Post awesome fluff from old 40k books ITT
>>46580226
Things were more fun back then.
>>46580226
About whom is he talking to ?
>>46587768
Culexus Assassins I imagine
>>46580226
Eldarfags btfo
>>46587872
Wait a minute.
It's a shield made out of spirit stones?
>>46587938
I think it's more like pic related. A really good stormshield with Soulstones imbued. Butthurt ensues.
>>46587938
Guess so. Pretty cool piece of writing if I may say so, ineteresting use of non omniscient perspective.
>>46580393
Codex: Chaos Furniture when?
>>46587872
Sounds fun but one thing bothers me. How the fuck could they "secure information about a forthcoming attack"? Bribe Harlequins? Blackmail farseer to share Ulthwe intel and maps? This makes no sense.
>>46587982
>>46587989
My god, that is hilarious. I can just smell the butthurt.
I wonder what the reaction was when the Seer Council was told the news.
>>46588086
They could of found a pattern in how they were attacking and used that to figure out where was next perhaps?
>>46588100
It doesn't sound plausible
>>46588086
John "NotNecron" Doe, multidimensional private investigator.
Is there any other way to find out things in WH40K?
>>46588117
Maybe an archon in the Dark City sold them out. Even Eldar have enemies among their own kind.
>>46588086
Too many Guardians posting about shit on facebook. It's marine fluff. It don't have to make sense as long as it strokes their dick.
>>46588086
It's Deathwatch/Inquisition stuff, I don't have to explain shit.
Seriously though: I have no idea.
Also, contributing to this thread.
>>46587872
>>46588133
>It was a rainy night on the tomb world, or at least it would be if there was an atmosphere. I was pretending to fill a glass with some liquid when she knocked on my vault's stone. I know trouble when I see it, you don't live hundreds of millions of years if you don't. And she had trouble written in her eyes. Black eyes as the galactic space. She wore a primitive synthetic armor that fit her like a glove, remarking her human flesh curves. I could not remember the last time I saw female flesh, human or necron
>>46589553
>You filthy xenos! Hrnn, let me start this again. All the post-mortem scans say you're the best in the Segmentum. I need information, and you're going to give it to me. In exchange, I may have... something for you.
>In a fluid movement that captivates me for too many microseconds, she shows a holopict. I would recognise that eldarith ynneas anywhere. Morn. I would frown my eyes if I had skin.
>>46587872
That is the fucking best
>>46588086
Reading the Tarot, divination, savant analysis, lots of ways.
Hell, an Inquisitor could have traveled back in time and told them about it.
>>46590366
then what happened to the humans?
>>46589553
>>46590631
kek'd
>>46587872
The Ordo Xenos should really know better then to just hold onto Soul stones like that, the eldar are litterally the only ones anyone with sense should want holding them
>>46588099
every attempt to get kill the shield bearer is actually a rescue mission you jackass
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>>46591720
I really think they should just keep adding soulstones, especially of the people who attempting to kill the bearer, to the shield.
Just let them know that every time they try and take it back, they're just going to end up losing more people.
>>46591806
thing is Eldar are just as stubborn as humans, they wont quite until the souls of their kin are safe, and that shield is basically using thei souls as a human shield except then when one breaks it gets sent into slaanesh's mouth
>>46591864
Oh, I know.
It'd be Deathwatch's little fuck you and make their job easier.
Two birds with one stone.
>>46591889
I'm trying to think of answers that DON'T involve being a complete asshole dammit!
>>46591889
Sending souls to slaanesh, even xenos, is a BAD idea
>>46589369
>>46592010
But why wouldn't you want to be an asshole in the name of the Emperor?
>marines_malevolent.exe
>>46592035
If they're sticking the soulstones in the shield, they're hardly going to Slaanesh.
>>46592010
Maybe the Eldar shouldn't have been assholes about their raiding then.
>>46591720
There was a Thorian Inquisitor from the 54mm game named Antigonus Balorodin that made a helmet using a soulstone as a key component. They're quite useful things if you're radical or foolhardy enough.
>Later in his career, he came into conflict with the Eldar upon the world of Thoth Prime. His actions to combat this threat led to him being given the title of Expulgator of Thoth Prime and brought about the creation of the Soulwatcher Helm, a device made from Human and Eldar technology which was designed to allow Balorodin to see the psychic aura of any living being -- or so he believes. With the aid of this device, he was able to move from success to success, as he was now able to see into the souls of those he spoke to and determine lies from half-truths with unerring accuracy, as well as determine both motive and emotion. As such, he became an expert in rooting out the truth, allowing him to root out cults and conspiracies long before they came to the notice of the Inquisition. Baldorin's actions are often viewed as erratic, as he has come to rely more and more on the arcane device, and some believe that he judges too rashly. Baldorin has also earned the enmity of the Eldar, with several attempts being made by an Eldar Ranger to recover the Soulwatcher Helm. This Ranger is believed to have met Inquisitor Balorodin on Thoth Prime and has been tracking him on-and-off again, ever since.
Its quite possible that the stones are actively trying to manipulate the shieldbearer.
>>46592627
There's a good chance that they'll break if they're being used by a Space Marine as part of a combat shield. Although I suppose its possible that they're psychically shielding themselves (and by extension the bearer) in order to not get shattered.
>>46592035
Slaanesh is getting a constant stream of souls. 1 or 300 more wont hurt.
>>46588086
It is a setting where a diviner can be contacted with little effort, factions stab each other in the back constantly and time rifts are a reality.
For all we are told, a ship fleeing a raid could have made an emergency warp trip and and ended up 10 years in the past.
>>46592718
I seem to recall reading that soulstones are pretty tough, requiring at least a power weapon to shatter (or a deamon consuming it to dissolve.)
It's entirely possible the shield creates a force field of some kind, powered by the hostage souls, which would have the secondary effect of at least keeping them from some harm.
Time fer Gorkamorka.
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>>46592035
There is a short story where the Grey Knights arrive on a destroyed Craftworld. They slay the remaining enemies, Tyranids IIRC, then leave a few GK behind to protect the Soulstones. The Eldar finally arrive and thank them, but the second they leave they get all uppity that one of the GK is a perpetual and will probably try to murder him.
Also posting the little I saved from 4chan
>>46597191
> not waiting with a ship nearby and blowing up the eldars as they leave with all the soul stones
> not killing thousands and thousands of eldar souls with one hit
Wasted potential.
>>46590979
"Come with me if you wish to slay Xenos!"
"Also bring that unfinished storm shield."
>>46597310
The Grey Knights are daemon killers first, the Doom Of Malanti had made their hit-list because it was eating souls in the manner of a daemon, and killing Eldar Souls would only strengthen the very daemons they fight
>>46597310
Given the Grey knights knowledge of Chaos it's quite possible they are aware of the soulstones function, perhaps even their purpose in denying the great enemy greater power. Also, working against Chaos is one of the primary motivators for both races allying forces, attempting to gain the Eldars favor seemed like a wise decision.
Is Anval Thawn even a perpetual in the current fluff anymore?
>>46597191
>>46597456
It was based on a thing from the 5th edition (also 7th) Codex: Grey Knights timeline. The Tyranids - a single Zoanthrope, mostly - had depopulated the craftworld, but the enemies the Grey Knights fought were daemons looting all the abandoned souls.
>Grey Knights treating Eldar better than fellow Imperials
>>46591889
Israeli detected
>2016
>Khorne's Meadows are but a fading memory
>tfw it's only BLOOD-SLAUGHTERERS OF CHOSEN GORE!!!1! figthing Shitmarines for you now
>>46597575
well big surprise, a bunch of 7 foot tall living psionic weapons relate to a species of 7 ft tall living psionic weapons better then they do to bog standard humans, who'd have guessed
Recent book, good fluff.
>>46597648
I thought Israel was the good guys
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>>46596565
This is really nice, where does this come from?
>>46598053
Gorkamorka, old specialist game of mad max with ork gangs.
>>46598666
>mad max with ork gangs
That is fucking brilliant, but somehow that game was squatted and AOS thrives.
>>46598967
>shrug
The rules are free, the models aren't very specific and are easy to kitbash. The game was designed for people to make their own shit for. Nothing stopping anyone from playing gorkamorka really, just have to convince at least 2 other people to have fun.
>>46597832
Well, for all the shit they get from their neighbors, Israel is just as bad. The UN condemns them for using human shields since 2002, besides the phosporus "flares" bombing people:
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/CoIGazaConflict/Pages/ReportCoIGaza.aspx
https://www.hrw.org/report/2009/03/25/rain-fire/israels-unlawful-use-white-phosphorus-gaza
/\ Actual reports you can check for yourself so no one claims I'm /pol/.
>>46597563
I think the latest codex only mentions him in the copypasted Battle of the Ghost Halls bit, which includes his death but not his resurrection, since that took place a short while afterward and was dealt with entirely in his own entry. His entry which no longer exists, because no model no rules lol. Still, it should be safe to assume the 5e Justicar Jesus fluff holds - not like it's crazier than anything else the Grey Knights get up to.
>>46598053
>>46598967
The boxed game came with two books, Da Roolz (self-explanatory) and Da Uvver Book (fluff, advanced rules, campaigns and scenarios etc.); the Orks' story is from the latter, being the background to the game's setting and the main playable faction. The backstories for the Diggas, Rebel Grots, and Muties are from the Digganob expansion, which fleshed them out and gave them rules too (though they were all briefly described in Da Uvver Book beforehand).
GW had the two core books available as pdfs on the previous version of their site. Here's Da Roolz.
>>46598967
>AOS thrives
"Dark Future ... started life as a plan for a cyberpunk style RPG
inspired by books like Neuromancer, Stand on Zanzibar, Make Room Make
Room, Bug Jack Barron, The Sheep Look Up, The Space Merchants and so
on [but] then someone at [Games] Workshop decided that what they
REALLY wanted was a Mad Max style car-fighting game."
- Cheryl Morgan, on GW defunding the first-ever cyberpunk RPG
>>46599637
And Da Uvver Book. Note that the official pdf is abridged, missing the hobby section and the appendix fluff.
Going off on a bit of a tangent here, but also relevant:
http://unpluggedgames.co.uk/features/blood-dice-and-darkness-how-warhammer-defined-gaming-for-a-generation/
>Both games met with a positive reaction from players, but according to Priestley they led to a crisis within the company – now headed by Tom Kirby, Games Workshop’s former general manager, who led a management buyout that saw Bryan Ansell depart in 1991.
>“Tom had to borrow a lot of money to buy the business,” Priestley said. “That meant we had to grow the company very quickly.
>“I thought that one way to do that would be to expand the product line, so you’d have Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000, then this series of games that would let you explore the universe at a much closer, more detailed level.
>“But it ended up being one of the great dividing points of Games Workshop. We’d grown internationally at a very fast pace, and we had to deal with French, Spanish, Italian versions of the games. The print runs of the foreign language editions were always bigger than we could sell, and after several near-disasters where we’d printed way too many of something, GorkaMorka being a classic example, we’d nearly bankrupted the company.”
>The financial scare spooked management, Priestley said, leading to a change in Games Workshop’s culture.
>“The appetite for new games just disappeared,” he said.
>“But I have to say that this was not due to the concept being wrong, I think it was due to them not having the sophistication to manage the stock or manage the new sales divisions that had been created.
>“The studio, the creative part of Games Workshop, had always been kept apart from the sales part of it. One thing Bryan said was that if the sales people got to be in charge of the studio, it would destroy the studio, and that’s exactly what happened.”
"Endless war is man's natural condition: "The Imperium is great, its
wonders are manifold, but what of it would remain but for war?
Nothing. War is eternal. It is only mankind that is finite."
- Gaunt's Ghosts
>>46592718
It's nice to see a fallen inquisitor who isn't a chaos tainted radical
>>46597310
And feed Slaanesh? Are you stupid?
>>46597681
>Each bloom a twisted face, each leaf a tiny skull
Pffffthahahaha, 40k is such stupid dogshit sometimes.
>>46599663
Very nice article.
>“Unless you’ve read Paradise Lost you don’t get it. The whole Horus Heresy is just a parody of the fall of Lucifer as described by Milton.”
I wish Graham McNeill noted this.
>>46587768
Bearers of the Pariah gene generally, and presumably as
>>46587822
said, Culexus Assassins in particular.
>>46580226
Why should blanks be humanity's 'doom'?
That shit don't make no sense, yo.Seriously though the way he talks about them makes you think they're undead, not just soulless.
>>46607685
he's from a race of extremely gifted psykers, of course he's gonna think that the complete opposite of himself, the very thing that distorts and severs connections to the warp, is going to be the downfall of all things, especially his belief that the warp is the life source and driving force of all things
>>46607737
Come to think of it I think it's just that he can't tell what it is or what it's gonna do.
It's completely unpredictable, which is something he 's no used to. Unlike every other average joe without psychic abilities in the galaxy.
So he's just scared out of his mind because he hast to meet this guy on a level playing field.
Damn, Eldar are such arrogant pricks. The more I think about it the better I like this piece.
>>46607685
>>46607737
Yeah, blanks are really just that icky to elves.
Or if you want to read more into it, maybe pic related. Even though it came a while afterward, this codex was the culmination of a lot of hinting and teasing.
>>46607821
>>46607786
It's more than just that though. Blanks are a soulless void and like any other void they draw things into them. A physical void draws in physical matter, a void in the soulspace of the warp drags in fragments of soul-stuff. Harlequin Solitaires do this in a fairly uniform fashion, periodically consuming the souls of others in order to sustain themselves in imitation of the chaos god they act the part of.
Human pariahs are a different matter entirely, uncontrollably draining the souls of others by increments while in proximity. The sensation of unnameable horror and creeping revulsion people feel in their presence is a reaction to their soul being destroyed piece by piece. The hatred and aggression towards pariahs felt by even the most psychically blunt among humanity is a defence mechanism guarding against the destruction of the soul. People who spend too much time around pariahs eventually become listless husks, drained of emotion, motivation, drive, desire, hope and even despair. They become a thing that exists but doesn't truly live and as fates worse than death go (and there are many of those to be found in the 41st millennium) it rates fairly high on the list.
>>46597832
It's the hub for most financial scams like binary trading
It's one of the biggest sources for child porn and trafficking people for sex against their will
Consider how much they get from the USA and yet refuse to sign a treaty of alliance - so Americans die in proxy wars for Israel yet Israel never sends its chosen people to help America
They are also responsible for all the knock offs of American weapons tech - they get it free from the USA then sell the tech to China or Russia who then sell it on to best Korea etc
Russians are now building drones based on Israeli tech that came from America and will soon have a missile defence to stop USA nuclear strike
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>>46605335
I don't know, it feels more like the farseer is talking about a psychic blank, specifically in how proximity to them can fuck with all things psycher and chaos, and normal people feel extreme unease around them.
>>46609515
Explain Cain and Jurgen, Cain has spent decades with Jurgen and not lost and inch of his soul
>>46609570
Why are we defending this nation?
>>46580437
>Orks go to paradise.png
I don't why people complain about tau not being fitting for 40k, orks are even less grimdark than them
>>46609717
jewish control of finance which then meant aipac was allowed despite it being a foreign govt organistion buying USA politicians
Check out how many senators congressman and even more so civil service officials are dual natioanl Israelis
This despite aipac getting caught stealing and selling USA defense secrets
If a politican says he is neutral he gets death threats and funding cuts from right wing evangelicals / New York democrat Jews until he begs everyone to know he put Israel first above everything
And then USA media is Jewish controlled so you have ncis with an Israeli agent working for them etc
>>46609515
Where do you get that from?
I understood that the lack of warp connection prevented psychic empathy with other humans, causing the revulsion.
>>46609905
Whoa whoa whoah! Are you trying to make me think there is an actual Jewish conspiracy?
>>46609934
I think he's getting blanks, pariah and untouchables mixed up
Jurgen is a blank, he can fuck psykers without harming normals, but they naturally dislike his company
The assassin's are pariahs, they are kept isolated and hidden because of their danger
Untouchables are hunted by all
>>46609934
How else does culexus warp occulum work? They have souls but also a soul black hole
That's why Franka could have his pariah abilities burnt out
>>46609944
Not in a sense they want to drink innocent blood and ruin the world, nothing like that. But securing the future of your family and culture when great opportunity arises? Wouldn't you do the same thing, anon?
>>46610068
I'd rather do so in a manner that creates long term friends, not fake smiles and veiled resentment leading to future generations despising us
>>46609944
It's subtle
Jews are happy for some of their number to marry out so they can later get their descendants and say hey you're Jewish welcome to this special club where you can get contacts and easy cash
But only if you become part of the Israel cult
If a Jewish elite person criticises Israel they are labelled self hating anti Semitic and hitler - and are destroyed professionally
France is full of this - most politicians have Jewish mistresses and so criticising Israel in France is punishable by prison
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2697194/Outrage-France-country-world-ban-pro-Palestine-demos.html
>>46609703
The best explanation is canon conflicts. As new fluff is written it often displaces the old. Most of the fluff regarding the C'tan and their schemes has been altered to reflect the fact that the C'tan are no longer the captains of the ship that they built. This leaves much of the fluff regarding pariahs up in the air in terms of legitimacy.
Additionally, different writers interpret the fluff in different ways, sometimes sacrificing elements of the fluff to fit with the tone of the story. This isn't necessarily a bad thing either. The Ciaphas Cain novels occasionally play fast and loose with certain elements of established canon (humans driving ork vehicles and being able to use ork weapons without them misfiring or exploding for instance.) But ultimately the stories are better for these things and would lose much of their charm if they adhered more strictly to the letter of canon.
In universe though these inconsistencies are often explained away through various means. In the case of blanks/pariahs the explanation is usually that blanks exhibit a less powerful iteration of the pariah effect, whereas full blown pariahs (which Culexus assassins invariably are) exhibit the full, unmitigated pariah effect.
This is, of course, merely my understanding of the situation put together from the various bits of fluff that I've read. The accuracy of this information should therefore be considered questionable at best as I have no examples on hand to back it up. I am certain though that Culexus assassins slowly eroding peoples souls through proximity has been mentioned before.
>>46609999
So jurgen, biggest bro in the universe, has no soul, and can never join the emperor he serves so well... I am sad now
>>46610068
Kek they don't care about ruining the world as long as it makes them money
Google images of israels central intelligence building - built with money from the rotschilds and has a central atrium that's a pyramid with an eye at the top
>>46610120
So it's more of a national matter trying to subvert a religion into a weird social hive mind? Blegg, in short more jews need to disown Israel
>>46610136
No see
>>46610036
>>46610116
>I'd rather do so in a manner that creates long term friends
You can't be friends with everyone.
>>46610159
Ok we've been skirting it but you dove into /pol/ territory
>>46588255
GRIMDARK
>>46609627
Culexus (Games Workshop-Latin of "Culex," meaning "Mosquito", sucking warp power instead of blood) is an Assassin temple of the Officio Assassinorum in Warhammer 40,000. They are all psychic blanks (aka Pariahs or nulls)
>>46610161
They won't
See most Jewish papers abroad are owned or controlled by Israel and they push people to go there especially to retire
Now if you criticise Israel they find it and will not let you visit your relatives there
Also to get a Jewish burial you have to be a memebr of a synagogue - very expensive and the elite ones that get you contacts in banking are like 100,000s dollars per family member a year and are controlled by Israel
If you think this is bull read the Jewish chronicle or its equivalent - there's so much double think there it's no wonder they are nuts
>>46610241
>there's so much double think there it's no wonder they are nut
Not counting that Jews has significantly higher chance to develop schizophrenia
>>46597283
That's actually pretty cool.
>>46610241
Sounds like a long term version of what the Catholic Church was pulling before the reformation attempts and bitched crusades degraded it's power base
>>46609515
You sure about that? I know Pariahs are immune to warp, but first time I hear of them destroying souls.
Does anyone have the rest of this saved? It's probably my favourite bit of Eldar fluff, but I dun goofed and didn't save the rest.
>>46610292
They tend to push for cutting funding to arts then mysteriously another Jewish group turns up with private funding
And then if there is anything antiIsraeli or pro Palestinian they threaten to pull the plug
And elites love the arts so qed
>>46610197
Ok I was wrong it's actually the Israeli supreme court
>>46610533
Can't make this shit up
>>46610889
>snow
>in Israel
What?
>>46610036
Same way a psycanon does, I guess.
The fact that they got no connection with the warp doesn't mean they don't have a soul to draw power from.
(Hell, almost all 40k tech is powered by bullshitium and faith in equal parts).
On a sidenote, how does a blank taste to a DEldar ?
>>46610995
Probably has no taste. Blank lacks emotions, and Dark Eldars wank to them (mostly pain, of course, because GRIMDAAAAAARK).
>>46610956
Yeah it happens
>>46611092
>meanwhile, in yourope
>5 years without snow
There is no justice.
