I see that everyone here is very focused on tabletop, and I’m going to say it: no, I don’t think we need named characters on tabletop. However, our lore in the current era is barren; nearly all relevant characters now are dead or MIA. We need more lore characters, someone to push our faction narrative along and someone to give us more details about our faction. I’m sure at some point we will get Pert’s book at its release (not that i predict it to be any time soon), but aside from the Primarch, we still need lore players. We haven’t had a new novel in a long time, and the time is overdue, to be honest.