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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 . 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}}
