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Kylaer posted:Erebus has an eight-pointed fidget spinner. It makes the most annoying sound imaginable, and he flicks it constantly. I only know Erebus from teatd but I lovethat shitbag so much. He is like Deadpool but back before he was played by a likeable international film star.
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notaspy posted:I only know Erebus from teatd but I lovethat shitbag so much. Nah, Deadpool is insane. Erebus is not, he's just an absolute evil prick, he knows it and enjoys it very much.
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# ? Apr 20, 2024 22:00 |
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Erebus is the best because he's the worst. Such a shitbag and so much fun because of it.
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# ? Apr 21, 2024 00:14 |
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Magnus, in the midst of his impassioned plea for understanding at the Council of Nikaea, fixes his sole eye on Erebus, sitting in the front row of the amphitheater. Erebus is chewing bubblegum, and as Magnus watches, he blows an enormous bubble that, in defiance of physics, forms an eight-pointed star before bursting loudly.
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# ? Apr 21, 2024 00:36 |
I think that there can be some overlap between enuncia and words of power in general if we allow ourselves to be a little less prescriptive about authoritarial intent. Reading everything through the lens of what GW would allow or what one author knows about the other can be a bit limiting, sometimes a thing is a thing because it would be neat.
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# ? Apr 21, 2024 00:39 |
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So what do you guys think Erdas whole magic thing dealio was
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# ? Apr 21, 2024 01:56 |
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Telsa Cola posted:So what do you guys think Erdas whole magic thing dealio was My guess is something similar to how the Wolves, White Scars, and eldar channel the warp. Some sort of lens/filter. Not that we'll ever get anything more about her.
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Shroud posted:My guess is something similar to how the Wolves, White Scars, and eldar channel the warp. Some sort of lens/filter. It would be cool if her magic came through Terra like the wolves with Fenris and she showed up in 40k and her magic was all hosed up because as bad off as Terra was in 30k it's a million times worse in 40k.
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# ? Apr 21, 2024 07:12 |
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I think Erda having interactions with the Primarchs would be an interesting angle. Roboute has huge hangups from his childhood and doesn't consider the Emperor his real father.
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# ? Apr 21, 2024 09:07 |
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Isn't Erda dead dead? Like, stabbed with a magic knife dead?
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# ? Apr 21, 2024 09:36 |
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Isn't Erda dead dead? Like, stabbed with a magic knife dead? Erebus'd
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https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/04/21/sunday-preview-the-tau-empire-needs-you/ Do you want some books? Of course ya do! Next weekend is a mixed bag of paperback and anthology releases. First up there's War for the Mortal Realms, an anthology containing stories by Chris Wraight, Josh Reynolds, and Darius Hinks. Then Yndrasta: The Celestial Spear by Noah Van Nguyen is getting a paperback release at last. For those who haven't gotten The End and The Death: Volume II yet, it's also getting a paperback release.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Isn't Erda dead dead? Like, stabbed with a magic knife dead? Off screen
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# ? Apr 21, 2024 18:25 |
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Isn't Erda dead dead? Like, stabbed with a magic knife dead? Allegedly
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# ? Apr 21, 2024 18:28 |
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Erda with the star child leading the other imperium faction that forms on the otherside of the rift. You heard it here first.
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# ? Apr 21, 2024 18:31 |
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Angry Lobster posted:Allegedly For all the things you can say about Erebus, you can't say he's not good at stabbing people.
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Kylaer posted:For all the things you can say about Erebus, you can't say he's not good at stabbing people. Yeah, he has an impressive track record at stabbing people in the back but not so much when the victim can defend himself. Let's all remember when he was thwarted by a servitor pounding him in the face. All jokes aside, GW/authors love this kind of ambiguous states for characters. It's basically their way of opening up the possibility to brin them back in the future with minimal retconning.
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I am pretty sure the current intention at BL is to leave Erda dead. Not to say they won’t change their minds later, but Erebus’s internal monologue sure seems to think she’s dead (iow he’s not just lying about killing her to someone else). She’s too major and important a character to be alive. Then again, LE2 is alive, unambiguously, and that’s pretty weird. They might have plans for him. His death in TEATD was extremely predictable and so when it kept not happening I was pretty shocked.
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:I am pretty sure the current intention at BL is to leave Erda dead. Not to say they won’t change their minds later, but Erebus’s internal monologue sure seems to think she’s dead (iow he’s not just lying about killing her to someone else). She’s too major and important a character to be alive. You gotta hand it to LE2, getting facetime with the Big Four and not immediately going mad is a pretty neat trick.
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Z the IVth posted:You gotta hand it to LE2, getting facetime with the Big Four and not immediately going mad is a pretty neat trick. Well, he is literally built different. Also, the Old Four's attention had bigger fish to fry for a moment.
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They didn't want to eat him for fear of lead poisoning.
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Z the IVth posted:You gotta hand it to LE2, getting facetime with the Big Four and not immediately going mad is a pretty neat trick. He was having a bad enough day as it was. I even expected Nurgle to give him some of his popcorn and a little pat in the back.
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I bet Leetu gets handed to Cawl for his early experiments that turn into primaris marines. Hell, he could be Alpha Primus for all we know.
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I really hope Erda and LE2 show up in Unification Wars. And that we get Unification Wars.
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Fearless posted:I bet Leetu gets handed to Cawl for his early experiments that turn into primaris marines. Hell, he could be Alpha Primus for all we know. That would not shock me at all
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Fearless posted:I bet Leetu gets handed to Cawl for his early experiments that turn into primaris marines. Hell, he could be Alpha Primus for all we know. That's my theory
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Cawl cares about Alpha Primus too much for him to be LE2. He made AP from scratch and thinks of him as a son.
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He’s also been memory wiped enough that he’s not entirely sure what he does know about himself let alone his projects.
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wiegieman posted:Cawl cares about Alpha Primus too much for him to be LE2. He made AP from scratch and thinks of him as a son. Alpha Primus is Cawl and LE2's secret lovechild
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Fearless posted:Hell, he could be Alpha Primus for all we know. This would be hillarious tbh
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# ? Apr 22, 2024 12:15 |
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Erebus is so obviously evil that it's almost beyond belief that anyone ever trusted him...they really should have put in some scenes of him being charismatic or useful or...anything, really. Even if the tentacles and flies and poo poo didn't put you off Chaos, the fact that Erebus was advocating it should have made the luna wolves go 'no thanks, I'm good.'
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# ? Apr 23, 2024 06:27 |
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Erebus turns over a tarot card, revealing a beautifully drawn artwork of you being stabbed in the back by a delighted-looking Erebus. You: Is this bad? Erebus: It's allegorical, my friend. Kylaer fucked around with this message at 10:40 on Apr 23, 2024 |
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von Metternich posted:Erebus is so obviously evil that it's almost beyond belief that anyone ever trusted him...they really should have put in some scenes of him being charismatic or useful or...anything, really. I mean, he almost casually brings back Cyrene/Acteae from being loving dead to try and get Argel Tal on board before Kansas City Shuffling him into being knifed on the back. Ideally the plot would always play on his viperous ability to read people and exploit their weak points, but most of the time he's just going "Mwahahaha, behold the Maaaster of Puppets!". Argel Tal had a very powerful vunerability in being a melancholy/wrathful personality obsessed with his own failures. Likewise, Horus' boundless confidence and genius had an undercurrent of intense doubts and insecurities for Erebus to work with. But it takes time and effort to set that up. It's the same reason comic book writers prefer to write Joker stories than Riddler stories. One requires you to think up interesting/smart puzzles and riddles and plots, the other can more easily be taken care of by spending an afternoon thinking of entertainingly hosed-up, random cruelty.
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# ? Apr 23, 2024 15:49 |
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He was pretty much a bro in Horus Rising, but it's a very compressed book compared to the massive sprawl of the rest of the series, so there isn't much screen time for him
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Erebus absolutely sucks rear end in Horus Rising! He steals the Anathame and sets off the whole war!
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# ? Apr 23, 2024 16:40 |
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Right but the other characters didn't know that, I should have made that clear. To the Sons of Horus he was a good-natured dude who came closer than anyone else to defeating Lucius in a sword duel.
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Loken did it!
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:Loken did it! Loken didn't fight a sword duel
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# ? Apr 23, 2024 17:40 |
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Read some stuff! Two Iron Hands books by David Guymer-Extremely cool and grimdark Vibes, I had very little clue what was actually going on plotwise for a good chunk of it. But I could tell that the Iron Hands are all hosed up. Bonus points for introducing space marines that absolutely hate being space marines. Wrath of Iron by Wraight-Extremely cool. I love when Imperial factions clash, and the idea of a Guard general basically going on strike in a warzone to protest their treatment by the Iron Hands is really cool. Also some very good tunnel fighting setpieces. Lazarus: Emnity's Edge by Gary Kloster. What happens if a Dark Angel asks the question "What if we only spent 99% of our time looking for the Fallen instead of a hundred percent?" He gets denied reinforcements and sent to a Knight world with a mud and slime based economy, that's what. rear end in a top hat nobles, ancient secrets, a society that does Dune Mentat poo poo because they don't trust the AdMech, but they still make the mentats get tattoos so they look like the servo-skulls they're replacing for some reason. A cool villain, an interesting hero who has vague Trauma in his Past which I didn't care much about, and more interesting uses of tactics than in most of these books. Looks like this is the author's first BL novel, I would definitely read more by him. Ends with the surviving dark angels characters getting the call back to the Rock to meet the Lion, a plot which I'm sure will be advancing annnnny second now.
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von Metternich posted:Read some stuff! Kloster did The Last Volari first, which I super recommend. I'm hoping Kloster gets to expand his short story Of Blood and Guts too, because the buddy cop setup of an uneasy alliance between an independent vampire and a mercenary ogre is a fantastic fantasy setup. Sharkopath fucked around with this message at 09:40 on Apr 27, 2024 |
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