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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}}
[[File:DomeofCrystalSeers.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Kyganil]] inters the Soul-stones of his [[Harlequin Troupe|Troupe]] within the [[Dome of Crystal Seers]] of a craftworld.{{Fn|25}}]]
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}}
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}} (although some nevertheless do){{Fn|25}}, 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}}
===Waystones===
*{{Endn|23}}: [[Eldar Prophecy]], Chapter Nine
*{{Endn|24}}: [[Codex Titanicus (1st Edition)]], pgs. 50-52
*{{Endn|25}}: [[Warhammer Monthly 27]] – ''Pariah: The Daemon Heart''
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