#setting: 40k

[ltmctrung]

it is a time of legend. And overpriced alcohol

[vuroro]

When I jumped into Rogue Trader, I assumed I'd have to actually prove my worth to Theodora before I got to be the new Space Trillionaire. lmao.

[lordcaptains]

Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader - GRANTIS

[nusaran]

Heinrix and the Imperial Guard

We know Heinrix served the Astra Militarum as a Psyker before Calcazar recruited him (not that Heinrix had a choice in this matter to begin with).

My headcanons are:

He mostly served as a chirurgeon or one's assistant due to his biomancy powers. Which is how I think Calcazar noticed him at all.

There was a soldier who had the explicit orders to kill Heinrix in case he displayed any symptoms of warp corruption.

His arm was still paralysed so eating must have been quite difficult and he would have been mocked for it by others.

The treatment of other soldiers assigned along side him would have ranged from avoided him completely and ignored his presence - best case - to actively stealing his things, mocking and insulting him.

So what are your headcanons what it was like for him? (What his duties were, where he was stationed, the dynamics between other soldiers and his commanding officers etc. )

[heretical-cogitations]

Dropping a couple of the more tumblr friendly sketches that I'll probs never finish before jumping into the void.

Purity seal horus (ignore the state of his hands please stare at his tits instead) based on a post from @angronius

Really messy bikini sanguinius with a mini him censor

[thebrasspope]

ummm.... sorry to all ten people that followed me because of my previous post. uhhh... I'm crazy Rogue Trader pilled rn

Anyways, finally drew them kissing ^w^

[taudad]

Me: Introducing my beloved wife to Warhammer lore

My heart: “How can there be only war? Who’s making the food? Who’s doing the commerce? Who’s doing the FUCKING??”

[copia]

Flood Gates 🔞 — 3.6k, copia/cirrus, angst and (attempted) hurt/comfort, dom/sub dynamic — more tags on ao3

Copia angled his head against her shoulder and kissed a spot on her neck below the mask, where her collar had slipped and a patch of grey skin peeked through. I need your help, he should have said. I need it all to disappear. Frater Imperator makes a detour on the way to welcome his successor.

part 3 of I Fiaschi

[ranticore]

declassified ex-patreon post: the empty city

Pictured (click tha link for full piece) - Rosy Wing and Patches on a romantic evening, before Rosy's death. Aerial displays are an important courtship activity, serving to reinforce the pair's bond year after year.

The endless city is exactly what it sounds like. It covers the top of the Houndstooth mountain range like a growth of moss on a boulder. It comprises of buildings made entirely of pure white limestone right down to the window latticework and roof shingles. The doorways and rooms are scaled strangely, not appearing to conform to human sizes, and the horizontal architecture alignment (i.e not built to accommodate flying creatures) seems to suggest that insects didn't build it either. There are no organic materials naturally occurring within the city, not even microbial life, although some has been introduced in recent years by expeditioneers. Some parts of the city have been claimed by the rich patrons of expedition teams, and are guarded 24/7 by armed patrols - usually these territories are held for easier ingress into the deeper parts of the city for teams owned by the patron in question. 

There is a boundary wall, with no gates. Roads within the city that lead outwards terminate at these walls as though there should be a gate or portcullis, but there are none. Many patrons have chosen to sink funding into constructing their own proprietary doorways in secret, strategic locations. Spies who figure out where a rival team enters the city can choose to report back, to allow their own teams to stage an ambush, or they can demand payment in return for conveniently forgetting what they have learned. Money rules everyone in the city; it is so hostile to sustained life that purchasing basic supplies from the closest mountainside towns is the only way to get any food at all, so exploring is an expensive business. But it can also be lucrative, if you become one of the few lucky enough to find uncharted regions, or figure out a way to penetrate deeper without simply wandering in endless circles. 

Theran insects are considered ideal employees for expeditions - cheap and easily exploited, those new to the game are often satisfied with being paid in food and trinkets. But as the years go on, more and more of them have begun to learn how to exploit the system for their own ends, and that amassing capital of their own can lead to many advantages. Human employees are always necessary on any serious expedition, because only humans can wield firearms. 

The 'why' of all this is the curious part - why sink huge sums of money into a dangerously competitive expedition when the city appears to be completely empty? It has become more of a vanity project than anything else, with many wealthy patrons convinced that they will one day profit off of the land they capture, selling homes to people on this new frontier. Others believe that the city is evidence for the existence of god, and that they are exploring purgatory, or indeed heaven. Either way it's believed that one day, all their expense will be paid off a thousandfold, and their speculative betting on the city will, essentially, make the line go up.

[today's words below]

One day, approximately 20ish years ago, the Houndstooth mountains appeared. They appeared in two parallel dimensions but at the exact same point, destroying anything that had been standing there before. On Earth, this was half of the city of Quern. On Thera, it was a gigantic forest of Tithe trees. There is evidence that the mountains will disappear within another 20 years, just as they did millions of years ago, during the first appearance. At that time, Earth insects were able to cross the mountain range to colonise a world that had nothing but plants (which had likely also travelled there a million years before by the same method). Before those mountains disappear for another million years, the people of Quern and Thera must figure out what lies at the heart of the city at the top of those mountains.

So the story was about a team of expeditioneers, funded/owned by a wealthy patron, who travel into the city to find its heart. The ending of the story was relatively simple - the city was an allegory for obsession and grief, and was shaped like a fractal - if you happen to take the correct turn, a thousand times in a row, you travel 'deeper' into it, into the limbs of the fractal, and the truth is that it is endless. there is no heart of the city, there is no core, there's nothing lying in wait in there but it captures the minds & imaginations of expeditioneers and patrons alike. that's why i drew an ouroboros in that pic, it's fully metaphorical. the city is EMPTY. The characters trapped in this expedition (and their grief-fuelled justifications for expeditioning at all) have to make the conscious choice to stop exploring, to turn their back on the sunk cost fallacy, to stop chasing what might lie around the next corner, and go home. But that's much harder than it sounds.

look at some of the insects in my setting tag and enjoy

[cursed-40k-thoughts]

How strong do you think khorne would be in the Pokémon world?

He becomes a psychic-fighting type and gets taken out by an EV trained Fearow

[littlest-photography]

Going to war ☺️❤️

[blesby]

Holds these 3 like dolls and makes them kiss

[governmentmandatedryujinstan420]

I FORGOT TO THROW OUT AFTER THE EPISODE RELEASED NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[magistralucis]

him when he FUCKING gets you 🥶

[blighted-elf]

Warhammer 40000: Rogue Trader - Epitaph To Walk Bravely First into Darkness

[heretical-cogitations]

I like when primarchs that dont often interact get art, wondering if you would do any with Perturabo and Lion or Guilliman or Vulkan? Or just any you think would have an unexplored dynamic!

I'm by no means a lore expert, but I feel like perturabo would be happy to teach vulkan how to paint minis. Vulkan is just so enthusiastic about his brothers hobbies his happiness is just a but infectious it even get the grumpiest guy to embrace the cringe.

Perturabo gets a judgement free space tp info dump about an interest he's been shamed for.

He is wearing those magnifying glasses, he also trusts vulkan enough to let him try painting one of his army.