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Warhammer 40K RPG

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In the Grim Darkness of the far future, there is only war

"It is the 41st Millennium. For more than a hundred centuries the Emperor of Mankind has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Earth. He is the master of mankind by the will of the gods and master of a million worlds by the might of His inexhaustible armies. He is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with power from the Dark Age of Technology. He is the Carrion Lord of the vast Imperium of Man for whom a thousand souls are sacrificed every day so that He may never truly die.

Yet even in His deathless state, the Emperor continues His eternal vigilance. Mighty battlefleets cross the daemon-infested miasma of the Warp, the only route between distant stars, their way lit by the Astronomican, the psychic manifestation of the Emperor's will. Vast armies give battle in His name on uncounted worlds. Greatest amongst His soldiers are the Adeptus Astartes, the Space Marines, bio-engineered super-warriors. Their comrades in arms are legion: the Imperial Guard and countless planetary defence forces, the ever-vigilant Inquisition and the Tech-priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus to name only a few. But for all their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever-present threat to humanity from aliens, heretics, mutants -- and far, far worse.

To be a man in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be relearned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only war. There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods."

At last my friends the time has come, I now have a lorebook good enough that I hope you all enjoy this, all my warhammer lore knowledge condensed into a single digital representation of how much I adore this silly franchise from Britain, a ridiculous, depressing but oh so amazing setting that has pushed me out of my comfort zone in all the best ways. Nothing more can be said I love warhammer and I'm glad you guys all enjoy how I view it throigh my writing, all of this stuff I do is really just dumb fun to nerd out yet so many of you stay and listen, I hope you all have a good day, and in case I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good night

(A role playing game set within the Warhammer 40K universe)

Setting/Backstory: the Milky way of the 41st Millenium lay in a dire state, no less then 10 millenia ago in the dark age of technology where science, reason and cooperation ruled the galaxy, where the Eldar and Humans spoke of peace, where the orks where mere pests on a galactic scale and where aliens came together to uplift eachother all was well... but then, strife hit, the eldar fell first for the birth of slaanehs scoured them and scattered the survivors, the resulting warp storms and interference upon the warp killed many more races, and then the rebellions began, AI rose up, Aliens became brigands, all who once stood for order fell and chaos was left in its wake, the galaxy fell and the gods laughed at the suffering

The factions rose again, the eldar under the craftworlds or the drukhari, humanity founded its Imperium but the horus heresy struck harder then the emperor couod build against, the great Necron empire awakened but remained decayed, the orks spanned whole systems like a disease, the Tau would come to find a galaxy that hated all they stood for, the Votann torn from their isolation and peace, the Tyranids would come to feast upon all, and chaos would revel in the pure bliss of a galaxy where even when they lose, they remain powerful For in the Grim Dark future of the 41st milenium there is only war

The galaxy is vast and has millions upon billions of worlds, systems, planetoids, ruins, stars, black holes and more astronmiconal greatness, it is as beautiful as it is dangerous, the galaxy as of now after the fall of Cadia the world which guarded the galaxy from the eye of terror, one of thise few entrances from the galaxy into the immaterium, with cadias fall the pylons upon it no longer functioned to hold it in place and suchnit nsapped the galaxy in 2, between Nihilus and Sanctus but still even with this great advantage the galaxy remains chaotic and not even the gods who let the Cicatrix maledictum open can fully exploit it. The galaxy has many worlds, from those rich with life and biomes and diversity, worlds with onky one true biome, those locked on land or at sea or always facing their sun to one side and Moon to its other, death worlds where everything wishes death to its inhabitants paradise worlds whcih have no predators, artifical worlds mace by empires and species long since dead or daemon worlds where the forces of the anathema lay thr galaxy is as diverse as it can possibly be and more.

Factions Imperium of man: a Carrion empire, sustained in a constant coma, where it may never truly live as a proper nation, but can never die as it is too expansive to ever fail, made uo of the combined forces of humankind, from the mere mortal men and women of the Imperial Guard, the superhuman Astartes so removed from theur humanity they can be seen as nothing but uncaring demigods, the custodes who remained fixed upon terra and the defence of a corpse god, the adeptus sororitas whos faith and zeal make way for zealotry and martyrdom, the imperial knights so stuck in their ways they use their great war machines to maintain systems older then entire species, the adeptus mechanicus which while having humanities bets minds know nothing about their own technology, and the Inquisition whom police an empire where law and doctrine is never set in stone all of them wrapped within the most bloated and twisted mockery of governance ever, yet still humanity lives on by the sheer grit and will of men and women who die for what they believe in Tau Empire: The Tau empire are a young but mighty one, dropped into this cruel galaxy like lambs to cosmic slaughter most expected them to fizzle, but through their differences in ideology, but also their acceptance of certain draconian means they remain a player on the stage of the milky way, compassionate but firm, advanced but traditional, accepting of all, but strict in integration they are by no stretch the most utopian civilisation im history but compared to the horrors of the 41st milenium they are the best empire for its people. Craftworld Eldar: The eldar are a species as enigmatic as they can be, mystical and proud they are the most psionicallt attuned race of the galaxy and their specialists can take hundreds of years to simply learn their profession, yet still they are crippled, stricken by low birth rates and slaanesh desiring their souls to consume they hold themsleves back to avoid consumption and thr craftworlds as such have few people,while they may see the future it is no certainty and while they may be the greatest and most venerable of races they are scattered and divided on how to use this wisdom and power Drukhari: The Drukhari are a twisted and debauched race, those elder who refused to change theur ways from the old empire they continue to rape and pillage across the galaxy causing pain to sate Slaanesh and prevent it from consuming their souls, they are a brutal regime more gangs with vast resources over genuine governments it is no wonder such a brutal race is hated even amongst their own eldar race Chaos: The forces of chaos are those that are anathema to order of any kind, following the gods of chaos they are the warp bred spawn of the incestuous mix of raw emotion of the galaxy and the warps volatility, no mere gods these beings represent concepts imbued into the strands of existence they are a great irony as in seeking freedom from the other institutions of the worse factions their followers become slaves to gods who thirst for power while treating the galaxy as if they were playing a great game Khorne: the God of blood, skulls, destruction and martial prowess, Khorne is a simple god, violence and blood gain favour all else gain ire a god who hates the warps magics yet is made of them who champiosn honor yet demands its followers kill without regard, a god who cares only for the battle and the slaughter uncaring of anything but the domain of death by bloody violence Tzeentch: the god of Schemes, warp magics, trickery and lies, Tzeentch is a god who represents the very concept of random malice a god as likely to aid its foes as it its allies, a god who cares only for plans so convoluted they themselves know not the ending, a deity who's very existence hinges upon the great game, Tzeentch is a god who favours the bold and smart or the foolish and cowardly in equal measure for Tzeentch only cares for its games Slaanesh: The god of Excess, debauchery, lust and indulgence, Slaanesh is a god which orders its followers only to seek the ecstasy in life, it cares bot for gentleness, or moderation only more and more and more, slaanesh is a god who's worshippers follow them as junkies pursue another fix, for Slaanesh is no god of joy, merely an enabler of the debauched who want pleasure and pain over all else in the world Nurgle: the god of blight, decay, stagnation and death Nurgle is a god seen as a divine grandfather giving gifts of blight to its diseased kindred yet even still the chaos god is no friend to its worshippers and while the facade remains the god remains a cruel ruler who gives its "children" the most virulent and deathly of plaguez as its twisted love Necrons: The Necrons are an ancient species, a race whom once suffered their own biology betraying them, the race decaying every moment they lived would seek the stars for answers and instead where snubbed by the old ones, in rage they made the ctan, the devil's who doomed them more, the necrons gave up flesh for metal and hence wiped out so much before as they lost and shattered their former gods they slumbered, but after this great sleep as they awoke and returned they soon found their fate remained one of tragedy, for even if they have the best technology and ths most potential, their minds remains mortal and so the undying race despite all they tried still decay either to the wish for flesh, the wish to destroy or merely the degradation of their own minds Orks: The orks are the unending green tide of primitive and destructive creatures, ramshackle and brutalist they are as much a force of nature as a species, Inherently violent and intensly brutish they are a species dedicated to war not for a god or for a cause, but for fun, they are some of the only species to see the state of the galaxy as ideal for in the ork mind unending war and suffering is the benchmark for glory and a good WAAAGH! Votann: the kindred of the leagues of votann, long separated from their former ancestors of humanity they are an isolationist but industrial people, highly traditional to the point of worship of their ancestors they are advanced but decaying as the votann become more degraded and they ever expand to make and produce more yet still they remain stalwart in the face of it all, for better and for worse Tyranids: The Tyranids and their genestealer brood are an ever expanding, ever hungry horde, guided by the hive mind a near omnipotent entity that does not hate or love only feeds, they are the chitonous hordes of bug like creatures who flood worlds with their bioforms and blot the very warp with the shadow of its hive mind, the genestealers with them are no different, those beings so unfrotunate tk be computable enough to reproduce with the twisted patriarchs become part of the brood of Tyranids, laying in wait, breeding and multiplying until finally they rise and weaken worlds for the tyranids to consume smiling as they allow themselves tk be devoured by the ones they call gods, for the tyranids are no ordinary predator they are a thing that feasts upon galaxys

To describe the galaxy is simple, the grimdark future cares not for any every empire seeks to use its population and scour its enemies, every system, every planet, the galaxy itself even hates the people who live in it, for most it is hopeless.... but in truth there is always hope, for even if the greater powers beyind mere mortal minds stand agaisnt it, the indomitable will remains, not of humanity or the eldar or any single species, the indomitable will of kindess, for even if every empire hates every other empire it is the people who hold it up, for even if the galaxy seem wicked and twisted, the people remain able to love, learn, find solace and find faith for one force remains more powerful then all, the force of what people can be if they try.

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