Xero Reacts to If the Emperor had a Podcast - Episode 1: The Last Church
Added 2024-10-09 10:31:58 +0000 UTC
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Vulkan just wants to give everyone a hug xD. Glad to know at least most of them aren't actual babies, even if it's still messed up, but this is 40k we're talking about.
Xero Degrees
2024-10-11 07:24:36 +0000 UTCA minor change to the lore in The Last Church is when Alfabusa asked Graham McNeill himself about where it took place. It is not set in the remains of the abbey on the island of Lindisfarne, a small island just south of the Scottish border on the eastern side of the country. Instead it is set on the Isle of Skye, which is all the way in the north-western part of the British isles. On Skye there is the Old Man of Storr, a tall basalt rock that served as the inspiration of the Lightning Stone in The Last Church. As for the Cherubim, fortunately they are vat-grown babies with no higher brain functions that are being turned into biomechanical abominations so there are no real babies, heretical or otherwise, used in the process. They can be used for anything ranging from menial labor, scribe duties, minor repair duties, hauling incense (the Sisters like those the most) and chanting hymns. There's also a few combat variants including ones that are used as a sort of ablative armor for their owner, allowing them to catch bullets with babies. But there's also a variant used for "interrogation", which is a lot worse when it's done to you by a ghastly baby. And let's not talk about the dubiously canon Nephilim, which are similar but actually use real babies. The result actually has higher brain functions and can use their own initiative, but the mainstream AdMech is not a very big fan of them. One of them was made out of the comatose son of an Imperial noble, who after his father died became the head of their house. Then there's the demented case of an Adeptus Biologicus releasing two thousand of them into the Imperial throne room to celebrate the 2000th anniversary of the Emperor's ascension to the Golden Throne. These Cherubim all flew to the rafters of the throne room and sang hymns in praise to the Emperor. But instead of all the Cherubim being immediately purged by the Custodes and the offending Magos being turned into something unpleasant, this became a yearly ritual. They are all being maintained by the Mechanicum to this day, which becomes a slight issue when you realize that if none of them ever break down (because if anything Imperial tech is built to last) this means that the throne room by the time of the 10000th anniversary would have 30.005.000 technological abominations made from babies sitting in the rafters, singing ominously. At least they don't have bodily functions... They're so creepy that even Guilliman himself is weirded out by them, and in one instance noted that one of them had a rather innefficient gravity lifter installed in it, and how one of his more technologically minded brothers would have caught it with a net to rebuild it. Which makes me imagine a scene where Vulkan with a novelty oversized butterfly net is chasing after a horrifying machine made from a baby going all "COME TINY FRIEND, LET ME CATCH YOU AND IMPROVE YOUR SUBSTANDARD ENGINE".
Beriorn
2024-10-09 15:15:00 +0000 UTC
