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Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest

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Could someone explain to me why the 40K pun is so popular? In a Watsonian context?
 
Now I'm not saying that we should do it, but an obelisk with a spirit bound into a figure of local legend which goes out and acts in accordance with that legend sounds like a very plausible method for growing a god.
 
dinomannitro6 said:
Huh? is Knightbringer a 40k thing? I think it's just a pun on it being a summoning spell for a knight associated with the night
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The Nightbringer in 40K is a C'tan, a Star-God, specifically holding domain over the concept of death, to the point that it's very existence is literally tied to the concept. Most of the species in 40K depictions of Death are of a being wearing a black cloak with a scythe, which is the form the Nightbringer takes.
ReImagined said:
I imagine that's what most people are thinking of, and not 40k.
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But yeah, as said here, I also don't think most are thinking of that.
 
There's also the issue that the spell does not summon what most would think of as a knight; the Dammerlichtreiter is not in full plate, wears a Witch Hunter's Hat, etc., etc. It does not look knight-like beyond being a git on a horse.
 
Talon TigerDino said:
There's also the issue that the spell does not summon what most would think of as a knight; the Dammerlichtreiter is not in full plate, wears a Witch Hunter's Hat, etc., etc. It does not look knight-like beyond being a git on a horse.
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It doesn't make quite as much sense as it would have if we'd gone for a more knightly theme, but 'mounted warrior' is a perfectly valid association for the word 'knight' so it's not that far off-brand. Plus the fact of the Dämmerlichtreiter(Mathilde) being an actual knight.

...on second thought, this is just Mathilde rubbing her knighthood in the Grey Order's faces, isn't it.
 
Nerdasaurus Rex said:
Witch Hunters are also knights, and they don't ride around on horses in plate armour either.
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A great deal of Witch Hunters' membership were originally members of the various Templar orders of the Empire's Cults (and that's how the organizations started that were eventually folded into one by Magnus), and those individual knighthoods carry over to their new career, but that doesn't make Witch Hunters themselves knights by default.
 
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