Frosco Toppings Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 On Teutonic helmets, it's not certain whether they were for campaign wear or reserved for tournaments and the like. Interestingly, the colour scheme chosen by GW is that of the hospitallers rather than the Templars, which works well as the latter were more active in the Nordic/Baltic area than the Templars. I'd say tournaments only. Horns would be incredibly impractical in an actual battle situation - they could be easily grabbed or hooked with something by the enemy to pull the helmet off or if fastened under the chin could be used to drag the knight's head down and expose his back and neck. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/292334-inwit-and-the-inuit/page/2/#findComment-3717560 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Rohr Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 Most of the time the knights were raiding nearly defenseless villages though. The helms freaked the pagans out. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/292334-inwit-and-the-inuit/page/2/#findComment-3717675 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durfast Spiritwolf Posted June 14, 2014 Share Posted June 14, 2014 Raiding is a feature of border wars, and given that the local armies drew their non-elite forces from those self same (often fortified) villages, I would contest the term nearly defenceless :) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/292334-inwit-and-the-inuit/page/2/#findComment-3718442 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdemayo Posted June 15, 2014 Author Share Posted June 15, 2014 I imagine that the Teutonic elements of the Imperial Fists are really more a part of their Terran heritage, rather than Dorn's home world. Dorn seems one of the few Primarchs to have wholeheartedly adopted Imperial culture, that is the Terran-influenced cosmopolitan, universal culture of the greater Imperium, and not the culture of Primarch or his world. Dorn seems to have adapted to his legion, not the other way around. It's pretty striking. The Wolves are totally shaped by Fenris. The Word Bearers by Colchis. Even the supposedly "generic" Ultramarines are saturated in Macragge's local culture and ideals. But Inwit, whatever it was like, doesn't seem super important. I do like the idea of some Inuit iconography here and there. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/292334-inwit-and-the-inuit/page/2/#findComment-3719505 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Millicant Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Great post tdemayo. I think you're absolutely correct, Dorn seems the most "Terran" of all the primarchs. Extermination indicates that Imperial Fist recruiting was vast and non-location specific, which would only serve to exacerbate the lack of significance that Inwit held to their culture. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/292334-inwit-and-the-inuit/page/2/#findComment-3719755 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrannicide Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 Besides the fact that the VII recruits 30+ regiments from Inwit after Dorn is reunited with his Legion. The Fists are most definitely a product of their father's homeworld. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/292334-inwit-and-the-inuit/page/2/#findComment-3719777 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emperor's Furor Posted June 15, 2014 Share Posted June 15, 2014 I don't think enough has been done on Inwit tbh, we know some vague details, we get to see a bit of it in Crimson Fist but the actual culture isn't explored as much as just about every other legion imo, apart from Alphas of course. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/292334-inwit-and-the-inuit/page/2/#findComment-3719778 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Durfast Spiritwolf Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 The Wolves are totally shaped by Fenris. It's a common assumption, and yet the fluff speaks of an easy relationship between the Terrans and Fenrisian members of the Rout... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/292334-inwit-and-the-inuit/page/2/#findComment-3720992 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdemayo Posted June 17, 2014 Author Share Posted June 17, 2014 The Wolves are totally shaped by Fenris. It's a common assumption, and yet the fluff speaks of an easy relationship between the Terrans and Fenrisian members of the Rout... It seems to me that the Terran Wolves adopted Fenrisian culture. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/292334-inwit-and-the-inuit/page/2/#findComment-3721709 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emperor's Furor Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 They didn't really have a choice, afaik once they were recruited the Terran Wolves were kept away from the Terran Culture altogether, a long with the Salamanders and Alpha Legion. They were definitely kept away from their fellow legions which is why the distrust with them was so prominent, apart from the Salamanders who did their most to overcome that distrust. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/292334-inwit-and-the-inuit/page/2/#findComment-3721722 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdemayo Posted June 18, 2014 Author Share Posted June 18, 2014 They didn't really have a choice, afaik once they were recruited the Terran Wolves were kept away from the Terran Culture altogether, a long with the Salamanders and Alpha Legion. They were definitely kept away from their fellow legions which is why the distrust with them was so prominent, apart from the Salamanders who did their most to overcome that distrust. Still, that in itself is a huge contrast from the Imperial Fists. Some of the old-timer Terrans must have been very disappointed when the found Leman Russ. Others may have taken to him right away. Who knows? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/292334-inwit-and-the-inuit/page/2/#findComment-3722071 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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