Sometimes the ladder is funny like that.
Lets say Lorgar wants to see how power his Enuncia is vs how powerful it is against one of the Chaos Gods. So he says Khorne's name in Enuncia.
What happens?
One of my biggest issues with Battlefield 6 is how flat and uninteresting the gunplay becomes once you get the attachments that butcher all the guns out of the nuances they possess. And then its not like you can just play guns how you like them because you will be regularly outclassed so I'm fingers crossed this is a sign of good things happening to the gunplay.
Ever since the reveal of Constatin Valdor being connected to the King in Yellow, the reveal of the City of Dust and the army of Pariah's and the specific ways this has all been described by Abnett. I'm pretty sure we're looking at a new human faction to do another shake up for the setting.
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But what is this new faction going to do? I think this new faction would be the Emperor's new Great Crusade. But instead of just conquering the galaxy and recovering human planets, he's going to genocide all of humanity and replace it with a humanity that has a natural and reliably occurring pariah gene. The cloning is not meant to feed a blank army, but is how a population mass large enough for replace colonization and replacement can be deployed in a short time frame.
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Think about it for a moment, ALL of humanity is susceptible to warp taint. Every man, woman, and child under the right duress of chaos, can and will become a corrupted warp entity because of the psychic awakening. So how does the Emperor combat this? He uses the pariah gene to breed a new humanity.
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There's also a lot of power scaling at play that can make them capable of fighting the Imperium, the biggest one being the mass use of Graels. There's also a mention of winged angels which I think everyone has guessed are winged astartes akin to Sanguinius.
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There's also other factors at play such as the Imperium being split and severely weakened by a cataclysmic event who's origins began in a Dan Abnett book, Abnett's ability to take obscure original table top ideas and reintroduce them, the Imperium being everything the Emperor didnt want and hating it, Chaos enjoying an insane power up that everything in the recent lore points to the Imperium not being able to stop, the resurrection of the primarchs introducing the idea of divinity coming back into the setting, and most of all, a foil point that every faction has.
In this Star-Child faction, that foil point was revealed in the Ravenor series, the pariah gene can wear off with enough exposure to the warp or psychic powers.
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I think this would also be how GW introduces a new line of minis instead of relying on the same templates they've been using for close to 10 years now.
Feels like whenever we see the Minotaurs in 40k, its always ever just to twist the heel of a curb stomping a lower level Astartes chapter is receiving. But you rarely ever see them try anything with first founding chapters and especially avoid the ones on the frontier in the vicinity of Guilliman or other high ranking Imperial leadership.
Just my thoughts after 400 hours of Battlefield 6 so far and presented in PNG form to avoid another essay dump.
Its a common meme in the community in regards to warp-antics but is it actually common enough for the Imperium to know what to do when it happens and how to handle it afterwards?
In the Dark Imperium Trilogy, when Nurgle is closing on victory over Ultramar with Mortarion at the head against Guilliman, his territory in the warp is suddenly attacked by Tzeentch's forces as park of the game of keeping no one Chaos gods from becoming to potent over the others. As far as we know this war is still going on.
So why would Tzeentch allow one of his highly prized sorcerers take his poster-boy chaos space marines into real space and then proceed to drag a whole bunch of Tzeentch's influence including warp-spawn and daemons where it strategically didn't need to be? I understand the chaos don't micromanage like a primarch would and often operate on their natural and instinctual callings. But even Nurgle yanked Mortarion and the Death Guard out of Ultramar when his focus had to go elsewhere.
Given everything is technically built around Primaris now, curious to know whats still left from first-born era that's still seeing use.
Considering there are Ork clans that reside exclusively in the warp just to fight Chaos's strongest entities to get even stronger for an immeasurable amount of time, why doesn't Chaos just take these juiced up warp orks, stick them on a ship and then shoot them into the Imperiums back lines just to make their day even worse?