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This discussion expands on the issue of the Exarchs as discussed here (and that topic was derived from issues brought up here). Is the "Exarch" concept (which includes the Phoenix Lords) limited solely to those that are lost on the Path of the Warrior? Lore already says that the Farseers are similar in that they are lost on the Witch Path. However, unlike their Warrior Path counterparts, the Farseers don't have a cycle of death and rebirth. Instead, their spiritstones are taken to the Dome of Crystal Seers so that their spirits can be linked to the infinity circuit forever as their physical bodies become psychocrystal statues. Is it possible for those that get lost on other paths to have some sort of special fate, whether a death/rebirth cycle such as the Exarchs, a transformation such as the Farseers, or some other fate? Going further, is an Exarch-like fate possible to other (non-Asuryani) factions of the Aeldari? We know that the Drukhari and the Harlequins don't use spiritstones. The recent lore for Drazhar from the Psychic Awakening updates, as covered in this topic, leads some to believe that, despite his [apparent] lack of a spiritstone mechanism, Drazhar appears to have a death/rebirth cycle that offers something akin to the Exarch/Phoenix Lord "immortality." It's too soon to tell with the Ynnari, though it might be speculated that their treatment of death might indicate that they won't have Exarch-like counterparts. The Aeldari Corsairs appear to use spiritstones (many of the images have them, at least). The Exodites are known to use spiritstones. Neither of these Aeldari sub-factions has the rigid paths that the Asuryani follow, so the question shifts from a death/rebirth cycle focused around those that get lost upon a particular path to a death/rebirth cycle of particular entities via their spiritstones. Could the Aeldari Corsairs/Exodites potentially have Exarch-like entities (possibly even some comparable to the Asurya Phoenix Lords)? We've been focused on the "Phoenix Lords" that are the Asurya (and I'll include Karandras in this) precisely because those are the only Phoenix Lords that Games Workshop has identified; and the official lore referring to "Phoenix Lords" has always been about those warriors. What if there are other non-warrior Phoenix Lords (even if they're not called by that title)?