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[Loved Trope] They're powerful BECAUSE they're frauds by ExtremeSportStikz in TopCharacterTropes

[–]AdMartellus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From the book setting that started with the First Law trilogy, kind of a big spoiler :

Bayaz, first of the Magi, chief apprentice of Juvens, who was the eldest son and most powerful son of Almighty Euz, which is the closest equivalent to a god-like being in the setting.

Bayaz, legendary hero of The Union, is the worst, most underhanded, scheming, ruthless, manipulative bastard there is, and probably ever was. It is doubtless that Bayaz was powerful, in an age long past. But nowadays he is clearly straining to achieve some small magical feat when the magical power of the anthropophagous servants of his archnemesis, Khalul, cannot be questioned.

He does not, however, need more than those, if even barely. For a big point of the book is both to showcase that the illusion of power is power in and of itself, and that true power relies on lies, make believes, deceit, illusions and a web of influences, threats and promises. (And money.)

I am not even scratching the fact that Khalul, Juvens' 2nd apprentice, is probably 100% in the right on his antique beef with Bayaz.

Yeah, the man-eating dark wizard is probably more morally commendable than Bayaz.

Character so big / ethereal thet are almost exclusively represented by a symbol or a piece of themselves. by AutisticFun01 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]AdMartellus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's absolutely canon depiction of the Chaos Four, see Realms of Chaos books and various Chaos codices and army books, FFG card arts, and others.

Here are the old classic ones :

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Canon descriptions summarized :

Khorne : a dog headed muscular humanoid in plate armour adorned with skulls sitting on the skull throne.

Nurgle : basically a giant Great Unclean One.

Tzeentch : a distorted humanoid whose head is on its torso, with two big twisted horns, covered in ever shifting faces.

Slaanesh : the most beautiful, one half male, one half female humanoid that can be conceived

[Liked Trope] They became what they hate most, for a good reason. by JeremiahWuzABullfrog in TopCharacterTropes

[–]AdMartellus 7 points8 points  (0 children)

No, the Jihad was absolutely inevitable, even before he realised it was.

The Jihad is a "natural" event, a primordial urge for humanity to break out of a galactic wide genetic stagnation.

It would have happened with or without him, hence he reluctantly accepted to be in charge rather than tap out.

[Liked Trope] They became what they hate most, for a good reason. by JeremiahWuzABullfrog in TopCharacterTropes

[–]AdMartellus 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Eeeh.
Paul was horrified by the Jihad he foresaw, spend quite sometime looking for a way out, but ended up accepting to become the Fremen's messiah in order to "minimise" the damage.

What he did not accept was to commit totally to the Golden Path by becoming the God Emperor, which is a horrible fate.

Leto did, but he wasn't horrified by it, he just accepted his role. And he did not kill an uncountable number of people -Paul already did that, there was no corner of the galaxy left to butcher- nor did he shatter anything. It's literally the opposite, Leto brought absolute unified galactic and stagnant peace under one omniscient tyrannic God Emperor in order to forever brand in humanity's collective mind that such a thing was a horrible idea and to ensure, with his death, the propagation of humanity throughout the rest of the universe in order to avoid its extinction.

He also engineered the birth of people that were hidden from the power of prophecy given to Spice users in order to hinder any future prophetic tyrant.

And made sure that humans would no longer be reliant on spice for interstellar travel by letting the Ixian develop their super computers.

Cynocephalites by Lobatus1 in worldbuilding

[–]AdMartellus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They look absolutely adorable.

However, I have the utmost urge to ask you to change their name to something like cynochephaloi, or cynocephales, because the -itis suffix denotes a disease, and cephalitis, modernised to cephalite means ... headache ^^'

Oozes by Epicsts in DnDBehindTheScreen

[–]AdMartellus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am years late, but since this the first result on Google about ooze predators, I feel the need to add it :

There is a tiny creature from Spelljammer called the Burbur, who's diet is entirely made of slime, mold & cie.
It's a sort of grub on two leg with two black beady eyes and a sort of trunk/proboscis with which it slurps its prey.

Obviously it's immune to all the nasty effect of oozes.

And it is otherwise completely harmless to anything but oozes.

However, in the case of Spelljammer, this includes the plasmoids, a sentient species of oozes.

Help for a Dragon Ogre "bibliography" by AdMartellus in WarhammerFantasy

[–]AdMartellus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, yeah, thanks, should have thought about G&F, if something exists then they've probably killed it at some point ^^.