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this legit made me stop believing in knight papyrus

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Spore headcanon: I think each archetype comes with their own system of governance. Diolomats are democratic, Zealots are a theocracy, Ecologists have some form of collective governance, Warriors are a military junta, Shamans have a circle of elders chosen when they get high, Bards… They decide their leaders in a pie eating contest or something.

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POV: You have been found guilty of mind crimes.

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this is about [redacted]

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Interesting notes from "Deep Strike, Mapping the Old World":

Warhammer+ recently released an episode of Deep Strike, in which they interview members of staff/ writers/ designers on certain subjects. This episode was all about the Old World map that the design team (including Holly Goodwin) has made for the game.

Some interesting pointers:

They keep referring (both in the episode and in articles) to this map as a living document. This is an ongoing project that will continue to change throughout the lifespan of the game. Currently; the map is set in the year 2776 and beyond.

They want it to be used by fans as the groundwork for their own projects. It is meant to inspire players to come up with interesting scenarios and possible headcanoning.

They intentionally put in easter eggs and old references wherever they could. Karitamen's Tomb and Tor Anrok are examples of these that I have found, but they mentioned the Mirror Moors as another.

The events that they currently focus on are the Errantry Crusades of Louen Orc Slayer in Bretonnia, the Anarchy in the Empire, the Invasion of the Border Princes by Settra, and the resurgence of Chaos all the way up North. They are actively establishing the setting to eventually lead up into the Great War Against Chaos.

The actual "development map" is divided into about 4-5 big map pieces that they connect into one big whole.

We currently know 3 of these maps. The First one consists of most of the Old World and the Darklands. The Second one includes Nehekhara and the Northern Southlands. The Third one consists of everything in the North; The Chaos Wastes.

What intrigues me is not what we have, but what we don't have yet. I'm guessing the 4th map will showcase most, if not all, of Cathay. We already have seen snippets of it so that would be my guess.

The mention of a 5th map was kind of unclear. We definitely know about 4 maps in total. If a 5th map is being worked on, it could be about anything. My most likely guess would be a map spanning West into Ulthuan. Another guess could be The Mountains of Mourn (if this isn't part of the Cathay map) or it could go into the Lands of Ind and Khuresh.

They try to interpret and use as many sources as possible to create the map itself, and they make attempts to consolidate inconsistencies between sources. Things seem to sometimes slip through the cracks (the Barren Hills should probably be called the Green Hills in the current time).

The projection of the map is similar to a real life Mercator Projection with a twist. Chaos messes withe reality, and that includes the size and shape of the polar regions. They consider the Chaos Wastes unmappable, with rivers turning to chasms and locations not necessarily making sense.

The Cathayan Ship visible in the Sea of Claws is indeed how the Cathayans will become a presence in the Old World. Miao Ying leads an expedition to aid in the coming war against Chaos. They note that they indeed travelled by boat, meaning that they either had to sail all the way to the Southlands, or that they went around the New World to get to the Empire.

Ind, Araby, and Albion are given a mention.

They wanted to emphasize that the inclusion of something on the map, doesn't hint at future factions. They wanted to fill in the map as much as possible even though it wouldn't be prevalent to the story. It would've been very unfortunate to have a map of the Old World and leave Estalia empty because it isn't a playable faction (yet ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)).

According to the designers, the most fun part to work on are the icons. Especially going from traditional heraldric signs for the Bretonnians, to the weird monstrous symbols for the Greenskinz.

Each Dwarf Hold has an icon that shows which ancestor god is most prevalent/ important in that hold. For Karak Eight Peaks, it is Valaya.

I'm really glad they did an interview with the designers on this. It shows that this isn't some side project that they will abandon soon. I can't wait to see it expand even further.

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Apparently Mad Dok Grotsnik calls Genestealers "Skin Thieves" and that is such a cool way to call them. Keeping that in mind for any Roleplay/loretalking.

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Headcanon Time!

This is how I imagine, based upon his original mini, how Ghazghkul looked when he was a little Boss uniting the tribes on Urk...

(my headcanons in general are related to the idea that all miniatures are canon as alternate/older looks of the characters

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I really believe that the Elder Scrolls should completely lean into the idea that the weirdness of the hiccups/bugs in their games are part of the setting itself.

Have it be completely canon that within the lands of Skyrim, horses can climb steep cliffs like mountain goats, while giants can punt you into the sun.

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whilst I do like the current Ogryn models something about those 4th edition ones I rly like just look at these fellas

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pirates of the caribbean really introduced an eldritch octopus man who kills indiscriminately and torments the dead as their poster villain and then you watch the movies and it's like, "oh no, actually the worst villain in this series is a small white british man who functions as the herald of capitalism" and that was very very brave of them

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this is one of the lowkey hilarious points in mechanicus for me. the admech are so disgusted by the weakness of their flesh that when they see it on a necron, it almost seems to twist back around into a sort of kinship: it's weirdly telling that videx's first reaction to a flayed one is 'how is babby formed 🤔' and that scaevola, who is more knowledgeable about necrons than she lets on, isn't entirely willing to rule out that interpretation either 🤣

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Love how Calgar “saved” Vigilus, got his head kicked in by Abaddon, and after recovering tailed it to the Fourth Tyrannic War to become Titus’ knight in shining armor.

So did the Imeprium win vigilus or not? 🤨 Bro all they had to do was give chaos a win and maybe dred-box Marnie calgar

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HUGE day for the Little Guy Department

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Ok, lets talk crazy 40k weapons; leave your basic 1960's era gyrojet firing boltgun in the bin where it belongs. Trash tier firearm that shoots explosive bullets; PFFFT! We have that tech NOW.

If you want to get serious about crazy 40k tech, you gotta dig deeper...

Starting out not too deep; the humble plasma gun - is not so humble at all! This thing literally fires minature suns!

A weaponised microwave oven; it literally cooks the target from the inside out within a split second.

Oh yeah, a laser sniper rifle! Oh wait, what? The laser is just to penetrate the target's armour? Then the gun shoots a frozen needle of toxins through that hole? Dafuq!

Yeah yeah, Eldar weapons are nerf disc launchers, chuckle guffaw ha ha. That meme is lame; especially considering a Shuriken weapon actually fires razor blades. But they also fire "hypodermic stars" filled with chemicals that turn living tissue into volatile explosives - no wonder Harlequin Death Jesters are not much fun at all to be around.

Tyranid guns; yeah, they could have said "they all shoot acid" and called it a day. That wouldn't be 40k though, would it. Imagine getting shot by this thing and you're hit in the face with a Cave Weta the size of your hand that starts chewing a hole in you.

More devilry from the Eldar; this time we have helmet guns that spray metallic needles at you; then a split second later, it shoots a laser through the needles, flash-igniting those needles into plasma! Striking Scorpions out here trying to barbecue your head.

And now for arguably the most batshit insane thing ever created by mankind in the 40k universe. The Vortex Grenade; it's heavy and you have to throw it by hand. Not only that but when it explodes it creates a hole in reality and anything the hole touches goes to the Warp... i.e. literally to hell.

Tyranids back at it with more fleshy firearms; this one actually does fire acid... of a sort. Imagine getting hit in the chest by a lobster tail with cream sauce... that splats all over you and your friends and dissolves steel.

All these nightmare guns and grenades, you're going to need protection. How about a force field? But what kind? 40k has the typical bubble of energy that repels projectiles (it's called a Power Field but it's over the page), but it's big, and heavy and besides, why bother with that when you can carry around a miniature warp drive that teleports you out of harms way?

And now we come to the most extra of all extra 40k Wargear. The humble Harlequin's Kiss... ... ... yeah nah, you can stick your Chainsword where the sun don't shine; losing a limb or a head aint as scary as being stabbed and then having your insides instantly minced. You'd have just enough time to vomit up the Bolognese sauce that was your heart, lungs, intestines and liver before you expire, messily all over the floor. All while the murder-clown who attacked you laughed in your face.

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We pretty much knew Kirby and the Forgotten Land wasn't going to be properly post-apocalyptic, because while Kirby does routinely fight elder gods, they never actually get to succeed in eradicating all life, but I feel like Nintendo's workaround of "everything is deserted because a high-tech human civilisation captured an alien god, tortured its secrets from it, achieved some sort of post-human singularity and ascended en masse to a higher plane of existence, abandoning their uplifted animal servants to inherit the empty world they left behind" is kind of more fucked up than if everything had just gotten blown up.

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I have finished Ghazghkull Thraka, the Prophet of Waaagh, it was very good