I definitely think the obnoxious people on both sides are making this seem like more of an issue than it is. The rage bait “Warhammer is dead” and people calling anyone at all who has the slightest issue with the change a cry baby incel are both really annoying and not indicative of the majority of fans.
The main thing here for me regarding the fandom's majority feelings is that I honestly do not think that I've seen people care about the Custodes previous to the reveal anywhere even near as much as in the last week-ish. Like, they weren't a disliked faction, but if you traveled back a month or so and ran a popularity poll they also wouldn't be in the top ten of either personal favorite factions or ones seen as centrally important to the setting either. The amount of people that all of a sudden care so deeply about them strikes me as just a tiny bit suspicious.
On my end, the inevitable dilemma of having to choose between your oaths and loyalty and your ethics and desires, or of having to choose between distinct and contrasting oaths and loyalties, is a big part of the appeal of the knight as a character. Detaching it from that system does cost a lot of the appeal -- at that point what you've got isn't really all that distinct from any other heroic warrior figure, I feel.
Yes! I call it the Paladin Problem: a paladin is (usually) defined as being lawful good and they will at some point in their story have to choose between the lawful and the good. How they choose and what choice they make is interesting!
I don't get it. If some members of the community are so ''passionate'' to get mad over female custodes why there was no Drama around retcons over Necron lore and The War in Heaven which ruins the established lore?
That's the established lore now, but Warhammer's been an evolving setting for a while and the early G&F novels were written before some modern concepts, like the really strict "one human wizard, one lore" rule, were firmly established.
Slightly off topic, but my main question on this topic would actually be less what the natural environment of postglacial Europe was and if there was such a thing as a "natural environment" of postglacial Europe, mainly because modern humans entered Europe well into the glacial and have just sort of been there ever since. That, and most of the megafauna that normally lived there during interglacials was by then either extinct or nearly so. Models of what Europe looked like after the thaw sort of have to assume that human settlement and eventually the presence of domestic species are just kind of an endemic part of it, regardless of whether Europe was dominate by closed-canopy forest or temperate savannah. If anything, human settlement would predate the formation of the current interglacial ecological communities.
I unironically love this, because a thing that a lot of portrayals of elves just don't carry over from Tolkien's is that, at least by the Third Age, most of his elves are just... these very welcoming, friendly, down-to-earth people who just love woods and fields and growing things. Like, take Legolas, who'll happily pal around with the rest of the Fellowship, starts singing songs he doesn't know past the beginning, and doesn't like Minas Tirith much because it's all empty streets and carved marble without any growing things around -- this bit right here is a lot closer to his characterization in particular than the vast majority of haughty, distant elves in modern fantasy.
The issue is that, when the unreliable narrator is being written in a general person-less omniescent narrator voice, this particular bit of nuance tends to be lost.
My question here is how this would interact with space. Does time keep speeding up continuously as you head up? Does this keep going past the atmosphere? Is it that time just slows down in gravity wells, while in empty space just zips by? It seems like by this logic, interstellar space would already have reached and exceeded the heat death of the universe while planets and stars are still in earlier stages of cosmic history -- how's that work?
Well,there's an eventual scientific explanation as to how this occurs, and the underlying mechanics of this are relevant. Also we need to define height and its relation to perception of time since "high place" and "big hole" are relative terms. Nothing would suggest that it does/should cap out at mere 2x. If being in say a the High Stones Sheffield (550 meters) is what gets you to the 2x mark than is Machu Pichu (over 3000 meters) experiencing time at nearly 12 times the Sea Level baseline? And if we're using our benchmark for mean time (Greenwich Royal Observatory) as the elevation for double time... its a blur for most mountain civilisations. Acclimation to "Altitude sickness": driven not just by changes in air pressure but now your brain literally being forced to process things at radically different speeds, would be nessicery and difficult to reliably obtain. SOMETHING physiological has to be going on in the body here, and it cant be healthy.
Would people in sped-up areas actually notice the difference? Like, your writeup here seems to be going with the assumption that, if I'm in an area with fast time, my thoughts or perception are still running in "regular" time and I need to adjust my reflexes and thinking speed to match, but would this be the case? It seems more natural to me to assume that the sped-up time would result in all relevant events, including biochemical processes in the brain, happening "faster". Consequently, a group of people living in a mountain area would see themselves as operating more or less normally, but would most likely perceive the people in the lowlands as going by at a crawl.
The big question to keep in mind in these situations is: what barriers (physical, social, whatever) do or do not exist that keep distinct populations from intermingling and interbreeding? If active and present barriers exist, then distinct groups of a broader population will persist and in the very long term become more physically different. If they don't, then the opposite will occur and they will gradually merge together.
Perhaps. Maybe the Emperor could only make male Marines because their templates (the Primarchs) were male. Maybe he didn't have the time or resources to make female Marines.
In the Monstrous Arcanum, they actually fall under the Skaven roster which sounds quite bizarre, right? The funny thing is, the lore kind of points this out. That Warpfire Dragons really hate Skaven because of the dragon's addiction to warpstone and their frequent conflict over scarce warpstone.
The Arcanum did describe it in its writeup as being something whose summoning rites were known to Beastman Bray-Shamans and Imperial Amber Wizards, which is where I think the confusion stems from, but otherwise, yeah, you're quite right.
I'm so used to visualizing Sheev as a withered old prune of a man that seeing him depicted as, like, somebody who was young and good-looking once is giving me genuine mental whiplash.
I definitely think the obnoxious people on both sides are making this seem like more of an issue than it is. The rage bait “Warhammer is dead” and people calling anyone at all who has the slightest issue with the change a cry baby incel are both really annoying and not indicative of the majority of fans.
The main thing here for me regarding the fandom's majority feelings is that I honestly do not think that I've seen people care about the Custodes previous to the reveal anywhere even near as much as in the last week-ish. Like, they weren't a disliked faction, but if you traveled back a month or so and ran a popularity poll they also wouldn't be in the top ten of either personal favorite factions or ones seen as centrally important to the setting either. The amount of people that all of a sudden care so deeply about them strikes me as just a tiny bit suspicious.
Not sure I get the difference between a doctoral degree and a PhD.
Dear, sweet not-really-but-kind-of-really God-Emporer, the sheer amount of data storage! How many Exobtyes of grudges would that be?
Why do you think the Votann have been running so slow?
Anyone got a link to the original post?
Here.
idk I feel like the inherently fucked-up nature of aristocracy/royalty is part of what makes the "loyal knight" trope so compelling.
On my end, the inevitable dilemma of having to choose between your oaths and loyalty and your ethics and desires, or of having to choose between distinct and contrasting oaths and loyalties, is a big part of the appeal of the knight as a character. Detaching it from that system does cost a lot of the appeal -- at that point what you've got isn't really all that distinct from any other heroic warrior figure, I feel.
Yes! I call it the Paladin Problem: a paladin is (usually) defined as being lawful good and they will at some point in their story have to choose between the lawful and the good. How they choose and what choice they make is interesting!
There's a trope for that!
One day -- one beautiful, glorious day -- we're going to have memes here again that aren't about the bloody Custodes.
I don't get it. If some members of the community are so ''passionate'' to get mad over female custodes why there was no Drama around retcons over Necron lore and The War in Heaven which ruins the established lore?
This art got used in Tamurkhan too, as I recall.
How is that even possible? I thought that normal, uncorrupted humans can only ever use a single Lore.
That's the established lore now, but Warhammer's been an evolving setting for a while and the early G&F novels were written before some modern concepts, like the really strict "one human wizard, one lore" rule, were firmly established.
Slightly off topic, but my main question on this topic would actually be less what the natural environment of postglacial Europe was and if there was such a thing as a "natural environment" of postglacial Europe, mainly because modern humans entered Europe well into the glacial and have just sort of been there ever since. That, and most of the megafauna that normally lived there during interglacials was by then either extinct or nearly so. Models of what Europe looked like after the thaw sort of have to assume that human settlement and eventually the presence of domestic species are just kind of an endemic part of it, regardless of whether Europe was dominate by closed-canopy forest or temperate savannah. If anything, human settlement would predate the formation of the current interglacial ecological communities.
It's the glaciation. Even today, cold and temperate oceans tend to be more productive than warm ones.
I unironically love this, because a thing that a lot of portrayals of elves just don't carry over from Tolkien's is that, at least by the Third Age, most of his elves are just... these very welcoming, friendly, down-to-earth people who just love woods and fields and growing things. Like, take Legolas, who'll happily pal around with the rest of the Fellowship, starts singing songs he doesn't know past the beginning, and doesn't like Minas Tirith much because it's all empty streets and carved marble without any growing things around -- this bit right here is a lot closer to his characterization in particular than the vast majority of haughty, distant elves in modern fantasy.
This is actually the case, the whole of 40k is, by design, unreliable narrator. Everything is cannon, nothing is necessarily true
The issue is that, when the unreliable narrator is being written in a general person-less omniescent narrator voice, this particular bit of nuance tends to be lost.
And then there’s the Alpharius novel that start and end with “I am Alpharius and this is a lie.”
Right! That's a very good way of doing that!
"I'm really feeling down in the dumps today, World Eaters... I could use a pick-me-up..."
She would break him. He couldn't survive banging her without his ring.
But what a way to go.
My question here is how this would interact with space. Does time keep speeding up continuously as you head up? Does this keep going past the atmosphere? Is it that time just slows down in gravity wells, while in empty space just zips by? It seems like by this logic, interstellar space would already have reached and exceeded the heat death of the universe while planets and stars are still in earlier stages of cosmic history -- how's that work?
Well,there's an eventual scientific explanation as to how this occurs, and the underlying mechanics of this are relevant. Also we need to define height and its relation to perception of time since "high place" and "big hole" are relative terms. Nothing would suggest that it does/should cap out at mere 2x. If being in say a the High Stones Sheffield (550 meters) is what gets you to the 2x mark than is Machu Pichu (over 3000 meters) experiencing time at nearly 12 times the Sea Level baseline? And if we're using our benchmark for mean time (Greenwich Royal Observatory) as the elevation for double time... its a blur for most mountain civilisations. Acclimation to "Altitude sickness": driven not just by changes in air pressure but now your brain literally being forced to process things at radically different speeds, would be nessicery and difficult to reliably obtain. SOMETHING physiological has to be going on in the body here, and it cant be healthy.
Would people in sped-up areas actually notice the difference? Like, your writeup here seems to be going with the assumption that, if I'm in an area with fast time, my thoughts or perception are still running in "regular" time and I need to adjust my reflexes and thinking speed to match, but would this be the case? It seems more natural to me to assume that the sped-up time would result in all relevant events, including biochemical processes in the brain, happening "faster". Consequently, a group of people living in a mountain area would see themselves as operating more or less normally, but would most likely perceive the people in the lowlands as going by at a crawl.
It's a pretty impressive piece of cutlery, I have to give it that, but it's no Narsil.
The big question to keep in mind in these situations is: what barriers (physical, social, whatever) do or do not exist that keep distinct populations from intermingling and interbreeding? If active and present barriers exist, then distinct groups of a broader population will persist and in the very long term become more physically different. If they don't, then the opposite will occur and they will gradually merge together.
Perhaps. Maybe the Emperor could only make male Marines because their templates (the Primarchs) were male. Maybe he didn't have the time or resources to make female Marines.
In the Monstrous Arcanum, they actually fall under the Skaven roster which sounds quite bizarre, right? The funny thing is, the lore kind of points this out. That Warpfire Dragons really hate Skaven because of the dragon's addiction to warpstone and their frequent conflict over scarce warpstone.
Well, not really.
The Arcanum did describe it in its writeup as being something whose summoning rites were known to Beastman Bray-Shamans and Imperial Amber Wizards, which is where I think the confusion stems from, but otherwise, yeah, you're quite right.
I'm so used to visualizing Sheev as a withered old prune of a man that seeing him depicted as, like, somebody who was young and good-looking once is giving me genuine mental whiplash.
To be fair, I would say even left is a bit unrealistic for what they will most likely look in canon.
what site doesnt do it this way?
Twitter's one. When something's retweeted, the commentary appears first and the original is framed below it.