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1. Individual chaos gods and chaos space marines will probably be different factions. With the 4 dedicated legions being part of their patron god. Kind of how Tamurkhan and Arbaal are mono god factions, rather than Warriors of Chaos. That's at least how it would make sense to me.

2. Warhammer total war already has a lot of Daemon assets. Do you think they'll reuse them, or make new ones from scratch for 40k total war?

3. How long before the modding community makes crossover mods?

Baelor Breakspear Targaryen - ASOIAF/D&E

He is a post Dance of the Dragons Targaryen. And has fought (and won) on the loyalist side of the first Blackfyre rebellion.

The Targaryens of his era are left with the following problem: from what does their power come, now that they no longer have Dragons. Baelor's father's answer is the legitimacy of the bloodline, but that was proven insufficient by the Blackfyre rebellions. His nephew's answer is intimidation: acts of cruelty to keep the people in check, but that backfires when someone stands up to him.

Baelor's answer was to try and embody the role. Kind enough that the small flock would love him, honourable enough that the knights would respect him as one of their own, authoritative enough that the lord's would obey him.

His decision to join Dunk's team was probably as much a matter of doing PR (the trial seemed and was rigged by his family against Dunk, which would have been a stain on their reputation) as it was about doing the right thing.

Raymun Fossoway drops the anti-targaryen attitude after fighting by his side.

Faramir - the Lord of the Rings ( the books, but he eventually gets there in the movies, too)

(In the books) He doesn't even want to see the one Ring, despite having the opportunity to claim it for Gondor (and prevent it from being carried where Sauron was).

The seemingly pragmatic choice to take the ring from Frodo (or in general), that Boromir eventually makes before redeeming himself, is something he rejects on principle.

His answer "I am wise enough to know there are perils from which a man must flee", shows pretty well why : he understands, that taking the ring would only really give it a more dangerous host.

He is by no means a coward, he leads soldiers "under the shadow of the black wings". He's simply humble enough to know a trap when he sees one, and to actually try to avoid it.

Auriga. Endless legend.

Formerly a biolab world of the Endless, left to itself towards the end of the civil war. It has a multitude of species, both wonderful and horrific, lively biomes, diverse cultures.

It's a civilization game where the point is to get a spaceship ready, because Auriga is going to turn into a frozen dead world within a few decades. Canonically ( as of Endless space 2) the Vaulters manage to get a ship and bring sisters of mercy with them.

Thane. Mass effect trilogy.

Formerly an assassin trained from childhood to kill for the Hannar (the hypocritical jellyfishes who saved some of his species from extinction) he tries to retire, gets pulled back in, and ultimately joins Shepard's quest.

He's a surprisingly decent fellow who tries to keep his son from becoming an assassin. He's also dying from a lung condition that happened as a result of living on an ocean world despite being a desert species.

Endless legend: a seemingly fantasy setting with dragons, mages, animated suits of armour, and fire spirits hiding in caves is actually a bio lab world of a precursor species (the endless) that fell to civil war. The premise is that the world is ending due to an impending natural calamity. The magic is nanotechnology. The animated suits of armour are descendants of the Concrete Endless. You can find, colonize, and Terraform the world in Endless space 2.

Magic in Ben 10. We're first introduced to it through Hex and Charmcaster. Who are humans. Gwen turns out to be quite a prodigy with it. As it turns out, magic is just the human way to control mana, and Ben and Gwen's grandmother is an alien made of mana.

I know very little about music.

Grimshire comes to mind. The Zombies are an encroaching threat and the catalyst for the game, but you don't actually have to kill any. There is no combat, last I checked (it is in development). Your job is to be the community's farmer/problem-solver.

Are there other games with this kind of premise? Fighting zombies is fun, but it sure feels like the post-apocalypse aspect is often left in the background.

Now, It could well be the case that it's a difficult formula to implement (Like Star Trek Online mainly rewarded combat, despite Star Trek being about exploration and moral dilemas).

But it would be cool if there were more games focused on the logistics of keeping what's left alive.