[Moriouce]

Now after reading the eldar trilogy a second time I have some questions about wraithconstruct. I wonder if anyone knows further fluff on this area.

The eldars can take a spiritstone and havens spirit from the infinity circuit enter it. Then place inside a wraithconstruct to power and control it. This is something Eldars are reluctant to do and is used only in dire circumstances. Now if a wraithconstruct is destroyed but the spiritstone is unharmed. Can the spirit retreat into it once more to be places into another wraithconstruct or even be brought back into the infinity circuit?

 

[Serpion5]

I don't think this is ever fully explained anywhere.

It's possible that the process is irreversible, but more likely their reluctance simply stems from unease as a result of forcing the dead to have to fight. It is described as akin to necromancy in the eldar mind, so understandably it is not something they relish doing.

If a spirit stone is destroyed on the battlefield, then the eldar soul is lost to Slaanesh, so there is definite risk involved.

 

[the_barwn]

As far I can remember from the series & other listings, when the dead are used in wraith-constructs it is like a dream state to them, so they are not as quick witted or responsive as they were being alive. I think it also states that the process is easier on the recently crossed over spirits due to the upheaval of crossing over into the afterlife. Yes if the spiritstone it damaged on the wraith constructs the spirit is lost to slaanesh. I am sure there was a piece in a very early rulebook the renegades supplement to epic sm where a keeper of secrets ruins a squad of banshees & then plucks the spiritstone from a fallen banshee & eats it just like a treat & this horrifies the other eldar