Tales of Anaris, WIP Eldar 40K Story, about a sword.....

This is the first bit, constructive criticism is always welcome.
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Warlock Malhier slowly descended down the steps, his guardians on either side. He could feel the infinity circuit pulsing beneath his feet and it was not happy. It had been screaming for action for days now. Which explained his presence in the domains of the farseer. He had been summoned to answer the calls of his ancestors. He slowly approached the door, gesturing to the guardians that they could leave him now.

"Is the farseer here?” Malhier called into the darkness.

"Yes, child I am present and we have much to discuss.” Malhier looked at the farseer, stunned by the dazzling brightness that appeared like a beacon from the warp, enshrouding the farseer like a cloak. The Farseer's armour was immaculate; it's runes glowing a steady countering red to the swirling brightness around the farseer.

"What do the runes require?"

"You, my brother must retrieve an item that holds priceless value to our craftworld. Beware however for those who hold it will not let it go easily."


"Who holds this device?"

"A Mon-keigh inquisitor and he must not be allowed to discover it's power."

Malhier hesitated, he didn't want to know the answer to this question but, he needed to know," What artifact has he defiled?"

The farseer looked at Malhier his sorrow radiating out causing the nimbus around him to dim to a deep blue," He has found and holds the blade, Anri made by skilled artisans of our craftworld, it was made to remind us of Anaris; the blade which is our namesake."

Malhier walked like a man among the dead from the Farseer's chamber stumbling and face seemingly glued into a permanent expression of awe and terror. He fell down before the unofficial leader of his guardians, an ex-musician called Veli.

"Are you okay sir?” he asked.

Malhier slowly rose form the floor shaking off his shock," Yes, yes, I am fine. This mission has just surprised me that's all."

"It must have been a great surprise to have startled you like that sir."

"Not more so then anything else our little motley crew has been asked to do, in our little ever running test."

Veli smiled at the though, they were after all a most strange squad," It can't be any worse then that time we
had to leap from a flying Mon Keigh thunderhawk in primitive jump packs down into a mob of orks. So that we could assist in the extraction of that exarch."

Malhier allowed himself a grin at that one it had all gone according to plan till the Exarch ended up in close combat with that Warboss as the orks called him. “Let us hope this mission has a better success rate.”

“Well, we did get the soulstones out of there, that was the task.”

“Yes, however we only barely got out and we failed to rescue the Exarch.”

“Well, that’s just the way it goes some time, so how bad is the mission.”

Malhier smiled inside his head, Veli had always been an optimist. "Actually while on the same idea as the others this one could be a bit worse."

"Really? Well what have they got in mind this time?"

"Have you ever heard of Anri..."

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Inquisitor Replezon walked down the dark halls of his Apocalypse Class Battleship. It had taken many years to acquire then transform it into his perfect vision of a ship. Even now it barley sufficed and no doubt it would be much longer before he was truly happy with it. Still it would do for this mission.

Replezon smiled at the thought of what awaited him in the next room. Behind that solid plasteel door, in the dank darkness of the interior, was his latest "acquisition". An Eldar sword of incredibly old make, and just bubbling with intense psychic energies. He of course had yet to touch it, and had been proved correct in his practicality when the thrall that tried to steal it burned to a crisp in seconds. He smiled at the thought and pushed the door open. He never kept it locked, after all no one could exactly steal it could they?

He was instantly greeted by the sound of the guarding servitors surrounding him with laser aiming devices. "Epsilion code blue", he said giving the disarming signal.

"Inquisitor is that you?” a voice beckoned from the shadows.

"Yes, Magos it is I", he responded as the Tech Priest moved from the shadows, it's body more rust covered machine then man. It, Repelzon had never bothered to find out its name or true gender, moved with the grace of a tow truck towards the sword.

"Good, I was wondering when you would come to see what I had found out", it said it's voice a dry rumbling vox devoid of emotion.

"Well, what is this blade Magos, and spare me the whole evil incarnate and defiled machine spirit junk I'm on a schedule."

The Magus looked slightly ticked, but perhaps that was Repelzon's imagination, it was rather hard to tell after all." This red moon like design here is the symbol of a great hero of the Eldar, a being called Eldanesh. This allowed me to deduce the blade's probable name using the databanks here. This may be Anaris, which translates roughly as dawnlight; it is supposedly the most powerful blade ever made. It was even rumored to have been made to kill a God."

Repelzon allowed himself a second to grin; this would be perfect...

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Malheir walked down the glimmering blue halls of the Craftworld towards the only webway gate with enough space to take his ship to it's first destination. He could still feel the ancestors' voice commanding him, but no longer were their cries full of anger. No, instead they demanded haste. Will they just be quite and leave me to my errand!, Malhier thought angrily, then hurriedly halted that train of thought before it could continue. If anything was wrong with him it was his anger problem. His Morfessa had always said he was going to end up some Exarch or other consumed with bloodlust. Well, he hadn't quite proved her wrong.... he wasn't an Exarch just the unofficial head of an unofficial Aspect.... which boiled down to an unofficial exarch. Annoyed he popped that thought bubble as well.

He was grateful when they arrived at the hanger bay bringing an end to his tirade of unending turmoil. Sure one did have to improve even while remaining static but, still self doubt led to death and death alone.

Malhier boarded the ship his guardians behind him.

On to Drazhina....

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Malhier listened to the footsteps ringing of the psychoplastic,step,step,step....

Slowly he drew his sword, silently he began to count....

Step

Step

The he lunged forward sword swinging, his opponent failing to react in time, ending up gutted on the floor. Malhier breathed then saw the smile on the face of the "corpse", ducking he swung his right foot out and eviscerated the guardian behind him.

The newly "dead" guardian, a former musician called Durla, frowned at him,"How did you know I was there warlock?"

Malhier grinned back, "Alisni over there was smiling, she thought you could take my head."

Alsini rose," Sorry, I just thought it was great that we were about to vanquish the master, do you forgive me my brother in arms?"

Durla beamed a smile at her,"Of course I do my sister in war."

Alsini just stood there and grinned.

Malhier left the room leaving those two to clean up. This ship called, "Downlights Arrival", was rather lovely in its teal hues. It should suffice til they arrived at the maiden world of Druzhina where the sword had been kept.

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It had been days of travel to arrive here, days of boredom and tedium where he had worked his team to the bone, promising them a rest when they arrived.

Malhier now looked down in disgust at the world they had come so far to save.

Druzhina......., why in the world can anything go according to plan?

Really his disgust was at the chaos ships which were currently unloading troops unto the planets surface.

Malhier sighed, might as well assemble the troops. Mentally he changed his schedule.

Get in there, kill as many as possible, get to the shrine, get the evidence and maybe a tracking device, survive.......

Survive was always at the end of his list. No matter where they went everything went to the Warp. Idly he wondered if the Farseer had foreseen this. More then likely not as the denizens of Anaris were always testing his Aspect to see if it was worth making permanent. He sighed and drew his blade already prepared to slaughter.

Blood Runs. Anger Rises. Death Wakes, War Calls Me To His Service......

(EDIT-- thanks dan)I really dont understand what you mean by unoffical. Either he is or he isnt. An unoffical leader would still be an offical leaderin some eldar way. If ur using that to play inot his anger probelm thingy, Eldar view anger as a primitive emotion, and so wont show it unless alone, or maybe even not at all, prefering to convert it to rage on the battlefield.

Remember, rust is a sign of degadation. No faithful tech priest would let it happen to him/her. Most tech preist also use brass, as it is the Omnissiah's msot favored of metals.

I do like all the rest though. Keep it up, I wanna se some killing soon. :D

guardians are not an aspect they are a militia that are called when needed and unofficial leader means a guardian who is decided to take charge of the squad

which edition would his be in? maybe i have old fluff....

it was in the codex craftworld eldar when talking about ulthwe craftworld
"unlike other craftworld's guardians ulthwe's are a standing army rather than a militia"

mmm....old lexicanm listed guardians as a aspect...i checked, and it was changed quite some time ago....like after i left it as an editor....damn old fluff. i shall hunt u down a beat ur little ignorace with a stick...

see the lexicanum ... look for guardian.

1. paragraph before talking about the Guardian Aspects (like Storm Guardians etc)
Quote:

All Eldar are called to arms if their craftworld is threatened. There are simply too few Aspect Warriors available, and Eldar who are treading a 'civilian' path serve as Guardians who form the bulk of the Eldar armies.

an out dated version of the lex, from like may or so had guardians listed as an aspect. An oversight im sure. i remembered, in the case it cam in hanfy, and now i looked, and its been changed. Surely because someone as an editor had some info that said so, and it wa sproven wrong sometime since may and now.

ill check the eldar codex lader (4e, 3e & craftworld 3e) perhaps i can dig up some printed facts...

update 4e of Codex Eldar

it says due to the decline in the population evrey eldar (civilian) is traint to take up armes and fight as a Guardian if the forces are needed (for defence purposes) - offensive actions would be an Aspect Warrior of the Eldar i think, but that depends on what the Eldar (or Phil Kelly as the author) would define as defensive ;)..
There is nearly no information about the normal Guardian in the previous edition.

exactly. i just found my only codex....3e eldar. Couldnt find anything.

look in codex craftworld eldar the black one with the avatar on the front with the description of black guardians in the ulthwe section

well the 4e is the newer codex style ... the 3e of the eldar seem to be a bit fluffless like the 3e SM codex, or 3e Tyranids - at least i think they put more fluff in the newer versions, not all ... there were some that were more fluffbooks than a codex like Eye of Terror, Armageddon, Craftworld Eldar others have quite a good fluff part but especially the three mentioned were only describing the Special Characters more intensive leaving the standard troops +/- untouched.

all this codex talk is confusing me, i dont use them. all my knoledge is from books, and all i know of codexes is from the lex

sure books offer more fluff but try to find a single line in a book that has 400-500 pages.
although i have no books about the eldar (except brothers of the snake & crimson tears both beeing dark eldar ), i don't like them enough to read a whole book about them (as protagonists, same with elves in fantasy)..

There isn't much out there. Unless you want Eldar Prophecy, Warrior Brood, or Warrior Coven, all by CS Goto, who is the least worthy writer on GW's payroll.

Overmind has better context of fluff then Goto, and this is just a couple hundred word short story.