Jain Zar (also known as the Storm of Silence or the Tempest That Reaps) is the Phoenix Lord of the Howling Banshees Aspect Warriors among the Aeldari (Eldar) of Warhammer 40,000

She was born Faraethil on the world of Eidafaeron shortly before the Fall of the Eldar. Abandoned as an infant at the Kurnussei, she grew up as a blood-dancer gladiatrix (a Hekatarri/Wych-style performer), fighting in arenas for the pleasure of her master and crowds. After the Fall, the arenas emptied and she was reduced to acting as an executioner. Disgusted, she fled.

Years later, while struggling to survive, she encountered a suicidal stranger at a ruined temple of the old Eldar gods. That stranger was Asurmen (then known as Iliathin). When her former masters’ minions (proto-Drukhari) pursued her, the two fought them off together. Asurmen took her as his first disciple, renamed her Jain Zar, and the pair left Eidafaeron on a captured pleasure yacht, settling on an abandoned moon they named

Becoming a Phoenix Lord

Jain Zar became the first of Asurmen’s students and the first of the Asurya (the Children of Asur / original Exarchs). She and the other early disciples mastered specialized combat styles and then spread across the stars, founding the Aspect Warrior shrines on the Craftworlds. She established the Howling Banshees Aspect, whose warriors fight with blinding speed, grace, and the infamous Banshee Mask that emits a psychosonic scream capable of stunning or even liquefying foes’

Her name translates roughly as “the Storm of Silence.” She is renowned as one of the fastest Phoenix Lords (second only to Baharroth of the Swooping Hawks), fighting with dancer-like acrobatic poise that echoes her gladiatorial past. She is the most active of the Phoenix Lords, frequently traveling between Craftworlds to train and lead her Banshees, and is known to muster warriors from multiple Craftworlds at once.