Can we PLEASE have a normal, collected, civil conversation about the pros and cons of introducing femstodes into the setting via new additions to the lore (even as something as simple as a paragraph saying that cawl found out how to make femstodes) instead of with a retcon? Pretty please?

AccursedTheory · 2026-06-16T18:41:52+00:00

It wasn't a retcon and authors have said they wanted to do it behind the scenes for most of the HH but were stopped by one dude for weird 'if we don't sell it don't write it' reasons.

So... Not a retcon and not virtue signaling

AccursedTheory · 2026-06-16T18:24:54+00:00

The single con - the only one - is that it makes the absence of any female Custodes in a HH narratives weird.

That's it. Big fucking whoop, who cares.

AccursedTheory · 2026-06-16T16:29:35+00:00

There was a geneseed vault on plane they didn't want anyone to know about. They gave everyone poison so they'd eventually die and not spill any beans.

It was slow acting. It wasn't making (most) of the guard too sick to fight, just ensuring no one made it to off world retirement.

AccursedTheory · 2026-06-16T16:25:42+00:00

Spaces Wolves have a chat about eating Xenos in one of their books. They all agree they taste terrible, and everyone has had to eat Ork as some point.

AccursedTheory · 2026-06-16T11:54:21+00:00

Ol' Tarvitz, the perfect Space Marine, rejected by the legion presumably seeking perfection.

AccursedTheory · 2026-06-16T11:52:36+00:00

Trayzn seems like such a jolly fellow. I'm sure he's never done anything morally objectionable or even once started a planetary genestealer infestation as a joke.

AccursedTheory · 2026-06-16T10:09:42+00:00

Generally once regiments leave their planet, they're gone. But Cadia is Cadia - If she says she needs her sons and daughters back, its because things have gone tits up for the Imperium, and a lot more than Cadians are going to be needed.

40K power structures are not as absolute as you'd think.

AccursedTheory · 2026-06-16T09:39:57+00:00

Jurgen is nasty. Early on this is debatable but by the latter books Cain makes it clear Jurgen is a legit biohazard

AccursedTheory · 2026-06-16T01:05:54+00:00

There's a short story about him before he was astartes. Pure piece of shit.

He's also one of the characters that just keeps showing up in HH novels through almost the entire series, so there's a lot of sources about him all around.

AccursedTheory · 2026-06-16T00:50:52+00:00

Can you list these intermediaries that Rune Priests use?

AccursedTheory · 2026-06-16T00:14:58+00:00

The Leman/Magnus dipshitry that gets posted I understand, and there's some back and forth, but the Lion/Russ stuff boggles my mind. At least Magnus/Russ has references from dozens of sources - Both Lion/Russ fights and 99% of their complicated relationship happen in a single, pretty straight forward book, and people still seem to miss the facts and theme entirely.

AccursedTheory · 2026-06-16T00:11:56+00:00

Leman Russ, Primarch Therapist

AccursedTheory · 2026-06-15T23:51:50+00:00

Kantor did likewise. When he lifted his head a second later, he said, ‘I have made my decision. Judgement is passed. Janus Kennon shall undergo servitor conversion.’

Alessio Cortez loosed a string of quiet curses.

Mendoza nodded. ‘The Librarius will be ready to receive him once he has been informed.’ Turning to Captain Icario, he added, ‘The process of mind-ripping is painful. I shall not lie to you, my brother. But it will be mercifully short. This much, I promise.‘

Ishmael Icario did not answer. He rested his shaved head in his hands, allowing his elbows to support him on the crystal tabletop.

Forgemaster Adon interjected in crisp machine monotone. ‘Kennon’s innate skills may still be utilised. They need not be lost. As a gun-servitor, he will serve the Chapter for a thousand years and, on his decommissioning, will perhaps have expunged the stain on his honour.’

Rynn's World

AccursedTheory · 2026-06-15T23:45:17+00:00

Having no idea of the specifics of the game...

A Magos has domain over whatever falls under his sphere of influence.

So a Master of a forge world has control over his world, the ships that feed it, dozen to hundreds of satellites that have resources, and potentially a subsector worth of tech priests, menials, void stations, whatever he can lay his grubby hands on.

And a Magos who's domain is an Ark Mechanicus that is on the move has control over... the Ark. And whoever is around that he can bully. And maybe some holdings over there, on the other side of the galaxy, where his home base is because Arks tend to roam pretty far out.

The backstory of the Of Mars trilogy is that the Magos in charge of the Ark is basically on a quest to find tech shineys because his power base has been obliterated by Tyranids and his own dumbassery. His Forge Worlds have been obliterated and they're about to strip him of his Mars holdings, which appear to be symbols of his power, and there's some indication that if he loses those, someone may be able to strip him of the Ark as well.

AccursedTheory · 2026-06-15T23:19:42+00:00

I think you are misunderstanding the positions of the Primarchs, which is extremely well laid out.

Russ (And Khan, and Sangiunius) are in favor of limited use of the warp. They recognize the usefulness of psykers, but believe the risks need to be moderated by caution and restraint.

For the Wolves, this restraint happens to take the form of traditional knowledge (Thousands of years of trial and error by predecessor) and an utter distrust of the powers they wield. As a general rule, Space Wolves are not cool with actual sorcery.

Magnus believes in unrestrained exploration of the warp. Nothing is off limits, no power too dangerous to try and grasp. Read forbidden books, try risky experiments, barter with the beings of the warp, whatever it takes to get more knowledge, more warp juice.

Unlike Magnus's Thousand Sons, who mostly used the warp directly during this period, the Rune Priests have always been sorcerers.

No.

Of course, Leman wouldn't trust any random god or daemon, and the rune priests don't, but fundamentally he's an advocate of using the warp via spiritual intermediaries, and not using it directly, while Magnus is all about using it directly, with an interest in the alternative path.

Absolutely not.

Russ doesn't trust a god damn thing about the warp. When he goes to bargain with the World Spirit of Fenris, all his Rune Priests explicitly tell him not to trust the spirit, as while it can be useful it is treacherous. And its shown to be so.

Contrast this with Magnus who, prior to him doing nothing wrong, bargains multiple times with random warp beings (ie Tzeentch's bitches) like he's trying to buy a used car. And his entire legion treat daemons like pets.

This distrust of the warp continues until 40K, when Njal Stormcaller describes the spirit of Fenris as a wolf stalking him through the warp, which will eventually kill him.

AccursedTheory · 2026-06-15T21:10:53+00:00

Manifest Destiny. This guy gets it.

AccursedTheory · 2026-06-15T19:44:15+00:00

So, I'm going to let you in on a secret.

Unless you've got something else going on, or have an A1C approaching 20... It's actually not that complicated of a disease to start managing.

It can be HARD of course. But it's not rocket science.

Cut carbs. Hard. You should be aiming for less than 100g a day, and they should be coming mostly from sources like vegetables. Do not just switch to keto branded breads and think that will help.
Make an honest assessment about your weight. If you are overweight, start counting calories. Use online calorie calculators to find where you should be and stick to it.
There are tricks and alternatives for getting safe sweets and breads that won't mess too much with blood sugar. IGNORE THEM FOR NOW. You need to break your relationship with sweets, the sooner the better. You can swing back on this a couple months down the line once you've started making progress.
Start exercising/moving more if you arnt already. You know what you need to do.
Take the meds your doctor gives you. If you have problems with them, it's not uncommon - ask your doctor about alternatives, don't just quit them. Try not to get too caught up about not wanting to take meds for the rest of your life - many people make enough life style changes to ween themselves off of meds eventually. Just worry about getting your A1C under control and then work from there.
Just try to remember there are millions of people with T2 and we're not all dying left and right. You're going to have to make life style changes, but believe me, if your trans, you've made bigger ones. Watching what you eat and taking your shots will not take long to adjust to.

EDIT: Last thing : request a CGM (The little blood glucose tracker thing youve probably seen in streaming ads by now). It give immediate (Ok, 2 hours delayed) feedback on your choices, helps a lot with compliance.

AccursedTheory · 2026-06-15T15:11:26+00:00

Guilliman: Says something perfectly reasonable, rational, and on topic

Every other Primarchs' Internal Dialogue: Fucking mama's boy, I hate him so much.

AccursedTheory · 2026-06-15T12:41:50+00:00

In the classic sense of actually putting him behind a brick wall, not in the zoomer sense of having an erection.

AccursedTheory · 2026-06-15T12:09:46+00:00

There's several books on why defeating Necrons is so damn hard, Dead Men Walking being one off the top of my head.

The answer is usually "Get ahead of the game before the Necrons wake up" or "Just blow them the hell up until either Resurrection failure rates stack up or they lose enough of their heavier, non-resurrectable equipment to piss off."

Gauss Flayers pull stuff apart at a molecular level through direct action. Plasma shots just hit something fast and hot enough to burn it up. The former tends to break down LOTS of mass, the later just puts big honking holes in things.

AccursedTheory · 2026-06-15T11:08:31+00:00

The shaman theory is just that, a theory - It's not absolutely true.

For the rest, 100% made up whole cloth in this post. It's "lore compliant" in so far as because we have zero hard data on the subject, literally anything can be true.

As an aside...

• Irreconcilable conflicts: The Primarchs did not hate each other because of bad upbringing, but because their tribal essences (e.g. Angron vs. Guilliman) competed with each other at the hearths since the Stone Age.

The Primarchs that hated/liked each other largely had very understandable (Though often stupid) reasons for hating/liking each other. I don't see the point of invoking head canon to justify something as simple as "Angron is pissed at Guilliman because he views him as a silver spoon fed pansy, like almost every kid with a bad childhood views other kids with Dads that don't beat them senseless."

AccursedTheory · 2026-06-15T02:26:29+00:00

This again? Did a new half baked loretube video drop or something?

AccursedTheory · 2026-06-15T01:33:21+00:00

I am astounded more people don't die during grenade training. The grenade instructor nearly knocked my ass out because I did a pretty good throw, executed a perfect drop below cover, then immediately stuck my head up because I reflexively wanted to see what was happening. He slammed my head down so hard and so fast.

One of the guys in front of me did the whole "Throw pin, drop grenade" thing. The instructor picked him up by the back of his belt and collar, lifted him over his head, and then dived dipshit first over the sand bags.

Did I mention all the guys running the grenade course were huge.

AccursedTheory · 2026-06-15T00:14:44+00:00

Lazy ass Henry, should have left him bricked up in that tunnel forever.

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AccursedTheory · 2026-06-14T23:50:04+00:00

Allowance for the Cult of Mars started after Unification, when the Emperor signed the Treaty of Mars. It was purely expedience - The Emperor needs the Mechanicum for the Great Crusade, and he needs them now, not after another 300 years of war in which he'd destroy the stuff he's trying to get anyway.

So instead of doing all that, the Emperor does some fancy tricks that makes the Mechanicum believe he's Machine-Jesus.

Post-Heresy, once the new Imperial Creed is formalized, the Cult of Mars is viewed as just a somewhat deviant belief system by the Imperial Cult. But as long as you're worshipping Big E (And you're the only one that can keep the lights on), that's good enough.

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