#40k-lore-chat
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just kinda pop in, clear up a mess and pop out
essentially
Ohh
wait is his name suppost to be a play on iron man?

ofc wasnt his hands made of metel or something?
He drowned a necron construct in magma
The necrodermis tried to survive and latched onto his arms
so it melted and fused to his arms?
It skidaddled and left the construct to melt
Necrodermis is living metal
It is used to shape necron armor etx
oh i know next to nothing about the necrons other than they are older than the oldest shit and want to kill everything
and they are more or less the reason the universe is fucked
what does it look like?
Only their armor
Their plating sits over their skeletal frames
If the frame gets damage the necrodermis tries to repair the hole
Theyre completelt coated with it tho
And it can take colors
Exactly they can join the suicide squad and go on the most dangerous missions in the hope that they die.
I mean that’s honestly what I imagine it being like.
It widely varies since writers are inconsistent.
It might help to think of them as the most intelligent dog breed
Since they have an upper mental capacity limit but an old dog certainly is smarter than a puppy
ok so they could have the brain power needed to both commit a crime and to understand the consept of being convicted
dont they weigh over a ton?
I think so
yeah iirc the bone heads are near human level intellect
Yeah think like 50-80 IQ or something. 100 is average right?
80s being reserved for bodyguards most likely.
irl unknown has less than half of the world's pop has been tested
imho 50-80 is a better theoritical average than the current 100-115
but yeah as for the ogryn its funny the smart ones are called bone heads as that is normally used to describe a dumbass lol
I was looking stuff up on elephants and their brain is massive and they have extra neurons but they are mostly for controlling their bodies so aren’t smarter than us.
big bodies take a lot of effort to control
So since our brains are most likely the same as ogryns that would help explain why they don’t have lower mental capacity as humans it’s just used for their big bodies.
Also muscle usage percentage control.
So they have less neurons for voluntary thought.
"So I asks meself, what would Colonel Stracker do? Easy I says, ed' probably yell at me for bloody standin' about and not smashin' things with me mates. So that's what I did. They even gave me this ere shiny medal when I was through."
— Specialist Nift, Bone'ead 1st class, speaking candidly about his promotion
oh so bone'eads are geneticly enchanced
If they can do it to a human to make a space marine they can sort of do it to an ogryn
Some aren’t worth the effort
no i mean i thought the ogryn where just guardsmen that had been genemogged into what they are
ofc its a lot more complicated than that
lol
so if the SM have no fear
that means they arent brave
in fact thats true of most of the imperium's most powerfull forces
ok so i just read Sigismund's last words
what an utter badass
You will die as your weakling father died...
Soulless
Honourless
Weeping
Ashamed”
-Sigismund’s last words to Abaddon
btw
what exactlly happened to horus' soul?
One of the most iconic moments in Warhammer 40,000 lore, Sigismund, High Marshal of the Black Templars faces down Abbadon, leader of the Black Legion.
This scene was taken from the book 'The Black Legion', written by Aaron Dembski Bowden, please go buy this awesome book.
https://www.blacklibrary.com/new-titles/featured/black-legion-ebook.html
...
Erased
Horus got sent to the Shadow Realm
Quite bald for you to say that... Bold, i meant bold...
Most intelligent dogbreed seems about right for Ogryn
they are also about as loyal
so is there any lore on how the imperium handles instances of fratricide?
i image such things would be fairly common on most battle fields in the 40k universe
Depends on whos in charge, which varies region to region
Yeah skelly he means regions where the imperium is in charge 
makes sense as thats about how anything works in the imperium lol
the Imperium is held together by lazy writing 🙏
In cannon or IRL?
lol
Lmao
Well done
hell if what i heared about the high lords of terra is right they wherent even really held togeather by that lol
Necrons are cool
Necrons are what happends when you base an alien race off the grumpy old man that yells at everyone lol
The only real reason the lords of terra actually hold power is because if you don’t listen they will just fucking melt you from existences
They actually treat humans really well in some dynasties
*As long as they worship the necrons
where they really making almost 1k new laws every single day?
Don't need worship just need to fulfill tasks
But you get schooled, fed, and housed in exchange
Imagine if a modern day corrupt politician had the power to command the entire milky way galaxy, that’s what the lords of terra are times 10
so DOW1 had a unite of necron called the pariahs which where necron human hybrids. where those canon?
They would literally do anything to feel above other people
Pariah are in a weird canon spot rn
Not exactly canon but are still in universe as pet projects of crypteks
i see
Yeee tho largely they are retconned
BUT
since literally everyone agrees they are cool af you can just ignore that stupid decision by GW
im kinda curious on how they are made
We dont really know but id assume its painful lol
^
since you are basicaly a diet-necron
ima headcanon it as a 40k version of the cybermen from doctor who
We know it's part of crypteks discovering the same process necrons where put through by the C'tan so it comes with soul removal
A better necron actually
How?
Necrons can be attacked with warp, pariah cannot
Making a necron a blank would give them immunity from warp, and with their tech they have immunity from physical
True
Necrons don't have a good way to deal with psychic
Because long history?
Or the blackstone fortress, which how are they called by the eldar?
Yeah but necrons never really needed a counter against chaos
their weaponry is already OP as it is
Which is why removal of praiahs sucked
Yes, but less long history and more that eldars were used as weapons against them since they are extremely vulnerable to warp, which eldar use even to go to take a shit
Not chaos directly, but the pylons were created to seal away the warp
Not having a soul don't exactly make you immune to warp sheanigans, look at all the machines that got warped and possessed by demons and stuff
Blanks on the other hand actively repulse warp
And with that chaos, but that is too reasonable for the imperium to get and still try to kill blanks
Hmmm 
Look, I get them being potentially subject to warp shenanigans, but not really to any great effect outside of someone casting psychic powers on them. But things like ferric blight make me want to punch whoever thought to write about it.
so im playing warhammer 40k battlesector and i just encountered a nid called a thornback. are those a newer bio form?
at first i thought it was a tyrant guard
they almost look like a mini carnifex
Hey who ws the first noise marine again?
I can’t remember if he actually had a personality or not
opens copy of Fulgrim
ok so what is this angelican they keep talking about in battlesector?
i assume its the name of the blood angels main stronghold on baal
That face
That is a face of pure destruction
its a face only a follower of slaanesh can make
He knew
you mean the Arx Angelicum by any chance?
i guess i know little of blood angel lore
Nobody is expert on marines trust me lmao
but yeah its their fortress monastery
Lexicanum is your friend!
Based individual spotted
in both senses of the word at that lol
He looks like he's ready to cause some treble.
God fucking Genestealer cults are doing more damage to the imperium then chaos has done ever
You Marinade a human blank in necron sauce
Its their chapter's Fortress Monestary. It was the home base of the entire Blood Angels Legion pre codex. A lot of it was lost/ unexplored because there just werent enough marines for the entire thing but due to recent renovations in anticipation of the tyrannids, by the tyranids and after the tyranids its regained a fair ammount of what had been lost. Its also where they keep Sanguinius. Mephiston's library is within the Arx but the chapter's Recclusiam is at a secret location on Baal. Outside of the Blood Angels Chapter only IX legion Chapter masters are allowed to know where it is. Even Gabriel Seth respects that rule.
is there a special name for grey knight's powersword
nemesis [weapon name]
thx
they all use nemesis force weapons not power weapons, difference being that a power weapon is powered by a physical powersource where as a force weapon is ignited by the user's psychic abilities
thx i just needed know the name for the bit for my Silver Knight of Slaanesh
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the Imperial simping on this thread is killing me
really seeing the grey 😔
Only grey he wants to see is the krieg khakis
NOOO-
I like the imperium because big cathedral. Thats it basically
Also they are responsible for csm so thx for that big e 🙏
I also love my space knights/monks

Well, ok, this is true, we have heroes like ibram gaunt and assholes like... check notes... Pretty much anyone else
This is both ignorant and awful, tau treat humans better than other humans, and even humans that aren't imperium treat humans better than the imperium...
I like the Imperium because they personify everything I believe in real life.
That religion, religious organizations and zealots are dangerous and evil people.
Imperium simps are the most fragile people ever 
It follows the inverse chad wojak law
like I admit I dont like posting here weekly about how the Imperium is bad but jesus christ
its so fascinating how defensive they get
The more likely a faction is to be portrayed as "chad" the less chad the fanbase is

Usually the smell of BO and sight of neck beard is close to follow.
Well ACKtually
😂
All i wanna do is paint my golden boys and hum the pillarmen theme

This is a good goal.
Its acheivable within my lifetime is what counts lmao
I'm enjoying painting my human extremist religious zealots. 🙏
I don't enjoy the Imperium much, I like the guards because they are amongst the more reasonable Imperium factions, more utilitarian
Reasonable for 40k with all the grimdark that is
Guard is the most human experience in 40K.
The absolute insanity and larger than life scale of death happening all around.
The insane odds.
Just your fleeting moments wondering what the point of life even is until ripped apart by a Tyranid.
🙏
its both. the collective salt of the 40k fanbase is singlehandedly keeping cheetos in business
I got sucked in by the Astartes animation, but more than anything it's the environment and history of pre-30K that I liked so much. The stories of the Old Ones and shit are just so cool.
I like the Imperium because I like the cool space people who beat massive odds. Also the way that the take medieval European culture/ architecture and then project it into space is IMMENSELY cool
Yeah. Imperium battleships are absolutely over the top cool and old sci-fi. A fucking floating space cathedral.
Very cool.
yeah, and the Astartes, Sororitas and Custodes basically being knight orders
Just ignore the religion!
I can appreciate the guard
and the Knight houses being actual knight houses but with tech now
But pretty much everything else is kinda bad
Its still very cool to see it tho
I don't consider the Ad. Mech. part of the imperium just to clarify
Dunno, i dislike all the imperium ships
the imperium doesn't need to be good to be cool/fun and I like it because it is cool/ fun not because it is good
Well Admech is part of the Imperium but they manage to be even worse than the average Imperium
Knights are neutral, but more leaning in dumb territory for me
fine, I like them tho
in a good way 
Wrong. Neophyte 4th gens
Most civilian humans 
LMFAO
If it helps, my second favourite faction is the Craftworld Eldar
Eeeeehhhh, kinda point taken i admit... But we didn't get a great look at it, at least compared to the same coverage we got with the imperium
@atomic pelican You have been slandered.
I mean even during the Blanche period they were fucking nutty, also they literally manage to have less human rights than the Imperium
A marine fan
LMFAO
Discarded
me.
gsc was cooler when they had limos and not dirt bikes
Only realistic bikes

gonna pull out my SM go kart with wheels that cant turn
Blanche period was awful... For everyone and everything... Awful art too... I think that Ad. Mech. might be getting better, after all with mechanicus we got a dominus that cared about its skitarii
u know I wasn't trying to start something. I just prefer the guard
I mean yeah Skitarii I was moreso mentining how the admech will, without a care in the world turn billions into servitors
GSC dirt bikes would be amazing for kitbash some serious skitarii rider
@scenic bolt It doesn't turn. The anti-grav lifts kick in and the entire cart is set in the direction it needs to go.
that ridiculous dune buggy that has sidepods instead of trying to protect the driver?
I don't really see the difference with the imperium on this, since it is the imperium that most of the time give the bodies
And to say they don't really care is wrong imo, they still care for some stuff with their manpower
Because its literally written in the Skitarii codex that they have a broader pick range for whom will be servitored
The PoV of Ad. Mech. being dumb is one that i simply cannot share, or that they are comically evil in their management of worlds
LMFAO
We are trying to argue, not being horny thank you
ur thinking of the IIIrd legion
wheres that fulgrim pfp gone?
BA aren't blood angels?
So, yes, my point stand
not horny
Oh, those BA... Ok, fine they are good
7th edition? Do you remember the page?
Nah 9
wait u mean that normal BA= horny but death company = angy? because I meant that the entire chapter is angy
lemme get you the excerpt if you wanna do your Medic
Nah, no need
I trust you
I know that it is legally required to be at least a little bit gay for Sanguinius but the prevailing tone of the BA is angy and drincc
Well, yes, death company is angy all the time, normal BA try to be composite and restrain their flaws
You know what they spike the blood with anyways.
The bravest skitarii are the great warriors of the bladed cog
Who threw the fab general off their world
And onto the top of their banner
CHAPLAIN JONES DOESN'T LIKE EM PUTTIN CHEMICALS IN THE BLOOD THAT TURN THE FRIKIN NEOPHYTES GAY! DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT?
Were those skitarii or brood brothers? Uh...
Skitarii
The patriarch thralled them and their skitarii prime
Who now serves as the cult nexos
Damn, i should have added a /j
Yeah i think that was as usual 40k suffering from "we cant make any GSC that isnt default cult models because tabletop"
Yeee
would they also happen to be a... nevermind u answered before I could finnish typing
Bladed Cog's brood brothers canonwise are skitarii
tyranid version of godzilla and mechagodzilla
I did not find that part HOWEVER I do have the one where Agrippa would only allow cadian civilian refugees to land on Agrippa only if they "chose" to join the rank of Skitarii
I legit wish they were in artwork tbh
but as said before gotta be cult minis otherwise it'd be confusing lmao
Did you missed my message where i state that i trust you? No need to throw me medic bullets, i trust you...
Reading more of their lore now
Unlike the bionic-obsessive Mechanicum, the Bladed Cog welcomes organic and cybernetic alike and this has seen their ranks swell from the underclasses of Forge Worlds
leave it to the GSC to be more questionably noblebright than the imperium lmao
They also did legit put their fab general's head on their flagpole
Yeee its in their banner artwork i think?
I mean, its kinda hard to do worse
lmao
Wait nevermind I forgot Iron Warriors were a thing
He was an asshole so they did good with that
not really
pouring one out for the interex, what could've been
indeed
Another for adrantis five pls
And for the diasporex
And for the auretian technocracy
I mean, if we go with drinks for every human civ destroyed by the imperium we will get drunk
pmuch
do u reckon there is a shrine world where all they do all day is pour one out for each individual martyr every single day?
they have rising sea levels of nothing but alchohol
thatd be neat
and no one can agree on how to prounounce its name because by the time u have been on the world long enough to ask u have inhaled too much alchohol to speak clearly
I could see the ministorum finding a way to commission the mechancus to make a alcohol rain weather control system
There being Forge world GSC makes me very happy.
Probably how I'd do GSC if I were to have a GSC army
It also feels like it'd be infuriating to be a Fabricator General and learn your workforce is infested and subverted.
...Matter of fact, presuming a Skitarii still has flesh on them, could they be subverted by a Genestealer?
Like, on the one hand, some Skitarii are basically micro-managed or directed/made unnaturally loyal to their Tech Priest masters using implants.
But on the other hand, Genestealer subversion is really powerful, to the point where it can basically fuck up anyone.
...Although, one imagines something like a Skitarii Vanguard would be a really poor choice to subvert.
Oh, this guy with acute radiation poisoning who's probably sterile has been subverted! Oh noooooo.
Anything with a brain can be subverted
There are 2 means of 'infection'
Psychic thralling and biological infection
Though, most skitarii/such are still biological enough to be infected directly
In the case of Bladed Cog, the Patriarch thralled a large swath of them
Funnily enough, in Spiral Dawn, a SoB is subverted from like, miles away by a patriarch
a strong broodmind or just a weird writting bit?
Uhh hard to say, it was a brand new cult
So probably not a incredibly strong broodmind
Infact, this was within only like a week of the purestrains landing iirc
The patriarch had like, just ascended
He reached into her mind and drew her to the mountain, where she was biologically infected
Planted seeds of doubt into her mind, etc etc
If it helps, I believe she was also a younger sister
Patriarchs are incredible psykers
its less to do with the persons mental strength and more the distance lmao
always assumed fresh cults were relativley small on influence and needed to expand the web
Yeah that's generally the case, Patriarchs psychic power generally grows with the broodmind
same for magi
GSC have a version of waaagh energy unique to them, got it
what did again happen when a tyranid swarm lands on a broodminded planet? do they just gobble them up or is there more to it?
what like, a GSC dominated planet?
typically yes but there are some exceptions
@atomic pelican Hey what’s the pistols that the cowboy genestealer guy use called?
Liberator autostubs
Thanks
cowboy genestealer?
Cowboy genestealer
Maybe it would be more appropriate to say groxboy though... Doubt there are still cow in the grim darkness of the far future
wtf is a grox?
I thought of a weird cowbot bebop/ gsc hybrid. Why is my mind like this lmao
so a 40k cow
More a lizard but fair
lizard cow
wait...wasnt there a caveman who accidently poisoned his tribe with grox shit and as a 'reward' was turned into a nurgling?
Sounds right
I know enough about the Doom of Malan’tai and Swarmy, but y’all got any juicy details about other Tyranid characters? Like that parasite dude, or One Eye?
Most of them don't really have much 'character' to them, as much as being unique biomorphs who's format was then adopted b y other hivefleets
Ex, Old One Eye being a especially vicious carnifex
However, there is lore that suggests the original One Eye is still alive
Frozen beneath ice, being worshipped by a Cult dedicated to him
Are there any special effects of a genestealer infecting grox or other cattle?
no, infact I can't even recall a instance where a purestrain has infected a random animal like that
They probably could, but there's no point
Genestealers are vanguard organisms, intended to infect the sentient population of the planet
Ahh alright, I was thinking of making innerwyrm style genestealer cultists ride grox for bikers, and I was wondering if they should be infected too or not
Don't need to be infected to ride
Makes sense
Its literally the fucking Hodag
GW saw Wisconsin's state cryptid and stole it
Based bundle
God it whiplashes me every time lol
I wonder what Slaanesh familiars look like
I think?
like this guy for example
weird little pyker dudes
Oh ut apparently looks like a minitor
and a tits our demon lady with no arms
tbh i kinda
love them
they are so stupid looking
and off tone
Thinking about how the tau killed a noise marine warband and thought it was Slaanesh himself
Like silly little blue alien men :) if you had a personality and real emotions you would have been killed in an instant
Smh gatekeeping emotions
I mean
Tau have personalities and emotions
you wont explode into a chaos spawn just because of having them
^
The only limitation for tau is that they're basically unable to feel warp stuff. So like, they can still perceive daemons and all, but they're blind to the whole this planet definitely had daemons on it at some point and i dont wanna be here thing warp sensitive species will get
it's kinda inconsistent cus tau can still apparently get fucked up by blanks but
But beyond that they do have a full range of emotions, they're not stunted. They're just not v individualist
what kinda salamander is that
Tom Holland wants to play 40k with Henry Cavill
I cant get the idea out of my head that he would play that one interrogator from Eisenhorn that gets daemonhosted
Let us begin
Thats a good one
why do the GSC even exist? just to soften up planets for a hive fleet invasion?
Yep
When a Hive will attack a planet it will send a psychic feedback to the GSC there to start riots
@atomic pelican gsc talk
A gsc cult that has attained max presence will also attract hive fleets
I suppose them assimilating into garrisons and things would also leave a planet defenceless right?
that's the brood brothers job yeah they will infiltrate the ranks of local guardsmen and pdf , taking control of their weapons during the invasion or the rebellion yes
Yes zherlum is right
Infact, when a hivefleet nears, special generationa will begin to be born
Hybrid metamorphs
the choncy bois
I forgot they existed, that's nice
as the generations go on do the cultists get more tyranid like or more human? if neither why does it bother mentioning their generations?
They become more humans
More human like then it cycles back
In short it goes from 1 to 5th gen, 4 th is the most human one, 5 is pure genestealers so another patriarch can be born and spread the cult
Unless Proud thinks i'm wrong
No thats right, but gen 5 and 1 are the same
I usually just say 1-4->1 again
Since step 1 is purestrains
What are the familiars some of the GSC are gifted?
Psychic manifestations of the patriarch essentially
Like mini-mes but used for psychic folley
except hopefully having telepathic communication would lead to better dancing
I actually really like GSC
They are currently the only traitor humans that have a line of models that have rules
Chaos humans (lost and the damned or somesuch) sort of exist but not really
I would like non chaos aligned, non xenos aligned and non Imperium aligned humans but alas I doubt we ever see those
On tabletop they do exist in lore
Like independent world's?
Or rebels that don't fall to chaos
Most rebelling worlds usually mysteriously become radiation planets over night when the imperium hears about it
Doesn't mean there aren't any
In my defense tau gatekeep entire species
Fuckin crabs that only make plasma reactors
Rip
Tbh those species might be willing, we know so little abt them cus GW isn't interested in fleshing the auxiliaries out
I’d fucking kill for more tabletop minor Xenos tbh
As a tau main you and me both
“Oh we have an aux species that could toss a baneblade with their mind??? And ur not giving me more lore????
I honestly don’t like tau, I don’t like the gundom crap but I fucking adore the Kroot and those bug guys
there's a lot that GW do with their models that doesn't make sense
Also there should definitely chaos Xenos for table top
Lmao
I fr love how alphariusomegon spent the entire Horus heresy fucking circlejerking their war tactics and fucking with everyone while contributing absolutely nothing
I see the Aus has awoken from his Halo induced slumber
Mayhaps, we just have good taste
No Lux is a disgusting C*rax lover 🤢
I take it you’re a Russ stan
uh oh
no they are just horny for russ
🤢
Magnus is hotter
But Lux, you're the number 1 space wolves fan :^)
Wait sorry, you like Dark Angels even more. My bad 
Don’t slander me this way. I have at least one functioning brain cell to realise the Wolves and Dangles are bad

I have good taste mayo, honest bruv. I like the Scars and Fists
Thats good taste?
Ye
We have started the taste wars


Excellent taste in legions
Don’t tell me you like the Blood Angels or Night Lords
Mayhaps
incredibly
Bit cringe innit
Honest bruv
Tbh fulgrim is a bit of a femboy
I’ve been drinking copious amounts of tea. Might be the reason
So what’s good taste in your mind gamer?
idk im a tau stan
I'm a IG/Eldar boi
primarchs wise i like fulgrim and sangy cus they're hot and no other reason
Not really tbh, I’ve got some audio books sitting in limbo, no motivation to listen to ‘em.
Yourself?
Mainly homebrew 
XD
Supplement?
for Clan Raukan
You know what
Decent?
Classic
I just want an Autek Mor reborn and make his signature and frequent move, dropping moons on enemies
Mood
Sigma Male
What I would do for a War of the False Primarch Imperial Armour
Plz don’t tell me you like Krieg or the Praetorians
Oh god no
Very good
Indeed
most of the krieg stans have been beaned
They are neat, but i'm more of a valhallan kinda guy
snow camo my beloved
whish i could pull this off tbh
Based
seems to be the work of some type of weathering powder or terrain powder to me
probably
I like kriegers
Oh dear
Stupid question:
In warhammer 40K are clones more nurture or nature?
Like I know in some media clones are literally one for one while other times clones are basically the same as a child growing up
It's weird. Horus has been cloned a few times, with the intention of recreating him. The clones never really stack up to the real one, though the reasons could vary from the fact that it's a being without the supercharged energy of every chaos god to the Emperor having deleted Horus's soul.
Wait what’s that bit about supercharged chaos energy?
Subhanallah, you make me proud, brother
I was more surprised about the deleted Soul
That's definitely the weathering powder they had at my local hobby shop.
One sec.
Tamiya Weathering Master.
Just dusted the entire thing with the Snow effect
That stuff is 10/10 though.
Looking at how the Afriel strain worked, clearly nature.
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big read but my brain small
^ADB posting about Drachnyen and why the Emperor fears the daemon. Pretty damn interesting. Surprising it has only 60 upvotes.
God damn this guy posted on reddit a lot
Its a good post
Best 40K author along side Dan.
Gets the lore really right and makes the characters a lot more than 1 dimensional tacticool himbos.
Depth, character development, etc.
I love his Black Legion series
Space Marines know no fear but oh by do the get depressed
Yeah. It was exceptionally well done. Helsreach as well is 10/10.
Where's book 3 damn it
I saw a really good rant about Dan today actually
Which brings us back to I think the two greatest problems of The Horus Heresy series. Dan Abnett and the Perpetuals. I know Abnett is beloved on this subreddit, but it drives me insane on his insistence to force his vision on what is essentially a community project. Nearly every other major 40K author is tonally coherent with each other - I can read Wraight and then ADB and I feel like I'm reading the same universe.
Then Abnett shows up and I'm in a completely different genre -
the EternalsPerpetuals feel like something he's pulled from his work in Marvel and shoved into 40k (Erda is Reed Richards to the Emperor's Doctor Doom, change my mind).There's a reason they're routinely cited as sucking and I swear Abnett keeps shoehorning in Perpetuals in order to try and redeem them for the fanbase. It doesn't help that I feel like Abnett's work in the Horus Heresy is more about completing his Inquisitor trilogy then it is about the Heresy.
"Eununcia in Eisenhorn? Did you know humans figured it out at the Tower of Babel, the Emperor wanted to steal it, but then MY Perpetual ended up destroying it?" You learn that from reading the Horus Heresy books! "Did you know my perpetual was also the first warmaster?" "You like Valdor - just wait till you see him in 10,000 years later!" .*
They're plot fillers who I think Abnett wants to use to make grand statements about the human spirit, but they almost solely exist to sprout exposition about why the Emperor and 40K sucks. Which, to be fair, more fans should recognize, but the way Abnett does it isn't interesting or fun.
Its kinda long but it sums up why I don't really like the guy much
he is also really good at writing bog-standard humans in 40k and so i like his work for that reason
Weird since ADB is exactly the same as Dan on that subject just instead of shoehorning Perpetuals he shoehorns his self-insert


But I agree that is a clear witness of Dan and mostly why I can't read too much of his work in a row
I bet a krieg dlc that one of the PCs / NPCs of DT will be a perpetual
Dan reveals in the last SoT that the eldar were actually created by a human perpetual
Teh great old ones were pepetuals
they spread the myth of the war in heaven to keep the eldar complacnet

Honestly I agree with this aspect, Perpetuals were one of the dumbest things to come out of recent 40k lore
I love Dan for most of all his other stuff, but Perpetuals are just dumb
That is an interesting point that I didn't really consider before
Which I liked most of his stuff at Marvel, he was responsible for Guardians getting popular, his run was great
I did enjoy the perpetuals when there were like 3 total and never really had lore besides them existing
same tbh
This
Like it was a oh cool, interesting, don't need to know more about them
Like the Minor Ordos of the Inquisition
There are blurbs about them
But don't need to go into them
My imagination will do a better job at filling in the gaps
Perpetuals are an amazing concept but awfully developed and pushed hard into many places that didn't required them...
Having a genestealer cultist on your roguetrader crew probably sucks
yes
‘No, we will not stop by the hive city that will only communicate with you.’
‘No, we will not stop and steal mining equipment’
True
Why steal it when you can simply get it assigned to you legally?
I doubt a Rogue Trader would keep a GSC on his crew tho, what benefit would he get from it? I think the cons would way outweigh pros
More the idea of that they simply wouldnt know
Can a GSC ever separate from the cult and live his life in peace. J chillin? Has that ever happened before?
the only people stupid enough to keep nids about are the admech
They COULD but they wouldnt
and it never goes well
Cultists have a inbuilt fervor to work to the cult's objectives
Tru
But WHAT IF
you know how there’s those stories of gsc fighting back against the nids?
There are a few examples, but in all, they are still under the directive of their cult and patriarch
Usually fighting a hivefleet which did not sire them
they wait for the right fleet to turn up
Yes
“Oh fuck lets call another”
they have limited free will, but the patriarch basically has them all on a psychic leesh
Yeee
I imagine a gsc guy staring through binoculars.
if you consider leaving he'll nudge the thought aside and towards something more beneficial
They keep their personality and such, but wont stray far from the cult
Geus
Yeus*
Not even neccesarily the patriarch himself, just the like, inbuilt loyalty to other cultists
Connection to the broodmind
Ontop of that, a Cultist has lived and been taught the dogma and socialized that way their entire life if they are a born hybrid
Even without the Broodmind, It'd be unlikely theyd ever leave
I remember an excerpt of a cultist "opening their eyes" to what they were and were doing and seemed having quite free will, but that happened after their patriarch was killed iirc
A patriarch dying alone won't do that. You may be thinking of a few examples of hivefleets consumptions which dissipate the broodmind
Tho, even in those cases, it doesnt make much sense to me
A patriarch dying wont end a cult, a new one will just rise
No no, i remember the cultis awaken from an attack, and she see all other cultists in a different way, she doesn't feel anymore their connection, she see them as "monster" and she was scared that all them would recognize her and remember what her ordered them to do and would try to kill her
that sounds like weird writting tbh
Yeah
There are some canon things that conflict and things which I disagree with for that reason. Ex) GSC Khaine

Another thing I genuinely preferred was old throw yourselves into da goo cultists
Why would a hivefleet make a fight for itself?
Legit just for muh grimderps
ye like
i can understand cults fightin other fleets
but other then that feels like they should basically just get brain fried by the connection to the actual hive once it arrives
Found it, it was the novel fist of the imperium
"Well, we have this huge amount of biomass willing to die in a religious fervor. Lets cut that so theyll fight us because xd!"
Yeah that aint right
Cult of the Spiral has a patriarch die and no cultist loses their faith
¯_(ツ)_/¯
We also had a GSC being left alive which is stated to be weird
GSC being left alive by a fleet is fine cause thats an infection vector they can use
From what i got it is a GSC book too, at least that is what a guy said
Such fleet would keep them close, not use them to infect
Also its a marine book
Accordjng to google
No thats wrong saar
Hivefleets let cultists flee often
To spread
Brutally kunning what is according to google?
Marine books must be discarded
As they are garbage
Esp when they conflict with a better book (Spiral)
Seem quite a biased PoV
na they use them to infect in some cases
because it can destabalize shit ahead of the main hive fleet, who cant keep up because they cant use the warp
Yee, theres examples of ships fleeing planets stuffed with cultists
Before consumption
and ye that book is so bad
they are GSC by birth
I was referring to this cult
thats a single cult, we are talking cults as a whole
On the Agri-World of Taurensi IX, a force of Voidbrood surprisingly survived the Tyranid invasion they helped engineer.
How should this be interpreted then?
Why they were spared is unknown,
Also this
the nids let them live to spread the GSC infection
That's what we were saying(?)
The relationship between Hivefleet and Cult varies alot, that's why you get so many examples. It's rare that there's a single right answer for every cult
arrive in new system "we are seeking refuge, our previous planet was eaten"
Because that state that sparing them is not the norm, and it is an exception to the rule
It isn't that big of a exception
Tiamet has a unique relationship with acult, where it has a ferryman bring new cultist sinto the system
There's another cult which has no based planet, but orbits the hivefleet in orbital stations
Following it and helping it
I still haven't found an example of a cult being left alive from nids other than the voidbrood tbh
Tiamet
don't look at named broods, look at general lore
Yes
yes
There's a Ferrymen cult leader
Who brings new people into the system
It's unknown
What they are doing
If i do i find out that they get munched
but the ferryemn comes and leaves
It's actually rlly neat
I do hope they do something with Tiamet's plot, they're my favorite hivefleet
Tiamet's schtick has been mentioned at the end of the Octarius book iirc
new bio titan variants
so at least its not a forgotten plot thread as of yet
ooft rip
Iirc they're building some massive beacon to attract the larger bulk of the Tyranids
In their system
I'm mostly curious as to what purpose the cult itself serves, because It's far too inefficient to just be for biomass
cant wait for the SM to kill it
LMAO
maybe usin em like worker ants for construction
That's what I was thinking
Or like, using the mass of a cult's worship to feed psychic energies into the thing
My guess is: The beacon itself amplifies the fuck out of a patriarch's signal
The Hive Fleet has also begun capturing ships that near the Tiamet System and have also created Genestealer Cults that leave their worlds to travel to the System.
I guess this wwas what you were referring to when you said that tiamet spared the GSC cults... It doesn't seem entirelly correct
No, not that specifically, but that too
gonna infect biggie E
Finally
post that megatron gif DO IT
which one
the one where he lifts lincoln and sits on his chair
The Nids let them leave, to become missionaries
It's really cool
I really do hope they don't lulmarine Tiamet, because IMO, It's the most interesting hivefleet

This is the same i wrote with different words... It is stated that GSC from other worlds go to the tiamet system...
AND come back out
As in, people are coming in, then leaving
Which means that Tiamet isn't just eating them
Yeah, but tiamet isn't even conquering their world, and we were talking about what happen to GSC when an hivefleet conquer their worlds, or did you forgot?
And again, tiamet is an exception, a great one tbf, from all other hivefleet, so it just confirm what i said, that GSC being left free to go away isn't exactly the norm
The point is that Tiamet is sparing them, which shows that Hivefleets can see further into planning than just "lmao eat"
Letting them spread to help the fleet
^
Its like how a tiger can toy with or plan hunts
I'm not stating that hive fleets cannot let them go away, i'm stating that it is not the norm
And as now, we have the example of the voidbrood, which has stated that it is surprising that they were left alive, and tiamet, which is such a unique hivefleet that don't even consume the worlds they settled that using it to prove that hivefleet leave GSC alive as norm is... Well, not really solid based
Eh
the entire base of 40k lore is just write a good enough excuse and roll with it
so its not that important imo
We never said its the norm, its nids so theres no real established norm
its just something they do, it differs fleet to fleet and cult to cult
I can take this more easily that trying to pass a behaviour without proofs
Explain this Skele then, you were not saying it was the norm here then?
You were not stating a named hivefleet, you were saying nids, like it is a shared behaviour
yes, because multiple fleets have done it, in various anecdotal lore bits that have been mentioned in here over the last year that i dont remember off the top of my head
Aaah Ah! If they get on top again feel free to ping me, i wouldn't shy from updating my knowledge on nids and GSC since they seems to be both becoming big players in the galaxy
The named cults we know about are just the ones that haven't been consumed. Yet.
Pretty sure we can have a named cult that got munched in the end...
With how GW works, probably not
BTW, i remember one asking if GSC can infect animals like grox, it seems they can, and they will if they can use them to spread infection
None of the major cults, no
They can, but not in the way you're thinking of
There's a cult which infects the meat of grox, but not the animal itself
then packs and ships it to be eaten by other worlds
They also probably can regularly infect grox, they can infect nearly anything alive
But there's no real reason to
The incoming nids will see to that by just eating them all anyway
The grox thing is gross, they ship grox with inside genestealers...
Parasites, not full grown genestealers
Atleast in that specific example
No reason they couldn't do that tho
The Cult is known to have spread its influence to other worlds by exporting Grox from the Agri-World of Peregrim's World with Genestealers hidden inside.
Is the parasite also know as genestealer?
Or it has a specific name?
I mean, i don't know how much big a grox can be, but it need to be biiig for getting a genestealer
genestealer can literaly be anything tho
from a small parasite or human through to a patriarch
Ye
In the case of the Innerwyrm, they're leaving the parasite that purestrains produce to infect people in the meat
It's much easier to ship than a whole grown purestrain
But like I said, they may just as well ship purestrains too under the guise of food shipments
It's w/e really
You may actually be right about the corpse stuffing
Infact, you are!

god the dornian heresy is so cool
I love it more for the case that its good to read some of the traitor primarchs actually having good lives
it goes to also show how lazily written the actual Horus Heresy also is lmao
Big E didnt help Angron because eh idk, nails were there too long
Meanwhile Dornian Heresy Big E is just "lol lemme remove those real quick, its not like im not a super genius science person that can pull a mcguffin out of anywhere at any time or something"
the onlyt hing i dont like is that xenos have litearlly zero presents
like, ultramarines are Tau
iron hands are necron
which is super fucking cool
and deathguard are eldar
Ooooh thats really neat
ikr
looks like ill have to read their page
they're the only ones i skipped because i dont like DG lmao
i think one of the traitor chapters are genestealer like but im not sure, probably not
same
like 'papa nurgle' but what about 'milf slaanesh?'
also in dornian heresy the luna wolves become the black templar
literally zero difference
and the alpha legion are also
exactly the same
but maybe they are secretly chaos
but loyalist
or some bullshit
OH YEA THE THOUSAND SONS ARE SO FUCKING COOL
YOOO
T.Sons get the best fucking deal
aside from going blind
also another case of the HH being lazily written
Magnus just asks for a private audience with Big E in nikea
and boom problem solved, thats it
no needless bullshit drama 
im not 100% sure but im pretty sure what happened was magnus was being tempted by tzeetch but big E warned him and like taught him how to limit his powers
Yeee, like Magnus like the other legions was basically fated to fall to chaos with his gimmick
with Angron its rage, with Morty its Death, etc
so its why their falls tend to be a bit "eh"
Leeman is still a huge fucking asshole in DH
LMAO he is
its like once you remove all his plot armor he becomes uh
you know
wild psychopath
rightfully so
exactly
emperor's children like, litearlly jsut didnt find the sword
YEAh
i mean the theory in HH is that Fulgrim and Khan were switched by the laughing good
so it makes complete sense
Oh no thats canon
so i think its why it makes even more sense
especially the centaur stuff
which again strangely fits REALLY well with them

yea while HH EC focused on being perfect, DH focus on just pre fucking joy with their love of speed
Yep like in an alternate earth im pretty sure no one would bat an eye at this change
its more smooth compared to the ones like the Fists where it gets a bit clunky
since they were designed from the start to be loyalists so it gets difficult to explain it
i dont think its too bad, Dorian loves the emperor lik ehow Horus was
im not too sure who cused dorian to become chaos tho
Yeee i meant more that I'm too used to the Fists being the boyscouts
so its a bit hard to imagine
probably the same reason why they didnt make the Ultras fall to chaos in this version since its even MORE hard to fantasize it 
yeah, Guill didnt like how how Big E was running the emperium so he was like 'Ill run my own Emperium, with peace and me being in charge'
i, dont know how the big event where em became disabled
since half of the traitors didnt join chaos
Yeee
Wait
i can see how iron hands would help, they became AI, but why would the guy who wants the perfect society want to help the people embodying terror and murder and crap
Slaaneshi centaurs.
Also yeah since im also sure Medusa has a tomb world under it? lmao
You see my point dont you, dilara.
yeah, did the iron hands just use a soul furnace or did they do brain transfer>
No but seriously centaurs fit slaanesh in all aspects
Oh yeah they do, i think its just the Slaangors atm that fill that aspect, even if they arent centaurs but eh close enough
Actually no idea
i need to read up on them
the emperor staring at one of his entire legions becoming abhorrent ai and telling the mechanicus its fine
LMAO
yeah
100%
i jsut wonder how he would join chaos
oh probably
because he would want to be worhsipped
Yeah its the same problem as the other loyalists
matches him
Wolfdawgart
lmao
Lemans a raving lunatic
I was gonna say
Leman is also strangely a perfect khorne guy
Its because he has no temper
I really dont like nightlords in DH







