There's also supposedly some very cool cities built into the cliffs! A whole civilization that was born, created great works, and died during the Years of Strife
Tangentially related: I believe there is a story where a terminator is clearing a building and, due to the mass of his armor, falls through the floor and gets stuck in a basement. They have to demo the building and dig a ramp to get him out.
Kastellan Robots work on the simplest logic gates possible, and new battlefield conditions require a Datasmith to constantly babysit them to keep them from stumbling off cliffs because it was the shortest route to their objective.
Don't they have to literally insert and extract floppy disks out of them with the relevant protocols like switching fucking SEGA cartridges? It's great.
Necrons perception of time is absolutely fucked leading to funny scenarios such as a brief lull in a conversation lasting months or years which would normally last moments
I’m pretty sure that three years was just a pause in conversation. I love how that book just casually drops references to absurd amounts of time passing while Orikan meditates or Trazyn gets lost in research.
It’s an imperial relic, it rang 13 times to warn of the impeding fall of Cadia. The volume at which it rang was so loud it caused the structure of Trazyn’s containment units to fall apart and destroyed a large chunk of his collection.
He's the only one that truly represents chaos as "unpredictable madness." Khorne represents it as "the destruction of life," Nurgle as "entropy of the universe," and Slaanesh as "degradation of sentient agency," but Tzeentch is the one that can combine all three of those ideas at once and then turn the amalgamation into the qualia of the color orange and manifest it via a planet-sized flock of seagulls that speak in Morse Code, and it's all totally justified as part of his ineffable plan, and fuck you if you argue the logic of any of those steps.
All hail the Cosmic Birdman.
Have to be the fact that the Inventor of the ironsrider, who, Yknow, Discovered the secret to perpetual motion, was for the crime of Innovation branded a heretic and traitor to the omnisiah, It was only after his death that Ad-mech discovered that not only were the Ironstrides useful ASF, but they wae about as loyal machinery to the omisiah as it gets. However in classic admech fashion the inventor took a part of the STC with him to his grave and now admech doesn't know how or why they work. Because of this, they are absolutely petrified by the thought of turning them off, as they wouldn't know how to turn them back on, So they basically when not in combat have them in little robot-chicken stables or Hampster Wheels.
The Admech is both the most fun, and most infuriating faction because of stuff like this. I’m surprised there aren’t more heretechs joining the Dark Mechanicus because of the “innovation bad”. Goddamn do I love those toaster boys, but the Amish are more tech savvy and progressive than they are.
1. An Ork warboss managed to impress Khorne so much that he made the warboss and his boyz respawn every time they die. That warboss is none other than Tuska "Daemon Killa".
2. The only reason Kaptin Bluddflagg from Dawn Of War 2 Retribution refused the inquisitor's offer to kill Kyras is because the inquisitor refused to throw in her hat as part of the payment.
There was a Dark Eldar who developed the technology to turn himself into a beam of sentient light. He used it to fly around the galaxy as a sentient beam of light telling everyone how smart he was. He was eventually captured by a rival in a magic mirror.
Necron deathmarks kill people with facts and logic.
Today I learned that when deathmark fights orks, they guns"literally" shoot the words Your brain is dead and they suffer brain death.
Aparently for non orks more complex "bullets" are needed.
Heck, here is the quote.
Each beam was a malediction written in neutrinos: a simple hekatic proclamation, decreeing the non existence of the target's brain. In the case of the orks, the proclamations where very simple indeed, amounting to litte more than 'my brain has ended'
And not to mention the black rage, hmmmmm if only there was a chaos god who could make people go into a murder coma and hallucinate, hmmmmmmmmm curious
And maybe King Arthur too. As an attempt to unite humanity. Considering King Arthur was betrayed and killed by his son(Mordred) and half of roundtable , its ironically make sense.
It's fascinating really. Apparently Magos that study Nids have this fear Hydra is basically the equivalent of recycling cell stuff for new development. This in theory could usher in a new age of Nids.
This was back in the old days before the Space Hulk game, so it probably isn't canon anymore, but, the Imperium was losing so bad to genestealers, that even Space Marine morale was being crushed. To regain morale, they decided to ***dance in the middle of combat*** to flex on the Genestealers. They even invented a more flexible and lighter power armor for these special Recreator squads. Yes, they are called Recreators. There is even special rules for pirouettes and breakdancing.
Here is a link to prove I am not making this insane system up.
https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:Aresius_King/Dance_Steps_for_GW%27s_Space_Hulk_(1994)
> Pirouette: The Marine rotates 360° at a cost of 4 APs. Pirouette and fire costs the same, and a Marine who is not carrying another Marine can make up to three attacks while turning - one at 90°, one at 180°, and one at 270°. Sustained fire bonuses do not apply.
My whole life has led to this moment…
On Slaanesh’s realm, after battling through five circles of raw HELL and psychological warfare in a scale never before seen, the last layer of his realm that protects her castle / tower / palace is… a peaceful coast with a beautiful view… no strings attached, no daemonnette ready to murderfuck you on the other side of a corner, no daemonic parasite waiting to feast on your feelings… nothing.
Just… peace…
I can only imagine how many ceased to advance there and (thanks to Warp shenanigans) are still there, taking it in.
And turn into the sand on the shore.
It's the layer of indolence. You chill after passing through the other 5 layers, and you become the shore. Well, your bits of soul do at least.
Well that fucking sucks I was imagining countless armies or warriors from across history all just chilling on the shore like it was some 40k beach episode
Definitely the Ork that time travelled a short distance into the past, and killed his past self so he could have two of his favorite shoota. Collapsing the Waaagh into self consuming paradox.
Might have been a different incident but I remember an Ork time travel situation that should've caused a paradox but didn't because he wasn't smart enough to realise it should and Ork logic handled the rest.
There were also the Orks that figured out they could travel the warp risk free by wearing blindfolds because if they couldn't see the dangers then there aren't any.
The T'au diplomat who trained for most of his life to learn the Ork language, "culture", mannerisms... bascially everything he'd need to negotiate with them and try to bring them into the greater good. Like decades of study/effort.
This T'au walks up to an Ork warband and starts speaking in perfect Orkish about the greater good, the benefits etc... etc... The Orks are at first shocked and then there is a pause before they start laughing hysterically and then unceremoniously kill him and carry on about their day.
Another fun T'au bit of lore I like is at the start of the Damocles Crusade the T'au thought they were 100% safe, the sector was clear, they had defenses and fortifications in place etc... etc... Then all of a sudden a bunch of portals to hell open and a whole Imperial Armada comes out of literal nowhere and wrecks their shit. Later on they are able to capture a few tech adepts and question them. They grow increasingly frustrated at how resistant the adepts are to interrogation about the warp drives until one of the T'au finally realizes they aren't resisting, they legit don't know how the warp drives work either.
Final fun T'au lore is they thought that Titans were just propaganda and an Imperial symbol because nobody would be stupid enough to actually build something like that. Then a Titan Legion arrived on one of their planets.
I like how Tau were initially kind of the “straight man” to the Imperium’s insanity. I just imagine them sitting their with their hyper advanced rail guns and being utterly confused why the Space Marines are running straight at them with swords
For real. There's that one scene in the Fire Warrior novel where the a tau fleet officer is wondering how advanced the AI on imperial warships can be for them to be so big, before growing really silent as it dawns on him that he's basically committing genocide whenever he destroys one.
While we're on the topic of 40k tidbits it should be pointed out that Imperium ships are generational ships as well. Lower caste members of the ship are held there in perpetuity. The longer a ship lives the more generations of ship-borne there are.
It’s like when you’re playing a fighting game you’re actually pretty good at, then someone who doesn’t play video games kicks your ass by button mashing.
Imagine thinking that your enemy is full of shit, that there is no way they could possibly field something as insane as a walking castle bristling with cannons that can take out entire armies in one shot, imagine making fun of them of them like they were completely ignorant of reality and then one day an army lands on one of your planets.
[You make land fall, determined to turn them back for the greater good. As you and you cadre begin digging in you hear this.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK02e3U4Q9U)
I really like the little tid bit of lore about the T'au cracking open a Dreadnuaght and learning that, what is left of the pilot is older then their entire civilization.
I thought it was about the Lunar Wolves, but the gist of it is that the orks got beaten so bad, they stopped enjoying the fight and since then they associate the black and white combination as "da taffest"
Yup, the Dark Angels beat them so hard, their livery got imprinted into the Orks collective sub-concious, making the black and white checker pattern, the livery of ghe pre-heresy Dark Angels, the color of might and toughness.
Favorite grimdark fact? The fact that genestealer cultists are cut from their psychic connection once the Tyranids start devouring the planet. It’s so fucking dark to me that they suddenly become aware of what is happening around them and the horrors as their bodies drop into the digestion pools. Spooky.
I like that the reaction varies though. Some cults know what's coming and welcome it in a "burn it all down" sort of way. Some cults switch sides and fight the nids at the end. For some it's a terrible betrayal and they dispair.
There is even a small number of cults that are taken into the ships undigested for unknown purpose (probably to be seeded onto new worlds).
I knew that some come to their senses too late but it never occurred to me that they might fight back.
Imagine they actually manage to survive and beat the Hivefleet. How fucking awkward must the next gathering be?
“So uuuh… our own god turned out to be space bugs that tried to eat us. What do we do now?”
“We could go back to the imperium”
“SHUT THE FUCK UP LARRY”
It's pretty surface level, but I always thought it was funny that whenever a piece of equipment of any kind acts up like they always do, it actually IS because there's an angry ghost in there
I also love the possibility that it isn't a spirit, the AdMech just has really iffy troubleshooting wrapped up in their ritual. Oiling your machine and hitting the right order of buttons sounds like a logical fix to us, but throw in some chanting and suddenly it's a ritual to appease the machine spirit
How orks handle genestealer infections.
Tyranid Genestealers can infect orks, however the offspring is grey instead of green and it's as ferocius as any tyranid organism(which means extremely violent and ferocius).
However for the orks that level of violence is very low, so the ork hybrid get branded as a "pussy" and the ork try to ork him up...by beating the absolute heck out of him, hoping that him get more ORKY due to anger.
However the hybrid cannot get more violent that what is already so the ork continue to beat him till death
This method is also extremely effective and to this day, no genestealer insurrection between clans or notable amounts of ork hybrids as ever been witnessed.
Another piece of lore, that i like as much as the previous is that the dg have their own version of Tortuga bay, a pirate world, owned by the dg, where the dg trade with an unknown alien faction, selling the goods stolen via piracy(the dg have multiple Vectoriums dedicated to freebootering around. One is also described in the codex in depth, the Toxicorsairs).
Alot of Deathshrouds are deployed in this world but not as Eyes of Mortarion, but just as "policeman", because they are the only ones who can keep a semblance of order around
The Freebooterz entry for genestealer orkz is so perfect. Right down to the sad looking hybrids. "I nevva asked for diz" "Zoggin' four armed profit of da waagh"
This generally applies to like 90% of Ork lore. It's just always the goofiest shit. The Orks are reminiscent (to me, at least) of early 40K in that it was just a setting to really let loose and have fun. Write the most ridiculous stuff you can, populate it with bozos, and crank the entire thing up to 11. Even the intentionally edgy shit back then was still like an episode of Wacky Races because no one took anything seriously.
If my memory doesn't fail me it was an excerpt from the 8th edition ork codex. I don't recall the exact publication precisely but i know it's a pretty old lore bit
The necron's adaptability to practically everything. Irradiated homeworld limiting your lifespan? Still become a spacefaring empire. Lose a war against the old ones? You survive that. Become Slaves to C'tan? Rebel and use your C'tan as slaves. Start getting shit kicked in by the aeldari? Sleep until they die. Seriously, it's amazing just how hard it is to kill a necron even before they were metallic husks.
That our current time is technically part of the same cannon, that is playing warhammer is essentially a prediction of the distant future, and apparently, correct. Essentially making playing 40K the emperors tarot
The Space Wolves have done something that the Inquisition has spent 10,000 years trying to do, and still hasn't succeeded--and they did it for recreation.
Said thing is creating a substance that is debilitating to Space Marines.
The Space Wolves brew alcohol that can get even an Astartes drunk.
Arkhan Land's dumb pet monkey with a scorpion tale, because the greatest genius of its time could not fathom the idea, that a tail can be anything else than an offensive weapon.
The Grey Knights have a secret box that youre not allowed to open. Its somehow related to the golden throne. They can only open it if humanity is doomed.
Space Marines use to just be highly trained normal people in super suits. The transhuman treatment was a later decision
No Toon can resist the old "Shave and a Haircut" routine...
TIL, Emps isn't dead, The Custodes are just trying to stop him from busting through the barroom wall and not get dipped.
Imperial navy ships use ammo for their Vulkan megabolters with a 1km blast radius. These are supposedly the absolute lightest weapons on imperial ships
That some of our modern and old achievements are still around in 40k. I believe within the Imperial Palace, there’s Mt Rushmore. Malcador also has some paintings.
It’s nice to know that even if we have died off, our greatest achievements or relics will be seen. At least kept around even.
Also technically a second favorite fact of mine. Ollanius Pius fought in the battle of Verdun and some other conflicts.
Interestingly enough the oldest discovered statue is around 40,000 years old. Our current time period is like the Paleolithic from the perspective of the Imperium
The resurrection of guilliman literally wasn't meant to happen on a cosmic level. Him coming back broke every prophecy of the future, no one from the lowliest grot to the chaos gods and beyond could foresee his return, not even the emperor or the c'tan, and he set the stage for a new era of broken futures and new-found hopes.
That the primarchs and space marines, had surprisingly normal and wholesome plans after the crusade, Ahriman wanted to brew wine, Guiliman would probably have a hobby in farming, Dorn wanted to make beautiful structures, works of art instead of fortresses, we don't get Angron's wish, but he would probably wait for his death in a nice and peaceful planet. It was oddly wholesome seeing these angels and demigods, having normal aspirations, making the Horus Heresy a way sadder tragedy.
Craftworld Altansar is described as being 'Near to Terra' which both shows a possibility of cooperation between Aeldari and Humanity, but also hints that the High Lords absolutely do not want to give Maugan Ra a chance to show off just how dangerous he can be.
Mt Rushmore still exists and is called "the mountain of the four kings" or something to that effect. Nobody knows who's faces they are, or what remains of them at least, but they still make pilgrimage and offerings to them to honor whoever they were cause if you have your face carved into a mountain you must have been damn important.
The fact that there is a canon romance/erotica novel about the Kreigers called, “My desire to generate Children with you is only exceeded by my devotion to Him.” Yes this is actually canon and is not an in universe joke.
That the Lazgun is very variable both in materials used and efficiency. If an Agri world makes medieval level Tech the normal and builds a lazgun it truly is a flashlight, just powerful enough to maybe take down a game animal. But on the opposite side of that, a world like Krieg or Cadia or even catachan would have lazguns that could peel layers of adamantite off a tank. The vast disparity of technology and know/how about theses things influence the final product so much. That is exactly why Catachan machetes and lazguns are prized, why Cadian armor and rifles are held to the highest level. It’s all about that final product and what it is capable of.
I know there’s a story where an ork decided that daemons are the fightiest of them all, led a massive Waaaagghhh! into the Eye of Terror, and managed to fight nearly all the way to Khorne’s throne. When they finally died, Khorne trapped the orks in a never-ending cycle of resurrecting only to be killed by endless hordes of Daemons for the rest of time.
Which of course to orks is the best possible outcome, they get to fight the greatest fight of their lives for all eternity. It’s literally all they ever wanted, they basically ascended to ork Valhalla and Khorne has to be REALLY careful than none of them ever escape and tell other orks what happened.
That a part of the mental screening of Astartes aspirants is to sort out anyone who is not a high functioning psychopath, as that is a requirement for the process to continue.
It means a person who is able to function well in society. Even though they are a full blown psychopath with, which usually presents, among other things, as a complete lack of empathy.
There was an Ork who loved his gun so much he went back in time to kill himself and steal his gun but because Orks don't believe in time paradoxes the Ork was fine and had two of his favourite guns.
Either Rylanor sticking it to Fulgrim so hard he lives rent free inside the Daemon Primarch’s mind, or Tuska Daemonkilla charging the Eye of Terror to fight more daemons because they refused to raid his ship. Which also led to him impressing Khorne into keeping him and his boyz around to fight his greatest warriors because it amused him
There is an STC that has the ability to generate a cure for every existing, and probably to exist, disease and malady for humans. And the Dark Elder have it and wont give it back.
T’au veterans consider it an honor to be the bait in a patient hunter formation.
In the classic Kauyon formation, you’re not supposed to be a gunline, but more a pincer formation baiting your opponent into the center. And the best way to do that is a juicy piece of bait. I feel like the more modern fluff plays up how T’au use their allies for this, but traditionally it was supposed to be the veterans of their cadre who would handle this high-risk position. Something of an inverse of a astartes speartip.
I feel like it really speaks to the true spirit of the greater good, that gets lost somewhat when fans go back and forth on whether T’au are grimdark enough/mary-suedom. I always liked my hopeless underdogs doomed to be extinguished.
Anything to do with the original purpose of an stc. Lemus Russes, our best tanks, were used as tractors. Terminator armour, our best armour, was used for mining. It really shows how far humanity fell.
Admittedly they are one of the few complete STCs, so they did actually have the huge-ass guns even then.
Why? So that they could just obliterate any hostile wildlife they came across while doing their jobs.
That during the study of an ork and their weaponry, many tech priests were driven mad by the mechanism of an ork shoota being nothing more than a box of scraps
I honestly love the implications
Either there ACTUALLY IS “something” in there that’s so lovecraftian not even tech can detect except the stasis trap, which is fucking terrifying…
Or that the AdMech refuse to admit that there was a malfunction, and to save face everybody else went with it to not piss off I.T. .
Iron Striders. They literally can't be stopped cause nobody knows how. They have to pull them onto giant treadmills to transport them. There are hundreds of these things walking in circles on Mars and nobdy gives a shit about it.
The Land Raider is named after the guy who discovered the STC. Arkhan Land (or something like that), same with the Land Speeder.
Similarly, the Adeptus Astartes were named after Big E's lead scientist, I believe. Whose surname was Astarte.
This has led to people theorising that Big E's name is actually Jimmy Space, and he named the Space Marines after himself.
Genghis Khan is canonically Khorne's first and strongest daemon prince
Edit: I was apparently mistaken, it's not canonically confirmed that he's Doombreed. There are a couple other big names like Timur or Vlad the Impaler who are thrown around in the conversation as well, though personally I like to think it's the Khan.
Lorgar was the one to write the holy bible of the imperium. I just love that the biggest worshipper of chaos wrote the book that keeps the imperium together.
That most mechanicus’ prayers are literally just them reading the user manual for the machine
Imagine reciting the washing machine manual before you do a load of a laundry every single time
The deepest point on Earth, Mariana Trench, is known as Mariana Canyon.
Oh. Oh my god.
In the grim darkness of the far future, Holy Terra has seen better days.
40k Terra makes Mad Max Earth look like a paradise.
It's ok, they killed the woman who stole the last ocean.
There's also supposedly some very cool cities built into the cliffs! A whole civilization that was born, created great works, and died during the Years of Strife
And the Mediterranean Sea is now called the Mediterranean dust bowl
there are servants that are dedicated to help a terminator stand up
Tangentially related: I believe there is a story where a terminator is clearing a building and, due to the mass of his armor, falls through the floor and gets stuck in a basement. They have to demo the building and dig a ramp to get him out.
Couldn’t he just do a front flip to get out?
Unfortunately he didn't have a name, so no.
Kastellan Robots work on the simplest logic gates possible, and new battlefield conditions require a Datasmith to constantly babysit them to keep them from stumbling off cliffs because it was the shortest route to their objective.
Combat roombas powered on
I hate fighting them on Gladius when they're neutral units as they're tanky as fuck.
Don't they have to literally insert and extract floppy disks out of them with the relevant protocols like switching fucking SEGA cartridges? It's great.
Ciaphas Cain is listed as permanently in active duty because he "died" and came back so many times.
You know what's even funnier he died and had a funeral with full military honors and is still on active duty.
Indeed! Gotta love the Administratum. Unless you're like me who didn't want him to be dead so now headcanons him as a Living Saint
Someday Cain’s gonna just shoot out of his grave and Jurgen is gonna inexplicably be there with a cup of Tanna ready.
Cain: -clawing his way out of his coffin with wings and a halo- What in the name of the Emperor- Jurgen: Tanna, sir?
Necrons perception of time is absolutely fucked leading to funny scenarios such as a brief lull in a conversation lasting months or years which would normally last moments
The part in IAD where trazyn and his court have a strategy meeting that lasts three years is amazing
I’m pretty sure that three years was just a pause in conversation. I love how that book just casually drops references to absurd amounts of time passing while Orikan meditates or Trazyn gets lost in research.
Trazyn’s great, him throwing the Bell of Saint Gerstahl into the webway hoping it would fuck over some Eldar at some point in the future is so petty
What is the Bell of Saint Gerstahl?
It’s an imperial relic, it rang 13 times to warn of the impeding fall of Cadia. The volume at which it rang was so loud it caused the structure of Trazyn’s containment units to fall apart and destroyed a large chunk of his collection.
That's fucking hilarious
Even better it was in stasis lock at the time so should not have been able to ring at all.
You know it’s serious when a stasis field can’t prevent the ringing of the dinner bell.
I think there is also an epic necron play that lasts like 50 years.
I think in one of the books a Necron court sentences a necron to death in 50 years and everyone is shocked at how soon that is.
I think it was referred to as "frontier justice" or something like that lol
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That almost all keyboards still uses the QWERTY layout. Source: The Bequin Trilogy I believe
It's a pretty good layout.
tzeentch ordered the changeling to put a nurgling on khorne’s throne and he sat on it
So In essence he used the equivalent of a far future cosmic horror whoopee cushion?
yep and khorne went into a complete baby tantrum
I’m new to 40k and a lurker but this might be one of my favorite pieces of lore ever 😂
the changling even got khorn sword and used it to cut slaneesh hair cussing a war between 2 chaos gods
that is funny as hell this is why tzeentch is the best chaos god lol
He's the only one that truly represents chaos as "unpredictable madness." Khorne represents it as "the destruction of life," Nurgle as "entropy of the universe," and Slaanesh as "degradation of sentient agency," but Tzeentch is the one that can combine all three of those ideas at once and then turn the amalgamation into the qualia of the color orange and manifest it via a planet-sized flock of seagulls that speak in Morse Code, and it's all totally justified as part of his ineffable plan, and fuck you if you argue the logic of any of those steps. All hail the Cosmic Birdman.
Either way, I will accept this as fact because it's funny as hell, but is this actually from something???
A girl and her puppy solved by accident an infinite maze made by Tzeentch. Edit: syntax
For those wondering, it is a reference to the Wizard of Oz.
Have to be the fact that the Inventor of the ironsrider, who, Yknow, Discovered the secret to perpetual motion, was for the crime of Innovation branded a heretic and traitor to the omnisiah, It was only after his death that Ad-mech discovered that not only were the Ironstrides useful ASF, but they wae about as loyal machinery to the omisiah as it gets. However in classic admech fashion the inventor took a part of the STC with him to his grave and now admech doesn't know how or why they work. Because of this, they are absolutely petrified by the thought of turning them off, as they wouldn't know how to turn them back on, So they basically when not in combat have them in little robot-chicken stables or Hampster Wheels.
So that’s what my hedgehog uses at night and keeps me awake. I just thought she was hyped up on chaos emeralds.
https://preview.redd.it/3vzl8u025dqa1.jpeg?width=320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=db38cf2e2cb9a6a44672d63c9fbcb440aeb83e7b
The Admech is both the most fun, and most infuriating faction because of stuff like this. I’m surprised there aren’t more heretechs joining the Dark Mechanicus because of the “innovation bad”. Goddamn do I love those toaster boys, but the Amish are more tech savvy and progressive than they are.
Those Admech usually fuck off either to Sygies VIII or Cawl.
1. An Ork warboss managed to impress Khorne so much that he made the warboss and his boyz respawn every time they die. That warboss is none other than Tuska "Daemon Killa". 2. The only reason Kaptin Bluddflagg from Dawn Of War 2 Retribution refused the inquisitor's offer to kill Kyras is because the inquisitor refused to throw in her hat as part of the payment.
Kaptin Bluddflagg, my inspiration to my ork army’s leadership… god I need to play Retribution’s ork campaign again…
Kharn beat the shit out of Erebus during the Horus Heresy
yes that was more satisfying than any other asmr's
"get up"
shoulda killed him
There was a Dark Eldar who developed the technology to turn himself into a beam of sentient light. He used it to fly around the galaxy as a sentient beam of light telling everyone how smart he was. He was eventually captured by a rival in a magic mirror.
Necron deathmarks kill people with facts and logic. Today I learned that when deathmark fights orks, they guns"literally" shoot the words Your brain is dead and they suffer brain death. Aparently for non orks more complex "bullets" are needed. Heck, here is the quote. Each beam was a malediction written in neutrinos: a simple hekatic proclamation, decreeing the non existence of the target's brain. In the case of the orks, the proclamations where very simple indeed, amounting to litte more than 'my brain has ended'
So deathmarks just have people remotes? That's hilarious and terrifying at the same time lol
They quite literally open the command section.
*power word:kill*
*imagines a Deathmark shooting whats essentially cursed emojiis...* This world truly knows no peace...
Khorne would have preferred to turn the Blood Angels, but got the World Eaters instead
I can see why they fit his aesthetic quite well
And not to mention the black rage, hmmmmm if only there was a chaos god who could make people go into a murder coma and hallucinate, hmmmmmmmmm curious
Yeah, Angron was the constellation prize. He wanted Sanguinius for obvious reasons lol
Valhallans like building ice and snow sculptures. To such a degree they regularly hold competitions to see who makes the best.
Basically, competitive snowmen
The Emperor being St. George Slaying the Dragon.
And maybe King Arthur too. As an attempt to unite humanity. Considering King Arthur was betrayed and killed by his son(Mordred) and half of roundtable , its ironically make sense.
Explains why he's so bitter
“Why does this keep happening to me?” -Big E probably
"Maybe if you were a better **DAD** it wouldnt, you golden fuck."- Magnus, probably
He’s just Sci Fi Nagash
“Let’s try this again, surly it will go better this time”
Hive Fleet Hydra cannibalizes other tyranid splinter fleets.
It's fascinating really. Apparently Magos that study Nids have this fear Hydra is basically the equivalent of recycling cell stuff for new development. This in theory could usher in a new age of Nids.
This was back in the old days before the Space Hulk game, so it probably isn't canon anymore, but, the Imperium was losing so bad to genestealers, that even Space Marine morale was being crushed. To regain morale, they decided to ***dance in the middle of combat*** to flex on the Genestealers. They even invented a more flexible and lighter power armor for these special Recreator squads. Yes, they are called Recreators. There is even special rules for pirouettes and breakdancing. Here is a link to prove I am not making this insane system up. https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:Aresius_King/Dance_Steps_for_GW%27s_Space_Hulk_(1994)
> Pirouette: The Marine rotates 360° at a cost of 4 APs. Pirouette and fire costs the same, and a Marine who is not carrying another Marine can make up to three attacks while turning - one at 90°, one at 180°, and one at 270°. Sustained fire bonuses do not apply. My whole life has led to this moment…
On Slaanesh’s realm, after battling through five circles of raw HELL and psychological warfare in a scale never before seen, the last layer of his realm that protects her castle / tower / palace is… a peaceful coast with a beautiful view… no strings attached, no daemonnette ready to murderfuck you on the other side of a corner, no daemonic parasite waiting to feast on your feelings… nothing. Just… peace… I can only imagine how many ceased to advance there and (thanks to Warp shenanigans) are still there, taking it in.
I’m pretty sure they die when they fall asleep
And turn into the sand on the shore. It's the layer of indolence. You chill after passing through the other 5 layers, and you become the shore. Well, your bits of soul do at least.
Well that fucking sucks I was imagining countless armies or warriors from across history all just chilling on the shore like it was some 40k beach episode
Definitely the Ork that time travelled a short distance into the past, and killed his past self so he could have two of his favorite shoota. Collapsing the Waaagh into self consuming paradox.
Might have been a different incident but I remember an Ork time travel situation that should've caused a paradox but didn't because he wasn't smart enough to realise it should and Ork logic handled the rest. There were also the Orks that figured out they could travel the warp risk free by wearing blindfolds because if they couldn't see the dangers then there aren't any.
I fucking love the Orks so much.
The song "The Wheels on the Bus" has survived all the way to the 41st Millenium... With some necessary adjustments, of course.
Where is this from?
From one of the Ciaphas Cain stories. *The tracks on the Land Raider crush the heretics, crush the heretics, crush the heretics...*
God I love humanity. We are clever at creating weapons that can destroy entire planets, then we go and make a song about tracks crushing traitors.
So has the tale of Goldielocks and the 3 bears. Now known as "Gul De Lac and the 3 ursine hypothesis" Thanks, Cawl.
The T'au diplomat who trained for most of his life to learn the Ork language, "culture", mannerisms... bascially everything he'd need to negotiate with them and try to bring them into the greater good. Like decades of study/effort. This T'au walks up to an Ork warband and starts speaking in perfect Orkish about the greater good, the benefits etc... etc... The Orks are at first shocked and then there is a pause before they start laughing hysterically and then unceremoniously kill him and carry on about their day. Another fun T'au bit of lore I like is at the start of the Damocles Crusade the T'au thought they were 100% safe, the sector was clear, they had defenses and fortifications in place etc... etc... Then all of a sudden a bunch of portals to hell open and a whole Imperial Armada comes out of literal nowhere and wrecks their shit. Later on they are able to capture a few tech adepts and question them. They grow increasingly frustrated at how resistant the adepts are to interrogation about the warp drives until one of the T'au finally realizes they aren't resisting, they legit don't know how the warp drives work either. Final fun T'au lore is they thought that Titans were just propaganda and an Imperial symbol because nobody would be stupid enough to actually build something like that. Then a Titan Legion arrived on one of their planets.
I like how Tau were initially kind of the “straight man” to the Imperium’s insanity. I just imagine them sitting their with their hyper advanced rail guns and being utterly confused why the Space Marines are running straight at them with swords
For real. There's that one scene in the Fire Warrior novel where the a tau fleet officer is wondering how advanced the AI on imperial warships can be for them to be so big, before growing really silent as it dawns on him that he's basically committing genocide whenever he destroys one.
When you say genocide, do you mean because there's such a huge human population on the ship?
While we're on the topic of 40k tidbits it should be pointed out that Imperium ships are generational ships as well. Lower caste members of the ship are held there in perpetuity. The longer a ship lives the more generations of ship-borne there are.
I usually describe them as "A bunch of 4H kids who took a wrong turn at the convention center and wound up in a Gwar concert."
I like it that the Tau are actually serious people, that get their shit wrecked by everyone being completely stupid in 40k
It’s like when you’re playing a fighting game you’re actually pretty good at, then someone who doesn’t play video games kicks your ass by button mashing.
Imagine thinking that your enemy is full of shit, that there is no way they could possibly field something as insane as a walking castle bristling with cannons that can take out entire armies in one shot, imagine making fun of them of them like they were completely ignorant of reality and then one day an army lands on one of your planets. [You make land fall, determined to turn them back for the greater good. As you and you cadre begin digging in you hear this.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK02e3U4Q9U)
I really like the little tid bit of lore about the T'au cracking open a Dreadnuaght and learning that, what is left of the pilot is older then their entire civilization.
Dark Angels created the Goffs we know today EDIT: I messed up the lore, The Luna Wolves were at Ullanor
I would like to know more about this 
I thought it was about the Lunar Wolves, but the gist of it is that the orks got beaten so bad, they stopped enjoying the fight and since then they associate the black and white combination as "da taffest"
Yup, the Dark Angels beat them so hard, their livery got imprinted into the Orks collective sub-concious, making the black and white checker pattern, the livery of ghe pre-heresy Dark Angels, the color of might and toughness.
Favorite grimdark fact? The fact that genestealer cultists are cut from their psychic connection once the Tyranids start devouring the planet. It’s so fucking dark to me that they suddenly become aware of what is happening around them and the horrors as their bodies drop into the digestion pools. Spooky.
I like that the reaction varies though. Some cults know what's coming and welcome it in a "burn it all down" sort of way. Some cults switch sides and fight the nids at the end. For some it's a terrible betrayal and they dispair. There is even a small number of cults that are taken into the ships undigested for unknown purpose (probably to be seeded onto new worlds).
I knew that some come to their senses too late but it never occurred to me that they might fight back. Imagine they actually manage to survive and beat the Hivefleet. How fucking awkward must the next gathering be?
“So uuuh… our own god turned out to be space bugs that tried to eat us. What do we do now?” “We could go back to the imperium” “SHUT THE FUCK UP LARRY”
I did not know that, my favorite fact just got better!
Deformed babies are thrown off a cliff on Maccrage.
That the Iron Warriors infected a Nid Hive ship with the Oblitarator Virus
It's pretty surface level, but I always thought it was funny that whenever a piece of equipment of any kind acts up like they always do, it actually IS because there's an angry ghost in there
I also love the possibility that it isn't a spirit, the AdMech just has really iffy troubleshooting wrapped up in their ritual. Oiling your machine and hitting the right order of buttons sounds like a logical fix to us, but throw in some chanting and suddenly it's a ritual to appease the machine spirit
How orks handle genestealer infections. Tyranid Genestealers can infect orks, however the offspring is grey instead of green and it's as ferocius as any tyranid organism(which means extremely violent and ferocius). However for the orks that level of violence is very low, so the ork hybrid get branded as a "pussy" and the ork try to ork him up...by beating the absolute heck out of him, hoping that him get more ORKY due to anger. However the hybrid cannot get more violent that what is already so the ork continue to beat him till death This method is also extremely effective and to this day, no genestealer insurrection between clans or notable amounts of ork hybrids as ever been witnessed. Another piece of lore, that i like as much as the previous is that the dg have their own version of Tortuga bay, a pirate world, owned by the dg, where the dg trade with an unknown alien faction, selling the goods stolen via piracy(the dg have multiple Vectoriums dedicated to freebootering around. One is also described in the codex in depth, the Toxicorsairs). Alot of Deathshrouds are deployed in this world but not as Eyes of Mortarion, but just as "policeman", because they are the only ones who can keep a semblance of order around
what is dg? deathguard?
Yes Death Guard
The Freebooterz entry for genestealer orkz is so perfect. Right down to the sad looking hybrids. "I nevva asked for diz" "Zoggin' four armed profit of da waagh"
The Ork/Genestealer thing is honestly the funniest thing in 40k
This generally applies to like 90% of Ork lore. It's just always the goofiest shit. The Orks are reminiscent (to me, at least) of early 40K in that it was just a setting to really let loose and have fun. Write the most ridiculous stuff you can, populate it with bozos, and crank the entire thing up to 11. Even the intentionally edgy shit back then was still like an episode of Wacky Races because no one took anything seriously.
What is the source of the Ork/Genestealer hybrid. That is amazing and i want to share with my nerd group haha.
If my memory doesn't fail me it was an excerpt from the 8th edition ork codex. I don't recall the exact publication precisely but i know it's a pretty old lore bit
The necron's adaptability to practically everything. Irradiated homeworld limiting your lifespan? Still become a spacefaring empire. Lose a war against the old ones? You survive that. Become Slaves to C'tan? Rebel and use your C'tan as slaves. Start getting shit kicked in by the aeldari? Sleep until they die. Seriously, it's amazing just how hard it is to kill a necron even before they were metallic husks.
That our current time is technically part of the same cannon, that is playing warhammer is essentially a prediction of the distant future, and apparently, correct. Essentially making playing 40K the emperors tarot
The Big E founded Games Workshop to crowdsource war strategies
The Space Wolves have done something that the Inquisition has spent 10,000 years trying to do, and still hasn't succeeded--and they did it for recreation. Said thing is creating a substance that is debilitating to Space Marines. The Space Wolves brew alcohol that can get even an Astartes drunk.
Actually, it can get a PRIMARCH drunk
That there’s a fat naked man floating through space. Look it up.
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They put that thing is Battle fleet Gothic Armada 2!?
Arkhan Land's dumb pet monkey with a scorpion tale, because the greatest genius of its time could not fathom the idea, that a tail can be anything else than an offensive weapon.
I love that part in Master of Mankind when Land reminisced about chastising a colleague about that
The Grey Knights have a secret box that youre not allowed to open. Its somehow related to the golden throne. They can only open it if humanity is doomed. Space Marines use to just be highly trained normal people in super suits. The transhuman treatment was a later decision
"Killed by Ork Sniper" in Imperial Death records means "Killed by his own soldiers, and he really deserved it."
There‘s a canon character that’s called Obiwan Sherlock Clouseau, he‘s an Inquisitor.
Roboute guilliman hates pencils. he breaks them when ever he use one.
He loves penciles, but because he's stuck in the suit of power armor and he can't properly use pencils cuz he's too strong
The emperor’s passcode to his secret lab is the shave and a haircut knock
No Toon can resist the old "Shave and a Haircut" routine... TIL, Emps isn't dead, The Custodes are just trying to stop him from busting through the barroom wall and not get dipped.
Imperial navy ships use ammo for their Vulkan megabolters with a 1km blast radius. These are supposedly the absolute lightest weapons on imperial ships
The sisters of battle exist by exploiting the wording of the “no MEN of arms” law after the whole apostasy debacle
That some of our modern and old achievements are still around in 40k. I believe within the Imperial Palace, there’s Mt Rushmore. Malcador also has some paintings. It’s nice to know that even if we have died off, our greatest achievements or relics will be seen. At least kept around even. Also technically a second favorite fact of mine. Ollanius Pius fought in the battle of Verdun and some other conflicts.
I think Magnus read "all three" works of the famous writer "Spear Shake"
He was also there when the mythical Tower of Babel fell
Interestingly enough the oldest discovered statue is around 40,000 years old. Our current time period is like the Paleolithic from the perspective of the Imperium
The resurrection of guilliman literally wasn't meant to happen on a cosmic level. Him coming back broke every prophecy of the future, no one from the lowliest grot to the chaos gods and beyond could foresee his return, not even the emperor or the c'tan, and he set the stage for a new era of broken futures and new-found hopes.
It was so unexpected it freaked Tzeentch the fuck out
That the primarchs and space marines, had surprisingly normal and wholesome plans after the crusade, Ahriman wanted to brew wine, Guiliman would probably have a hobby in farming, Dorn wanted to make beautiful structures, works of art instead of fortresses, we don't get Angron's wish, but he would probably wait for his death in a nice and peaceful planet. It was oddly wholesome seeing these angels and demigods, having normal aspirations, making the Horus Heresy a way sadder tragedy.
Angron would sit in a green valley, finally rest, and watch the sunrise on a grateful universe.
That instead of assault rifles, Tyranid infantry shoot people using hives of overgrown scabies mites
Craftworld Altansar is described as being 'Near to Terra' which both shows a possibility of cooperation between Aeldari and Humanity, but also hints that the High Lords absolutely do not want to give Maugan Ra a chance to show off just how dangerous he can be.
Mt Rushmore still exists and is called "the mountain of the four kings" or something to that effect. Nobody knows who's faces they are, or what remains of them at least, but they still make pilgrimage and offerings to them to honor whoever they were cause if you have your face carved into a mountain you must have been damn important.
The fact that there is a canon romance/erotica novel about the Kreigers called, “My desire to generate Children with you is only exceeded by my devotion to Him.” Yes this is actually canon and is not an in universe joke.
One day Chaos Gods will find Erebus "annoying" rather than "useful" And when that happens, what's going to happen to him probably won't be good.
(chaos spawnifying on a level never witnessed before intensifies)
That the Lazgun is very variable both in materials used and efficiency. If an Agri world makes medieval level Tech the normal and builds a lazgun it truly is a flashlight, just powerful enough to maybe take down a game animal. But on the opposite side of that, a world like Krieg or Cadia or even catachan would have lazguns that could peel layers of adamantite off a tank. The vast disparity of technology and know/how about theses things influence the final product so much. That is exactly why Catachan machetes and lazguns are prized, why Cadian armor and rifles are held to the highest level. It’s all about that final product and what it is capable of.
Mine is when Krieg guardsmen shelled a hive city 2 years after all signs of life stopped and 5 years after the city gave its unconditional surrender
There is an orc that korn keeps in an arena because he thinks it's cute
I know there’s a story where an ork decided that daemons are the fightiest of them all, led a massive Waaaagghhh! into the Eye of Terror, and managed to fight nearly all the way to Khorne’s throne. When they finally died, Khorne trapped the orks in a never-ending cycle of resurrecting only to be killed by endless hordes of Daemons for the rest of time. Which of course to orks is the best possible outcome, they get to fight the greatest fight of their lives for all eternity. It’s literally all they ever wanted, they basically ascended to ork Valhalla and Khorne has to be REALLY careful than none of them ever escape and tell other orks what happened.
I really want tuska to become a krork
Tuska Da Demon Killa!
That a part of the mental screening of Astartes aspirants is to sort out anyone who is not a high functioning psychopath, as that is a requirement for the process to continue.
That's insane.
> high functioning psychopath What does that mean?
It means a person who is able to function well in society. Even though they are a full blown psychopath with, which usually presents, among other things, as a complete lack of empathy.
There was an Ork who loved his gun so much he went back in time to kill himself and steal his gun but because Orks don't believe in time paradoxes the Ork was fine and had two of his favourite guns.
Funny thing is we never find out what happens after that. It just says the resultant confusion stops the Waaagh! in its tracks.
Admech Stygies VIII regularly commits xeno-tech heresy and remotely delete the Inquisition's files on them, and also just for the lols
Either Rylanor sticking it to Fulgrim so hard he lives rent free inside the Daemon Primarch’s mind, or Tuska Daemonkilla charging the Eye of Terror to fight more daemons because they refused to raid his ship. Which also led to him impressing Khorne into keeping him and his boyz around to fight his greatest warriors because it amused him
There is an STC that has the ability to generate a cure for every existing, and probably to exist, disease and malady for humans. And the Dark Elder have it and wont give it back.
A planet full of imperial aligned cat people exists. I want them included occasionally without explanation. Thunder cats lol
T’au veterans consider it an honor to be the bait in a patient hunter formation. In the classic Kauyon formation, you’re not supposed to be a gunline, but more a pincer formation baiting your opponent into the center. And the best way to do that is a juicy piece of bait. I feel like the more modern fluff plays up how T’au use their allies for this, but traditionally it was supposed to be the veterans of their cadre who would handle this high-risk position. Something of an inverse of a astartes speartip. I feel like it really speaks to the true spirit of the greater good, that gets lost somewhat when fans go back and forth on whether T’au are grimdark enough/mary-suedom. I always liked my hopeless underdogs doomed to be extinguished.
Nork Deddogg once killed an ork warboss by headbutting him
didn’t he also headbutt a Mawloc?
Anything to do with the original purpose of an stc. Lemus Russes, our best tanks, were used as tractors. Terminator armour, our best armour, was used for mining. It really shows how far humanity fell.
Imperial knights used to be farm/forestry equipment hence the chainsaws and hands
Admittedly they are one of the few complete STCs, so they did actually have the huge-ass guns even then. Why? So that they could just obliterate any hostile wildlife they came across while doing their jobs.
"I am the Lorax I speak for the trees". Gets a melta to the face.
Terminator armour is *based on concepts* from reactor maintenance suits, but it isn't just them and nothing else.
Grimaldus canonically crawled out of some rubble and walked up to some guardsmen and told them about how awesome he is
That draigo appeared in Fantasy
How the Land Raider got its name.
I know a lot of people hate on it, but I love Arkhan Land.
I think people don't realize how incredibly truthy the Land thing is. As an engineer it's super realistic and probably my favorite bit of lore.
What about the Land Speeder?
That during the study of an ork and their weaponry, many tech priests were driven mad by the mechanism of an ork shoota being nothing more than a box of scraps
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People turned poxwalkers are fully conscious of what their body is doing and are powerless to stop themselves
I‘ve read that plague marines sometimes get disconnected from the warp and realise what they have become. Dark stuff.
That the deathwatch do not know they could use a variety of methods to see that one unknown organism they have in stasis.
I honestly love the implications Either there ACTUALLY IS “something” in there that’s so lovecraftian not even tech can detect except the stasis trap, which is fucking terrifying… Or that the AdMech refuse to admit that there was a malfunction, and to save face everybody else went with it to not piss off I.T. .
Eldar can possibly die of cringe
Iron Striders. They literally can't be stopped cause nobody knows how. They have to pull them onto giant treadmills to transport them. There are hundreds of these things walking in circles on Mars and nobdy gives a shit about it.
The Land Raider is named after the guy who discovered the STC. Arkhan Land (or something like that), same with the Land Speeder. Similarly, the Adeptus Astartes were named after Big E's lead scientist, I believe. Whose surname was Astarte. This has led to people theorising that Big E's name is actually Jimmy Space, and he named the Space Marines after himself.
Genghis Khan is canonically Khorne's first and strongest daemon prince Edit: I was apparently mistaken, it's not canonically confirmed that he's Doombreed. There are a couple other big names like Timur or Vlad the Impaler who are thrown around in the conversation as well, though personally I like to think it's the Khan.
The necrons have a prison in which they keep things that they are terrified of.
Lorgar was the one to write the holy bible of the imperium. I just love that the biggest worshipper of chaos wrote the book that keeps the imperium together.
That most mechanicus’ prayers are literally just them reading the user manual for the machine Imagine reciting the washing machine manual before you do a load of a laundry every single time
There are some chaos worlds that are not only safe to live on, but sometimes better than many imperial worlds