When the Kiss is punched into a victim, the wires uncoil and flail around, slicing the victim apart from the inside. The Players of the Dreaming Shadow are bound together by their morbid demeanour, and by a simmering resentment of the other masques.

In the wake of their disappearance or destruction during the War in Heaven against the Necrons and their C'tan masters, the Old Ones left the care and use of the Webway to their Aeldari creations, who used it for millennia to tie together their great empire. How such an impossibility could come to pass is unclear, for on this matter the final act is infuriatingly vague. Nine troupers dance the part of the old race, while three Avatars dance the part of the Fallen gods. Please remember it can take some time for your bank or credit card company to process and post the refund too.As the 41st Millennium comes to a close, more and more Eldar vanish into the Webway, forsaking their past lives and taking up a Harlequin mask.

Since the Fall, the tome's covers have remained closed, sealed shut with flickering chains of light. The Masque of Soaring Spite, aided by the Wych Cult of Strife, falls upon the Nurgle worshippers at the peak of their ritual and slaughters them wholesale.

So well-versed are they in the Webway's secret routes that many other Aeldari have credited the servants of the Laughing God with supernatural powers. Captured in the crystalline thoughts of the library's long-dead inhabitants, these spectral secrets drift upon the wind like half-remembered thoughts, waiting for a mind strong enough to snare them. The Harlequins see no distinction between art and war, and their outlook can best be explained by reference to the legend of the Fall of the Aeldari; one of their self-appointed duties is to keep this legend alive through their performances. The Silent Shroud wear the Rune of the Thorn-Strangled Stave -– a mythic weapon used by Kurnous, the hunting god of ancient Aeldari myth, to strike down his prey without making a sound. The culmination of this pageant is the dazzling duel between the gods, played out by Harlequins of unparalleled skill.

These highly skilled and versatile warriors bring a touch of enigmatic artistry to the battlefield, leaving their foes bewildered and defeated. Their acrobatic and deceptive skills, as well as their unique weapons and equipment, render them such mystifying and terrifying enemies that some of the less-developed races of the galaxy have incorporated them into their mythology as magical spirits or eldritch monsters. Feel free to share your army lists, strategies, pictures, fluff and fan-fic, or ask questions or for the assistance of your fellow Eldar! M32) - In the wake of the Fall, the surviving worshippers of the Laughing God disappear into the Webway without a word of explanation. The appropriate saedath will be chosen based upon a range of factors; in some cases, masques specialise in certain mythic cycles, and will rely upon these to the exclusion of all else.I was thinking of getting several units of Troupes to add a bit of melee and anti infantry in my army and cause they look cool. Eventually the terrified humans flee, abandoning their tainted prize without ever learning the horrors it would have unleashed. The cessation of toil raised the spectre of ennui, alongside the endless freedom to explore the slightest whim.