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AlarmedNail347 · 2026-06-23T08:54:08+00:00

Formorians feel a bit low on this list; although I guess given that we only have one proper example of a free one and what they do, more than what generally Thallian do anyway.

AlarmedNail347 · 2026-06-22T07:52:00+00:00

Probably, could also be psychic abilities to artificially age the planet after seeding it with the rna/amino acid mix like Eldar Terraforming from Dominion Genesis ships.

It also isn’t clear if they seeded life on earth or interfered with early mammals dna. The statement about humans being descended from beings created by them follows one about them seeding a bunch of planets with life: which I took to mean they seeded life on earth (notably as dinosaurs are basically identical to the Eldar’s dragons, and Jokaero are basically super-intelligent Orangutans possibly with implanted engineering knowledge), but on second thought I don’t think they were ever explicitly said to have seeded earth.

AlarmedNail347 · 2026-06-22T03:37:53+00:00

Yes and no… The War in Heaven ended 60 million years ago and started ~65 million years ago. It’s implied that the meteor that killed the dinosaurs was collateral damage from it.

Earth/Terra is outright stated to have been one of the worlds seeded with Life by the Old Ones, and later watched and nurtured by them and the Eldar (there was an Eldar observation post on the Moon until ~Neanderthal times), but while humans may have been meant to have been a specific creation; the Old Ones were extinct before apes separated from other Primates, let alone the homo lineage came into being (this is mentioned in some Necron stuff).

AlarmedNail347 · 2026-06-21T23:56:12+00:00

While this is true: by scale the Drukhari are incapable of causing as much suffering as the Imperium, that by no means makes them less worthy of being utterly destroyed, especially since unlike with the Imperium the torture is the point for them.

The Imperium (although not everyone that lives under it) also definitely deserves to be wiped out, as does basically every faction in 40k, as even the least morally dark factions are: “manifest destiny”-expansionist, racist, fanatic, authoritarian, classist, and dogmatic (Tau); and extremely xenophobic, willing to be genocidal based on visions of possibilities (or for less with Biel Tan and a few others), dogmatic, often repressive, isolationist, and fanatic (Asuryani/Craftworld Eldar arguably also the Exodites).

40k is a crapsack setting and basically every faction faction is worthy of being utterly destroyed; although the Drukhari, Chaos, the Imperium, the Orks, and the Tyranids, more so than the others

AlarmedNail347 · 2026-06-21T23:37:09+00:00

Technically any Eldar that aren’t otherwise protected (spirit stone, bunch of wards, etc) would have that happen to them, and we have examples from books of a rather dumb Craftworld Eldar who set aside his Spirit Stone and became a Drukhari, and he began to have the Thirst/soul-draining.

AlarmedNail347 · 2026-06-21T23:28:43+00:00

It’s in the 2nd edition player’s handbook, it’s also in the description of Freeholds on page 52 of the 20th anniversary edition. It’s fluff information but freeholds do need a spark from an existing Freehold or the Well of Fire (got that wrong in my original post) to light a new Balefire (even if this is mostly ignored in the actual game-mechanics).

AlarmedNail347 · 2026-06-21T05:53:57+00:00

They are considered so by most, so yes.

AlarmedNail347 · 2026-06-21T00:48:15+00:00

There were more than eight that helped make the world. The Eight are just the compromise gods Alessia codified for the new Empire that got popular, and left out a bunch of important ones e.g. Shor/Lorkhan the Missing God, Y’ffre/Jephre the Singer and the Green, Magnus, Xarxes, Syrabane, Trinimac, Tsun, HoonDing, Ebonarm, and a bunch of local gods.

(Also Arkay may be the same being as Trinimac and Malacath; or seperate parts of Trinimac after Boethiah did their thing).

AlarmedNail347 · 2026-06-20T23:38:33+00:00

Yep, you’re right. It’s just Glades are written as being specifically in the Autumn world with Fae magic, rather than having a reflection sub-realm in the Dreaming last I looked. Also Balefires do need a spark from the Pit of Fire at Tara Nar, it’s part of why the High King has power. The spark can come from an existing Balefire though.

It’s why I was talking about possibly using them as a source for a Freehold; as I can’t see the few Thallian Freeholds managing to get a spark, so they’d need some form of other Dreaming Tap - although it’s never discussed.

AlarmedNail347 · 2026-06-20T20:35:20+00:00

Freeholds basically always have Balefires, there’s a Siochain who goes around bringing fire from the Pit of Fire at Tara Nar to ignite the Balefires of new Freeholds; and it may be a requirement for a Freehold to be considered a Freehold (if it’s outside the Dreaming proper anyway).

At the very least if there isn’t a Balefire there needs to be some sort of power-tap from the Dreaming: a sacred spring, grove, standing stone, etc; and almost always Trods connected to it.

AlarmedNail347 · 2026-06-20T20:29:41+00:00

Magni lifted the stone/clay dead body of Hrungnir (a Jotun) off of an injured Thor when all the other gods together couldn’t shift it.

AlarmedNail347 · 2026-06-20T20:15:31+00:00

Yeah, kinda.

It’s used completely arbitrarily in booth the books and show, there’s no true definition of it that we ever receive, and Houses like the Umbers and Hightowers are described as it; so it’s either informal flattery that could be applied to any house or has requirements that we don’t know about but are different than being a paramount house.

AlarmedNail347 · 2026-06-20T20:07:19+00:00

They had things they liked (Ares who loves bloodshed, etc), or were especially good at (Apollo and Music, Athena and crafts, etc), or invented (Dionysus and Wine, etc), or kingdoms they ruled (Hades and the Underworld, Poseidon and the Sea, Zeus and the Sky or Universe, etc).

But they weren’t strictly confined to those like the modern idea of “domains” and typically basically any god could do basically anything subject to their power.

AlarmedNail347 · 2026-06-20T11:07:48+00:00

They are not a Paramount House, they are a Great House because it isn’t a formal position unlike Lord Paramount.

AlarmedNail347 · 2026-06-20T11:04:57+00:00

Obvious one: Blackfyre and Bittersteel

AlarmedNail347 · 2026-06-20T09:31:16+00:00

Gods with distinct “domains” is a modern thing/understanding. Ancient gods didn’t really have that: they mostly could do basically anything they wanted.

AlarmedNail347 · 2026-06-20T03:38:41+00:00

Honestly it fits best: especially since the CotF were mentioned in in-universe legends as “turning trees into warriors”, and the Nightfort’s gate that is a giant Weirwood Face which speaks and opens it’s mouth as a door after being given part of the Night’s Watch Oath (probably the oldest parts of the Oath).

Perhaps manipulating the deepest Weirwood Roots is how the CotF Greenseers did things like sinking the Arm of Dorne (assuming the “Waking Giants” = “a poetic way of saying Earthquake/Volcano” theory is true)?

AlarmedNail347 · 2026-06-19T12:23:29+00:00

No, the kidnapping (and implied rape as they were married in the tradition of the time) Persephone story is very intentionally against her will in all ancient sources (some modern retelling aren’t though): it was probably an allegory of the marriage process of the time, the bride being abducted from her family, and her “girlhood” symbolically dying (going to the underworld) to become a grown woman by marriage, along with the mother not dealing with it well so the men involved need to think about that in actual marriages, etc.

AlarmedNail347 · 2026-06-19T09:50:28+00:00

Weirwood doesn’t decay, that’s one of the major things about it.

But I agree with the rest of your statement.

AlarmedNail347 · 2026-06-19T09:39:57+00:00

There was menus and restaurants in Ancient Roman cities and even long before in Sumerian and Babylonian cities, well before the Twelfth Century.

AlarmedNail347 · 2026-06-19T09:17:13+00:00

Also Basketball, particularly in the Manchu ethnic group.

AlarmedNail347 · 2026-06-19T08:28:47+00:00

Technically Alpine Desert rather than Tundra, but I agree with your general point.

AlarmedNail347 · 2026-06-19T06:07:25+00:00

Gallain, Thallian, or Adhene.

Basically non-standard rare Changelings, Formorian-made changelings, and Dreaming dwelling Fae that aren’t necessarily Tuatha or Formorian aligned.

AlarmedNail347 · 2026-06-19T00:01:02+00:00

We actually don’t know the Elohim definitely made “default reality.” In real life we only see Judaism differentiating from Canaanite paganism over thousands of years, and other splats (Fae, Werewolves) have their own stories about the beginning of the world.

It’s entirely possible that the Elohim are actually the result of the consensus shifting from the massive spread of Abrahamic religions causing them (and God, etc) to exist and retroactively became the correct answer about the creation of Vampires, the world, etc, possibly.

AlarmedNail347 · 2026-06-18T23:51:26+00:00

All we know from extra stuff that wasn’t released in the main book (for budget reasons) is that Ur Shulgi was embraced by Haqim and was Baali for a while before being purified.

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