Spiritseer

In Warhammer 40,000, to the Eldar race there is nothing more important than the preservation of their race’s souls. When an Eldar dies their soul returns to the warp, the realm of souls. Here the great pervert, she-who-shall-not-be-named, the Chaos God Slaanesh awaits to devour their souls. To avoid this fate the Eldar wear spirit stones which captures their departing souls on death and traps them within the stone. These stones are then placed into the grove of crystal seers on their craftworld where they become part of the Infinity circuit, an ever growing artificial afterlife for the Eldar.

In recent times though with the lessening number of Eldar in the galaxy they have been forced to often turn to their ancestors for assistance. The Eldar have the ability to place the spiritstones into machine warrior bodies known as wraithguard (similar to the size of a space marine) and a wraithlord (a huge construct that towers over the battlefield). To the Eldar though this is a distasteful practice, little better then grave robbing and if they could they would let their ancestors rest but…..needs must.

The Eldar that perform the task of removing the souls of the dead and interning them into wraithbodies are Spiritseers, psykers intuned to the dead. They are present on the battlefield as minor upgrades of normal warlocks, their extra rule allowing them to remove the weakness that wraithguard and wriathlords normally suffer, their command of the dead making them more efficient.

So a Spiritseer is an Eldar version of a necromancer except not mad, has good personal hygienic and doesn’t use decaying corpses for minions, just the souls and puts them in perfectly working bodies. Hey, that doesn’t actually sound bad at all actually.

Iyanden has a high proportion of Spiritseers due to their unique circumstances and it looks like they will only grow more common as the Eldar’s situation grows darker….