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Valdor: Where’s Leman? Can you find him?
Emperor: What do you expect? That I have him microchipped or something?
Valdor:...
Valdor: Do you?
Emperor:...
Emperor: Yeah, hold on.
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How much of the space marines's stunted emotions/'humanity' is due to the actual augmentation process, and how much to being brainwashed child soldiers, do you think? The few space marines we saw who survived the process as adults, the primarch buddies, generally seem better adjusted.
All available lore agrees 90% of the time that it's the conditioning and hypno-indoctrination.
Now, granted, when your body and its chemical processes and hormonal responses are rejigged to respond most strongly to combat and your primarch, you're going to end up passively reorienting your priorities a bit, but this alone is very clearly not enough. The conditioning and indoctrination is crucial to the way an astartes (or a Custodes) thinks, and both being children (and thus mentally undeveloped) is extremely significant as part of that process.
The assorted primarch friends who survived the process as young adults are a prime example of the difference a lack of indoctrination can make, but they aren't the only one. Remember, the Thunder Warriors were genetically unstable on purpose, sure, but they were also harder to control because they were drawn from an older age group. They asked questions, had opinions, had memories and interests that tied back to who they knew they were before being Thunder Warriors. This is not ideal when you want an army of unquestioning murder machines, and this was very deliberately changed for the Astartes project.
Great question!
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squishyowl · 1 day
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Handful of 40K Dividers
got inspired by @saradika-graphics (thank you for the size templates!) and wanted to make a few simplistic 40k dividers. Feel free to use, credit isn't necessary but it'd be neat if you did
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will be making more soon!
Edit: Part 2
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wh40kartwork · 9 hours
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Horus Ascended
by Álvaro Jiménez
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sigmaart39 · 8 hours
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Jaghatai Khan, the Warhawk, Primarch of the Vth Legion, the White Scars
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feathers
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mactiir · 3 days
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having read several 30k books about the falls of various chaos legions, Fulgrim is SO funny because it's like:
Horus: externally has SEEMINGLY logical, well-reasoned justifications for engaging in rebellion. Post Isstvan, he is approximately the same guy as before and externally reasonable, even if he is cold, cruel, and calculating
Angron: literally exactly the same before and after rebelling, the man has a chip in his brain that makes him love murder so loyalist!Ronnie and rebel!Ronnie read basically identically. the rebellion doesn't change him that much at first in terms of the level or intensity of his murderhoboing
Magnus: the fall of the Thousand Sons is like a Shakespearean tragedy level of pride and misunderstanding, but Magnus going to Horus makes perfect sense especially considering he is literally like 20 ghosts in a trenchcoat, and he's clearly still ~trying~ to do his own fucked up version of the right thing after getting Bane'd by Russ
Fulgrim: picks up a sword and INSTANTLY becomes the most vindictive mentally unstable honors kid you've ever met. Polite art loving loyalist to BATSHIT Dorian Grey in 100 pages. Decides who will die on Isstvan III not based on their loyalties, but on who has dealt him narcissitic injuries (based on what a talking demon sword is telling him). Engages in heated debates with a portrait of himself painted in the blood and viscera of a murdered man. Stabs his captain in his quarters and gets kind of turned on about it approximately. 5 seconds after deciding to turn on the emperor. This man was a corked bottle of pure chaos just waiting for a screw and it is amazing.
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valhallasoutlaw · 2 days
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I'll let yall know when we get a store up and running, but this graphic will be the first item up! Art by me
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plagueparchments · 2 days
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my pookie, my babygirl (i drew him in like ~10 minutes during class)
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alternativeminiatures · 3 months
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Leman Russ DM by Relithel
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jinian-ginias · 28 days
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Emps
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Konra: Oh my Kirby.
Lorgar: Don't you mean 'oh my God'?
Konrad: You worship your god, I'll worship mine.
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cursed-40k-thoughts · 2 years
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Now that’s how you paint a mini
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squishyowl · 2 days
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Hey @squishyowl , you mentioned about Horus wanting to father several children in lore. Which book was that from and could you screenshot an excerpt?
so, it's from End and the Death vol 3, so spoilers ahead under the break
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This is from Horus' direct POV. He's absolutely spouting off insane ramblings, but the language used here is very interesting. It could be referring to him creating his own primarchs like the Emperor had, but it's really particular on 'fathering' and 'siring', along with the fact he mentioned not only sons but daughters as well.
So it's up for interpretation; he could have been so insane that he genuinely desired and believed he could have biological (daemon?) children, or he was referring to Emps' version of making kids.
Either way he wholeheartedly believed he would be a better father than Emps.
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wh40kartwork · 1 day
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Konrad Curze
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enerisart · 2 months
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By the blood of Sanguinius 🩸
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