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Volume 2 felt like a deranged Doctor Who special to me. 1. Space and time coming apart, merging locations everywhere 2. A place with a name that could be the episode title (The Inevitable City) 3. An all-powerful cosmic force being stopped by a riveting speech by an immortal 4. Most twists being walked back shortly after introduction 5. Time loop that must be completed for #3 to occur
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Demiurge4 posted:I think there's definitely multiple ways book 3 can pan out. That Malcador one would be fun but Dawn of Fire and Dark Imperium make it pretty unlikely
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Rye Bread posted:Volume 2 felt like a deranged Doctor Who special to me. Yeah, it rules. I'm really hoping that Part 3 does end with The Emperor, post-Horus, about to pop into The Dark King despite trying to reject it in vol 2. Then the bits of himself that he's expunged, his compassion and whatnot, is in fact the catalyzing Star Child showing up in the Dawn of Fire stuff, and we'll get two God-Emperors, one of Ruin and one of Compassion.
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Nov 12, 2023 16:00
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Inspector_666 posted:You're gonna talk about Fulgrim's nipples when this exists?! https://twitter.com/VoiceOfKosh/status/1723710279702196544?s=20
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Nov 12, 2023 16:22
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I got a special offer for 3 months of audioable for £3 pm. Got end and a death pt1. Why do I not listen to all my Warhams? Reading it is a slog but the audio is the perfect format. I should have learnt this lesson from the regents shadow series where i listened to the first and read the second.
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Nov 12, 2023 16:45
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This, the poster was showing them - The End and The Death Volume III, the goons, the shitposts - this will be. The End and The Death Volume III will be released, like so. We will be here. These are the shitposts and  s we will carry. This - as the poster reminds them to use spoiler tags - is how we will avoid spoiling the people who haven't read it yet. This will happen. The book will not get delayed, for here, see? It is already released.
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Nov 12, 2023 16:53
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https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/11/12/sunday-preview-war-on-an-epic-scale-in-the-age-of-darkness/ You want new books? Of course ya do! A bunch of releases coming up for pre-order next weekend. First up we have the chance of maybe getting a really good Dawn of Fire book, with Chris Wraigth's Sea of Souls, featuring Admiral Eddie Murphy.   Also available in the usual LE version, available in about 1200 copies I assume. But none mentioned. Then on the AoS side there's Temple of Silence by Richard Strachan.  Then Hammers of Sigmar: First Forged, also by Richard Strachan, and The Last Volari by Gary Kloster are getting paperback versions.  Lastly, the first three Ciaphas Cain novels; For The Emperor, Caves of Ice, and The Traitor’s Hand are going to be available as Print on Demand between... some dates that aren't specified. 
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Nov 12, 2023 19:10
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EatD 2 spoilers. The good: - Dorn lecturing Khorne. Bonus points for Dorn's amusement at Khorne's frustrations. - Horus setting temptations for all four groups assaulting the Vengeful Spirit, and the Emperor being the only one who falls into the trap. Also maybe I'm reading into this too much, but it feels like Horus picked the wrong ones for each person. Constantin gets rapid change when he's built to resist that, Dorn gets giving into bloodlust which he's built to resist, Sanguinius gets decay which has never been a problem for him. - The Emperor burning out the Custodians. - The scene with Erebus getting beaten up by a servitor with a box. - Ollanius calling out the Emperor for being an impatient idiot. The bad: - It's hard to judge the Sanguinius fight on its own without the Emperor's fight, but I was expecting a bit more than what we got. Either Sanguinius succumbing to the Blood Rage and still failing (grimdark), or the four gods offering Sanguinius the chance to become their champion and him rejecting them. It wasn't bad, but still felt less than it could have been. The line about Horus using the eighth dimension to win was pretty great though. - The fakeout death scenes are getting irritating. Thane's death-not-death in particular. - The lack of time or space and breakdown in everything is well written, but it also removes the reader's investment. If there are no borders or boundaries to defend or attack, nothing matters. Here's hoping that Abnett sticks the landing in part 3.
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Let's Talk About THAT Sanguinius Theory - 40K Theories https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxKMm96NgG0
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:I am going to be miffed, trending on irked, if this is how the Dark King plot line resolves. I actually loved the idea of the Dark King; it made a lot of things snap into place and make sense, like why the Chaos gods went to all this trouble in the first place, why the Emperor so obsessively hid the truth about the Warp from even His closest associates, and so on. It was an incredibly well laid trap, and it really does feel like the kind of cosmic gambit Chaos could pull off. And then it’s foiled by Some Guy going “no, Emperor, don’t become the Dark King!” And the Emperor says “you know what, you’re right. I won’t become the Dark King.” I'd be REALLY surprised if that's the end of it, given how much of the previous book's page count was accounts of how the Emperor never changes his mind, listens to reason, and always considers only himself forever correct. Erda, Malcador, and Oll each made big points of it. This would be the first time in his millennia of life that he took anyone's advice, and would represent a huge character development if it's true. I think he only learned that the black lightning sphere and undead entourage aren't the best look. He's saying "This intervention was a success, I'm through with
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Nov 13, 2023 03:23
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The book makes the point that it’s different this time because he has the perspective of a god and can actually see he’s loving up rather than those before times when he was all too human
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Nov 13, 2023 03:26
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I mean, it seems like he's really divesting himself of a whole lot of warp juice. You see that in the reaction of the daemons and Erebus. But I'd be very surprised if we've seen the last of the Dark King issue. On a potentially related note, how the hell can Erebus basically only need a couple hundred years to pull off a masterful scheme to make Chaos ascendant and then spend the next 10000 years doing jack poo poo except squabbling with Kor Phaeron for influence over the remaining Word Bearers?
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Nov 13, 2023 03:31
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euphronius posted:The book makes the point that it’s different this time because he has the perspective of a god and can actually see he’s loving up rather than those before times when he was all too human Ah poo poo, yeah I forgot about that. Huh.
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habeasdorkus posted:I mean, it seems like he's really divesting himself of a whole lot of warp juice. You see that in the reaction of the daemons and Erebus. But I'd be very surprised if we've seen the last of the Dark King issue. Because he didn't do anything but be a useful pawn in the right places at the right times, that's kinda the thing with serving Chaos.
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habeasdorkus posted:I mean, it seems like he's really divesting himself of a whole lot of warp juice. You see that in the reaction of the daemons and Erebus. But I'd be very surprised if we've seen the last of the Dark King issue. Box drunk.
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habeasdorkus posted:I mean, it seems like he's really divesting himself of a whole lot of warp juice. You see that in the reaction of the daemons and Erebus. But I'd be very surprised if we've seen the last of the Dark King issue. Sextro posted:Because he didn't do anything but be a useful pawn in the right places at the right times, that's kinda the thing with serving Chaos. This and also he is a ruthless narcissist but also also really stupid. Pinnacle stupid rear end in a top hat who thinks himself the right hand of the dark gods but is just getting played with like the game he liked to play torturing scorpions in the desert as a child. euphronius posted:The book makes the point that it’s different this time because he has the perspective of a god and can actually see he’s loving up rather than those before times when he was all too human Ah, all those other times I was like those mere mortals succumbing to hubris and punished by the gods. I'm better than that now and perhaps even better than the gods!
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Grilled Beef posted:Can you unpack what you mean by “ He saw what Sanguinius had done and was able to do and did the same thing ”? Because unless I missed something what Sanguinius did was find his way to Horus and fight him, nothing else super special. Did I miss some crucial bit of lore because I didn’t have larger lore context? I’m basing this off current canon which is that Sanguinius sacrificed himself to wound Horus so the Emperor could win. Sanguinius made a choice to die because he’s seen some fragment of the future where his death ensures the potential of defeating Horus because by dying there is no future where Horus kills him. In this way the Emperor has the potential to make the same sacrifice by locking this moment of un-time in perpetuity and preventing Horus from progressing to his final apotheosis.
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place is looking a fuckin proscribed tractara in an inquisitorial fortress
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Isn't blackstone's thing that it's immune to warp fuckery? I can't figure out why there's a jail made out of the stuff. Feels like that should be important later though.
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habeasdorkus posted:On a potentially related note, how the hell can Erebus basically only need a couple hundred years to pull off a masterful scheme to make Chaos ascendant and then spend the next 10000 years doing jack poo poo except squabbling with Kor Phaeron for influence over the remaining Word Bearers? He spends the next 10,000 years in the Warp, dealing with his traumatic brain injury, courtesy of being utterly owned by an agri-servitor with a box and then immediately afterward having a gigantic wall dropped on his head. Man is in no shape to scheme after that.
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Broken Record Talk posted:He spends the next 10,000 years in the Warp, dealing with his traumatic brain injury, courtesy of being utterly owned by an agri-servitor with a box and then immediately afterward having a gigantic wall dropped on his head. Man is in no shape to scheme after that. Honestly this would work for me. Dude's gonna have a cerebral hematoma that catches up to him while he's mocking Abbadon for being a nerd during their fight with Valdor and the ensuing stroke is gonna have him re-learning how to piss and poo poo for millennia inside the Warp.
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moths posted:Isn't blackstone's thing that it's immune to warp fuckery? I can't figure out why there's a jail made out of the stuff. Blackstone is physical matter that interacts with the warp. Usually it smooths it out and damps anything that's trying to come through from the other side, which is what it was created for during the War in Heaven, but it can be made to stir it up and amplify warp incursions in the wrong hands. The Blackstone Fortresses are gigantic system killing warp based weapons, for example.
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moths posted:Isn't blackstone's thing that it's immune to warp fuckery? I can't figure out why there's a jail made out of the stuff. Build a jail out of it so you can hold psykers there
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Cheers for the thread suggestions. Have got into Warhammer this year, and am 2/3rds through the Eisenhorn trilogy. A good book to listen whilst working.
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Someone remind me of the non-bad youtube 40k universe channels? Lore mostly but I'm not opposed to tabletoppers or even painting if the videos are fun.
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First two that come to mind are 40k Theories and Woof Lord Rho. There are a few others I’ll edit in or post later if I can.
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Vaults of Terra used to be a decent channel years back. I think Luetin and Chapter Master Valrak are supposed to be okay.
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sharknado slashfic posted:Someone remind me of the non-bad youtube 40k universe channels? Lore mostly but I'm not opposed to tabletoppers or even painting if the videos are fun. Luetin, Occulus Imperia and Arbitor Ian are good starts.
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Has anyone tried to explain the way Las weaponry actually works or am I better off shrugging and saying "dark age of technology super science" Trying to figure out how weapons that have no kinetic impact like a lascannon can cause tanks to explode.
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It’s DAOT tech. Specifically the battery packs
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Arc Hammer posted:Trying to figure out how weapons that have no kinetic impact like a lascannon can cause tanks to explode. I don't think that's all that weird - if you dump enough energy into an object fast enough it will go boom, and the type of energy doesn't matter all that much, it's going to turn into heat one way or another. Current day laser weapons already make small metal objects explode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyUh_xSjvXQ
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Tanks are also famously full of explosives.
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It really is the powercells that are magic, you can charge the things over a campfire even!
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The magic of them is as mentioned you can charge them with like microwave background radiation
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Add enough heat to anything in an enclosed space and it will eventually explode, especially when it's an eclosed space that is partially full of literal explosives.
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Fair enough. If the Imperium decided to use Las power cells for anything other than ammunition it would probably be a wonder source of cheap energy. But then again, Imperium.
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The Imperium already produces incredible amounts of energy with its various industrial furnaces. It just all gets allotted to
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Yeah uh that's just the tank cooking off.
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Roller Coast Guard posted:Luetin, Occulus Imperia and Arbitor Ian are good starts. These three are a really solid start for lore channels. Ian has a nice, solid down to earth take on everything. I particularly like the book club series he had going with Myra Mange (see does 40k author interviews on her own channel, check those out too). Oculus has the conceit that he's one of Guilliman's historitors and he's recording history in-universe. I love his vocal style. So relaxing. He's going through 40K backstory starting with the consolidation wars on Terra and is up to the Betrayal at Calth. Luetin gets high as gently caress and writes six-hour scripts about the nature of the emperor. He also puts out some pretty tight videos on specific topics, but yeah, sometimes he just gets high and writes scripts. This is a plus in my book, too many people take 40K too seriously.
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