Harlequins (Warhammer 40,000)

The Arlequins are a component of the race of the Eldars in the Univers of fiction of Warhammer 40,000.

The Harlequins are warriors eldars, who are in fact of the travellers of the Fabric. The Harlequins generally cross the Fabric bringing their services to the others Vaisseaux worlds or simply to bring their spectacles of song, dances and poetry which recall the mythology and the history of their people.

Another role of the harlequins, that there much more secret, is the protection of the " Prohibited Library ". This building is the seat of the works on the demons and sorcery of Warp held by Eldars.

Generally, the Harlequins gather by troop, each Harlequin whom incarnates a character and having a precise role, as well in the engagements as in the representations.

Large Harlequins

Also called Coryphée, they are the chiefs of the Harlequins and the experts in the naviguation through the Fabric. Nobody, in addition to God Mocker, knows the Fabric as well only them. They represent neither more nor less than their God, the aforementioned God Mocker and more generally the divine influence. Their knowledge is very so much high in the close combat (or they very often handle an energy weapon) that in knowledge related to Warp. There the Large Harlequins are the only ones with knowing where is precisely the Prohibited Library, they are also the only ones with knowing to return. They are the ultimate guards of the démoniaque knowledge and in truth, a part of the world rests on their shoulders.

Prophets of the Shade

Alternative of the prophets of the Vessels worlds, these harlequins are most erudite stories tales recalling the Fall and even the history eldar in itself. Equipped, like their cousins, of powerful psychic capacities, these wizards can destabilize the enemies and guide their comrades with the victory. Their capacities are based more on techniques of destabilization and handling of the opponents that their comrades of the Vaisseaux worlds. At the time of the representations, they are the setters in scenes of the other Harlequins, and then use a whole arsenal of illusions and hallucinations.

Mimes

They are minor harlequins, charged to incarnate simple the eldars, with the engagements they thus form large troops of harlequins. Enough skilful with the body with body, because their high speed and agility, they generally holds up blades and daggers to lacerate their opponents in a waltz of blades. During the spectacles, they are not authorized with speaking and to compensate for that, them vétements and mask can change with their likings of forms and colors. These coloured clothes are used with the combat to disturb the vision of the ennemi.#

Chorus-singers

These harlequins are charged, as their name indicates it choruses and songs during the representations. Always invisible, they are with the combat of the infiltrateurs and the useful franc-tireurs. Nevertheless, all like the mimes, their role is tiny. They are equipped for the shooting than them comparses.

Tragic Buffoons

Incarnation of death, the tragic buffoons, carry filled up armours black of runes of misfortunes and bones. Their morbid helmets is made of a cranium eldar and it is even known as that with died of one of these warriors, his successor will use the bones of late to make his own armor. Specialist in the combat with long distance, they ram the battle field of their heavy weapons and bring death, some is the place. So they resemble enough the Faucheurs Blacks, aspect of died in long distance.

Recluses

Each troop of harlequins integrates one recluse, this one is indeed selected to incarnate worst role, that of Slaanesh. The recluses sacrificed their lives to Slaanesh and thus live well off their troop. They are beings of bad omen, and besides to cross some is sign of imminent death. With the combat, the recluses leap with despair on their enemies; often equipped with very powerful weapons of body with body, the Recluse is regarded as the most frightening warriors harlequins, exceeding even the Large Harlequins. With its death it is known as that the recluse sees his heart consumed by Slaanesh, unless God Mocker, in an ultimate fraud, does not arrive, to withdraw his servant from Large Enemy.

God Mocker

He is God of the Harlequins who venerates it more still than Kaine Eldar God of the war. It is known as that when Slaanesh killed the Gods eldars (except Kaine which survived, but was fragmented in many Misadventures), God Mocker, managed to him to escape the eyes of Large Enemy and took refuge in the Fabric. The Harlequins are thus the servants of this malicious God and carries out with his request of the spectacles in the honor of a glorious past and illustrating its own glory, still quite present.

The Fabric

The Fabric is the Warp network creates by Eldars a long ago. This network includes/understands many entries and can connect any point of the galaxy, for which can sail there. It is known as that on board their modified machines antigravs (the motojets venom), the harlequins traverse the Fabric without obstacle. Only the Large Harlequins know perfectly from now on the Fabric, their knowledge in this field exceeding even that of the prophets of Ulthwé. This protected network is, as its name indicates it, without danger and have nothing to dohas nothing to do with the vulgar human means of transport.

The Prohibited Library

This place is comparable in aspect with a Vessel-world, but the interior is in fact a compilation of the works démoniaques made by Eldars before the fall. The harlequins are the guards of this untraceable library, except by the tortuous ways of the Fabric. It inlassablement protects it from the demons of Chaos, because if such monstrosity managed to have the knowledge eldar, the Galaxy would without any doubt be lost. It happens that the harlequins share a negligible part of this knowledge to the land inquisiteurs but only the inquisitor Czevak at summer authorized to enter there, without being able to report what it saw there. Magnus the Red, Primo-Génitor of the cursed legion of Thousand Sons penetrated there formerly of force, but did not remain there long enough to have it. Of all the beings of the universe, only the Large Harlequins know the protected ways and the words of being able there driving. During the 13th crusade of Addabon, eldars of Ulthwé carried out by Eldrad Ulthran were opposed to the progression of Ahriman of Thousand Sons, their skirmishes being held in the fabric itself.

Style of combat Harlequin

Combining the agility and the technology of the eldars the harlequins are well heard savage and fast warriors on a battle field. They use nevertheless certain artefacts untraceable between the hands of their cousins of the Vaisseaux worlds.

Holo-Field: This protective screen is preferred by the harlequins with the metal armours, indeed in addition to their faculty with not géner the movements, it makes their owners extremely difficult to touch with weapons of shooting. The difficulty of this protection is which no protection offers to the close combat. This field of visual distortion functions in the same way that the model adaptable to the vehicles.

Mask of terror: The masks of the harlequins fill up their adversaries of nightmarish visions if those approach too, they then become easy preys for these experts of the body with body. Once again, this mask approaches much that of the Banshee
Baiser of Harlequin: This vicious weapon, handled by the Harlequins and the Recluses, perforates the armor and sends blades in the body even of the victim returning any form of protection inneficace.
Motojet Venom : Alternative of Vypers Eldar, Venom can easily traverse the Fabric and is a compromise between Vypers and of the light freight vehicles.

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