So I finished the Yrielt Romance up to act 4 and... (Spoilers)

[fergis4]

As someone who likes to write and has been working on their own book for years I really appreciate good writing and I think the Yrielt Romance is honestly really, really well done. I've seen a lot of people complain that you never end up banging her which I mean to me feels like the wrong priorities in a relationship but it's also a game and people have elf fetishes so I guess it makes sense.

Honestly though I love the arc and think a lot of people are salty about it because I feel like they don't understand the significance of everything that has happened on Yirelt's end. The fact she holds your hand in her inner world is massive because most Aeldari would rather kill the human than ever be touched by one, even if they don't have an outright human hate boner.

As for her letting you into her inner world you could make the argument that it's even more intimate than sex because she literally is trusting you to respect her while inside her own soul which she could loose at any time I might add. She risked her soul to save your life putting her at significantly greater risk of one of the most horrible fates in the galaxy and she didn't blink.

I should also clarify that even if sex was on the table it would send her to Slanesh on the spot so you'd literally kill her soul if you slept with her XD. From what I can tell the way you're actually supposed to look at it is in a sense your souls are married.

If you're running a romance with any other character and she finds out about it she is so attached to you she doesn't want to share your affection with anyone else she genuinely get's jealous of them. The words "I love you" are never spoken but they don't really need to be. By the time you reach that part in the romance you can tell the mutual affection has been shown and demonstrated with action and not words.

When it comes to an Eldar there is nothing more private than the soul and inner self and the fact she let you in to see that part as a human means she can't feel anything less for you than some kind of love. Also saying "I love you" is really more of a human thing. With Aldari culture it's kind of more along the lines of inherently knowing something without need for it to be said.

When she lets you into her soul willingly and holds your hand that's about as close to an "I love you with all my heart" you'll ever get from an Eldar. Their philosophy of life is very similar to Stoicism which puts a heavy emphasis on emotional privacy with the only exception being people you trust completely and you communicate more through action than words.

As far as I can tell you're the only person Human or Eldar to see her inner world which I cannot overstate how massive it is. The fact you can also meditate together in each others inner worlds from that point on whenever you want also shows the trust is complete and total on her end because it wasn't a one time thing.

So far the Cassia Romance is my favorite but The Yrielt Romance is a very compelling narrative. In fact I think that a lot of people who don't like it have that opinion because the significance of many of her choices and decisions from a human perspective are small but for an Eldar are massive jumps. Her arc is some of the best writing in the game in my opinion.

[jonoliveira12]

It is somewhat hinted that Eldar are descendant of Earth apes that the Old Ones uplifted.
Earth is also a Necron Tomb World.

[fergis4]

Origineel geplaatst door jonoliveira12:

It is somewhat hinted that Eldar are descendant of Earth apes that the Old Ones uplifted.
Earth is also a Necron Tomb World.

Some of this is news to me but it would also explain a lot of things I've heard elsewhere I think the depth of the romance with Yirlet went over a lot of peoples heads because of how subtle it is but Eldar are very reserved and self contained as individuals and as a people they often imply things rather than say them outright and mostly demonstrate what they mean with action rather than words.

When Yrielt holds your hand and calls you her equal that's her saying "I love you" the whole point of the romance with Yrielt is that your emotional bond transcends the need to express it in more base physical ways. Its more like your souls are now partnered or married in a spiritual way.

It's also made pretty clear that she avoids touch in general as a rule. The reason she doesn't want to be touched in that way by the end of the arc isn't even because your a mon-kie anymore I think it has more to do with the fact that the idea of doing that kind of thing with anyone makes her very uncomfortable even her own people.

[jonoliveira12]

Origineel geplaatst door fergis4:

Origineel geplaatst door jonoliveira12:

It is somewhat hinted that Eldar are descendant of Earth apes that the Old Ones uplifted.
Earth is also a Necron Tomb World.

Some of this is news to me but it would also explain a lot of things I've heard elsewhere I think the depth of the romance with Yirlet went over a lot of peoples heads because of how subtle it is but Eldar are very reserved and self contained as individuals and as a people they often imply things rather than say them outright and mostly demonstrate what they mean with action rather than words.

When Yrielt holds your hand and calls you her equal that's her saying "I love you" the whole point of the romance with Yrielt is that your emotional bond transcends the need to express it in more base physical ways. Its more like your souls are now partnered or married in a spiritual way.

It's also made pretty clear that she avoids touch in general as a rule. The reason she doesn't want to be touched in that way by the end of the arc isn't even because your a mon-kie anymore I think it has more to do with the fact that the idea of doing that kind of thing with anyone makes her very uncomfortable even her own people.

In terms of design, the Eldar basically get a lot of celtic, chinese, middle eastern, indian and native american themes, the Imperium of Man just does not cover, for the sake of consistency.

They are basically human+.

[jonoliveira12]

Eldar are in no way prudish, however, and even engage in orgies, when in the safety of a Craftworld, where Slaanesh cannot reach them, because the core of the Craftworld blocks it out.

Yrliet does not bang the RT, because it would be beastiality, and would summon Slaanesh. You are on a very unshielded space vessel, by Eldar standards, so such a relationship would be VERY unsafe, for her AND you.

[Viscount Danku]

Origineel geplaatst door jonoliveira12:

Danku is wrong in many of his claims.
Soulstones DO prevent corruption, which is why they crack when the eldar accepts corruption, as they cannot protect from a personal choice.

Eldar mating with humans is beastiality, so it is a form of transgressive sex, and is excess, it WILL attract Slaanesh.

They do not prevent corruption. They resonate with the warp and soul and as a result incredibly strong emotions will force it to break, but it has no bearing on physical/mental state of a former wearer (apart from shock and realisation of one's demise). The only problem with broken crystal is inevatibility of torture at the hands of Slani once eldar dies, but broken spirit stone DOES NOT mean that eldar will turn into some sort of chaos spawn the moment they look at humies funny. If anything, there is now nothing holding Yrliet from physical contact for she is doomed anyways. And if she ever finds another stone and a seer willing to do the soulbounding ritual, only then she would have to watch her emotions closely again.

If you have another lore information on aeldari spirit stones please provide me with a source (apart from this game, for it will be self-citing, although I am pretty sure there is no such blantant heresy in the game).

Eldar-human mating is not bestiality from biological and probably Slani perspective given their compatability. Slani holds no power over traditional "love" concept and in fact, it may even be a tool to save one's soul against corruption (there is a cool story arc of corrupted artist and purist sculptor in love with each other which eventually saves the artist from fully succumbing to Slaanesh corruption - in Horus Heresy Fulgrim book - bloody good read).

[jonoliveira12]

Origineel geplaatst door Viscount Danku:

Origineel geplaatst door jonoliveira12:

Danku is wrong in many of his claims.
Soulstones DO prevent corruption, which is why they crack when the eldar accepts corruption, as they cannot protect from a personal choice.

Eldar mating with humans is beastiality, so it is a form of transgressive sex, and is excess, it WILL attract Slaanesh.

They do not prevent corruption. They resonate with the warp and soul and as a result incredibly strong emotions will force it to break, but it has no bearing on physical/mental state of a former wearer (apart from shock and realisation of one's demise). The only problem with broken crystal is inevatibility of torture at the hands of Slani once eldar dies, but broken spirit stone DOES NOT mean that eldar will turn into some sort of chaos spawn the moment they look at humies funny. If anything, there is now nothing holding Yrliet from physical contact for she is doomed anyways. And if she ever finds another stone and a seer willing to do the soulbounding ritual, only then she would have to watch her emotions closely again.

If you have another lore information on aeldari spirit stones please provide me with a source (apart from this game, for it will be self-citing, although I am pretty sure there is no such blantant heresy in the game).

Eldar-human mating is not bestiality from biological and probably Slani perspective given their compatability. Slani holds no power over traditional "love" concept and in fact, it may even be a tool to save one's soul against corruption (there is a cool story arc of corrupted artist and purist sculptor in love with each other which eventually saves the artist from fully succumbing to Slaanesh corruption - in Horus Heresy Fulgrim book - bloody good read).

Soulstones LITERALLY prevent an Eldar soul from being claimed until destroyed. They also mask the soul, so daemons have trouble even percieving living Eldar with them on.
They also stop Nurgle plagues from affecting Eldar, Slaanesh from directly assaulting their senses, Khorne from turning them to immediate blind rage (as Khorne can do to humans), and Tzeentch from completely overwhelming them with illusions.

Soulstones do protect against corruption, except if it comes from within. They are veritably soul shields.

[Razer]

Origineel geplaatst door jonoliveira12:

It is somewhat hinted that Eldar are descendant of Earth apes that the Old Ones uplifted.
Earth is also a Necron Tomb World.

Wouldn't make sense. We cannot make offspring with apes. Dna too different. We are nearly identical to aeldari dna wise. Much much closer than us to apes.

[Viscount Danku]

Origineel geplaatst door jonoliveira12:

Soulstones LITERALLY prevent an Eldar soul from being claimed until destroyed. They also mask the soul, so daemons have trouble even percieving living Eldar with them on.
They also stop Nurgle plagues from affecting Eldar, Slaanesh from directly assaulting their senses, Khorne from turning them to immediate blind rage (as Khorne can do to humans), and Tzeentch from completely overwhelming them with illusions.

Soulstones do protect against corruption, except if it comes from within. They are veritably soul shields.

Exactly. If we stick to lore she should be torturing people for fun the moment we off that planet, petition to Ynnaed for protection, signing up for Harlequinn troupe or NEVER EVER travel through the warp on a human ship. Yet she remains absolutely the same, even better! She even has no problem meditating during a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ warp jump, what a miracle! If you want to stick to the letter of a lore - stick to it, but this selective picking to craft the the worst possible "romance" imaginable (screw the physical part - I laughed out loud at the fact that "I am gonna spend my life with you, sen-pai" turned into "Welp, I will be chilling out in meditations for couple centuries, then come back for your deathbed and congratulate on dying a virgin and a dork"). Yeap, someone definitely had to ruin it on every ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ front. Surprised they re-wrote her act 3 ark, that would be even ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ better.

[fergis4]

Origineel geplaatst door Viscount Danku:

Origineel geplaatst door jonoliveira12:

Soulstones LITERALLY prevent an Eldar soul from being claimed until destroyed. They also mask the soul, so daemons have trouble even percieving living Eldar with them on.
They also stop Nurgle plagues from affecting Eldar, Slaanesh from directly assaulting their senses, Khorne from turning them to immediate blind rage (as Khorne can do to humans), and Tzeentch from completely overwhelming them with illusions.

Soulstones do protect against corruption, except if it comes from within. They are veritably soul shields.

Exactly. If we stick to lore she should be torturing people for fun the moment we off that planet, petition to Ynnaed for protection, signing up for Harlequinn troupe or NEVER EVER travel through the warp on a human ship. Yet she remains absolutely the same, even better! She even has no problem meditating during a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ warp jump, what a miracle! If you want to stick to the letter of a lore - stick to it, but this selective picking to craft the the worst possible "romance" imaginable (screw the physical part - I laughed out loud at the fact that "I am gonna spend my life with you, sen-pai" turned into "Welp, I will be chilling out in meditations for couple centuries, then come back for your deathbed and congratulate on dying a virgin and a dork"). Yeap, someone definitely had to ruin it on every ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ front. Surprised they re-wrote her act 3 ark, that would be even ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ better.

Bro at this point all I can say is google Rouge trader R34 because Yrielt has clearly given you blue balls if your this pissed about not getting a spicy text window description like with the other followers.

[fergis4]

Origineel geplaatst door Razer:

Origineel geplaatst door jonoliveira12:

It is somewhat hinted that Eldar are descendant of Earth apes that the Old Ones uplifted.
Earth is also a Necron Tomb World.

Wouldn't make sense. We cannot make offspring with apes. Dna too different. We are nearly identical to aeldari dna wise. Much much closer than us to apes.

if we both came from the same ape depending on what the old ones did to the DNA could have actually made them fully comparable. The Eldar according to some lore didn't evolve like us they were potentially engineered meaning their genetics were made to work a certain way specifically by whoever uplifted them. If they came from the same species it's possible in theory and hell I think it was like 6 million years ago but we used to be able to make viable offspring with litteral Chimpanzees.

[jonoliveira12]

Rogue Traders have harems, besides the wife or husband. They breed a lot as to have ample selection of heirs, because most of them will be painfully average, and not RT material.
Besides taht, they have multiple escapades.

You romance the space elf, and die a virgin, only by choice.
Maybe your RT should not be a mirror of yourself in the real world?

[jonoliveira12]

Origineel geplaatst door fergis4:

Origineel geplaatst door Razer:

Wouldn't make sense. We cannot make offspring with apes. Dna too different. We are nearly identical to aeldari dna wise. Much much closer than us to apes.

if we both came from the same ape depending on what the old ones did to the DNA could have actually made them fully comparable. The Eldar according to some lore didn't evolve like us they were potentially engineered meaning their genetics were made to work a certain way specifically by whoever uplifted them. If they came from the same species it's possible in theory and hell I think it was like 20-30k years ago but we used to be able to make viable offspring with litteral Chimpanzees.

Modern humans never made viable offspring with chimpanzees. 20-30K years ago, people would be genetically indistinguishable from us tody. Evolution happens on a scale of tens of million of years, not tens of thousands.

[jonoliveira12]

Origineel geplaatst door Razer:

Origineel geplaatst door jonoliveira12:

It is somewhat hinted that Eldar are descendant of Earth apes that the Old Ones uplifted.
Earth is also a Necron Tomb World.

Wouldn't make sense. We cannot make offspring with apes. Dna too different. We are nearly identical to aeldari dna wise. Much much closer than us to apes.

It makes perfect sense, if you share a relative, like lions and tigers, which can mate to produce ligers,

[fergis4]

Origineel geplaatst door jonoliveira12:

Origineel geplaatst door fergis4:

if we both came from the same ape depending on what the old ones did to the DNA could have actually made them fully comparable. The Eldar according to some lore didn't evolve like us they were potentially engineered meaning their genetics were made to work a certain way specifically by whoever uplifted them. If they came from the same species it's possible in theory and hell I think it was like 20-30k years ago but we used to be able to make viable offspring with litteral Chimpanzees.

Modern humans never made viable offspring with chimpanzees. 20-30K years ago, people would be genetically indistinguishable from us tody. Evolution happens on a scale of tens of million of years, not tens of thousands.

IYep got the dates wrong by miles I think it was a fraudian slip because were talking about 40k it was 6 million years ago so yea I F'd up my dates. XD

[DeportedFetus]

I'm 100 percent sure that humans and eldar cannot have children, there's an official image showing the DNA of elder and humans being incompatible in their physiology.

Before you ask me to look it up for your lazy convenience take the five minutes to Google it.