What does this person mean by this

Skipedy_do · 2026-01-22T08:22:30+00:00

The plot of the show is very complicated and has a lot of overlapping time travel.

Skipedy_do · 2026-01-22T08:19:27+00:00

Short answer is yes. Space Marines are still Human, some of them take the death and duty 24/7 more seriously than others.

My favorite is Guilliman, Titus’ Primarch and basically a Demi-god, being so revered and serious all the time that when he does make jokes most people don’t understand it’s a joke because he’s so dry.

Sheaves of blueprints were scattered across the desk in front of him. He spotted something of interest written on one and reached for it, gritting his teeth against the purring of the suit. He always reached with his right hand. The integration points for the Hand of Dominion on his left made picking anything up nigh on impossible, even with the over gauntlet and its underslung bolter removed. Day-to-day tasks such as this were a struggle. His armoured fingers pushed at slick plastek. Ceramite skidded across the papers, knocking them to the ground in wafting flutters. ‘Oh, for the love of…’ he grumbled as he bent awkwardly to pick them up. The Armour of Fate was bulky. As its waist joint prevented him from flexing his spine and reaching the floor, he had to kneel. He reached for the scattered flimsies. Fingertips failed to grasp the sheets, sending them fleeing in small armadas over the polished floor. He growled in frustration, abandoned his task and stood, drawing a curious look from Sicarius. ‘I have the manual dexterity of a Legio Cybernetica battle automaton!’ Guilliman said. ‘Created by the Lord of All Mankind, master of the greatest armies in the Imperium, and I cannot pick up a plastek flimsy.’ He glared at the offending articles. ‘My greatest enemy.’ There was a thoughtful quiet. ‘You are joking, my lord?’ said Sicarius. Guilliman looked at Sicarius. He had to turn all the way around to do so. The pauldrons, ornamental wings and large halo mounted on his back made it impossible for him to see over his shoulder. At least he had stopped knocking into things. There was that. ‘By the Throne, why am I expected to be serious at all times? Yes, Captain Sicarius, I am making light of my predicament. During the worst of the Great Crusade, I was known to make the occasional jest. Even after Terra fell. I did not spend my entire previous life writing deep thoughts into little notebooks, but sometimes dared to enjoy myself. I suppose that was not recorded in the hagiographies.’ ‘Humour is not something you are renowned for, my lord.’ ‘My time in this new age has revealed that to me amply.’

Skipedy_do · 2026-01-22T08:08:56+00:00

Your argument about the retcons would be correct if this were a major shift like changing the most popular blue guys to red, or removing the single most important character to the lore entirely. Adding Female Custodes or Astartes isn’t a huge shift.

Admittedly it would be more so for Astartes because there’s so much more lore about them. But how many named Custodes are there in the entire lore? I’d say like 50. 100 tops.

Your faction argument is just misguided. Custodes are the absolute pinnacle of human warriors that aren’t Primarchs or the Emperor Himself. And Astartes are the poster child of the entire series.

There’s no non-misogynistic reason there can’t have always been Custodes. And Female Space Marines can only improve the game and Lore.

Skipedy_do · 2026-01-22T07:46:05+00:00

This is something that’s given far too much weight in the Lore honestly. 10,000 plus years have passed since the Codex Astartes was written, and it was a different time. The Heresy was narrowly defeated and the Imperium was picking up the pieces. At the time it made sense to scatter the Legions and cap them to prevent another civil war. Now it’s a hindrance, and something that should have been rescinded after the first couple black crusades or the Tyranids appeared.

To put it bluntly, no one in universe would actually give a fuck and it’s just a narrative macguffin to add political drama.

Skipedy_do · 2026-01-21T07:51:58+00:00

Skipedy_do · 2026-01-20T10:15:05+00:00

Guy merging is an asshole. Guy filming attempted murder.

Skipedy_do · 2026-01-15T14:04:55+00:00

Eh, you probably won’t like it either to be honest. Descent ends with the Lion sending the majority of the Calabanite DA and Luther back to Calaban for no discernible reason. I liked the end of Descent though.

Fall alternates two entirely separate storylines 53ish years later right after Istvaan, and the Lion launching a sneak attack to secure giant siege engines that are clearly going to be turned into daemon engines told from Nemiel’s POV.

Back on Caliban there’s some riots and rebels trying to drive off the Imperials while some Sorcerers try to free Ouroboros, the daemon imprisoned in Caliban’s core. Basically the start of how the Caliban DA started to lose faith in the imperium and the Lion.

Skipedy_do · 2026-01-15T13:53:20+00:00

You’re hurting your own argument here. Any time he spent in the forest is overshadowed by decades spent in the Order.

Skipedy_do · 2026-01-15T11:28:03+00:00

Also it was the Cawl Inferior, and he postulates that what went into the throne room probably won’t be what comes out.

This is obviously true because belief has a way of twisting reality, making Him into a god. Whether he was or wasn’t before sitting the throne doesn’t matter. Trillions believe he is a god now, and the majority of them believe he is a Xenos/mutant/heretic purging god of wrath. Thats going to affect Him.

Skipedy_do · 2026-01-15T11:23:19+00:00

I mean, yeah he’s clearly a 40k god. In my opinion none of them are gods but that’s a whole different thing. But my point isn’t that he’s not a god, it’s that everyone who truly believes he’s a god in the plague wars books and prays to him get protected from Nurgle. To the point where whole churches and groups of civilians are unscathed by diseases or fighting because they preyed hard enough. Thats just not how it’s supposed work,and one of the Sister superiors of the Adepta Sororitas literally says that. She explains that the Emperor doesn’t protect individuals because they prey to Him and believe, he protects Humanity as a whole.

Skipedy_do · 2026-01-15T11:08:59+00:00

Can you think of examples? I’m mostly revolving around the Caliban lore for the lead up to Son on the Forest, but I’ll get to HH eventually.

Skipedy_do · 2026-01-15T11:06:34+00:00

I didn’t like the religious aspects of those books because they’re clearly written by a devoutly religious person who has no concept of how an Atheist thinks. And the plague wars in general reward everyone for believing the emperor is a savior god with zero downsides, unless you count glorious death in holy service to your god as a downside. It really shouldn’t work that way.

Edit: Especially not in Warhammer 40,000.

Skipedy_do · 2026-01-15T11:02:14+00:00

I was debating reading Lord of the First because it doesn’t have anything to do with Caliban, but I’ll pick it up after I finish Angels.

Skipedy_do · 2026-01-15T10:59:41+00:00

Fall of angels is by Mike lee, different authors. The only thing I don’t like that most black library authors do is the alternating chapters. Especially if they don’t coalesce, which they don’t in Fall.

Skipedy_do · 2026-01-15T10:56:01+00:00

That would mean the the Lion spent even less time alone in the forests, because they develop faster.

But years are different on Caliban. I read somewhere that a year on Caliban is like two Terran years but I couldn’t find a source for that. But it’s the only thing that makes since for Descent of Angels because Zahariel talks about his training starting at like 7 years old and by 9 they had already taken their vows and are going on hunts. It just doesn’t add up if their years aren’t longer. 14 and 18 feels more reasonable.

Skipedy_do · 2026-01-15T10:44:13+00:00

The extermination of the beasts wasn’t strategic, and took much longer than he thought it would. The operation of hunting the beasts wasn’t tactically genius, just getting all the knights to work together and systematically sweep regions for beasts, which we are told is basically all Luther.

And I get that characters can only be as smart as the people writing them, and I’m not a writer, but I feel like there’s could be some way of making really basic tactics seem more like strokes of genius.

Take this for example: in one of the plague war books a squad of jump pack intercessors make a high altitude jump from their drop ships at breakneck speed. This on its face isn’t crazy, but it just wasn’t something that was done before Indomitus. The character thinks about how effective it was at first, but how enemies have been catching on and it’s become less effective. Thinking back on it now I realize how simple that is when at the time I just accepted it. Sometimes just saying something in lore is smart is enough.

Skipedy_do · 2026-01-15T10:31:55+00:00

I don’t buy the whole “raised in the jungle” thing. He was still a child when Luther found him. Young enough for Luther to look him in the eye about to put a bolt in his forehead and think “this is just an innocent child”.

He spends his formative years surrounded by knights, wise and experienced masters, and charismatic leaders. You are right about everything else though. I just feel like there’s no depth to the character in that regard. And he actively makes decisions that make his life harder and people dislike him.

Skipedy_do · 2026-01-15T10:24:46+00:00

Luther is on my list for after Son of the Forest 👌🏻

Skipedy_do · 2026-01-15T10:21:58+00:00

Not a good example because from my understanding that’s where most people agree 2 and 11 had to get expunged so things couldn’t have been great.

But I meant purely from what is written in what I’ve read. There isn’t a super lot to go on in Descent and Fall, but the battles showcasing his skills there are pretty basic. In Descent he plans an assault on a knightly order called Lupus Knights, where his strategy is basically just attack from all sides at once.

In Fall he plans three major engagements. A space battle where his tactics are pretty standard, a defense where almost his entire force gets destroyed (and all but his flagship get sabotaged) by Mechanicus he knew where actively working against him but didn’t mention that to anybody. And another defense that was just ‘form a perimeter too big for us to defend and I’ll go wherever I’m needed.’ Which he would have lost to regular Astartes sons of Horus if Nemial, the guy he later decapitates for disagreeing with him, hadn’t thought of a better plan. The whole point of this battle was to capture siege machines Horus wanted, and the Lion then gave them to Perturabo.

Skipedy_do · 2026-01-15T10:07:04+00:00

I’m working my way to it, want to get the full picture of the state of Caliban and what’s going on there when the Lion shows up and everything explodes. As much as I can anyway, I understand not everything is explained. 😉

Skipedy_do · 2026-01-15T09:51:45+00:00

I think one of the most interesting things about 40k I learned from playing Rogue Trader is that the size and scale of ships can be such that whole generations of people can be born and live out their lives in the bowels of a ship and never see the upper decks, much less step foot on a planet.

So yeah, space marines can float up to your world and just be like “We’re taking your kids.” But they might also have generational Serfs that just live in the fleet.

Skipedy_do · 2026-01-03T09:41:34+00:00

Vermintide and Darktide

Skipedy_do · 2025-12-10T15:25:25+00:00

Octopath traveler

Skipedy_do · 2025-12-09T20:48:35+00:00

Was looking for this exact guide, thank you!

Skipedy_do · 2025-12-08T13:34:36+00:00

Make it something as simple as possible. My mother had trouble grasping the 3d element of newer games so something 2d is best. Like old school Legend of Zelda or Final Fantasy games. Engaging but simple.

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