The Radiant Shepherd - A Warhammer 40K God-Emperor Quest

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You know, I've been doing some research. The Tau are currently involved in a war with Orks, but when it ends, the progression in tech and legions of veterans will lead to the Third Sphere Expansion in 997.

Considering the Tau's lack of a god (for now) and minimal use of psykers, Shadowsun or Aun'va could be good targets for curses. Use a curse to keep them in a bloody war.

Maybe not immediately, but 997 and all the horrors of the Time of Ending will come sooner or later.
 
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EVA-Saiyajin said:
@Arcanestomper

As there has been no votes for some time, may I ask when you plan to close the vote?

And would an Aid navigators action be sufficient to bring the Fire Hawks out of the Warp, as it was with Spire?
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Right now.

And bringing the Fire Hawks out of the warp is impossible. As they are the legion of the damned.
Scheduled vote count started by Arcanestomper on Jul 21, 2024 at 2:29 PM, finished with 348 posts and 30 votes.
  • [X] The Infinite Truth
    [X] A Knight's Duty
    [X] Plan Light of Hope, Light of Knowledge
    [x] - Observe: clone of fulgrim
    [x] - send visions to kor phaeron and Erebus tricking them that they need to gather their forces and challenges the black legion openly.
    [x] - observe: Constantine valdor
    [X] Plan: Communement and Tech
    -[X] Commune (4 point)
    --[X] Trajann Valoris, Captain-General of the Adeptus Custodes: Call for him to bring the Magos Belisaurius Cawl to the throne room swiftly, for he is much needed for the golden path. And to send a Shield host to the Ameythyst palcae on as Karis Cephalon and retrieve the Angel located within by all means necessary.
    - [X] The Anathema: Look into ourselves and search through our broken Psyche for the memoires long lost of the workings of the Imperial Webway gate before its fall by Magnus the Red. No matter the suffering, the memory of that technology must be found before we commune with Cawl.
    - [X] Blessing
    -[X] 2 point Bless Rashian with charisma and luck in the endeavor to enlighten the Mechanicus and improve their efficiency.
    [X] The Infinite Truth
    -[X] Send Visions (5 Points)
    --[X] Oud Oudia Raskian: The Dark Age of Technology as you knew it, the wonders and horrors of knowledge that even the Mechanicus at its height did not know. The signing of the Treaty of Mars, and your own manifestation as Omnissiah before the Magos of that era. The progressive factions of the Mechanicus, who operated with your blessings during the Great Crusade, and the service they rendered to humanity and the Quest for Knowledge. The blade of the Enemy, blinding one eye of the Mechanicus, luring them to twin sins of regression and rebellion, diverting them from the path. A occulary of golden and ethereal clockwork, which you integrate seamlessly into Raskian's bleeding eyesocket, that he and all the Mechanicus might see anew. Flashes of the Choral Engine's location and similarity to the Golden Throne, hidden STCs, guardsmen of the Solar Auxilia who's kit would put any Skitarii to shame. Yourself-As-Omnissiah, rising new and whole from a repaired golden throne, blessing Raskian for what he has done.
    -[X] Guide the Tarot (1 Point)
    --[X] Magi attending the pilgrimage: The same cards for everyone, no matter how many times they draw on the surface of Mars - MAGUS - REVELATION - FAMILIA HUMANA - GREAT EYE. Raskian speaks your truth, the Mechanicus is an integral part of humanity and must protect it, Chaos approaches.
    - [X] Blessing
    --[X] Oud Oudia Raskian (1 Point): Charisma and the apparant blessing of the Motive Force to work mechanical wonders, that he might prove himself your chosen.
    --[X] The Lamenters (2 Points): Fortune and fortitude whenever they aid those most in need.
    --[X] Fidus Kryptman (1 Point): The light of clarity and discernment, triumphing over fear. None who might be spared can be lost, if the depthless storm is to be overcome.
    [x] Plan Email From the Omnissiah
    [X] The Light of Small Honest Souls
    -[X] Send Visions (5 Points)
    --[X] Oud Oudia Raskian: The Dark Age of Technology as you knew it, the wonders and horrors of knowledge that even the Mechanicus at its height did not know. The signing of the Treaty of Mars, and your own manifestation as Omnissiah before the Magos of that era. The progressive factions of the Mechanicus, who operated with your blessings during the Great Crusade, and the service they rendered to humanity and the Quest for Knowledge. The blade of the Enemy, blinding one eye of the Mechanicus, luring them to twin sins of regression and rebellion, diverting them from the path. A occulary of golden and ethereal clockwork, which you integrate seamlessly into Raskian's bleeding eyesocket, that he and all the Mechanicus might see anew. Flashes of the Choral Engine, hidden STCs, guardsmen of the Solar Auxilia who's kit would put any Skitarii to shame.
    -[X] Guide the Tarot (1 Point)
    --[X] Magi attending the pilgrimage: The same cards for everyone, no matter how many times they draw on the surface of Mars - MAGUS - REVELATION - FAMILIA HUMANA - GREAT EYE. Raskian speaks your truth, the Mechanicus is an integral part of humanity and must protect it, Chaos approaches.
    -[X] Bless (4 points)
    —[X] Bless the men and women of the Imperial Navy and the Guard. Let their hearts remain stalwart in the face of evil, let their guns strike true, and let them be led by those who won't spend their lives wantonly
    [X] A Knight's Duty
    -[X] Commune (10 points)Lion El'Jonson: "Wake up, My Son/My Loyal Knight/The First, your wounds are healed and your slumber is at an end. I/Your Sons/The Imperium have need of you once more. Wake up, tell your sons they have my forgiveness, and find those who have wandered but may yet be saved, and prepare them for Cadia/for the Hive Fleets/for the wars to come. Wake Up.
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In my opinion we don't need to permanently kill him. We just need to trap whoever his next vessel is during the transition. Then it's less an issue of permanently killing him, but instead just killing him once and putting him in a stasis field or in some other full body confinement.

Heck, by trapping him we can actually find a way to kill him without running around like our heads are cut off.
 
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Otherwise human souls are torn apart by the warp and dissipated which there is no coming back from.
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That sucks for all those thinking they're going to the Emperor in death.

And since we can't put conditional points we can't really resurrect anyone most of the time unless they die near the end of the turn allowing us to (maybe) do it if we act immediately.

Which explains why you don't really see people get resurrected until Roboute, and even that is likely a special case from being a Primarch and the Great Rift enhancing the God-Emperor's power.
 
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A fair amount, and you can resurrect someone as a mortal if you are fast enough grabbing their soul. Otherwise human souls are torn apart by the warp and dissipated which there is no coming back from.
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Sorry but would it be possible to get a number range? Like close to 5 or greater? On that same note, would it be correct to guess that if we put enough blessings on a person, then they'd become a Living Saint and ascend even if we didn't necessarily want them to, like a chaos champion becoming a Daemon Prince?
 
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Could a pious Astartes with enough oomph like Sigismund be resurrected as a Living Saint?

Considering how non-psyker Faith supernatural stuff is unaffected by Null and Pylons and the origin of the Black Templars, he'd be awesome assisting Helbrecht in the hypothetical Sautekh campaign.
 
So infinite Truth won cool, having read the posts I feel blessing a bunch of weapons for named characters seems like a good move to give them that little extra combat boost to tip the scale.
 
ChiefTurtle117 said:
Sorry but would it be possible to get a number range? Like close to 5 or greater? On that same note, would it be correct to guess that if we put enough blessings on a person, then they'd become a Living Saint and ascend even if we didn't necessarily want them to, like a chaos champion becoming a Daemon Prince?
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Somewhere between five and ten. I don't see how a living saint could form from someone rejected by the Emperor.

EVA-Saiyajin said:
@Arcanestomper
Could a pious Astartes with enough oomph like Sigismund be resurrected as a Living Saint?

Considering how non-psyker Faith supernatural stuff is unaffected by Null and Pylons and the origin of the Black Templars, he'd be awesome assisting Helbrecht in the hypothetical Sautekh campaign.
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An Astartes is still human at the end of the day so yes.
 
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Somewhere between five and ten. I don't see how a living saint could form from someone rejected by the Emperor.
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i meant that as a comparison. About how when a Chaos Champion gets sufficient attention from their god, they end up becoming a Daemon Prince or become a Chaos Spawn from how much Warp energy they've accumulated.

I doubt that Emperor blessed people will become Spawns but we don't want them becoming a Saint without intending them to be.

When we want to make a Living Saint, would previous blessing points count or we do need to bless in a single go to make a Living Saint?
 
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So next time we talk to our custodes, should we have a messenger sent out to give an invitation to the Laughing God for a talk? Or at least give it to one of his followers to pass on?

I mean he's the only anti-chaos God around other than Big E and working something out with him would be an incredible help.
 
Well, if we ever want to go through some low-cost effort's, we can try and use tarot to try and do more than one message a turn, though its not like what we were doing before was majorly complex for the most part. If I had any idea, we could send a tarot message or two to a few highlords or induvial's, like Trajan to go and do stuff, like sending a force to hunt for a Angel, a lost weapon of Eons past on a palace of Amethyst on the planet of Karis Celaphola. While also warning of a threat beyond the stars whose coming will, be beyond counting and will try and kill everything unless the High lords are warned about the threat involved. Or telling Raskian in the tarot, vague descriptors of locations of places or artifacts of immense power and danger, like the seventh Blackstone fortress in Pacificus, or a beacon in the warp, powerful and vital for the throne, located on Makabeal, fragile but vital.

Stuff vague and not overly complex, and relatively simple to understand without overly trying to dumb complex thought into the tarot system that will just increase the amount of nonsense and misunderstanding the Tarot brings if we try and bring extremely complex orders or thought patterns into messages with a chance at misinterpreting.

That leaves enough room to focus on points to spend on warriors' weapons like Helbrecht, or following the advice of our voices in our head next turn, or as mentioned try and contact the Laughing god for an alliance of sorts. Which could help us stop the Coheria thread from turning out the way it did, since it had his major involvement all over the place from his Harlequins.
 
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I think the best course of action is to somehow trap his soul in something so he can never break free. Something like an eldar soul stone or some sort of STC like a trap box from ghost busters.

But given our current situation, we have very little options to pick and chose from, if any at all.
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We could try to use a Tesseract labyrinth:

"Tesseract labyrinths are fist-sized cubes of Necron design that are capable of imprisoning any beings, including those of pure energy, like daemons, for which capability it is particularly prized by daemonhunters. A simple push-button interface is used to engage the device's zero-point reactor that enables them to imprison targets within their chambers."
 
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We could try to use a Tesseract labyrinth:

"Tesseract labyrinths are fist-sized cubes of Necron design that are capable of imprisoning any beings, including those of pure energy, like daemons, for which capability it is particularly prized by daemonhunters. A simple push-button interface is used to engage the device's zero-point reactor that enables them to imprison targets within their chambers."
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If we had a Tesseract Labrinth there are so many other threats more deserving and worth using it on. Angron or Mortarion being two of them.
 
Is Shadowlight a thing here @Arcanestomper, since its being watched over by Mechanicus members and therefore open to our eyes on Perlia?

The idea of Emps emulating a Slann Relic Priest even more by holding a magical tablet is amusing.

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If we had a Tesseract Labrinth there are so many other threats more deserving and worth using it on. Angron or Mortarion being two of them.
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Wouldn't work anyway for the ones the Grey Knights have. They involve tricking the daemon target into going in.
 
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i meant that as a comparison. About how when a Chaos Champion gets sufficient attention from their god, they end up becoming a Daemon Prince or become a Chaos Spawn from how much Warp energy they've accumulated.

I doubt that Emperor blessed people will become Spawns but we don't want them becoming a Saint without intending them to be.

When we want to make a Living Saint, would previous blessing points count or we do need to bless in a single go to make a Living Saint?
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Blessings stack.

EVA-Saiyajin said:
Is Shadowlight a thing here @Arcanestomper, since its being watched over by Mechanicus members and therefore open to our eyes on Perlia?

The idea of Emps emulating a Slann Relic Priest even more by holding a magical tablet is amusing.


Wouldn't work anyway for the ones the Grey Knights have. They involve tricking the daemon target into going in.
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The shadowlight exists.
 
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