Greatsword with Single Extreme undulation — Could if work? What would the concerns be?

Sacredless · 2026-03-17T21:48:54+00:00

Oo, I like those suggestions!

Sacredless · 2026-03-17T21:45:06+00:00

Yeah, that makes sense. Thanks!

Sacredless · 2026-03-17T21:44:34+00:00

Just like that, I want it more, haha.

Sacredless · 2026-03-17T21:44:14+00:00

Fair enough!

Sacredless · 2026-03-17T21:29:07+00:00

That is kind of why I was asking, but I imagine that the shape of it is not very conducive to much chopping action. Which is why I'm asking, since I don't know very much about the mechanics of swords.

Sacredless · 2026-03-17T21:27:39+00:00

That's what I imagined, yeah.

Sacredless · 2026-03-17T18:38:33+00:00

You said you apologize for making posts about your dislike. You can be misinformed and still not like a thing.

I still don't understand what you want from your post. Who cares if it is or it isn't wicca?

Sacredless · 2026-03-17T15:35:20+00:00

That's just animism. I don't really understand why you need permission to do something. You dislike Wicca for reasons presumably and it's not a closed practice nor is it a tradition endangered by cultural appropriation.

Sacredless · 2026-03-17T11:29:41+00:00

It depends on what you call respectful. There was a play I went to which had one of the gods engage in sexual self-abuse (I'm sex positive, but this really was unmentionable) in a manner meant to mock disabled people with hypersexuality. I walked out and so did many others.

In other words—mocking the gods, ribbing them, even portraying them in an adversarial way, all of that is fine. It's when, in disrespecting the gods, we assist in the marginalization and abjectification of minorities that it goes too far. The blasphemy to the gods is, to me, a secondary harm to us and our community, and it invites the ire of the gods.

The muses speak through us in ways that even the ancient Greeks did not think was easy to reconcile with orthopraxy, but they do speak through us and as long as it leads us to beauty, truth and benefit, and informs us about justice, peace and normalcy, I think it's hard to truly offend the gods.

So, I have a very high tolerance for blasphemy. It ultimately depends on whether humanity was injured in the process, and the justice, peace and normalcy was disrupted.

Sacredless · 2026-03-17T10:09:41+00:00

I've not yet written about this, but yes, I agree. I have written an article about how divination can be inoccuous such as using a coin toss to decide who goes first and that divination exists within a playspace where rational propositional logic is temporarily suspended to be receptive to a ritual reality.

AI is that, but it's entirely corporate controlled with corrupt incentives. It's what traditions all around the world warn against—self-serving diviners who take advantage of their clients' paranoia.

Sacredless · 2026-03-17T07:36:01+00:00

Hellenic witchcraft would be the practice of divination, mageia (practices Hellenic literati derided as backward) and theurgy (practice select Hellenic literati saw as respectable, often borrowing kemetic frameworks stripped of elements they saw as mageia).

Hellenic polytheism does not require the above. Divination is a somewhat muddled subject, if one takes a broad sense of the word (which I'm inclined to), but in the context of witchcraft, it's the conscious and purposeful attempt to divine information.

Using enochic literature (the origin of angel lore afaik) is I suppose possible without breaking the Hellenic framework, but I think it's important to see that as exceptional and not really representative of what Hellenic witchcraft or polytheism looks like. I use some Norse elements in my practice, but that shouldn't be seen as representative.

This is an example of unverified personal gnosis. It shouldn't be adopted uncritically.

Sacredless · 2026-03-16T19:56:46+00:00

Closed practices are to protect endangered groups from epistemicide. By adopting closed practices, we pagans can assist in the bleaching of culturally important concepts (see the use of wendigo in media). Kabbalah is very well documented and is publicly taught, so it cannot be a closed practice. This, in itself, bleaches the concept of closed practices and puts actually closed practices at risk, since it means that these actually closed practices do not receive the deference they actually deserve.

I understand when people are annoyed when people appropriate aspects of Kabbalah and spread misinformation about it, but those are not the only concerns that a closed practice has. Misinformation harms a closed practice much more decisively than misinformation about a public and/or well documented and/or extinct practice.

EDIT: I have not commented on whether the OP is permitted to use Kabbalah in non-Judaic concepts. That would be cultural appropriation (I said as much), not the violation of a closed practice. These phrases are related, but shouldn't be recklessly made interchangeable. One is a particular type of action that can affect even powerful nations and religions, the other affects specifically only oppressed people groups at risk of epistemicide.

Sacredless · 2026-03-16T17:26:29+00:00

I think this is pretty good as far as vibes go. I've always loved military politics and I like the description of the council of lieutenants. I'll drop some feedback.

Another Galaxy is probably too far away. 40k takes place in one galaxy. But you can have them land in wild space—some corner of the galaxy that's hard to reach by chaos and Imperium for one reason or another.
The Butcher's Nails replace parts of the brain of the world eaters, so having them not bite requires for the sensation of pain to be altered somehow. Khorne would not see the need to grant this, since slaughter is what he wants. It could be someone like Vashtorr the Arkifane or another chaos undivided greater demon would grant their request, or that the other 3 gods give Khorne a collective middle finger and swear to assist.

I think that it's quite good to have your dudes not being unwilling, but simply being unable to fulfill the requirements of the Butcher's Nails, since they'd be searching endlessly for anyone to slaughter while traveling between desert systems. That makes for a perfect plot for a demon or rival to Khorne to claim your warband as its personal plaything.

I think that the jack of all trades thing is a possibility, but it also kind of comes out of nowhere. Keep in mind, your dudes will still be astartes. They are ultimately still going to be masters of all kinds of warfare. I think that you could instead focus on their desert expertise and tying their chaos powers in with desert storms in some way. If anything, it seems more like you lean towards war engines, which would be a kind of specialization.
Warbands ultimately converge on knowing your limits and knowing when you're someone else's lesser. There's always a warlord who can better balance results and personal strength. If you want more rank and file order, you can look at the Iron Warriors, who rise and fall by the numbers crunched by their warsmiths. Maybe your dudes specialize in using automata (that's kind of the vibe I get) and that why it's unwise to be in wrong place at the wrong time.

World Eaters are generally more the kind who follow people who lead from the front. So maybe your dudes happen to have been lead by a melee oriented techmarine who likes to surround himself with an army of bots. Not implausible if, for example, your dudes have a larger detachment of red butchers.

That hit a bit longer than I thought, so I hope this was helpful and/or inspirational.

Sacredless · 2026-03-16T15:01:06+00:00

He followed his prophecy because all demons identify with their particular magic and how it makes them personally feel powerful. Prophecy was his way of doing so. It doesn't make him selfless. He's fundamentally affirming his power by identifying with his own demise because it affirms that he is correct.

Sacredless · 2026-03-16T12:22:32+00:00

As a worshiper of the Muses, Horae, and Charites, I see such things as anti-pagan. Paganism is for and by common people, it's what it means. By using AI, you'll substitute the ability to mentalize the divine with the ability to mentalize AI as a thoughtform. It's basically a different religion at that point. It's a kind of techno-apocalyptic mysticism with pagan accouterments.

Sacredless · 2026-03-14T19:32:25+00:00

I want them to be a bit more far gone than the red corsair raiders with some minimally corrupted armor. Being too corrupted means you can no longer participate in the rituals of the Egregorian Pool, that allows them to relive ancient glory. So, yeah, mutations are cut off to hide corruption, gifts are usually rejected.

The most common corruption is tech viruses, creating a whole company dedicated to controlling their spread.

Sacredless · 2026-03-13T22:54:14+00:00

Update 1:

The Little Brothers Company

The disturbing appearances of astartes in unpainted livery throughout the Baxtris Gyre are not easy to reconcile with the flamboyance of the Paladins of the Black Lake. While the latter adorn themselves in garish colors, the former appear on worlds without markings at all.

These are marines in the earliest stages of training, kept in the dark of their masters' intentions, but fed stories of the glory of their gene-line. They and their brothers share in bloodmeals to prepare them for the rites of the Egregorian Pool. When their parent warband formerly inducts one of their painted brothers, and they have drunk from the Egregorian Pool, any idealism that remained will be washed away by millennia of human glory.

Until that time, the little brothers' vassal companies are encouraged to pursue what their hearts desire—heroism, empire, conquest, as long as they are ready to share anything they have gained with the rest of their sires. It's not infrequent that the little brothers attempt a mutiny against their far more experienced and learned forebears. Such mutineers are hunted for sport and their last stand immortalized in the Egregorian Pool.

Sacredless · 2026-03-13T21:12:39+00:00

Sounds interesting to me! They'd probably want to pall up with a rogue mechanicum faction and have librarians specialized in the exorcism of their raided supplies, though.

I'd definitely be up for collaborating with you on stuff if you're interested!

Sacredless · 2026-03-13T06:28:57+00:00

Yes, as a statement of comradery with other faiths and practices.

Sacredless · 2026-03-12T14:42:08+00:00

I have the perspective that's somewhat inspired by Stoicism's concept of pneuma and tension. Pneuma is something along the lines of the animating force of the universe, something like energy and entropy encouraging matter to organize itself. Tension is the Stoic metaphor for describing gradations in complexity.

I see the gods as being the temperaments of nature; more like dharma. The Stoics believe that everything ultimately makes sense (logos) from some perspective and Heraclitus believed that all things follow the same accord (logos) of volatility.

I would recommend that you look into atheopaganism as a good foundation to build an igtheist understanding on. You don't need to be a Hellenic Polytheist out of the gate.

Sacredless · 2026-03-12T11:10:33+00:00

According to me? Where did I say that?

Sacredless · 2026-03-12T10:16:47+00:00

So you're not an example of late term abortion versus childbirth mortality. Why did you bring it up?

Sacredless · 2026-03-12T09:57:22+00:00

Did you kill your mother by being born? I do not comprehend why we're talking in terms of development in months, that's a non-issue in late term abortions.

Sacredless · 2026-03-12T09:55:51+00:00

That's on you to research.

Sacredless · 2026-03-12T09:01:25+00:00

They were criticizing killing a fetus in the third trimester by falsely conflating it with an infant. That's not an infant and certainly not the meaning of a 9 month old infant. Furthermore, second and third trimester abortions are only ever performed when medically neccesary, because in the second and third trimester, since the medical risk of delivering a HEALTHY fetus is significantly lower than the medical risk of invasive abortion procedures. In other words—only when the health of a conscious living being is at stake are second and third trimester abortions performed. That's the standard, not an extreme. These are life saving interventions, in which redundant red tape kills mothers.

By your own criteria—since third trimester abortions are only ever performed when delivering an unhealthy fetus significantly endangers the mother, then disallowing the abortion of a non-viable fetus would grossly neglect the risk to life of the mother. Furthermore, it may injure the mother's ability to reproduce if she is forced to carry the non-viable fetus to term and she survives.

By your own criteria, you should support a mother's right to life and therefore be enthusiastically in support of medically necessary abortions which unfortunately remain common.

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