Custodes are chad af and have a great aesthetic but I don’t regret starting dark angels over them.
I ironically have collected a sizable Space Marine force completely on accident while trying to collect AdMech and Custodes. It's a bit silly. And now I'm even considering picking up some Vanguard Primaris because while I hate that Primaris don't really fit the look of 40k, I do like their look.
it wouldnt be the first crusaders they made either
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also like that bone hand pendant/talisman? its kinda kino, maybe primaris can start getting it right.
What in the world does "kino" mean in this context? Seen it used a few times.
Working on custodes. Rethinking them because host rules trigger my autism of "I can fucking play them as solar watch if they are painted as dread host". So I have been workshopping an OC host just to consolidate my autism. They are the Custodi Janatoriati and their job is to sweep it up.
But in all seriousness Im just gonna paint them normal color scheme, but change the red on the tassles and pauldron to a green. Ill leave the plume normal.
Yeah, I have one Custodes done, and it was the generic "all gold with a single red pauldron" look from the HH. But now we know the new rules absolutely, definitely, have rules for specific hosts, and I feel justified stopping painting until they come in.
Was he bitching about that shit again? I don’t remember anyone freaking out when Jonah Orion was in Dawn of War 2, but now when a model is painted with darker skin tones all hell breaks loose.
Gonna have to re-watch it, but... No, actually. His stance IIRC was that it was a nothingburger. That a black Ultramarine made perfect sense given how many worlds the Ultramarines recruit from. (Edit: But that Ultramarines would end up looking like Guilliman at least somewhat.)
He did point out that the Gene Seed would make the Space Marines tend to take on the racial characteristics / skintone of their Primarch, but that any significant length of time in a high UV environment would leave them dark skinned, at least temporarily, due to the Melanochrome. I don't remember if it was him or someone else that cited one of the BL novels in which some White Scar recruits end up taking on the racial characteristics of their primarch, being indistinguishable from people from the primarch's homeworld by the end, but yeah. His stance was basically, it's not a big deal, nothing to get worked up over, the Melanochrome and Gene-Seed treatment would make even a black Space Marine take on characteristics of Guilliman, but again, stupid thing to get worked up over... and yes, it's still probably pandering by GW.
Basically, Sigmarxism thought Arch would take a huge "no niggers allowed" stance, he didn't, but they either didn't watch his video or consulted the imaginary Arch that exists in their minds for his opinion instead, so it's all good, they have their evil nahzzii to fight.
Edit: Rewatching it, he covers the lore mentions of...
- That the radioactive hellscapes of Baal result in pretty boy Blood Angels despite their aspirants' not doing so well.
- That the Night Lords and Raven Guard are all super pale because of their primarch
- That in one HH novel the Khan learns that one of the new marines he's working with is from Terra and looks racially identical to all the other recruits from Chogoris (so the process apparently normalizes racial differences to match the chapter's)
- And that Vulkan was apparently Black, because the Salamanders were doing the Melanochrome thing from the very beginning and the Emperor never mentioned it. So they were black from the beginning, as well as coal black from the mutation. And the mutation isn't instant, it's just that the Salamander's Melanochrome's malfunction is that it never shuts off.
Edit:
I dont know this arch guy, but he seems to be a lorelet or just a retard. Last I checked, radiation turning astartes black is specific to the salamander's gene seed defect.
Not quite. The Salamander's defect is they turn coal black and stay that way. All Space Marines can turn darked skin based on UV radiation, due to the Melanochrome organ:
The
Melanochrome is the 13th of the 19 genetically-engineered
gene-seed organs that are implanted into a
Space Marine Neophyte to produce a new
Astartes. This hormonal implant is attached to the human lymphatic system and controls the amount of melanin in a Space Marine's skin.
Exposure to high levels of sunlight will result in the Astartes' skin naturally darkening to compensate. It also protects the Space Marine from other forms of electromagnetic radiation. Different levels of radiation cause variations of skin colour in different Chapters due to mutations in the Melanochrome organ's gene-seed. This can be related to the unusually pale skin of the
Blood Angels and the
Raven Guard as well as their Successor Chapters, and the dark black skin and red eyes of the
Salamanders.
The Salamander's Melanochrome doesn't turn off, so they constantly turn darker until they're coal black. Vulkan apparently was also black, too, so it's a double whammy.
If GW wanted to actually cause some lore headaches, give us a dark skinned Raven Guard, Blood Angel, or Night Lord.
... Actually, a Blood Angel looking like some shitty metrosexual faux gangster rap album cover would be fucking hilarious.
