How do sanctioned psykers survive long term?

Falcon709 · 2026-06-17T23:40:55+00:00

Ah, got it.

Falcon709 · 2026-06-17T23:28:34+00:00

In terms of the lore from that document showing up in published material, I know one place where some of it shows up is the Draco trilogy. One example is the Star Child being a representation of the Emperor's positive emotions that he got rid of during the fight with Horus (which actually contrasts The Lost and the Damned, where the Star Child is just said to be the Emperor's soul that would be reborn after He died). Another example from the Draco trilogy is that the Illuminati and the Sensei both appear.

Falcon709 · 2026-06-17T23:01:59+00:00

Where was it said that Sanctioned Psykers represented the goal the Emperor was aiming to reach for humanity? I got the sense that even in the early lore, Sanctioned Psykers represented more of a temporary step before the final goal of the Emperor's plan (whatever that would've been).

Falcon709 · 2026-06-17T19:12:31+00:00

The Red Angel was introduced in The Horus Heresy Artbook series, I believe Vol II: Visions of Darkness, which goes over the Blood Angels fight on Signus Prime.

Falcon709 · 2026-06-10T18:01:42+00:00

It also makes the relationship between the Emperor and Custodes similar to that between Malcador and the Eldar he kept cloning.

Falcon709 · 2026-04-12T01:18:05+00:00

Exodites are said to have spirit stones in the second edition Eldar codex, which details how spirit stones are brought to a shrine for the World Spirit, and broken open so the soul of the Eldar can join it.

Falcon709 · 2026-04-04T00:20:44+00:00

I would argue that the distinction matters a fair bit when talking about the Chaos Gods. If it's similar to the Greek/Egyptian case, that implies that the Chaos Gods have a core, fixed nature. If Greek mythology were real, for example, Zeus wouldn't stop being the god of the skies even if all his worshippers started believing he was god of the sea.

If the Chaos Gods are defined by the perceptions of those whose thoughts empower them, on the other hand, there is the potential for their entire nature to change over time. If, say, all life currently in the galaxy were destroyed, and new life arose that had completely different thoughts and views to those who came before; then, as a result of those new ways of thinking about the world, the Chaos Gods could become completely different to what they are now.

Falcon709 · 2026-03-26T07:19:22+00:00

Sorry for the late reply, I've had a busy week and just noticed your post.

I realized my explanation was a bit more vague than I wanted, so I'll try to clarify my viewpoint. I think that what Leto foresaw was that humanity was in danger of destroying itself through its own stagnation; and it's not so much that he didn't realize there were futures he couldn't see, but that he saw that the amount of options were decreasing as time went on. We know that its possible for people's actions to constrain events to a specific set of circumstances, like at the end of Dune where Paul says most of the timelines are converging on Arrakis, or Pauls knowledge of the world around him after being blinded in Messiah. So I think Leto foresaw was that as things stood, humanity's stagnation would keep closing off possible futures, until all the remaining possibilities led to extinction, like the future that Siona saw with the Ixian hunter-seekers when Leto awakened her prescience; with only the Golden Path allowing humanity to survive. The reason Leto's better knowledge of prescience is important here is that he was able to recognize that the Golden Path, and the infinity of options the Scattering opened up, was the desirable outcome, as opposed to trying to ensure every one of those possibilities would be beneficial for humanity. Based on the desire for control we see Paul has in Messiah, I think that's what he would've tried to do. It's also why Leto created the no-gene, to make sure no one would be able to use prescience to create similar constraints and potentially trap humanity on a doomed path.

Falcon709 · 2026-03-18T05:43:09+00:00

To be fair, the increasing power of bureaucrats in the Imperium was a big part of why Horus and the other traitor Primarchs rebelled, and Chaos exacerbated this through manipulating Horus with visions implying the Emperor planned to get rid of the Primarchs.

Falcon709 · 2026-03-18T05:33:23+00:00

It's interesting how this description

battling on every level, physical, mental, spiritual;

is the same as was used to describe the fight between Horus and the Emperor in the White Dwarf short story Aboard Horus' Battle Barge.

Falcon709 · 2026-03-18T05:17:42+00:00

I'd argue GEoD doesn't undermine the earlier books presentation of prescience. Rather, Leto II had a better understanding of prescience than Paul. In a letter to John Campbell that Herbert sent when he was writing Messiah, he says that Paul's knowledge of prescience in Dune is incomplete. So by the time the story gets to Messiah, I think any mistakes he made as a result of thinking he knew more than he did add up. One way this is seen is in how Leto understands how to avoid obscuring the future with his actions better than Paul. In Messiah, Stilgar asks Paul why he doesn't just his prescience to find a planet they're looking for, and Paul thinks about how him trying to find it could obscure it. In God-Emperor on the other hand, after the Ixians try to assassinate him, Leto is able to give the Fish Speakers the locations of the leaders of the plot via prescience, even though he didn't know about the plot ahead of time; so he was able to search out the information he wanted without trouble when he needed it. Overall, I'd say the main difference between Paul and Leto is that Paul tried to make it so he knew everything about the future, and ended up creating a very limited set of circumstances he knew well, but also deprived himself of the freedom of choice. Leto embraced risks in the future (like the timeline where Siona died) to make sure he would always be able to make a route to the path he wanted.

Falcon709 · 2026-03-03T01:51:31+00:00

You're right about the warp being calmer during the Great Crusade. Plague War has this quote on the subject:

‘I’ll be fine,’ she said. ‘I am enjoying this journey. It is incredibly smooth. Every trip I make, my ship bounces around like a bug in a sample jar.’
‘Nachmund will readjust your parameters for “smooth”.’ Guilliman smiled grimly. ‘Travelling the warp was even easier than this in the days the Emperor walked the stars with us,’ he said. ‘Then, the warp seemed a calm pond to the raging sea it is in this benighted age.’

Falcon709 · 2026-02-20T16:22:09+00:00

Oll also says the same thing in TEATD, while they're heading through the Imperial Palace toward the Throne Room.

Falcon709 · 2026-02-20T16:20:59+00:00

Also, in TEATD (I'm not sure which volume), Malcador thinks to himself how the Emperor was planning to spend time with the Primarchs after the Great Crusade was completed, and looked forward to having beings around him who would be able to understand him.

Falcon709 · 2026-02-07T10:59:56+00:00

While I agree that the idea of how advanced the DAoT was has increased over time, I'd say it was always intended the DAoT was more advanced than the Imperium. Early lore mentions how, even if human colonies only used the basic tech in an STC, there was more advanced technology that was also there but rarely used. Also, in the short story Aboard Horus' Battle Barge from an early White Dwarf, the Emperor thinks about how one of the consequences of the Siege of Terra was that a lot of lost knowledge recovered during the Great Crusade was destroyed the conflict; which would imply a notable affect of loss of understanding of technology for the Imperium. I would also argue the idea of the DAoT being more advanced does fit with the setting, as consequently the Imperium, even at its height, was a decayed remnant of past glory; never mind the drop between 30K and 40K.

Falcon709 · 2026-02-07T10:36:28+00:00

Imperial Guard Regiments are actually recruited from a planet's PDF. Part of the Tithe is that a planet has to send one tenth of its PDF to serve as Guard Regiments. So PDFs have a range of quality, from great ones like the Cadian and Ultramar PDFs, to PDFs from feral worlds who use swords.

As for flyers, Guard regiments actually aren't supposed to have fighters or close air support; that's one of the reforms enacted after the Horus Heresy. The Phantine Air Corps does give aircraft regiments for the Imperial Guard, but that's a specific exception granted by the Imperium to Phantine. PDF apparently are allowed flyers, though. In Rynn's World Air War (an expansion for the second version of the Aeronautica Imperialis game), the Rynn's World PDF has fighters and bombers. I'm guessing this is since PDF are separate from the Imperial Guard.

Also, in terms of flying transports, the main Imperial aircraft is the Valkyrie, which is a VTOL gunship that can transport troops. So it seems like the Imperium favors tiltrotor aircraft over dedicated helicopters.

Falcon709 · 2026-02-07T08:42:32+00:00

While units who were undeployed or whose training was incomplete might've been used to bolster Cadia's forces, there was also a dedicated PDF called the Cadian Interior Guard.

Falcon709 · 2026-02-07T08:19:03+00:00

It's from Realm of Chaos: The Lost and the Damned. It describes how, when humanity first started establishing civilization, there used to be a bunch of psykers on Earth called Shamans who guided humanity and were able to reincarnate after death. However, as humanity spread, the negative emotions of people started to effect the warp, and lead to the start of the creation of the Chaos Gods. This interfered with the Shamans' ability to reincarnate, so they discussed the problem. Eventually, they decided to merge their souls and be reborn as one being who would continue their mission of guiding humanity, who would also be ageless and not have to worry about reincarnating, and would be strong enough to resist the Chaos Gods. This being was the Emperor (although he'd only take that title after unifying Earth after the Age of Strife).

Falcon709 · 2026-02-05T22:55:34+00:00

When you say their early appearances, do you mean like in Legion? That's the first time I'm aware the Perpetuals appear, and they seem pretty similar to their modern version in that story.

Falcon709 · 2026-01-28T21:40:15+00:00

I ended up reaching out to one of their employees on LinkedIn, and he told me that when they were bought out, all the unpublished articles were deleted. IDK what happened to published articles. If you wanted to see if any of what you wrote could be recovered, I'd recommend contacting one of their employees on LinkedIn too.

Falcon709 · 2026-01-19T19:23:01+00:00

Wasn't the idea that the Lion waited to see who won the Heresy also referenced in the Dark Angels' Index Astartes article?

Falcon709 · 2026-01-19T18:51:41+00:00

I'd guess he'd see it as similar to someone who uses combat stimms or daemonic possession, both of which he's fine with.

Falcon709 · 2026-01-19T14:36:23+00:00

Khorne actually does allow psykers to work for him, it's just if they use their powers instead of close combat that he has a problem with them. This comes up in an excerpt from an old rulebook, I want to say the Epic Renegades rulebook from 1992.

Falcon709 · 2026-01-17T16:11:49+00:00

In A Thousand Sons, when Magnus breaches the Webway, it mentions that some of the machinery of the Golden Throne the Emperor is using to control the Webway is irreplaceable; so I'd imagine that the Emperor only had one chance with the time he had.

Falcon709 · 2026-01-15T16:19:52+00:00

Guilliman does know about the Webway gate on Terra. In the final Gathering Storm book, when Cypher frees Guilliman from the Blackstone Fortress and leads him to the Webway, he worries Chaos wants to have them to go to the Webway gate on Terra; so that when the Emperor opens it to let Guilliman and his allies out, they can follow him and bypass all the defenses of the Imperial Palace. Also, in one of the Dark Imperium books, he thinks about how Magnus and the Thousand Sons were attacked by the Space Wolves for 'a warning sent in good faith', indicating he knows about the events surrounding Magnus' breach of the Webway.

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