#Never make an Aeldari angry

[incorrect-primarchs-quotes]

Inquisitor girl: Ah! You're done for, I'm in your ship with my men and I'll take you head personally.

Yrliet:

Yrliet: * proceeds to one-shot every fucking one in 1 turn *

[ramblingaboutspaceelves]

Isha’s Lament...

Was kinda what I expected. Full spoilers for the book btw.

Right off the bat I’m happy to inform y’all that this was NOT another “last guardian” situation at all, which was my biggest fear. *wipes sweat*

Here’s the summary, obviously spoilers:

Book opens with our main dude, Brakus, a deserter from the Astra Militarum now for hire, and some other people (the most important being a cyborg/ex skitarius named Exactius that returns later) on a dead ship that’s being absorbed by the blackstone fortress. They take some random treasures from it and then return to Precipice, this big ol station with all sorts of aliens, humans and mutants wandering around. Brakus sells his trinket at the market and goes about his business, but after returning, everyone on Precipice starts to get sick, even the aliens, from some unknown plague.

We then meet Amalynn, our ranger lady on the cover. She finds Brakus because of the trinket he sold, with help from another alien running stuff on Precipice who we don’t see again till the end.

She tells him that it isn’t a plague, but a contagious psychic weapon which gets called the scourge. It’s later revealed this is an aeldari weapon aboard Isha’s Lament, the ship from the beginning, and where they have to go back to. (Hence the name of the book) She says that they have to return the artifacts and destroy/disable the weapon or it’ll kill everyone. (Apparently removing the artifacts, which were literally just a cup and a bandolier messed up some psychic stuff and started the weapon?? I dunno fam)

Now this group - Brakus, Amalynn, Exactius, and a literal drukhari hekatrix named Maugra who just randomly joins them (for real this girl comes out of no where and serves no real purpose besides saving them once) go to the Blackstone Fortress to stop the weapon.

Shenanigans happen and by the end they all reach Isha’s Lament. Turns out some chaos bois want the weapon too for their own stuff. They fight and Amalynn disables the weapon but Exactius is injured. In order to stop the remaining chaos bois from taking over the weapon after they’re gone, Exactius stays behind and self destructs on the ship. (after asking Amalynn to cut off his head containing some data and giving it to Brakus)

Everyone escapes and the day is saved. (no, really!) Our alien ladies disappear without another word and Brakus returns to Precipice, feeling more at home than before. Though of course it’s implied the fortress has more up its sleeve.

The main characters:

Brakus and Exactius are the best characters for me. It would have been easy to make Brakus a stand-offish butt, but he’s actually a pretty cool dude. His homeworld was destroyed by tyranids, and he has a lot of guilt for deserting. Despite being raised to hate aliens, he’s friendly enough and he tries to work with all his teammates, even worries about abandoning them at one point.

Exactius is cool too and there was definitely more to him, but we unfortunately didn’t get to know much about his story.

Here’s Amalynn and Maugra’s characters detailed, respectively: Angry asshole who’s sad about her people, and pointy Asshole who doesn’t care and just wants to cut things. That’s it, you’re welcome.

I find Maugra more interesting, (her and Brakus relate with each other to some degree, since they both want things to fight) but Amalynn was sooooo one dimensional it hurt. And the problem with Amalynn isn’t that she’s an ass, it’s just, that’s it, that’s all folks.

I mean this is more of a personal annoyance, but the Haughty Elf ™ character has gotten a little old for me, like by all means it’s well and good but when every. single. aeldari seems to have the exact same aloof personality without any other dynamic to their character, it does begin to get a tad bit repetitive no?

In conclusion:

Was it a bad story? Not at all! In fact I liked a lot of parts of it, especially if you put aside any preconceived ideas and just enjoy it for what it is. You’re just not gonna get much out of it if you’re an aeldari fan, though some of the world building was nice. It’s always interesting to see humans and aliens coexisting to some degree in 40k.

Still, compared to Severed it looks like I got the short end of the stick huh, @obyronxzahndrekh ? I’m excited to read it though! I’ve never really been too involved with the necrons so I’m glad one of the first books I get about them does them justice.

[sinsitra]

Nice Marines!!!

It's headcanon time! I didn't expect my first post about them to get more than 10 notes so... I hope you'll enjoy it :) Also no one has a name yet. I’m terrible at this hahaha. This is going to be a long post (but with a lot of pictures), so prepare some tea and cookies ;) Now let's begin!

So, you already know these guys. These Space Marines were close friends even before the Horus Heresy. Then Heresy came and they all chose their own path. After many years they met again - on the battlefield, but instead of fighting and killing each other they started to talk and reminisce Good Ol’ Days. None of them was happy with the path they had chosen, so they decided to give up their past and start it all over. They called themselves Nice Marines, because they wanted to remind everybody that there always is joy and positivity - even in the grimdark future! They chose smiley heart as their emblem, because none of them could draw anything more complicated. So that’s how their journey began. They’re now roaming through the galaxy helping Imperium, Chaos, Xenos and everyone else who needs it. They’ve met a lot of souls that liked Nice Marines and joined their ‘chapter’.

And here are some members of Nice Marines chapter!

I call this ork Bezt Boy. He wanders through galaxy looking for inspiration for his haikus (like... imagine haiku, but written in orkish and about dakka, galaxy and ugly flowers). He decided to join Nice Marines, because it’s safer to travel with friends. Also they liked his poetry very much! He reminds other Nice Marines that you should never-ever give up on you dreams and always believe in yourself!

Look! That’s Aeldari! She felt really dumb, because she just... doesn’t understand Aeldari art at all. (It’s like... I’m an artist, right? So why sometimes I can’t understand modern art? Is this really making no sense or am I just stupid? It’s in the museum and costs so much... I’m afraid that I’m just stupid.) During one of her reconnaissance missions she heard Bezt Boy reciting his poems. She burst into tears for how beautiful it was and decided to join the audience and then... to join Nice Marines for good. Because you don’t have to understand everything. You can find joy in whatever you want and that doesn’t make you worse or stupid!

This cute girl is a Slaanesh daemonette. She fought many battles and is a fearless warrior, but... she’s a very shy seductress. After she lost her eye and left arm in one of battles, she felt like there is no use for her in Slaanesh army - she can’t fight as good as she used to and she has too low self-esteem to seduce anyone. One day she met Nice Marines, who helped her find her inner and outer beauty, confidence and life purpose. She later goes on a date with one of them (I think about Aeldari lady!).

This Skitarii run away from Adeptus Mechanicus. They found that he/she/it (??? I don’t know what pronoun should I use when I talk about Skitarii... I’ll go with ‘she’, ok? If you know any gender-neutral pronoun I should use here, let me know and I’ll change it!) is malfunctioning (in similar way the epilepsy works), so they tried to shut her down/destroy her. Somehow she escaped and later met Nice Marines. She discovered that her malfunction doesn’t make her any worse and that she can still enjoy the life - especially with such great friends! She found out that she really likes making and fixing things, so she became the first Techmarine in the Nice Marine chapter.

Nice Marines found this necron during scavenging one of the battlefields. First they thought about salvaging him into parts, but then our Skitarii said that she wants to try to fix him. Skitarii was successful and so necron was functioning again, but... he lost all his memory. Like... all. His mind was a blank space, just like a newborn baby. Nice Marines adopted this big boy into their weird family and now they are teaching him words, morals and that he always has a loving family around him.

I call him Angry Blue Potato. Because, y’know... he is blue and gets angry a lot (mostly when he sees inequality). He’s that type of character who isn’t the smartest one, but has the purest heart. He got lost during one of his missions and instead of finding his unit he found Nice Marines having a good time. There were so many different souls, everyone was so happy there, no one was killing anyone for any Greater Good™... They were just... happy. (Also I’m not sure if Tau have hair. Maybe other members of Normal Tau Society™ found his red bush really weird).

And that’s it for now! :) Maybe I’ll come up with more ideas, maybe not. I originally wanted to have at least one member of every fraction, but I run out of ideas for them.

Feel free to add your own members to this weird family! :) Everyone is welcome in Nice Marines chapter and can wear what they want, as long as they are y’know... nice and willing to change this world in a good way! (I’d love to read about/see your own Nice Marines!!!).

Also final notes: Does Nice Marines fit in the WH40K universe? Oh hell no! Do I care? LOL also no. I had fun and hopefully make some of you smile and that’s the only thing that matters here.

Remember that there may be light wherever you want it to be. Even in the grimdark future...

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