Editing Witch (section)

==Warhammer 40,000==
Witch in the 40,000 universe is mostly heard when an [[Imperial]] preacher or [[Inquisitor]] shouts ‘it’s a witch!’ to explain any unexplainable events caused by a person, <s>even if they are completely blameless.</s>{{BLAM}} {{BLAM|The Emperor’s Holy Inquisition never makes a false judgement!}} The [[Imperium]] almost uses it like a swearword to label any psyker regardless of race as such. Chaos magicians and psykers are almost always called witches when the Imperium sees them and these fun loonies seem to have no trouble accepting the term.
 
The [[Dark Eldar]] have ‘wyches’, although these are not female magic users. These [[wyches]] are barely clothed (except for leather straps), gorgeous [[gladiator]]s that fight for the amusement of the audience and to get a kick out of dominating men by removing their body parts a piece at a time (so basically the sexy witch version minus the magic). To counter the sexism accusations in the most recent Dark Eldar codex it is mentioned there are male wyches but they are kept as breeding stock. So yeah, way to shoot yourself in the foot GW. This is mostly because female Dark Eldar for some reason can take more combat drugs than males without ODing, which gives them a considerable edge in the gladiatorial fights. (That, and they're naturally more graceful and acrobatic, among other things, such as [[Promotions|attractiveness]] and the fact that most of the males sign up as [[Shaman|Beastmasters]] instead.)