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Spirit Stones containing souls of the dead are interred into the [[Wraithbone]] core of a [[Craftworld]],{{Fn|3a}} most often the one in which the [[Aeldari]] lived in life,{{Fn|2a}} where they take root and grow into tall trees{{Fn|1a}} or other structures (such as on [[Iyanden]] where the [[Battle of Iyanden (Kraken)|Battle Dead]] now form bizarre spiralling shapes in the halls where they fell) and their souls enter the [[Infinity Circuit]].{{Fn|3a}} When Exodites die, their stones are brought beneath the earth into a great barrow where they are broken upon the altar of the [[World Spirit]] and laid to rest.{{Fn|1b}} It is believed by the [[Ynnari]], the [[Eldar]] cult, that when enough Eldar souls have been interred within the Infinity Circuits that the new god [[Ynnead]] will emerge to vanquish Slaanesh, freeing the Eldar from their doom.{{Fn|3d}}
Not all souls are willing to join the infinity circuit{{Fn|5f}} and they too are used as tools: those containing the souls of powerful Eldar heroes can guide and inform those who wield them,{{Fn|5f}} retaining the identity, personality, and memories of the spirit as psychic energy,{{Fn|1a}} as well as those containing malevolent spirits recovered from the [[Eye of Terror]] which are only fit to be embedded into systems such as [[Wraithcannon]]s.{{Fn|4a}} Spirit stones are affected by the [[Stilling]] and the contra-empyric energies of the [[Necron]] [[Pylon]]s and while they still capture the souls of dying Aeldari, after doing so they appear milky and dull emanating with malaise and sorrow. [[Alaitoc]], who has primarily encountered these affected stones, has not returned any to it's [[Infinity Circuit]] in the fear the condition might spread to the [[Craftworld]]'s core.{{Fn|21}}
Not all Aeldari wear Spirit Stones, although all Asuryani{{Fn|2a}} and Exodites do.{{Fn|1b}} [[Harlequins]] choose not to, as their soul is protected by [[Cegorach]],{{Fn|16}} similarly the Ynnari do not wear Spirit Stones of their own, trusting their soul to [[Ynnead]] – the Reborn do however carry [[Ynnari Spirit Stone|Spirit Stones of the Dead]] whose power they can potently draw upon.{{Fn|17}} The [[Drukhari]] of [[Commorragh]], secreted in the [[Webway]], feed off the pain and misery of other beings to prevent their souls from being slowly and agonisingly leeched by [[Slaanesh]] (and those who can afford to do so employ [[Haemonculi]] to revive their souls into new forms on death).{{Fn|16}} [[Eldar Corsair]]s prize Spirit Stones, with even some [[Drukhari]] adopting them{{Fn|14b}} – although not all Corsairs do so as it is equally an act of bravado to go without.{{Fn|14c}} Ancient [[Aeldari]] from before the [[Fall of the Eldar]] did not wear Spirit Stones{{Fn|18}} possibly because the [[Warp]] was not a predatory place for still-sentient Eldar souls yet.{{Fn|3a}}
*{{Endn|19}}: [[Codex: Aeldari (9th Edition)]], pg. 137
*{{Endn|20}}: [[Xenology (Background Book)]], pg. 25
*{{Endn|21}} [[White Dwarf 500]], pgs. 41-42 – ''The Nephilim Anomaly: Xenos Activities''
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