#schola progenium

[screamingatthevoid]

The Brightest and Best

Schola Progenium Commandant: My progena will never believe your lies! Alpha Legionnaire: Why not? They believed yours.

[cripitique]

Why hasn't GW created a warhammer 40k cookbook yet

Come on show us the good slide of life stuff (actual slice of life, not the slice of life)

Update:

I remember someone saying a slice of life plot in Schola Progenium should have all the high school anime cliches and I'm all for it

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i have got to know more about louise, who is this little, big hat wearing, shy with women, troublemaker?

louise is my rogue trader from the hit game rogue trader by owlcat (super ultra recommended)

shewas born on board of a huge ship and was soon taken to the schola progenium following some unfortunate events.

they tried to knock the silly out of her here, but it only got worse. they tried to knock the silly out of her in the navy, but it only got worse. now guess what happened in commoragh.

louise is not evil, she just likes cruel jokes a bit too much, and has no sense of hierarchy. she values her freedom above everything and does things just to test the boundaries of her freedom.

i have more in her tag

[auxryn]

So I have been painting some Infiltrators and Incursors for the last month or more.

I looked at the latest entry on my list of Fun Names For Space Marine Chapters:

The Night Witches

I decided to go for a Halloween theme - mostly black with a little orange. Then I said, "I have modeling clay, I can make them some little witch hats."

I still need to give them a matte spray but it is too hot to go outside. I wanted to put tiny vines and pumpkins and bones and gravestones on the bases but I didn't have the time or motivation to keep up with my imagination. I have them to table quality for now at least.

Additional pictures and nonsense under the cut:

Inquisitorial Report: Night Witches

Warning - Do not confuse with unrelated factions 'Knight Witches' or 'Night Wyches.'

Founding: Unknown. Large amounts of 'primaris' wargear suggest Ultima Founding.

Primarch: Unknown.

Homeworld: Unknown. Presumed none.

Witness Statements:

"Orders unclear. Assisted the Night Witches. Imperial databases indicated Chapter in good standing."

"My education in the schola progenium never mentioned the existence of female Astartes. On the other hand, it didn't mention their non-existence either. None of my officers saw fit to discuss this matter directly with any of the Night Witches. I have no opinion on the matter myself. Who are we to question His Angels?"

Their apparent successful collaboration with Astra Militarum regiments on at least two occasions indicates loyalty to the Imperium, but data are too scarce to draw firm conclusions.

Conclusion: Further observation indicated.

[nerdnproud]

Emilia Brey. Inquisitor of the Ordo Xenos.

This is a kitbashed model I've been planning and slowly accumulating parts to build for almost a year. Pretty happy with how she turned out.

As a student at the Schola Progenium, she was selected to become a Novitiate for the Sisters of Battle. The angelic Seraphim in particular caught her eye, and she wished to prove herself to be worthy of such an honor. She would not get the chance however.

While on route back from a training mission, their shuttle was attacked by Drukhari raiders. The elves slaughtered many, including their Superior, and took the rest captive. Emilia stepped into a leadership role and kept the faith of the survivors strong. She began to hatch a plan to seized control of the alien ship and get back to safety. The Dark Elves had entered back into real space to target another ship, and that was when Emilia and the few other Novitiates struck. While only managing to subdue one of the xenos together, they caused enough of a distraction from the fight that they couldn't focus on the fighting happening both within and outside their vessel. The Drukhari did not last long once boarding parties of Imperial guardsmen were sent over. There, they found the Novitiates and brought them back to meet with their commander, Lord Inquisitor Antonius Treth. Antonius was surprised by the Novitiates for surviving a Drukhari raid, and especially with Emilia and her tenacity and unwillingness to lose faith in the Emperor. He took her under his wing, training her to become an Inquistor.

After becoming an Inquisitor in her own right, Emilia Brey took command of a Deathwatch Watch Fortress. While she reveres the God-Emperor, she finds his creations, the Space Marines to be nothing more than a blunt tool. Something to use with little care for it's maintenance. She also gained the allegiance of a Mission of Battle Sisters from the Order of the Sacred Rose. A force that she is much more cautious with sending into danger when compared to the Deathwatch, while also trusting them far more with high priority missions.

Emilia Brey had a few decades of purging Xenos scum under her belt when Antonius reached out to her and instructed her to escort the Archmagos Invictorix to a planet infested with orks where reports of an STC had arrived from. With the help of the Adeptus Mechanicus, they kept the green tide at bay while searching.

Once they brought the STC on board, it all seemed normal until they attempted Warp travel. The STC began almost screaming, the ship systems were going back and forth and their readings. Eventually, the STC disappeared with a loud pop and their ships blinked back into real space. But their chronometers indicated they were now hundreds of years from when they were. Cadia had fallen. The Great Rift had torn the galaxy apart. They had arrived to see the galaxy even more war-torn and struggling to survive.

Once Emilia had a chance to get caught up on the events thst had played out while they were in the Warp, she decided to try and find a way through the Rift and to the Imperial Worlds that have been cut off from the Emperor's guiding light. That is where she is now, skirting the edges of the Great Rift. Searching for a secure path through and purging any xebos or heretics she encounters along the way.

[cawyden-gaming]

Hey! Another OC question if its okay - what was Venria’s upbrining as a kid, and how did she discovered her abilities?

Hi, yes of course, it's a pleasure, thank you for asking ❤️

Venria was born as Venria van Maynard on the voidship where her father served the imperial navy as Lord Captain. The van Maynards came from a long line of navy officers, although due to the war heavily decimated until only Venria and her family remained.

Her older brother died one day during an attack and this is when her father decided to relocate his remaining family (to secure the few who were still existing of the von Maynards) to the fortress planet Wrath in the Segmentum Ultima, Sector Jericho Reach while he would continue his duty on board. Venria was 10 at this point.

With her younger brother Tiberius and a close friend who came from the schola progenium, she was visiting the naval academy. It was a good life for her, although she hardly ever saw her father. She was different then too - confident, often smiling and always looking for a challenge.

One day, she was 15, she led Tiberius and their friend Refijel (for whom she had developed romantic feelings but hadn't told him yet) to a search across the float (ghetto-like settlements on the shore of the single islands on Wrath, consisting of rough floating platforms and lashed-together boats) for a disappearing pupil from their academy.

What she did not anticipate was stumbling into a nest of cultists in the middle of conjuring a daemon with the missing pupil as a sacrifice. A fight broke out and this is when her powers emerged, saving her life when she was about to drown in the ice-cold water. She saw a vague form above her and in her mind called for help and the telepathic command forced the cultist to pull her out of the water.

It ended with Tiberius heavily injured and Refijel dead.

She heavily blames herself for what happened, leading Tiberius and Refijel to their doom. She also shot an inflammable container above the cultists to end them without regard for herself and her brother and friend. She often asks herself why she didn't hesitate and tried to find another way.

She got lucky though, as Wrath also contained a safe house for the Inquisition and an Inquisitor was already investigating the cult and got curious about her. She still doesn't know what potential he saw in her, but he was the reason she did not have to spend too much time in prison (psyker ward) and was spared the black ship. She was sedated and woke up in a secret training facility for psykers on a different planet and from there, after surviving, she was taken into the retinue of another Inquisitor as an acolyte.

But it was her mistake, not the psyker powers that led to this, which is why she does not see them as a curse but as an opportunity to do good to find some salvation.

She never saw her family again and her family name was changed to Aldor-Lexis.

Thank you again, that was fun 💜

[cursed-40k-thoughts]

What do you think dodgeball is like in the Schola Progenium?

If it's anything like rugby in the Schola Progenium, then the answer is "something you really don't want to play against Sororitas".

[noir-raven]

Inquisitor Orion - The Farmer's Son

With the release of the Imperial Agents codex, i figured it was time to post my old Inquisition team from the old fan game Inquisimunda. Here's hoping the have a new life with the new codex! I'll be posting them over the next couple days.

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Orion was built and converted by me, but painted by a friend who i sadly no longer am in contact with - I'll put a similar disclaimer on models I own but did not paint.

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Orion is a young, puritan Inquisitor of the Ordo Xenos, specializing in the Tau. Born on an Agri World in the Ultima sector, he made a name for himself as a guardsman, and managed to work his way up into the regimental command squad of the Tzardoma 9th regiment.

During a joint operation with Inquisitor Sigrid, she selected him personally to join her retinue, and after serving with her for a few decades, she promoted him to be an interrogator. Eventually, once Sigrid was granted the name of Lord Inquisitor, he was elevated to an inquisitor himself.

He a master when it comes to the Tau, and while they are not considered the greatest of threats to the Imperium, he prides himself on his libraries of knowledge on the various races that the Tau have allied themselves with.

As an Inquisitor, Orion takes a very personal, respectful stance towards his agents. He is known to join them for their dinners, or share bottles of his Amasec with them. Spending their time exchanging stories of their battles and lives before he recruited them.

He disregards the Schola Progenium largely - as much as they produce fine recruits for an inquisitorial group, He finds true veterancy to be prefered. His recruits stretch from noble born men like a pair of brothers known as The Twins, to underhive gangers who lived lives of crime and violence, such as the disgraced Stane.

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So that's Orion. To be honest, I may remake his model. I'm not happy with how he's clearly a space marine (rather than a human in power armour.) I am already considering converting up an older, more radical Inquisitor Orion. Particularly aiming to have him be less space-marine-y.

[archdrukhari]

Another character of mine, the Imperium commissar Deidra Righan. This is one of her sparring sessions at the Schola Progenium.

Day 19. Fury

If you will not serve in combat, then you will serve on the firing line.

She hails from an Imperium death world. She was orphaned and sent to the Schola Progenium. Deidra could have become one of the Adepta Sororitas, but was eventually assigned to the Officio Prefectus.

[yes-i-write-fanfiction]

Imagine there is a public service announcement before the heresy telling all parents to keep an eye on their kids or else it'll get kidnapped by a child stealing monsters who just loves children and raised them

"Imperial citizens! It is that time of the year again. The Child Snatchers are migrating and looking for new victims! Keep an eye out on your children and report any suspect looking individuals! If you don't want your kids anymore, send them to the Schola Progenium like a normal person! This PSA was sponsored by the Imperium of Man and Malcador the Sigilite."

[matrim-cauthons-hat]

Why should space marines have all the lightning claw and dedicated melee squad fun? presenting the assault scions of the Tobruskan 501st, the sort of madmen that only the schola progenium could predouce, ready to charge everything from traitor space marines to tyranids to try and give them a Spicy Slap, or at the very least put a mass reactive round in them before dying horribly

[sortyourlifeoutmate]

Today's random 40k snippet that popped into my head and I jotted down just-so happens to be:

“You serve the Emperor by dying, you do not serve the Emperor by getting killed!” One of the many things drummed into Commissars at the Schola Progenium was the ability to differentiate between these two things. It was the sort of subtle distinction those of lesser faith might fail to properly grasp.

Quite like that one.

[vossn]

1, 7, and 22 for the RT asks

1. Where are they from? What is their homeworld like? Do they miss it?

Taidia is a relatively small Forge World, and as such it isn't quite as heavily moderated and thoroughly planned as some others (looking at you, Kathekt Nullis by @definitely-not-iorveth and the weird Genetor shenanigans going on there). It mainly manufactures projectile weaponry. Life there as a worker is the same punishing shift-cycle as basically everywhere in the Imperium, he was just lucky to not be in a part of the factory and living quarters with too many fumes or accidents.

He doesn't really miss it. He misses the people and the memories, but there's nothing for him to return to. Besides, he's now accustomed to a life on voidships, camps and wide open spaces, so the cramped alleyways have lost their charms.

He has a tattoo of Taidia's planet symbol though, mainly to cover up the symbols factory workers were permanently marked with.

7. Was there a defining moment in their life that influenced their Conviction?

The Schola Progenium: The Schola raised him to be a hardcore dogmatic, and that was that. It was an effective and strict brainwashing, and by the time he was done there was no spark of defiance left in him.

The Mutiny: First doubts began to bloom in his conscience after the death of the Lord Commissar Mayrie. Beforehand, he'd been taught that only heretics have doubts, but she was an intelligent woman who had always put the most logical course of action before all else - so why? Secretly, he still wishes he'd been on her side back then. His more Iconoclast views were born out of the crisis that followed her death. His work stance afterwards becomes "Do as I say, not as I do."

Becoming Rogue Trader: Not a change in conviction, but a change in the power he wields. He is now a weird Dogmatic/Iconoclast mix who doesn't really believe in either because he doesn't know what to believe in, but still enforces what he's been taught - because what else is there to do?

22. Do they have any augmentations? Were these installed out of necessity, or as a cosmetic choice?

Chest/neck: He has multiple interlocked plates covering the front of his torso and his neck, because post-factory accident he was so badly burned and so much of his inner workings exposed that they had to seal him back up like a tin-can, and vat-skin would not have done the job. Medical necessity.

Eye: His eye augment is a red glass disc (or rather, multiple rings forming one complete circle) surrounded by a metal ring that can be rotated to adjust lense and zoom. It wasn't strictly necessary, but the Commissariat deemed that for a sniper it would be nice to have two functioning eyes again. His augment is Mechanicus craft specifically fitted for sniping, thus the rotating lens. It is made to either attach to or replace a scope, and has some extra readings and features useful for the profession.

Nose: A metal plate over the bridge of his nose. It could have healed by itself given enough rest and maybe some correction to avoid breathing issues, but there wasn't enough time in the Schola, where a broken nose was regular business, so this was the way it went.

Leg: Only post-Commorragh. His leg got fucked up in the mutiny, and after the way down the corpse chute and breaking it a second time, there is just no way to heal it correctly. The core of the prosthetic is necessary, but it has an outer shell that is more cosmetic with the purpose to have roughly the shape of the functioning leg, to make the contrast less stark.

Thank you Finn <3

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Rt ask game, 1 and 12!

1. Where are they from? What is their homeworld like? Do they miss it?

Louise was raised at Schola Progenium, so she doesn't know where she did come from. She was beaten up A LOT here, especially on the head - a part of the reason why she is like that. Louise doesn't miss Schola and probably wants to blow up the place.

12. Who amongst their retinue do they clash with the most?

By the quantity? Marazhai, but it is a fun game for both of them. By the quality? Heinrix. When he left her ship, Louise actually came up with a master plan. On ther way to Epitaph, she became close with Calligos, and through the careful words convinced him to slightly change his style. When Calligos and Heinrix saw each other and realised that they look the same, Louise nearly died of laughter. And then she fucking killed him and took his skull. It serves as a mug holder to this day

[remembrancerlexandrosschreik]

I just realized I didn't post these two yet. Behold, Inquisitor Katarin Criona, as well as her sanctioned Eldar "confidante" who just so happens to have the same last name, Katarin definitely didn't pull a fanon Guilliman and end up in a committed relationship with an Eldar. I post this today as a way to say Happy International Lesbian day.

By this, I mean she totally did and is only saying she isn't because, well, heresy.

I do actually have a nice bit of backstory written for them. You will likely remember Inquisitor Criona's more foundational lore from Luka's lore stuff. She is essentially a genetically distinctive clone of Luka who he treated as a daughter and then secreted away to the Schola Progenium when she displayed Inquisitor-grade psyker abilities and control over them, got instated as an Inquisitor, etc. Etc.

What I wish to discuss here is how Inquisitor Criona managed to find her way to having her most trusted member of her retinue be a sanctioned Eldar named Telbrae.

Inquisitor Criona hadn't meant to come across Telbrae, she hadn't even been aware there were any Aeldari on the world she had been staging an infiltration mission to destroy a warband of Slaanesh worshipping Night Lords known by the title of "The Children of the Masque", where she and her retinue uncovered a large amount of non-corrupted prisoners, most of which human, but the one in the most visibly worst condition being an Eldar of the Ynnari.

This Eldar was Telbrae, who had been taken prisoner and was being planned to be used as a sacrifice by the warband before Inquisitor Criona had found her.

Telbrae was so genuinely broken mentally by the torture she had suffered under the warband that, even though she knew the likelihood of an inquisitor returning such a favor, she made the immediate decision to repay this mon-keigh for saving her life.

Inquisitor Criona, being a member of the Ordo Malleus, didn't particularly despise the Aeldari, and simply had her retinue to open the cells and let the prisoners escape, saying they'll sort through them to see who needs or needn't be purged once they destroy the source of the corruption.

While most of the prisoners fled, Telbrae limped her way to the Inquisitor's vessel and raided a medical kit, using it to tend her wounds, before picking up whatever weapons she could find, and then making her way back to the Night Lord stronghold.

During the battle, Criona and her retinue were mostly successful, but as they approached the end of the battle, the warband began to push back and maim her forces, her Astartes retinue being gravely wounded, with them only managing to survive due to a sudden surprise attack as the champion of the warband being stabbed from behind, his mouth sputtering blood, and collapsing, revealing Telbrae wielding a bit of acquired Eldar tech Luka had gifted his daughter, a Harlequin's Kiss.

Telbrae then proceeded to collapse on her face from exhaustion, and awoke on Inquisitor Criona's flagship in the medical ward, with an Inquisitorial Rosette brand beside her. As she stirred, she discovered Criona behind her, where Criona told her what options she had. Either join her, where Criona would have to brand her with and make her a sanctioned xeno, where Telbrae would essentially become her servant, or be killed as there wasn't much way to secret an Eldar out of the ship.

Telbrae, upon analyzing the situation and managing to tell Katarin was being genuine with her frustration over the circumstances of recruiting Telbrae and the genuine intent to treat her as a proper member of her retinue, upon which Telbrae accepted. Resulting in the obvious of Katarin 𝘝𝘌𝘙𝘠 𝘋𝘌𝘓𝘐𝘊𝘈𝘛𝘌𝘓𝘠 putting the brand on Telbrae's forehead, while also offering her glove as something to bite down on so as for Telbrae to not end up screaming.

After this, Telbrae began serving as essentially part of Criona's retinue, alongside a few sisters of battle and one Justicar of the Grey Knights. Telbrae quickly proved her competence and value as a member of Criona's retinue during a battle where Inquisitor Criona found herself almost eaten by a Carnifex, hence the lost forearm, where Telbrae once again proved a keen assassin, stabbing the Carnifex, before swiftly dragging Criona out of harms way, and revealing Telbrae's proficiency as a bonesinger (ie. The eldar who make wraithbone stuff).

This is why Inquisitor Criona has a rather distinctive prosthetic hand, its actually an artificed wraithbone prosthetic which Luka augmented upon when he next met with Katarin and immediately jumped at the chance to understand how wraithbone works.

It was during this time Luka also gifted Katarin with a specially crafted power sword. A power sword which may or may not be made out of blackstone which Luka managed to successfully charge in such a way to repel the warp, which he achieved through trial and error.

The time where Katarin and Telbrae began to become close, was when that one puritan inquisitor attempted to hold Luka hostage. During this time, Katarin was, understandably, extremely stressed and increasingly volatile. During this time, Telbrae ended up essentially serving as a stress reliever for Katarin. By this I mean Telbrae found herself being used as a sparring partner so Katarin had something to throw a bunch of attacks at and tire herself out without actually injuring someone, because, you know, eldar are hard to hit. Yes, I'm implying sapphic swordfighting.

This caused their relationship to gradually evolve from simply respect to genuine friendship and then, as you can probably guess by the fact Telbrae shares the last name in that drawing, love. No, the two didn't get married as both know they'd likely be shot on sight, but the two do consider themselves as partners.

This became revealed to Luka when Telbrae and Katarin eventually arrived to that Inquisitor's ship and found Luka had killed him and was pilfering the Inquisitor's treasury, where he then proceeded to do the meme of "YOU DID WHAT WITH A WHAT?! KATARIN!" Before proceeding to calm down, do the classic dad duty of threatening Telbrae's life if she ever betrays Katarin, and then proceeded to go back to pilfering as much stuff as he could before Katarin and Telbrae managed to drag him back to the ship.

Now, for current lore for them, following a lore incident I will go into later, Katarin has essentially become the Inquisitor stationed within the Hephaeston system and its borders, as the prior Inquisitor of the region... shall we say, tried to pull a Months of Shame after Hephaeston II and Hephaeston III came under siege by Word Bearers and Iron Warriors respectively but managed to fend them off. That Inquisitor then got immediately beaten to death by both Arthurian Deus, chapter master of the Hephaeston Hammers, as well as three chapter masters of three chapters who were very closely tied by honor to the Hephaeston Hammers, as well as his own Grey Knights who were not going to put up with being put into attrition warfare against genuinely loyal space marines because of one Inquisitor with a fragile ego. Suffice to say, that Inquisitor is now dead, and Katarin has proven a welcome replacement.

Anyways, that is all I can think of for now. I will maybe add more later, maybe not

[ronqueesha]

I saw a post like this circling my dash and thought it would be fun. I just got to the end of Act 1 with Nasosi, and these are her thoughts on the companions so far:

Abelard - The instant they saw each other for the first time, they clocked everything about the other. His service in the Imperial Navy might be behind him, but Abelard still spent most of his life around commissars, and countless decades of old habits reared up in Nasosi's presence. His presence is a small comfort of familiarity, even if Nasosi herself spent more time among the soldiers of the Astra Militarum, not the navy. Even Abelard himself finds it surprisingly easy to follow someone of her experience.

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Idira - Nasosi has spent a lot of time around sanctioned psykers and their unusual habits. She was not shaken by Idira's particular connection to the warp or her burgeoning madness. Nasosi has seen much worse from psykers reported to be far more stable. However, the longer they journey together, the harder it is to overlook that Idira is a heretic.

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Argenta - During Nasosi's youth in the Schola Progenium, there was serious consideration for her to join the Adepta Sororitas, just like Argenta. However, Nasosi showed skills that eventually put her into the commissariat. However, she has a deep and immediate connection to the Sister of Battle, and the two share a bond over their dogmatic reverence for the God Emperor.

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Cassia - Every proper citizen of the Imperium shows proper respect to the members of the great houses of the Navis Nobilite. Nasosi has never known a navigator personally, but she knows protocol. And Cassia's seemingly gentle spirit, in contrast with her terrifyingly immense powers and slightly inhuman appearance, has sparked something of a protective desire from the commissar. Something that comes naturally to her.

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Pasqal - Nasosi worked with many representatives of the Adeptus Mechanicus during her time with the Astra Militarum, so Pasqal's presence is a very welcome thing indeed. Even his... peculiarities are easier for her to swallow than Idira's. As of now, he is extremely useful to her, and that use makes him very valuable.

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Heinrix - Although Nasosi followed protocol in tracking him down and following the letter of the law, the tension upon actually meeting the Inquisitor was immediate. Commissars stand for order and discipline. They inspire the soldiers of humanity to be brave, to stand together, and to overcome any obstacle. Inquisitors do the complete opposite. They sow discord, they divide and question. They accuse and root out the slightest deviation wherever they can. Granted, in a galaxy full of traitors, heretics, mutants and other enemies of mankind, Nasosi knows that the Inquisition is necessary. But she doesn't like it. And she's not very fond of him by extension.