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The original was posted on /r/40klore by /u/Eds2356 on 2023-10-07 09:34:44.

The Adeptus Astartes are considered to be demi gods by many normal humans, but what advantages being a guardsman have over being an astartes?

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The original was posted on /r/40klore by /u/sjvreeland on 2023-10-07 09:21:26.

I just spent my 12 hours and change listening to the Leviathan novel.

1. I need to express my appreciation of Ser Keeble for being amazing
2. I have read/listened to 60+ Black Library books. This was a chore to finish, beyond any middling novel I have experienced.

Maybe I way off base, but this was one of the worst W40k stories I have sat through. By a lot.

What was your Warhammer rock bottom? Didn't have on? Worst story you've experienced.

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The original was posted on /r/40klore by /u/GiantOhmu on 2023-10-07 01:31:22.

Yeah, we know he erased him from existence.

But if I remember right - Horus had a moment of realisation...

Warp and psyker space is timeless...

How long do you think the Emperor trapped him in that moment?

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The original was posted on /r/40klore by /u/My_redditaccount657 on 2023-10-06 21:51:21.

In lore, most of the Chaos Marines fighting the imperium were veterans of the Horus Heresy

But 10,000 years later, what is the make up of that number? And does that apply to non-astartes that aligned themselves with the war master?

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The original was posted on /r/40klore by /u/AutoModerator on 2023-10-06 16:30:19.

Welcome to Whose Line is it Anyway- 40k Edition!

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The original was posted on /r/40klore by /u/CalypsoCrow on 2023-10-06 21:32:16.

If some warbands/traitor legions don’t actively worship the chaos gods, or worship/follow something outside of the main four, like Be’lakor or Vashtorr, how does someone obtain a mark?

The Iron Warriors and Night Lords seem to not follow or support chaos, so how do they obtain the benefits from Nurgle, Khorne, Tzeentch, and Slaanesh?

Or is that only a tabletop thing as opposed to a lore thing?

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The original was posted on /r/40klore by /u/DirtLarry on 2023-10-06 18:11:39.

One of my best friends is a professor of history, with an emphasis on Latin America, including the Spanish conquistadors, and I recently got him to start reading the Horus Heresy.

He enjoyed Horus Rising, and he told me he doesn't really care about space marines, primarchs or Warp/Chaos mumbo jumbo but he loved the sci-fi setting and the drama of the Great Crusade in particular.

According to him Abnett wrote intelligently and realistically about the strategies and inherent problems in a technologically superior empire subduing and conquering an entire people. My friend said he would love to read more about the Great Crusade.

Are there any other books that talk about the nitty

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The original was posted on /r/40klore by /u/Commercial-Shallot-5 on 2023-10-07 00:01:40.

During the great crusade I know the empire fought a lot of different xenos and besides the obvious big ones like the orks and eldar etc what were some of the worst ones that the empire destroyed in their campaigns

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The original was posted on /r/40klore by /u/maridan49 on 2023-10-06 19:58:52.

Are they out there? I've heard that most Saints are declared such after their deaths, so that means that Celestine, being the only one able to bring herself back to life, would be the only Saint in actual active duty.

But then have we seen any other potential Saints performing similar miracles around? Have there been any story about a character becoming a Saint in recent canon?

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The original was posted on /r/40klore by /u/darthbbane on 2023-10-06 18:36:27.

Pretty big spoiler for fury of Magnus below Minor spoiler for Death and the End Part 1 You have been warned.

During their semi final confrontation in the Throne Room while the Siege of Terra was going on Big E presents Magnus an offer to rejoin him. The whole package with new Legion and all. That could have given the Loyalists the biggest edge in the entire heresy by turning Magnus into the Duracel battery for the Golden Throne he was meant to be and freeing up Big E to take to the field and slap some sense into his sons. Yet the deal is spoiled by requiring Magnus to sacrifice his sons and further drama ensues. So why not tell Magnus the tastiest mouthwatering lie you could pos

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The original was posted on /r/40klore by /u/Mobius1701A on 2023-10-06 17:27:54.

It feels like so much fanwank to me. It seems so much more likely that the standards were just much higher, and they fought smarter with a better techbase, instead of just legions of Primarchs

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The original was posted on /r/40klore by /u/ChiefQueef98 on 2023-10-06 17:07:05.

In the sense that he has knowingly spoken to them in the same way that the Emperor and Horus did. Either to make a deal or set terms with them? I know he thinks himself above being used by them, but as their unwitting champion, has he ever been given, summoned, or demanded an audience with them?

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The original was posted on /r/40klore by /u/StuffSea264 on 2023-10-06 13:55:28.

Practically every thousand sons sorcerer had a tutelary - as per the name, it was a part of their education and training in using the ways of the warp.

The tutelaries accompanied the thousand sons everywhere… even to Nikaea. Could the emperor / malcador not see the demons in his midst? Or are we to believe that these puny demons were the thousand sons’ best kept secret ever?

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The original was posted on /r/40klore by /u/Kristian1805 on 2023-10-06 13:52:40.

Greetings. And Some Spoilers!

Do you want to understand The 14th Primarch? Is Mortarion a bit unclear in your minds eye?

Well, Black Library got just 1 book for You!

If James Swallows Mortarion felt mediocre, Graham McNeil's confused and Chris Wraight's great-but-always-the-antogonist...

David Annandale comes in clutch with Mortarions Primarchs novel.

This book is fundamentally an examination and argument over Mortarions first campaign as leader of the 14th Legion, Death Guard. Established lore has it as a too brutal, too destructive campaign. Clearly meant to foreshadow the Legions downwards path...

Annandale said: Fuck That! Mortarion has taken fare too many L

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The original was posted on /r/40klore by /u/Niotsques on 2023-10-06 12:55:43.

As the title says I don't know much about it aside from a friend of mine saying its basically the Thu'um from Elder Scrolls but more OP and in 40k?

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The original was posted on /r/40klore by /u/JarnosFr on 2023-10-06 14:02:47.

I was idly wondering how many xenos races were exterminated by the Imperium during their various crusades and xenocides, and I realized that I had a way to calculate it : the Tau Empire. According to the Lexicanum, he Tau Empire is inhabited by 29 named species in it (including the Tau but excluding the humans). Assuming that sentient species are evenly distributed across the galaxy (quite the assumption here, but let's roll with it), we can use a simple cross-multiplication, given the proportionate size of the Tau Empire to the galaxy. I estimated it on a graphic program at around 0.123% of the total size of the inhabited galaxy (using the latest official galaxy map). So the tota

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The original was posted on /r/40klore by /u/incapableincome on 2023-10-06 02:58:56.

Context: After the failure of the Second Rubric, Ahriman searches for alternative ways to restore his Legion. As sorcerous ritual failed him, he turns instead to technological means. He seeks the Key of Infinity, a Necron artifact of the Hyksos Dynasty which allows the wielder to rewrite time and space at whim. Relying on the guidance of a cryptek named Setekh, who has obvious ulterior motives, he seeks to traverse the webway to find the Tomb World in question.

The sphere of the world broke. Splits opened its surface. Rock and remaining water tumbled down into the chasms. No fire or molten stone poured from them. On they ran, broadening and linking i

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The original was posted on /r/40klore by /u/spenny506 on 2023-10-05 18:47:37.

Is the board game Regicide, in the HH books, chess?

I'm only at Prospero Burns, and it's been brought up a couple times.

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The original was posted on /r/40klore by /u/Woodstovia on 2023-10-06 02:10:56.

Afilai serves in Lucius' warband. A Chemosi born veteran of the Great Crusade he wanted nothing more than to become a terminator and then a member of Fulgrim's Phoenix Guard but wasn't deemed good enough for it. So during the Scouring he hung back during battles and murdered the brothers that lagged behind or got injured and took their armour, crafting an abomination of terminator armour with a machine spirit that hates him for murdering it's former owners.

He serves as the personal bodyguard of Lucius' sorcerer/navigator The Composer and instead of serving in battle with Lucius he just hangs around the ship not doing much. But when Lucius is kidnapped and the Dark Eldar board t

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The original was posted on /r/40klore by /u/RadagastTheBrownie on 2023-10-06 03:42:46.

Because look at this thing. It's a third the size of his sword somehow. The moment of leverage it applies to Abby's neck has got to be brutal. And without structural support, it'll just flop around everywhere. So, why? Why risk such a gaudy thing interfering with h