrine of Asuryan.

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THE CRAFTWORLD’S & THE OUTCASTS

The Eldar are an incredibly ancient race, who once ruled

a vast empire across the stars. Then came the hideous

times of the fall, when the Eldar were consumed by their

own decadence and fell from power. The few who

survived were scattered across the stars in their vast

Craftworlds - vessels as large as worlds which now stand

as the Eldar race’s last remaining havens.

Eldar Pirates are outcasts – Eldar who have turned away

from the Path and abandoned their craftworld. These

Eldritch Raiders live quite apart from the orderly,

disciplined Eldar of the Craftworlds forming ravenous

bands of pirates, corsairs and raiders. As with other

outcasts, some of these eventually return to the Path, or

may retain some ties to their original craftworld.

However, the wilful and unaccountable actions of the

Outcasts stand far apart from the carefully scryed and

considered actions of the Craftworld Eldar, and for the

most part the Farseers show great reluctance for their

own peoples to mix with the wayward and dangerous

Outcasts.

It is impossible to say with certainty how many

Craftworlds there are. They were built many millennia

ago in great urgency and in times of unimaginable peril.

The turmoil and confusion which preceded the

destruction of the Eldar worlds was great. All higher

government had long since ceased to operate, and it was

only thanks to the heroic actions of a few far-sighted

individuals that the Craftworlds were built at all.

Combining Eldar Craftworld and Corsair Vessels

Outright alliance between fleets acting on the will of a

Craftworld’s Seers and the more volatile, self-serving

Eldar Corsairs is relatively rare, but certainly not

unknown. It does, however, usually only occur when a

knowledgeable leader of great influence is present, able

to both satisfy the careful measured desires of the Seers

yet at the same time prove his might to the more

aggressive pirates. Such leaders, like the legendary Yriel,

are rare, but the fleets they command are invariably

powerful.

The Eldar Path

Aware that it was the ineffable power of their own whims

and desires which had so wantonly brought about their

downfall, the survivors, the Eldar of the Craftworlds,

have developed a way to control their own inner natures.

Every Eldar chooses for himself a discipline which he

then makes it his task to master. It may take years to

successfully accomplish this, perhaps more than a single

human lifetime. Each discipline is rightly called a path,

and each path may necessitate further choices and

specialisations. For example, the Path of the Warrior has

many Aspects, and whilst all enable the Eldar to master

the skills of combat, each Warrior Aspect brings with it its

own special techniques and abilities. Other paths include

that of the Bonesinger, as the psycho-technicians of the

Craftworlds are called, who craft wraithbone and other

psycho-plastic materials to fashion the material artifacts

of the Eldar. There are innumerable paths, some chosen

but rarely, each offering its followers a complete way of

life.

Ordinarily, Craftworld Eldar fleets CANNOT use the

Reserves rules to pick ships from a Corsair fleet (nor vice

versa). To use a mixed Craftworld and Corsair fleet, you

must first choose to use ONE particular Eldar fleet list. In

place of that fleet’s normal Fleet Commander option,

you must then choose an Eldar Hero (listed below). The

presence of an Eldar Hero then entitles your fleet to take

ships from the ‘other’ Eldar list (i.e. reserve Corsair ships

if your fleet is a Craftworld Eldar fleet, reserve Craftworld

Eldar ships if your fleet is made up of Corsairs).

FLEET COMMANDER

Eldar Hero

Your fleet may be led by an Eldar Hero, in place of its

normal fleet commander.

Outcasts & the Path

Sometimes the rigid constraints of the Eldar path are

intolerable even for an Eldar to bear; such individuals

leave their Craftworlds and become known as Outcasts.

Many Eldar spend years or decades as Outcasts before

they return to the Eldar path. Outcasts must bear the

terrible burden of their heightened Eldar consciousness

without the protection of the Eldar path. Set free within

the universe they are dangerously vulnerable. Only Eldar

of especially strong character can survive for long as

Outcasts. After years of adventure and wandering, or

sailing the seas of space aboard the pirate fleets, most

Eldar eventually return to the sanctuary of the Eldar path.

Eldar Hero(Ld10) .....................150 pts

You may purchase re-rolls for your Eldar Hero by paying

the cost listed below:

One re-roll .............................50 pts

Two re-rolls .............................75pts

Three re-rolls ..........................100 pts

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