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The [[Asuryani]] will go to incredible lengths to preserve and recover Spirit Stones.{{Fn|3a}} In the context of a warhost the primary duty of a [[Spiritseer]] is to recover Spirit Stones,{{Fn|5b}} but beyond these the task falls to [[Ranger]]s on the [[Eldar_Path#Path_of_the_Outcast|Path of the Outcast]] to do the extremely dangerous task of delving across ancient fields of battle and into the [[Eye of Terror]] itself to recover and find new Spirit Stones.{{Fn|5c}} It is only in this capacity that any relations are kept with the [[Chaotic Eldar]], such as those in the [[Tyrakesh Archeomarket]] on [[Arach-Cyn]], who trade with rangers for collected Spirit Stones.{{Fn|11}} Quests may be taken by [[Wraithknight]]s to raid [[Crone World]]s of their Spirit Stones,{{Fn|9}} as famously was the task of the [[Twelve Outcasts of Alaitoc]] in '''334.[[M36]]''' – the first since the fall to recover new Spirit Stones.{{Fn|5a}} The earliest known recovery of waystones was in [[M33]] from the crone world of [[Falladon]], recovered by [[Mehlendri Silversoul]] and returned to her craftworld of [[Iyanden]]. There she would labour with [[bonesinger]]s to adept the [[infinity circuit]].{{Fn|4c}} [[Exodite]]s too wear Spirit Stones, although the provenance of such stones is yet unclear.{{Fn|1b}} Not all Spirit Stones recovered on [[Crone World]]s are empty, and while some contain the immortal essences of great scholars and heroes of the [[Eldar Empire]], more often they contain a malevolent soul that rages at its confinement within the crystal.{{Fn|4a}}
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}} A Spirit Stone is a tool in the hands of an Eldar [[Seer]]{{Fn|2a}} and it is the Spirit Stone which allows a [[Bonesinger]] to draw raw energy from the warp to shape it into the matter known as [[Wraithbone]].{{Fn|7}} Spirit Stones glow brightly in the hands of Bonesingers, turn blue in the hands of [[Farseer]]s and red or orange when handled by a [[Warlock]].{{Fn|7}}{{Fn|2a}} Spirit Stones enable a Farseer the full extent of their psychic abilities (e.g. [[Spirit Stone of Eldritch Might|Eldritch Might]], [[Spirit Stone of Illusion|Illusion]], or [[Spirit Stone of Vigor|Vigor]]).{{Fn|6}} Spirit Stones are durable but may be crushed, as [[Keeper of Secrets|Keepers of Secrets]] enjoy doing,{{Fn|14}} although it may result in a small explosion, such as the one which sent [[Trythos]] the [[Space Marine]] wielding it flying a few metres away.{{Fn|13}} It is also a monstrous act to remove the waystone of a dying [[Eldar]], the kind remembered in only the darkest of [[Asuryani]] fables of the [[Dark Eldar]], for it felt to the body as torture while the soul itself would cry out to the [[Warp]] calling any nearby [[Daemon]]s.{{Fn|23}}
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}}
Spirit stones are affected by the [[Stilling]] and the [[Null field|Contra-Empyric]] energies of the [[Necron]] [[Pylon]]s. 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 its [[Infinity Circuit]] in the fear the condition might spread to the [[Craftworld]]'s core.{{Fn|21}}
*{{Endn|21}}: [[White Dwarf 500]], pgs. 41-42 – ''The Nephilim Anomaly: Xenos Activities''
*{{Endn|22}}: [[The Tear of Selevia (Short Story)]] – Cover
*{{Endn|23}}: [[Eldar Prophecy]], Chapter Nine
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