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Suffer Not the Witch (Warhammer 40k Psyker Quest)

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[X] Purity. Intensive combat training and physical exercise allows Vincenzo to sharpen his focus and narrow his perception, to lose himself in the rasping of lungs and the burn of tired muscles, to make his sword the only thing that matters. An unconventional form of meditation, but effective.

This actually is meditation.
 
[X] Purity. Intensive combat training and physical exercise allows Vincenzo to sharpen his focus and narrow his perception, to lose himself in the rasping of lungs and the burn of tired muscles, to make his sword the only thing that matters. An unconventional form of meditation, but effective
 
[X] Purity. Intensive combat training and physical exercise allows Vincenzo to sharpen his focus and narrow his perception, to lose himself in the rasping of lungs and the burn of tired muscles, to make his sword the only thing that matters. An unconventional form of meditation, but effective.
 
[X] Evolution. Mere deafness will not defeat a psychic cry, but with biomancy Vincenzo might modify the sensitivity of his nerves, or else blend meat and chemicals to deaden the pain and soothe the most injured of minds.
 
[X] Evolution. Mere deafness will not defeat a psychic cry, but with biomancy Vincenzo might modify the sensitivity of his nerves, or else blend meat and chemicals to deaden the pain and soothe the most injured of minds.
 
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[x] Purity. Intensive combat training and physical exercise allows Vincenzo to sharpen his focus and narrow his perception, to lose himself in the rasping of lungs and the burn of tired muscles, to make his sword the only thing that matters. An unconventional form of meditation, but effective.
 
[x] Purity. Intensive combat training and physical exercise allows Vincenzo to sharpen his focus and narrow his perception, to lose himself in the rasping of lungs and the burn of tired muscles, to make his sword the only thing that matters. An unconventional form of meditation, but effective.

Being a Khorne inclined psyker sounds fun.
 
As far as Purity being the "Khornate" option, of course ultimately everything comes down to the QM's interpretation of the morass of contradictory lore, but I don't think it's a good line up.

The entity or force called Khorne is a volcano or a raging flame, violence and hatred spewed out indiscriminately, destroying anything and everything around it in a cathartic outburst that wipes out enemy, friend, and innocent bystander alike because nothing matters but expressing that hatred and violence. "Khorne cares not from where the blood flows, only that it does."

Khorne is associated with martial endeavors and warriors, but discipline and focus via martial arts, to me that maps more to Slaanesh (see Heresy Era Lucius or the EC's Palatine blades) or Tzeencht.

The example I'd point to on that last one is Iskander Khayon's monologue about the martial tradition of the Thousand Sons in the novel Black Legion, their weaponmasters and elite warriors utilized endless kata repetitions and meditative focus to match their brothers in the less scholarly Legions.
 
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[X] Evolution. Mere deafness will not defeat a psychic cry, but with biomancy Vincenzo might modify the sensitivity of his nerves, or else blend meat and chemicals to deaden the pain and soothe the most injured of minds.
 
[x] Euphoria. The crew cabins maintain old audio-players, and the medicare decks some well-preserved opiates. Drown out the screams with music and dance, and should that fail, a little medicinal aid and the pleasures of rotgut booze and good company.
 
[X] Purity. Intensive combat training and physical exercise allows Vincenzo to sharpen his focus and narrow his perception, to lose himself in the rasping of lungs and the burn of tired muscles, to make his sword the only thing that matters. An unconventional form of meditation, but effective.
 
[X] Fail. Make it stop, make it stop, please emperor, please mother, please anyone who is listening, anyone, anything, MAKE IT STOP.

Honestly this seems like the most interesting path to me. How often do we get the viewpoint of a psyker failing as opposed to the viewpoint of others?
 
[X] Purity. Intensive combat training and physical exercise allows Vincenzo to sharpen his focus and narrow his perception, to lose himself in the rasping of lungs and the burn of tired muscles, to make his sword the only thing that matters. An unconventional form of meditation, but effective.
 
[X] Fail. Make it stop, make it stop, please emperor, please mother, please anyone who is listening, anyone, anything, MAKE IT STOP.

Perhaps the least palatable option but I do find the flaw of failing to meet this challenge engaging. Also don't won't to choose a chaos god if the theory about the choices are correct. Perhaps this option will be worst and we're beginning a possible downward spiral towards general madness but this path to super space hell is the one I'm most interested in.
 
[X] Purity. Intensive combat training and physical exercise allows Vincenzo to sharpen his focus and narrow his perception, to lose himself in the rasping of lungs and the burn of tired muscles, to make his sword the only thing that matters. An unconventional form of meditation, but effective.

This strikes me as the most in-character of the available methods for Vincenzo to attempt. His background is centered around his role as a duelist; even his Biomantic powers are usually geared towards making him better at cutting through things. Seeking a quasi-zen state of mindlessness through training is going to be fairly familiar to him.
 
[X] Purity. Intensive combat training and physical exercise allows Vincenzo to sharpen his focus and narrow his perception, to lose himself in the rasping of lungs and the burn of tired muscles, to make his sword the only thing that matters. An unconventional form of meditation, but effective.

Evolution definitely seems rather interesting but I think purity seems more in theme for our duelist protagonist.
 
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[x] Purity. Intensive combat training and physical exercise allows Vincenzo to sharpen his focus and narrow his perception, to lose himself in the rasping of lungs and the burn of tired muscles, to make his sword the only thing that matters. An unconventional form of meditation, but effective.
 
[X] Evolution. Mere deafness will not defeat a psychic cry, but with biomancy Vincenzo might modify the sensitivity of his nerves, or else blend meat and chemicals to deaden the pain and soothe the most injured of minds.
 
[X] Evolution. Mere deafness will not defeat a psychic cry, but with biomancy Vincenzo might modify the sensitivity of his nerves, or else blend meat and chemicals to deaden the pain and soothe the most injured of minds.
 
[X] Evolution. Mere deafness will not defeat a psychic cry, but with biomancy Vincenzo might modify the sensitivity of his nerves, or else blend meat and chemicals to deaden the pain and soothe the most injured of minds.
 
Wade Garrett said:
As far as Purity being the "Khornate" option, of course ultimately everything comes down to the QM's interpretation of the morass of contradictory lore, but I don't think it's a good line up.

The entity or force called Khorne is a volcano or a raging flame, violence and hatred spewed out indiscriminately, destroying anything and everything around it in a cathartic outburst that wipes out enemy, friend, and innocent bystander alike because nothing matters but expressing that hatred and violence. "Khorne cares not from where the blood flows, only that it does."

Khorne is associated with martial endeavors and warriors, but discipline and focus via martial arts, to me that maps more to Slaanesh (see Heresy Era Lucius or the EC's Palatine blades) or Tzeencht.

The example I'd point to on that last one is Iskander Khayon's monologue about the martial tradition of the Thousand Sons in the novel Black Legion, their weaponmasters and elite warriors utilized endless kata repetitions and meditative focus to match their brothers in the less scholarly Legions.
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Khorne's about raging berserkers. He's also about skilled swordmasters, ruthless gutter fighters, honourable gladiators, and desperate civilians grabbing a knife they've never used before. As you said, Khorne cares not from where the blood flows, only that it flows- which means it has to include non-berserker sources too. It's just that as a chaos god, the focus tends to be on the extreme end of the scale, and pushing people towards it. Dial back from that, and you also get the more general warriors, who train not to seek perfection (which is Slaaneshi aligned) but to be better at killing things.

Meditation of this type does align with Khorne's general aspect, it's just not taken to the extreme form that chaos pushes.
 
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