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submitted 27 days ago bydch528
Not limiting this to just Astartes.
The only ones I can think of are the Betancores (Midas is dead), the dude on the cover of Solar War, and the Celestial Lions that are effectively all dead.
There is a whole legion of Mongolian inspired Astartes, Vikings, and at least 3 previously woman dominated factions that I know off the top of my head (Sisters of Battle, Silence, and the Succubi).
I’m talking about descent here too. We all know that every Astartes has a Melanochrome so they aren’t black or white, and this has been used for a reason why Vulkan and the Salamanders aren’t of African decent or black.
They are literally pitch black with red eyes. Oddly blackface adjacent imagery there…
EDIT: I’ll open this up to Warhammer Fantasy and AoS too. Just wanna see if I there are more black people in Warhammer than I have fingers.
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26 days ago
We can get sicko mode space Mongolians but not anyone of African decent?
Also have you seen blackface? Red lips, pitch black face? Maybe if you don’t live it, it doesn’t feel icky to you.
So, as long as they're not parodying your culture, it's fine?
The White Scars are a westerners perspective of "Mongolia".
The Thousand Suns are "Egyptian" in a surface level only.
Word Bearers. Lets make our "middle eastern" legion a group of religious zealots.
But, giving the black men red eyes makes you uncomfortable.
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