Corsair Quotes
From Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum
This article collects all quotes made by, or about, the Aeldari Corsairs. The quotes themselves are organised in Alphabetical order using the speaker's name.
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Attributed
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| Speaker | Quote | Source |
| Durabeli Arlehk, Warrior of the Kabal of the Bloodied Claw | Make war with me, and you make war with my Kabal. Consider your next move very carefully, Corsair. The ramifications could be... excruciating. | Wrath & Glory - Aeldari - Inheritance of Embers, pg. 36 |
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| Speaker | Quote | Source |
| Kyphax Demonsblade of the Black Legion | These...Corsairs strike us at every turn. They are like the scavenging vermin that are too brave for their own good. They are easily scattered, but they return swiftly, more daring than before. We must stamp them out for good. | Kill Team: Nachmund, pg. 73 |
| Diumraid the Shining, Corsair Void Dreamer | The void roils with dreams, with half-forgotten memories and long-lost emotion. I must pierce through this sea of eternal ephemerality with the swiftness and precision of a spear. Every cast decides our fate: safety or doom, oblivion or glory. | Rogue Trader: The Navis Primer, pg. 128 |
| Ilandrios Dreamseeker, Wayseeker of the Greensteel Warriors |
The paths to victory are winding and confounding, yet if we remain unflinching then glory is assured. | Wrath & Glory - Aeldari - Inheritance of Embers, pg. 54 |
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| Speaker | Quote | Source |
| Ferianwyr Greensteel, Princess of the Greensteel Warriors |
Their voidshields are down and their weapons are spent. Match trajectories and prepare to board them. Whoever brings me the traitor’s may have their pick of his wargear. |
Wrath & Glory - Aeldari - Inheritance of Embers, pg. 56 |
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| Speaker | Quote | Source |
| Lady Hale'drithea of the Black Suns | The void is wealth. The void is freedom. I reject the thightly bound chords of the path. I reject the pettiness of Commorite politics. I reject the plain frugality of the Exodites. I reject the masks of the Clown and Mime. I most certainly reject death. The stars belonged to my ancestors, thus they bleong to me. Thus I go where I will, take what I will and kill whom I will. | Kill Team: Nachmund, pg. 25 Codex: Eldar (9th Edition), pg. 55 |
| Though I may fight beside others, they should not think me ally...for to me they are naught but tools. | Kill Team: Nachmund, pg. 28 |
I
| Speaker | Quote | Source |
| Ilandrios Dreamseeker, Wayseeker of the Greensteel Warriors | The paths to victory are winding and confounding, yet if we remain unflinching then glory is assured. | Wrath & Glory - Aeldari - Inheritance of Embers, pg. 54 |
| Iradil, Voidscarred Felarch |
Indeed, Captain! You keep saying there is nothing of value about this vessel. Pray, you are wrong. So, one more time; what is inside your void-vault? | Wrath & Glory - Aeldari - Inheritance of Embers, pg. 55 |
| Felarch Iryladen the Masterspite, addressing Warlock Aileer Serenti of Lugganath Craftworld | They are nothing more than a nest of serpents, liars, cheats, cut-throats, thieves and murderers – this all of them are. They have abandoned friends and kin to pursue a life of plundering and risk-taking. They are also my crew. If you speak ill of them again, I will remove your head from your shoulders and give your stone to my Soul Weaver. | Kill Team: Nachmund, pg. 62 |
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| Speaker | Quote | Source |
| Taenar Leotharan, Starplinters |
It is a new way of life. The craftworlds, Commorragh, the Exodites – they keep alive something that has existed for millennia, but they do so in the same form. It is like a sculptor recreating the same piece with only minor variations. This is something different, which takes the disparate pieces and folds them into an amalgamation. New society, new culture, new art... everything. - Taenar expressing his newfound understanding of corsair life. |
Voidscarred (Novel), Chapter 19 |
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| Speaker | Quote | Source |
| Maelariothian, Starstorm Duellist |
The sooner we leave, the better. The air in this thing the Mon-keigh call a “ship” is vile. The stench already sullies my fine coat. | Wrath & Glory - Aeldari - Inheritance of Embers, pg. 53 |
P
| Speaker | Quote | Source |
| Qelaine Palemoon, jetbike pilot |
We are unchained, we go where we wish, and where we desire. The stars are ours, and like them, we will persist. We will not become a memory. | Wrath & Glory - Aeldari - Inheritance of Embers, pg. 52 |
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| Speaker | Quote | Source |
| Raseth Kurnos of the Greensteel Warriors and Bladefire Warband | I will not spend the twilight years of our race cowering in fear of She Who Thirsts. I will burn bright, and my name will be remembered on a thousand worlds. I will sooner see a billion lives end before mine wanes, and in that time remaining, I will relish every moment. | Wrath & Glory - Aeldari - Inheritance of Embers, pg. 116 |
| Requiel Born of Twilight of the Eldritch Raiders | Why do so few see that greater wealth equals longer survival for our races? With my resources I can buy all the arms I require and hire countless mercenaries to die instead of my own kin. | Kill Team: Nachmund, pg. 55 |
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| Speaker | Quote | Source |
| Saraan Skyhand, Starsplinters, former Exodite |
I do not care whether it is easy, you craftworlder bastard! I ripped a mon-keigh’s spine out with my bare hands when they came for my world, but your kind always thinks that we cannot look after ourselves and that we should be grateful for whatever crumbs of protection you choose to give us. | Voidscarred (Novel), Chapter 19 |
| Myrin Stormdawn, Corsair Baron of the Starsplinters |
There are no Paths out here. We chart our own courses, and they can take you to some strange places indeed. The life of a corsair is dangerous, and not just from battle. The weak-willed find themselves pulled one way and another, until they lose themselves in something and never return. Some go mad. Some fall into the clutches of She Who Thirsts. Oh yes, worse than any of the Dark Kin. Too much freedom is a very dangerous thing. Even Commorragh has inviolable rules, rules that you go against on pain of a very final death. Asdrubael Vect is a tyrant, but a tyrant who will tolerate no threat to his miserable city. Out here, we must control ourselves lest others control us. | Voidscarred (Novel), Chapter 5 |
| That’s the problem with you drukhari. No sense of romance. | Voidscarred (Novel), Chapter 24 |
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| Speaker | Quote | Source |
| Captain Winderson Vorsingrass, of the Lunar-class Cruiser Benevolent Fury, 51st Gothic Fleet, Journal Extract | There is little that gives a commander of the Navy such a feeling of dread as the sight of a vessel of the accursed aeldari. Fear, yes – we should not baulk at admitting our fear, for we are not the Emperor’s Angels, and weakening nerves can be steadied by catechisms of faith. The twisted ships of the traitor fleets, the brutal monstrosities of the orks, and other, stranger things can all inspire fear. However, they call only for a simple response – battle. The aeldari are the great unknown of the void. At times they will strike without warning, murder-swift and with merciless precision, until some unknowable aim has been achieved, at which point they will withdraw. At others, their vessels will slide by without acknowledgement, ignoring us as we might ignore braying livestock caged for transport in port. Sometimes they will appear as saviours and drive away our enemies, though only the witless and faithless would think that they perform such actions for our benefit. And yet when the mood takes them, they engage in the cruellest of sport, harrying and disabling our ships before boarding to make red ruin of the crew, and taking many more for some foul purpose or amusement in whatever hell they call home. This is why I feel the cold fingers of dread when I see those wasp-waisted vessels flickering in and out of view against the stars, for how can I make the best strategic decision when this enemy is so unknowable? A traitor or an ork or the creatures of a hive fleet are always an enemy, whereas today, aeldari interests may align with ours. At the least, to engage them without thought is to invite retribution, and perhaps find our fleets crushed between them and some other threat against whom, on another day and without a second enemy, we might have prevailed. Against whom, on another day, they might even have aided us. And yet, my duty is to safeguard the Imperium against all threats, and these arrogant xenos most certainly count as one. If I do not strike first, I might surrender the advantage to them if war is their intent. If I do not strike at all, and they leave us be in turn, might yet those same ships not darken the skies of an Imperial world tomorrow, or next week, or next year? They are a conundrum, and a scourge, and most vexatious. Those scholars I have met who claim some knowledge of the aeldari declare that they are but the remnants of an ancient empire, and even now are fading from the stars regardless of our actions. I can only pray to the Emperor that they fade faster. |
Voidscarred (Novel), pg. 2 |
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| Speaker | Quote | Source |
| Drasar Yl’aqir | Betrayal is inevitable. Each of us walks the stars alone. What I do not take from you, you will only use as means to take from me. | Wrath & Glory Core Rulebook, pg. 364 |
| Qauez Yrion of the Tower of Stars, Felarch of the Darkvenoms coterie, Keelshire Conclave warband. | There is little in this galaxy besides fear, pain and death. I cannot change this, so I embrace it. If it must be a part of my existence, I will inflict it, not suffer it. | Kill Team: Nachmund, pg. 27 |
| Prince Yriel, Corsair Prince of the Eldritch Raiders, High Admiral and Autarch of Iyanden | The dead must join our ranks, lest we be forced to join theirs. | Codex: Eldar (4th Edition), pg. 20 |
| We may have won the battle, but our ancestors have lost their souls. | Iyanden: A Codex: Eldar Supplement, pg. 19 | |
| Death eases the spirit. | Warhammer Siege, pg. 100 |
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