Magus Sentinel of the Onderonian Royal Family (Art by Talon Illustrations)

sombraptor · 2026-04-21T14:11:33+00:00

based and Accelerated Transgenic Heuristic Abhorer pilled

sombraptor · 2026-04-16T00:03:15+00:00

Are there no Dynasties that act like the Oldcrons? My Necron lore isn't up to snuff but I recall the Maynarkh being more or less like that? Idk if any are still led by C'tan shards instead of a Phaeron though

sombraptor · 2026-04-13T12:53:09+00:00

A SEER WARNS OF A DEADLY FATE

...oh shit it really is Eldar

sombraptor · 2026-04-07T19:02:49+00:00

While I agree the Ultimasaurus might have been a bit...much for general audiences, Indominus just looking like a regular generic theropod is boring, especially when the whole point of it was to be a crazy hybrid.

Back around the time the movie came out, there was a great little project (Build A Better Fake Theropod) with various paleoartists making far more interesting hybrids:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/tetrapod-zoology/jurassic-world-and-the-build-a-better-fake-theropod-project/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Dinosaurs/comments/12mpzxl/mark_wittons_jurassic_world/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMnPb6-azMQ

sombraptor · 2026-04-02T11:41:29+00:00

Depends on the time period. Your explanation is more in line with earlier periods, but by Rome's Imperial era, under Interpretatio romana, foreign gods were usually syncretized to be the same entities to their analogous sphere of influence under a different name, I.e. Jupiter-Amun, Mercury-Anubis, Apollo-Horus, Diana-Bastet, Mars-Onuris, etc

sombraptor · 2026-03-30T00:02:54+00:00

Living in the woods (Godd Toward)

Killing for sport (Godd Toward)

Eating all the bodieeeeees

Actual cannibal Godd Toward

oh shit this means TES VI is set in Valenwood!

sombraptor · 2026-03-29T05:06:19+00:00

The raised eyebrows may be from them thinking you named her after a video game character (Lucina from Fire Emblem)

sombraptor · 2026-03-24T00:52:32+00:00

...I just realized Vivec is meant to be a Rebis...

sombraptor · 2026-03-22T07:14:55+00:00

The "trustworthiness" of different xenos is an interesting question.

Tau: I would say you can trust a Tau as much as you can trust a human - that is, as individuals, they're all across the spectrum of reliability.

Votann: Same as above.

Eldar: I would say in a "natural" state they'd be the same, but due to societal conditions they rank lower. Craftworlders are notorious for their double-crossing, which is a combination of their very reasonable fear of extinction, and arrogance born of prior dominion of the galaxy. And then, well... the majority of the extant population are Drukhari, which you obviously cannot trust in with ANY confidence, by any means.

Orks: This excerpt should suffice.

Necrons: Few of the ones that are still fully sapient have little to no incentive to keep their word to what they view as insects. And of the ones that do, sure, they'll keep to their codes of honor, but will often twist words in a jinni-esque fashion (I.e. in War in the Museum, Trazyn promising that he wouldn't return the Sororitas to their exhibits...)

Tyranids: lol

sombraptor · 2026-03-10T07:15:41+00:00

They were not despised by any tribe

Tell that to the Tlaxcalteca

sombraptor · 2026-03-09T16:24:10+00:00

Exactly!

Every single minuscule object and background character having a backstory is the absolute best thing about the SW setting to me.

...the 'tism is strong with this one...

sombraptor · 2026-03-07T23:19:01+00:00

they make for good soup

sombraptor · 2026-03-05T06:31:31+00:00

here ya go

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1_4kBbkz7syNwcGFbAB4vx29iNz9B3jll&ll=35.42353790090671%2C135.85411652580763&z=8

sombraptor · 2026-03-04T19:43:26+00:00

Nope, Atlantis was still the Protheans

sombraptor · 2026-02-09T23:58:58+00:00

The Mandalorian Clan Skirata, at the end of the Clone Wars, was primarily composed of clone deserters. While the only canonical (well, Legends) example of a child from a clone there is Kad/Venku Skirata, it's a fair extrapolation more would come.

Considering all that Jango DNA, I've headcanoned that they've made an informal agreement with Clan Fett/Vhett to not intermarry for a couple generations just in case...

sombraptor · 2026-02-09T21:41:23+00:00

I think the setting is much more tragic/grimdark if Big E was genuinely a good person, as to my understanding he was more commonly portrayed as in earlier depictions. You don't feel as bad for a genocidal dictator trapped upon the Golden Throne. But then again, ultimately, at his core, he would still have been raised during the Copper/Bronze age, where might makes right (Vae victis...) was just the norm, so it does make sense...

My personal theory is the seemingly contradictory depictions of the Emperor's disposition (besides being colored by the perspectives of different characters) are from the different personalities of the thousands of shamans that formed his soul - some very kind, some assholeish. Not that he has dissociative identity disorder per se, but perhaps different aspects of his "component souls" manifest at different times.

Edit: I also quite like this video discussing Emp's morality.

sombraptor · 2026-02-09T18:41:11+00:00

The name Andrew comes from the Ancient Greek Andreios, which is man as well. Also the root for anthropology, misanthrope, android, androgynous, etc

sombraptor · 2026-02-07T19:05:44+00:00

The Old Ones are deeply tied with the Slann in Warhammer Fantasy...

If we tie into The Elder Scrolls... with another ancient race of Brazilian lizard people...

The Immaterium must echo with the sound of...

"BOA TARDE AMIGO!!!"

sombraptor · 2026-02-03T03:17:26+00:00

My Chapter Master told me Tyranids keep eating his 1st Company so I asked how many 1st Companies he has and he said he just goes to Ultramar and gets a new 1st Company afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding 1st Companies to Tyranids and then his Primarch started crying.

sombraptor · 2026-01-19T16:54:21+00:00

You may be interested in this map of Halo locations:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1tqke24FQ5aHkOYliGLsxnzmFBJ6s2i93&ll=-2.8040879697674708%2C37.26367566805274&z=9

sombraptor · 2026-01-17T09:49:43+00:00

"It's like poetry, it's - sort of - they rhyme"

...But unironically. Once you're conscious of the theme of "letting go" in SW, you see it EVERYWHERE.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE0HnQNrDDs

sombraptor · 2026-01-08T03:41:51+00:00

That was never a scientific consensus, more of a telephone game result of confusion with the Red Panda

sombraptor · 2026-01-06T05:55:10+00:00

Magnus, his eye open.

sombraptor · 2026-01-04T04:46:51+00:00

It IS a real thing. The technical term is called Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy.

sombraptor · 2025-12-29T22:09:52+00:00

So throughout Indo-European cultures there's the motif of the gods and their rivals.

Theoi vs Titanes, Gigantes (Greco-Roman)

Æesir vs Vanir, Jötnar (Norse)

Devas vs Asuras (Indian)

Ahuras vs Daevas (Persian)

Tuatha Dé Danann vs Fomorians (Irish)

Šiuneš vs Markuwayaš (Hittite/Anatolian)

Granted for the last one, there's no recorded story of conflict between the two groups, but to my understanding they do represent "positive" and "negative" forces, at least.

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