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"For me and my kin"? "For any of my kin"?
The Long Night Part Two: Sparks at Midnight: A Planetary Governor Quest (43k)
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What a fitting way for kor phaeron to die.
New questions and answers.
1) Were there any 'fun' stuff you had planned to explode in the Trust but basically got negated due to player decision/galactic events/dice rolls?
1) you grew to fast to get most of the nilfheim content
2) So first Jane snapped AO out of it by giving him a cut. Now Angron snapped Khorne out of it by hitting him hard enough. Is Khorne now pointing at that and saying "Look, Jane, destiny"?
2) yes
3) Given the Wolf of the Apocalypse is the Worst Thing on Avernus not the Failsafe or Unborn, does this means Avernus, as a cat, made the most doggish, and thus evil, dog possible?
3) nah the wolf was OO not Avernus
4) Considering their themes and how they use Fenris as a filter for their stuff, are Rune Priests using NordVPN?
4) in canon maybe
in embers no
5) How in the Warp has the Realm of Khorne not been taken over by Nurgle yet? Do you have any idea how unsanitary all that blood and all those fresh skulls are? Who knows what kind of nasty things a person can catch from being near that stuff? You'd think they'd be smart and switch to taking helmets and hair as trophies, but nooo
5) its khorne
thy know how to hit disease in the face so it goes away
1) About what percent of Nurgle daemons are fat enough you can dribble them like a basketball?
1) 80
its a faveroued sport by khronates
what catagory of deamon you are dribbling shws how tough you are
1) Does this mean Khorne prefers Basketball as a sport, or does Blood Bowl still outdo it?
1) a common argument that leads to cosntant civil wars among the daemons of khorne
along with other improtant thological issues such as if its "main,kill, burn" or "kill, maim, burn"
no one talks about the heretics who claim its "burn, kill, maim"
2) What about "maim, burn, kill"?
2) sounds like another school of thought
1) sounds like another school of thought: So how many of the six schools have been nearly or completely exterminated as heresy?
1) all of them at various times
1) given the narrative belkor has been slotted into, does he find himself having to do vast amounts of paperwork as the false emperors false malcador?
1) Yes
he both hates it and is really good at it
1) how many turtles can the planetmind stack on themselves before things break?
1) it depends ont eht type
it once reached 50 Island Turtles on a stack
2) How many times has Avernus tried to remove all skulls from its species after a Khornate incursion?
2) 7
it decided against tryng an 8th time
1) Out of Curiously, do we know which person had give Khorne the most amount of the 'same' skull? By resurrection, cloning and so on.
1) Bile
3) What would happen if you stuck Malal and Nuffle into a locked box together?
3) bad things
Warhammer 8th edition: High Elves, page 58
2) probebly one of the final three
3) What tier of God is Nuffle, given he controls the dice?
3) beyond
4) Who was the most beautiful of the eldar gods?
4) either Isha or Lilieth
5) Are god seeds sentient, sapient, or neither?
5) neither
6) Temlpe Assasin
7) Did Lucia's faith get broken?
7) yes
8) Was Mina connected to Khorne in some way?
8) not intentionly
that was an recruitment attempt gone wrong
9) Who killed Silvana and why?
9) one of Vandires supporters
(a cardinal)
and becauxse he had lost some level of power with the overthrow of Vandire
10) Why was Arabella really called the Liberator?
10) she libertated enslaved psykers
and was in the process of making them poeple rather then resources
11) Was Arabella a psyker?
11) yes
12) Will Rotbart look into a Truemirror once this vote is decided?
12) yes
13) Can you use a True Mirror to deflect magic spells?
13) ones that effect your mind
sometimes
14) What happens if you put two True Mirrors facing each other?
14) nothing speiciel unless you look into them
when you proebly go mad
1) If you shoot a lasgun at two true mirrors facing one another, does it bounce forever?
1) no
2) Because of the Ordo Hereticus, does the Witch Hunter make Jane want to wear a hat?
2) yes
3) Does Ant remember anything from the age of apostsy? I can see that being the time when they started clawing back a bit of their sanity, but also being in a state of utter delirium?
3) he has a few flashes of memory
he remembers Thor or example
and a talk with him
though he was thinking that he was talking with Martin Luther for half the conversation
4) What made the dark eldar pain-to-soulstuff transmutation possible?
4) its not diorectly pain to soulstuff
its using pain to stip of bits of someones soulstuff and assimilating it
5) Is it possible for Prepare, Expand and Consolidate and Rotbart for Freedom to win together, since one describes why he fights and what he hopes for, and the other is more about how he goes about achieving reforms?
5) yes
6) Does Jane get a general urge to burn the witch every now and then from her archetype?
6) yes
not so often now
but a few years ago it was pretty strong
1) When are you closing the vote?
1) tomorrow
2) how jealous are the other witch hunters in the galaxy?
2) pretty
3) Would giving Jane an epic hat make her noticably beter at Witch Hunting
3) no
4) is Jane embracing or rejecting her archetype induced love of big hats?
4)rejecting
5) What's the approximate minimum amount of Will you need to avoid going insane or developing major personality disorders from holding an archetype you are not too aligned with personality-wise that you happen to be in the middle of?
5) exemplar
6) What are Pech, Catachan, and Fenris' view of stars?
6) the source of life
1) Who should we hire to make a hat if we want Jane to wear a big hat?
1) not really any good choice
2) Are aquatic species inherently more psychically aligned?
2) no
3) Did Ridcully also get a greater desire to wear big hats as the Blind Seer?
3a) Same but with Eldrad and the Seer?
3) nah blindfolds
a) is it being the seer or being an Eldar?
hard to say
4) Can eldar gods possess people?
4) yes
5) How much of a menace was Trazyn to the Orders Pronatus?
5) if they knew about him he would have been their greatest foe
6) This is the imperium we're talking about so which Martin Luthor? Sebastian Thor could be a lot better than pretty much everyone in the imperium's upper religious folks and still only fall to the level of nail demands to the door Luthor not Martin Luthor King jr.
6) first one not Martin Luthor King
1) did ant make any references to the historicall luthor during it and did thor assume that those wher divine wisdom
1) a couple and probebly
1) When did Ant get a reasonable grip on his faculties again? I remember in my omake I said he was still kinda woozie even just before the end when Trazyn showed up, but he was mostly back together?
1) his first lucid moments where Age of Apostecy
by 40k he was lucid almost a day a week on average
at the end he was a little out of it but mostl together
1) By any chance did this first moment of lucidity coincide with the storm of the emperor's wrath and him going "Ohhhhhh nooooooooo whyyyyyyyyy!!!!"
1) yep
1) Huh, was his 'death' a deliberate move to tear off the bandaid before things degenerated even further?
1) it was
Also while he could keep tjapa from consuming him
1) Was he also likely to just die soon (either from Tjapa or throne failure) hence why Trazyn decided to start casing the joint?
1) yes
a century at the most
2) Could emps in theory have eventually recovered to the point he could heal himself (as in physically heal himself so he didn't need the throne to not die), or were the narratives/power requirements just not in his favour?
2) once Tjapa started forming no
3) When did he start actively surpressing Tjapa or did Tjapa's god seed's appearence coincide with the Age of Aposty? Feeels thematic?
3) age of apostacy
1) If Ant hadn't gone along with it, what was Trazyn hoping to steal?
1) the golden throne
2) If by some means Emperor worship in the old Imperium had somehow been as relatively tame and reasonable as it is in the Imperial Trust for the entirety of the Imperium's lifespan, would Ant's godseed still have been corrupted? Or would it reaching Great God levels have been a wincon for the Imperium at that point?
2) it would not have been
And pretty much
1) so the godseed got corrupted because its assholeish tendency and being physically close to a warp rift (either off them on is own woudn't have been enough)
1) yes
3) Does a ascending mortal's Willpower stat effect how much their personality shifts from ascending with a Godseed?
3) yes
1) Is it possible for someone who specifically works towards it to ascend to godhood without their mortal body being destroyed? Or was the Anatolian's thing a special case?
1) it is possible
but only for those with incredibly tough mortal bodies that are able to channel massive amounts of Sa
so a Primarch probebly could
not much else
3) If ant would somehow hit greater god would he loss his body
3) yes
2) Would he lose his body as in, could no longer just permanently incarnate all the time? Or would his body just disappear for some reason?
2) no longer incarnate easily
at great
basicly at all
1) Would summoning him to the Materium then just become about as hard as summoning the Avatar of Khorne then?
1) nah
far harder
like summoning any other Great God
2) Has the Warp ever spat out accidental time travelers from an alternate future that doesn't come to pass? Do those people remain or poof out of existence after their original timeline becomes completely impossible?
2) it has and they remain
2) Has the same ever happened for alternate pasts?
2) also yes
3) Does Imbac have an explanation for this, and if so, is it one that laymen can get the gist of?
3) yes and sort of
they exist as a possiblity so they exist
and they currently exist so clearly they will conitnue to do so
1) Are Ephrael Stern and Kyganil still around?
1) no
1) How much has being The Witch Hunter helped Jane's entire Witch Hunting Apparatus? Has she made any improvements since attaining it?
1) not much
1) Is divine power invested as blessings and devas count towards power rating of the deity?
1) yes
2) Are there qualitative differences in the power of devas and blessing and stuff that are 'gatekept' by the powerlevel of a god?
2) no
3) Can Avernus/Slann extend some of Avernus's Geomatic Net to Commoragh so Isha, Vaul, et al can use its infinite power? Like just make a single branch into there or something.
3) no
1) To clarify: asking specifically for the purpose of incarnating . If a deity hits Great god, but keeps all the power above exalted levelinvested as a Deva or a blessing, could this deity still incarnate?
1) no
4) is basilio fo the mad scientist from the misbegotten short story still alive in embers?
4) no
5) Do god shards normally share a single consciousness? If not, is Hekarti an exception since she's the Hydra Queen?
5) no
and no
6) who or what has Farsight sword and can we talk to the spirit?
6) last heard the Tau had it
and yes
7) How strong is the narrative of physics?
7) very
1) How much of stuff following the laws of physics is it actually doing that, and how much is it not normally doing that but being pushed into doing it by the narrative?
1) current theories is all narrative
2) Does that mean if you somehow magically hypnotized everyone in the galaxy into thinking gravity didn't exist, it would eventually go poof?
2) unknown
it depends on if that is one of the bits of physics that still work
you are pretty sure that the speed of light limit does not actualy exist anymore though
8) Can Wraithguard be powered by powerstones or equivalents, either as subsitute or supplement to Ynnead power allocation?
8) not easily
9) What, if any, is our limitation on powerstone mass production via hyperscaling up our -Corals?
9) you are advised not to do so too much
law of Cost and Narrative
10) Does Avernus have a Great Barrier Reef equivalent?
10) yes
11) Do we know the aquatic wildlife which cohabit our corals?
11) yes
12) What is the most experienced chaos psyker (in skill level/power) that could plausibly exist on Avernus before being taken down?
12) right now?
none
Avernus currently has a zero tolerance polocy
13) If we were to ask Trazyn, in his view how close was the Outsider to becoming a blackhole?
13) not at all
14) How does the primal perceive black holes?
14) it does not
15) If to the primal stars are the source of natural life and C'tan are source's of unnatural life, did the C'tan create life at one point or is it more because they feel similar to stars?
15) feel simial to stars
16) What happens if you dump materium energy (not Ka, just normal thermal energy) into the warp? I guess void shields already do that, but what happens to it?
16) it tends to vanish pretty fast
17) Should have asked at the time really, but what were the necron white holes for?
17) part of one of their forms of FTL
well FTL superweapons
as all it can move is massive amounts of energy
18) And do they have to connect to a black hole?
18)yes
19) Would it require an action to have Aria travel to a black hole to see if Ka behaves strangely near it? Specifically solar Ka if we can see it? Or just as tellingly doesn't.
19) she cant really see solar ka that well
background radation
20) What exactly was the function of the arcane bond between Cegorach and Malys?
20) give him an agent he could work through to a higher level
2) can Rotbart convince Dawn blade to let him wield it and help study Ka technology in exchange for using his influence to help bring its people back to life?
2) could not be done
1) Does the Dawn Blade and artifacts like it actually trap part of the person's soul, or is the personality inside an entirely artificial copy of a being whose real soul was destroyed ages ago?
1) you dont know
3) can Arya wield the Dawn blade?
3) to big for her
4) Is the vote now closed?
4) yes
6) Do we even have some way of verifying the Dawn Blade is not 'corrupted' or a fake by the Deciever given the circumstances that Farsight died and how iirc the Dawn Blade was missing for a bit?
6) you dont
7) What were the Dark Muses?
7) aeldari who walked the Path of Acension and acanded
Daemons of Chaos 8th edition page 62, Weapons of the Dark Gods
8) exalted
9) Is it possible to restore the laws of physics to make them work on their own, without needing to also carefully purge the physics narratives at the same time?
9) unknown
10) ka tech has been described as changing with laws of physics "matter" is that a thing KA could always do, or is it done by pushing on the laws of narative bolstering the laws of physics?
10) unknown
11) How do Eldar deal with enemy super and hypercaps? They seem to lack say NSL equivalent and Ghostships while great cant harass.
11) special ammo attack craft
or by prefernce harrass everything smaller then a tough supercap out of existance
then deploy the ghostships on the rather lonley looking suviviors
12: Feasibility: Naval Scale Plasma Foils?
12) not viable
cost
1) you grew to fast to get most of the nilfheim content
2) So first Jane snapped AO out of it by giving him a cut. Now Angron snapped Khorne out of it by hitting him hard enough. Is Khorne now pointing at that and saying "Look, Jane, destiny"?
2) yes
3) Given the Wolf of the Apocalypse is the Worst Thing on Avernus not the Failsafe or Unborn, does this means Avernus, as a cat, made the most doggish, and thus evil, dog possible?
3) nah the wolf was OO not Avernus
4) Considering their themes and how they use Fenris as a filter for their stuff, are Rune Priests using NordVPN?
4) in canon maybe
in embers no
5) How in the Warp has the Realm of Khorne not been taken over by Nurgle yet? Do you have any idea how unsanitary all that blood and all those fresh skulls are? Who knows what kind of nasty things a person can catch from being near that stuff? You'd think they'd be smart and switch to taking helmets and hair as trophies, but nooo
5) its khorne
thy know how to hit disease in the face so it goes away
1) About what percent of Nurgle daemons are fat enough you can dribble them like a basketball?
1) 80
its a faveroued sport by khronates
what catagory of deamon you are dribbling shws how tough you are
1) Does this mean Khorne prefers Basketball as a sport, or does Blood Bowl still outdo it?
1) a common argument that leads to cosntant civil wars among the daemons of khorne
along with other improtant thological issues such as if its "main,kill, burn" or "kill, maim, burn"
no one talks about the heretics who claim its "burn, kill, maim"
2) What about "maim, burn, kill"?
2) sounds like another school of thought
1) sounds like another school of thought: So how many of the six schools have been nearly or completely exterminated as heresy?
1) all of them at various times
1) given the narrative belkor has been slotted into, does he find himself having to do vast amounts of paperwork as the false emperors false malcador?
1) Yes
he both hates it and is really good at it
1) how many turtles can the planetmind stack on themselves before things break?
1) it depends ont eht type
it once reached 50 Island Turtles on a stack
2) How many times has Avernus tried to remove all skulls from its species after a Khornate incursion?
2) 7
it decided against tryng an 8th time
1) Out of Curiously, do we know which person had give Khorne the most amount of the 'same' skull? By resurrection, cloning and so on.
1) Bile
3) What would happen if you stuck Malal and Nuffle into a locked box together?
3) bad things
Warhammer 8th edition: High Elves, page 58
2) In TLN, what would've been the explanation for her beauty? Pure biology, a side-effect of being so heavily blessed by Isha, a direct effect of her Ishan blessings, or being the child of someone heavily blessed by Isha?
2) probebly one of the final three
3) What tier of God is Nuffle, given he controls the dice?
3) beyond
4) Who was the most beautiful of the eldar gods?
4) either Isha or Lilieth
5) Are god seeds sentient, sapient, or neither?
5) neither
6) What were the circumstances surrounding Katherine's death?
6) Temlpe Assasin
7) Did Lucia's faith get broken?
7) yes
8) Was Mina connected to Khorne in some way?
8) not intentionly
that was an recruitment attempt gone wrong
9) Who killed Silvana and why?
9) one of Vandires supporters
(a cardinal)
and becauxse he had lost some level of power with the overthrow of Vandire
10) Why was Arabella really called the Liberator?
10) she libertated enslaved psykers
and was in the process of making them poeple rather then resources
11) Was Arabella a psyker?
11) yes
12) Will Rotbart look into a Truemirror once this vote is decided?
12) yes
13) Can you use a True Mirror to deflect magic spells?
13) ones that effect your mind
sometimes
14) What happens if you put two True Mirrors facing each other?
14) nothing speiciel unless you look into them
when you proebly go mad
1) If you shoot a lasgun at two true mirrors facing one another, does it bounce forever?
1) no
2) Because of the Ordo Hereticus, does the Witch Hunter make Jane want to wear a hat?
2) yes
3) Does Ant remember anything from the age of apostsy? I can see that being the time when they started clawing back a bit of their sanity, but also being in a state of utter delirium?
3) he has a few flashes of memory
he remembers Thor or example
and a talk with him
though he was thinking that he was talking with Martin Luther for half the conversation
4) What made the dark eldar pain-to-soulstuff transmutation possible?
4) its not diorectly pain to soulstuff
its using pain to stip of bits of someones soulstuff and assimilating it
5) Is it possible for Prepare, Expand and Consolidate and Rotbart for Freedom to win together, since one describes why he fights and what he hopes for, and the other is more about how he goes about achieving reforms?
5) yes
6) Does Jane get a general urge to burn the witch every now and then from her archetype?
6) yes
not so often now
but a few years ago it was pretty strong
1) When are you closing the vote?
1) tomorrow
2) how jealous are the other witch hunters in the galaxy?
2) pretty
3) Would giving Jane an epic hat make her noticably beter at Witch Hunting
3) no
4) is Jane embracing or rejecting her archetype induced love of big hats?
4)rejecting
5) What's the approximate minimum amount of Will you need to avoid going insane or developing major personality disorders from holding an archetype you are not too aligned with personality-wise that you happen to be in the middle of?
5) exemplar
6) What are Pech, Catachan, and Fenris' view of stars?
6) the source of life
1) Who should we hire to make a hat if we want Jane to wear a big hat?
1) not really any good choice
2) Are aquatic species inherently more psychically aligned?
2) no
3) Did Ridcully also get a greater desire to wear big hats as the Blind Seer?
3a) Same but with Eldrad and the Seer?
3) nah blindfolds
a) is it being the seer or being an Eldar?
hard to say
4) Can eldar gods possess people?
4) yes
5) How much of a menace was Trazyn to the Orders Pronatus?
5) if they knew about him he would have been their greatest foe
6) This is the imperium we're talking about so which Martin Luthor? Sebastian Thor could be a lot better than pretty much everyone in the imperium's upper religious folks and still only fall to the level of nail demands to the door Luthor not Martin Luthor King jr.
6) first one not Martin Luthor King
1) did ant make any references to the historicall luthor during it and did thor assume that those wher divine wisdom
1) a couple and probebly
1) When did Ant get a reasonable grip on his faculties again? I remember in my omake I said he was still kinda woozie even just before the end when Trazyn showed up, but he was mostly back together?
1) his first lucid moments where Age of Apostecy
by 40k he was lucid almost a day a week on average
at the end he was a little out of it but mostl together
1) By any chance did this first moment of lucidity coincide with the storm of the emperor's wrath and him going "Ohhhhhh nooooooooo whyyyyyyyyy!!!!"
1) yep
1) Huh, was his 'death' a deliberate move to tear off the bandaid before things degenerated even further?
1) it was
Also while he could keep tjapa from consuming him
1) Was he also likely to just die soon (either from Tjapa or throne failure) hence why Trazyn decided to start casing the joint?
1) yes
a century at the most
2) Could emps in theory have eventually recovered to the point he could heal himself (as in physically heal himself so he didn't need the throne to not die), or were the narratives/power requirements just not in his favour?
2) once Tjapa started forming no
3) When did he start actively surpressing Tjapa or did Tjapa's god seed's appearence coincide with the Age of Aposty? Feeels thematic?
3) age of apostacy
1) If Ant hadn't gone along with it, what was Trazyn hoping to steal?
1) the golden throne
2) If by some means Emperor worship in the old Imperium had somehow been as relatively tame and reasonable as it is in the Imperial Trust for the entirety of the Imperium's lifespan, would Ant's godseed still have been corrupted? Or would it reaching Great God levels have been a wincon for the Imperium at that point?
2) it would not have been
And pretty much
1) so the godseed got corrupted because its assholeish tendency and being physically close to a warp rift (either off them on is own woudn't have been enough)
1) yes
3) Does a ascending mortal's Willpower stat effect how much their personality shifts from ascending with a Godseed?
3) yes
1) Is it possible for someone who specifically works towards it to ascend to godhood without their mortal body being destroyed? Or was the Anatolian's thing a special case?
1) it is possible
but only for those with incredibly tough mortal bodies that are able to channel massive amounts of Sa
so a Primarch probebly could
not much else
3) If ant would somehow hit greater god would he loss his body
3) yes
2) Would he lose his body as in, could no longer just permanently incarnate all the time? Or would his body just disappear for some reason?
2) no longer incarnate easily
at great
basicly at all
1) Would summoning him to the Materium then just become about as hard as summoning the Avatar of Khorne then?
1) nah
far harder
like summoning any other Great God
2) Has the Warp ever spat out accidental time travelers from an alternate future that doesn't come to pass? Do those people remain or poof out of existence after their original timeline becomes completely impossible?
2) it has and they remain
2) Has the same ever happened for alternate pasts?
2) also yes
3) Does Imbac have an explanation for this, and if so, is it one that laymen can get the gist of?
3) yes and sort of
they exist as a possiblity so they exist
and they currently exist so clearly they will conitnue to do so
1) Are Ephrael Stern and Kyganil still around?
1) no
1) How much has being The Witch Hunter helped Jane's entire Witch Hunting Apparatus? Has she made any improvements since attaining it?
1) not much
1) Is divine power invested as blessings and devas count towards power rating of the deity?
1) yes
2) Are there qualitative differences in the power of devas and blessing and stuff that are 'gatekept' by the powerlevel of a god?
2) no
3) Can Avernus/Slann extend some of Avernus's Geomatic Net to Commoragh so Isha, Vaul, et al can use its infinite power? Like just make a single branch into there or something.
3) no
1) To clarify: asking specifically for the purpose of incarnating . If a deity hits Great god, but keeps all the power above exalted levelinvested as a Deva or a blessing, could this deity still incarnate?
1) no
4) is basilio fo the mad scientist from the misbegotten short story still alive in embers?
4) no
5) Do god shards normally share a single consciousness? If not, is Hekarti an exception since she's the Hydra Queen?
5) no
and no
6) who or what has Farsight sword and can we talk to the spirit?
6) last heard the Tau had it
and yes
7) How strong is the narrative of physics?
7) very
1) How much of stuff following the laws of physics is it actually doing that, and how much is it not normally doing that but being pushed into doing it by the narrative?
1) current theories is all narrative
2) Does that mean if you somehow magically hypnotized everyone in the galaxy into thinking gravity didn't exist, it would eventually go poof?
2) unknown
it depends on if that is one of the bits of physics that still work
you are pretty sure that the speed of light limit does not actualy exist anymore though
8) Can Wraithguard be powered by powerstones or equivalents, either as subsitute or supplement to Ynnead power allocation?
8) not easily
9) What, if any, is our limitation on powerstone mass production via hyperscaling up our -Corals?
9) you are advised not to do so too much
law of Cost and Narrative
10) Does Avernus have a Great Barrier Reef equivalent?
10) yes
11) Do we know the aquatic wildlife which cohabit our corals?
11) yes
12) What is the most experienced chaos psyker (in skill level/power) that could plausibly exist on Avernus before being taken down?
12) right now?
none
Avernus currently has a zero tolerance polocy
13) If we were to ask Trazyn, in his view how close was the Outsider to becoming a blackhole?
13) not at all
14) How does the primal perceive black holes?
14) it does not
15) If to the primal stars are the source of natural life and C'tan are source's of unnatural life, did the C'tan create life at one point or is it more because they feel similar to stars?
15) feel simial to stars
16) What happens if you dump materium energy (not Ka, just normal thermal energy) into the warp? I guess void shields already do that, but what happens to it?
16) it tends to vanish pretty fast
17) Should have asked at the time really, but what were the necron white holes for?
17) part of one of their forms of FTL
well FTL superweapons
as all it can move is massive amounts of energy
18) And do they have to connect to a black hole?
18)yes
19) Would it require an action to have Aria travel to a black hole to see if Ka behaves strangely near it? Specifically solar Ka if we can see it? Or just as tellingly doesn't.
19) she cant really see solar ka that well
background radation
20) What exactly was the function of the arcane bond between Cegorach and Malys?
20) give him an agent he could work through to a higher level
2) can Rotbart convince Dawn blade to let him wield it and help study Ka technology in exchange for using his influence to help bring its people back to life?
2) could not be done
1) Does the Dawn Blade and artifacts like it actually trap part of the person's soul, or is the personality inside an entirely artificial copy of a being whose real soul was destroyed ages ago?
1) you dont know
3) can Arya wield the Dawn blade?
3) to big for her
4) Is the vote now closed?
4) yes
6) Do we even have some way of verifying the Dawn Blade is not 'corrupted' or a fake by the Deciever given the circumstances that Farsight died and how iirc the Dawn Blade was missing for a bit?
6) you dont
7) What were the Dark Muses?
7) aeldari who walked the Path of Acension and acanded
Daemons of Chaos 8th edition page 62, Weapons of the Dark Gods
8) What level do you have to be to steal Tzeentch's sorceries?
8) exalted
9) Is it possible to restore the laws of physics to make them work on their own, without needing to also carefully purge the physics narratives at the same time?
9) unknown
10) ka tech has been described as changing with laws of physics "matter" is that a thing KA could always do, or is it done by pushing on the laws of narative bolstering the laws of physics?
10) unknown
11) How do Eldar deal with enemy super and hypercaps? They seem to lack say NSL equivalent and Ghostships while great cant harass.
11) special ammo attack craft
or by prefernce harrass everything smaller then a tough supercap out of existance
then deploy the ghostships on the rather lonley looking suviviors
12: Feasibility: Naval Scale Plasma Foils?
12) not viable
cost
- Location
- Earth
Voting's closed anyways, even if Durin didn't post here. But Rotbart for Freedom and Prepare, Expand and Consolidate seem to have won together if I'm reading things right.
That makes me think, there have been thousands of stories of people ramming thier ship into the enemy fleet as a final attack. If we designed a defense monitor that explicitly goes straight into the enemy fleet and attacks from there, do they benefit from the boost to self destruction provided by the final stand narrative?
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Bzzzzzz
More than offset by the -100 suicidal morale penalty.
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[X] Rotbart for Freedom.
the assigment to suicide missions will continue until morale improves.
- Location
- western US
tbf, we have had a entire corp of explicitly suicidal black-irons recruited from the folks suicidal and elite enough to volunteer to join.
woulden't be hard to get more considering how many more people the trust is supporting now.
that said, I suspect that the not-evil-anymore-ratlings will take up the "barge-of-the-damned" tatic just fine on their own.
edit: oof, and I just realized that if you kill off all the people who are suicidal, then kinda by definition, morale HAS improved....
woulden't be hard to get more considering how many more people the trust is supporting now.
that said, I suspect that the not-evil-anymore-ratlings will take up the "barge-of-the-damned" tatic just fine on their own.
edit: oof, and I just realized that if you kill off all the people who are suicidal, then kinda by definition, morale HAS improved....
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- Earth
Like, define morale. If you're talking will to live, then yeah, but if we go by the military operations definition of how much stress the troops can take before they start breaking and fleeing, the Black Irons probably have pretty good morale.
The Witch of the Covenant
- Location
- Australia
The Witch of the Covenant
Saint Valpurgis
M: Purgator of the Smotherpox
I: Schemes and machinations and plots, many foiled many not
A: Cult head
L: Magical cult head
W: Selfless to the end and beyond
D: Cause-binder, intercessor, proselytiser
C: Slayer of Witches
Magic: Saint of magic
Paragon Magic Trait/Wonder: Nox Valpurgis (demigoddess) — "She will turn all of fate's misfortune to nothing. / She will flood the world with magic, / And the world will not turn even once more. / Tomorrow, and the day after, is the night of Valpurgis." Valpurgis is one with Mangel's magical night sky, and it with her. Her physical body writhes with shadowy energy, swift as darkness and almost impervious to damage, and where she goes, psykers rejoice as a night of magic descends upon the world.
Great Witch Mark: Valpurgis (human form) — In an act as profoundly merciful as it was wickedly cruel, the warp magician Karamah Al'Maeraka gave Valpurgis back her old body full of meat and uncertainty.
Artefact: Gravegem of Blackest Anguish (crit fails become crit successes, Hekartian: can extend range with spellcraft, Nox Valpurgis: can extend range to all allies under the same night sky with ritual) — Within this gem rests what remains of the dark muse Hekatii the Red Crone. In life, She scattered curses and thrived, and in death, She thrives still within this dark heaven of Her own making, absorbing its host's most exquisite maledictions. Yet everything has a price, and such a perfect existence has a great price indeed — when the gem empties a moment of deepest grief, hope fills the void and swells like a tumour. Mercifully, Hekatii is insulated from it, so submerged is She in misfortune as eternally still as Her.
Artefact: Witchfyre Braziers (paired braziers of holy fire. LoS buffs Hekartian willpower, allied spellcasting in LoS crits on doubles, enemy spellcasting targeting within LoS crit fails on doubles) — Hekarti Herself breathed magic into these holy torches, and everything their eight-coloured light touches is Her domain. Hekartians are emboldened, allied magic waxes, and any lesser evocators who dare conjure against those protected by the Mistress of Magic will soon suffer Her displeasure.
Relic: Martyrs' Vengeance (inferno pistol. full pistol range, higher damage, no damage drop off) — Martyrs' Vengeance was the sidearm of Saint Valpurgis, an especially selfless Celestian Superior. The few Sisters who survived the Defence of Ghem's Gate told of Valpurgis striding calmly in front of her squad as an enemy war engine barrelled towards her. In the instant before impact, the Emperor's own light speared from her pistol, cleaving through the machine and detonating its stored ammunition. The relic's traditional resting place is the sanctuary that was built afterwards at Ghem's Gate, now named the Valley of Sacrifice in honour of the fallen Sisters.
Artefact: Gravegem of Blackest Anguish (crit fails become crit successes, Hekartian: can extend range with spellcraft, Nox Valpurgis: can extend range to all allies under the same night sky with ritual) — Within this gem rests what remains of the dark muse Hekatii the Red Crone. In life, She scattered curses and thrived, and in death, She thrives still within this dark heaven of Her own making, absorbing its host's most exquisite maledictions. Yet everything has a price, and such a perfect existence has a great price indeed — when the gem empties a moment of deepest grief, hope fills the void and swells like a tumour. Mercifully, Hekatii is insulated from it, so submerged is She in misfortune as eternally still as Her.
Artefact: Witchfyre Braziers (paired braziers of holy fire. LoS buffs Hekartian willpower, allied spellcasting in LoS crits on doubles, enemy spellcasting targeting within LoS crit fails on doubles) — Hekarti Herself breathed magic into these holy torches, and everything their eight-coloured light touches is Her domain. Hekartians are emboldened, allied magic waxes, and any lesser evocators who dare conjure against those protected by the Mistress of Magic will soon suffer Her displeasure.
Relic: Martyrs' Vengeance (inferno pistol. full pistol range, higher damage, no damage drop off) — Martyrs' Vengeance was the sidearm of Saint Valpurgis, an especially selfless Celestian Superior. The few Sisters who survived the Defence of Ghem's Gate told of Valpurgis striding calmly in front of her squad as an enemy war engine barrelled towards her. In the instant before impact, the Emperor's own light speared from her pistol, cleaving through the machine and detonating its stored ammunition. The relic's traditional resting place is the sanctuary that was built afterwards at Ghem's Gate, now named the Valley of Sacrifice in honour of the fallen Sisters.
Amazonian (+8C, +15% base HP, more attractive) — Powerful, healthy, and strong; Valpurgis has a sublime female physique.
The Slayer of Witches Reborn (massive bonus against psykers and psychic schemes) — In her first life, Valpurgis was a renowned witch-killer, worshipped in death for her purgatorious deeds. She regained her skills in her second life and used them to help save the planet of Mangel III.
Witch of the Covenant (party immunity to breakup for interpersonal reasons, party members increase trait gain and character growth based on each other, party members gain One Last Job on own martyrdom) — Valpurgis is a paragon of empathy and selflessness. Through words, actions, and example, she gets even the most stonyhearted of her companions to open their hearts to one another and share their strength. They may not necessarily like each other in the end, but they'll burn brighter together than they ever could apart.
Heroine of Mangel III (vigilante group/terror cell/coven leader, psyker, Telekinesis discipline) — Valpurgis ran a vigilante organisation of over a hundred rogue psykers, mutants, ordinary humans, and isolated t'au during a time of great crisis. Together, they survived a hostile world and their own natures, and they saved billions of lives.
Mature Magical Girl (Lores of Heavens and Shadows, bonus to religious activities) — Though youth has given way to maturity and experience, this woman is still a magical champion of hope.
Living Saint of Hekarti (foundational instruction in all Winds of Magic, knows Hekarti's heart and vice-versa, can loosely direct Avatars of Hekarti) — Valpurgis is the chosen of Hekarti, Her highest mortal representative. She lacks the blessings such a position implies, but she has received tutelage in the magical arts from a mentally restored Avatar of Hekarti. In addition, an arcane bond connects her to the deity, allowing her to petition the Avatars of Hekarti to act in broad accordance with her designs. It also aids in her duty of intercession: to plead to Hekarti on behalf of others, as well as to plead and act on Her behalf. She must ensure that Hekarti and Her faith will flourish in the world to come, and for the right reasons.
Matriarch of the Cult of Hekarti — Valpurgis is the first ecclesiastical leader of the non-aeldari Cult of Hekarti. She essentially built it from the ground up — founding its holy orders, penning its codes, establishing orthopraxy, and proselytising the faith. Under her, worship of Hekarti is devotion to an awesome and protective goddess whose followers work wonders and serve worthy causes.
Saint of the Imperial Creed — Never delisted from the canon of the Adeptus Ministorum, Celestian Superior Valpurgis of the Order of Our Martyred Lady is a saint of the Imperial Creed. Through that title, she gained command of the Archangyl Baratiel, sworn to the service of the Ecclesiarchy's most senior living saint, though she's since had his contract altered to serve her unconditionally.
Celestian Superior Valpurgis was one of the greatest soldiers of the Order of Our Martyred Lady, remembered for her selflessness, her wisdom, and above all her skills as a witch slayer. Her squad was legendary for its successes against stopping the direst psychic threats the order had ever seen, and all within it credited her leadership as well as her insight and empathy, which allowed her to counter the schemes of the enemy and build crucial alliances in their quests. They were quieter where it concerned the more confidential details of their and Valpurgis' actions, so it was only a short time after her martyrdom that she was canonised as a saint.
She later reincarnated on the planet Mangel III in Ultima Segmentum, near the T'au Empire, and grew up to be a strong, pious, and intensely selfless and empathetic young woman. She regained her memories before the mass psychic awakenings and knew it would be her duty to rally the faithful and deliver the world from crisis. Her plans shattered when the first awakening hit the world and transformed Valpurgis into the strongest psyker on the planet, a mighty telekine. She knew the Ecclesiarchy would simply hunt her as a witch, so she worked on her own terms, much as she remembered frequently having to do as a sister of battle.
Valpurgis came to lead a coven of rogue psykers, mutants, and a few aliens, her first time doing so on a long-term basis. The coven's next four strongest members — each, fate decreed, a stand-in for one of the other four Prosperine disciplines — were her greatest partners in her endeavours and became her dearest friends, the scholar Karamah Al'Maeraka, the navigator Vyavons Carcual, the princess Caeneld Ankhyttira, and the actress Faliha Hashram. Through them and her own experiences, she glimpsed the psychic destiny she'd heard Inquisitorial madmen proclaim was humanity's future. Power, convenience, joy, possibility, meaning — she witnessed it all and became enamoured by it. Yet she also witnessed all around her the realities of a psychic ascension; a violent stillbirth was all the Imperium could cultivate. She resolved that she'd at least save the people of Mangel.
Valpurgis died well before the final battle against Hasophet during an earlier confrontation with the heretic astartes. The sorcerer summoned a bloodthirster that Valpurgis' coven could defeat, but not without collateral damage. Instead, she lured it away, flying high into the sky where she duelled it. She won, but took mortal wounds. Down an arm and seconds from bleeding out, Valpurgis shattered a relic she'd stolen with her powers: a lump of crystallised night, formerly the body of the Night Lords sorcerer Vasellisk the Shrouded. The crystal's shards summoned an impenetrable darkness which surrounded the planet — nothing could enter or leave it, not transport shuttles, not vox signals, not orbital fire, and not even the sight of the gods, save slivers where they already had a foothold. The black sky served Hasophet, but, summoned so early, it hindered him as well. With the Ruinous Powers so thoroughly blocked across most of the world, there was much less chaos to take advantage of, allowing Valpurgis' coven and their allies to more easily work against him.
In a half-dead state, Valpurgis was trapped in the planet's dark atmosphere, but conscious, hidden, and far from powerless. She waited, biding her time and assisting in small, secret ways. She watched as the true reason for Mangel's status as a nexus of fate was revealed: hidden even from Tzeentch was the strongest of the Croneswords, discovered only when fate itself was torn. She watched as all of Tzeentch's daemons diverted to take it so that Tzeentch could control the fate of the yet-unborn Ynnead, which stripped Hasophet of the bulk of his military power. Now with the Chaos sorcerer's guard open, Valpurgis flexed her powers and froze him and his remaining minions for just long enough to allow her friends to take them down and disrupt the ritual. When the world's people went to sleep as a gentle Screaming Cage, so did Valpurgis in her bed of night.
Areatha the Magical Girl saved Valpurgis as she did the rest of Mangel III, but she'd changed in her time within Mangel's night — she'd become night itself, charged with magic.
When she heard of who the Emperor had become, she was glad; she now thought him even worthier of worship than before, but she'd already accepted it was time to move on. She was pleased to see he thought the same, if not exactly in the way she'd prefer. Yet she remained a religious person and sought a new faith. She bounced off Hoeth, and merely felt deep appreciation for Faust's sphere rather than reverent awe. She learned of Hekarti, read of the Terran myths related to her, and even learned more of her own namesake, and she knew her destiny. While the minds of Hekarti's shards were temporarily restored, Valpurgis communed with her and convinced her to make Valpurgis her chosen. Together, they undertook a solemn ritual that bound them, beginning a new chapter of coven and convent.
Today, Saint Valpurgis is a truly fearsome warrior-witch, who ventures forth to defeat Chaos sorcery and dedicate her victories to her deity. The lengthening nights that accompany her empower friendly psykers, and bonfires lit during these magical nights protect allies from the hexen influence of malefic sorcery. The saintess leads Hekarti's cult from Mangel III, a partially repopulated, now warp-touched world filled with magical life after so long under an arcane night and within the mutative aura of a virtual goddess. Taking Valpurgis' advice, Hekarti abstains from rewarding evil and takes a more actively benevolent stance, and one of her Avatars participates fully among mortals after giving up power for permanent lucidity.
So continues the tale of Saint Valpurgis, Slayer of Witches and Witch of the Covenant.
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- australia
"1) how many turtles can the planetmind stack on themselves before things break?
1) it depends ont eht type
it once reached 50 Island Turtles on a stack"
……
You know, with that much isolation/boredom,
We're,
Probably exceptionally lucky the planetmind EITHER never went mad,
Or looped around,
Because if the implication I'm seeing that it was getting -that- bored at one point is correct…
…. Actually, that gives me a though-
Outside talking shop with other spirits/similarly level entities,
Being entreatied or giving marching orders in an incursion,
How, much social contact does the planetmind have,
Wither or not it keeps to a policy of "professional detachment/distance" from its inhabitants?
1) it depends ont eht type
it once reached 50 Island Turtles on a stack"
……
You know, with that much isolation/boredom,
We're,
Probably exceptionally lucky the planetmind EITHER never went mad,
Or looped around,
Because if the implication I'm seeing that it was getting -that- bored at one point is correct…
…. Actually, that gives me a though-
Outside talking shop with other spirits/similarly level entities,
Being entreatied or giving marching orders in an incursion,
How, much social contact does the planetmind have,
Wither or not it keeps to a policy of "professional detachment/distance" from its inhabitants?
Romka
Master of Stealth
- Location
- In a barrel
It has a cat. HWWO can even sort of understand what it says, so Avernus can get him to do things if he deigns to listen to it.
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New questions and answers.
1) Jane managed to kill the Changeling in a mirror match because she was an exemplar on the verge of getting a paragon, and when she did get it mid-fight the Changeling couldn't adapt fast enough to her new advantage. Could the same have happened with an ascendant/multiparagon on the verge of getting a transcendent?
1) yes
but the changling would have been a lot more on guard against such a foe
and probebly would not have picked that fight in the first place
1) Has Jane being killed and resurrected put to rest any final doubts about her being the Changeling?
1) yes
2) Can you use ka to deemphasize certain physical laws, or can you only effectively do that by emphasizing everything else besides the selected law?
2) as far as anynone knows youc an onyl do that by emphasising all others
3) Is it fair to say that the Trust has instilled a culture of nobilitas in its nobility? More than already existed?
3) yes
4) Given Vanaheim was saved from a horrifying myth thanks to the eldar and krork is it a bit less xenophobic than it used to be?
4) yes, a lot less
5) I'm not 100% sure I remember, but was Vanaheim once a maiden world, or at least somewhere important to the eldar, hence the particular xenophobia due to eldar attacks?
5) it was
and had a bad encounter with beil-Tan
1) Does anyone (Eldar or otherwise) still remember what exactly Vanaheim the planet was for the Eldar?
1) no
Well it's probebly somewhere in the black library
But no one has dug it up
The fact that everyone has forgotten probably means nothing very important
1) What was the Changeling doing with Jane anyway? Was it just one of those for the lulz occasions?
1) nah trying to get rid of humans on Avernus
in case it taught you anything
Tzeentch did not want the Imperium getting Avernite anti daemon teachings
and knows perfectly well that a lot fo the poeples would share them because "fuck chaos"
1) But why did it target Jane in particular, and not, say, Rotbart or Ridcully?
1) it liked the irony of a Witch Hunter being the daemon
1) ...Wild take, but does cannibalism madnesses like the brain falling apart have anything to do with Ka, from what we can see?
1) no
2) Given that all powerplants essentially exist to boil water, is there a Truewater that, among all the other things water is good for, is also perfect for energy transmission?
2) you cant make TrueLiqurd
but probebly
3) do our plasma reactors still mostly boil water to make steam or do they use other methods?
3) other methords
1) Could the Changeling have done long-term disguises of multiple people at the same time?
1) only if they were out of contact a lot
2) Was the Changeling capable of imitating past versions of people, like a now-transcendent character the moment before they got their transcendent? (Of course the disguise won't convince anyone who knows the person, I'm just wondering if it can technically access those paragons still)
2) only if it met them before they trancendend ect
3) If the Failsafe ends up being something that deletes the actual quest off the forum, would you just edit all the posts to blankness with a folder at the bottom containing the original stuff?
3) yes
or archive the quest
1) Was there any Khoswe who ever walked the path of the Martyr ? even if they got killed before ascending it feels like it is something in line with their culture as a whole
1) not that you know of
2) How do you fail the trials and why is failure lethal?
2) you lose control of your powers
and accidently kill yourself or get possesed
3) How powerful of a curse would you need to create a legend of zelda situation? Perpetually reincarnating master of evil, and the heroes that stop them. Not sure who exactly is cursed in that situation so I'll just say everyone ise.
3) somewhere in the divine realms
1) Is this divine realms as in god stuff, or big ticket divine like eldar gods? There's a big difference between stuff mainly the domain of gods and the divine tier if that makes sense 😛
1) big ticket divine
4) When Isha resurrects someone from the soul, where does the ka come from?
4) good question
5) How do the Telepathica's trials guard against someone who's unqualified but got through via rolling a crit, or someone who is qualified but critfailed at a bad time?
5) being a series of trails rather then a single one
6) Was the Paternova cycle (where candidates uncontrollably mutate and attack each other in a battle royale until the last survivor becomes the new Paternova, and notably empowers their house's abilities) canon in Embers, or was the Paternova a purely political position?
6) it was canon
but House Norns navigators where not part of it
being an older strain
7) Do truemirrors (or TrueGlass) have any particular resonances with Hysh in particular, given their thematic similarities?
7) they do
1) Do modern Navigators still have a Paternova cycle, or did sane galactic biologists deliberately edit that out because your Navigators randomly killing each other at unpredictable intervals is kind of bad for planning galactic wars of survival?
1) some do
but all the new lines created after you spread the process dont
2) Is that still one Paternova, or different groups of houses running on their own cycle? How do you even get different houses to sync up on the same cycle anyway?
2) one patanova
1) Does the Paternova cycle seem to be inherited from the fish?
1) no
it seems to be an later pgrade
as a Patanova boosted navigator can see further then a Helheim Navigator
1) Ant mod to give him greater control over the navigators? Only person I can think of with the know how and inclination.
1) nah Dark Ageof technology major project
he was involved but only on the edges
focus was on boosting speeds, teh whole cycle thing was the only way they found to do it
the telepathic tells you its a Ritual
1) Was affecting most navigator lines intentional, or did it eventually get spread around across the galaxy? The DAoT not being a unified polity makes me think the latter.
1) eventuly spread throughout the galaxy
it was not actualy universal by the age of the imperium
but the old style navigators were just viewed as minor houses that had degenerated
1) And I imagine chaos/rebels snapped up a lot of them which just reinforced the perception? Independence from the paternova was likely seen as an upside.
1) yes
2) Setting aside the dune reference, I take it part of the reason the paternova process is so scuffed is because the people who made the ritual didn't really know what they were doing 😄
2) some of it
the rest is a few hundred generations without oversight by poeple who knew what they are doing
3) Do we have data on that upgrade? Does Ant? Can we develop alternatives or improvements?
3) only a few scraps
you have more on who did it, why and how it spread
historical texts are far more liable to spread and suvive then technical texts
1) Actually are the Norn more stable in part because they're not connected to the cycle, or is that a combination of luck and maybe a bit of narrative significance due to being the original?
1) not being connected to the cycle played a major part
while more effective, it added a buntch of fiddly parts
and more things to degrade and go wrong
tough narrative significance helped a lot
as did the fact that they had access to biologists who had a far better understanding of Navigators then the mechanicus
(Muspelheim and Niflheim, though they avided nilfhiemers where possible for obvious reasons)
1) Are only female House Norn members being capable of expressing the Navigator gene an old holdover from them being a prototype that didn't have all the kinks ironed out? Do modern mk 1 Navigator houses just have it possible in both genders as normal?
1) yeah its due to them being prototype
later gen 1s are both gender
2) Can primal users enact as much nonsense as circle of the moon druids with their transformations 😛
2) yes
1) Was the Bunyip a Ka project?
1) nope
Pure biology
1) What does it mean to be pure of Mind and Soul in our era?
1) unsual willpower and control over their Sa
2) What, if anything, do the Winds help Exemplar Minor Battle Psykers with? Does it improve their effective oomph, or at that skill level is it sort of marginal?
2) less boost oomph
more give greater breadth of options
3) Did the King have a plan to deal with the dragon back in the day? Or was it very much a "KO the others and see what it does."
3) he did
it was not that certain it would work
1) Odds are probably not. That said, was the dragon ever that involved in the WIH? Like we know it was involved (dragon men and all) and that it fought against the Outsider, but beyond that..
1) yes it was
it used its forces as tools
and tried to wipe out all life that it could
2) How the hell did the Deciever not get ripped apart by the other C'tan after that mess with the Outsider? Or was this more "execution deferred" until later.
2) they did not know that it let the Clown do it unopposed
not until a lot later anyway
1) That's a tick, did the necrons ever get to ask the C'tan why they do what they do? Beyond "we can stop asking questions?"
1) no
1) For the Necrons/C'tan who was the most dangerous Eldar God as a whole during the War ? the Clown for the Outsider Business ? Isha for keeping the Eldar going through multiple extinctions ? Khaine for sheer killing power ? Asuryan ?
1) the Clown due to Outsider
it was responsibe for more C'Tan deaths then any 5 other actors
2) Is trait growth/gain chance the same for defeating a lesser threat with little to no gear as it is for defeating a greater threat with good equipment, assuming the effective difficulty was the same for the person doing it?
2) equal
3) If Emps were to somehow deliver a Mission Accomplished to the Trust, would it decide to remain as a united polity? (Assuming he can suppress his Kingly God Aura enough to not mind-whammy people)
3) most of it would
4) Would Emps be able to help remedy some of the lingering xenophobia in the Trust if he instructed them to be less xenophobic? (Same assumption as above)
4) yes
5) Would emps prefer if the Trust would stop worshipping him or has he basically accepted that it's gonna be a Thing?
5) he would prefer not to be worshiped but has accepted that he will be
6) how xenophobic is ant
6) not very
he was midly so pre-emperor
but is now going the opposite direction in reaction to the empror
7) Did the craftworlds have fauxdar for the Avatars of Khaine or were their many defeats legitimate?
7) they were legitimate
but not all Avatars were equal
8) Who would win in a fight, a million Imperium era primaris psykers, or real life Earth?
8) Chaos
a million Imperial Era primaris psykers on one world would probebly end up summoning a daemon legion by accident
9) Who would die harder in a fight, Gotrek or the Ancient One?
9) the Ancient one
1) Going by the lore for Khaine's Ring of Fury, Vaul and Hekarti had beef with one another. That the same in Sparks? If so, was it something personal or just Cadai-Cytharai differences?
1) personal
started as an argument over enchantment vs crafting
words were said
it escalated
2) How'd Hekarti take Atharti's execution? Happy that she was finally dying but unhappy with the circumstances?
2) at first yes
though after a while she actualy grieved
while there was no love between them, they had still know each other for eons
love and hate are not so far removed as all of that
3) Is the kind of hate Vaul feels for Khaine different from that, because Khaine actually did something big to cause it as opposed to what seems like a sibling rivalry that somewhat escalated out of control for Hekarti and Atharti?
3) yes, that is more loahting
1) What's the Greater Good?
1) philosophy
2) What are the heavens and the underworld that the Cadai and Cytharai dwell in, respectively?
2) realms within the warp
now lost
4) With Eldar constantly reincarnating and the gods not having any devas, was Eldar heaven essentially an old folk's home where a double digit number of gods squabbled while watching reality TV?
4) pretty much
5) If one god has a domain and then another god claims the subdomain, does the domain now provide the first god less power or are domains and their subdomains separate pools of power?
5) the first god gets less power
but does not lose as much power as the second god gains
6) With warp rifts closed, what are sphinxes up to?
6) working with the border lions
7) How does their "locking" discipline/power square up to border lions?
7) its border walkings nateral counter
8) what does Vaul thinks about vulkan
8) gifted youngester, already gone far
will go further
1) Could a proto-God of the Greater Good form like canon seems to have in Embers?
1) not really
its not focused enough to form a godseed
or powerful enough to form a domain
1) I mean, what's the Greater Good about? What's its thesis? That the t'au species is superior and must conquer the galaxy for its own good? That everyone should work together for the greater good of all?
1) that everyone should work together for the greter good of all
and that cooperation and harmony is the key to success
1) Do certain Imperial descendants and/or Triumvirate worshippers who are feeling ironic use "Death to the False Emperor" as a battle cry when going against Tjapals?
1) yes
2) Oakheart and Oakleaf: Any relationship?
2) as far as you know no
3) How do inferno boltguns compare to pulse rifles?
3) you mean the tzeenchain ones?
notably better
1) Is it possible to do sorcery with eldar god avatars so long as those avatars are in the warp?
1) yes
1) Can eldar gods gain new domains or just lose and regain ones they already have like Ellinill?
1) yes
2) How did the Thousand Sons' Pyrae cult get robots?
2) weird connections were made
1) Any connection to that one Tomb ship?
1) no
1) Did any C'tan or Old Ones consider ditching and joining the other team (whether the other team would have accepted them I don't know.)
1) unknown
2) Could Areatha ask the king why he decided to come back?
2) not without risking diploamtic incident
3) or if he won't answer what was the coolest thing he saw wandering the universe?
3) no
1) yes
but the changling would have been a lot more on guard against such a foe
and probebly would not have picked that fight in the first place
1) Has Jane being killed and resurrected put to rest any final doubts about her being the Changeling?
1) yes
2) Can you use ka to deemphasize certain physical laws, or can you only effectively do that by emphasizing everything else besides the selected law?
2) as far as anynone knows youc an onyl do that by emphasising all others
3) Is it fair to say that the Trust has instilled a culture of nobilitas in its nobility? More than already existed?
3) yes
4) Given Vanaheim was saved from a horrifying myth thanks to the eldar and krork is it a bit less xenophobic than it used to be?
4) yes, a lot less
5) I'm not 100% sure I remember, but was Vanaheim once a maiden world, or at least somewhere important to the eldar, hence the particular xenophobia due to eldar attacks?
5) it was
and had a bad encounter with beil-Tan
1) Does anyone (Eldar or otherwise) still remember what exactly Vanaheim the planet was for the Eldar?
1) no
Well it's probebly somewhere in the black library
But no one has dug it up
The fact that everyone has forgotten probably means nothing very important
1) What was the Changeling doing with Jane anyway? Was it just one of those for the lulz occasions?
1) nah trying to get rid of humans on Avernus
in case it taught you anything
Tzeentch did not want the Imperium getting Avernite anti daemon teachings
and knows perfectly well that a lot fo the poeples would share them because "fuck chaos"
1) But why did it target Jane in particular, and not, say, Rotbart or Ridcully?
1) it liked the irony of a Witch Hunter being the daemon
1) ...Wild take, but does cannibalism madnesses like the brain falling apart have anything to do with Ka, from what we can see?
1) no
2) Given that all powerplants essentially exist to boil water, is there a Truewater that, among all the other things water is good for, is also perfect for energy transmission?
2) you cant make TrueLiqurd
but probebly
3) do our plasma reactors still mostly boil water to make steam or do they use other methods?
3) other methords
1) Could the Changeling have done long-term disguises of multiple people at the same time?
1) only if they were out of contact a lot
2) Was the Changeling capable of imitating past versions of people, like a now-transcendent character the moment before they got their transcendent? (Of course the disguise won't convince anyone who knows the person, I'm just wondering if it can technically access those paragons still)
2) only if it met them before they trancendend ect
3) If the Failsafe ends up being something that deletes the actual quest off the forum, would you just edit all the posts to blankness with a folder at the bottom containing the original stuff?
3) yes
or archive the quest
1) Was there any Khoswe who ever walked the path of the Martyr ? even if they got killed before ascending it feels like it is something in line with their culture as a whole
1) not that you know of
2) How do you fail the trials and why is failure lethal?
2) you lose control of your powers
and accidently kill yourself or get possesed
3) How powerful of a curse would you need to create a legend of zelda situation? Perpetually reincarnating master of evil, and the heroes that stop them. Not sure who exactly is cursed in that situation so I'll just say everyone ise.
3) somewhere in the divine realms
1) Is this divine realms as in god stuff, or big ticket divine like eldar gods? There's a big difference between stuff mainly the domain of gods and the divine tier if that makes sense 😛
1) big ticket divine
4) When Isha resurrects someone from the soul, where does the ka come from?
4) good question
5) How do the Telepathica's trials guard against someone who's unqualified but got through via rolling a crit, or someone who is qualified but critfailed at a bad time?
5) being a series of trails rather then a single one
6) Was the Paternova cycle (where candidates uncontrollably mutate and attack each other in a battle royale until the last survivor becomes the new Paternova, and notably empowers their house's abilities) canon in Embers, or was the Paternova a purely political position?
6) it was canon
but House Norns navigators where not part of it
being an older strain
7) Do truemirrors (or TrueGlass) have any particular resonances with Hysh in particular, given their thematic similarities?
7) they do
1) Do modern Navigators still have a Paternova cycle, or did sane galactic biologists deliberately edit that out because your Navigators randomly killing each other at unpredictable intervals is kind of bad for planning galactic wars of survival?
1) some do
but all the new lines created after you spread the process dont
2) Is that still one Paternova, or different groups of houses running on their own cycle? How do you even get different houses to sync up on the same cycle anyway?
2) one patanova
1) Does the Paternova cycle seem to be inherited from the fish?
1) no
it seems to be an later pgrade
as a Patanova boosted navigator can see further then a Helheim Navigator
1) Ant mod to give him greater control over the navigators? Only person I can think of with the know how and inclination.
1) nah Dark Ageof technology major project
he was involved but only on the edges
focus was on boosting speeds, teh whole cycle thing was the only way they found to do it
the telepathic tells you its a Ritual
1) Was affecting most navigator lines intentional, or did it eventually get spread around across the galaxy? The DAoT not being a unified polity makes me think the latter.
1) eventuly spread throughout the galaxy
it was not actualy universal by the age of the imperium
but the old style navigators were just viewed as minor houses that had degenerated
1) And I imagine chaos/rebels snapped up a lot of them which just reinforced the perception? Independence from the paternova was likely seen as an upside.
1) yes
2) Setting aside the dune reference, I take it part of the reason the paternova process is so scuffed is because the people who made the ritual didn't really know what they were doing 😄
2) some of it
the rest is a few hundred generations without oversight by poeple who knew what they are doing
3) Do we have data on that upgrade? Does Ant? Can we develop alternatives or improvements?
3) only a few scraps
you have more on who did it, why and how it spread
historical texts are far more liable to spread and suvive then technical texts
1) Actually are the Norn more stable in part because they're not connected to the cycle, or is that a combination of luck and maybe a bit of narrative significance due to being the original?
1) not being connected to the cycle played a major part
while more effective, it added a buntch of fiddly parts
and more things to degrade and go wrong
tough narrative significance helped a lot
as did the fact that they had access to biologists who had a far better understanding of Navigators then the mechanicus
(Muspelheim and Niflheim, though they avided nilfhiemers where possible for obvious reasons)
1) Are only female House Norn members being capable of expressing the Navigator gene an old holdover from them being a prototype that didn't have all the kinks ironed out? Do modern mk 1 Navigator houses just have it possible in both genders as normal?
1) yeah its due to them being prototype
later gen 1s are both gender
2) Can primal users enact as much nonsense as circle of the moon druids with their transformations 😛
2) yes
1) Was the Bunyip a Ka project?
1) nope
Pure biology
1) What does it mean to be pure of Mind and Soul in our era?
1) unsual willpower and control over their Sa
2) What, if anything, do the Winds help Exemplar Minor Battle Psykers with? Does it improve their effective oomph, or at that skill level is it sort of marginal?
2) less boost oomph
more give greater breadth of options
3) Did the King have a plan to deal with the dragon back in the day? Or was it very much a "KO the others and see what it does."
3) he did
it was not that certain it would work
1) Odds are probably not. That said, was the dragon ever that involved in the WIH? Like we know it was involved (dragon men and all) and that it fought against the Outsider, but beyond that..
1) yes it was
it used its forces as tools
and tried to wipe out all life that it could
2) How the hell did the Deciever not get ripped apart by the other C'tan after that mess with the Outsider? Or was this more "execution deferred" until later.
2) they did not know that it let the Clown do it unopposed
not until a lot later anyway
1) That's a tick, did the necrons ever get to ask the C'tan why they do what they do? Beyond "we can stop asking questions?"
1) no
1) For the Necrons/C'tan who was the most dangerous Eldar God as a whole during the War ? the Clown for the Outsider Business ? Isha for keeping the Eldar going through multiple extinctions ? Khaine for sheer killing power ? Asuryan ?
1) the Clown due to Outsider
it was responsibe for more C'Tan deaths then any 5 other actors
2) Is trait growth/gain chance the same for defeating a lesser threat with little to no gear as it is for defeating a greater threat with good equipment, assuming the effective difficulty was the same for the person doing it?
2) equal
3) If Emps were to somehow deliver a Mission Accomplished to the Trust, would it decide to remain as a united polity? (Assuming he can suppress his Kingly God Aura enough to not mind-whammy people)
3) most of it would
4) Would Emps be able to help remedy some of the lingering xenophobia in the Trust if he instructed them to be less xenophobic? (Same assumption as above)
4) yes
5) Would emps prefer if the Trust would stop worshipping him or has he basically accepted that it's gonna be a Thing?
5) he would prefer not to be worshiped but has accepted that he will be
6) how xenophobic is ant
6) not very
he was midly so pre-emperor
but is now going the opposite direction in reaction to the empror
7) Did the craftworlds have fauxdar for the Avatars of Khaine or were their many defeats legitimate?
7) they were legitimate
but not all Avatars were equal
8) Who would win in a fight, a million Imperium era primaris psykers, or real life Earth?
8) Chaos
a million Imperial Era primaris psykers on one world would probebly end up summoning a daemon legion by accident
9) Who would die harder in a fight, Gotrek or the Ancient One?
9) the Ancient one
1) Going by the lore for Khaine's Ring of Fury, Vaul and Hekarti had beef with one another. That the same in Sparks? If so, was it something personal or just Cadai-Cytharai differences?
1) personal
started as an argument over enchantment vs crafting
words were said
it escalated
2) How'd Hekarti take Atharti's execution? Happy that she was finally dying but unhappy with the circumstances?
2) at first yes
though after a while she actualy grieved
while there was no love between them, they had still know each other for eons
love and hate are not so far removed as all of that
3) Is the kind of hate Vaul feels for Khaine different from that, because Khaine actually did something big to cause it as opposed to what seems like a sibling rivalry that somewhat escalated out of control for Hekarti and Atharti?
3) yes, that is more loahting
1) What's the Greater Good?
1) philosophy
2) What are the heavens and the underworld that the Cadai and Cytharai dwell in, respectively?
2) realms within the warp
now lost
4) With Eldar constantly reincarnating and the gods not having any devas, was Eldar heaven essentially an old folk's home where a double digit number of gods squabbled while watching reality TV?
4) pretty much
5) If one god has a domain and then another god claims the subdomain, does the domain now provide the first god less power or are domains and their subdomains separate pools of power?
5) the first god gets less power
but does not lose as much power as the second god gains
6) With warp rifts closed, what are sphinxes up to?
6) working with the border lions
7) How does their "locking" discipline/power square up to border lions?
7) its border walkings nateral counter
8) what does Vaul thinks about vulkan
8) gifted youngester, already gone far
will go further
1) Could a proto-God of the Greater Good form like canon seems to have in Embers?
1) not really
its not focused enough to form a godseed
or powerful enough to form a domain
1) I mean, what's the Greater Good about? What's its thesis? That the t'au species is superior and must conquer the galaxy for its own good? That everyone should work together for the greater good of all?
1) that everyone should work together for the greter good of all
and that cooperation and harmony is the key to success
1) Do certain Imperial descendants and/or Triumvirate worshippers who are feeling ironic use "Death to the False Emperor" as a battle cry when going against Tjapals?
1) yes
2) Oakheart and Oakleaf: Any relationship?
2) as far as you know no
3) How do inferno boltguns compare to pulse rifles?
3) you mean the tzeenchain ones?
notably better
1) Is it possible to do sorcery with eldar god avatars so long as those avatars are in the warp?
1) yes
1) Can eldar gods gain new domains or just lose and regain ones they already have like Ellinill?
1) yes
2) How did the Thousand Sons' Pyrae cult get robots?
2) weird connections were made
1) Any connection to that one Tomb ship?
1) no
1) Did any C'tan or Old Ones consider ditching and joining the other team (whether the other team would have accepted them I don't know.)
1) unknown
2) Could Areatha ask the king why he decided to come back?
2) not without risking diploamtic incident
3) or if he won't answer what was the coolest thing he saw wandering the universe?
3) no
- Location
- australia
..
…..
Does Avernus have a cat,
Or does the Border Lion have a planet?
Epilogue: A New Foundation: Who Will I Become?
- Location
- Alice Springs, Australia
Epilogue: A New Foundation: Who Will I Become?
As someone from a dark galaxy, you will try to brighten that galaxy. But your perspective is that of killer, of the general, playing the role of cold calculation. You have the view from all-high above, but the problem with the view from all-high above is that from that distance everyone looks like an ant. What you can do, though, is to set the stage and foundation for those on the ground to make things better. The same as Tranth had done for the Mechanicus, and the same as is being done for the Telepathica.
You fight to make this change and growth possible. You fight for and on behalf of your people that you have shaped and molded to what they are now. You fight so that they may grow free of a galaxy of endless strife and war forcing them to be what they are right now. In other words, you are fighting so that the chains of duty binding them to war will not need to hold them again.
This do you swear, not to some god, but to yourself and to your own soul.
Now that you have decided what you will strive to achieve in you life, you must decide who you plan to become to seek out those goals. Will you focus on war entirely, or spend some time trying to lay the ground in other ways.
[] You will focus on waging war against the threats to all, allowing others to build in your wake
[] As well as waging war you will try to support those who seek to make the galaxy better in what ways you can.
[] Write in Focus
You must also decide on where you will spend your attention, while staying on Avernus will be impossible without undermining your successor, both the Ynnari and the Trust would welcome your service as a general.
[] You will remain in the Imperial Trust, and lead your own people to war, rather then trusting them to lesser commanders.
[] You will become a general for the Ynnari, leaving your people so you can have the biggest impact that you can.
[] Write in Location
The above options are meant to be as much a guide as vote choices, and a write in of what Rotbart seeks to achieve which his life, what he fights for and how he will go about it is preferred.
As such any option that lacks a write in of at least 50 words will be ignored when votes are tallied
vote was split between
[X]Prepare, Expand and Consolidate.
and
[X] Rotbart for Freedom.
d2 to see which is chosen
d2=2: Rotbart for Freedom wins
[X] Rotbart for Freedom.
As someone from a dark galaxy, Rotbart will try to brighten that galaxy. But his perspective is that of killer, of the general, playing the role of cold calculation. He has the view from all-high above, but the problem with the view from all-high above is that from that distance everyone looks like an ant. What he can do, though, is to set the stage and foundation for those on the ground to make things better. The same as Tranth had done for the Mechanicus, and the same as is being done for the Telepathica.
Rotbart fights to make this change and growth possible. He fights for and on behalf of his people that he has shaped and molded to what they are now. He fights so that they may grow free of a galaxy of endless strife and war forcing them to be what they are right now. In other words, he is fighting so that the chains of duty binding them to war will not need to hold them again.
[X]Prepare, Expand and Consolidate.
and
[X] Rotbart for Freedom.
d2 to see which is chosen
d2=2: Rotbart for Freedom wins
[X] Rotbart for Freedom.
As someone from a dark galaxy, Rotbart will try to brighten that galaxy. But his perspective is that of killer, of the general, playing the role of cold calculation. He has the view from all-high above, but the problem with the view from all-high above is that from that distance everyone looks like an ant. What he can do, though, is to set the stage and foundation for those on the ground to make things better. The same as Tranth had done for the Mechanicus, and the same as is being done for the Telepathica.
Rotbart fights to make this change and growth possible. He fights for and on behalf of his people that he has shaped and molded to what they are now. He fights so that they may grow free of a galaxy of endless strife and war forcing them to be what they are right now. In other words, he is fighting so that the chains of duty binding them to war will not need to hold them again.
You fight to make this change and growth possible. You fight for and on behalf of your people that you have shaped and molded to what they are now. You fight so that they may grow free of a galaxy of endless strife and war forcing them to be what they are right now. In other words, you are fighting so that the chains of duty binding them to war will not need to hold them again.
This do you swear, not to some god, but to yourself and to your own soul.
Now that you have decided what you will strive to achieve in you life, you must decide who you plan to become to seek out those goals. Will you focus on war entirely, or spend some time trying to lay the ground in other ways.
[] You will focus on waging war against the threats to all, allowing others to build in your wake
[] As well as waging war you will try to support those who seek to make the galaxy better in what ways you can.
[] Write in Focus
You must also decide on where you will spend your attention, while staying on Avernus will be impossible without undermining your successor, both the Ynnari and the Trust would welcome your service as a general.
[] You will remain in the Imperial Trust, and lead your own people to war, rather then trusting them to lesser commanders.
[] You will become a general for the Ynnari, leaving your people so you can have the biggest impact that you can.
[] Write in Location
The above options are meant to be as much a guide as vote choices, and a write in of what Rotbart seeks to achieve which his life, what he fights for and how he will go about it is preferred.
As such any option that lacks a write in of at least 50 words will be ignored when votes are tallied
- Location
- United States
[X] You will become a general for the Ynnari, leaving your people so you can have the biggest impact that you can.
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- Location
- madison
Huh, you know I put in Prepare, Expand and Consolidate since i wasn't sure if for freedom answered that bit of the question. guess it did. I think it's a good cause for rotbart to fight for. Now we move on to the how he does that. some initial gut reactions here.
I think rotbarts has always in his own way been pushing to help those who would make the galaxy better, just under the aegis of helping the sane in general. Doing right by the most idealstic groups and ways he could help the sane overlapped enough that it was probably something he always cared about. maybe keep doing that? focus on places where he can both help the sane inch closer to victory and shape the future to come?
ok so this is a purely strategic decision, do we focus on the trust or the bigger picture? I don't think the trust needs Rotbart anymore, sure he's very very good, but the trust is in an amazing position right now. He would do far more good elsewhere.
I think rotbarts has always in his own way been pushing to help those who would make the galaxy better, just under the aegis of helping the sane in general. Doing right by the most idealstic groups and ways he could help the sane overlapped enough that it was probably something he always cared about. maybe keep doing that? focus on places where he can both help the sane inch closer to victory and shape the future to come?
ok so this is a purely strategic decision, do we focus on the trust or the bigger picture? I don't think the trust needs Rotbart anymore, sure he's very very good, but the trust is in an amazing position right now. He would do far more good elsewhere.
We really do not need more Eldar favor. Because of of the blind seer we have a lot. Also I would prefer we do not use too much since the Eldar are busy with the dragon and have like 1/5 Eldar there. Really the only big thing we can ask for is for access tot he black library and have Ridicully divine for us since it is somewhere between a planet and a system in size.
[x]Fighting for Hearth and Home
-[X] You may be one of the best generals of the sane, but the fact remains that at your heart you are still the administratum adept sent to avernus, you will fight, you will destroy any and all who oppose the end of this long night, but you will not leave a pile of ashes behind for those that follow, that was the mistake of the dominion, of the imperium, it will not be your mistake.
-[X] You will serve the Ynnari, where you may crush threats to the trust and galaxy in thier cradle, for the trust has more then competent generals and admirals for most things, but when the trust calls, when a threat to its existence rears its monstrous head, you will come back, you will lead the trust to victory, and then you will return to your duty for the galaxy, for avernus, For Henry, for Freya, For your children lost, For the children of the galaxy so they may have a future that is more then war.
@Durin is this acceptable?
-[X] You may be one of the best generals of the sane, but the fact remains that at your heart you are still the administratum adept sent to avernus, you will fight, you will destroy any and all who oppose the end of this long night, but you will not leave a pile of ashes behind for those that follow, that was the mistake of the dominion, of the imperium, it will not be your mistake.
-[X] You will serve the Ynnari, where you may crush threats to the trust and galaxy in thier cradle, for the trust has more then competent generals and admirals for most things, but when the trust calls, when a threat to its existence rears its monstrous head, you will come back, you will lead the trust to victory, and then you will return to your duty for the galaxy, for avernus, For Henry, for Freya, For your children lost, For the children of the galaxy so they may have a future that is more then war.
@Durin is this acceptable?
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One and Many
- Location
- Malaysia
[X] What Rotbart is Best At
Your experiences in life are lessons that others can use to avoid mistakes, not just your own. Your reputation is enough to bring those who might be buried unforgotten to the forefront of history. Those are things you have that you can and will use, on behalf of those who would make the galaxy a brighter place.
As for the Trust, they are both in a good state militarily speaking, and already there are other talented and experience generals (like Gaius Julius) who will fill the gap you leave behind. Helping the Ynarri keep the galaxy intact is how you can best do good in the galaxy as it is now.