Homebrewer and aspiring kitbasher

[Cal Paquette]

Hi everyone! My pseudonym is Cal Paquette and I am based in the Utrecht province of the Netherlands.

 

The way I engage with most fandoms is that I tend to immediately dive into fan creation rather than playing. It's usually what I get the most joy out of, anyway. I want to be able to understand particular universes and understand how to achieve it's tone or understand what goes unstated by doing some of my own world-building in it.

 

I was recommended to join this forum to showcase some of my homebrews. I'll use a trick to introduce them real quickly here, which is to name a verb, a noun and an adjective for each of them and quickly explaining why I chose them, as well as a core irony.

 

Storm Tigers (WS successor loyalists):

• Verb: Salvage
• Noun: Huntsman
• Adjective: Penitent
• Irony: Self-fulfilling prophecy

The chapter has been reduced to aggressively salvaging their gene-seed and wargear due to a one-time event of withheld support from the Imperium. They've leaned into their hunter culture, combining it with their culture of combat engineering, echoing the pioneers of the past White Scars. They seek penitence for any unstated misgivings that lead to their support from being withheld, even though it was probably just a clerical error. Their penitence to avoid censure by the Imperium has only caused them to deviate from the codex more, inviting more censure and penitence.

 

Lateralist Creed (admech)

• Verb: Repurpose
• Noun: Cultivator
• Adjective: Ultrapuritan
• Irony: Hypocrisy

The Lateralists believe that STCs are an end unto themselves and are therefore limitless in their tangential use cases. Biological machinery (including xenobiology) should simply be cultivated to facilitate STCs and not the other way around, and one should only see the flesh as a means to an end. Their conspiratorial beliefs about the inherent anti-logic of the Imperium at large (which is, trying to optimize for the needs of the flesh rather than the needs of steel) makes them ultrapuritan even by admech standards. Behind the scenes, their conspiratorial levels of ultrapuritanism stem from a project reverse engineering exodite flora lead by a Drukhari Haemonculus, who pulls the strings behind the scenes.

 

Paladins of the Black Lake (WE/AL chaos undivided)

• Verb: Misappropriate
• Noun: Memory
• Adjective: Delusional
• Irony: Salvation through damnation

The Paladins of the Black Lake style themselves as the sole protectors of humanity. They appropriate all of the Imperium's history and believe it can only be preserved by consuming all humanity into one pool of mnemonic gore. After imbibing, the identity of the paladin becomes a delusional muddle of all the Imperium's worst and greatest. They genuinely see themselves as the Imperium's greatest saviors and regularly comes to its rescue, but the rescuees are damned to live forever in the cauldrons of the Black Lake.

 

 

Edited 12 hours ago by Cal Paquette

[W.A.Rorie]

Welcome to the B&C,  @Cal Paquette, Very interesting armies and cant wait to see more. 

[Cal Paquette]

7 hours ago, W.A.Rorie said:

Welcome to the B&C,  @Cal Paquette, Very interesting armies and cant wait to see more. 

Thank you, that's so kind!