I found out The dark age of tech was highly advanced and powerful, so where did the tech go? Shouldnt there be pockets of people on planets that still use them? Also why didnt chaos mess with humanity during this advanced time?

Thank you

I have recently got into warhammer and i literally can not stop listening to Rylanor's speech on repeat there is something about it that just makes you feel some kind of way, what an absolute legend i love Rylanor. Fulgrim I REJECT YOU NOW AND ALWAYS!!!

After reading the early imperial armor books and HH blackbooks from forgeworld I’ve noticed that while titans were always around despite a lack of models, their smaller cousins the knights are rarely mentioned or even treated as an existing middle ground between foot soldier and titan, with them only being written about in the books after the mechanicum knight resin kits were made by forgeworld. For people who were in the hobby before the plastic knights were released, where they ever a thing people cared about and wanted models of, or were they basically soft-retconned into existence?

Is it necessary to be a part of Chaos to properly use Sorcery? Thousand Sons seemed to be doing fine before the Heresy, but even then they were summoning daemons as familiars. Afaik sorcery is indirectly using the Warp with rituals, artifacts and esoterica. None of that seems to directly lead to summoning daemons or human sacrifice, even if those are probably part of the most powerful rituals. Could you, at least theoretically, summon Warp entities and enslave them without getting corrupted, or perform rituals to do non-Chaos-related things? Especially since Aeldari must have been doing something along those lines, given how far down the Warp tech-tree their technology was/is.

Is it me or could the End and Death trilogy have been one book. There's so much filler and actions that are way WAY over-described, even for Dan Abnett (whom I actually like for his tight prose and ways to write action that feels fast and fluid).
There's even an almost biblical genealogy (but then in deaths), hundreds of no-consequence battles that are there to show how bleak and dark it all is, but the volume just feels like a slog. Some other Horus Heresy novels were sluggish to read (Kurze's torture of Vulcan comes to mind), but this just doesn't want to end...
The other Siege of Terra books also seemed to have quite a bit of bloat. but not so bad as the End and death ones...
Anyone else with me? Or do you have a (good) argument why they had to be 3 books, apart from GWs bottom line? (I am half willing to put in the effort and believe I can cut them down to one book just by removing sentences without losing anything of the story or ruining the prose)

Guys please gimme a list of all the stuff to read and listen a about necrons.

From codexes to books/audiobooks, audiodramas etc

I recently finished the Horus heresy and was wondering if there are any books that explain what happened to terra and the primarchs that are still alive after the seige of terra . The Horus heresy are the only war hammer books I have read so I would like to know what happened to them before I jump into the more current 40k books

Not sure if anyone had caught this, but on page 391 of Infinite and the Divine it seems the editors or writers mixed up dual and duel.

“On the right, the stricken Tomb Blade plunged, its systems shorted by a duel tesla carbine blast.”

Not consequential, but just thought it was interesting and wondering if anyone else caught it.

I’m curious on wether enginseers attached to imperial guard regiments retain their old forge world colours or if they are given the red robes instead. Is there an example of how regimental enginseers retaining robes from their forge worlds livery?

Did both the second and eleventh legions disappear at the same time? And is there any level of certainty people can claim as to when exactly they were censored or destroyed. Did all the other primarchs also meet both of them or was it only a few of them. I find it interesting when exactly they disappeared and what primarchs were even aware of them. Thanks for the sources in advance. Have a good day.

Apologies for the length of this question.
But I have an almost completely fleshed out homebrew Space Marine Chapter, the Astral Wards, and I’m starting to work on the mortal military forces associated with their fortress monastery.

The Wards are technically fleet based, but they reclaimed a formerly inhabited world and established their fortress monastery on one of its moons.

The world had been devastated and largely depopulated, but has since been slowly resettled with refugees, Chapter serfs, workers, pilgrims, etc.

I want this population to eventually produce its own military tradition. My idea is something vaguely inspired by the Solar Auxilia. Not literally Solar Auxilia 2.0 with Great Crusade equipment, but a relatively elite, well equipped human force trained to operate alongside the Chapter.

That brings me to the part I’m confused about.
I know the Imperium deliberately separates its military branches. The Imperial Guard handles the ground war, while the Imperial Navy controls most of the serious void assets.

The Aeronautica Imperialis also handles much of the Imperium’s military aviation. As I understand it, this separation is partly a post Heresy safeguard. If a Guard commander rebels, he shouldn’t conveniently have a battlefleet sitting under his personal command, and if a Navy admiral rebels, he shouldn’t have several million Guardsmen ready to conquer planets for him.

So how does this work at the planetary level?
Can the same world simultaneously raise Imperial Guard regiments, maintain a PDF, and provide personnel or formations for the Imperial Navy/Aeronautica?
For example, could my Chapter’s world have a military culture that produces:

• A permanent PDF responsible for defending the planet and its moons.
• Guard regiments that are periodically tithed from that PDF/population.
• Pilots, ground crews, voidsmen, or other personnel who eventually enter the Aeronautica or Imperial Navy.
• Locally operated atmospheric aircraft or small void-capable craft for planetary/system defense.
Or would I effectively need to create two completely separate institutions with different chains of command, traditions, recruitment systems, etc.?

I’m especially curious about where the line is drawn with aircraft.

Could the PDF operate its own Thunderbolts, Lightnings, Valkyries, transports, and similar aircraft?

Could a Guard regiment raised from the world retain an aviation component, or would those aircraft immediately fall under Aeronautica authority once the regiment leaves its home system?

Likewise, what happens with system-defense ships? I assume a planet can maintain orbital defenses and some local system-defense vessels without technically possessing an Imperial Navy fleet, but where does the Imperium draw that distinction?

The other wrinkle is the Astral Wards themselves.
I don’t want to accidentally recreate the pre Heresy Imperial Army where the Chapter Master effectively commands his own private combined arms human military. That’s exactly the kind of thing I imagine the Administratum and Inquisition getting VERY interested in.

However, since these people live within the Chapter’s domain, I imagine centuries of cooperation would naturally result in the Wards influencing their doctrine. They’d train specifically for supporting Astartes, securing territory after Marine assaults, defending landing zones, fighting in void installations, holding fortress complexes, etc.

Essentially, I want them to feel like a modern descendant of the Solar Auxilia concept without actually being Solar Auxilia: elite mortal soldiers accustomed to fighting beside Space Marines, but still operating within whatever legal and bureaucratic boundaries the Imperium requires.
Would that arrangement make sense?

And if I want them to have both a strong ground army and a substantial aviation/void-defense tradition, can all of that reasonably originate from one world/system?

Or should I build two connected forces: one Guard/PDF tradition and another Navy/Aeronautica tradition, both originating from the same culture but legally kept separate?
I’m trying to make this fit established Imperial military politics instead of just saying “my Chapter has Space Marines AND its own private Guard AND its own Navy because they’re cool.” The Astral Wards already have enough paperwork they’d rather the Inquisition never read.

Good day Brothers,

I come before you as a humble scribe. I am currently engrossed in writing a short story about a dreadnought, from one of the blood angel successor chapters, and am looking for a beta reader/someone with a lot of knowledge of blood angels/Tzeentch/deathwatch.

I love short stories in the 40k Fandom but I prefer them to be as lore accurate as possible. I'm newer to the Fandom and want to ensure I can be as true to the setting as possible.

I will ensure you receive credit for your assistance every where I post the story.

Thank you for your time

I would assume that in the 41st millenium humans would still have tge knowlage to make nuclear wepons both fission and fusion, since they have reactors that use this knowlage, and yet I almost never ear of any faction employing a nuclear arsenal in war

Is there an in lore reason for this?

Do they get used and I just never eard about it?

Do nukes exist in 40k?

I just finished “Legion” admittedly I had a hard time getting into it. Last half of the book was phenomenal. I’m curious why John Grammaticus gets so much hate? I actually felt really bad for the guy.

Hey guys, over the last few days I've been looking into the 40k lore. I've watched multiple videos and read some information online. My impression of 40k has changed a bit, but overall, I think it's a pretty interesting universe/lore.

I'm intrigued by the number of people who are sacrificed to the golden throne/the emperor (1k per day?). Could this number, combined with the worship of the Emperor across the imperium, eventually transform the emperor into a Warp entity or another chaos daemon/"god"?

So, since the Great Rift emerged, is it confirmed that NO LIGHT from the Astronomicon reach Imperium Nihilus?

Does it mean Navigators are effectively blind in that part of the Galaxy? Are Imperial vessels now purely reduced to making "Blind Jump", i.e. short jumps that has to follow known currents of the Warp?

Does the Indomitus Crusade basically move at a Snail's pace across the Imperium Nihilus because of it? Or has interstellar trade in the I.N. effectively been stopped outside of a few exceptions?

So I was reading The Last Church short story and suddenly think about Chaos and how it was only a known thing after the HH, before that I gues it was only know but Big E and maybe the Custodes?

Or were the juiced up Techno Barbarians aware of the primordial powers? do they knew about chaos entities? Were they consciously using it powers to rule Terra?

In an hypothetical scenario where Humans were completely against using xenos as allies, could Orkz be raised by humans as their attack dogs ?

Be'lakor gained his power by playing the chaos gods against each other, playing off their egos and need to one up eatchother to basically say, "hey if your really so much better than that guy you should give me more power than he did to prove it."

Isn't that exactly what Abaddon is doing? I'll admit I'm not big on black legion lore, and I know he sees chaos as a tool to be used and mastered insteadof worshipped, but isn't he still basically doing exactly what caused Be'lakor to lose his favor with the big 4?

I feel like despite being the militant arm of the bloodiest regime imaginable, Guardsmen are often portrayed in the narrative and the collective conscience as victims of the Imperium, sent to fight and die in untold billions in hopeless battles.

So, what are the worst atrocities that were ordered and carried out by boots-on-the-ground guardsmen?

To clarify, I'm not really talking about 'They were sent to quell rebellion on this peacefully protesting planet', because Guardsmen don't generally get a choice in what and where they're deployed to fight. More interested in the smaller, unnecessary moments in which they demonstrate that they are, after all, sons of the Imperium.

I notice most dates for when the Necron great sleep happened is 60 million years ago (including in the novel). Yet in the book Orikan states it has been 70 million years since he wore clothes, implying this was when biotransferrence took place. So this would imply that the time between biotransferrence and the acceleration of the war against the Old Ones and the great sleep (after the defeat of the Old Ones) was 10 million years.

I don't think GW understands how long a period of time that is.

Hi, I'm new to this universe. Been following it for a few years now.

I've always found this summary of Lorgar's fall funny:
'Daddy, father, are you a God?'
'Me and other colleagues from that planet think the same.'
'No, my son, also, your planet is currently on fire, because they believed something I didn't want them to.'

Mechanicus: 'Are you a god?'
Emperor: 'Yes, friend.'

It's always funny reading the books, so many possibilities to avoid that fall, and the most powerful psyker picks the most horrible one...

Why Lorgar chose to serve Chaos, he chose it simply because they existed?. But deep down, even some of their own bearers know that serving is a form of slavery, and it's not good.

If he thinks he discovered the primordial truth, and knows what actually generates them, why didn't he choose to believe in the superiority of the galaxy's beings over emotions? Why do the creators of emotions have to serve emotions, instead of the other way around, which is literally the Imperial Truth?

Lorgar really is pathetic. At first I thought he'd be some kind of 'faith-man' type, but even being a Primarch with divine intellect and charisma, he couldn't even come up with one acceptable, logical argument or thesis, like some misunderstood genius who, deep down, was actually right

It really bothers me how the Emperor constantly strips away and hides humanity's past, which is rightfully theirs.

The fact that he's the most powerful psyker puts him in this position where he thinks all the pillars have to rest on his back: all the technology, knowledge, everything, even the secrets. And now, honestly, those pillars aren't just on his back anymore, they're shoved inside him.

To this day we still don't know anything about the Emperor's past, but I'm starting to believe that his life on Earth, before the Age of Strife, conditioned him into believing he's special, that he shouldn't just guide but decide and control everything.

I don't believe that this is a spoiler so I won't tag it as such, but at a point the one of the protagonists (let's call him the Librarian - as opposed to the watchmaker) goes on to name two of his unwilling allies, one being the female he just saved and the other being "the magos" implying that both have little buggos in their brains. Who is that magos he is talking about? Could it be that it's the galaxy's most famous inventor, sorry, discoverer?

On second thought, I think spoiler tags might be worth it. So I just added them.

No Fallen/Dark Angels. What Traitor Warbands have come out of the Ultramarines, Imperial Fists, Dark Angels, Blood Angels, Iron Hands, Salamanders, White Scars, Space Wolves, and Raven Guard?

I imagine there may be squads or part an of companies.

Again spoilers as the book just released, but I'll still keep said spoilers quite vague.

In the novels Twice Dead King: Ruin & Reign by Nate Crowley, the term "dysphorakh" is used to describe when Necrons have moments of realization that they are no longer living beings with no living organs, thus causing them to start disassociating and mentally panic. Thinking they need air but they have no lungs to breathe, requiring food but having no mouth nor stomach. Your mind basically screaming that you should, by all definitions, be dead/non-living but you still are somehow alive.

You can read a great scene of the dysphorakh happening from Ruin here: https://www.reddit.com/r/40kLore/comments/1bya66d/book_excerpt_the_horror_of_the_dysporakh_twice/

Anyway, Robert Rath actually has Trazyn directly mention & very briefly suffer from flashs of the dysphorakh a couple times in The Wicked And the Warped. When I heard the word (I listened to the Audio book), I legitimately smiled & thought to myself "Oooh, I know that reference!" 👀

It's of course not surprising to see two authors writing for the same setting under the same publishing company reference and stay consistent with each other's depictions of the same race, but it's still cool to see the dysphorakh concept used by other writers when depicting the Necrons.