We already know who the King in Yellow is. It was revealed at the end of the latest custodes novel.
This makes me wonder something lore wise, it’s explained the space marines cannot reproduce, but is that also extended to Primarchs? I remember someone mentioning Fulgrim had wives as he took over Chemos, but I’m uncertain about Primarchs?
Would big E want his sons to be able to have normal children? A kind of... pseudo-sensei situation?
I remain convinced the funniest possible outcome for the FemStodes thing, other than GW just quietly ignoring the retcon going forward (which I genuinely think is the plan) -- would be the Grimdark thing of them accidentally creating a Transhumanist replacement superhuman race by allowing Custodes to breed.
Abnett has been on the record saying the book has been done for ages now. The problem is GW is holding it back to coincide with "something" which is assumed to be the amazon show to make sure nothing in it contradicts the show and it can be edited at the last minute as needed. That was allegedly confirmed by Abnett when someone asked about it at a book signing earlier this year.
I guess? But they've already had Fabius Bile doing that with his "new men". It also brings up the problem of an engineered human race that just goes berserk and acts like a living combat weapon like the Krogan in mass effect, but Basilio Fo's anti space marine virus was only created once the siege of terra was in full swing, not in advance of the astartes project.
Not that it would stop GW, but it makes no sense with the theory that a primarch revolt was inevitable if the goal was to have them wipe themselves out at the end in a controlled fashion once the conquest of the galaxy was over just like the thunder warriors were eliminated once no longer needed. This is also potentially supported with the emperor intentionally being a dickhead to roughly half of them, Magnus being built as a battery to sit on the throne instead of himself, and the actually stated goal of eliminating mankind's dependence on the warp for everything including travel and communication(which was the point of the webway project) to eliminate the grip that the navigators had on control of galactic navigation(and of course demon incursions).
I mean not getting gangraped to death by chaos is a pretty decent reason.
But why follow when you could rule? Be guided by the ultimate creation of human science. He needs a name though. What about Zarathustra?
And then you die horrifically at the end of the game on some sort of suicide mission, hoping that in death your duty has finally ended, only to wake up in a Dreadnought chassis.
Blood Ravens were made specifically for DoW1 so as to have an original chapter that wouldn't conflict with any canon chapters that Relic could write however they wanted.
So it's like a 50/50, with the only difficult models to paint being the old Warhammer fantasy ones they moved over. I'm constantly surprised with how well designed aos kits are for painting.
Obviously I'm not impartial but I like them. I think they were necessary. The setting of 40K would not make sense anymore if it were not a permanent stalemate and one faction became clearly victorious but that doesn't mean nothing ever happens in that stalemate. Tyranids learn more every time they chow down on biomass; the T'au are moving ahead by leaps and bounds; Necrons are waking up and crankily ordering intruders off their lawns. Clearly the Imperium has to do something. The objection I've often seen is that part of the real life inspiration for the setting is medieval Europe which was (allegedly) completely stagnant and backwards so the Imperium and in particular the Mechanicus has to be that way too. The characterization of the medieval period is not true. People often think about the Golden Age of Islam, and they're not wrong to do so, but one can also look at medieval Christendom (i.e. part of the inspiration for the Mechanicus):
Warcom did a pronunciation guide a while back that said it the first way.
