Demus Ragnok Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 So I suppose that every bite of a Tzeentch daemon would taste totally different than the previous bite. Change and all that. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/301983-could-you-eat-a-daemon/page/2/#findComment-3922149 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teetengee Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 I'm fairly sure eating daemons would be as dangerous as eating regenerating creatures such as trolls or phoenixes. (Not a real world example but still). Perhaps not in the same way, but I can't imagine it being in any way good for you. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/301983-could-you-eat-a-daemon/page/2/#findComment-3922183 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Commander Scrymgeour Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 there are a couple of real world examples of humans eating gods, so eating a daemon is certainly plausible. I would imagine they'd taste orangish purply green Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/301983-could-you-eat-a-daemon/page/2/#findComment-3922521 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaeron Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 there are a couple of real world examples of humans eating gods, so eating a daemon is certainly plausible. I think that still falls under fantasy :lol: I know what you mean, of course... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/301983-could-you-eat-a-daemon/page/2/#findComment-3922587 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dusara217 Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 there are a couple of real world examples of humans eating gods, so eating a daemon is certainly plausible. I think that still falls under fantasy I know what you mean, of course... I don't know, I eat Jesus's flesh every couple of weeks, and it's just plain delicious. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/301983-could-you-eat-a-daemon/page/2/#findComment-3922825 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacinda Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Jesus loves you. Not a phrase you want to hear in a Mexican prison. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/301983-could-you-eat-a-daemon/page/2/#findComment-3922864 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demus Ragnok Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Jesus loves you. Not a phrase you want to hear in a Mexican prison. No bueno! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/301983-could-you-eat-a-daemon/page/2/#findComment-3922937 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kristoff Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 I remember a Tau story where the kroot eat the remains of the Slaaneshi warband beaten in battle. Promptly spawn into more Slanneshi daemons. The remains then get burnt by the slightly brighter remaining kroot DM Indeed. One reason the Shaper has such a high status in their culture. They also did this with Tyranids, with equally successful results. Kroot get to take more advantage of their meals in the long term, taking on aspects of their meals as they ingest more and fill up their genetic makeup from other species. Dang humanoid feral zerg. Space Marines don't incorporate it in to their genetics, they just use it to read minds. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/301983-could-you-eat-a-daemon/page/2/#findComment-3925844 Share on other sites More sharing options...
depthcharge12 Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 there are a couple of real world examples of humans eating gods, so eating a daemon is certainly plausible. I think that still falls under fantasy :lol: I know what you mean, of course... I don't know, I eat Jesus's flesh every couple of weeks, and it's just plain delicious. Mmmh it's wafer thin and less than 100 calories! ...maybe I shouldn't joke about that lest I get smitten :P I'd think the only reasonable place to actually eat the daemons would be in the warp rifts where they can be corporeal.. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/301983-could-you-eat-a-daemon/page/2/#findComment-3927965 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheesh Mode Posted January 22, 2015 Author Share Posted January 22, 2015 Great thoughts guys. Though, I do wonder whether there would be severe physical and spiritual corruption as a result of consuming daemonic flesh? I am working on a legion concept that places ritual sacrifice, cannibalism, and post battle corpse-consumption as extremely important. So, what would happen if during the crusade they encountered Daemons? Likely, they would assume Daemons are merely another, more violent, form of xenos and unwittingly consume highly virulent flesh. What effect would that have on their bodies, minds/souls? I think it would cause mass mutation and corruption. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/301983-could-you-eat-a-daemon/page/2/#findComment-3928071 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wulf Vengis Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 I think the consumption of deceased demon flesh whilst upon the material plane could indeed cause corruption and even possession I'm some cases. However the corpses of said demons doesn't normally remain on the physical for very long, minimizing the risk and making such occurrences somewhat uncommon. If perhaps the flesh were able to remain on the physical plane long enough for the marine in question to fully digest and absorb it's memories/demonic maters will however? Then i tend to think all bets are off; corruption, mutation and possession would run rampant. That being said if the flesh were to be consumed upon the surface of demon world/world trapped within a warp storm or within a ship who's gellar fields are malfunctioning, again massive mutation, almost instantaneous possession and/or corruption. We need to take into consideration how long it takes a marine to fully digest the meat as well. Also how does the memory absorption work exactly? Do the memories flood the marines mind as soon as he's swallowed the meat? Do they come to him little by little over the next few hours trickling into his own memories? Do they just come to him or can he willingly recall them? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/301983-could-you-eat-a-daemon/page/2/#findComment-3928116 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheesh Mode Posted January 22, 2015 Author Share Posted January 22, 2015 I think the consumption of deceased demon flesh whilst upon the material plane could indeed cause corruption and even possession I'm some cases. However the corpses of said demons doesn't normally remain on the physical for very long, minimizing the risk and making such occurrences somewhat uncommon. If perhaps the flesh were able to remain on the physical plane long enough for the marine in question to fully digest and absorb it's memories/demonic maters will however? Then i tend to think all bets are off; corruption, mutation and possession would run rampant. That being said if the flesh were to be consumed upon the surface of demon world/world trapped within a warp storm or within a ship who's gellar fields are malfunctioning, again massive mutation, almost instantaneous possession and/or corruption. We need to take into consideration how long it takes a marine to fully digest the meat as well. Also how does the memory absorption work exactly? Do the memories flood the marines mind as soon as he's swallowed the meat? Do they come to him little by little over the next few hours trickling into his own memories? Do they just come to him or can he willingly recall them? These are all good points. Is it possible for us to come up with a sufficient estimate of the digestive capacities of an astartes? Furthermore, given our collective 40k knowledge how long does it take for an individual to become corrupted? What are the circumstances invovled? Was there physical contact with daemonic flesh? Do we have an points of reference we can use as a basis for this? Also, I wonder whether this could lead to the creation of a newborn daemon by corrupting the space marine to such a point that his physiology begins to mimic a given daemon particular to a given god. I question the certainty that possession would occur, as a to my knowledge possession is the forceful merging of sentient daemonic energy with a physical, material body. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/301983-could-you-eat-a-daemon/page/2/#findComment-3928173 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quixus Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 My first thought was that some cultures believe that by consuming an enemy's body you can take the power of their spirit.While that is true of many cultures (especially Native American cultures), highly doubt that Space Marines would believe such a thing. It's not belief for the space marines it is fact, at least for those that have a working omophagea. Knowledge is power. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/301983-could-you-eat-a-daemon/page/2/#findComment-3928205 Share on other sites More sharing options...
karden00 Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 No. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/301983-could-you-eat-a-daemon/page/2/#findComment-3928227 Share on other sites More sharing options...
depthcharge12 Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 I think it would be like the possession of Doom 3. That shizz is downright creepy. The memories would probably overload a space marines brain as they'd experience all of the emotions that caused the warp entity to form. However strong of will, I think the daemon would take over at some point since you aren't completely destroying the spirit, you are mearly banishing it, and it would likely be attracted to its former killer. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/301983-could-you-eat-a-daemon/page/2/#findComment-3928238 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kristoff Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 I don't think it's a matter of the Daemon itself that you are eating taking over, more as the Deamon's flesh is pure Warp energy concentrated enough to be solid matter. That much Warp energy will change anything, especially when it is already sufficiently focused enough to present itself as a Daemon of the Big 4. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/301983-could-you-eat-a-daemon/page/2/#findComment-3928507 Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpediem Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 Assuming the demon doesn't dissipate immediately... ...I wonder if multiple Space Marines eating bits of the same demon might not end up making a sort of distributed demonic hive mind? Then again that might only work if they were all psykers and I'm not sure that the members of any Librarium would be that dim. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/301983-could-you-eat-a-daemon/page/2/#findComment-3928592 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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