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[[File:EldarDreadnoughtColors.png|thumb|250px|right|'''Eldar Dreadnoughts''' painted in colorways the colours of the various [[Eldar Corsair]]swarbands, including a pilot (second figure).{{fnFn|9}}]]*First appearing as the '''[[Dreadnought#Eldar_Dreadnoughts|Eldar Dreadnought]]''' in [[White Dwarf 100 (UK)]] in May of 1988, alongside [[Imperium|Imperial]] and [[Orks|Ork]] [[Dreadnought]]s, the '''Eldar Dreadnought''' was a tall and elegant machine crafted by its pilot in a giant automated factory within a [[Craftworlds|Craft-Worlds]].{{Fn|9}} It was controlled either through manual controls and screens inside its bulbous cockpit or through a "mind-impulse link" which would use the [[Eldar]]'s own brain to run mental targeting programs and puppet the Dreadnought as if it were their own body, and powered by a [[Crystal Battery]].{{Fn|9}} The Dreadnought was described with three assembly patterns:**'''War-Demon''' Assault Dreadnought - Armed with hand-mounted [[Shuriken Catapult]]s{{Fn|9}}**'''War-Cry''' Assault Dreadnought - Armed with one hand-mounted [[Shuriken Catapult]] and a [[Laser_weapon#Eldar|Laser Cannon]]{{Fn|9}}**'''Banshee''' Support Dreadnought - Armed with two hand-mounted [[Flamer]]s and a shoulder-mounted [[Missile Launcher]].{{Fn|9}}

*One month later in June of 1988 [[White Dwarf 101 (UK)]] would introduce a new concept: the [[Infinity Circuit]], by which the memory and personality patterns of a dead [[Eldar]] could transfered be transferred into a machine body via a ''Soul-Graft'', as well as a new unit: the '''Spirit Warrior''' simmilar similar in every way to the Dreadnought with the notable exception that this Infinity Circuit would replace the living pilot.{{Fn|10b}} This new '''Spirit-Warrior''' would retain the psychic mastery of the soul that embodied it running on circuits of Memory, Emotion, Logic, and Perception.{{Fn|10b}} The '''Spirit Warrior''' could be built with the same patterns of the Dreadnought, '''War-Demon''', '''War-Cry''', and '''Banshee''' with an additional pattern: ** '''Vampire''' Spirit-Warrior - Armed with a [[Plasma cannon|Heavy Plasma Gun]] and hand-mounted [[Shuriken Catapult]].{{Fn|10b}}

*[[Codex: Eldar (2nd Edition)]] in 1994 would formally combine the two concepts, describing an '''Eldar Dreadnought''' as having been inately innately imbued with the intelect intellect of the long-dead eldar through a [[Spirit Stone]] – in effect establishing the '''Spirit-Warrior's''' [[Infinity Circuit]] as the common version of the Dreadnought.{{Fn|3}} On the same page, the codex introduced a smaller [[Wraith Construct]]s troop known as a [[Wraithguard]].{{Fn|3}} [[Codex: Eldar (3rd Edition)]] in 1999 would introduce a new name for the model, differentiating it from the [[Imperial]] and [[Ork]] [[Dreadnought]]s and giving it a name with linguistic simmilarity similarity to Wraithguard: the '''Wraithlord'''.{{Fn|11}} ==See also==*[[Harlequin Dreadnought]]

*1: [[Codex: Eldar (4th Edition)]]:

*10: [[White Dwarf 101 (UK)]]: