History Fanfic / NobledarkImperium

* CallToAgriculture: After fleeing Commorragh in the wake of the Dark Marriage, Yvraine mostly pursued a number of martial paths that allowed her to utilize the skills that she developed as a Wych, originally joining the Dire Avengers of Biel-Tan before taking to wandering the Imperium as alternatively a Ranger, Corsair, and mercenary, but found no satisfaction in any of these in large part because none of them seemed truly distinct from her original life as a killer and gladiator. She eventually settled down on an Exodite world, where she finally found peace when she took up the life of a farmer and discovered that making life grow was much more fulfilling that cutting it down. She is still apparently implicated in momentous events in the Imperium's future, which draws Craftworlders to her new homeworld to try and figure out what's going on with her; Yvraine finds this all highly irritating and would just like the to get off her land before they trample her potatoes.

* BattleTrophy: Illic Nightspear adorns himself with with mementos taken from the dangerous creatures that he hunts, such as a necklace made from genestealer teeth, a knife with a handle carved from a single chunk of squiggoth ivory, and a necron finger.

* CallToAgriculture: After fleeing Commorragh in the wake of the Dark Marriage, Yvraine mostly pursued a number of martial paths that allowed her to utilize the skills that she developed as a Wych, originally joining the Dire Avengers of Biel-Tan before taking to wandering the Imperium as alternatively a Ranger, Corsair, and mercenary, but found no satisfaction in any of these in large part because none of them seemed truly distinct from her original life as a killer and gladiator. She eventually settled down on an Exodite world, where she finally found peace when she took up the life of a farmer and discovered that making life grow was much fulfilling that cutting it down. She is still apparently implicated in momentous events in the Imperium's future, which draws Craftworlders to her new homeworld to try and figure out what's going on with her; Yvraine finds this all highly irritating and would just like the to get off her land before they trample her potatoes.

* CatFolk: The Felinids are a strain of genetically modified humans that were created during the Dark Age of Technology to colonize Carlos [=McConnell=], a humid world whose continents and islands are covered by dense temperate and tropical rainforests. Since areable land is very scarce and there aren't any native animals useful as large livestock, it was decided to create colonsists who could live directly off of the wilderness' abundant small fauna and move through the dense growth with ease. Cats were a major source of genetic material, although a fair amount was also derived from small primates such as marmosets. Modern felinids have mostly human faces, with enlarged teeth, protruding pointed ears, manelike hair, and feline eyes. Their bodies are much hairier than baseline humans', their fingers are tipped with retractable claws, and their feet are very apelike, with opposable big toes and flexible ankle joints for gripping tree branches; they also have tails, for balance when climbing. Their homeworld is split between an islander culture that relies on seafood to feed itself and primitive hunter-gatherer tribes in the continents. In the Guard, they're very poor at regimented tactics and worse at holding a position, but make excellent scouts, skirmishers and wilderness troops. They have an unfortunate habit of taking enemy bones to make trophies with.

** A few of the original founding Legions have tweaked names, such as the Empire's Children (Emperor's Children, as the Warden was not interested in setting up the cult of personality his canon counterpart was and did not use the title of Emperor until relatively recently anyway) and the Void Wolves (Luna Wolves, renamed to reflect their origin among the spaceborne Migrant Fleet).

** The Emperor's given name is a stealthy one: he's a Man of Gold named ''[[MediaNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]]''. One [[https://1d6chan.miraheze.org/wiki/Nobledark_Imperium_Writing#Malcador's_Log piece of writing]] subtlely {{Lampshades}} this, with Oscar being named after the uncle of a member of the expedition that found him, a reference to an urban legend about where the Academy Awards' nickname came from.

** The Emperor's given name is a stealthy one: he's a Man of Gold named ''[[MediaNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]]''. One [[https://web.archive.org/web/20210418173126/https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Nobledark_Imperium_Writing#Malcador%27s_Log piece of writing]] subtlely {{Lampshades}} this, with Oscar being named after the uncle of a member of the expedition that found him, a reference to an urban legend about where the Academy Awards' nickname came from.

It can be found [[https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Nobledark_Imperium here]].

* FallenHero: Goge Vandire, instead of being ObviouslyEvil nearly from the get-go here, was actually chosen by Oscar himself to be the Emperor, and did a good job of it for quite a while.

** In the later days of the Great and Bountiful Human Dominion, the line between humanity and machine became very blurred. Between purely organic humans and their various genetic offshoots and the Iron Men there were cyborgs of various degrees, positronic brains inhabiting vat-grown bodies, human minds uploaded into computers, and everything in between. Ruling over all this were the transsapient Iron Minds and the Men of Gold, artificial humans created with genetically-perfect tailored bodies interlaced with grown components of metal and plastic, undying and pyschically powerful.

** The Emperor's given name is a stealthy one: he's a Man of Gold named ''[[MediaNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]]''. One [[https://web.archive.org/web/20210418173126/https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Nobledark_Imperium_Writing#Malcador%27s_Log piece of writing]] subtlely {{Lampshades}} this, with Oscar being named after the uncle of a member of the expedition that found him, a reference to an urban legend about where the Academy Awrds' nickname came from.

** The Zoats here serving as a rebellious pseudo-herald of the devastating Tyranid Hive Fleets are openly compared to having a similar relationship as seen between the Silver Surfer and Galactus in Creator/MarvelComics.

* The Emperor's given name is a stealthy one: he's a Man of Gold named ''[[MediaNotes/AcademyAward Oscar]]''. One [[https://web.archive.org/web/20210418173126/https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Nobledark_Imperium_Writing#Malcador's_Log piece of writing]] subtlely {{Lampshades}} this, with Oscar being named after the uncle of a member of the expedition that found him, a reference to an urban legend about where the Academy Awrds' nickname came from.

** In the later days of the Great and Bountiful Human Dominion, the line between humanity and machine became very blurred. Between purely organic humans and their various genetic offshoots and the Iron Men there were cyborgs of various degrees, positronic brains inhabiting vat-grown bodies, human minds uploaded into computers, and everything in between. Ruling over all this were the transsapient Iron Minds and the Men of Gold, artificial humans created with genetically-perfect tailored bodies interlaced with grown components of metal and plastic, undying and pysichically powerful.

* {{Yandere}}: Xun'Bakyr, Phaerakh of the Maynarkh Dynasty, is one for ''The Nightbringer''. The Silent King had to take steps to both keep the Necrons' plan to kill the C'Tan a secret form her and then to ensure she was killed during the Great Sleep. It didn't work, and in fact, damaged her in a way that prevented her from being controlled by him, and she now seeks to wipe out all life in an attempt to get the Nightbringer to notice her.

** To emphasize just how evil Fyodor Karamazov is in this continuity, Inquisitor Kryptmann (who everyone, including himself, sees as teetering just on the edge of NecessaryEvil) calls him a Genestealer infiltrating the Imperium and wants him purged.