Ulthwe the Damned

>Ulthwe the Damned
>a craftworld that's locked in a death spiral into the Eye of Terror. It's fate is to be eventually be devoured by the Eye. Hence why they are damned.

>Iyanden the fallen
>a craftworld who fell from its glory when the Tyranids ravaged it
>It's a desolate place where the living dead outnumber the living
>more DYING than the rest of the craftworld, it won't last long

>Biel-Tan
>A powerful craftworld whose symbol and mantra is rebirth and resurgence
>spent 10K years in a genocidal war of reclamation and conquest

Guess which Craftworld decided to "fracture" and make the focus of the next book. BIEL-TAN.

It makes no sense. If they want to push the doomed narrative they had Ulthwe and Iyanden since both craftworlds are already doomed. But most baffling is that they choose Biel-Tan as the focus of the Ynnead thing when Ulthwe and Iyanden were the main guys behind it. Biel-Tan has nothing to do with that storyline.

Explain it to me, plot progressfags

Irony.

Kayleth and Macha in Dawn of War have made Biel-tan the poster craftworld, so now GW dicks them.

All the Craftworld Eldar are doomed and they were all in with the Ynnead plot.

>Kayleth

She from Alaitoc, though.

Biel-Tan is probably the most powerful Craftworld in terms of military might, so it going down the shitter is a big deal.

Who's attacking Biel-Tan? Are they getting the Abbadick next?

Apart from Macha, Biel Tan had no special characters to call its own and we're in another era of Herohammer. The fact that they've also got a reputation for being berserkers with tonnes of Aspect Warriors (which have no new minis, so no new "buy this" fluff buffs) means them dying out is a cheap and easy way to raise the stakes. They're a faction of Worfs.

Rest In Peace, my beloved space racists.

>Who's attacking Biel-Tan?
United eldars.

Biel-Tan would seem to be the most likely of those three to react divisively to the stuff that seems to be happening in the next book (namely, birth of Ynnead and Eldar and DE teaming up to help Imperium fight Chaos).

Ulthwé already has a long tradition of teaming up with humans to fight Chaos, and, unlike Biel-Tan, won't immediately turn around and kill the humans once the bigger problem is dealt with (having Imperium maintaintain strong presence around the Eye benefits them since that means there's less pressure put on them by the forces of Chaos). Eldrad from Ulthwé was also the one who was responsible for Ynnead's creation.
Iyanden would likely to be too busy just trying to not go extinct to really care that much, and their head spiritseer was also one of the main believers in Ynnead.

Biel-Tan on the other hand would likely to both have factions that belief the coming of Ynnead will herald the rebirth of the Eldar Empire, and ones that consider the whole thing to be shamn and the only way to reforge the empire is by extreminating all the lesser races. Similarly, some might advocate teaming up with DE to restore the Eldar race into a single whole, while others could see the DE as corruption and perversion of the ideal they strive for.

Now with the Eye of Terror expanding, does this mean that Ulthwe is dead?

>It makes no sense.

We don't know why Biel-Tan fractures, or what that even means. Why are you asking people to make sense of a storyline nobody has read yet?

That said, GW has had it out for Biel-Tan for awhile now, and their approach to these storylines does not reflect a writing team that respects the amount of investment it's audience has in it's setting or knows how to build a gaming campaign. I don't expect it to be satisfying, and they might even wipe Biel-Tan out to make Chaos Eldar.

We'll see.

Probably for the reasons you listed, as the strongest (and possibly biggest?) craftworld, GW can fuck them up and it won't feel far-fetched when they're still around afterwards.

no.

it remains to be seen whether there'll be any effects of that plotpoint or if it'll be just another thing to stick in the rulebook fluff to show just how close to midnight the setting is.

because it wasn't close enough already apparently.

The question is WHY they set the Ynnead plotline in a unrelated craftworld. For years Ynnead was a Ulthwe and Iyanden thing exclusively . To have Beil-Tan be the Craftworld that is the centerpoint of Ynnead's birth is a big slap in the face for the fans of other two craftworlds.

But what about Alaitoc and Saim-han?

Why would the other Eldar attack Biel-Tan?

What's an Eldar? Are they related to the Aeldari?

To get their soulstones to help birth Ynnead.

The thing is...who is going be the main bad guy in the next book. It happens at the same time as Cadia's fall so it cannot be Abaddon. You can't have a book without a chief bad guy,

Yes you fucking can, what are you, 12?

You can't. Nearly every warham campaign book has a big bad,

Ahriman, calling it now.

>Explain it to me
Biel-Tan's independent, warlike. and is the one craftworld most closely linked with their Avatar.

They're the one craftworld that would be most against unification. So the ynnead death cultists are going to fuck it up.

You're the cancer thats ruining warhammer and turning it more into Herohammer.

Go fuck yourself

>turning it more into Herohammer
I'm sorry, but GW is doing that.

Well, it clearly WOULD mean that Ulthwe is bye-bye, if this setting were remotely consistent with itself...
However, since the genius geedub writers and execs failed to consider that...erm...well, Ulthwe lives! It...it just got c-carried along as the Eye expands - YES! That will do......stoopid chump players will eat that up.........

So wait: geedubs now has eldar raping eldar over their soulstones??? That's hilariously stupid!!! Especially since it's been clearly and recently established that the farseers only see one (1) possible fatethread by which the eldar might survive (survive!): Cegorach tricks Slaanesh into saving them. That's it. That's the only way. This Ynnead nonsense is a non-starter, by geedubs own lore.

Farseers are wrong all the time

You seem to be under the impression that 40k lore is written by the sort of people who have read more than a brief summary of 40k.

I really can't imagine why.

Fracture of Biel-Tan sounds like Eldar civil war.

I love all you guys posting about this sort of thing. You literally have no idea because warhammer-community effortlessly became the main source of rumors and content about upcoming releases and you've literally no clue what it is beyond what they've posted and wild speculation.

Being an insufferably smug prick is one thing, but doing so while providing nothing useful takes it to another level.

Well, oh grand high master of geedubs lore: why don't you clue us in with your knowledge and wisdom?

BTFO'd!

show mercy

His point is that we don't know. All we know is the title, and that Ynnead is somehow involved. "Fracture" could mean a lot of things.

Ward or some other shitbrain is writing it? When this niggaa gonna die? Why GW doens't just dump their asses and hire some good writers?

>W40k was a mistake

What if thanks for the mess that happened in Cadia that made the Eye of Terror smaller for a while, Ulthwe "somehow" used it that chance to go far of the center and win a few more years?

Were the Biel Tan infinity circuits wiped because of Eldrads dick baggery?