Kol Saresk Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 Any ideas? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/291247-how-could-word-bearers-have-escaped-calth/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emperor's Furor Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 Through portals cut using special knives, is one that has been used. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/291247-how-could-word-bearers-have-escaped-calth/#findComment-3692463 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrandMagnus Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 What WoT said and I suppose using thunderhaws and other transports. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/291247-how-could-word-bearers-have-escaped-calth/#findComment-3692476 Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackoption Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 Most escaped calth by being freed from their wretched existence by the Warrior Kings of Ultramar.  Though if you escaped alive... well that is another matter entirely. The only way I can see of them surviving without daemon knives and warp jumping, would be a Word Bearer ship that escaped the Calth's orbital defenses. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/291247-how-could-word-bearers-have-escaped-calth/#findComment-3692508 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scribe Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 Through portals cut using special knives, is one that has been used. Â Yep, cheaters. :p Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/291247-how-could-word-bearers-have-escaped-calth/#findComment-3692510 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerbero666 Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 A wizard did it...literally Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/291247-how-could-word-bearers-have-escaped-calth/#findComment-3692542 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wade Garrett Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 The same way Honsou did, by hiding in a barrel of sewage. Â Glorious and important destiny for the win! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/291247-how-could-word-bearers-have-escaped-calth/#findComment-3692564 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xin Ceithan Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 The Gods will find a way if they have need of someone. And pity those chosen. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/291247-how-could-word-bearers-have-escaped-calth/#findComment-3692584 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wade Garrett Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 You know...that whole cut a hole in the Warp thing. Â Did we just forget how to do that after the Heresy? Because I can think of hundreds of times completely bypassing enemy defenses (as Narek and the two Possesed did in Unremembered Empire) would have come in darn handy. Â To say nothing of just popping into the Emperor's throne room and pulling the plug on the Golden Throne. We haven't done this WHY? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/291247-how-could-word-bearers-have-escaped-calth/#findComment-3692594 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scribe Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 Lost arts. I guess. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/291247-how-could-word-bearers-have-escaped-calth/#findComment-3692608 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthanor Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 Maybe it works like: 1- You get out of: Here 2- You end up: Somewhere Which makes it very handy to escape a nasty situation here (Calth, or the Tau museum in the Pandorax novel), but not really useful to get there. Unless you are: 1 - exceedingly lucky or 2 - have access to exceedingly valuable tech (A super duper knife? ) / large amount of quality sacrifices (like Magnus coming to Terra) / lots of very devoted supplicants to beseech the Dark Gods 3 - Aware of a link (webway?) between here and there that you can trust to make somewhere be there. I'm not sure how the characters you mentioned did it, as I have not read Unremembered Empire, but it seems like one of the above should reconcile it being possible, with it not being attempted on a regular basis. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/291247-how-could-word-bearers-have-escaped-calth/#findComment-3692617 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conn Eremon Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 Maybe there is a downside to their use that has not yet come to light, but that makes their future use much more limited or rare. Â Or maybe they lost it in a card game to some daemon that is all "Mortals, please. I :cuss ing love walking." Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/291247-how-could-word-bearers-have-escaped-calth/#findComment-3692618 Share on other sites More sharing options...
helterskelter Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 How did anyone escape isstvan V? You'd think 8 legions would be thorough right? So apply that to a one v one where word bearers held advantage/kor phaerons plot armour Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/291247-how-could-word-bearers-have-escaped-calth/#findComment-3692627 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kol Saresk Posted May 18, 2014 Author Share Posted May 18, 2014 Or, its like Harry Dresden and the Ways. They're random and twisting and it takes someone who 1.)has access to them and 2.)knowledge of how to traverse them in order for them to be useful to anyone. Narek had to have two of Erebus' bodyguards guide him. Erebus guided himself and M'Kar was guided by M'Kar-who-was-not-yet-M'Kar. Â And IIRC, it was the now dead Davinite priests who showed Erebus. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/291247-how-could-word-bearers-have-escaped-calth/#findComment-3692640 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scribe Posted May 18, 2014 Share Posted May 18, 2014 Yeah it was. Was that a short story? I think so... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/291247-how-could-word-bearers-have-escaped-calth/#findComment-3692658 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kol Saresk Posted May 18, 2014 Author Share Posted May 18, 2014 Yes, in Mark of Calth. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/291247-how-could-word-bearers-have-escaped-calth/#findComment-3692686 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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