Lore of the Warp

Home › Units › Craftworld Aeldari › Bonesingers

Aeldari & Drukhari · Unit

Bonesingers

Psychic artisans of the Craftworlds who sing solid wraithbone out of the raw stuff of the Warp to grow ships, towers, and Wraith-constructs.

Craftworld Aeldari

Faction
Craftworld Aeldari
Related characters
2

Illustrated by Vesta (Skitoya) Menyachikhina (“Meet the Bonesinger... Again!”, used with permission) · Additional gallery art by Vesta (Skitoya) Menyachikhina (“Meet the Bonesinger... Again! (Plate 2)”), Vesta (Skitoya) Menyachikhina (“Bonesinger (Bonesinger Study)”), Vesta (Skitoya) Menyachikhina (“Eldar bonesinger (Eldar Bonesinger)”) (used with permission)

Lore & origins

Nothing aboard an Aeldari Craftworld is forged by hammer or smelted in a furnace. Instead, every soaring spire, starship hull, shuriken catapult, and Wraithknight chassis is sung into existence by those Aeldari who walk the Path of the Artisan as Bonesingers. Through harmonic psycho-sonic melodies chanted through their tuning pipes, a Bonesinger draws raw energy from the Immaterium and crystallises it into wraithbone—a self-healing, psycho-conductive material stronger than adamantium.

Appearance & wargear

Wearing psycho-resonant robes and a high collar ringed with harmonic tuning-pipes, a Bonesinger carries a glowing Psytronome that amplifies their psychic song across the battlefield.

Weapons & Vehicles

Standard Armament & Combat LoadoutBonesingers carry harmonic tuning-pipes and a glowing Psytronome to shape living wraithbone on the field.

Explore all 48 entries in the Weapons & Vehicles armoury.

Battlefield role & tactics

Accompanying Wraithguard, Wraithlords, and grav-tanks into battle, a Bonesinger knits shattered wraithbone plates back together with a few bars of psychic song.

Munitorum & Ordo Xenos Technical Dossier

Classified under Ordo and Departmento Munitorum threat-index protocols as a primary Accompanying Wraithguard, Wraithlords, and grav-tanks into battle, a Bonesinger knits shattered wraithbone plates back together with a few bars of psychic song. asset of Craftworld Aeldari, Bonesingers relies on a tightly coupled symbiosis between operator conditioning and primary armament. Field maintenance and biological recovery logs indicate that extended deployment without liturgical recalibration or bio-stasis rest degrades targeting and metabolic stability by less than 4% per solar week—far outperforming standard sector baselines—while post-engagement recovery teams prioritize the immediate extraction of their core wargear, neural/gene-seed components, or machine-spirit memory cores before enemy scavengers can exploit them.

Notable battles & users

  • M41 — Bonesingers of Craftworld Iyanden worked for decades without rest to regrow their shattered world-ship after Hive Fleet Kraken's assault.

Further reading

Lexicanum · Warhammer 40k Wiki