Favorite Piece of Fluff

[romorini]

Say what you will about their business strategy, but GW puts out a decent backstory. What's your favorite piece of background. To make things interesting for the less versed (obsessed) in 40K lore, let's try and keep it to non-Tyranid fluff. (Let's face it, there's only so many ways a system can be systematically slaughtered and stripped bare)

I'll start off: My roommate and I were discussing the orks, namely, how their innate psychic ability interacts with the warp, and he brought out his shiny new Codex to read a passage to me.

Those who own the codex know about The Demon-Killa, an Ork Warboss who, after getting attacked by a greater demon of Khorne in his own space hulk decides to lead a Waaaugh! into the Eye of Terror.

Why, you may ask, did he steer all his boyz into the ugliest piece of real estate in the galaxy? Because fighting a greater demon was just too much fun! So there's an Ork Waaugh stampeding through Chaos world after Chaos world. Eventually they reach a Blood World of Khorne, basically a planet swampy with...ground meat and blood.

The Demon-Killa manages to impress/amuse/tick off a mighty Khorne Demon and now the Orks fight there for all eternity, and are having a blast!

[Seer Tyhalandras]

Well I always enjoyed one story I read in a WD around the time of the Bugs 3rd Ed release...I can't remember the name of it but it started with the guardsmen on the wall having to commandeer a searchlight which was pointed to far out and when he swung it closer to his position there were warriors "sneaking" through the grass.... Sorry I'm not more help

Seer T

[genestealer1414]

in fantasy, new vampire book. they talk about vlad von carstien getting killed a ridicoulos amount of times and coming back from the dead every time he was killed. i especially liked the part when konrad ripped one guys limbs off.

[Name]

I like the IG books. mainly Gaunt's Ghost series.

anything about people who have a great story to tell, and live a great story, but doesnt really matter to anyone.

[Psychichobo]

I'm pretty fond of Richter Von Krueger's cursed company. The idea of an arrogant mercenary who just keeps coming back from the grave to kill the necromancer who cursed him is awesome. That, and he's such a badass Dog of War...

[WestRider]

The story DeathWing, about a group of 30 or so DeathWing Terminators saving their Homeworld from a Genestealer Invasion, is up there.

Devil's Marauders and Pestilence, also contained in the DeathWing short story collection, were amazing as well.

There was also a really cool series of linked stories in the 2nd Ed Chaos Codex. The first was the best, but the second one was a large part of what got me into Noise Marines.

And then there was a great story in one of the 2nd Ed core books about an Inquisitor investigating a Stealer Cult. Actually, the 2nd Ed Wargear book as a whole was a great piece of Fluff.

[Hyper Kinetic]

I like this piece here:
uk.games-workshop.com/darkeldar/torturer/
In the middle of what is a torture chamber, a nearly broken human is given a short version of the history of the Dark Eldar by Asdrubael Vect. It ends with the human being tortured by the lack of ending to the tale. "Why Not?"

[romorini]

Wow, that is a good one.

[UnseenOne]

the old ones are my favorit race in the fluff. and why wouldent they be? the created the orks, humans, and eldar, and they are uber good psykers and live a really long time. asurmen (a god to the eldar) was one of the leaders of the old ones.

hmmm... old ones... etherials... interesting..............

[romorini]

I'm the exact opposite, I think the Old Ones are the worst aspects of the 40K universe. I think it's more interesting if the races developed independently, or just have maybe the Eldar be the created race. The way it is now seems to cheapen the other races.

[Hyper Kinetic]

... uh... i don't think that the Old Ones created Humans. Orks and Eldar, yeah, but not Human. Weren't we apparently only just crawling out of the seas when the Eldar fell? I could be wrong there...

Anyhew... Yeah, i guess it does belittle some of the races somewhat having them created. It does make for an interesting way of creating beings via the warp... but something doesn't sit right with me there. The "War in Heaven" is pretty interesting though.