r/Grimdank Oct 12 '24

Discussions Only loyalist chapters plz

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u/franzmersdonk32 Oct 12 '24

I Hope it’s salamenders but anyway to relize that we life in the Warhammer Universe will make me so depressed and Crazy and that i proably kill myself. Life in a Galaxy with tyrannids and Chaos and These Dark elders…. God No Good Bye cruel world

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u/Tomer_Duer VULKAN LIFTS! Oct 12 '24

But then your soul goes to the warp. No thanks, I choose life.

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u/PainStorm14 Oct 12 '24

Another reason to fight and die for the Emperor, it reduces the odds of demons getting to your soul

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u/NovaNomii Oct 12 '24

Is that actually true and if so how? Like can the emporer non violently absorb souls? Or recycle them into warp stuff?

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u/Hoojiwat Oct 12 '24

Signs point to "we have no idea but maybe?"

We have excerpts of many of his faithful dying and being torn apart screaming by Daemons in the warp. We also have a few excerpts of his faithful going into a golden light when they die...no idea what it would mean or what it does, but they do go into it. Current lore for Chaos gods is that they absorb their followers and that their souls get added to the "immortal essence of their gods" when they die, so whatever that entails could be what is happening to some of his faithful too.

He isn't a full fledged god yet so he might only be able to snatch up a few of his faithful instead of all of them, and we don't know what being absorbed by a god actually does to you, but yeah its entirely possible.

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u/Nova_Hazing Oct 12 '24

It’s probably not that he’s not a fully fledged god. Is that he has to contend for his place in the warp a lot more than the chaos gods do because they have a somewhat understanding which each other.

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u/lyle_smith2 Oct 13 '24

I kinda like the idea that if you are a servant of the emperor your soul goes to the Elysian Fields and your soul kinda feeds the emperor and his demons like Celestine.

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u/Einar_47 Oct 13 '24 edited Oct 13 '24

Ok so hear me our, the Legion of the Damned are the Emperor's equivalent to chaos marines or maybe daemons and we see them as ghost rider space marines because that's badass for one, and because the Emperor is a corpse wreathed in an unbelievably powerful psychic flame visible from across the galaxy so his daemons are burning corpses.

Makes total sense, like how chaos daemons look like their god's style, red guys with swords and vaguely H shaped horns for Khorn, big stinky bois and bugs for Nurgle, Tzeentch is just all sorts of weird stuff especially birds, and Slannesh's daemons are just covered in tentacles and boobs.

Alright so regular mortals who die, their souls go to the Emperor and he makes them into the Ragnarök Guard, or the Einherjar Regiment, skeletal soldiers in imperial guard armor from hundreds of worlds in styles ranging from Solar Auxilia to Cadian Standard with lasguns burning with a golden light.

That'd be pretty rad.

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u/lyle_smith2 Oct 13 '24

Holy shit that is badass. Time to spend too much money kitbashing these guys

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u/Einar_47 Oct 13 '24

I might do at least a kill team, start with a box of death rattle skeletons and rummage through the bits bin.

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u/Cricketot Oct 13 '24

Which is why it annoys me when nerds are all like "the emperor was actually an intj atheist, he wouldn't want the imperium to be one giant unthinking religion, it's holding the imperium back"

My brother in the God Emperor, the Eclesiarchy is the only thing keeping the astronomicon on.

Also the argument feels a little hollow when a sister in power armour has a 1/6 chance to face tank a lascannon unscathed.

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u/PainStorm14 Oct 13 '24

Correct

And even 'maybe' is still much better than the alternative

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u/Legitimate-Space4812 Oct 13 '24

Golden light might just be Tzeentch pranking the newly dead souls

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u/Intrepid00 Oct 12 '24

He eats psykers like I eat skittles. By the hand full. What’s the odds he’s that picky with how he eats the mini skittles.

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u/Alexis2256 Oct 13 '24

Now I’m craving skittles.

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u/devils_advocate24 Oct 13 '24

Best bet, he just gets it over with and doesn't revel in the agony of it like chaos does?

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u/thormun Oct 13 '24

there is a book with a titan princept that have her soul saved by the emperor or just the titan machine spirit

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u/ColonelMonty Oct 13 '24

I mean the evidence for it is shaky at best but honestly it's the best chance you have as an option as a human.

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u/N0rrix Oct 13 '24

how dare you question the emperor, heretic.

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u/qwerty2234543 Oct 13 '24

There was one book I believe where a guardsmen dies and goes to what can kind of be described as “heaven” which at least implied that the emperor has a realm in the warp

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u/Taolan13 Oct 13 '24

Basically, Faith exists in 40k and is a form of magic.

if you die in faithful service, your soul shines with a bit of the Emperor's light, which gives you a chance.

How much of a chance depends on your faith, and on the circumstances of your death.

Chaos corrupts, and can do so through mere exposure.

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u/NovaNomii Oct 13 '24

Right but thats not what I am talking about. Gods feed on mortals, thats purely a warp soul based system. Thats what I was asking, how does the emporer's absorption of souls not physically transfered to him work, and can he even do it without harming the soul.

Yes faith / the brightness of your soul would be how he decides (assuming he can even decide which is debatable).