Howling Banshees wear armoured helmets called Banshee Masks that contain psychosonic amplifiers which magnify their keening battle screams into mind-destroying shock waves. Howling Banshees are swift and athletic Aeldari warriors who specialise in deadly hand-to-hand fighting. Howling Banshee Aspect Armour is coloured bone-white and contrasts sharply with the flaming shock of orange hair that marks each Aspect Warrior. These often unique individuals are welcomed equally into the Aspect by their sisters-in-arms as long as they prove able to master the varied demands of the Aspect.įast and athletic, the Aspect of the Howling Banshee emphasises swiftness of foot and the importance of mobility in hand-to-hand combat when training their Aspect Warriors. However, there do exist several males amongst the ranks of the Banshees, often Autarchs pausing on their advance along the Path of Command in order to master yet another aspect of Khaine. However, it is possible for Aeldari males to walk the Path of the Howling Banshee, though this is extraordinarily rare due to the lack of the needed psychological and physical assets amongst most males. This is because the banshees of Aeldari legend, the daughters of the Crone Goddess Morai-Heg, are themselves always female spirits. In 838.M41 in the campaign that became known as the Pyre of Kiliak's Bane, Imperial xenologists began to plunder buried Aeldari artefacts on the Maiden World of Kiliak, bringing about a devastating retaliatory assault from the nearby Craftworlds of Biel-Tan and Ulthwé.Ī sighting of the Phoenix Lord Jain Zar, accompanied by one hundred of her Howling Banshee disciples, was confirmed before the entire Imperial force was slaughtered and incinerated, their ashes scattered to the winds in retribution for their assault upon the Aeldari's lost patrimony.Ī notable exception in the otherwise genderless meritocracy that is the society of the Craftworld Aeldari, the Howling Banshees are almost always female.
Of all the Phoenix Lords, Jain Zar is the most devoted to her Aspect Shrines, travelling the Webway to spread and nurture her Aspect's teachings on every Craftworld within reach. When the Phoenix Lord Asurmen raised the first Aspect Warriors, he selected the warrior Jain Zar for her ferocity and speed, whereupon she became the first of her race to lose herself upon the Path of the Warrior and become an Exarch, and then she became the Howling Banshee Phoenix Lord. As such, it is only fitting that the Howling Banshees are perhaps the most feared of all of the Aspect Warriors, since their spiritual ancestors tortured even Khaine. In exchange for his help, Khaine was granted the Howling Banshee Aspect and thus it came into being after the Fall of the Aeldari when the first Aspect Warriors were raised on the Craftworlds. Seeking to end the torment caused by the banshees' constant wailing, Khaine decided to grant Morai-Heg her wish and severed her hand, which allowed her to drink the knowledge contained within her own blood. Legend says that the Howling Banshees Aspect was first created when the Aeldari Crone Goddess Morai-Heg desired the knowledge contained within her own divine blood and to this end sent her daughters, the banshees, to haunt their father, the War God Kaela Mensha Khaine, as he was the only being capable of harming another God. What is known is that the release of an Aeldari spirit into the Warp is always accompanied by a terrible shriek, one which is felt by the soul rather than heard, and that Aeldari spirits have been known to disperse unexpectedly into the Immaterium during the transference between Spirit Stones or even from a Spirit Stone into a Craftworld's Infinity Circuit. It is said that their cry heralds misfortune and the certainty of coming death, and calls forth dead spirits from the Warp.Įven worse from the Aeldari point of view, are those stories which claim that a banshee's cry may even call the spirits of the dead out from the safety of their Spirit Stones and thus lure them into the waiting embrace of Slaanesh, "She Who Thirsts." A pair of Howling Banshees leap into close combat.Īccording to the tales of Aeldari Mythology, the spectral creatures known as banshees are the harbingers of grief and death.
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