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jaxom Ancient Frater

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5 hours ago, Scribe said:

If you wanted to drop the spoilers for ADB's story, that would be great.

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  1. To the Custodes, the Emperor was a Scientist-King. His true strength was recreation: finding and adapting Dark Age technologies made by humanity at its zenith; when they created wonders he could not have made himself.
  2. The Custodes truly acted a court of philosophers for the Emperor; with scenes that finally show us this in action rather than just being told it. They were his sounding board and closest confidants. Some, through no pattern the Custodes could recognize, were favored above others. They were the original 300 before it meant those in the same room as the Golden Throne.
  3. The Custodes stop aging at 'a healthy middle age' and do not die of old age. This continues after the Emperor is put on the Golden Throne. They are uncertain if this would occur if any one of them were to stray from the Emperor's presence for too long.
  4. The Custodes were designed to work together with a null, even before the Sisters of Silence were an institute; the Emperor planned it out ahead. Each Custodes has a bond with one of the Sisters. 
  5. The loincloth and black helmet Custodes outfit is their mourning and penance outfit post-Siege.
  6. The Sisters of Silence had their memorials and tombs desecrated by religious zealots and witch hunters. Their bones were "purified" in holy water and burnt. One Custodes tracked down his Sister's stolen weapon and retrieved for internment.
  7. The entire Custodes host was against the Primarch project and tried to convince the Emperor not to do it.
  8. The Emperor explicitly bargained/pacted/stole power from the warp to make the primarchs. The Custodes perspective is the Emperor is the primarchs' creator while the four Chaos gods are their fathers. The primarchs let down the creator who had hopes for them while their fathers in the warp applauded.
  9. The Custodes do not respect the primarchs and consider them deluded in how they think they knew anything meaningful about what the Emperor wanted. Even the loyalists, had they truly understood, would have not carried out their individual campaigns during the Heresy.
  10. The primarchs are not reflections of part of the Emperor, they are the each the Emperor diluted. The Custodes always expected rebellion of some sort because each was a unifier, each would have different ideas of how to do it, and each would be absolutely convinced their way was the right way... just like the Emperor.
  11. The first time the Custodes saw the Emperor truly look anguished was right after Magnus was banished from the Throne Room as the Emperor ordered them and the Sisters into the breached webway; seeing 300 years of work lost in a moment. The Custodes wonder if Magnus even realized he must have killed thousands of Terran and Martian scientists and engineers who were in the webway in order to force his way into the Throne Room.
  12. The Custodes see themselves as the only creations the Emperor actually trusted because they were the only ones he gave the full picture to and let guard his most important projects and secrets.
  13. The Custodes and Sisters of Silence almost kill Guilliman in order to prevent a second civil war between him and Dorn (re: breaking apart the legions). They don't because they know the remaining primarchs will all die soon.
  14. The Custodes massively underestimate the rate of growth of the Imperial Cult - this is not stated explicitly, but a not too subtle insight for those who know what's going to happen.
  15. The Emperor may have channeled his dreams into one of his Custodes so he didn't have to deal with them.
  16. The actual Golden Throne, beneath the original Throne Room, looks like the one from the Rogue Trader era picture.
    image.png.75609d4ea3de40505a839a6a3f10e4c9.png

 

Marshal Rohr Ancient Frater

Marshal Rohr

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33 minutes ago, jaxom said:
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  1. To the Custodes, the Emperor was a Scientist-King. His true strength was recreation: finding and adapting Dark Age technologies made by humanity at its zenith; when they created wonders he could not have made himself.
  2. The Custodes truly acted a court of philosophers for the Emperor; with scenes that finally show us this in action rather than just being told it. They were his sounding board and closest confidants. Some, through no pattern the Custodes could recognize, were favored above others. They were the original 300 before it meant those in the same room as the Golden Throne.
  3. The Custodes stop aging at 'a healthy middle age' and do not die of old age. This continues after the Emperor is put on the Golden Throne. They are uncertain if this would occur if any one of them were to stray from the Emperor's presence for too long.
  4. The Custodes were designed to work together with a null, even before the Sisters of Silence were an institute; the Emperor planned it out ahead. Each Custodes has a bond with one of the Sisters. 
  5. The loincloth and black helmet Custodes outfit is their mourning and penance outfit post-Siege.
  6. The Sisters of Silence had their memorials and tombs desecrated by religious zealots and witch hunters. Their bones were "purified" in holy water and burnt. One Custodes tracked down his Sister's stolen weapon and retrieved for internment.
  7. The entire Custodes host was against the Primarch project and tried to convince the Emperor not to do it.
  8. The Emperor explicitly bargained/pacted/stole power from the warp to make the primarchs. The Custodes perspective is the Emperor is the primarchs' creator while the four Chaos gods are their fathers. The primarchs let down the creator who had hopes for them while their fathers in the warp applauded.
  9. The Custodes do not respect the primarchs and consider them deluded in how they think they knew anything meaningful about what the Emperor wanted. Even the loyalists, had they truly understood, would have not carried out their individual campaigns during the Heresy.
  10. The primarchs are not reflections of part of the Emperor, they are the each the Emperor diluted. The Custodes always expected rebellion of some sort because each was a unifier, each would have different ideas of how to do it, and each would be absolutely convinced their way was the right way... just like the Emperor.
  11. The first time the Custodes saw the Emperor truly look anguished was right after Magnus was banished from the Throne Room as the Emperor ordered them and the Sisters into the breached webway; seeing 300 years of work lost in a moment. The Custodes wonder if Magnus even realized he must have killed thousands of Terran and Martian scientists and engineers who were in the webway in order to force his way into the Throne Room.
  12. The Custodes see themselves as the only creations the Emperor actually trusted because they were the only ones he gave the full picture to and let guard his most important projects and secrets.
  13. The Custodes and Sisters of Silence almost kill Guilliman in order to prevent a second civil war between him and Dorn (re: breaking apart the legions). They don't because they know the remaining primarchs will all die soon.
  14. The Custodes massively underestimate the rate of growth of the Imperial Cult - this is not stated explicitly, but a not too subtle insight for those who know what's going to happen.
  15. The Emperor may have channeled his dreams into one of his Custodes so he didn't have to deal with them.
  16. The actual Golden Throne, beneath the original Throne Room, looks like the one from the Rogue Trader era picture.
    image.png.75609d4ea3de40505a839a6a3f10e4c9.png

 

Very important everyone actually reads or listens to the story. It’s still ADB so it’s still a banger. 

darkhorse0607 Battle-Brother

darkhorse0607

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1 hour ago, Scribe said:

 

I may have to ebook it, if that's still a thing.

 

Yeah, so I read a bit of what they were saying on the BL thread (before honestly it started bumming me out) so I jumped ahead to ADBs story. If you're a fan of his this doesn't give you a reason not to be. It's still ADB

jaxom Ancient Frater

jaxom

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2 hours ago, Gorechilde said:

Are they the only ones? I was hoping for some Dark Angels or Alpha Legion tid bits.

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Neither are in it. White Scars (2 stories), Blood Angels (1 story), Ahriman (1 story), and Narek the Word Bearer (1 story). Ultramarines get a mention, but they are literally just standing around.

 

Marshal Rohr Ancient Frater

Marshal Rohr

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1 hour ago, jaxom said:
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Neither are in it. White Scars (2 stories), Blood Angels (1 story), Ahriman (1 story), and Narek the Word Bearer (1 story). Ultramarines get a mention, but they are literally just standing around.

 

They had to keep up the tradition of entirely relying on Forge World to give Ultras any sense of identity or purpose. 

Astartes Consul Ancient Frater

Astartes Consul

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7 hours ago, Marshal Rohr said:

They had to keep up the tradition of entirely relying on Forge World to give Ultras any sense of identity or purpose. 

 

Well, if we got more stories then we'd just be castigated as hogging the lime light in 40k and 30k!!

 

 

 

 

Got the Audible over the weekend, thoroughly enjoying the stories so far. The new voice actor they have is really great as well. And ADB's Carrion Lord is brilliant, although I do have one lore question in the spoiler tag below for anyone who has read it...

 

 

Spoiler

The story features Diocletian being present on Terra during the Unification War. But from what I remember of Master of Mankind, he is described as being from off world? Or have I imagined that?

 

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