With Grimdark Narrator becoming a victim of JeetTube, does anyone know a good place to find Warhammer/Warhammer 40K audiobooks? Specifically looking to get into Gotrek and Felix.
I got the main Horus Heresy audiobooks from 4chan a long time ago, but all other Black Library audiobooks I've wanted to get I've been able to find in torrents cataloged in Audiobookbay, I also tend to grab the corresponding ebook for reference, especially if they have a dramatis personae (listed cast of characters).
Oh don't get me wrong, of course I understand the ulterior motive going on with "they" characters like Kharseth. I'm just amused by how games have no choice but to peddle the fake "nonbinary" trait through characters that at least have some measure of gender ambiguity to justify calling them singular "they" because it's too blatantly ridiculous to players when it's done with normal female characters like
"Sundance" in Battlefield 2042. But even such ambiguous "they" characters are still gendered when put under even a little scrutiny.
Bloodhound from Apex Legends is concealed from head to toe, but has a female voice actress using a female voice that's just disguised under a thick, unusual accent.
FL4K from Borderlands 3 is a faceless robot, but he's given a burly appearance with the deep masculine voice of ProZD, and robots in Borderlands are gendered on a general basis (see talking box Claptrap).
Kris from Deltarune has all the trappings of an antisocial teenage boy and is heavily suggested to be a distinct, autonomous character who is
not the player of either gender. The only "they" character I can think of who I believe is genuinely intended to be gender-ambiguous without ulterior motive is
Frisk from Undertale, preceding all of these other examples by many years.
I wonder why they didn't just bring over one of the Mechanicus game characters, especially with the sequel coming up. Videx or one of the skittles would be perfect.
GW is simply averse to importing characters created by other companies. Titus is just a
very special exception that took fifteen years to import. Sure, there was that one time a Forge World resin model was made for Chapter Master Gabriel Angelos, but the Blood Ravens are treated to this day by GW proper as an obscure, tertiary Space Marine chapter.
I'm pretty sure that all the arch-magos are either part human/part AI or are full blown AI that slowly took over the body of its host as the host's body died. Also I see the straying away from their humanoid forms in a similar way to the destroyer cults of the necrons. With how much the lore has been changed I wonder if that's intentional.
I don't want AdMech to have humans turned to AI. The whole main point of interest about them is that there's always some human component at the core of whatever mechanical monstrosity they turn themselves into, and AI already have their own interesting thing going on as self-interested "Abominable Intelligence", popping up as characters of their own every now an then.
