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Dire Avengers.¹

Dire Avengers are one of the forms of Aspect Warrior, Eldar warriors who fight according to one of the aspects of Kaela Mensha Khaine, the Eldar God of War. The Dire Avengers follow Khaine in his aspect as a noble and merciless warrior. They are the most tactically flexible and accordingly the most numerous of all the Aspect Warriors. The Shrine of the Dire Avengers was the first of the Aspects Shrines founded. Due to this the Dire Avengers are also the most common of aspects with multiple shrines in all of the major Craftworlds.⁴

Dire Avengers are equipped with Avenger shuriken catapults and Aspect Armour.³

Exarch

An Exarch is the leader of an Aspect Shrine. He is one that has traveled so far down the Path of the Warrior, that he can no longer turn from that path to follow another path. This gives them great skill and dedication.

Exarch Wargear

Dire Avenger wargear.⁴

In addition to the wargear of the aspect, the Exarch can be armed with a number of special weapons:

• Avenger shuriken catapult.³
• Twin Shuriken Catapults.³
• Diresword.³
• Power Weapon.³
• Shuriken Pistol.³
• Shimmershield.³
• Exarch Armour.^1,3

Exarch Powers

The Exarch may study the secrets of the shrine to allow himself and any of his Aspect warriors to go beyond the normal Aspect training.

• Bladestorm.³ Under the guidance of the Exarch the Dire Avenger squad can fire more rapidly without loss of accuracy. However, this tactic usually depletes the squad's ammunition magazines and will require reloading.
• Defend.^1,3 The Exarch leads the squad through a series of defensive moves that denies attacks of opportunity to the opponent.

Phoenix Lord

The Phoenix Lord of the Dire Avengers is Asurmen, the Hand of Asur. He was the first of the Phoenix Lords and the greatest, who instructed all the other founding Phoenix Lords in the skills of combat. Asurmen is the reason that Shrine of the Dire Avengers is the most common warrior aspects. He was extremely well travelled founding multiple shrines in a large number of Craftworlds. He has also founded more shrines than any other Phoenix Lord.³

Images

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  A Dire Avenger miniature (4th Edition)

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  Dire Avenger Exarch with a Diresword (2nd Edition)

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  A Dire Avenger Exarch with Power Weapon (4th Edition)

See also

• Aspect Warrior

Sources

• ¹ Codex: Eldar (3rd Edition)
• ² Codex: Craftworld Eldar (3rd Edition)
• ³ Codex: Eldar (4th Edition)
• ⁴ Warhammer 40,000 5th Edition Rulebook, 2008, p 156