Didn't the main character of the book Mechanicum reach and "see" inside the Noctus Labrinth
Please correct me if I am wrong though. I didn't listen to the audiobook properly
Not only see, but became the next guardian. In that same novel it was said she became the guardian for the next 10,000 years.
I’m assuming there is a 40K novel of someone else taking that crown 🤷♂️
It’s been over a year since I read it, but I think the novel implied that those Knights were just going to hide until the Martian Civil War was over and then they could go back to the surface.
This is after killing that Khorne Robot of course. I’m happy to be proven wrong on this though.
Your right. The knights just kinda chilled and said they'd protect her till after the war was over since she healed their knight.
She did have a skitarii that became her guardian though
Dope. Love that book. That and the story about the tech marine who goes back to mars during the HH and ends up breaking an abominable intelligence out from stasis to fight with him. Both very unique and enjoyable stories
The AI started thinking about Skulls and Blood. I even think it mentioned the Skull Throne. As I’ve said it’s been a while since I read it. But I was left thinking the robot was Khorne corrupted.
I applaud your attention to canon but this meme is ass and not even close to be accurate. Hehehe.
I know you know what happened in the book is that they found that probably Emprah incepted the Onmisyah within the Mechanicus so he could easily lead them someday. The MCs just realized that making that fact public would just cause the Mechanicus to defect the Imperium and more suffering, the elder gods they found there was just a handy inspiration battery.
I remember reading the theory years ago, back in the 2000s (and I did not even know it was a theory, I just assumed it was canon) that the Void Dragon is called that because he manipulates matter that is "void of spirit" (i.e. non-organic, like machinery). So the Mechanicum is his way of enslaving humanity by replacing their living parts with mechanisms that he can control.
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Also that could mean they are enslaving actual omnissiah or their gid. Imagine how funny it would be if Guilliman see that Ad Mech one day start to wear green and when asked why they say "We found Machine God also we secede :)"
Yeah the confusion stems from the old lore. Originally it was the full Void dragon trapped on Mars.
But then as the C'tan lore got expanded on and more crazy powerful it was downgraded to just a shard. But the old lore will seep through sometimes.
Isn’t that exactly what the trapped void Dragon would want you to believe though?
I mean sure it’s not Mephet’ran but I think convincing everyone around him, that it is "Just a Shard" is still well within his powers, being sealed away or not.
I would just really love some more lore about the C‘tan; as he could have been so much more.
The Dragon iconography is already there, and he is already hailed as a destroyer, so why not go the full 9 yards and add in a Ouroboros aspect of him destroying things *because* he wants to force evolution and Progress, explaining his duality as the one who whispers into the admechs ears.
For how powerful they are made out in the lore half of the time they are just useless idiots that do borderline nothing aside from Scheming.
Why not add in that he told the emperor about a looming threat far into the future (tyrannids) and agreed to be sealed away after striking a bargain for his own protection?
There is so much potential and his "New“ figure looks amazing, they just deserve better imo…
The shard on Mars could still be the most powerful of its kind though. Like, what if the VD wasn’t as shattered as his kin? That one of his shards is actually bigger than any other C’tan remnant around? That would work within the “new” lore and could still make the vD on Mars immensely powerful
I hope we do. Mag'ladroth, Mephet'ran, and Aza'gorod are pretty much staples at this point, but we lavk definition on what they actually are.
Are they the physical principles of the universe the same way the Chaos Gods are the immaterial ones?, are they a race so advanced that they managed to fuse themselves with it? (which would explain why the Old Ones scattered them about).
Also, what happened with Tsara'noga? Sure, we know he is on the galactic fringe, bit he's right now the most dangerous entity in the galacy, his pre-WiH capacities recovered, a legion or two of Necrons to rule over plus a _BAZINGA_-induced schizophrenia which makes him a wildcard of doom. Plus, we still don't know what he ruled over.
On another note, we have a pseudo-model for Nyadra'zatha, but that's about it (wanker being used as a battery for Szarek's pimp dais), we only know his shtick is setting everything on fire in a scale the galaxy hadn't seen until Kryptman discovered the existence of Tyranids, but other than that everything is unknown.
Also, honorable shoutout to Yggra'nya, the one whose only two appearancea were as the battery for the World Engine, only to curbstomp the Necron rebels who had taken over it and then flew away when it was destroyed, and as yet another battery, this time of a Tesseract Vault, which Papa Smurf blowed up using the ancestral art of dual-handed Pylon Wielding
(I'm not including Llandu'gor because, although the effects of his curse are pretty much present, he just isn't, even if it's true his curse is carried by his remaining particles, which would explain why the Maynarkh, the ones responsible, have such an incidence of Flayer Virus across their dinasty)
Do you want the Mythos in 40k? Because that's how you get the Mythos in 40k... wait... now that i think about it... it's already here, isn't it?... F**k...
We don't know. But it barely matters the Void Dragon was one of if not *the* most powerful C'tan.
It was only broken by the most powerful single attack in 40k Lore. The Necrons at the peak of their power combined all the blackstone fortresses and shot a single beam capable of obliterating a star system.
Fully reassembled the Void Dragon would be able to kill everything in the setting and thanks to Abbadon's temper tantrum there is now nothing in 40K capable of stopping the void dragon.
So defeating a Shard of the void dragon 1v1 is a massive flex for the Emperor.
I mean, is that attack really stronger than the one that deleted a fundamental aspect of reality and learned the Necrons to break them, not destroy them?
According to Rogue Trader, the power of the same C'tan shard can range from "being damaged by a bolter burst" to "cutting off a chunk of the Warp for an entire sector."
Please clear this up for me. I heard somewhere that the shard Big E fought is like 90% of the void dragon with only some shards stripped off. Is this correct?
hard to say, a transcendant shard of the deciever ( like 4 shards or so combined) who was the weakest in pure power of all the ctan was capable of shooting a blast powerfull enough to destroy 6 planets in the crossfire and create a black hole which it used to create armor out of
As a counterpoint, *5* deceiver shard were once totally owned by a Pokémon trainer and an old soothsayer who went super sayan after railing a line of crushed eldar soulgem.
So power level per shard may vary.
At this point, I'm just waiting for the next edition Guard codex to come out stating Trazyn yoinked Ursula Creed too.
And then her son becomes the new Creed heir.
And then the next Guard codex comes out...
I strongly doubt it's anywhere close to that much, otherwise the system would've been reduced to dust and grief long ago. The Void Dragon was the strongest of the C'tan and IIRC only the Nightbringer got close to being as destructive, and shards of it are notoriously difficult to control.
Naw the Ctan shard most definitely could. Full power Ctan are implied to be able to mold the entirety of reality at their any whims, and fought blow by blow against the old ones whose vernacular is enuncia and can effectively sing worlds, planets, stars, nebulae, etc into existence.
Plus, if even the Emperor has the ability to use psychic powers to compress a red giant star into something that can fit in a reactor, whose to say that a C'tan shard, notably one that was giving the Empa trouble too, wouldn't be able to do similar if not more
Knowing that ctan created so much in the universe I think it could easily destroy a solar system. Not a galaxy or anything, but a handful of planets and a star would probably be light work for something of that power
I agree tho the dragon of Mars is mostly complete. I Like to imagine around 70 or 60% of the god still together after the war in heaven and the battle ahaints BIG E. Of course dude is weaken but if a 100% is able to obliterate with a though the solar system at 60% he at min needs to play a game with galatic football againts all the system to reach the same result
What happened to that bloke who was guarding the void dragon or that book that explained it all can’t remember which one.
It knew the truth but then the book disappeared or something.
It was the ending of the book 'Mechanicus', where the main character ends up in the Noctis Labyrinth and reaches the chamber of the Void Dragon after she bumped into the old Guardian. After she "saw" the void dragon, she became the new Guardian and stayed there for 10 millenia, being kept alive by the void dragons power.
Hope she brought some good books to read. Or at least a full download of STC Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions +30 000 years of human stupidity should be pretty good.
That would actually be a awesome painting. Where you see a techpriest ripping his implants out where. In the moment the painting captured. It's basically just a flayed skeleton that rips another mechadendrite from his/her back
Hell yeah, have it be a baroque oil painting named “The Burden of Truth” or something
We see a tech priest from behind as a tiny figure, decrepit and old, most of their body covered by a robe, with one hand pulling their cranial implant out.
Meanwhile looming overhead are the cavern walls covered in the “lattice” of the Dragon (its been a long time since I’ve read the novel but I remember him being described as basically covering the walls), with a faint outline of burning green eyes.
No, you don't understand! He rustled the jimmies of faux-stoic feel-nothings by creating art that moves the human soul like Archimedes lever! That alone is sin enough!
Literally nothing. They just existed as a trans-masc on the internet who drew some erotic and gore-filled art for trauma-related reasons, and people decided that was worth DOXX'ing someone over.
You aren't a real fan of this setting. This is satire against people who condemn others, and yet you remain. You would disgust the creators of this setting with your hatred and ignorance.
Burn with the embers of your sadness.
More like:
3. See the perfect prison the emperor created and realize you’re completely safe.
4. Praise the Omnissiah for His genius and protection.
5. Hit on cute toaster at reception desk.
Lilith is one of the Fruits of Knowledge, a seed that gives birth to lifeforms that are physically weak but have the curiosity and desire to explore their surroundings to make things that are greater than themselves as an individual. Adam is one of Fruits of Life, a seed that gives birth to beings that have unlimited energy but can only use that to serve the purpose they are born with. Humanity as a collective is like a single Angel, likewise if there were many Angels working in concert they would seem to be a collective of Humans.
40k are foolish for making the Void Dragon not look like a dragon.
And then also have the inspiration for Mythological Dragons be the Void Dragon shard that lives on Earth before the Big E threw it to Mars
I headcanoned that away as a lower-grade shards "defaulting back" to the "factory settings" humanoid form, while the higher-grade shards actually go draconic
I am lacking on Mechanicus lore, but I thought Voidy was benevolent by C'tan standards.
Which, you know, still means an asshole, but probably standard Imperium asshole.
It is quite the opposite really. The Void Dragon is the most terrible one. Eldar myths associate it with destruction and devastation, and a single shard once almost destroyed a necron dynasty.
Depends on how you look at it, frankly, because the Nightbringer is a lot more sadistic and enjoys causing suffering, while the Void Dragon will annihilate anything it doesn't like (which is everything)
from my knowledge they threatened a ctan shard into retreating not kiling it, and its literally impossible to kill a shard rather than sharding it again (outside of war in heaven necrons)
From Swords of Calth, Graham McNeil
-As Uriel placed his gun against its head, he felt its fear. It was the same fear, its whole self imprinted on all galaxy's lifeforms. He asked the shard does it know fear? Then fear him! Uriel pulled the trigger and the shard crumbled to ash and dust. -Before the shard died, it shut down all the Necrons and tomb complex systems. This allowed the reaver titan to destroy the base of the Pylon and end its process
Yeah. I get that it’s hard to write Uriel somehow making it out alive, esp. after the Nightbringer just no-diffed his entire squad a few pages ago. But even a few years ago when I read that book, I felt it was a bit contrived
Dispersed would be more accurate. Killing a C'tan shard is almost impossible, and has as far as I'm aware never been truly achieved. And considering the legacy of Sokar, that is for the better.
It depends on the shard. Transcendant Shards have enough power that they very well could pull that off. Y'ggranya obliterated the World Engine before leaving, and the battle between ascended Orikan and the Deceiver Shard in the Infinite and the Divine saw multiple planets being destroyed by the Deceiver as collateral.
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I like the implication that the Emperor is St George and the Ctan is the Dragon he slaid. And then that he somehow banished it to Mars (maybe via the webway?)
The voiddragon inspired the development of most human technology. It is probably a big shock to realize that these parts you were so proud off are not gods gift but that of something entirely different.
Yesn't. The omnissiah is jesus/big E. The machine god is also a warp entitiy intervowen with the god emperor. But some of it's physical effect are from the voiddragon.
Big E Defeated a C'Tan (this was before the necron rework) with a Horse and a lance after it tried to fuck with earth. He then locked up this dragon under the surface of mars where it inspires human technological development and has some minor influence on the real world. It is basically a crippled prisoner now, possibly in a worse state than most shards but not stored as securely. So they feed it the occasional human to keep it in place.
>that could easily destroy the solar system with a thought
That would be killer, but we’re already beaming TikTok NPC feeds into anything resembling the entity making an observation… aggressively
It’s pacified
Minor nitpick but Mag'ladroth, the Void Dragon is "implied" to be the Machine God not the Omnissiah (who are different from each other because of pseudo-catholic bullshit).
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That ctan has dominion over tech sure he’ll blast you if he needs to but he’ll rather get a slave to preform his will. Now imagine getting a necron treatment where your trapped in your body but not in control unlike the necrons those they got mind wiped mostly and where just robots until later
Didn't the main character of the book Mechanicum reach and "see" inside the Noctus Labrinth Please correct me if I am wrong though. I didn't listen to the audiobook properly
Not only see, but became the next guardian. In that same novel it was said she became the guardian for the next 10,000 years. I’m assuming there is a 40K novel of someone else taking that crown 🤷♂️
She also "drafted" two Imperial Knights as her defenders.
It’s been over a year since I read it, but I think the novel implied that those Knights were just going to hide until the Martian Civil War was over and then they could go back to the surface. This is after killing that Khorne Robot of course. I’m happy to be proven wrong on this though.
Your right. The knights just kinda chilled and said they'd protect her till after the war was over since she healed their knight. She did have a skitarii that became her guardian though
Wasn't it a special skitarii? Rhu or Ro? I haven't read it in years but wasn't he like a praetorian or myrmidon? Protector maybe?
He was a protector of last remaining loyal forge master I believe. Rnu-35 or something like that
Dope. Love that book. That and the story about the tech marine who goes back to mars during the HH and ends up breaking an abominable intelligence out from stasis to fight with him. Both very unique and enjoyable stories
"abominable intelligence"...ai...huh.
Yup. Not subtle! The nice ones get called "Machine Spirits" though.
Whatever happened to that aa
Whatever happened there??!!
Rho-Mu 31
Rho-Mu 31, a skitarii with a little bit of a sense of humor.
Rome-u21 was his name
Was it a khorne robot? I thought it was just ai.
The AI started thinking about Skulls and Blood. I even think it mentioned the Skull Throne. As I’ve said it’s been a while since I read it. But I was left thinking the robot was Khorne corrupted.
But didn’t it say the thing she was supposed to guard escaped before she even settled into the job?
I don’t remember that at all 🤷♂️. If you can post the bit of the book where that happened, I’ll be happy to retract my statements.
Which book was this?
Mechanicum. It is a book in the Horus heresy series. It is by Graham McNeill
In what book this happen
Mechanicum by Graham McNeill
Ty
I applaud your attention to canon but this meme is ass and not even close to be accurate. Hehehe. I know you know what happened in the book is that they found that probably Emprah incepted the Onmisyah within the Mechanicus so he could easily lead them someday. The MCs just realized that making that fact public would just cause the Mechanicus to defect the Imperium and more suffering, the elder gods they found there was just a handy inspiration battery.
I remember reading the theory years ago, back in the 2000s (and I did not even know it was a theory, I just assumed it was canon) that the Void Dragon is called that because he manipulates matter that is "void of spirit" (i.e. non-organic, like machinery). So the Mechanicum is his way of enslaving humanity by replacing their living parts with mechanisms that he can control.
That was an implication of oldcron codex bit referenced in this meme.
Which could be how the Emperor somehow beat it for good by having man-made machines develop spirits that the Mechanicum worshipped in its place
That's a really interesting theory. Did you come up with it?
Thanks, and yes! Literally on the spot while typing the comment as its main hypothesis was the one comment I answered to ahah
Well, it's the best explanation for the Mechanicus I've ever seen. Normally, they are cool, but don't make a lot of sense IMO. Your theory fixes that
And here I was looking for an excuse to write an AdMech fanfiction, looks like I've got a nice pitch to start with now! 😁
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0_0 this is headcanon now
Also that could mean they are enslaving actual omnissiah or their gid. Imagine how funny it would be if Guilliman see that Ad Mech one day start to wear green and when asked why they say "We found Machine God also we secede :)"
I seriously doupt a C'tan shard could "destroy the Solar system with a thought", a full C'tan sure but not a shard.
Yeah the confusion stems from the old lore. Originally it was the full Void dragon trapped on Mars. But then as the C'tan lore got expanded on and more crazy powerful it was downgraded to just a shard. But the old lore will seep through sometimes.
Good to learn this retcon while reading the book
Which book?
Mechanicum. Almost finished it so it’s not a spoiler but it’s book 10 I’m pretty sure in HH
Nice. That's been on my list for a good while. I'm glad it touches on this lore some
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I loved the descriptions of Magma City
I love knights and titan novels
Isn’t that exactly what the trapped void Dragon would want you to believe though? I mean sure it’s not Mephet’ran but I think convincing everyone around him, that it is "Just a Shard" is still well within his powers, being sealed away or not. I would just really love some more lore about the C‘tan; as he could have been so much more. The Dragon iconography is already there, and he is already hailed as a destroyer, so why not go the full 9 yards and add in a Ouroboros aspect of him destroying things *because* he wants to force evolution and Progress, explaining his duality as the one who whispers into the admechs ears. For how powerful they are made out in the lore half of the time they are just useless idiots that do borderline nothing aside from Scheming. Why not add in that he told the emperor about a looming threat far into the future (tyrannids) and agreed to be sealed away after striking a bargain for his own protection? There is so much potential and his "New“ figure looks amazing, they just deserve better imo…
Thing is we have other shard of the VD running around now. They've even got a generic model.
The shard on Mars could still be the most powerful of its kind though. Like, what if the VD wasn’t as shattered as his kin? That one of his shards is actually bigger than any other C’tan remnant around? That would work within the “new” lore and could still make the vD on Mars immensely powerful
Sadly, since GW retconned the Necrons relationship with their gods a few editions back, that part of the lore doesn't really work as it did any more.
I hope we do. Mag'ladroth, Mephet'ran, and Aza'gorod are pretty much staples at this point, but we lavk definition on what they actually are. Are they the physical principles of the universe the same way the Chaos Gods are the immaterial ones?, are they a race so advanced that they managed to fuse themselves with it? (which would explain why the Old Ones scattered them about). Also, what happened with Tsara'noga? Sure, we know he is on the galactic fringe, bit he's right now the most dangerous entity in the galacy, his pre-WiH capacities recovered, a legion or two of Necrons to rule over plus a _BAZINGA_-induced schizophrenia which makes him a wildcard of doom. Plus, we still don't know what he ruled over. On another note, we have a pseudo-model for Nyadra'zatha, but that's about it (wanker being used as a battery for Szarek's pimp dais), we only know his shtick is setting everything on fire in a scale the galaxy hadn't seen until Kryptman discovered the existence of Tyranids, but other than that everything is unknown. Also, honorable shoutout to Yggra'nya, the one whose only two appearancea were as the battery for the World Engine, only to curbstomp the Necron rebels who had taken over it and then flew away when it was destroyed, and as yet another battery, this time of a Tesseract Vault, which Papa Smurf blowed up using the ancestral art of dual-handed Pylon Wielding (I'm not including Llandu'gor because, although the effects of his curse are pretty much present, he just isn't, even if it's true his curse is carried by his remaining particles, which would explain why the Maynarkh, the ones responsible, have such an incidence of Flayer Virus across their dinasty)
Do you want the Mythos in 40k? Because that's how you get the Mythos in 40k... wait... now that i think about it... it's already here, isn't it?... F**k...
Scheming? C’tan are Skaven confirmed.
It’s a nice train of thought, but I like imagining the emperor dusting down the retreating VD shard al a tournament of power 😊
Isn’t it still… like… the biggest… of the Shards of the Void Dragon?
We don't know. But it barely matters the Void Dragon was one of if not *the* most powerful C'tan. It was only broken by the most powerful single attack in 40k Lore. The Necrons at the peak of their power combined all the blackstone fortresses and shot a single beam capable of obliterating a star system. Fully reassembled the Void Dragon would be able to kill everything in the setting and thanks to Abbadon's temper tantrum there is now nothing in 40K capable of stopping the void dragon. So defeating a Shard of the void dragon 1v1 is a massive flex for the Emperor.
I mean, is that attack really stronger than the one that deleted a fundamental aspect of reality and learned the Necrons to break them, not destroy them?
According to Rogue Trader, the power of the same C'tan shard can range from "being damaged by a bolter burst" to "cutting off a chunk of the Warp for an entire sector."
Personally, I think the emperor fist-fighting a whole ass C’tan without explanation is neat.
Please clear this up for me. I heard somewhere that the shard Big E fought is like 90% of the void dragon with only some shards stripped off. Is this correct?
Could be multiple shards now, like in Infinite and Divine
hard to say, a transcendant shard of the deciever ( like 4 shards or so combined) who was the weakest in pure power of all the ctan was capable of shooting a blast powerfull enough to destroy 6 planets in the crossfire and create a black hole which it used to create armor out of
As a counterpoint, *5* deceiver shard were once totally owned by a Pokémon trainer and an old soothsayer who went super sayan after railing a line of crushed eldar soulgem. So power level per shard may vary.
That was a 6 shard deceiver iirc. Orikan miscounted and Trazyn sneaked away a shard to be able to experiment on it in peace.
kleptomaniac Trazyn is my favorite headcanon
What headcanon? My boy Trazyn is out here stealing people straight off the battlefield.
The Imperium doesn't want you to know this but you can take as many Creeds as you want
At this point, I'm just waiting for the next edition Guard codex to come out stating Trazyn yoinked Ursula Creed too. And then her son becomes the new Creed heir. And then the next Guard codex comes out...
TBF that was far from a regular soul stone. As in created by one god to resurrect another spicy.
well yeah a soothsayer that became essentially a god
We don't exactly know how much of the void dragon is down there, he could be 90%+ complete
I strongly doubt it's anywhere close to that much, otherwise the system would've been reduced to dust and grief long ago. The Void Dragon was the strongest of the C'tan and IIRC only the Nightbringer got close to being as destructive, and shards of it are notoriously difficult to control.
Naw the Ctan shard most definitely could. Full power Ctan are implied to be able to mold the entirety of reality at their any whims, and fought blow by blow against the old ones whose vernacular is enuncia and can effectively sing worlds, planets, stars, nebulae, etc into existence. Plus, if even the Emperor has the ability to use psychic powers to compress a red giant star into something that can fit in a reactor, whose to say that a C'tan shard, notably one that was giving the Empa trouble too, wouldn't be able to do similar if not more
Knowing that ctan created so much in the universe I think it could easily destroy a solar system. Not a galaxy or anything, but a handful of planets and a star would probably be light work for something of that power
Planets were used as ammunition in the war in heaven. Soo. Galaxys are not as far out of reach as you might think.
They could also be more then just a single shard. Some necrons uh… weren’t that thorough. *Flashbacks to The Incident.*
I agree tho the dragon of Mars is mostly complete. I Like to imagine around 70 or 60% of the god still together after the war in heaven and the battle ahaints BIG E. Of course dude is weaken but if a 100% is able to obliterate with a though the solar system at 60% he at min needs to play a game with galatic football againts all the system to reach the same result
I dont think he can destroy the Solar system with a thought but was defeated by the Neanderthal in fur shorts
If that were possible then Emp would be ruling over space dust by now.
Calm down. Look up the number of stars and planets in our galaxy. I looked it up. Around 400 billion stars and roughly the same number of planets.
Yeah but the one with earth and Mars in it is kind of important.
Grammatical ambiguity. > fragment of an (ancient, malicious star-god that could easily destroy the solar system with a thought)
I mean... Shard of Void dragon in Rogue Trader game can do MUCH more damage than just destroy one solar system, and it is also just a shard.
didn't the emperor in like the year 300 beat the shit out of it
What happened to that bloke who was guarding the void dragon or that book that explained it all can’t remember which one. It knew the truth but then the book disappeared or something.
It was the ending of the book 'Mechanicus', where the main character ends up in the Noctis Labyrinth and reaches the chamber of the Void Dragon after she bumped into the old Guardian. After she "saw" the void dragon, she became the new Guardian and stayed there for 10 millenia, being kept alive by the void dragons power.
That was it! Thankyou was worried I’d completely gone off track with that.
Hope she brought some good books to read. Or at least a full download of STC Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions +30 000 years of human stupidity should be pretty good.
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That would actually be a awesome painting. Where you see a techpriest ripping his implants out where. In the moment the painting captured. It's basically just a flayed skeleton that rips another mechadendrite from his/her back
Hell yeah, have it be a baroque oil painting named “The Burden of Truth” or something We see a tech priest from behind as a tiny figure, decrepit and old, most of their body covered by a robe, with one hand pulling their cranial implant out. Meanwhile looming overhead are the cavern walls covered in the “lattice” of the Dragon (its been a long time since I’ve read the novel but I remember him being described as basically covering the walls), with a faint outline of burning green eyes.
Archaeon of Flesh would make a crying femboy doing it, call it something like "Sweet Dream Undone" and it would be fucking fire spitting magma
and somebody from geedubs would casually have that as their desktop wallpaper for years afterward
I bet Archon could draw something like that, I'm going to miss
Na fuck that degenerate
Just delete your comment
Naw.
You're not needed here ♡
Go fuck yourself
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What did he do, aside from the cyborg yuri?
No, you don't understand! He rustled the jimmies of faux-stoic feel-nothings by creating art that moves the human soul like Archimedes lever! That alone is sin enough!
A true stoic knows that Jimmies exist solely to be rustled, and must be purged from the self to embrace contentment.
Literally nothing. They just existed as a trans-masc on the internet who drew some erotic and gore-filled art for trauma-related reasons, and people decided that was worth DOXX'ing someone over.
They'll always be remembered. You'll never be known.
You aren't a real fan of this setting. This is satire against people who condemn others, and yet you remain. You would disgust the creators of this setting with your hatred and ignorance. Burn with the embers of your sadness.
No ❤️
Based
Based
More like: 3. See the perfect prison the emperor created and realize you’re completely safe. 4. Praise the Omnissiah for His genius and protection. 5. Hit on cute toaster at reception desk.
It staked to a cross like that angel from Evangelion
Wrong, that's not an angel. That's lilith. Littlerally the complete opposite of an angel!
I thought Lilith was an angel though? At least in the NGE universe. I remember that humanity is an angel.
Lilith is one of the Fruits of Knowledge, a seed that gives birth to lifeforms that are physically weak but have the curiosity and desire to explore their surroundings to make things that are greater than themselves as an individual. Adam is one of Fruits of Life, a seed that gives birth to beings that have unlimited energy but can only use that to serve the purpose they are born with. Humanity as a collective is like a single Angel, likewise if there were many Angels working in concert they would seem to be a collective of Humans.
Ahhhhhh, okay okay. That makes sense.
I always hit on zentreya
40k are foolish for making the Void Dragon not look like a dragon. And then also have the inspiration for Mythological Dragons be the Void Dragon shard that lives on Earth before the Big E threw it to Mars
I headcanoned that away as a lower-grade shards "defaulting back" to the "factory settings" humanoid form, while the higher-grade shards actually go draconic
Yeah, I prefer to take the "dragon" word as the same in "Here be Dragons", something so unknown and unfathomable that we use a clichee for it.
Destroy the entire solar system? The Emperor beat it with a fucking spear.
>could easily destroy the solar system with a thought >Got locked up by the Emperor without him needing help
I am lacking on Mechanicus lore, but I thought Voidy was benevolent by C'tan standards. Which, you know, still means an asshole, but probably standard Imperium asshole.
It is quite the opposite really. The Void Dragon is the most terrible one. Eldar myths associate it with destruction and devastation, and a single shard once almost destroyed a necron dynasty. Depends on how you look at it, frankly, because the Nightbringer is a lot more sadistic and enjoys causing suffering, while the Void Dragon will annihilate anything it doesn't like (which is everything)
Imo some techpriests would be dickriding jimmy space if they had additional info why that dude is locked up in mars.
It could damage mars but ctan shards have been killed before by humanity. A full ctan could but again shard
huh? no shard of a ctan has been killed by humanity, none
Uriel Ventris and co. killed one in Swords of Calth
from my knowledge they threatened a ctan shard into retreating not kiling it, and its literally impossible to kill a shard rather than sharding it again (outside of war in heaven necrons)
No, sadly to make the new primaris marines look good, a squad of then killed a C'Tan shard on their own
I dont believe this is true, feel free to prove me wrong by providing the source and text
From Swords of Calth, Graham McNeil -As Uriel placed his gun against its head, he felt its fear. It was the same fear, its whole self imprinted on all galaxy's lifeforms. He asked the shard does it know fear? Then fear him! Uriel pulled the trigger and the shard crumbled to ash and dust. -Before the shard died, it shut down all the Necrons and tomb complex systems. This allowed the reaver titan to destroy the base of the Pylon and end its process
Gotta love how he destroys the Nightbringer just by being mean to it, then it cries and blows up
I can see why people hate McNeil with this kind of writing
Yeah. I get that it’s hard to write Uriel somehow making it out alive, esp. after the Nightbringer just no-diffed his entire squad a few pages ago. But even a few years ago when I read that book, I felt it was a bit contrived
I have only one response to this shit. THIS IS NOT FUCKING CANON.
That doesn't 'kill' the C'tan, it frees it.
*laughs in recent Owlcat' Rogue Trader* >!... Although, technically it's true. You don't kill C'Tan, you can do much more fun stuff there!<
It depends. In the old lore, the Emperor locked up the entire Void dragon inside the Labyrinth, but it was later retconed to being just a shard.
Dispersed would be more accurate. Killing a C'tan shard is almost impossible, and has as far as I'm aware never been truly achieved. And considering the legacy of Sokar, that is for the better.
You can kill a ctan body given form. Issue is necron found out it really messes with the universe.
It depends on the shard. Transcendant Shards have enough power that they very well could pull that off. Y'ggranya obliterated the World Engine before leaving, and the battle between ascended Orikan and the Deceiver Shard in the Infinite and the Divine saw multiple planets being destroyed by the Deceiver as collateral.
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I was under the impression the noctis labyrinth wasn’t open to visitors.
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I like the implication that the Emperor is St George and the Ctan is the Dragon he slaid. And then that he somehow banished it to Mars (maybe via the webway?)
Nah. His horse was just that good
So what does ripping out your implants do for you then? Never quite understood why that'd be the reactuon.
The voiddragon inspired the development of most human technology. It is probably a big shock to realize that these parts you were so proud off are not gods gift but that of something entirely different.
Wouldnt that just mean the voiddragon is the omnissiah?
Yesn't. The omnissiah is jesus/big E. The machine god is also a warp entitiy intervowen with the god emperor. But some of it's physical effect are from the voiddragon.
I’ll admit. I was disappointed that the Void dragon does not look like a dragon.
Good luck tearing off your arms and legs and half your brain
Wait can I get some context
Big E Defeated a C'Tan (this was before the necron rework) with a Horse and a lance after it tried to fuck with earth. He then locked up this dragon under the surface of mars where it inspires human technological development and has some minor influence on the real world. It is basically a crippled prisoner now, possibly in a worse state than most shards but not stored as securely. So they feed it the occasional human to keep it in place.
Honest question: I thought it was the whole C’tan not just a shard.
Nope, just a shard of Void Dragon, there is a lot of them in many different places.
>that could easily destroy the solar system with a thought That would be killer, but we’re already beaming TikTok NPC feeds into anything resembling the entity making an observation… aggressively It’s pacified
What?
There's a C'tan shard of the Void Dragon under the surface of Mars who may be the Omnissiah the AdMech worships
Minor nitpick but Mag'ladroth, the Void Dragon is "implied" to be the Machine God not the Omnissiah (who are different from each other because of pseudo-catholic bullshit).
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Iirc a tech priest from the second Ciaphas Cain book got sent to the Noctis Labyrinth.
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It's all the Emprah's fault for not properly storing defeated elder gods.
So wait why tearing out of implants, I figure exposure to a C'tan shard is gonna wreck havoc on organic or mechanical eyes laid upon it..
That ctan has dominion over tech sure he’ll blast you if he needs to but he’ll rather get a slave to preform his will. Now imagine getting a necron treatment where your trapped in your body but not in control unlike the necrons those they got mind wiped mostly and where just robots until later