Editing Phoenix Lord (section)

=== Irillyth ===
[[File:Irillyth I hope..jpg|250px|thumb|center|The derplord himself!]]
'''Irillyth, the Shade of Twilight,''' is the long-lost creator of the [[Shadow Spectres]] Aspect shrine and the Phoenix Lord with the [[Derp|derpiest]] backstory. Supposedly, after being lost for millennia, Irillyth and his warriors returned from [[Craftworld]] Mymeara, but it's really fucking dumb to suggest that the Eldar, a species that live for thousands of years, [[FAIL|somehow forgot about an entire aspect shrine within a few generations!]] How the flying fuck do you lose knowledge about something that your neighbor down the street is old enough to remember? No, that's just too dumb to believe. I do, however, have [[Blood Ravens|my own theory.]] Stupid idea? Yeah, it is, but it's more likely than what [[Games Workshop|Forge World]] came up with.

Anyways, Irillyth, like most of the Phoenix Lords, was trained by Asurmen. Midway through his training with the OG, Irillyth had a vision of a mysterious craftworld being destroyed. Vowing not to allow another craftworld to fall ([[FAIL|which worked out so well for him]]), he set out into the [[Webway]] to look for the Shadow Spectres he'd somehow lost already while he trained up his first generation of Shadow Spectres (in case it wasn't clear, [[Ollanius_Pius#New_Fluff|the lore surrounding this guy is a retcon heavy clusterfuck]]). [[FAIL|After searching for hundreds of years]] Irillyth found a [[Keeper of Secrets]] breaking down the Webway's wards to allow more daemons to infiltrate. After a mighty struggle with the daemon, Irillyth was pretty tired, so he [[FAIL|laid down for a quick nap and didn't wake up for a few thousand years.]] When he woke up he fucking finally found and saved Mymeara by taking half their forces and going on a suicidal campaign against the prophesied reptile aliens who would wipe them out. And he didn't get resurrected since all the Eldar he led were busy being dead and Mymeara couldn't find his armor until M41. [[Derp]].

(It would have been so much easier and more intelligent to just say a daemon flung him into the future like [[/co/|Aku from Samurai Jack]] - [[Kaldor Draigo|something that already has precedent in canon]]. But that would be too sensible to write, the result being that this guy makes [[Abaddon|Failbaddon]] look like [[Creed]].)

'''On the Tabletop'''
{| class=wikitable
! || Pts || M || WS || BS || S || T || W || A || Ld || Sv
|-
| '''Irillyth:''' || 160 || 12 || 2+ || 2+ || 4 || 4 || 6 || 4 || 9 || 2+
|}

In-game, Irillyth's quick, hits hard, [[Dakka|is good at range]], and has one of the sexiest models the Eldar can field. He knows how to deep strike, unlike his aspect, making him faster than his statline implies. His gun is, in true derp fashion, better than his aspect's basic gun, at +6" and +1D relative to the [[Eldar_Laser_Weapons#Prism_Rifle|Prism Rifle]] fired in Coherent mode, but completely lacks the Assault Heavy Flamer profile they have, presumably because he just assumes he won't be charged, even though he wants to stay within 18" of the enemy - his fear aura is like his Exarch's, but dialed up to 11; it has an 18" range ''and'' stacks with the Exarch's, ''and'' taking him means all friendly {{W40Kkeyword|Shadow Spectres}} emit his aura (so with an Exarch, they emit both). On the other hand, he re-rolls wound rolls of 1 with his gun against {{W40Kkeyword|infantry}}.

Due to his improved BS over his aspect's, he expects to hit 2.11 times during the Shooting Phase, rather than their 1.61 times - a bigger improvement than his BS implies, due to how their guns work - but remember, he's ''drastically'' worse at Overwatch than they are. His melee weapon is better than Baharroth's at murder, at S+1 AP-3 D2 (which is better against 2-wound targets), but doesn't inflict a to-hit penalty; instead, on the charge, it increases to D1d3+1, which is usually useless - most targets with enough wounds to notice the damage uptick aren't particularly impressed by S5. That said, D1d3+1 means he always kills 2-wound models on unsaved hits, which is a nice improvement to lethality now that every Marine has 2 wounds even if it's otherwise a little overkilly. Because neither his shooting nor his melee are worth his cost, the reason to take him is his aura, which he doesn't need to be on the table or even alive to provide, since all of your Shadow Spectres will emit it once he's in the army, in addition to their own. He also has the same -1 to being hit as his aspect.

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