If you love to speed across the battlefield and turn your enemies into dust, a Skyweaver is the mount for you! Every faction just loves speed!
The darkest kin of the Eldar are getting a codex in early 2021, but who doesn’t love the Harlequins? They tell the history of all their people through visual story-telling and violence. The Skyweavers tell the story with pure speed, grace, and efficiency. Just pray you don’t find them on a battlefield near you! Get out your favorite clown outfit and let’s learn about some lore!
Place in Mythology
Skyweaver lore starts way back in the earliest of times. The flying machines we know today take after the original Skyweaver. In the ancient Eldar Mythology, the Skyweaver was the most fickle and youngest of the Cosmic Serpent’s children. The mythology depicts it as a being composed of endless small flying serpents. If hundreds of flying serpents weren’t enough, it also always spoke in riddles and had the attention span of a goldfish and was constantly distracted by, well, anything. Maybe that’s why the Skyweavers are so fast and nearly impossible to hit!
The Skyweaver escaped the normal realms of reality and spread itself throughout the galaxy. Each small piece telling a different story of the Laughing God, this confused the enemies of the Aeldari greatly. The Skyweavers of today fight their enemies the same way today. Constantly confusing and perplexing the enemy before delivering the killing blow.
Fighting on the Battlefield
Their Shuriken Cannons fire dizzying rounds on the enemy before they finally swarm into close combat and tear the foe apart. While large portions of the Weavers exchange their traditional weaponry for Haywire Cannons, some still stick to the old ways of doing things. Whichever weaponry they choose, it doesn’t really matter. Their speed, grace, and accuracy are always above almost any race in the Grimdark future. The Imperium’s bulky weaponry is no match for such grace!
For close range, they love to wield star bolos. Weapons which are frustrating as they are deadly. While they can cut straight through a Space Marine’s armor. if they fail in that, they will trip up the enemy and make the final assault all that much easier!
On top of their amazing weaponry, their holo-suits are equally as frustrating. they look simply like a prismatic blur as they roar across the battlefield. Many Xenos is frustrating to humans, but few are simply as annoying as the Harlequins!
That does it for this quick history! Don’t forget about all the great Xenos armies out there and dust off your more spectacular minis soon!
Learn More About The Harlequins Here!
About the Author: Travis Pasch
Travis Pasch
Job Title: Head Writer & Editor
Socials: @paschbass
About Travis Pasch: Travis has been a Warhammer 40k hobbyist since the 1990s, playing the game since Third Edition. Through extensive traveling, he’s seen a lot of the miniatures hobby from across the world, giving him a unique perspective on the latest gaming topics and trends.
Travis’s brother even owns a commission painting studio, where he’s picked up a lot of good advice and techniques for painting Warhammer and tabletop miniatures over the years, as well. Travis joined the Spikey Bits team in 2019 and has been the lead writer since 2020.
Currently, he’s working on converting all his 40k Adeptus Mechanicus models and becoming a true tech enjoyer, complete with both sad and happy robot noises!
