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A universal time tales of the universe1/13/2024 You have your mini genres, like Warhammer Horror or Warhammer Crime. If you dive into Gaunt's Ghosts for example, which is effectively straight military sci-fi, you're gonna have a very different experience than if you grab a Ciaphus Cain novel which is satire of the satire. Now, some books are more serious than others (there's also hundreds of them). Everyone is going to be screwed over at the end of it. It is ultimately a tragedy as well as parody. Not to say that Warhammer doesn't get deadly serious when it comes to it (just look at the Eldar). Orks are sentient fungus that reproduce by fighting and their junky tech works simply because they believe it works (the red ones really do go faster, why? Because they believe it is so). Like the Imperium is supposed to be an awful over the top parody of fascist totalitarianism. ![]() We take it seriously to a point and then we don't. That's what you need to know lurks at the heart of this thing. It is about staring into the abyss and the abyss staring back hungrily. It is about people finding out what they are made of when they know their life has no value. It is about doing great deeds knowing they wont matter. It is about fighting against that futility. Years after that the planet itself is forgotten by the bureaucracy of the galaxy so it is as if you never existed in the first place.Ĥ0k is about futility. but 50 years later the planet is conquered and no one is alive to remember their deeds. Yes they held that bridge in a heroic last stand. Heroic sacrifice dosent matter because the timeline is so vast. They are whats left of a trillion angry entities and they want your literal soul. They are unknowable, undecipherable, unbelievable. Holes ripped in reality retching forth creatures of nightmare. Screams of pain and anguish just making these creatures giggle. Otherworldly xenos races that see the humans as either prey to be hunted or as playthings to satiate their horrific desires. Given a laser rifle to fight against literal gods and demons. By the time they even reach their first warzone everyone who ever knew they existed back home has died from old age. Guardsman being conscripted into the guard their loved ones mourn their death. Some of them begging for the release of death from the waking hell that is the 40k galaxy. Special characters don't matter because they are single individuals in the trillions of active soldiers in millions of wars across the galaxy. ![]() Saturday morning cartoon villein plot lines. Named characters surviving insurmountable odds because they are just so good. The lore has taken more of marvelesqe route in the last decade.
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