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==Overview==
Wraithbone is essentially solidified [[warp]] energy that is manipulated by a [[Bonesinger]] into any shape that is required.{{Fn|6}} All Eldar have the innate power to mould wraithbone, but Bonsingers Bonesingers spend several [[human ]] lifetimes cultivating the art of using their psychomorphic talents to accelerate the formation of psychotropic crystals found in Wraithbone.{{Fn|9}} Fragments of wraithbone can be used to seed new structures. Often holding the fragment in place via [[telekinesis]] and coaxing the wraithbone fragment to take root and begin to grow, following the desired pattern, at which point it is released from the Eldar's telekinetic hold. Older pieces of wraithbone take more time and coaxing to change their form, growing slowly.{{Fn|8}}
Metal cannot shatter Wraithbonewraithbone.{{Fn|8}} It is stronger than any known [[plasteel]] and harder to damage than [[adamantium]],{{Fn|1}} with 8-10mm of Wraithbone wraithbone being equivalent to 30-45mm of [[Imperial]] armour material,{{Fn|5}} and will naturally repair itself, though the process can be sped up by a Bonesinger.{{Fn|1}} Wraithbone itself is a thousand times stronger than steel.{{Fn|4}}
Being created from the warp, Wraithbone wraithbone has innate [[psychic]] abilities allowing it to be used as a communications pathway as well as structural support. It carries psychic energy much as a cable carrying current does, as well as containing psychic shields to protect the occupants from the warp.{{Fn|3}}
Wraithbone effectively performs all of the tasks a machine would. The organic members of the crew use psychic powers to perform their duties, but it is the Wraithbone wraithbone itself that actually does it. In the case of Eldar ships, the basic framework is created from Wraithbone wraithbone and then the internal areas are made, finishing with the actual internal components. Even the mighty [[Craftworld]]s are made of Wraithbonewraithbone, and this is how the occupants of Craftworlds survived the birth of [[Slaanesh]], for the psychic shield of the Wraithbone wraithbone protected them from his mighty psychic scream.{{Fn|3}}
Wraithbone is used to form [[Eldar Rune]]s, complex interwoven shapes in distinct patterns. Because they are made of Wraithbone wraithbone the runes retain a connection with the warp, and have the ability to both contain and direct psychic energy. Wraithbone Runes have a protective function, being themselves impervious to external psychic energies, the runes serve as fuses destroying themselves and severing the connection between the [[Seer]] and the [[Warp]].{{Fn|9}}
==Psychic Engineering==
The [[Eldar]] use [[Wraithbone]] to make the skeletal cores of their buildings and spacecraft, providing a functional skeleton around which functional structures are arranged. Because Wraithbone wraithbone conducts and channels psychic energy, it facilitates internal communication between systems, transmits power, and enables the craft to act as an organically integrated whole. The same psychomorphism that creates the Wraithbone wraithbone skeleton can be used to fabricate the individual systems of a ship which in turn are laid out over the basic structure of the wraithbone core on which they draw power and form which they are monitored and controlled. This growth method provides an organic, flowing appearance lacking in hard angular edges.{{Fn|9}}
==Notes==
*{{Endn|Note 1}}: The exact nature of Wraithbone wraithbone is somewhat contradicted in the [[Codex: Aeldari (10th Edition)|10th Edition]] Eldar Codex, stating that it is grown from preexisting minerals, ores, and various other compounds into a psycho-plastic substance.{{Fn|7}} This differs from older lore, which portrays Wraithbone as being grown from the energy of the Warp itself.{{Fn|6}}
==See also==
*{{Endn|7}}: [[Codex: Aeldari (10th Edition)]], pg. 24
*{{Endn|8}}: [[The Silent King (Novel)]], Chapter 8
*{{Endn|9}}: [[Doom of the Eldar (Game)]], pgpgs. 15-16
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