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[[Image: Path_of_the_Warrior.jpg|thumb|right|150 px|Cover art for '''Path of the Warrior''' by [[Niel Roberts]].]]
'''Path of the Warrior''' written by [[Gav Thorpe]] is the first book in the [[Path of the Eldar Series]]. It follows Korlandril, starting from the [[Eldar Path|Path of the Dreamer]], to and through the [[Aspect Warrior|Path of the Warrior]] as a [[Striking Scorpion]].
==AuthorPlot Summary ==[[Gav Thorpe]]
Trained in the hidden art by Kenainath, [[Exarch]] of the Shrine, Korlandril leaves the Path of the Poet behind, reining in his primitive bloodlust, tuning his body to become a thing of lethal beauty. Korlandril`s first task is against the Orkish Xenos upon Eileniliesh, an Eldar Exodite world. The Aspect Warriors strike a hammer-blow against the [[Ork]]s, though Korlandril is heavily mortal injured by the hand of an Ork Warlord.
Escorted back to Alaitoc, Korlandril is healed upon the Craftworld, though to a heated mental battle, against the never-ceasing and losing control of his ''War-mask''. The War-Mask must be allowed to only surface once blood is shed, not during times of peace. Korlandril, however fails to keep this important division between the shedding of blood and all the surrounding emotions, and the peaceful nature of the Aspect; losing his identity wrought from his previous Paths, and boiling down into a purest incarnation , an Exarch.
Abandoned from the Shrine of the Deadly Shadow, Korlandril, spurned by the message of the [[Autarch]]`s heads towards a long, abandoned Shrine of the Striking Scorpion, only to be bereft of his own body, as his soul is consumed by a far more ancient Eldar presence, manifesting, alongside its former personalities, as Morlaniath, one of the founding Exarch`s of the Aspect.
Korlandril is encompassed by Morlaniath, revealing how the Exarch`s Keninaith and Aranarha are but conglomerations of many Eldar of the history of the Craftworld forged into one archaic suite of armour.
War stirs with the arrival of the Phoenix Lord ; [[Baharroth]], [[Maugan Ra]] and [[Karandras]] to Alaitoc. The [[Young King]] is scarified to awaken the [[Avatar]] of Khaine, the Aspect Temples unite, and Alaitoc readies for battle, as the [[Imperium]] launches a frontal assault against the Craftworld. With thousands of Guardsmen charging orbital defenses, spearheaded by the the [[Adeptus Astartes]]. As the battle rage on, Karandras sacrifice himself to save Bechareth a former Dark Eldar Incubus, now pursuing the Path of the Warrior as a Striking Scorpion. Morlaniath then allow himself to be consumed and becomes the new host of Karandras. Karandras then proceeds continues the fight against the invading Imperium forces.
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