Large Blunt Object: Okay, I put this page together with only a vague memory of the novels, mainly to get a few character tropes away from the main 40k page. If someone who can remember the details can flesh it out, that would be great.
Specialist290: Nice to see someone finally put up a page for this :) After seeing your work on the
Gaunts Ghosts page, I'd be happy to reciprocate.
Servitor_2152, in response to this:
- The location of the mechandendrite is common knowledge if you've played Dark Heresy - it's just that most people don't ever admit to having seen one, since seeing it would involve the tech priest lifting up their robes. And I don't think ANYBODY wants to see that...
- That's not a mechadendrite. You're thinking of the cyber-mantle.
Large Blunt Object: You don't "subvert"
Awesome But Impractical. And striking out previous edits to put in your own justifications is retarded.
Peptuck: Large Blunt Object, why do you keep removing the obvious Eisenhorn shoutout? Iknow you've got a reason, just wondering what it is.
Large Blunt Object: Because it is
not an obvious Eisenhorn shoutout, any more than it's an obvious Bible shoutout. "Pontius" is a standard Imperial name. If it were a reference to "Pontius Glaw" or "The Pontius", it would qualify. That two authors separately used a fairly standard Roman name in a setting
crammed with such names does not a shoutout make.
- Okay. That's understandable. I didn't know why you kept removing it, you didn't say anything in the edit summaries.....
Specialist290: Personally, I believe that it
is a Bible
Shout Out. The coincidence of a pilot named Pontius is just too convenient to be accidental.
Large Blunt Object: ...I am so embarassed I missed that. ;_;
Specialist290: Happens to all of us :p
Be: Cut
"The
Furry Fandom is apparently alive and well in the 41st Millienium: The all-female Perlia PDF's 57th Armored regiment's insignia is "a red-furred, bushy-tailed creature in flak armour carrying a lasgun." The regimental nickname? Vixens."
Woo hoo. An all-female regiment's mascot is an anthropomorphic fox. Does this mean the cartoon devil riding a fighter plane that's the regimental mascot of my father's Air Force unit is an example of the Furry Fandom? No, and don't be stupid. And, before the convention of foxes as a furry icon was adopted by the interwebs at large, the word "vixen" was a fairly well-known honorific for a particularly mischievous woman, akin to "minx". Sorry to go on, but this irritates me for reasons I can't quite understand.
Goldfritha: Cut this
**Correction, he's over two centuries by then, he mention this a lot
He's in his second century, which would make him only over one century. over
two centuries would put him in his third century.
Goldfritha: Cutting this
- Casanova (Cain is a shameless womanizer and it's rather heavily implied that he had slept with countless women during his travels. However, the only exception would be Amberley.)
- (Though all the women appear to be agreeable to a fling, and they also appear only in the stories that pre-date his meeting Amberley.)
There is, in fact, no evidence that he left any women heartbroken. Felicia seems perfectly content to have had her fling.
Chivalrous Pervert's description fits him better, especially at no time does he ever
seduce a woman.
DH Birr: In response to this:
- In For the Emperor, introducing Jurgen, he says, "Even after all this time I still find myself missing him on occasion." If this is because Jurgen is dead, Cain may well have grief clouding his memory on top of all other possibilities.
- This is peculiar, because Jurgen was still with him in Cain's Last Stand, which takes place after he'd already begun recording these unofficial memoirs. For the Emperor must thus have been recorded quite some time after the events of Cain's Last Stand.
- I believe he began the memoirs after Cain's Last Stand. Vail refers to it as occuring five or six years before the memoirs. But considering the length of their association, it would be surprising if Cain considered a few years "all this time" — so this may just be a Continuity Glitch, and not evidence of Jurgen's death. Just to keep things complex.
In
Caves of Ice, Amberley comments that "this part of the archive appears to have been composed only a matter of months before the thirteenth Black Crusade" — thus, before
CLS.
