The Froggy Ninja
The Blade Will Never Die
Yeah, but dead!Kroak isn't quite chaos god level is the point.
Respect Your Elders v2 - Galactic Boogaloo [Warhammer Lizardmen Quest]
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Given how the Immaterium functions, I'm pretty sure time travel is more a matter of transcendent skill than it is of raw power. You're abusing the timeless nature of the warp and how its connected to all points of time in the Materium to find your way to a different time period.
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I wouldn't be surprised if Kroak actually can actually time travel more easyly than the Chaos Gods, since his metaphysical footprint is much smaller than the Big Four. (I will also mention Antony444s the Weaver Option, where the CGs do a time travel Pnzi-scheme by creating demons with power that they would only obtain in the future, which is fine as long as the chance of that power being gained doesn't ever become zero, Slaanesh especially does this by drawing on the future suffering of the victims the Drukhari of Commoragh. This will go on to bite her in the ass, with Asdrubel Vect's death alone making several demonic legions disappear once the suffering he would have caused becomes inaccessible.
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If I remember correctly, if you're good enough at navigating the webway it's possible to move forwards, move backwards, or exist entirely outside of time.
Xantalos
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The Webway is a beast in its own right, and its usage certainly enables things that aren't otherwise easily possible. Why else is everyone trying to break into it all the time?
What I'll say about time travel for now is this - it's certainly possible, as we see even in canon, where Orikan the Diviner makes his 'predictions' come true using it, and utilizing the atemporal nature of the Warp to cheat causality is one of the more accessible ways to do it. However, the world ... wants to stay a certain way, let's say. Time travel cheats the laws of reality, and abusing it via paradoxes too much or too heavily often risks mangling the fabric of spacetime into weird, complicated little knots. And the thing about knots, especially muscle knots, is that they're a pain that constantly remind you that they're there.
So the stuff is possible, it just ... has repercussions if done unwisely.
Xantalos
Turtle-Speed Writing
In due ... time.
On an unrelated note, while I'm here and don't feel guilty about rousing the thread - what, if any, are some ground-level perspectives you'd be interested in seeing in the upcoming update? It continues apace but I wanna harvest ideas. I've got some already, but many brains are better than one sometimes.
On an unrelated note, while I'm here and don't feel guilty about rousing the thread - what, if any, are some ground-level perspectives you'd be interested in seeing in the upcoming update? It continues apace but I wanna harvest ideas. I've got some already, but many brains are better than one sometimes.
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A Slann's perception of the mini-psychic avalanche.
Kroq-Gar.
Dread Saurians.
a lizardmen working to mantain the city, a grunt fighting some orcs, one of the priest...I think is the right term for the death god, skinks waiting with comrades before the green orc tide reside, some of our animals we have there persepctive on stuff, spawning attendant having to deal with spawning stuff would be some cool ones
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Other fanfics with wildly different metaphysical takes aren't a source.
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I was merely providing examples of what else has been done on the subject
Another thing to remember when talking about time travel is of course paradox, and the potential resulting retcons forced on reality. Great care should be taken that the path of least resistance for what rules govern Materium and Empyreon isn't to just retcon the time traveller instead.
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But the future refused to change.
A newly spawned creche of skinks, in a city that isn't Itza, climb out of the spawning pool ready to get to work on their first day of weaving and crafting and thinking and are handed rifles and told to get going, they're needed on the front. Not to blunt the main attack, just to shoot at orks running *past* their settlement's fortifications.
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Two that just came to mind are a Priest of Sotek preaching to his comrades either before or during a fight with the Orks; and some Orks riding atop a Squiggoth's howdah getting into a fight with some Skinks or Saurus atop one of our warbeasts - maybe a cannon or gun duel at first, but eventually they close enough for the beasts to start locking horns and for the howdah crews to board one another.
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I'd like to see a fully operational skink octet in action if we haven't already
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A skink working in the forging districts maybe? Supporting the homefront so to say?
If you mean the battle then idk, I'd love to see more Slann shaboingery, the Mahultep scene continues to live rent free in my head.
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The Froggy Ninja
The Blade Will Never Die
Thus why Slaanesh limited her retroactive existence to just influencing the Dark Muses instead of gobbling Eldar souls before the Exodites and Craftworlders got the hint to turtle up.
For perspectives Isendral or one of her Psychomatons could be neat.
Really, the main thing the universe takes issue with is changing stuff. Kroak might just be going back to before the trail went cold on the Old Ones to pick up clues. Especially since the War In Heaven already punched enough holes in the universe that there's probably more leeway before it's more than a drop in the bucket.
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The metaphysical clash, however you word it or give narrative to, the Geomantic Web against the Waaagh.
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Kinda want to see a more common skink perspective. How they interpret the new religious stuff and go about their business on a daily level. Whilst all driven by purpose, Skinks clearly have at least a degree of free will, given they have a soul. How might that affect them, make them closer to people than Meat robots?
Happerry
Bat out of Hell
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I support this idea. Alternatively, another Thunder Lizard POV could be fun.
Undead-Spaceman
Skeleton Supreme
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Saurus generally have an almost mechanical thought process, being entirely war related more often than not. What I would like is two of them learning how to have fun via kill count competition. It could start as just statements of fact and over the hours slowly develop into them trying to outdo each other.
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I feel that Idranel is not ideal for a lower level perspective, but she certainly would have an interesting one. Probably have to restrain her from trying to slap Mazdamundi for poking the Orks in their 'weakness' that triggered this...erruption.
The Froggy Ninja
The Blade Will Never Die
It's lower level in that she's an individual rather than a civilization.
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This but a Skink Priest whose basically Slann-puppeted from the moment they breach the Spawning Pool waters until the attack is over, and them having to figure out what 'normal' is after that.
K von Carstein
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I'd like to see that too.