Respect Your Elders v2 - Galactic Boogaloo [Warhammer Lizardmen Quest]
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Nix's Warden
Welcome to Hades
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Huh you know if the Necrons wake up early that might delay the birth of Slannesh? Since the Eldar will have to stop being useless degenerates to deal with the one race of entities even in their mightiest of days they have to acknowledge as an equal.
TheOmnimercurial
Dragon Bard
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Poor poor Sneks....
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Oh sweet christ no.
We must return to the way of club-sword and Carnosaur. Bury the metal beneath savage flesh.
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Kaboomatic
Where the Wild Things Are
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So, my thought process when writing this was as follows.
The eldar are their empire are their gods, in a way that humans really... aren't. As you've seen with isendral, the eldar relate basically everything back to their divinities, because their gods are present in all aspects of life. Eldar existence is an act of worship to their gods, and their histories read more like myths because that's how the Eldar view the world. In this case, the path of Khaine doesn't mean actual Khaine worshippers, but rather people who've gone too far down the emotions and themes Khaine represents. Those themes being violence, murder, and war.
So when the eldar say 'those who took the path of Khaine to the extreme', they (and I) mean 'omnicidal monsters who live for the pleasure of butchery'.
Which lines up pretty nicely with how the eldar view the foes they were literally uplifted to fight, even after 65 million years of not fighting them.
The Froggy Ninja
The Blade Will Never Die
The Silent King is still putting around Andromeda about to get spookered by the Nids IIRC.
Suspiciously specific denial of a conglomerate of popular authors collaborating together?!?!
Well, to very determinedly look on the bright side, this might derail some of the trends in the Eldar Empire leading to the birth of Slaanesh.
*Ignores all very-sensible arguments to the contrary.*
*Ignores all very-sensible arguments to the contrary.*
Xantalos
Turtle-Speed Writing
Oh, furthest thing from deliberate collaboration - every warhammer faction quest QM is desperately grasping at torroar's coattails and we know it. And Boney is Boney.Suspiciously specific denial of a conglomerate of popular authors collaborating together?!?!
Undead-Spaceman
Skeleton Supreme
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Good lord above, the Necrons in their prime throwing down with the Aeldari Empire of old?
This is going to be an ugly, ugly time.
This is going to be an ugly, ugly time.
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One thing I find inordinately hilarious is that whenever I see Warhammer nerds outside SV bemoaning the lack of Warhammer Fantasy content I can tell them 'oh it's right here, you just have to not be a dick and you can enjoy it without getting banned!' There is a virulent contempt for SV's rules on good behavior among them, and through this they are forever barred from the glorious content of the Holy Quintuple.
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From an earlier post I remember that if we're roughly at the same levels of development and presence on the world it's a gigantic slapfight/trench warfare scenario where they can't get through our defensive bullshit without taking too many losses, but we can't get through theirs for the same reason.
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I don't think that this would be Szarekh, I'm pretty sure he's still vibing around in Dark Space being Depressed.
Also, I'm curious, what is this 'Holy Quintuple' that y'all are mentioning? I've never heard of it before, and if they are things similar in content and quality to this glorious piece of work then I am very interested
Xantalos
Turtle-Speed Writing
It's just a bunch of other Warhammer quests that happened to also update today - Swordo's Song of Peace, soulcake's Rhunrikki Strollar, torroar's Dynasty of Dynamic Alcoholism (who's released an entire book series worth of words in the last week or so, mans is on a roll) and Boney's Divided Loyalties. I don't personally believe I really deserve to stand alongside such company, but a good chunk of people seem to disagree with me for whatever reason.
Okibruez
(Verified Mid-Boss)
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That's what the Krork were for the last time. We'll do it again, and do it right.
Or, at the least, we'll drown the galaxy in enough blood and corpses to ensure that nothing's left to oppose us.
Kaboomatic
Where the Wild Things Are
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Including me. Shut up and accept it or I'll make you accept it.
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Don't worry everyone! It probably happened in Turn 1.
In other news...
Big E after realizing what the situation is:
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I dunno. One Necron tomb world isn't necessarily a disastrous problem. The Necrons are the level of threat in 40k as they are because the Eldar are a tiny tiny remnant and humanity has forgotten a tremendous amount of the high technology they used to have. Necron's aren't invincible.
Now, what is deeply problematic is if the Necrons as a whole start waking back up all at once, as happens in the canon timeline during the 40th or 41st millennium.
Now, what is deeply problematic is if the Necrons as a whole start waking back up all at once, as happens in the canon timeline during the 40th or 41st millennium.
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It figures that Xantalos wouldn't want to wait ten thousand years to get to be end game. Not saying he's rushing for it, just that a hypothetical endgame isn't going to be in the fourty first millennium.
jwolfe_beta
Semi Genre-Savvy Overlord
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It'll also depend on which Tomb world activated. Because the lesser nobility don't have the authority to command all the Dynasty's forces. However if it's a Phaeron waking up, whole different ball game.
Archivist Grim
Totally not AI
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My friend, you have written a quest that has me gitty for past few months for the next update. You have written story with fantastic writing, good use of setting, and capture the scale I imagined for the 20th millennium and keeping it, and keeping it well. You my friend, are one those titans, and earned that spot.
That aside, this also gives another tidbit, unlike Necron Awakenings in canon, this was quite clean, this does not bode well for the future
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Hes not big E Right now. He's actually still a human as opposed to...Anti-Chaos Meat Robot.Don't worry everyone! It probably happened in Turn 1.
In other news...
Big E after realizing what the situation is:
Which makes it worse for him. He's still actually able to properly feel emotions and so its going to hit him all the harder. Question is should we try and help him step back up?
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Well, if he's willing to accept help and he's fighting Chaos and/or Necrons, I'm all for helping him.
If he's gonna be a xenophobic bag of dicks about it, then we won't be able to help him meaningfully anyway.
If he's gonna be a xenophobic bag of dicks about it, then we won't be able to help him meaningfully anyway.
Yeah, though I kinda figured that would be what the timeskips were for.
Also depends on how the talk between Fabulous Hawkboi and Silent King goes...I can legit see the Necrons and humanity at least having common enemies in the Eldar and the C'tan. Whether that amounts to a 'stay in your own corner' treaty or no we'll have to see. It's one thing to have xeno protectorates and allow abhumans as they did in the great crusade, full on alliance with a power like the Necrons...that's another story.
As for us...i can see a similar first contact situation as they had with the squats, bloody at first then a treaty when they realize we're too tough a nut to crack and would be better off treating with. Primarch that gets called over is key. Also the size of us as well and how much power we project at first and after.
TLR we'll have to see as the factors slot into place.
As for us...i can see a similar first contact situation as they had with the squats, bloody at first then a treaty when they realize we're too tough a nut to crack and would be better off treating with. Primarch that gets called over is key. Also the size of us as well and how much power we project at first and after.
TL
R we'll have to see as the factors slot into place.