YMMV / Embers in the Dusk

• Archive Panic: Over 700 threadmarks, about 2500 total story posts, and over 145,000 total posts in the thread. The first thread. Plus the Discord channel. Just the Recap at 1d4chan is around 30,000 words as of early 2022.
• Deliberate Values Dissonance: Frederick, being a product of the Imperium, has a hard time grasping Amir-Ka's practice of democracy or the "science" thing Surt keeps talking about.
• Fan Nickname:
  • Ridcully is sometimes addressed as "Rids".
  • The World Serpent is sometimes called the "giga noodle" or "giga danger noodle".
  • The Ancient One often gets abbreviated to "AO".
  • Be'lakor is sometimes referred to as "Becky" or "Bel", due to some questers finding his proper name too hard to spell.
  • The Void Dragon is occasionally referred to as "Professor Emperor's Shiny Charizard" after the time the Emperor used it as a superweapon against the Rangdan.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Inquisitor Klovis-Ultan having a flagship named the Velvet Glove. Five years before another planet-conquering, planet-purging extremist empire turned out to have one as well.
  • A Squat remnant named Vestri League, over three years before their official return as the Leagues of Votann.
• Magnificent Bastard: Be'lakor. Not only does he have contingencies that allowed him to survive millions of years while bringing his fighting skills to a level comparable to that of the Ancient One, not only did he manage to deprive Chaos of two of its most powerful servants (with one of them now Brought Down to Badass and hating Chaos), but it turns out he was the one behind the Men of Iron rebellion.
• Tear Jerker:
  • Freya's death
  • Some of Addio's omakes are quite sad like Grindstone of Men or High Value Target.
  • The "Incentives" omake. A man who joined the rebels to avenge his wife who had vanished into a concentration camp is informed by the interrogator that the wife gave birth to their daughter a month before dying in the camp and said daughter had been stuck in an overcrowded and understaffed orphanage for years. He also states that the rebel will be shot no matter what he does... but if he says all he knows about the other rebels, his daughter will be raised in an Avernus orphanage, and these have a very different living standard.
  • One omake during the Third Invasion is written from the POV of a four year old boy whose family tries to evacuate from a fallen city. It ends with his mom giving him a Mercy Kill as the Angyls are approaching.
  • The Fall of Ithica, in which Frederick Rotbart, put in charge of a wider campaign to defend a series of Webway Gates from a disturbingly well-coordinated foe, gets most of Knight World Ithica's serfs and Knights brutally killed against a Slaaneshi host. The King of the world calls him a butcher, but puts up with it because he believes it's for the good of his world. The Daemon Prince behind the whole thing eventually manifests, and Frederick uses the single artifact of Ynnead he was given on the creature, allowing it to suffer true death, before pausing from giving orders to apologize to the King. The King, protected from immediate death by his surroundings, spends his last moments cursing Rotbart for betraying him, as the fires of Exterminatus rain down on Ithica to ensure that the Daemon Prince dies. The war that follows is an overwhelming victory for the Eldar as the enemy suddenly loses cohesion, but all Frederick can think about afterwards is the death of Ithica and its Knights, the finest he had the honor of commanding.
  • Mage-Priest Imbac considers deploying the newborn Slann like the under-a-century-old Ri'bit (the Slann equivalent of an infant whose age is measured in weeks) to battle like they'll be expected to out of desperation to be this. Under normal Old One laws, he'd have been executed for child abuse.

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