• TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    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.

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      7 months ago

      I don’t want to contradict you, but…

      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.

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        7 months ago

        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.

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      7 months ago

      Which makes no sense in the lore. If you’re going to genetically engineer your soldiers, it hardly matters anyways.

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        7 months ago

        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.