That’s wishful thinking. The bigots were always going to lose their shit. Female space marines existed in Rogue Trader, so it’s not “lore purity” driving the outrage and it never has been. Appealing to lore has only ever been a thing because the current lore happens to align with their preference.
Yeah, from the article it seems that the unofficial mandate of dudes only came from the higher ups at GW.
You got to start somewhere, might as well have the bigots freak out about a tweet, rather than when you release the actual lore in a game book or novel.
But the most recent 10th-edition codex includes a point-of-view piece of lore from Calladayce Taurovalia Kesh, who uses she/her pronouns.
That codex was already published last summer. So it has already been lore for a while now, even though the misogynerds only took notice when GW tweeted about it.
Ahh, didn’t even know 10e is already out! Haven’t played in years.
To me the custodians make sense, they barely talk about any custodes in the books besides valdor. Man, I would pay so much money for them to retconned valdor into a woman, preferably in the sloppiest way possible. Oooh maybe valdor comes back from his mystery adventure as a trans lady, and that’s why the emperor loved him more than his sons.
even though the misogynerds only took notice when GW tweeted about it.
Sounds about right. They didn’t really seem the type who actually get into any lore that doesn’t involve their pet faction.
Didn’t malcador originally want to make the emperor’s kiddos to be all ladies in the first place? I would say that wouldn’t make sense unless they had already experimented with female custodes in the first place.
That’s wishful thinking. The bigots were always going to lose their shit. Female space marines existed in Rogue Trader, so it’s not “lore purity” driving the outrage and it never has been. Appealing to lore has only ever been a thing because the current lore happens to align with their preference.
Yeah, from the article it seems that the unofficial mandate of dudes only came from the higher ups at GW.
You got to start somewhere, might as well have the bigots freak out about a tweet, rather than when you release the actual lore in a game book or novel.
I don’t want to contradict you, but…
That codex was already published last summer. So it has already been lore for a while now, even though the misogynerds only took notice when GW tweeted about it.
Ahh, didn’t even know 10e is already out! Haven’t played in years.
To me the custodians make sense, they barely talk about any custodes in the books besides valdor. Man, I would pay so much money for them to retconned valdor into a woman, preferably in the sloppiest way possible. Oooh maybe valdor comes back from his mystery adventure as a trans lady, and that’s why the emperor loved him more than his sons.
Sounds about right. They didn’t really seem the type who actually get into any lore that doesn’t involve their pet faction.
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Which makes no sense in the lore. If you’re going to genetically engineer your soldiers, it hardly matters anyways.
Didn’t malcador originally want to make the emperor’s kiddos to be all ladies in the first place? I would say that wouldn’t make sense unless they had already experimented with female custodes in the first place.
Didn’t say no backlash just not as much.
It is also fantasy so it’s all made up.
I can’t remember the exact phrase, but to the effect of “Everything is canon in warhammer. But doesn’t mean its true”
Basically all written material is “canon” but it isn’t the “truth” - in the sense history is written by the victors.
Love that. Very realpolitik, in a fun way