Bits from an AU where Ventris accepts Honsou’s offer to join his cause. At first, it was a backup plan to infiltrate Honsou’s fortress butttt things happened the longer they worked together and oops, now Ventris is a traitor astartes. Plan failed (?) Maybe? This might not so bad. Honsou is very pleased with himself.
Looking at the trailer and promotional material for this video game you would be forgiven for thinking it was some sort of ultra-violent dating reality show where competitors are eliminated through rounds of live ammunition laser/bullet tag.
Collectively the Escher gang tick off a lot of bingo boxes, and so much screen time you would think the game was supposed to be entirely about them and not the *checks notes* the six core gangs, five or six other factions, and four extra gangs invented for the sequel tabletop game “Necromunda: Underhive”.
This is probably in part because the base game only has three playable gangs, and clearly they chose Escher for the sex appeal angle, and Goliaths for the weird hypermasculinity… but they really… really lean into one of those:
How’s that working out for them…
I can’t help but think that perhaps the fashion bras, skin-tight pants are not really conveying the Escher gang as a people of amazons from a sub-society where their men are generally physically feeble and unable to defend their territory. Maybe it’s several decades overdue for a reinvention. Possibly at a conceptual level that forgoes the assumption of patriarchy being the default.
Tired canoness glaring at some noviate who spilt her coffee
Ork golfing.
Eldar couple on a date.
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Sargon Eregesh was a member of the Word Bearers Legion who was born on Colchis and became a Chaplain of the Brazenhead Chapter. He took part in the Horus Heresy and fought in the Battle of Terra, where he suffered a grievous Plasma Weapon wound that left him unable to speak, but he continued to telepathically communicate through a reanimated corpse.
After the Traitors were defeated and fled into the Eye of Terror, Sargon disowned the teachings of Lorgar and became a servant of Abaddon. During the subsequent Legion War, Abaddon dispatched Sargon to gather reliable allies for his coming war against Fabius Bile and his clone of Horus. Sargon succeeded in finding Falkus Kibre, Lheorvine Ukris, and Iskandar Khayon and giving them the location of both Abaddon and the Vengeful Spirit before being caught in an ambush by the Emperor’s Children. Sargon survived the battle against the Emperor’s Children and continued to serve Abaddon into the 1st Black Crusade and rose to become a Lord-Prelate of the Black Legion.
Falkus Kibre, nicknamed Widowmaker, was a Captain of the Luna Wolves/Sons of Horus’ First Company. Today, he is Black Legion warrior, Commander of the Aphotic Blade, servant of Abaddon the Despoiler. One of the founders of the Black Legion.
