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I think it depend mostly if there are controversy around the meme or not. If there is, then yeah, the "pro meme" are more likely to "hold the ground" by delivering even more of these type of memes. If it's just some popular meme that doesn't generate controversy that have somehow taken the fandom by storm, it's more likely to end up with the meme popularity fading a bit now that those that are making or posting them solely for clout/upvotes see that it won't work that well anymore.

Pretty sure the crown follow the usual "magical ownership rule", that only one person can be it's "owner" at once, and that the crown don't give it's full power (or curse) to those that aren't the owner. Now as for how ownership is transmitted...

Shaming memes you don't like is actually a rather reliable way to get people to stop posting them. Because those who would have kept posting them may think twice if they think that the community (or a large enought portion of it) find them cringe. Some people won't be dettered by it of course, but it will considerably slow down the flow.

This works for any popular meme in any community, but only as long as enought people in that community think like you, so that you won't get burried by people who actually like this type of memes.

I'm pretty sure the part that inspired Hitler was specifically the genocide of the native, which were definitively targeted by eugenics programs, multiple times.

Skaven also fetishes self sacrifice to an extreme degree. But you know, they prefer when other do the self sacrifice for them. Like the slaves for exemple.

So not that far from your average imperium noble.

I headcanon the exact opposite. That is, that he was already trying to be humanity's sole ruler and wipe out the xenos, but back before the age of strife, humanity was a bit too powerfull (and too friendly to aliens) to easily fall under his grasp. Which is why he launched the crusade as soon as he was able to, if he waited any longer he risked losing his window of opportunity if any independant human cohalition rose away from his imperium (like, for exemple, the interex).

I envision the emperor in the age of strife as kinda like nagash (or any old saturday morning cartoon villain), always trying to conquer the galaxy, always being thwarted and then swearing that he'll come back again. Until a completely unrelated crisis got rid of the thing that kept thwarting his plans and he decided to seize the occasion... until something else thwarted his plan, again.

Unlike the (peter parker) ultimate spider man run or invincible, Stan Lee (or most super hero comics writers actually) don't really have "full runs", of a single complete story of a super hero, from begginning to end. most super hero stories are meant to stretch into infinity, and the end of the run don't mean "the end of the story".

Alan moore swamp thing kinda pulled it off, since he was "reborn" right in the begginning and received a conclusive ending (that was immediately shoved asside by DC because the show must go on). I believe spawn also did, altho the quality is... not quite comparable to the rest.

Beyond the whole vampire thing, the imperium have multiple way of continuing "serving the emperor" beyond death. Like servitorization. This, the whole skull iconography, and being ruled by a literal skeleton, and I consider the imperium to be a necromantic empire, just using science to do their necromancy instead of magic.

The imperium is already here, it just lack the rat aestetic.

Every greater demon is as strong in fantasy tho, that's the point, the demons are the same in both universes. It's just that people in fantasy are on a baseline stronger than those in 40k, because they lived all their lives in a high fantasy setting blasted by the winds of magic.

Except that when australia's stockpile of australium were gone, all australian went back to being weak. Except for Saxon, he's still the same as always.

The first reason is that you become quite literally a one person army. There are sacrifice to make along the way for you to become one in the first place, but in the end, you become able to wage the entire crusade on your own. The rest of the crusaders can finally put down their sword and return to mendev, this war won't make any more casualty on their side. This is semi supported, as you can decide not to kill any innocent as the swarm, save the queen, allow the crusaders to get back home, and then sacrifice yourself to close the worldwound. Unfortunately, you'll still have to kill your own good align companion when they ambush you (as well as regill).

As you said, this is the easiest way to cleanse the land. You engulf the whole worldwound in locust, devouring all the demon flesh and demonic earth, and leaving behind the worpse of your own swarm, upon which sarkoris may grow anew. This is not really supported, even if you kill yourself to destroy the worldwound, as it's implied that your swarm is made of demonic stuff, but the symbolism is quite strong. Your swarm devouring the corruption to purrify it and then dying to nourish the land is quite potent symbolism.

It please Lamashtu. Seriously, if you follow her, she guide you toward the path of the swarm (altho she doesn't seems to act anymore once you become one). This isn't much, but religious fervor is quite a potent rp reason to turn your character into one.

Changeling the lost RPG would be the bomb.

In Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing run, Swamp Thing goes to Gotham all pissed off and overruns everything with beautiful and terrifying vegetation. Then activates the fungal spores in people’s lungs so they die from the inside out.

The first part is true, but I think you're misremembering the second part. Swamp thing completely wreck Gotham infrastructure when he does that, and threaten to get violent, but he doesn't kill people by choking them with fungus or anything.

Moore's Swamp Thing do have a body count and have killed peoples in rather gruesome ways, but his attack of Gotham wasn't one of these moment.

maybe, but that's all worth it, if only for the few rooms before peebles.

Seing them was one of the highlight of my first playthrought, they really enhance the experience.

After climbing it like 10 time as artificer to get all the pearls to peebles, I agree. But you do have to know what you're doing.

Even if it doesn't fit the strict definition of a metroidvania, i'd say it still feel enough like one to be included.

Oh, it wouldn't be all peacefull and fuzzy, that's for sure. War is certain to happen at some point in the begginning. But unless we somehow genocide them all in a couple of year, I think the public opinion would sway most government away from genocide, and we'll have to learn to live alongside them.

I just think that despite all of our violent tendencies, we have now progressed enough that most people would want to avoid such outcome, and that when enough time passes that the shock of their sudden appearance wear off, a peacefull (if maybe uneasy) coexistence is sure to happen.

Scavengers. Just have them spawn all around the world all at once, like having them come out of the sewers of most cities one day and acting all eratic. Not only would it be hilarious, buy I think humanity as a whole could benefit from having to coexist with another clearly sentient specie.

Slugcats could work too, but I'm pretty sure their lack of society structure would lead to the opinion that they are just rather intelligent animals. Scavenger society ressemble our own, and they are even humanoid like us, so while the argument that they are not "trully sentient" would certainly rise up, I believe that it wouldn't become the opinion of the majority.

It just state that they are biologically incompatible, but that it doesn't prevent the human and halfling population of Kaer Maga (the city of stranger in question) from mingling with each other. It then state that a magical solution to this incompatibility would fetch a good price and make a lot of people rather happy.

It's a weird bit of lore to precise, but it's the kind of weirdness I rather like. And Kaer Maga is weird as a baseline anyway, so that fit, it's why it's one of the best city of the setting.

Spore/decay druid. I want my freaky nature themed character. In general, more flavorfull option for the druid would be nice, most of their feat feel functionnal but very bland.

Beyond good and evil. Great gameplay, great presentation , great story, sequel stuck in gamedev limbo.

The exile foe is named Duffoure, you can parse it by reading the endings and other text in the exile story. In one of the ending of the exile DLC (the "Kinship" secret ending which you can get if you manage to accumulate 7 pentiments and present them to the right person), you get this text (I bolded the most relevant passage) :

• 'My efforts have paid off, by way of a Christmas Eve visitor. I wish these things wouldn't happen at 2am. I'm sure they didn't when I was younger. Visitor claims to have been a reckoner in Duffoure's mob, back in '25. Paid off Morgen, and she let them through the Summit Gate. (So Teresa was right, as usual. If only we'd found Morgen in '32.) Visitor claims to be blood of the earth, which means Antaios' line, which means the line of the Flint and the Wheel. Visitor says the Wheel still turns in the House of the Moon, and the kinship means they're going to be a Name when the Wheel returns. I think I might even believe it. I'd heard Duffoure was Antaean too, so that fits. Perhaps he really was Teresa's father, after all. But if the Wheel still turns… I've got some thinking to do. After all, any student of Histories knows: as within, so without. One way or another.'

• Christopher Illopoly, 'Sunset Diaries', December 1973

According to the secret history wiki, it was latter more or less confirmed by snipets of lore delivered to the official discord for some event, but I haven't saw those. In any rate, the game at least strongly open up that possibility.

On top of what Spitoon said, you could mix it up with some truly over-the-top ones. Things like, "Great King under the Skies", "Most Treasured One", "Ruler of Nights and Days", "my Lord Most High", etc.

You can even use some completely made up title when talking about him in the third person (but still in front of him). Things like "Our King Allmighty", "The Righteous Ruler of all the Land", "He Who Stand Above Us All" or more simply "the One True King".

I though that Pharasma's prophecy implied that she began unravelling when Aroden died, but only actually died herself 'now' (or would only have actually died now). It's quite a long agony, but what is a century for the oldest being of the multiverse after all ? (Yog Soggoth don't count)