Project: the God theory

[Kaede45]

This is something of an experiment. Please read the whole thing before commenting. Thank you.

 

As some of you are aware, I have been trying to create a Christian faction in 40K, even though it’s not recommended. I understand that putting the Holy Trinity into a universe where there is no real good or evil is kind of taboo & I have no intention of getting in the way of what works or making everyone accept my way. To make God fit in the setting would require the breaking of some lore, I see that more as a challenge to be met rather than avoided, but I would like some help in doing so. I want my faction to be plausible in the greater 40K setting, while also breaking some rules, enough that it can be considered non-canon & one can accept that they could exist & be as naive as the T’au. However, most of all I want to get a better picture of how others would view Yahweh from within the setting. We as players can simply say that he does or does not exist & come up with any number of explanations, but how could it be justified or refuted by those who live in the universe of 40K? We know that the Chaos gods exist in 40K, but not everyone in the 40K universe knows of their existence or even deny their existence, so if God does exist it’s plausible that not everyone would know of or even accept that as anything other than flights of fancy. With the existence of the warp & Psykers, acts of God might be seen as little more than say “a collective unconscious use of psychic powers by individuals whose faith has called it into existence.” Some may even believe that Yahweh is just a Chaos gods exist in created by psychic echoes. We know T’au’va was created by humans in the T’au Empire, so maybe they believe the same thing of God.

 

The main idea would be to compile a list of how those within the universe would interpret the existence of a One True God, either to deny his existence or justify it. For the purpose of this experiment, let us assume that God does exist in 40K. How do others justify or deny this? How would his interactions be interpreted by those who deny his existence? What would certain peoples (Human & Xenos) need to accept His existence? How likely are certain species to actually give credence to His existence?

 

I now leave this to others. I’m not here to make converts or tell people that they have to accept my way of thinking, nor do I want to completely change the setting for everyone. I simply wish to have a civil discussion about this subject & again, I want to get the perspective from within the setting, not the perspective of players. With that, thank you very much for your time & as always, God bless!

[N1SB]

I'll start with a real life story.  Although I've since lost contact with him, I had a friend who, like many of us, grew up with D&D.  He made friends with a new kid that moved into his neighbourhood whose family was more religious.  He introduced this new kid to D&D, but it was around the time when there was this belief D&D was associated with devil worship.

 

His parents had the best, most reasonable reaction to this.  They talked to their son.  They prayed for guidance.  They consulted with their priest/minister/etc.  Then he talked about it with my friend and said their son CAN play D&D...as long as his character "fights evil."  D&D is all about fighting evil, I mean you can play villains, but the kid played a Paladin.

 

It is in that spirit I share the below.

 

 

+++ Ollanius Persson and his Catheric faith +++

 

I'm guessing you must know this, but the most obvious example of Christianity as it exists in 30k at least is in how Ollanius Persson practiced his Catheric faith in Ultramar.  The significance of this character is that he is a Perpetual, like the Emperor and Malcador and a few others.  In fact, he was the Emperor's 1st Warmaster, and even he believed in a god.

 

It's implied on ancient Terra he and the Emperor battled over what was essentially the Tower of Babel in ancient times.  It housed this secret language known as Enuncia, whose words have spellcasting abilities even for non-psykers.  So like YHWH, properly pronounced in the ancient ways, might be Enuncia.  It was here he had a falling out with the Emperor.

 

He would wander the galaxy for millennia and we'd 1st meet him on or near Calth, in Ultramar.  He felt safe there to practice his faith, suggesting at least during the Great Crusade/early Heresy era this Cartheric religion was at least tolerated there if he practiced it in private.  Guilliman, after all, humiliated Lorgar at Monarchia.

 

It goes to the point that he was known as Pious Oll', like people around him knew he worshiped this old Terran religion.

 

Although written for the Horus Heresy, these elements are still relevant in 40k.  Enuncia is actually a bit of an ongoing storyline in the new novels.  There may be elements of the Cartheric faith folded into the Imperial Ecclesiarchy.  But this isn't trying to fit Christianity into 40k, as it's already kinda there, with this former close ally of the Emperor himself.

 

As to how the Christian god would fit in 40k's pantheon, that's a longer conversation, the Eldar envoy to Ultramar actually explained HIS view to Guilliman in a recent novel. 

[apologist]

49 minutes ago, Kaede45 said:

For the purpose of this experiment, let us assume that God does exist in 40K. How do others justify or deny this? How would his interactions be interpreted by those who deny his existence? What would certain peoples (Human & Xenos) need to accept His existence? How likely are certain species to actually give credence to His existence?

 

Within the setting, I think 'Catherism' is a good place to start, as it's heavily implied to be the successor to Roman Catholicism. It appears in the Horus Heresy series, associated with Ollanius the Pious. While he's an exceptional example, I think he's also a great doorway into your project, offering a 'canon' reference for what organised Christianity would look like, and how God would (or would not) act.

• From the point of view of the Ecclesiarchy, any organised religious group is going to be at best suspicious and at worst a threat; and the reaction to such a group would likely be the deployment of Missionaries to investigate the group and attempt to re-frame the beliefs as part of the broader Imperial Cult.
  • Since we know that lots of sky gods and sun gods and giant toads are acceptable analogues to the God-Emperor from the Ecclesiarchy's point of view, I suspect that believers in God would simply be viewed as worshipping a particular aspect of the Emperor; and any miracles or interactions viewed through such as lens.
  • My suspicion is that this is how Catherism, if it continues to exist within the 41st Millennium in any organised way, is treated.
  • I'll pop in the proviso that such a monolithic organisation as the Ecclesiarchy would doubtless have hundreds, if not thousands, or different opinions on such a group, ranging from frothing anger to outright support.
• The Inquisition would likewise have lots of diverse opinions, and believers would almost certainly come under the auspices of the Ordo Hereticus, with a range of reactions and outcomes similar to that outlined above.
  • In this scenario, God's interactions would likely be treated as warp phenomena, and actioned as such, with various Inquisitorial forces deployed to root out the cause, purge the believers, or otherwise turn them to the Imperium's benefit, as per the wont of the individual Inquisitor.
• For the rest of the Imperium, it's simply so diverse and wide-ranging that there's any number of answers to your questions, many of which would mirror those of the real world.

 

Moving on to Xenos and non-human species, it's very hard to make statements on this. We don't have a huge amount of definitive answers here. I'd suggest that:

• Being a dark and exaggerated mirror to humanity, Orks would have little time or space for God, as they do for virtually all metaphysical questions. As Uthan the Perverse puts it: 'The Orks are the pinnacle of creation. For them, the great struggle is won. They have evolved a society which knows no stress or angst. Who are we to judge them? We Eldar who have failed, or the humans, on the road to ruin in their turn? And why? Because we sought answers to questions that an Ork wouldn’t even bother to ask! We see a culture that is strong and despise it as crude.'
  • Take that cum grano salis, as it's by a pointedly egregious figure!
• As a theme, Necrons are spiritually stunted and spiteful, with a (pointedly ironic) lack of self-awareness despite their dubious immortality. I think it would be difficult to find a good reason for any Necron to come to believe in God; and they would react to any interactions with the assumption that it's a manifestation of the warp, an area which remaines doggedly inexplicable and unpredictable to their otherwise supreme scientific mastery.
• The Craftworld Eldar are also themed around arrogance and reactionism; neither of which traits lends itself to admitting new ideas in easily. However, on an individual level, I see no reason why an Eldar might not come to believe in God beyond the continuous existential threat of the (very imminent) threat of the Warp gods. Within the context of the Path, God would have no place except through the Paths of the Wanderer and similar.
  • There's space enough here for God to be a reasonable proposition for the Eldar.
• The Kin of the Leagues of Votann are supposedly human descendants, and so what applies to humanity broadly applies to them, too. Their culture is pragmatic and inward-looking, but relatively free. Their souls are somehow shielded from the warp, and so a spiritual force that is beyond that which can affect things would be intriguing to them. The Votann themselves are also the most likely repositories of historical records of Christianity in some form.

Hope that gives you some food for thought and something to discuss!

[kabaakaba]

You can easily fit God on a single planed, said Eden, and it would be accepted as variants of Emperors Cult. But as I understand it for larger influence out this single world here would be questions, cause Christianity is a bit different from common religion. From other side we have GSC who for centuries live and grow without issues. Why not a Gods cult can do same and spread. This way cause they don't create mutants and don't do anything undermining society they can be here for millenias somewhere in Ultima segmentum, and slowly growing. We don't know much about ecclesiarhy  branches. You can virtually call for God and the rest of people would hear it as you call for Emperor.

As for power manifestation even for Emperor saints there is check and recheck from ordo hereticus. So if it's light, cure and protect people and purge daemons it's would be counted as Emperor might. 

So if catheric or Christian don't insisted to that not from Emperor he shouldn't have problem.

[sairence]

Interesting thoughts here...the one thing I would add would be that, while the existence of the god of the Abrahmic religions is probably very easy to put into 40k, the montheistic apporach of "the one true god" would probably be a harder sell. 

 

We know that in 40k "spiritual" energy is intrisically linked to the warp. Psykers draw their power from there, believe of large numbers of creatures feeds deities including the god emperor and allows their faithful to manifest miracles. The Chaos Gods are a fact.

 

Yaweh can easily be yet another chaos god, sustained by its worshippers. You could even justify its switch from the vengeful depicition in the Jewish tradition to the focus on mercy in the Christian one with the tides of the warp influencing it. Just in a reverse to the Chaos gods.

 

But you'd be hard-pressed to justify it as the creator of everything in the context of divinity in 40k.

Edited July 11 by sairence

[frecklestein]

Given the claimed life span of The Emperor, its likely in-universe that He had some fair involvement in the development of the Abrahamic religions,

 

Have you read "The Last Church" (i think its called)? The Emperor visits the last temple on Terra prior to its destruction and debates religion with its preacher.

[Kaede45]

Thank you all for these insights. They really do help a lot.

 

I would like to get more insights, especially concerning some of the unmentioned Xenos. Like the T’au, who I know are largely atheistic (which ironically gives them weaker souls), but perhaps some might be able to “see” a need for God. Or the Kroot. Even the Vespids (I think that’s what they’re called), who I know nothing about.

 

It would also be pertinent to know what Tyrannid species might be sentient enough to operate independently of the Hive Mind, that they might be able to think & believe for themselves. Which makes me wonder, are Genestealers (the ones that create & operate cults) sentient or are they more animalistic like other Tyrannid species? I know that most Tyrannid creatures just act on animal instincts when separated from the Hive Mind, but are there any that could potentially think for themselves?

 

I’m also thinking of doing this sort of experiment, but with Satan, though I wonder if I make that its own topic as I fell like I’d have to give a bit of a long-winded explanation as to what I’m thinking could be done for him & that would require a lot bigger lore breaks.

 

Anyway, thank you all very much for your insights! I look forward to hearing more. As always, God bless!

[N1SB]

On 7/11/2025 at 11:00 PM, Kaede45 said:

It would also be pertinent to know what Tyrannid species might be sentient enough to operate independently of the Hive Mind, that they might be able to think & believe for themselves. Which makes me wonder, are Genestealers (the ones that create & operate cults) sentient or are they more animalistic like other Tyrannid species? I know that most Tyrannid creatures just act on animal instincts when separated from the Hive Mind, but are there any that could potentially think for themselves?

 

I was prepared for this day (of Ascension).  The answer is literally "Yes" to both animalistic and sentient/individualistic/human-like.

 

Genestealers exist in both the Tyranid Fleet/Codex AND Genestealer Cult/Codex.  In the Tyranid Fleet, they're like shock assault troops, another specialty biomorph of the Hivemind.  But the Genestealer Cults infiltrated human societies (and back in 1st ed, even others, like Orks), to corrupt them from within, like spies.

 

So you see how Genestealers within the Tyranid Fleet are animalistic, but to be good spies to start Cults, they can be sentient?  Not only can they do so, they absolutely in-lore do do so.  Even as the Genestealer Cult disrupts a planet's defense as the Hivemind comes, when the Fleet arrives, the Cult leaders instinctively will have arranged for themselves to get on the fastest shuttle off-planet, and tell their followers, "Your day of unification has come!  You will be rewarded!  But OUR task is not yet done, and we must go spread the word!"

 

It's even reflected in game terms in recent editions.  The Tyranid Codex's Genestealer HQ unit is the Broodlord and is very combat-focused.  The Genestealer Cult Codex's HQ unit is the Patriarch, and he's more manipulative, usually has weirder psychic abilities.  It's not just a name change or different models.

 

(I know this because our Warhammer Store manager invented a special game for holiday events, I had to choose between them, I went with Patriarch for a Christmas event, the dead Imperial Fist is like his present underneath the tree:)

 

 

That's all context for the real question behind your question: Can a Genestealer Cult worship something aside from the Hivemind?

 

Yes, yes they can.  Behold, evidence:

 

 

1st ed John Blanche art of a Genestealer Chaos Cult of Khorne.  One of my favourite pieces.  Even got the classic limousine.

 

The idea is this Genestealer Cult has operated for so long outside of the Hivemind, they forgot exactly whom they're supposed to serve.  They're still Tyranid-based, so they have their own mini-Hivemind, like a private network.  That's their psychic link.  But because they're psychic, they do pick up other influences, like Chaos.

 

The Genestealers KNOW, deep down in their DNA, they're supposed to serve a higher power...they forgot whom that's supposed to be.  I was describing this to a good friend in our local Warhammer Store and he used this term, "認错老爹," meaning "to recognise the wrong daddy."  That's when you got this toddler, she's short, she grabs the leg of an adult thinking it's her dad, she looks up, that's not my dad, that's my dad's friend wearing the same khaki pants as him.

 

The Genestealer Cult, cut off from the Hivemind, try to commune with it, gets psychic interference from a Chaos power, a~HA!  YOU must be the Hivemind!

 

Not at all a lore break.  Used to happen, there was a whole set of rules for Chaos Genestealers in one of the 1st ed Compendium/Compilation.  That's your in.

[ZeroWolf]

19 hours ago, N1SB said:

 

I was prepared for this day (of Ascension).  The answer is literally "Yes" to both animalistic and sentient/individualistic/human-like.

 

Genestealers exist in both the Tyranid Fleet/Codex AND Genestealer Cult/Codex.  In the Tyranid Fleet, they're like shock assault troops, another specialty biomorph of the Hivemind.  But the Genestealer Cults infiltrated human societies (and back in 1st ed, even others, like Orks), to corrupt them from within, like spies.

 

So you see how Genestealers within the Tyranid Fleet are animalistic, but to be good spies to start Cults, they can be sentient?  Not only can they do so, they absolutely in-lore do do so.  Even as the Genestealer Cult disrupts a planet's defense as the Hivemind comes, when the Fleet arrives, the Cult leaders instinctively will have arranged for themselves to get on the fastest shuttle off-planet, and tell their followers, "Your day of unification has come!  You will be rewarded!  But OUR task is not yet done, and we must go spread the word!"

 

It's even reflected in game terms in recent editions.  The Tyranid Codex's Genestealer HQ unit is the Broodlord and is very combat-focused.  The Genestealer Cult Codex's HQ unit is the Patriarch, and he's more manipulative, usually has weirder psychic abilities.  It's not just a name change or different models.

 

(I know this because our Warhammer Store manager invented a special game for holiday events, I had to choose between them, I went with Patriarch for a Christmas event, the dead Imperial Fist is like his present underneath the tree:)

 

 

That's all context for the real question behind your question: Can a Genestealer Cult worship something aside from the Hivemind?

 

Yes, yes they can.  Behold, evidence:

 

 

1st ed John Blanche art of a Genestealer Chaos Cult of Khorne.  One of my favourite pieces.  Even got the classic limousine.

 

The idea is this Genestealer Cult has operated for so long outside of the Hivemind, they forgot exactly whom they're supposed to serve.  They're still Tyranid-based, so they have their own mini-Hivemind, like a private network.  That's their psychic link.  But because they're psychic, they do pick up other influences, like Chaos.

 

The Genestealers KNOW, deep down in their DNA, they're supposed to serve a higher power...they forgot whom that's supposed to be.  I was describing this to a good friend in our local Warhammer Store and he used this term, "認错老爹," meaning "to recognise the wrong daddy."  That's when you got this toddler, she's short, she grabs the leg of an adult thinking it's her dad, she looks up, that's not my dad, that's my dad's friend wearing the same khaki pants as him.

 

The Genestealer Cult, cut off from the Hivemind, try to commune with it, gets psychic interference from a Chaos power, a~HA!  YOU must be the Hivemind!

 

Not at all a lore break.  Used to happen, there was a whole set of rules for Chaos Genestealers in one of the 1st ed Compendium/Compilation.  That's your in.

I remember reading that back in my brothers old WD, along with how some Ork Stormboyz found themselves accidentally worshipping Khorne!

[Kaede45]

On 7/12/2025 at 7:27 PM, N1SB said:

 

I was prepared for this day (of Ascension).  The answer is literally "Yes" to both animalistic and sentient/individualistic/human-like.

 

Genestealers exist in both the Tyranid Fleet/Codex AND Genestealer Cult/Codex.  In the Tyranid Fleet, they're like shock assault troops, another specialty biomorph of the Hivemind.  But the Genestealer Cults infiltrated human societies (and back in 1st ed, even others, like Orks), to corrupt them from within, like spies.

 

So you see how Genestealers within the Tyranid Fleet are animalistic, but to be good spies to start Cults, they can be sentient?  Not only can they do so, they absolutely in-lore do do so.  Even as the Genestealer Cult disrupts a planet's defense as the Hivemind comes, when the Fleet arrives, the Cult leaders instinctively will have arranged for themselves to get on the fastest shuttle off-planet, and tell their followers, "Your day of unification has come!  You will be rewarded!  But OUR task is not yet done, and we must go spread the word!"

 

It's even reflected in game terms in recent editions.  The Tyranid Codex's Genestealer HQ unit is the Broodlord and is very combat-focused.  The Genestealer Cult Codex's HQ unit is the Patriarch, and he's more manipulative, usually has weirder psychic abilities.  It's not just a name change or different models.

 

(I know this because our Warhammer Store manager invented a special game for holiday events, I had to choose between them, I went with Patriarch for a Christmas event, the dead Imperial Fist is like his present underneath the tree:)

 

 

That's all context for the real question behind your question: Can a Genestealer Cult worship something aside from the Hivemind?

 

Yes, yes they can.  Behold, evidence:

 

 

1st ed John Blanche art of a Genestealer Chaos Cult of Khorne.  One of my favourite pieces.  Even got the classic limousine.

 

The idea is this Genestealer Cult has operated for so long outside of the Hivemind, they forgot exactly whom they're supposed to serve.  They're still Tyranid-based, so they have their own mini-Hivemind, like a private network.  That's their psychic link.  But because they're psychic, they do pick up other influences, like Chaos.

 

The Genestealers KNOW, deep down in their DNA, they're supposed to serve a higher power...they forgot whom that's supposed to be.  I was describing this to a good friend in our local Warhammer Store and he used this term, "認错老爹," meaning "to recognise the wrong daddy."  That's when you got this toddler, she's short, she grabs the leg of an adult thinking it's her dad, she looks up, that's not my dad, that's my dad's friend wearing the same khaki pants as him.

 

The Genestealer Cult, cut off from the Hivemind, try to commune with it, gets psychic interference from a Chaos power, a~HA!  YOU must be the Hivemind!

 

Not at all a lore break.  Used to happen, there was a whole set of rules for Chaos Genestealers in one of the 1st ed Compendium/Compilation.  That's your in.

That’s awesome info! It sounds like you’ve been waiting your whole life to drop this information.

 

I suppose a follow-up question would be what happens when the actual Hivemind appears? Does the Hivemind just reassume control or could the Genestealers actually rebel? I suppose these questions also predicate on what the Hivemind actually is, because I still kinda operate under the belief that it’s a single “mother brain” Tyrannid, but lore seems to say that it’s just a gestalt of multiple Tyrannids… kinda makes it sound like an Ork WAAAGH!

 

Anyways, the main idea I have for a “Christian Genestealer Cult” would be that they have defected & use their powers as Hybrids to detect the presence of Tyrannids or other Genestealer Cults attempting to infiltrate the Scions, as well as be able to “cure” Tyrannid infections, albeit through complex, often high-risk surgery. They would still struggle with their nature, having to resist their original programming & control their breeding to prevent themselves from regressing into animalistic beasts, but they could serve as inquisitors & surgeons as well as soldiers.

 

Aside from them, we’ll need to get a T’au expert in here to get their opinions. For them, from what I understand, little to nothing is known of the Ethereal Caste & the T’au seem to hate gods on principle as they were apparently disgusted when they first saw T’au’va & wanted to kill it (though this might have something to do with the Ethereal Caste).

 

Anyways, thanks again for the info. Every bit of lore helps!

[N1SB]

There is a "if a tree falls but no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound" element to this.

 

It's implied a Genestealer Cult that's been so removed from the Hivemind, either because it's taken over a planet for so long it went native and is happy with things, or a particularly independent (and he was successful because of his independent-thinking) Patriarch would think "y'know, I got a good thing going here, maybe I don't want to be reabsorbed by the Hivemind by being eaten," or just the Hive Fleets finally arrive and that impending moment makes a GSC re-think its priorities, like a groom running away from the altar.

 

But we've never had a GSC that's been successful fending off a Hive Fleet that we KNOW of, so far.

 

There is 1 ironic exception: the Ymgarl strain of Genestealers.  They don't reject the Hivemind, the Hivemind rejects THEM.

 

The Ymgarl are a particularly mutated branch.  They're so mutated, they've accelerated their adaptability, they're like an unstable strain that's deviated from their genetic coding.  They want to be reunited with the Hive Fleet, but the Hivemind is so afraid their DNA will corrupt the rest of the Tyranids, they avoid these Ymgarl.  The Tyranids don't even try to cull them, for fear of the accidental contamination from simply battling them, you get some Ripper Swarm accidentally ingesting them, absorb their tainted flesh back into the Fleet.

 

There's a theory that I think came from a Radical Inquisitor, Fidus Kryptman, a 3rd Tyrannic War survivor...but don't quote me on that.  The idea is the Hivemind so despises this Ymgarl strain like it's a virus, he could actually plant a Brood of them on an Imperial world, let them try to infiltrate but equip the local Enforcers with the knowledge and weapons to "manage" their population, to have them as a deterrence to a full Hive Fleet invasion.  Like how a vaccine is a microdose of a disease.

 

An Ymgarl Brood could corrupt thousands, maybe millions, but save billions.

 

But 1 important caveat: we may see a Purestrain Genestealer, which will inevitably arise from GSC because that's their part of their reproductive cycle, as animalistic.  But a Brood Brother wouldn't.  They would have this strange parental adoration for such offspring.  I almost think of how in scripture the descriptions of angels are horrific if you try to imagine them, like rings within rings with eyes on fire or something.

 

So an avenue for your own thinking might be this Ymgarl strain or the weird gambits by Inquisitor Kryptman, perhaps.

[Kaede45]

11 hours ago, N1SB said:

There is a "if a tree falls but no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound" element to this.

 

It's implied a Genestealer Cult that's been so removed from the Hivemind, either because it's taken over a planet for so long it went native and is happy with things, or a particularly independent (and he was successful because of his independent-thinking) Patriarch would think "y'know, I got a good thing going here, maybe I don't want to be reabsorbed by the Hivemind by being eaten," or just the Hive Fleets finally arrive and that impending moment makes a GSC re-think its priorities, like a groom running away from the altar.

 

But we've never had a GSC that's been successful fending off a Hive Fleet that we KNOW of, so far.

 

There is 1 ironic exception: the Ymgarl strain of Genestealers.  They don't reject the Hivemind, the Hivemind rejects THEM.

 

The Ymgarl are a particularly mutated branch.  They're so mutated, they've accelerated their adaptability, they're like an unstable strain that's deviated from their genetic coding.  They want to be reunited with the Hive Fleet, but the Hivemind is so afraid their DNA will corrupt the rest of the Tyranids, they avoid these Ymgarl.  The Tyranids don't even try to cull them, for fear of the accidental contamination from simply battling them, you get some Ripper Swarm accidentally ingesting them, absorb their tainted flesh back into the Fleet.

 

There's a theory that I think came from a Radical Inquisitor, Fidus Kryptman, a 3rd Tyrannic War survivor...but don't quote me on that.  The idea is the Hivemind so despises this Ymgarl strain like it's a virus, he could actually plant a Brood of them on an Imperial world, let them try to infiltrate but equip the local Enforcers with the knowledge and weapons to "manage" their population, to have them as a deterrence to a full Hive Fleet invasion.  Like how a vaccine is a microdose of a disease.

 

An Ymgarl Brood could corrupt thousands, maybe millions, but save billions.

 

But 1 important caveat: we may see a Purestrain Genestealer, which will inevitably arise from GSC because that's their part of their reproductive cycle, as animalistic.  But a Brood Brother wouldn't.  They would have this strange parental adoration for such offspring.  I almost think of how in scripture the descriptions of angels are horrific if you try to imagine them, like rings within rings with eyes on fire or something.

 

So an avenue for your own thinking might be this Ymgarl strain or the weird gambits by Inquisitor Kryptman, perhaps.

That’s actually very interesting. I had been reading a little about the Ymgarl on a wiki & at some point I was thinking of modeling the main leaders of my faction, mostly by using character models with proxy heads, but I was actually considering using the Ymgarl model for the GSC Broodlord because it looks the coolest, like a Cthulhu-esque creature.

Edited yesterday at 04:44 AM by Kaede45