History Fridge / IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice

* In ''If the Emperor had a Podcast - Episode 0'', words on the voxcaster are censored if not Ecclesiarchy-approved, much to [[SirSwearsALot the Emperor's]] annoyance. This includes sexual references like "fuck" and scatological references like "shit", as well as downright blasphemous or heretical terms like "Chaos" and "[[SatanicArchetype Horus]]". The reasons for the blasphemous words being censored [[TheFundamentalist should be obvious]], but hey, isn't there a [[GodOfEvil Chaos God]] representing hedonism, debauchery, and excess, such as the sexual content expressed in the word "fuck", and also a Chaos God associated with filth, disease, rot, and decay, such as that expressed by any literal reference to feces? Given the corrupting nature of the Chaos Gods, [[TheExtremistWasRight it just might not be too extreme a protection against heretical behavior]]...

* Dorn's literal-mindedness may not just be from Dorn himself. If you read up on the background and workings of the Centurion suits, you'll find that many of them have very powerful machine spirits (read: angry artificial intelligences) that the pilot much forcibly synchronize with and bring under their control. Afterward, the pilot and the machine spirit are bonded together, and the longer the pilot spends linked to his suit, the harder it is for the Centurion's operator to disengage and the closer they get to their machine spirit. Rogal Dorn has apparently been puttering around the Imperial Palace in a Centurion armor for several thousand years, meaning he's likely linked to the AI in his suit to an extreme degree, which can go a long way to explaining his cold, calm, mechanical, literal-mindedness.

* FridgeHorror: Vulkan's LoveFreak tendencies cause him to give big hugs to those around him. He's [[TheBigGuy the biggest]] [[SuperStrength and strongest of]] the Primarchs. His hugs can be "merely" painful to other Primarchs, WordOfGod says they can cause a degree of injury to [[SuperSoldier his sons]] [[SpaceMarine the Salamanders]], it's probably somewhere in between for the Adeptus Custodes like Kitten who are to a Space Marine as a Space Marine is to a normal human but who are still less than the only-technically-not-gods Primarchs... [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength What happens when Vulkan]] [[AndCallHimGeorge tries to share his friendship with]] ''[[KilledOffForReal normal humans]]''?

** Kitten's deck is cat-themed and moderately underpowered, but also has a lot of cards with effects that give him answers to the big splashy plays that his enemies have--basically reflecting his role as the OnlySaneMan.

** Emperor's deck is basically a way of using a lot of sacrifices to take a shortcut to create an ultimate creature, similar to how he himself was created.

** Magnus doesn't play, but his deck for "a card game that is actually good" is [[MagicTheGathering Red/Blue]], representing the intersection of fiery passion and thirst for knowledge, which represents well his goals in life.

** If you look at the background during Episode 21 while Corvus Corax is writing in his angsty diary, you can see that the environment is actually [spoiler: the blurry interior of a Smart Car]].

** Vulkan had to fill the Engine of Woes with his hate and sorrow and angst. But since it's [[LoveFreak Vulkan]], that would be kinda hard... so of course he just shoved [[spoiler: Corvus Corax]] into it to make up for that.

** Vulkan had to fill the Engine of Woes with his hate and sorrow and angst. But since it's [[LoveFreak Vulkan]], that would be kinda hard..., so of course he just shoved [[spoiler: Corvus Corax]] into it to make up for that.

* Of course Kitten would think that the Engine of Woes is absolutely horrifying. He's spent the last ten thousands years surrounded by incredibly ornate, baroque and Gothic architecture of varying shades of gold, and taught and believes that this is the pinnacle of mankind's beauty and architectural prowess. When confronted with a [[spoiler: lime-green Smart Car]], of course he's horrified by what he sees. Especially because it looks like [[spoiler: something that the Tau would design.]]

* The Dark Angels [[spoiler:failing to recognize Cypher as he's standing right in front of them]] might not necessarily be a statement on the [[TooDumbToLive Dark Angels' competence]]: [[spoiler:the Angels have been chasing Cypher for over ten thousand years, and as such are not even sure if he's a single individual with a supernaturally enhanced lifespan or a LegacyCharacter, and most confirmed appearances of Cypher tend to be determined after the fact, meaning it's not out of the question that even the canon Angels would not be sure of what he looks like.]]

* The Dark Angels [[spoiler:failing to recognize Cypher as he's standing right in front of them]] might not necessarily be a statement on the [[TooDumbToLive Dark Angels' competence]]: [[spoiler:the Angels have been chasing Cypher for over ten thousand years, and as such are not even sure if he's a single individual with a supernaturally enhanced lifespan or a LegacyCharacter, meaning it's not out of the question that even the canon Angels would not be sure of what he looks like.]]

* The Dark Angels [[spoiler:failing to recognize Cypher as he's standing right in front of them]] might not necessarily be a statement on the [[TooDumbToLive Dark Angels' competence]]: [[spoiler:the Angels have been chasing Cypher for over ten thousand years, and as such are not even sure if he's a single individual with a supernaturally enhanced lifespan or a LegacyCharacter, and most sightings of Cypher tend to be after he has done something big, meaning it's not out of the question that even the canon Angels would not be sure of what he looks like.]]

* The Dark Angels [[spoiler:failing to recognize Cypher as he's standing right in front of them]] might not necessarily be a statement on the [[TooDumbToLive Dark Angels' competence]]: [[spoiler:the Angels have been chasing Cypher for over ten thousand years, and as such are not even sure if he's a single individual with a supernaturally enhanced lifespan or a LegacyCharacter, meaning it's not out of the question that even the canon Angels would not be sure of what he looks like.]]

* Going with the above, Kairos proved to be remarkably short-sighted [[spoiler: during ''Gathering Storm III'', where despite his supposed omniscience he utterly failed to foresee Skarbrand leading a Khornate army to attack him and [[SpannerInTheWorks allow Guilliman and some of his forces to escape in the process.]]]] This makes a whole lot more sense [[spoiler: when you consider how he got absolutely shitstomped by Adrielle, a single Inquisitor who proved powerful enough to take on ''an entire genestealer cult.'' Assuming Kairos survived the attack at all, he very likely suffered severe and extensive head trauma that screwed with his foresight and prevented him from detecting and repulsing Skarbrand's attack.]]

** Also, Tzeentch wasn't just figuratively cheating in the duel. In the upper right corner there's a display of all the cards that Kitten has in his hand, which only goes away when Magnus intervenes. He's ''literally'' using a cheat program.

* Tzeentch wasn't able to know the outcome of his game with Kitten because, according to Magnus, Kairos the Fateweaver didn't tell him. [[spoiler: Of course he couldn't. Kairos just got his shit wrecked by Adrielle in the Warp because he made the mistake of telling an Ordo Xenos Inquisitor that he was a Genestealer.]]

* Of course Kitten knows everything about nearly everything in the Imperium--[[spoiler:he's one of the High Lords of Terra. He probably has received reports since getting the job on everything in the entire Imperium]]. Or it could be the fact that [[spoiler: there is a direct portal to the Black Library from the imperial palace]].

* Of course Kitten knows everything about nearly everything in the Imperium--[[spoiler:he's one of the High Lords of Terra. He probably has received reports since getting the job on everything in the entire Imperium]]. Or it could be the fact that [[spoiler: there is a direct portal to the Black Library from the imperial palace]].
* Of course Kitten would be okay with going to [[spoiler:Nocturne]] by ship and having fun on the way, he never left the palace in 10 000 years.

* In the "Warp Hijinks" update, Leman Russ comments that the Inquisitors' chances in the Warp have increased by at least two wolves. This might be yet another demonstration about Leman Russ' obsession with wolves, but remember one thing: wolves live in packs. The pack lives because all of the wolves work together for their communal sake, instead of going at it individually. By saying this, Leman indicates that the chances of survival have increased as if the pack's number increased in two.

* In the "Warp Hijinx" update, Leman Russ comments that the Inquisitors' chances in the Warp have increased by at least two wolves. This might be yet another demonstration about Leman Russ' obsession with wolves, but remember one thing: wolves live in packs. The pack lives because all of the wolves work together for their communal sake, instead of going at it individually. By saying this, Leman indicates that the chances of survival have increased as if the pack's number increased in two.