Dark Eldar vs White Scars

by Igor Sid

Not everything is worse in 40k!

I like how in 30k the Webway and any technology surrounding it is so mysterious and the Emperor spends a lot of time puzzling over it and keeping Magnus out of it and it's just oh-so-strange. Also: danger, Will Robinson!

And in 40k the whole Chaos bunch practically lives in there like some feral opossums inhabiting your walls. Fabius has so many portals to the webway he has to clarify which one he's talking about when he sends his guys to "defend the webway-portal!". Or Lucius' sorcerer just drives the whole Strike Cruiser with all the demons that cling to it right through it, like Karen parking over three disabled spaces at Walmart. Or the Thousand sons crawl around in it and lick its walls (probably).

So, much advanced! Many webway-understanding!

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So, I've just finished listening to The Ashes of Prospero and one of the things that surprised me was how the members of the Space Wolves 13th Great Company seemed to show regret at their actions on Prospero after they realized that Horus gave them the order to destroy Prospero and the Thousand Sons legion.

I know that the Emperor had originally ordered Russ to simply bring Magnus back to Terra and that it was Horus who changed the order to destroy the Thousand Sons, but I had thought that the Space Wolves dispised the Thousand Sons enough to not care about whether they exterminated them all or not or who the order came from, but this does not seem to be the case. Bulveye, the 13th Great Company leader even says that Thousand Sons could've been an ally to the loyalists during the Horus Heresy if it were not for Horus' orders.

Magnus is worried about his brother('s direction-sense)

Webway Activation by Bagus Hutomo

I've seen the official map (more like suggested locations) of the Webway and I'm howling. The Aeldari truly have the potencial ability to go Bugs Bunny on everyone else and pop out in their back patios. A lot of well known chapter worlds have a gate. Necron worlds have a gate. How is no one pranking these guys

that poll is sickening mcr doesnt have any flops open your fucking hearts…there is a time and place for everything…

I'm not one for violence but I would like to shoot the Emperor of Mankind.

this whole not thinking about mcr thing isnt working

they havent played sing yet 🤔

Idc if you think SING is bad, cleaned up corporation progress dying in the process children that can talk about it living on the webways people moving sideways sell it till your last days buy yourself the motivation generation nothing nothing but a dead scene product of a white dream I am not the singer that you wanted but a dancer I refuse to answer talk about the past sir wrote it for the ones who wanna get away, ok?

something that doesn't come up very often in the How Bad Is Emps discussion is that he's. he's really old. millennia old. there's no way his sense of time isn't flagrantly broken. i mean look at him! every time we get an immediate perspective on him the dude is making plans with thousand-year timeframes. all of his buddies (well, ex-buddies) are perpetuals. emps has more in common with the eldar or the necrons when it comes to sense of time than he does with literally any non-perpetual, and that includes the primarchs.

just think about it. the primarchs are, what, three centuries old at Ullanor? they're BABIES. ok, maybe they're not babies, they're clearly old enough for simple tasks like systematic genocide and aggressive expansion, but c'mon, they haven't even reached their first millennium. of course emps isn't going to burden them with adult concerns like the encroaching threat of Chaos, or the potential dangers as humans evolve into a psyker species, or the existential challenges imposed by their warp-entity-wearing-flesh natures. they're kids! let them be kids! their brains are still growing, probably.

so yeah, emps holds off on some big conversations. and yeah, he ducks out of the crusade to go work on the webway by himself, what's wrong with that? it's just a few decades! he's spent more than a thousand years uniting humanity, surely he deserves a little time to himself. from emps's perspective, he's just spending an afternoon building a treehouse in his workshop. the kids are old enough to know better than to stick forks into electrical outlets, they'll be okay for an evening. horus you're a responsible guy, you're in charge.

but then like five minutes later magnus fucking bursts through the wall like the kool aid man screaming bloody hell about horus and then the hole he made starts puking daemons everywhere and yeah emps loses his temper and yells but he was gone for FIVE MINUTES. and now there's daemons all over his workshop! magnus what the fuck! only magnus fled as soon as emps started yelling without explaining a damn thing. also the hole is still puking daemons. ok, ok, emps will stay in the workshop and try to fix the hole before everything is covered in daemons, but he still needs to figure out what the hell is going on. leman, you're an obedient kid, hell you're always boasting about it, surely YOU'LL listen. go get magnus--yeah, i know you don't get along, this isn't the time--go get magnus and bring him here so he can explain himself.

emps goes back to the hole and--leman did WHAT? magnus did WHAT? HOW DID THEY FUCK UP BASIC INSTRUCTIONS. hang on, what's this about an isstvan. horus is rebelling? fucking HORUS??? nine legions????? HALF THE ARMY????? wtf wtf wtf oh shit it's chaos isn't it. emps looked away for five minutes and chaos got its claws in his boys. it's been six years. that's like a bathroom break. how did the boys break everything in SIX YEARS???

don't you also hate it when you're fine and all of a sudden your brain is like clean up corporation progress dying in the process children that can talk about it living on the webways people moving sideways sell it till your last days buy yourself the motivation generation nothing nothing but a dead scene product of a white dream i am not the singer that you wanted but a dancer i refuse to answer talk about the past sir wrote it for the ones who want to get away??

If you've been wondering why I'm so keen on including these tusks for Magnus, let me tell you! Though in truth, it's not that deep at all. I took inspiration from Rakshasas, the malevolent man-eaters in Hinduism.

Although he's no man-eater in a literal sense, as a shape-shifting creature highly affected by warp streams, Magnus can still make minor changes to his demonic appearance, conscious or otherwise. So having realised how low he's fallen, I felt like it's only natural for him to adapt and start thinking of himself as a demon. This change was unconscious. A rather smooth transition.

He may not eat people, but he "ate" the future The Emperor envisioned for him, he "ate" the Webway and he "ate" his Legion. Does it make him feel less of himself? Of course now, he's still as proud as ever. But he's not the same and he knows that.

Anyone else fascinated by the bizarre ass dynamic between sensitive, artistic Blood Angel Dominion Zephon and the crotchety super genius Arkhan Land?

Zephon self-exiled to Terra after losing both his arms below the elbow and sustaining mutilations to his legs in battle. The augmetics just wouldn’t take. He could walk, but he his arms and hands were too twitchy to hold weapons or play an instrument. He gets dragged into the war in the Webway and Land jury rigs his arm so he can at least fire a bolt pistol.

Later, Land digs up some totally not forbidden tech and fixes Zephon’s limbs for real this time.