Editing Phoenix Lord

The '''Phoenix Lords''' are the founders of the [[Eldar]]'s [[Aspect Warrior]] shrines, and are ''the'' authorities on what it means to practice their respective Aspects.  They embody their Aspects so completely that their students often get trapped in that Aspect and become [[Exarch]]s.

As of the 41st Millennium, the Phoenix Lords are not properly alive any more; their spirits have integrated themselves with their armor, so if they do fall in battle, they can be resurrected by having someone new don the suit, and they're back in action, though the unfortunate Eldar who dons the suit gets overwritten by the original Phoenix Lord's personality and memories.

On the battlefield, they wield upgraded versions of their Aspect's weapons and have both of the powers available to their Aspect's Exarchs (unsuprising, considering that they taught their Aspect everything).

Supposedly, these Lords will be heavily involved in the final battle against [[Chaos]]; given that Phoenix ''King'' is one of [[Asuryan]]'s titles, there may be something to this rumor.

== Asurmen ==

'''Asurmen, the Hand of [[Asuryan]]''' was the first Phoenix Lord and founded the Dire Avenger Aspect, and he founded more of his shrines than any of the later Phoenix Lords.  Many of his students went on to found Aspects of their own.

== Jain Zar ==

'''Jain Zar, the Storm of Silence''' was one of Asurmen's first students and later founded the Howling Banshees Aspect.  She still visits all of the shrines to her Aspect every century or so.

== Baharroth ==

'''Baharroth, the Cry of the Wind''' founded the [[jump pack]]-toting Swooping Hawks aspect.  He was the youngest (and most energetic) of Asurmen's first class of students.

== Arhra ==

'''Arhra, the Father of Scorpions''' (also called '''the Fallen Phoenix''') founded the Striking Scorpions Aspect.  Somewhere along the way, he fell to [[Chaos]], and left the [[Craftworld]]s.  He is suspected of joining the [[Dark Eldar]] as [[Drazhar]], Master of Blades and Hierarch of the Incubi (which he got by killing the previous Hierarch and his bodyguards).

== Karandaras ==

'''Karandaras, the Shadow Hunter''' is the Phoenix Lord of the Striking Scorpions (how he got this title from Arhra is unknown), and while he is more loyal to the Craftworlds, he is no less mysterious than his predecessor.

== Fuegan ==

'''Fuegan, the Burning Lance''' founded the Fire Dragons Aspect.  He was thought lost when Arhra tried to destroy Asurmen's shrine, but he turned up later to fight [[Chaos]] on an [[Exodite]] world.  He is supposed to be the one to call the other Phoenix Lords to the final battle against Chaos, and will be the last of them to die.

== Maugan Ra ==

'''Maugan Ra, the Harvester of Souls''' founded the Dark Reapers Aspect.  He was the first Phoenix King to include ranged weapons as part of his Aspect; his personal weapon is the Maugetar (which is a great name for a musical instrument), which is a beefed-up shuriken cannon with a scythe-like built-in power blade, thus achieving the ultimate fusion of [[dakka]] and [[choppy]].  His Craftworld, [[Altansar]], got sucked into the [[Eye of Terror]], but during [[Abbadon]]'s thirteenth [[Black Crusade]], he managed to drag it back out.

== Irillyth ==

'''Irillyth, the Shade of Twilight''' founded the Shadow Spectres Aspect.  He had a vision that his craftworld, [[Mymeara]], would be destroyed unless he took action to end the threat pre-emptively.  He gathered up a bunch of warriors from Mymeara and went to find them, and they were victorious, but they also never returned, so everyone figured that that was the end of the Shadow Spectres.  Later, they found the world that he and his army had invaded, an ice planet colonized by the [[Imperium of Man]] in the meantime, and so they raided it and got his armor back, thus reviving him and his Aspect (and explaining why neither he nor his Aspect were represented in the [[Eldar]] codices to date).

Irillyth (along with the Shadow Spectres) was created and sculpted by [[Forge World]] for [[Imperial Armour]] Volume Eleven: The Doom of Mymeara.

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