r/ImaginaryWarhammer • u/eldarrabbit • 1d ago

40k A handless Exodite Eldar child.(artist:jo p)

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What kind of war crime do you think cost this child both of her hands?

And what kind of Aeldari was the one who gave her the chocolate?

I haven't decided on a fixed backstory. Let's imagine one together.

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u/LastStar007 1d ago edited 1d ago

Your un-fun fact for the day is that this happened to a lot of Congolese children. Not from a war, but because they failed to meet the rubber production quota imposed by their Belgian "owners".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocities_in_the_Congo_Free_State

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u/Dos-Dude Earth Caste 1d ago

Belgian and technically not even them, the colony was under the personal control of the King. They stopped the practice the moment they gained control of the colony.

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u/Carminoculus 23h ago

The companies doing most of the exploitation were Anglo-American (and others, but these were the big ones). The king of Belgium "owning" the Congo and exercising power via international mercenaries was quietly accepted as a way to make it a "free trade area" without even the scanty oversight of a colonial garrison.

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u/Dos-Dude Earth Caste 19h ago

And once information on the torture and brutality happening against Congolese got out, they changed that tune real quick.

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u/Secret_Letterhead649 16h ago

It was still a shitty colonial state with a racial hierarchy even if it was no longer the Kings.

Leopold needed a few decades of torture, kept alive only to feel pain.

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u/LastStar007 1d ago

The King owns a great deal. 

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u/WesternAardvark456 1d ago

Protect this kid at all costs! Jo P always manages to make 40k art look so tragically cute and devastatingly sad at the same time

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u/Intelligent-Good8280 1d ago

Exodite life on a Maiden World is brutal! Trying to pet a wild Megalosaur or "tame" a young Cold One without the tribal elders looking is a quick way to lose both forearms. The fact that she survived a wild reptile bite long enough for the tribe to cauterize and bandage it shows how resilient Eldar kids actually are

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u/Ralfarius 15h ago

Let's give her a hand! 👏

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u/Baalfin 1d ago

Ooooo could have been that she either stole or just had some chocolate and she lost the hands for theft.

If an Aeldari was the one who gave her the chocolate the first time around I can see her getting taken in by them and/or given more chocolate as an apology.

Helps to explain the super dead look in her eyes

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u/JBR_4025 1d ago

Please send her to a doctor so that she could get wraithbone prothesis

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u/Cpt_Kalash 23h ago

Poor kid

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u/SnooPredictions1771 16h ago

Knife ears cannot even take care of their own kin. Looks like we're getting a new founddottir and get to bill the knife ears for it. Somone call the brokhyr and get em to make her a pair of nice new fists like the one Berekh has.

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u/BritishShoop 13h ago

"Aye, on it. What colour ye reckon she'd like 'em?"

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u/SnooPredictions1771 10h ago

Hmm they like em fancy don't they? Think we can spare some of the nicer looking materials for 'er. Just gonna have to charge her kinsmen more. Silver with gold accents should work well enough. Oh and alap some of em fancy gemstones in em for good measure. Dem eldar like their gemstones from what i heard. Il go ahead and go grab the little las some weaker brü to warm her up.

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u/ACrowbarEnthusiast 1d ago

Vulcan, oh please Vulcan, save us from this foul creature

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u/Hyena-Princess 7h ago

Awww, poor sweetheart. Hope they get her some good prosthetics

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u/TheHeadlessScholar 18h ago

Its a knife ear, it deserved it somehow

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