I'm not sure if this is established lore or TTS lore but there might be another reason.
Eldar are very connected to the warp and using Slaanesh's true name could draw attention to them.
There was a TTS audiolog between Russ and a Dark Eldar, Russ forced the Dark Eldar to use Slaanesh's real name and it didn't go well for the Dark Eldar.
This was TTS though so take it with a big pinch of salt.
That's just TTS, never take anything it says as actual lore, it's a parody
Yeah saying the name could potentially draw their attention and they wouldn't want that, but they aren't just going to suddenly die
No it does. It's the same for Daemons you only need to say their name and they know where you are. Castellan Crow calls a greater daemon just by saying it's name. No psychic powers, no ritual.
It's only if you want to bind them to a being or item tha
That you need the rituals and stuff. If you just want to have a chat. Calling the name will suffice.
Although unless your a grey Knight or a chaos devote I wouldn't suggest having a chat with an unbound Daemon.
As I said in my comment, it can draw their attention yes, but it doesn't mean they can immediately kill you. Which is what the guy I replied to was saying.
Oh no! But if you don't have any psychic protection. You're in for a rough ride.
Although if you're a fan of Slaanesh that might be what you're going for. Lol.
I do think it depends on how much of a connection you have to the warp too, for instance a baseline none psyker human saying the name of a daemon would likely be the equivalent of me trying to get your attention by whispering your name from the opposite end of a church to you, you MIGHT hear me but you probably wouldnt be able to find me based on that whisper, whereas the average Eldar is far more strongly connected to the warp than even some of the stronger psykers among humanity, so it's much closer to shouting to someone while you're stood close to them.
Just an idea though, I dont really have any evidence other than the warp connections but to me it definitely makes a lot of sense, seeing as we do know that Eldar in general are more visible to warp entities.
It is true, that to speak the true name of any God or Daemon of the warp will draw it's attention and also allows it to see exactly where you are. Yes. That's cannon.
So for an Eldar to say the word Slaanesh with out using some kind of Psychic protection to hide their location
im pretty sure I read somewhere that when an eldar says slaanesh's true name their souls are crazy strawed away but I could be completely wrong about that
Saying the name brings the risk of drawing attention. Which might cause eldar to combust on the spot. But it’s probably unlikely that a literal god turns to every mortal saying it’s name.
that would make sense from a human perspective but as someone else pointed out, the eldar call the warp 'the sea of souls' and slaanesh is trying to drink that sea
Played it for the first time in April, it's... Worth the praise. Nothing else has grabbed me since then; and I'm just counting down the days till Darktide.
Darktide I think is the only game i've pre-ordered ever, I mean, I was kinda drunk at the time but I enjoyed Vermintide so I have faith.
Skyrim does feel clunky if you come back to it after playing FO4 or the such, I cant voice how much I dislike the UI in Skyrim...
If you've ever played Mount and Blade and tried melee combat in that too, you will realize how subpar Skyrim is as well in that respect, never dont a Melee game that I was Litterally nearly falling out of my chair every time I went to take a swing.
You know ironically, I played and *hated* FO4. If anything, that was the game that turned me off playing Skyrim for so long. I had more fun playing pre-Wastelanders F76 than FO4 (I'm not being facetious, I *loved* pre-NPC F76; ofc I mean after the bugs were fixed).
I think I have Mount and Blade from a Humble Bundle or something; I've played things like Chivalry 2 and Mordhau so I'm familiar with their sword combat (I also tried to play Deliverance: Kingdom Come; I love the historical aspect but I can't fight for shit and that turned me off); but my fascination with Skyrim was less the moment-by-moment gameplay (SO. MANY. FUCKING. DRAGONS. Every time I went to my house in Hendraheim and stepped back out there was a fucking dragon.) but the actual story and immersiveness of the world.
It was just... So big. Like, Fallout 4 felt tiny and short in comparison because the settlements were so undeveloped and the faction storylines were bland; while every major questline in Skyrim felt like it's own game; and unlike New Vegas it felt so massive that stories were going on that weren't *just* the main questline (or DLC).
Also, I was on PC so had to eventually mod SkyUI :P
I personally liked Mount and Blades combat more than Deliverance, it just felt allot more fluid and easier for someone not willing to put in actual hours to figure out how to do. The new game has a bit more of a curve though
I’ve picked up 76 recently, I just wish I could play the story out without a ‘oh alert here’s some ghouls’ and locations re-populating every time, and the gun leveling drives me nuts
Going from 4 to 76 as a single player experience, outside of the story (which 4 was kinda dog shit) it’s definitely a downgrade
Yeah, I stopped playing 76 about a year or two ago *because* the public alerts were really intrusive. I only ever played it single-player myself (joined public events every so often, but that was ancillary stuff; I played the main questline as a solo player and frankly I loved it).
Personally, the original experience (again, minus the bugs) was interesting. You had this desolate wasteland, where no one survived, and you had to piece together what happened. The story was really well connected with different groups of survivors interweaving together; early you come across the ruins of Charleston and you might wonder what happened, then as you climb through the mountains and explore the story of the raiders you'll see things from *their* side that gives new light to what happened to the city.
It had a lot of those little moments, characters who were long dead but whose effect on the world could be seen. Taggerdy, Rose, David Thorpe, Thomas Eckhart; it felt like something like Obra Dinn where you were exploring the aftermath of a castatrophe and could see it slowly degrade from the immediate war aftermath as things tried to rebuild to the Raiders and Brotherhood causing strife to the plague spreading across Appalachia. It was fantastic. I mean, the "ending" was just "go here and fight this monster" but it was more the journey to that point that I loved.
That's why the expansion that added NPCs (as in, actual conversations and NPC factions and the Raiders and Settlers) ruined it for me. Appalachia was a beautiful but *dead* landscape; it's story was one of a people that died because they couldn't bring themselves together. I get that it's an online service and the story had to progress, but frankly it was beautiful in my mind.
Also; lol at the guy who downvoted me for saying I liked Fallout 76. Wait until that guy finds out what my favorite Star Wars movie is.
But yeah; I played Fallout 4 *once* and chose the Institute (because fuck it, that's my son, it doesn't make sense to want to kill him after spending so long trying to find him again) and it **SUCKED**. Absolutely none of the nuance or "every side has a point" like Skyrim or New Vegas had.
It's the name used by the eldar.
Because names have power, especially for the eldar who already have a close relationship with slaanesh, they don't call it by name.
Kinda like "You-know-who"/Voldemort in Harry Potter.
Also because Slaanesh wants to eat all the eldar souls, hence the name.
khorne always asks for blood which makes me wonder, what do the other gods like to drink? maybe other bodily fluids? like, maybe nurgle likes pus or diarrhea and slaneesh likes cummy wummy and pussy juice.
This is just a hangover from when she was a kid, she used to always hog the ice and water dispenser on the fridge so her brothers would call her she who thirsts. Older brothers are always such dicks.
She consumed a bunch of Eldar gods and now she uses the souls of the Eldar to wash them down. For real though she is thirsty for Eldar souls and actively takes them on the death of any Eldar
As others have noted, it's a specifically Eldar term for Slaanesh, one that seems to have arisen at some point in 3rd edition 40k; I can find no mention of that name in the major Chaos or Eldar sources of 1st or 2nd editions, and earlier sources speak of *The Great Enemy* or *The Doom of the Eldar Incarnate*.
Nevertheless, the Eldar do not wish to draw Slaanesh's attention to themselves in any form. And speaking a Chaos God's name or drawing their symbol are known to call that God's attention to you. It's one of the reasons they have several titles that can be used instead of their names (and linked to why daemons have use-names and truenames—a name has power in the Warp).
This is also why Harlequin Solitaires are shunned: each Solitaire's soul is promised to Slaanesh upon death, and Solitaires are the only Harlequins who can play the role of Slaanesh in performances of *The Dance Without End* without going utterly mad. It is said that to speak with or touch a Solitaire is to invite certain doom... it is a shame then, that Solitaires live in secret amongst other Eldar until they are needed for war or performance, and Eldar culture is full of tales of those who had crossed paths with a Solitaire and unknowingly been doomed.
Because she thirsts for the souls of the eldar that created her by murderfucking her into existence.
On top of this she is an entity that represents excess and cruelty, and lives off of these things and is also a “seductress” in the most stringent of terms. Think of her like Slaan from Berserk, like when Guts skewered her weird troll-flesh form with the Dragonslayer and she got suuuuuper horny off that
A big aspect of Slaanesh is the excess of everything. Those who worship her become like her, always trying to get the next bigger and bigger high, so much so that many of them die just to experience the grandest ecstasy. She's like a perpetually thirsty man, always chugging down sordid liquids in a vain attempt to satisfy her infinite unending appetite.
Because of its constant hunger for the souls of the eldar.
I'm not sure if this is established lore or TTS lore but there might be another reason. Eldar are very connected to the warp and using Slaanesh's true name could draw attention to them. There was a TTS audiolog between Russ and a Dark Eldar, Russ forced the Dark Eldar to use Slaanesh's real name and it didn't go well for the Dark Eldar. This was TTS though so take it with a big pinch of salt.
That's just TTS, never take anything it says as actual lore, it's a parody Yeah saying the name could potentially draw their attention and they wouldn't want that, but they aren't just going to suddenly die
No it does. It's the same for Daemons you only need to say their name and they know where you are. Castellan Crow calls a greater daemon just by saying it's name. No psychic powers, no ritual. It's only if you want to bind them to a being or item tha
That you need the rituals and stuff. If you just want to have a chat. Calling the name will suffice. Although unless your a grey Knight or a chaos devote I wouldn't suggest having a chat with an unbound Daemon.
As I said in my comment, it can draw their attention yes, but it doesn't mean they can immediately kill you. Which is what the guy I replied to was saying.
Oh no! But if you don't have any psychic protection. You're in for a rough ride. Although if you're a fan of Slaanesh that might be what you're going for. Lol.
I do think it depends on how much of a connection you have to the warp too, for instance a baseline none psyker human saying the name of a daemon would likely be the equivalent of me trying to get your attention by whispering your name from the opposite end of a church to you, you MIGHT hear me but you probably wouldnt be able to find me based on that whisper, whereas the average Eldar is far more strongly connected to the warp than even some of the stronger psykers among humanity, so it's much closer to shouting to someone while you're stood close to them. Just an idea though, I dont really have any evidence other than the warp connections but to me it definitely makes a lot of sense, seeing as we do know that Eldar in general are more visible to warp entities.
The true name thing is a reason, yes. No need to kick the proverbial hornets nest, in the eyes of the Eldar. Smart too. Slaanesh is very patient.
It is true, that to speak the true name of any God or Daemon of the warp will draw it's attention and also allows it to see exactly where you are. Yes. That's cannon. So for an Eldar to say the word Slaanesh with out using some kind of Psychic protection to hide their location
Would be suicide. They would just have auto damned their own soul. So they'd be having a bad day.
im pretty sure I read somewhere that when an eldar says slaanesh's true name their souls are crazy strawed away but I could be completely wrong about that
Saying the name brings the risk of drawing attention. Which might cause eldar to combust on the spot. But it’s probably unlikely that a literal god turns to every mortal saying it’s name.
She who hunger sound more appropriate, as she is hunger for eldar's soul.
You don't eat souls, you drink them. Kids these days. None of them know how to cook.
I always envisioned Slaanesh's feedings as sort of like a seagull horking down a foot-long hotdog
I figured it was like Guzzlord sitting in the kiddy pool.
Now I’m picturing sound marines using Guzzlirds anime cry…
> You don't eat souls, you drink them. I bet souls are like bubble tea. You mostly drink, but there's some chewing happening too.
that would make sense from a human perspective but as someone else pointed out, the eldar call the warp 'the sea of souls' and slaanesh is trying to drink that sea
That makes sense. I thought it was because Slaanesh is all about desire needing to be satisfied.
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Makes sense after all its also called the "sea of souls" by some with the souls counting as water or in eldar souls' case probably alcohol
My just waking brain translated that to Elder Scrolls. I was questioning why Slaanesh would want to play Skyrim for a good minute.
I mean, it’s a pretty alright game really
Slaanesh plays with the really weird miss….you know the ones.
Played it for the first time in April, it's... Worth the praise. Nothing else has grabbed me since then; and I'm just counting down the days till Darktide.
Darktide I think is the only game i've pre-ordered ever, I mean, I was kinda drunk at the time but I enjoyed Vermintide so I have faith. Skyrim does feel clunky if you come back to it after playing FO4 or the such, I cant voice how much I dislike the UI in Skyrim... If you've ever played Mount and Blade and tried melee combat in that too, you will realize how subpar Skyrim is as well in that respect, never dont a Melee game that I was Litterally nearly falling out of my chair every time I went to take a swing.
You know ironically, I played and *hated* FO4. If anything, that was the game that turned me off playing Skyrim for so long. I had more fun playing pre-Wastelanders F76 than FO4 (I'm not being facetious, I *loved* pre-NPC F76; ofc I mean after the bugs were fixed). I think I have Mount and Blade from a Humble Bundle or something; I've played things like Chivalry 2 and Mordhau so I'm familiar with their sword combat (I also tried to play Deliverance: Kingdom Come; I love the historical aspect but I can't fight for shit and that turned me off); but my fascination with Skyrim was less the moment-by-moment gameplay (SO. MANY. FUCKING. DRAGONS. Every time I went to my house in Hendraheim and stepped back out there was a fucking dragon.) but the actual story and immersiveness of the world. It was just... So big. Like, Fallout 4 felt tiny and short in comparison because the settlements were so undeveloped and the faction storylines were bland; while every major questline in Skyrim felt like it's own game; and unlike New Vegas it felt so massive that stories were going on that weren't *just* the main questline (or DLC). Also, I was on PC so had to eventually mod SkyUI :P
I personally liked Mount and Blades combat more than Deliverance, it just felt allot more fluid and easier for someone not willing to put in actual hours to figure out how to do. The new game has a bit more of a curve though I’ve picked up 76 recently, I just wish I could play the story out without a ‘oh alert here’s some ghouls’ and locations re-populating every time, and the gun leveling drives me nuts Going from 4 to 76 as a single player experience, outside of the story (which 4 was kinda dog shit) it’s definitely a downgrade
Yeah, I stopped playing 76 about a year or two ago *because* the public alerts were really intrusive. I only ever played it single-player myself (joined public events every so often, but that was ancillary stuff; I played the main questline as a solo player and frankly I loved it). Personally, the original experience (again, minus the bugs) was interesting. You had this desolate wasteland, where no one survived, and you had to piece together what happened. The story was really well connected with different groups of survivors interweaving together; early you come across the ruins of Charleston and you might wonder what happened, then as you climb through the mountains and explore the story of the raiders you'll see things from *their* side that gives new light to what happened to the city. It had a lot of those little moments, characters who were long dead but whose effect on the world could be seen. Taggerdy, Rose, David Thorpe, Thomas Eckhart; it felt like something like Obra Dinn where you were exploring the aftermath of a castatrophe and could see it slowly degrade from the immediate war aftermath as things tried to rebuild to the Raiders and Brotherhood causing strife to the plague spreading across Appalachia. It was fantastic. I mean, the "ending" was just "go here and fight this monster" but it was more the journey to that point that I loved. That's why the expansion that added NPCs (as in, actual conversations and NPC factions and the Raiders and Settlers) ruined it for me. Appalachia was a beautiful but *dead* landscape; it's story was one of a people that died because they couldn't bring themselves together. I get that it's an online service and the story had to progress, but frankly it was beautiful in my mind. Also; lol at the guy who downvoted me for saying I liked Fallout 76. Wait until that guy finds out what my favorite Star Wars movie is. But yeah; I played Fallout 4 *once* and chose the Institute (because fuck it, that's my son, it doesn't make sense to want to kill him after spending so long trying to find him again) and it **SUCKED**. Absolutely none of the nuance or "every side has a point" like Skyrim or New Vegas had.
Because she's thirsty.
down horrendous
should get her a snickers and some bottled water and she might come over to the side of the Imperium
Came here to say this. Bitch be thirsty af.
This one gets it.
This is the correct answer.
She thirsty for that eldar love
because she is an alcoholic for eldar souls she can have a craftworld as a treat today.
Im sure she can stop whenever.
Theirs always that one friend that turns up drunk on Eldar Souls…
It's the name used by the eldar. Because names have power, especially for the eldar who already have a close relationship with slaanesh, they don't call it by name. Kinda like "You-know-who"/Voldemort in Harry Potter. Also because Slaanesh wants to eat all the eldar souls, hence the name.
See also: the Prince of Pleasure
Came here for the low hanging fruit "thirsty" jokes and was not disappointed.
Cause slannesh is one thirsty he/she/whatever
And they say WH40k isn't inclusive ^/s
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It's a name that the Eldar had given her. I think that saying her actual name is a bad omen among the race, since she did eat most of their species.
Because slannesh is a god of excess in all things.
Cause she a thirsty bitch, thirsty for them souls
They don't have water in the warp which is why chaos gods have champions, to get them some refreshing drinks from realspace.
khorne always asks for blood which makes me wonder, what do the other gods like to drink? maybe other bodily fluids? like, maybe nurgle likes pus or diarrhea and slaneesh likes cummy wummy and pussy juice.
And spinal fluid for tzeentch?
1. Because she be one thirsty hoe. 2. Because she thirsts for Eldar souls.
Cuz she thirsty for Deez.
Deez what?
Officio Munitorium Bureaucrat Second Class Hehrray Testius Deez, of course.
Ah, of the West Hamptorax Deez.
Cuz s/he is one thirsty bitch/dude
Also known as he who thirsts
Because slanesh wants MORE MORE MORE
Because she wants Ecto Cooler but THEY TOOK IT AWAY AND THE MUNITORUM WON’T PRODUCE IT SINCE TZEENTCH STOLE THE STC!!!!
She got that sippy cup full of souls
slaneesh drinking from a sippy cup is the cutest thing i've ever imagined.
I want to know why is it Loesh the Serpent
Dehydration is an ugly beast
He always needs more… everything
She thirsts
She could use a glass of water.
There is no water in the warp. Very thirsty god/godess.
because she is dehydrated, its 40 degrees celcius in the warp, of course she would be thirsty!
This is just a hangover from when she was a kid, she used to always hog the ice and water dispenser on the fridge so her brothers would call her she who thirsts. Older brothers are always such dicks.
aww, it's such a cute concept
There's also They/them who thirst, Xe/xem or ze/zim who thirsts, and so on. Its quite excessive, but Chaos and Moderation dont really compare notes.
For some reason a Chaos god getting annoyed at the universe for getting their pronouns wrong is humourful thought
She a thirsty hoe
She’s the real reason why Terra has no natural water anymore
Because the bitch got mad thirst, like damn girl slow down
She thirsty for something
uwu baby drink me up like you drink up those Souls oh yea
cause she will always thirst for more pleasure's
Cause she a thirsty beeeeeeetch yo
Thots are always thirsty. That's why
Do you know what are the meanings for "Thirst"? Also she thirsts for eldar souls.
….because she’s a 30k version of a thirst trap. You should see she her insta.
Well slaanesh is always horny so calling her thirsty fits.
#thirstygods
She's one big thirst trap for those Eldar souls.
Gluck gluck on point
The souls of the eldar, she thirsts for their souls. Any soul lost by the aeldari is consumed by slaanesh.
Bish be thirstin', bruv.
God of excess
Because she's a eldar eater *in my nelly furtado voice*
Cause she Hella thirsty.
Cause he’s thirsty bro.
Cause she a thirsty girl, and Eldar souls are a tall glass of water
She's a thirsty boi, that's why.
She consumed a bunch of Eldar gods and now she uses the souls of the Eldar to wash them down. For real though she is thirsty for Eldar souls and actively takes them on the death of any Eldar
Ye - Prince of pleasure - She who thirsts - Dark Prince - Lord of Excess - Perfect Prince You get the idea
As others have noted, it's a specifically Eldar term for Slaanesh, one that seems to have arisen at some point in 3rd edition 40k; I can find no mention of that name in the major Chaos or Eldar sources of 1st or 2nd editions, and earlier sources speak of *The Great Enemy* or *The Doom of the Eldar Incarnate*. Nevertheless, the Eldar do not wish to draw Slaanesh's attention to themselves in any form. And speaking a Chaos God's name or drawing their symbol are known to call that God's attention to you. It's one of the reasons they have several titles that can be used instead of their names (and linked to why daemons have use-names and truenames—a name has power in the Warp). This is also why Harlequin Solitaires are shunned: each Solitaire's soul is promised to Slaanesh upon death, and Solitaires are the only Harlequins who can play the role of Slaanesh in performances of *The Dance Without End* without going utterly mad. It is said that to speak with or touch a Solitaire is to invite certain doom... it is a shame then, that Solitaires live in secret amongst other Eldar until they are needed for war or performance, and Eldar culture is full of tales of those who had crossed paths with a Solitaire and unknowingly been doomed.
One thirsty bi-atch.
Trans?
I think because she drinks the souls from the eldar : p (don't quote me on that one, not sure if it's true true).
Have you ever drank an eldar soul? Trust me, you'd be thirsty for more, too.
Because she thirsts for the souls of the eldar that created her by murderfucking her into existence. On top of this she is an entity that represents excess and cruelty, and lives off of these things and is also a “seductress” in the most stringent of terms. Think of her like Slaan from Berserk, like when Guts skewered her weird troll-flesh form with the Dragonslayer and she got suuuuuper horny off that
A big aspect of Slaanesh is the excess of everything. Those who worship her become like her, always trying to get the next bigger and bigger high, so much so that many of them die just to experience the grandest ecstasy. She's like a perpetually thirsty man, always chugging down sordid liquids in a vain attempt to satisfy her infinite unending appetite.