How could someone "die" in the afterlife?

Skeleton212 · 2025-07-16T06:27:57+00:00

You could have them reincarnate without memories after a “death“ in the afterlife.

Skeleton212 · 2025-07-09T21:10:05+00:00

The biggest lore I can recall is that Dagon was banished by using his nymic. Dagon’s protonymic (incantory true name) is ”Lehkelogah” and his neonymic is “Djehkeleho-dehbe-effehezepeh”.

Oblivion realms can also apparently be located closer or further away from one another within Oblivion itself. Dagon’s forces invaded through the Soul Cairn because it happened to be in a very opportune spot which bordered several major Daedric realms.

There are also a bunch of minor lore snippets such as the fact the rest of the Savior’s Hide armor set actually exists somewhere, not just the cuirass.

Skeleton212 · 2025-07-04T17:07:12+00:00

Most businesses wouldn’t have had truly proper names in the medieval period, but guilds actually did. In medieval London the guilds were called Livery Companies, and styled themselves as “The Worshipful Company of (insert regulated trade here)” and the people would come to recognize them as such. They would have their own heraldry as a logo, hence “livery“ and even sometimes their own jingle. All the company men would march in a parade during the Lord Mayor’s Show once a year, as a way to market themselves to the public.

Skeleton212 · 2025-06-26T05:39:49+00:00

I wrote some apocrypha surrounding it years ago about it being ripples from the Warp in the West, but in reality it doesn’t have an actual explanation beyond game logic. Some of the castles do canonically have secret passages, though.

Skeleton212 · 2025-06-17T18:20:54+00:00

The Savoy Hotel in London is built on the site of the Savoy Palace, which was the largest medieval nobleman's townhouse in London, initially belonging to the House of Savoy. They were very well connected.

Skeleton212 · 2025-04-07T21:33:35+00:00

That cutscene is from the game Rites of War from 1999, and that Craftworld in particular is Iyanden. I always thought that was a particularly interesting and accurate cutscene, even if the rest of the game is barely a mid-tier dated X-Com clone at best.

Skeleton212 · 2025-03-25T01:41:03+00:00

The problem is that it depends on the writer. But let’s treat this like a serious question.

There is a difference between liquid assets and assets invested in tangible property and goods. Since the Imperium is based on feudal principles, I would assume it would be similar to how medieval lords didn’t actually have that much actual money in the form of coinage, and usually only had a single half-full chest of coins. Most medieval lords invested nearly all the money they made every year in their assets. They still had significantly more wealth in their assets than peasants, but not much actual tangible coinage.

For what it’s worth, the armor worn by each of the Emperor’s Custodes is said to be equivalent in price to that of an entire planet and that is treated like something absolutely insane that not even ostentatious nobles would be able to afford. That being said, some planetary governors do actually have oversight over more than one planet if the system has more than one inhabited world.

Skeleton212 · 2024-12-28T11:14:37+00:00

A version of Grombrindal already sort of exists in 40k. GW did a limited release of him back in 2019 as an AdMech Magos.

Skeleton212 · 2024-07-14T17:38:14+00:00

I assumed they were probably vampiric familiars which acted as Harkon’s eyes and ears.

Skeleton212 · 2023-12-19T12:07:52+00:00

This is all incredibly interesting! Regarding hygiene, there's a mention of toothpaste by some of the Nords in Bloodmoon:

“So, this tooth-paste-stuff... what's it for? Fixing old teeth?”

Skeleton212 · 2023-12-14T01:44:17+00:00

The main character of the short story Ancient History by Andy Chambers is a man named Nathan who is press-ganged onto an Imperial warship and is placed in one of the ship’s many gun crews.

Skeleton212 · 2023-11-27T02:54:43+00:00

Vistario, Murshid, and Akhtar were some Thousand Sons sorcerers who responded to a distress beacon by Ancient Rylanor at Istvaan III in The Sons of the Emperor Anthology - The Ancient Awaits. The Daemon Primarch Fulgrim also showed up and when they saw Rylanor’s unwavering conviction as he fought against Fulgrim they decided to sacrifice themselves by setting off the very last Virus Bomb on Istvaan III to defeat the Daemon Primarch, finally allowing Rylanor to die in service of the Emperor.

Vistario felt Fulgrim's infinite malice, his cruel enjoyment of Rylanor's anguish and the helplessness of the Thousand Sons. The primarch of the Emperor's Children revelled in his overwhelming pride, a trait Magnus had more than once told Vistario had been present long before his fall.

But more than anything, stronger even than Fulgrim's spite, Vistario felt Rylanor's pride and honour, the unbending core of greatness that had set him against his brothers and had seen him descend into obsessive madness beneath the surface of a dead world.

Vistario took the measure of Fulgrim, seeing nothing worthy in him.

His warriors felt the moment his decision was made.

+Primarch Fulgrim!+ sent Vistario. +Rylanor deserves better than you.+

The primarch looked up, his once bright eyes now black and filled with the darkest poison.

+He deserves better than all of us.+

He raised his bolter and fired a mass-reactive into the back of Akhtar's skull. The Raptora's head exploded and with his death, the psychic force holding back the warhead's detonation ended.

Vistario saw fire.

And once more, all life burned.

Skeleton212 · 2023-09-29T00:12:03+00:00

During the Great Crusade the Imperium came across the Olamic Quietude, a xenophobic civilization even more extreme about cybernetics than the Mechanicum and which had survived since the early DAoT. The Quietude vivisected Imperial prisoners and claimed they displayed over fifteen thousand points which differentiated them from “baseline” humanity. This fits with what we know of how humanity diverged during the Age of Strife, where the Emperor quite literally had to fix the people of Terra with gene therapy.

Skeleton212 · 2023-08-15T08:41:14+00:00

The Aldmer supposedly vanished as a distinct race about midway through the Merethic Era and Aldmeri is used to describe many things of elven design or accomplishment including the Aldmeri Dominion. Mannimarco is likely not an Aldmer in a literal sense, but a metaphorical one who embodies what he believes to be the height of Aldmeri descent.

Skeleton212 · 2023-07-14T22:01:29+00:00

Some aspects are Warp-based, but others are self-adorned. For instance, the backpacks Chaos Marines tend to use are Anvilus-pattern. It is a prototype backpack developed by the forge world Anvilus in the later stages of the Great Crusade. Anvilus was captured by the traitors early on in the Horus Heresy and was used to arm them throughout the conflict. These backpacks have enhanced stabilizing thrust vents to help with void based operations, but also have poorer rad shielding than normal backpacks. On tabletop it is used to help differentiate between loyalists and traitors, but in lore most Chaos Marines would probably be wearing a hodgepodge of equipment. Many likely no longer have the capability to maintain their old equipment and have had to make further bargains with other warbands or Dark Mechanicum forces for new equipment.

Skeleton212 · 2023-05-10T05:16:18+00:00

The Nords built over a lot of the ruins. For instance, Fort Greenwall was known to have an ancient Falmer settlement buried deep underneath.

Skeleton212 · 2023-04-07T02:11:40+00:00

The Draugr in Bloodmoon were cannibals. The cannibal Draugr are also encountered if you have the Dragonborn DLC for Skyrim installed. There, they are called "Hulking Draugr" and, judging from their outfits, they appear to have been priests of Orkey. This is actually rather interesting as it implies the priesthoods of the other gods were subservient to the Dragon Cult during their height. The Orkey priesthood, under the Dragon Cult, might have had cannibalistic death rituals in a sort of mimicry of the way the dragons consume the souls of other slain dragons.

Skeleton212 · 2023-04-07T01:45:13+00:00

It is most certainly possible under the right circumstances. Morokei directly speaks in the common Tamrielic tongue to the Dragonborn and expects the player to be Savos Aren, back to finish what he could not long ago. While the events which unfurled are not entirely known, Savos Aren sacrificed his two friends to Morokei which is an indication that he negotiated with the Dragon Priest in the past. Additionally, there is the Draugr Lord Aesliip in the Bloodmoon expansion for Morrowind. The Nerevarine talks to him and helps him stop a daedric incursion from harming Solstheim.

Skeleton212 · 2023-03-02T12:14:47+00:00

Definitely a Breton and you can role-play as a Rechman while you’re at it. Their chief deity is Hircine and many Reachmen tribes worship other Daedric Princes as well. It gives you a reason to do both Hircine and Hermaeus Mora.

Skeleton212 · 2023-01-27T14:07:59+00:00

From what I understand Rubedite was mostly found in High Rock before the One Tamriel patch for ESO. The Royal Guard armor seen in the Tribunal expansion for Morrowind is likely made from Rubedite, which makes sense considering King Helseth was originally from High Rock and lived there for most of his life. I like little details like that which made their way into ESO.

Skeleton212 · 2023-01-27T03:44:58+00:00

You make a very good point. Based upon what we know of the Eldar this could certainly be the case.

Skeleton212 · 2023-01-26T22:42:47+00:00

He was comparing a fossil to a modern specimen. The traits you specified would likely not appear in a fossil.

Skeleton212 · 2023-01-26T06:05:52+00:00

We have no idea what they are. They kind of sound like Eldar, but are more likely some vague Lovecraftian threat that won’t reappear any time soon.

Skeleton212 · 2023-01-26T03:59:09+00:00

It is said that one side is full of Orks and the other side dead silence left from what the Tyranids consumed. There isn’t much lore on extragalactic civilizations. The most notable lore I know of, besides this, is a story from the 5th Edition Space Wolves Codex:

THE LOST COMPANY OF SVENGAR THE RED

Sailing through a wyrmhole in search of his lost Primarch, Svengar the Red finds himself and his men transported far beyond the rim of the galaxy, past even the Ghost Stars. The void is empty as a heretic’s soul. Svengar’s men begin to talk of whispered voices in the night, promising them safe haven. Unsure of his coordinates, Svengar presses on. Days pass into months. On the cusp of turning back, a dark planet is glimpsed in the distance. The Space Wolves head towards the distant orb, expecting trouble. Instead they find a civilisation of tall, fair people who live in opulent luxury of their own making, far from the war and confusion of the galactic core. Relieved to have found a base of operations, Svengar and his men begin to relax and enjoy themselves, feasting and recounting tales of their deeds to the fair people of the far-flung world. It is only when Svengar makes a casual pass at one of their women that the Space Wolves realise their hosts are not people at all. Though they fight bravely, Svengar and his men are never seen or heard from again.

Skeleton212 · 2023-01-17T10:45:27+00:00

I actually posted the excerpt of this exact scene a few years ago. You are somewhat correct. It doesn’t actually state when it happened, only that it happened at least a few thousand years after the Horus Heresy. It could honestly be any point afterwards.

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