How the Space Sharks Mentally Broke a Dark Eldar - Warhammer 40k

Today i wanted to share something a little different. In one of the newer warhammer 40k books called silent hunters there is a great moment where the space sharks capture a dark eldar and break him mentally. It offers a great insight into the psychology of it all and how they accomplished this on a lieutenant from one of the most sinister races in warhammer 40k.

Let me know what you all think about this in the comments

[EOmega]

"Cousin, how did you manage to break a species dedicated to the art of torture?"
"We were very boring."

[MultiCommissar]

Really warms one's heart that the ancient Terran tradition of waterboarding has been preserved so earnestly.

[griffionwyvrus]

Space Shark using their Raven Guard ability for stealth and Night lord ability for pyschological warfare in its finest.

[Firepup]

Giving a dark elder a cold shower. The equivalent of throwing a bar of soap at a nurglite.

[cryptosporidium]

Necron in the same context :
! Finally, a calm place to repose my circuits. Let it last a few centuries or more"

[lorenzdistruzzi]

Almost felt sorry for the poor guy, then I remember he's a dark Eldar

[-Blackberry]

They did the exact same thing to an Emperors Children marine in the latest episode of Hammer and Bolter, kept him in a sensory deprivation chamber to torture him. Be it Emperors Children or Dark Eldar, the worst torment for them is boredom.

[The_Horned_King]

Refreshing to see a deldar get what he deserves. No glamorous death, no cacophony of suffering. Just the crushing silence of the Void. That, and the indifferent gaze of the Void's hunters as he breaks before them.

[aldrixlevy]

Basically how to kill Slaanesh: complete lack of stimulus.

[LamborghiniDiabloSVPursuit]

If any of you wonder how bad this could possibly be. The hyper-sensitive mind of the Eldar perceives stimuli much more intensely than a normal human can, and the Dark Eldar's penchant for constant stimulation has upped this to an even higher degree.

A few days of solitary confinement would feel anywhere between months or years of isolation to them. Add the withdrawal symptoms from whatever drugs they were taking, and you have enough true pain that Slaanesh themself probably noticed it.

[SoilentBeef]

The entire Imperium should use this as standard when handling Drukhari.

[zarecht]

Man, imagine a Deathwatch Kill team made up of members from the Carcharodons, Black Dragons, Black Templars, Storm Giants, Mentors, Minotaurs, Flesh Tearers, Silver Skulls, Exorcists, and Marines Malevolent.

That'd be a pretty wild bunch.

[Garoslol]

Very normal loyalist chapter behaviour

What people forget is that the sharks are also masters of psychological terror.

[luckylarry]

The Carcharodons Astra also managed to humble the CSMs of the Emperor's Children on occasion, when upon being fired at by a squad, surrounded by captive humans, the sharks responded with a couple of modest and controlled volleys aimed too high to cause any collateral damage, but also away from the CSM's vitals. This enraged the sons of Fulgrim, who viewed this as an insult.
When the inevitable melee finally occurred, no amount of finesse and insatiable lust for violence could match the wild abandon in which the sharks ripped and tore their adversaries, while remaining utterly silent and almost distant throughout the entire combat. [Angels of Death: The Judges, In Their Hunger (Short Story) by David Annandale]

[fangwu]

The dark elder taunts the abyss to make it illicit a reaction.


Today the abyss stares back.

[janbfiala]

Reminds me of the old joke:

One day, two parents come home early and hear some weird sounds coming from their son's room. When they quietly open the door, they see their son in a gimp suit, flogging his back with a leather knotted whip, the boy's moans muffled by a gag. They carefully close the door again, and look at each other. "What are we going to do?" asked the mother. The father replied "I don't know. Spanking him probably won't work."

[BDL]

Space Shark #1: “So how long did it take to break the xeno’s will?”
Space Shark #2: “It was only in solitary for 15 minutes.”

[jamesnicholls]

This is how someone discribes eating diner without YouTube

[notare]

In one of the Salamanders books Vulkan He'Stan threatens a dark eldar with being buried alive and left alone for years to get them to talk.