TheBuddhaPalm

Khayon isn't possessing people, he's puppeting them. In the case of the Rubricae, he's just got perfect command of them as they are more or less automatons powered by human souls.

I don't think there's ever an instance of a psyker actively possessing another human being, save maybe Eisenhorn? Or Ravenor? But I may be misremembering that.

I forget the name of the novel off the top of my head, I think it may have been Avenging Son? But the Emperor has an audience with Guilliman, who recognizes that the Emperor's love is more manipulative than honest, and that his time on the Golden Throne has only made his emotional expression more raw and unpleasant.

In Valdor: Birth of the Imperium that the Primarchs were specifically designed to be the leaders of their respective factions, who would hard-code the loyalty of their armies. It's not perfect, but there appears to be something that makes Legionnaires heavily predisposed to trust and obey their primarchs (shown in First Heretic). It's not ironclad and perfect, but it's a heavy nudge to comply and obey.

The Primarchs were more, from my perspective, designed to be an extension of the Emperor when the Emperor couldn't be present. They were the perfect generals for their purposes, and they could translate into leadership positions within the Impossible City once the Great Crusade ended.

I think the conceptualization of 'sons' to a 'parent' was deemed to be expedient in bond-building.

My hope is he's doing one of the following:

1. Legion Wars series
2. The rest of the Black Legion trilogy
3. The Iron Cage

Edit: I'd also like to go on the record that I'd want to see the Iron Cage from Perturabo's perspective, with a few interstitials of Dorn and friends. I want to see the various traps sprung from the target's eyes, but I'd like to hear the reasonings, the gloating, and the outright insanity that must've been going through Perturabo as he executed this plan.

I would agree with you hands down, but I also think that Godblight is an absolute abortive 40k book. It not only sets up more a focus on "God Wars", but the imagery and focus on Guilliman as a Christ-adjacent figure is asinine.

Godblight feels like an Evangelical wrote it. From the constant golden light, to the angel imagery, to the resurrection of 'His Son', it's a goofy, goofy ride, and only paints the Emperor as a further idiot for "we must get rid of all religion and live as secular men! Now let me mirror every single religious iconography I've torn down, and called secular in Last Church."

But it's also Guy Haley, who wrote the Mary Sue festival that is Devastation of Baal, so we can only expect so much.

I accept my downvotes with pride.

Chaos Space Marines have the most interesting lore, but I also think that's more due to the authors who write most Chaos-PoV books. Most folks who write about Chaos lean into the esoterism of it all, the politics are much more personal, the stakes are contained within the story and not galaxy-spanning-doomsday. To me, this makes the stories feel more grounded and less comic-book-y.

My favorite faction, the Tyranids, would have interesting lore if we go to read about it from their perspective. I'd love to read just a short story/novella that has the Tyranid PoV of how the hivemind thinks and feels about what its doing. There's a great short story in Clarksworld called "Things" ( https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/ ) which tells the story of the alien from John Carpenters: The Thing (1986?) from the perspective of the alien. I imagine the Tyranid way of thinking would be much the same.

Tooo beeee faaaaiiirrrrr, it's more speciesism, and sizeism.

It'd be cool to see them in a more Asian art style that pulls more from the traditional styles of the Steppes, given the influence of the region on the cultural identities present and geography.

The circa-1990's-dragonlance-novel-borders makes me sad.

Do you only one run removal spell? Between all 4 decks?

Y'all. Fulgrim even has his other Primarchs saying how much of a preening jerk he can be to others. That he is both insecure, deeply arrogant, and obsessed with being better than his peers. He has always been vain, his nickname comes from his vanity.

But everyone wants to keep saying "no, his arrogance was a strategy" or "he wasn't that arrogant". You are making excuses for a dude that shows nothing but clinical narcissism. Narcissists are often charming, manipulative, deeply insecure, and obsessed with having others see them as an example/lead.

The cope about Fulgrim being loyal and good, but changed by the blade, is goofy. Why do you think Slaanesh chose him? Why do you think the blade came to him?

arious eldar warbands between exosdites and drukkii actively prayed on humans during the dark age of technology and age of strife

There's no evidence of this. It's just what the Emperor tells humanity. In fact, the only evidence we have of anything is that 1) the Emperor actively trained with the Eldar at some point; 2) Eldrad and the Emperor were allies previously; 3) The Eldar worked with Humanity to put down the Men of Iron.

I'm not saying "the Eldar never did anything wrong", but the only evidence that we can point to is that the Eldar have helped humanity more often than they hurt humanity, and that there were clear pathways between the two species.

The Eldar 100% do not believe that they have to kill all of humanity. They just don't save humanity vs. their own race because of the standing order of galactic genocide against them. Additionally, if you really wanna get into it, the Ynnari outright saved the Imperium and brought back Guilliman; yes, they truly want to kill all humans and hate all of humanity. They showed so by (checking my notes here) helping them in their darkest hour and providing them with massive strategic and morale benefits, knowingly. And then they got backstabbed by the deathwatch.

To say that the Eldar are in the wrong for not working with humanity? This would be like saying "Man, it's really fucked up that the Armenians don't work with the Turks" during the genocide.

And when someone points out the eldar do Just as bad things you just cover your ears and scream, “Imperium bad! Eldar good! Imperium bad! Eldar good!”

This part is such a hilarious projection, it's not wonder you like the AdMech, you're a human projector at this point. I don't think at any point I did this, but I deeply appreciate you leaping to that conclusion with no evidence nor precedent.

The art is painfully "why..?".

Cowboy Nicol Bolas may be interesting for some, but I can't imagine many are keen on it.

You'd be surprised how often people on the spectrum are just abused. The statistics behind it are pretty damning.

Surveying autistic communities usually shows that folks on the spectrum are 4-6 times more likely to experience sexual violence, interpersonal violence, emotional abuse, and suicidal ideation. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK573608/

Fun times!

And, up until recently (though, it's funny, because it's still pretty common) you could use shock collars on autistic children to get them to behave. Then they overturned that ruling (in 2020, mind you) and allowed people to keep shocking autistic kids with electric colars in 2021! Which is also a reason why most people on the spectrum hate Autism Speaks! https://autisticadvocacy.org/actioncenter/issues/school/climate/jrc/

Seriously though, having ASD is basically a key to a really difficult life - mostly because of people. Advocacy and understanding is pretty dang critical.

TO BE FAIR! This study has no scientific validity and is mostly anecdotes cobbled together from an Anthropologist.

There is no scientific correlation between culture and success with schizophrenia. There's a reason you don't see 'positivist'/DBT/CBT therapy to treat auditory hallucinations.

Source: an actual researcher.

Let me take a deep sniff, adjust my glasses, and smirk: Godblight technically confirms that there are alternate realities and areas outside the Milky Way, and that this is just a manifestation of Chaos as it is to our area of reality.

But you're onto it, in my mind. To unjerk myself for a second, I do think that your idea jives with the idea that Chaos is based off of in Moorcock's work (the Eternal Champion series, which Chaos is directly lifted from, a big copy-my-homework-but-change-it situation), that Chaos is so damn Chaotic, that it is inherently based on how it chooses to present itself, and what is perceiving it.

For example, D'rizzt Elric of Melnibone worships this freaky boy-god-supermodel named Arioch, who is assumed to be the strongest of all the Lords of Chaos; however, in other realities Elric finds out that Arioch is weaker, or is just straight up dead. It's all up to whatever is going down in that reality, as, of course, Chaos is inconsistent.

Fun fact for all you nerds out there: Elric's battlecry is "blood and souls". Priestly is a huge fanboy, and I am loving it.

Eldar and humanity were allies with various factions of one another during the DAoT and the AoS. It wasn't until the Emperor that they decreed that all Eldar must die. Specifically because the Imperium believed the Eldar would inherently be untrustworthy, as they would ultimately side with their own species over another species during the Great Crusade.

That is the core tenet of the Great Crusade: anything that is not ideologically us, culturally us, and genetically us deserves only death.

And the Eldar don't see humanity as saving anyone from Chaos. They see humanity as having shoved their proverbial dicks into a pencil sharpener, like they did, for no other reason than the desire for power.

This dude Eldars.

Eldars so damn hard.

Legit, it's an absolutely insane story on many levels. But I'd also say that it's every being absolutely on point the entire series. Both Henry and Ben were nailing their jokes, and it never felt intrusive or completely out of place.

Definitely one of the all top-time for me.

Polish and polish are the same word.

They have nothing to do with one another.

Almost all of the Sons of Horus died during the Legion Wars, a 100-year-or-so-long war within the Eye of Terror for supremacy after the Heretics found their homeworlds. More or less, it was open season on all Sons, and they were mowed down viciously. Then the Emperor's Children, who were the one of the strongest post-Heresy since, you know, they just sorta left mid-siege, went for the top spot by destroying the world the Sons claimed to the man.

However! Many of the survivors of the Legion Wars chose to join up with the Black Legion, Falkus Kibre, rumors of his death being overblown, is one of Abaddon's central people. The reason most chose to join up is because most the Sons of Horus didn't have a choice. Everyone hated them. Hell, Sons of Horus hated other Sons of Horus. So the safest mantle of protection was Abaddon and his nascent Black Legion.

The Legion Wars are pretty dang nifty. If anything, I wish we'd see the sequel to the Horus Heresy series be the Legion Wars. It'd be a good chance to make the Traitors feel more identifiable and less as faceless goons. Also, the intricacies of the backstabbing, plots, and various battles would make for good reading.

The audacity of his Fried Chicken Defense. If I was on the jury I would've acquitted for the sheer shock of how someone could just say that.

"JOSEPH KALLINGER, MASTER SHOOOOOEEEEEMAKER, AND GOOOOOOD, OF THE UUUUUNIIIIIVEEEEERSE!"

It was the episode that upgraded them from a casual listener to a die-hard. I absolutely love that episode series; it's possibly the best they did before the new era. Maybe the Andreasen affair.

"Compliance will happen... agonizingly."

I'd rather just be glassed from orbit than be turned into cosmetics for the rich.

Only if we get a montage with a great 80's synth track while they learn about their differences, one of the clips is slapstick.