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==Overview==
Spirit Stones are faceted psycho-receptive crystals called ''carrecenad'' or '''soul-stone'''.{{Fn|6}} These devices are not featured in Like the [[Dark Eldar]] of present day, ancient Aeldari armour used during the [[War in Heaven]]doesn't feature these jewels.{{Fn|12}} Eldar at large believe they are grown in a way similar to [[Wraithbone]].{{Fn|4}} However, it is a well kept secret even among the Eldar themselves that spirit-stones are actually formed from the ghosts of eldar who died during the [[Fall of the Eldar]], their spirits tormented by Slaanesh to see the lives they can no longer possess ripped from them and reenacting the fall. As these ghost reenact their death, they leave behind soul stones which are then collected to be given to Craftworld eldar at birth.{{Fn|8}} At the moment of the Eldar's death, the stone acts like a 'psychic trap', absorbing their psychic self and preventing it from entering the [[warp]] and being consumed by the nemesis of the Eldar race: Slaanesh.{{Fn|3a}}
The Waystone can then be brought back to the Eldar's own [[Craftworld]] and embedded into its wraithbone core where it will grow into a larger spirit stone.{{Fn|3a}} Once the stone is implanted, the Eldar's soul can travel freely through the wraithbone, mingling with other Eldar souls and forming part of the communal spirit of the Craftworld itself.{{Fn|3a}} All the souls within a Craftworld collectively exist inside the [[Infinity Circuit]].{{Fn|3a}} Once a Spirit Stone contains an Eldar soul, it can never be used for another. Thus each stone is unique to its occupant, and even when the occupying soul is placed into the Infinity Circuit another can not replace it.{{Fn|9}}
