b1soul Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 I just came across Lo Chang (old fluff) and Ho'Tsun (Fantasy Flight) Are there any others? Lo Chang is also described as "moon-faced". Not exactly subtle of GW... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/290976-chinese-imperial-fists/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aegnor Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 Actually that always made me think of the Magic Faraway Tree. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/290976-chinese-imperial-fists/#findComment-3684152 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greyall Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 I thought 'moon-faced' meant full of scars and, well, craters, lol. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/290976-chinese-imperial-fists/#findComment-3684178 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reyner Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 The old 3rd edition codex said he was moon faced after his helmet failed him in battle. The Imperial Fists have a load of cultures in their characters. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/290976-chinese-imperial-fists/#findComment-3684180 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Juan Juarez Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 In 40k, they have a wildly diverse set of choices in terms of name as they are reputed to recruit from a wide swathe of worlds with none ever really named. In the Great Crusade and Heresy I would imagine them being some of the original Terran Marines. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/290976-chinese-imperial-fists/#findComment-3684196 Share on other sites More sharing options...
b1soul Posted May 12, 2014 Author Share Posted May 12, 2014 I thought 'moon-faced' meant full of scars and, well, craters, lol. Hmm...you could be right It's still interesting to have an Imperial Fist named Lo Chang (I'm totally down for Chapters recruiting from different worlds) In Scars, there's a Terran Scandinavian White Scar Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/290976-chinese-imperial-fists/#findComment-3684197 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greyall Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 Though he was initially meant for the Luna Wolves, and I'm still trying to wrap my head around the coincidence fact that he's both from a different ethnicity and a protagonist among the traitors in the Legion. The fact that he knew he was initially set to join another Legion is interesting, too, this 'production line-esque' recruitment system is prone to what happened to that White Scar, planting something inside the human side of the Marine that can grow into detachment and, at its worst, treason. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/290976-chinese-imperial-fists/#findComment-3684208 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aegnor Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 I thought 'moon-faced' meant full of scars and, well, craters, lol. Being more serious, that is what I thought the term meant. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/290976-chinese-imperial-fists/#findComment-3684217 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emperor's Furor Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 It says in extermination that they drew from all over terra even from regions where other legions held tithe rights. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/290976-chinese-imperial-fists/#findComment-3684332 Share on other sites More sharing options...
b1soul Posted May 13, 2014 Author Share Posted May 13, 2014 I'm reading the Raven Guard fluff and it says the RG Terrans were originally recruited from Asiatic tribes...so I supposed you could say that Terran recruitment was quite ethnically diverse Ironically, these tribes practiced slave-raiding, which I thought was a nice touch by FW. Not surprisingly, Corax didn't like the RG Terrans much. I'm pretty sure a lot of Terran RG probably defected to the Traitors Though he was initially meant for the Luna Wolves, and I'm still trying to wrap my head around the coincidence fact that he's both from a different ethnicity and a protagonist among the traitors in the Legion. He's an interesting character as he's really a minority within a minority. Most Terran White Scars are still Asiatic because of the legion's recruitment practices. He finds this preference for recruiting from Asiatic regions of Terra tribalistic and backward Torghun is a non-Asiatic (Scandinavian) Terran. He would stick out like a sore thumb. On top of that, he thinks and fights more like a Luna Wolf. Though it's interesting that there are many Chogorians among the pro-Horus faction of the White Scars, including that Noyan Khan skewered by Jaghatai Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/290976-chinese-imperial-fists/#findComment-3685229 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Rohr Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 Asiatic as in 'within Asia' not ethnically Asian. The only xeric biomes I found were the post-soviet 'stans, so logically the writers intended for these guys to be wastelanders/mountain tribes. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/290976-chinese-imperial-fists/#findComment-3685233 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakuth Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 I'm reading the Raven Guard fluff and it says the RG Terrans were originally recruited from Asiatic tribes...so I supposed you could say that Terran recruitment was quite ethnically diverse Ironically, these tribes practiced slave-raiding. Not surprising that Corax didn't like the RG Terrans much. I'm pretty sure a lot of Terran RG probably defected to the Traitors I believe a lot of them died at the battle of Gate 42. Many had been effectively exiled by Corax and sent out in nomad-predation fleets, out into the furthest reaches of the galaxy. I would suspect that any that survived Istvaan would have remained loyal due to the carnage wrought there. Maybe some of the nomad-predation fleets, had they heard what happened, could have turned renegade. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/290976-chinese-imperial-fists/#findComment-3685237 Share on other sites More sharing options...
b1soul Posted May 13, 2014 Author Share Posted May 13, 2014 I believe a lot of them died at the battle of Gate 42. Many had been effectively exiled by Corax and sent out in nomad-predation fleets, out into the furthest reaches of the galaxy. I would suspect that any that survived Istvaan would have remained loyal due to the carnage wrought there. Maybe some of the nomad-predation fleets, had they heard what happened, could have turned renegade. I was thinking those exiled by Corax must've been quite resentful. A lot of their brothers had died at Gate 42. They might've seen it as their primarch's attempt to rid the legion of Terrans. Corax seems to have found the Terrans distasteful as most of them were from a slave-raiding society and Corax hated slavers above all else. I wonder if Alastor Rushal is Terran. His name suggest he's probably a native of Deliverance though... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/290976-chinese-imperial-fists/#findComment-3685242 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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