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[[File:Blood-of-the-Phoenix.jpg|thumb|right|300px|[[Jain Zar]] battles [[Drazhar]] with her Howling Banshees{{Fn|17}}]][[Jain Zar]] led the howling banshees in persuit pursuit of [[Drazhar]] in the defense defence of [[Yvraine]].{{Fn|17}}
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'''Howling Banshees''' are one of the types of [[Eldar]] [[Aspect Warrior]] who represent a facet of the war god [[Kaela Mensha Khaine]], in their case the fury of the Murder God as well as the cunning of his daughters with [[Morai-Heg]], the [[Banshee]]s.{{Fn|7}} These lightly-equipped warriors are fearsome close combat specialists who draw their inspiration from the unearthly creature with which they share a name. What they may lack in brute strength they more than make up for in precision and efficiency, and their piercing warcry has signaled the doom of countless foes.{{Fn|1a}}{{Fn|2}}{{Fn|3a}}
==Overview==
[[FileImage:HowlingBansheeComicHowlingBansheeColor.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Howling Banshee{{Fn|16}}Banshees]]
According to [[Eldar mythology]], [[Banshee]]s are the harbingers of woe and death whose cry, it is said, heralds ill fate, calling forth dead spirits from the [[Warp]] and forewarning certain death. A more sinister implication of the banshee's call is that it may even tempt spirits out from their [[Spirit Stone]] and thus lure them into the arms of [[Chaos]].{{Fn|1a}}{{Fn|2}} Unique to the Howling Banshees is the fact that they are almost always female,{{Fn|Note 2}} for the banshee of legend is itself a female spirit.{{Fn|1a}}
==Howling Banshee Exarch==
[[imageImage:HowlingBanshee2e.png|thumb|right|200px|Howling Banshee Exarch.{{Fn|12}}]]
An [[Exarch]] is the leader of an Aspect Shrine. She is one that has traveled so far down the [[Path of the Warrior]] that she can no longer leave it and so dedicates herself fully as a high priest of Khaine. Exarchs wear more elaborate and ornate versions of Aspect armour which incorporate the spirits of past wearers, granting them not only wisdom and knowledge but a raw pool of psychic energy.{{Fn|1}} The Howling Banshee Exarch sits upon the "Storm Throne" within her [[Aspect Shrine]].{{Fn|15}}
The Exarchs of the Howling Banshees emphasize their aspect to the highest levels and help pass this knowledge on to their squads. Under her guidance a squad of Howling Banshees are acrobatic warriors, leaping and bounding into combat with deadly grace, while the war shout of an Exarch is even more devastating than the normal piercing cry of a Banshee Mask{{Fn|3a}} Instead of a normal power weapon some Exarchs will wield an [[Executioner]] or [[Triskele]], while others will replace both power weapon and shuriken for [[Mirrorsword]]s.{{Fn|3b}}
==Notable Appearances==
[[File:SWGnosisBlood-of-the-Phoenix.jpg|thumb|right|250px300px|Howling Banshee Exarch with [[ExecutionerJain Zar]] fights battles [[Logan Grimnar]] in the [[Gnosis SystemDrazhar]]with her Howling Banshees{{Fn|1317}}]]In 838.[[M41]] in what became known as the [[Pyre of Kiliak's Bane]], [[Imperial]] xenologists [[xenologist]]s began to plunder buried Eldar artifacts artefacts on the [[Maiden World]] [[Kiliak]], bringing about a devastating assault from the nearby craftworlds of [[Biel-Tan]] and [[Ulthwé]]. A sighting of the [[Phoenix Lord]] [[Jain Zar]], accompanied by a hundred of her disciples, was confirmed before the entire Imperial force was slaughtered and incinerated, their ashes scattered to the winds.{{Fn|4}}
==Notable Howling Banshees Shrines==
===Notable Howling Banshees===
*[[Kalistri (Exarch)|Kalistri]], - [[Exarch]]*[[Mieqo]], - [[Exarch]]
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==Images==
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===Miniatures===
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*{{Endn|14}}: [[White Dwarf 127 (UK)]], pg. 34
*{{Endn|15}}: [[Eldar Prophecy (Novel)]], Chapter Eight
*{{Endn|16}}: [[Revelations (Comic Series)]] – Issue #2*{{Endn|17}}: [[Blood of the Phoenix]], rulebook{{CME}}
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