Raven Guard fluff from Extermination

[Chop]

Awesome fluff! Thanks for sharing

[BrotherCaptainArkhan]

I'm really really pleased I chose the Raven Guard as progenitors for my Sons of Tyr. This has got to be one of the best fluff-expansions a Legion has yet received, in my own humble opinion. What I like best is that they're no longer dominated by the 'shadow ninja' stereotype and that there's a pleasing multiplicity of attitudes and approaches to warfare within the same Legion, pre- and post-discovery of the Primarch.

 

Now if only we'd get a BL book to do for us what Chris Wraight did for the White Scars... ;)

[Conn Eremon]

 

 

 

Very interesting stuff in there.

 

Although Ash Blind kind of sounds like Red Thirst to me.

yeah, that was what it reminded me of as well

just a better version of it, i guess

as in they can come back from it and they are just more suicidal and not totally out of control

If you two are talking about how Isstvan survivors went into maniacal rages against both friend and foe, it was the World Eaters' doing. Their skull-filled ossuaries and blood rituals had a darker intent behind them, and this was the effect it had on the Raven Guard.

 

Edit: @Arkhan - Personally, I wish we had at least one book from each of BL's Dynamic Duo, Dan and Aaron, for each legion.

[Relict]

Regarding Corax's unintentional purge of Terrans/lodge members...

 

I can just imagine the epic facepalm from that whoreson Erebus when he heard about it....

 

:D

[Marshal Rohr]

Personally, I wouldn't rate it as my favorite fluff expansion. I do however love the way they were organized, because now they feel like the perfect representation of an airborne/air assault style army and it makes me wanna build up a slew of drop pods and storm eagles. Alvarex Maun's fluff is exactly perfect for the Raven Guard Army I would build if I could.

[Daylight]

I'm surprised with the direction they chose for the Raven Guard background, but I do like it. So it says they recruited from the Xeric tribes of the Asiatic dust lands, near the yndonesian bloc. Xeric means desert/desertlike, and it does say the yndonesian bloc is large (speculation: maybe includes India, or parts of it?), so does this mean that they recruited from the areas including modern-day Afghanistan and the Himalayas?

[Kol Saresk]

Either that or the Gobi desert in modern day China.

[Daylight]

Either that or the Gobi desert in modern day China.

Ok cool, that's about what I was thinking. It just seemed a little odd that both the RG and WS would recruit from the same place, as the White Scars also recruit from around modern day China I think, according to Scars.

[Kol Saresk]

Nah, all it says is

“Many of the others had been taken from the Asiatic hive clusters”

 

Excerpt From: Wraight, Chris. “Scars: Collector's Edition.” Black Library, 2013-12. iBooks.

This material may be protected by copyright.

 

And Asia is a big place.

[Deadlight]

I'm surprised with the direction they chose for the Raven Guard background, but I do like it. So it says they recruited from the Xeric tribes of the Asiatic dust lands, near the yndonesian bloc. Xeric means desert/desertlike, and it does say the yndonesian bloc is large (speculation: maybe includes India, or parts of it?), so does this mean that they recruited from the areas including modern-day Afghanistan and the Himalayas?

yndonesian - indonesian? hmmmm a large desert/desert like region near indonesia, if only such a place existed - cough - australia - cough

[Kol Saresk]

 

 

I'm surprised with the direction they chose for the Raven Guard background, but I do like it. So it says they recruited from the Xeric tribes of the Asiatic dust lands, near the yndonesian bloc. Xeric means desert/desertlike, and it does say the yndonesian bloc is large (speculation: maybe includes India, or parts of it?), so does this mean that they recruited from the areas including modern-day Afghanistan and the Himalayas?

yndonesian - indonesian? hmmmm a large desert/desert like region near indonesia, if only such a place existed - cough - australia - cough

If its in the Asiatic regions near the yndonesion bloc and and the yndonesian bloc(which IIRC is the name of a massive country that was in the western hemisphere) and that is Indonesia, then it would mean Asia has become a very big place and the Xeric ash lands could be anywhere.

[Deadlight]

but if you also factor in that the Australian Colonies being established as Penal Colonies, as was the moon Deliverance... its all circumstantial i know, and i wouldnt have thought that the raven guard and white scars would have shared their recruitment pool.

[Conn Eremon]

I think Indonesia is about as close as you're going to get. Considering how vastly changed Terra's climate and ecosystem is, for all we know the Xeric desert is currently under the ocean.

[Daylight]

but if you also factor in that the Australian Colonies being established as Penal Colonies, as was the moon Deliverance... its all circumstantial i know, and i wouldnt have thought that the raven guard and white scars would have shared their recruitment pool.

Well according to this link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deserts_and_xeric_shrublands

The deserts and xeric shrublands in China and Afghanistan are in the Palearctic zone, and the only zone with a name that sounds like Asiatic is the Australasia zone. Which is pretty much Australia (and probably the surrounding areas, which wouldn't be underwater anymore by 30k I don't think). So you may be on to something.

[Grim Dog Studios]

I asked a question over on The First Expedition regarding Terran Raven Guard, and the idea of aussie Raven Guard also popped up very quickly there!

http://z13.invisionfree.com/The_First_Expedition/index.php?showtopic=1274&st=0&&do=findComment&comment=22104277

 

Theres not much about it, but its still food for thought! :)

[GhostMalone]

I thought Australia was where the big E built the imperial palace, were not all desert in fact western and central Australia are more scoured bush land, and the rest of Australia is thick scrub and bush, north east is more tropical but were not barren and lifeless in fact with such diverse flora and fauna species Australia is a lot safer then most outsiders think.

 

The occasional snake but they aren't aggressive or territorial in fact your more likely to get killed by a kangaroo in heat then all our most dangerous creatures combined.

 

 

Today I had a roo decide that my excavator was in the way and wouldn't budge till I moved

[Cactus]

Jaspcat, the Imperial Palace sits atop the Himalayas.

 

I think it's been mentioned in several stories that there are no oceans on Terra any more. There's a heckuva lot more land in M31 than in M3.

[Marshal Rohr]

Central Asia specifically implies that at some point it was not submerged by water, so my safest bet it the belt of mountains that make up Pashtunistan and reach all the way up to the places populated by the Uyghurs in China, and the places populated by Kazakhs and Kyrgyz 

[Relict]

Strange, I've always thought that the Imperial Palace covered most of modern-day Western Europe. The Emperor's gene-laboratories were buried within the Himalayas.

 

Remember that with most of Terra's surface water gone, Australia could be a lot bigger. 

 

As far as Xeric goes, my money's on Central Asia. Not quite Mongolia, but where the present-day -stan countries are. 

[Marshal Rohr]

This is similar to what 30K Terra would look like.

[Hyaenidae]

That's an inspiring pic. Alaska had to be a royal pain to Unify.

 

Hmmm, I thinks I got an idea for my story line.....

[Marshal Traben]

LaurieGoulding at the First Expedition forum said that the 19th Legion possibly recruited from all over Terra. 

[Grim Dog Studios]

Yeah, he stated that all the Legions didn't recruit from just one specific place.

I'd imagine it be something along the lines of the majority of recruits being from one region, and then other separate recruits hailing from other regions due to different reasons, such as personalities/traits or maybe just that there was no decent aspirants from the usual region for some reason at one time or another.

I'm currently trying to write up some homebrew fluff based on a Terran RG sergeant who hails from Albia. Whether I decide to eventually post it or not is a whole other matter haha

[Marshal Rohr]

I use that picture for my regional back stories. Hmm. Me thinks some photoshopping is in order. We IR guys do love territory.

[Hyaenidae]

I must demand a blown up pic of that. Perferably with random ruined hive cities dotting the landscape.  :D