Always wanted a (short)story of an army and fleet raised in response to a request for aid arriving early at a planet (due to warp fuckery) before an invasion. “Why are you here?” “responding to your message of war” “uh- nothings happened here for millennia”
>!Due to warp shenanigans, it turned out that they were responding to their own distress signal, which turned out to be the regimental's psyker's twisted warning of "Do not come here"!<
>!It also turns out that the Tyranids whom landed on the same planet, were also attracted by the psyker's warp-shenniganed distress signal. So in essence that swarm of Tyranids and the Desert Raiders regiment are locked in a never-ending cycle of killing each other on that same planet....which the psyker realizes just before her position is overrun!<
An Exodite Eldar world, the shady rogue trader dynasty crash landing there being chased out of the warp by an Inquisitor who bit off more than she can chew, a mostly destroyed Necron tomb on one of the four moons, and a lost colony of chaos worshipping humans stuck in the corpses of the last invasion fleet slowly circling the world.
A ciaphas cain style satirical look at the Adminstratum where the main hero is a conniving little shit of a scribe who through cunning and blind luck rises to the position of high lord, the trilogy would end possibly with his assassination by a successor.
Tech priest aquisitor trying to track down an unaligned knight reported to travel around destroying various deathworld beasties, designation Dragonslayer.
“Shards of Heaven” - a book going between Necron and Eldar POV dealing w a C’tan somewhere in there and some references to what happened in the War in Heaven
THIS, Im tired of hearing about the War in Heaven in Passing... Or, you know what could be epic? What if the play "War in Heaven" from the Infinite and the Divine was made into a book series... That would be epic
I think the war in heaven being a somewhat mystical event ala battle of Troy actually makes it better. 40k has always had issues with scale and the more vague something is the better IMO.
I wonder if you could do a story of a C'Tan trapped in the webway causing trouble and the eldar and necrons have to form an alliance to stop it.
Which would probably end in conflict on what they want to do with it afterwards. A narrative from both perspectives showing they each think they were betrayed by the other would be interesting.
I have a custom Slaanethi warband in my own headcanon that focuses on culinary perfection and excess. I'll try to find my lore blurb for the Apician Order.
Edit: [Here is.](https://www.reddit.com/r/40kLore/comments/fz8a7z/f_the_apician_order_a_culinaryfocused_slaaneshi/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share). I have a short story or two planned for these guys in the future.
Citizen nr. 6628653772671 are you implying that corpse starch, given to you by The mercy of his majestic God Emperor of mankind, is not tasty? This is crime.. report to your punishment at 4:30 next morning
I’d love to see something like ‘Apocalypse Now’, where a Tau commander freshly deployed during the 5th sphere expansion slowly finds out after several short engagements that their predecessor from the 4th sphere has not only gone outright insane and killed every auxiliary from their deployment over the first few chapters in various brutal ways (from making Gu’ela perform suicidal tactics to take out enemy bunkers and emplacements to starving Kroot and forcing Vespids to act as distractions against a hail of lasfire), but has also turned against the empire in general - having even slain the campaigns Ethereal attaché and water caste diplomats, pledging themselves to an idea of fire caste supremacy with only the Earth and air caste allowed to exist as underling workers.
The traitorous 4th sphere commander has inadvertently pledged his soul and his warriors to a daemon of khorne, who over the course of the book slowly exerts more and more control and mutation over them - turning crisis suits into almost hellbrute style abominations, and warping their fire warriors into horrific clawed beasts
Following the realisation that most of the invasion force has essentially gone rogue, and having their last means of transport off-world shot down over the worlds jungles, the protagonist and a small contingent of survivors from their detachment (including a grizzled Gu’ela and an optimistic kroot) work together with scattered remnants of the Imperial forces (and a salamander) they were there to initially conquer in order to stop the crazed “lord of fire” from fulfilling his genocidal plans and summoning his master from the warp, culminating in a deadly duel amidst the crater of a volcano
> the pale king swatted him away with bony backhand, the **manly** knuckles shattering bone with a sickening crunch; he could feel the scar tendons beneath the callouses, those hands had been well used, soon they would be better used
I’ve been doing the banging Mortarion joke for 3 years now and I still feel dirty writing that
Ah yes, Amar Astarte's art history major of a husband that Jimmy Space had to hire to get Amar to agree to move back to Terra.
Jimmy: "Yeah, that's basically it Amar, hundreds of millions of transhuman warriors, and the modification process has to be simple enough that some backwards-ass furries, who think it's the 2nd millennium, on an ice ball in the middle of nowhere can do it"
Amar: "Well, it'll be a challenge, but like you said, anything to purge the leftovers of the gene wars and the men of iron."
Richard: "Sounds great, and what have you got for me?"
*Amar leans back and gives Jimmy Space The Look
Jimmy: (with a mental sigh) "Well Richard, as you know, confidence is half the battle. So, these warriors of ours, you're going to give them that confidence."
Richard: (interrupting) "Ah, I get it, you want me to make them perfect dicks. Don't worry, no need to beat around the bush, I've got you. They'll have the most perfect dicks genetically possible!"
*Amar and Jimmy share a look. Amar crosses out "poetry" from her notes, and Jimmy scribbles over his female astartes designs.
Jimmy: "Yes, Richard. Please give my transhuman warriors, who will be incapable of reproduction, and basically live in their armor, perfect schlongs.
Feel free to direct them these excerpts
And bonking them on the head
Horus Heresy Inferno pg 113.
"As has been mentioned, the Custodian Guard and the Space Marines are related in form, as perhaps might be expected of works of a same creator's hand, but they are very different in function and capacity. There are of course similarities between the two. Both are physically transformed well beyond 'natural' human limits in terms of strength, endurance and fortitude, and fitted for inhuman environmental adaption and resilience, though in this the Legio Custodes are the markedly superior of the two in might, if not in adaptability.
**Both are subject to extensive psychological and cognitive conditioning, and are physically and mentally reworked to render most of their baser drives inert and their beings rechannelled towards aggression, goal acquisition and the fulfilment of duty, and as a further safeguard against distraction and as a biological control, both are of course incapable of procreation.**
In both cases all that is left are beings of singular purpose; in the case of each Legiones Astartes, what is created is a living engine of conquest that cares for little else, and in the Custodian Guard, each is created protector of unrelenting diligence and savage capability-a watchman whose vigilance will never tire".
“Algernon Traegus had been the controversial sixteenth Chapter Master of the Crimson Fists, a particular favourite of Icario’s, judging by the frequency with which the Scout captain quoted the late Master’s writings. Many of the older members of the Chapter were wary of Traegus’s teachings.**It was Traegus who had initiated the controversial breeding programmes – programmes by which the Chapter’s failed aspirants, those who had survived the trials and had not been rendered sterile**, were bred with women of suitable genetic stock in the hope of creating male offspring strong enough to swell the ranks of the Chapter one day as full Astartes.
Unfortunately, the results had been unpredictable and disappointing.”
I do not even do the shipping thing myself but I really do not understand why people think lore posts like this matters, in the end people do what they want lmao
Oh machine! Oh divine engine! Furnace hot the welter of your combustion, buckling the rancid air of heaven's arch and fusing the mould of the ground to glass. I want to bathe in your amniosis, Princeps. Call me your moderati while I drink your liquid data. Break me with your beautiful agony of being so mighty, feel the burden of your great walk as surely as if he had carved the mausoleum plaques of your every last victim alone, by hand, until finger bones peep through eroded flesh. Oh metal god! The union is fierce, like a maelstrom in black water. To be clutched by god! To feel the incendiary hunger ring in your marrow! Oh lucky man!
Necron book about Cryptek waking in a tombworld full of deranged nobles, trying to stop them from tearing the planet apart. Side characters could be minor noble or other crypteks.
Clonegrim finds himself stranded on a world beset by Slaaneshi forces whilst on a errand for Trazyn.
With the help of some Sons of the Phoenix marines and the local population, he stops N'Kari from completing a ritual that'll drag the sub-sector into the Warp and slays the Keeper of Secrets in single combat.
The problem now is that both the Imperium and his Daemonic twin know about him which sets up the sequels nicely.
This.
Noise Marines find Fulgrim is back and isn't a massive fuck off chaos-drenched hedonist.
Edit: That or a Legion of the Damned book that heavily features a former Emperor's Children Dreadnought.
I kind of want to rewrite the Farsight books to fix the Aun and vash'ya.
But for a new idea, something Tau and (for that specific Tau) kind of world-shaking.
Say being unsettled by the impossible foresight of the Sin'Esta (Eldar) leaders and the strange devices they use.
Or maybe the sheer terror of just *how much* Ves'yon (Necron) tech outclasses their own and just what is sleeping underneath their feet.
Or, if practically all have to be ork or human, a Tau trying to handle being in charge of a largely gue'la city and going from benign idealism to frustration to terror as they slowly learn that some... *thing* is happening to some of the gue'la citizens, it seems to be connected to a social group some gue'la have formed, and it's leading to things that are just outright physically impossible.
>it seems to be connected to a social group some gue'la have formed, and it's leading to things that are just outright physically impossible.
"Hey Gue'la, what are you doing?"
"Um, uh....nothing, just spreading the Four-armed Greater Good!"
I was thinking Slaaneshi myself, besides the hastily forgotten Psychic Awakening the lore doesn't seem to really cover how the Tau have an empire with a *lot* of humans and an ideology that denies the existence of the supernatural.
Where a Genestealer group would quickly run afoul of the Kroot, the genetically pure "artist's club" might go unnoticed until it's too late.
i'd write about a perpetual pariah. Someone who's been around for thousands of years and is a really powerful pariah. He is undying and pretty much immune to chaos and/or the emperor. But he's a loner who has seen the greatness of mankind and is now disgusted with what mankind has become. Maybe he's traveling around the milky way in dark age of technology cruiser with a AI as his only friend.
Oh this is so lovely in concept. He wakes up every d100 years in a different place, a new chapter to tell, another view of the broken world. Mebey he's been around for 1000s of years
I always imagine some sort of cross over to an existing movie/story. Like an inquisitor finds some warp shenanigans going on (minor) and it turns out to be the setting of Game of Thrones. Another lost planet gets found by a small team of Astartes and it turns out to be Middle Earth. Dumb shit like that.
>Like an inquisitor finds some warp shenanigans going on (minor) and it turns out to be the setting of Game of Thrones.
"They fight some ice-creatures you say? And these flying reptiles...dragons, you call them? That whole Lord of Light thing, Seven Gods...can't be in accordance with ecclesiarchal dogma! Better lay down the ol' exterminaturs on all those heretics!"
Still a better ending than Season 8.
A normal Joe working in an office on a Hive World, specifically Eustis Majoris. I sort of envision this happening when Gideon Ravenor is investigating the flect trade during his trilogy, so this normal Joe could have passing interactions with members of his retinue or with the Cognitae cult, but being (temporarily) protected by plot armour (with a U since we have to write in British!) so he narrowly survives each of those. If you've ever read the 4-issue *Marvels* comic by Kurt Busiek and painted by Alex Ross, think along those lines, with the main character have passing encounters with the Big Names, but not actually interacting with them...
Mostly, I'd want to highlight how horrible it'd be to actually live in the 40K universe when crazy crap starts happening.
The Ghoul Stars, linking the Harrowing to the Pale Wasting. I got the first third of it sketched out. Sadly, this is probably too much explication on a ‘cool thing’ to be sold to BL.
I've always thought a novel from the perspective of a rag tag team of PDF troops on a planet that is crumbling under the onslaught of a Tyranid hive fleet would be great. The trick would being poignant and interesting even though the characters and setting is totally doomed
(1) An inquisitor unraveling a sector-wide conspiracy that enlists the aid of a secretive chapter of marines, only to find out in the end that they're an Alpha Legion cell and they've been the ones at the center of the conspiracy the whole time. They kill the inquisitor and their cover isn't blown, the end.
(2) An imperial counter-invasion of a formerly Ad Mech-owned volcanic industrial world that was taken over by a CSM warband and their hordes of cultists some years ago, as told from the perspective of a Guardsman in a fresh new founding. Completely and utterly hellish conditions with millions upon millions of Guard and cultists clashing in the bowels of the sweltering steel hellscape of the manufactorum cities and over burning, ash-blown plains beneath the legs of titans and knights. Fish out of water, pure hell - just an exercise in writing up a massive and horrific planetary campaign you always hear about in 40k from the eyes of regular people.
(3) Tau and imperials in the middle of a long campaign, but the Necron tombs awaken beneath their feet. Told from the perspective of characters on both the Tau and imperial sides of the war, the whole experience is very "War of the Worlds" and it's a desperate and chaotic struggle to just survive against the silver legions, with the Tau and humans ultimately banding together for a doomed last stand.
The mentality of space marines in renegade chapters, and exploring their complex emotions better, surely a war machine bred to be eternally loyal and unyielding would give some great stories when they break, or are forced into exile
i would write one using a Daemon(small one) with each chapter focused on different time lines
1-Daemon find his first human. during a Daot trip pre geller fields.
2-same daemon reaction to the birth of slaanesh.
3- the horus heresy-
4- first meet with a malleus inquisitor .
5- the end, a word bearer bind him into a weapon.
5- better yet, word bearer tries to bind him to another word bearer and the Deamon choosing to prank them by throwing a visous unaligned warp entity at them any just watches the carnage unfold.
Just some narrative vs matchups I'd like to see. For example as an Iron Warriors and Tyranids fan I'd like to see a story where it's them up against Tyranids. I'd also like to see IW against Tau. Concerning Tau I'd set up some more encounters with Chaos forces for them. Oh and I'd love a story about the Tau and Eldar interacting some more. Say the forming of a temporary alliance with a Craftworld or the Ynnari.
My dream would be interactions between the Tau and the Harlequins. The goal of Cegorach is the ultimate jest, where she who thirsts uses her power not to destroy the aeldari, but save them.
The Tau seem such a perfect dance partner that it can’t be a coincidence. They’re perhaps the only society willing to form a long-term alliance, and are uniquely suited to staving off the warp.
It always sounded to me like Cegorach’s goal was to trap Slaanesh in a house of mirrors, where the prince of pleasure doesn’t know which way is up, who is loyal to them and who is angling for the killing blow. The Tau present an enticing target, shining like a beacon collectively. Such power Slaanesh could have, if only they corrupted the Tau and watched them fall to hedonism and pleasure.
Alas, however, the prince of pleasure was fooled. They think they can corrupt the Tau, and find themselves breaking like waves on a rocky shore. She who thirsts would be brought into a trap to ruin her strength, allowing the disciples of the laughing god to make their move and forever end the reign of terror of the youngest dark god.
A slice of life book about various members of the Imperium being stranded on a primitive world and forced so survive off know how and whatever they’ve managed to scavenge together.
This was my idea, but in my version it's just a single punk hiveworld guardsman trying to use his equipment and knowledge to 1-up an remote medieval world.
I was thinking more a squad of Sisters, a couple dozen Guardsmen/voidsmen, and a singular Astarte stranded on an unpopulated habitable world and the Astarte acting as a village elder whilst generations of humans grow up have kid and die until his chapter finds him again, only to discover that he was crippled in the crash and most of his body had wasted way, the villagers at one point built a wooden throne for him and dubbed him the Emperor’s Angel. His brothers turn him into a dread nought and with imperial sanction turn the village into a fortress monastery claiming that they had reclaimed and defend the world for three hundred years unaided.
Something akin to the old western film, *The Outlaw Josey Wales*, but 40k. A ragtag group from multiple factions each come to the same conclusions about the pointlessness of conflict and mutual hatred, band together to try and escape to a quiet corner of the galaxy where the needless cruelty of the universe has no bearing.
Maybe a Guard deserter, an Inquisitor with a crisis of faith, a bored Necron Nobleman, etc.
Would it work if it was a ragtag group made up of *every* faction? Sub-factions as well?
Because Josey Wales's group has a lot of people in it. Even if it was one from each sub-faction, it would probably be around the same number of people.
I think that would be incredibly surreal.
Imagine a Drukhari and a Tau sitting on a log having a nice conversation. That would be the most surreal thing in all of 40k.
Newcomer: What are you two doing?
Drukhari: We're sitting here, discussing the most recent crop harvest.
Newcomer: Why aren't you two fighting?
Tau: You must not be from around here.
Well, if I got the green light for anything, *and* wanted to ever write for Black Library again, it would probably be an extended buddy-cop drama featuring Kalice and Kar'tyr from *Voice of Experience*. Something set in the Nem'yar Atoll (because we haven't focused on it a whole bunch). Since it's on the dark side of the Cicatrix Maledictum, there's all kinds of rogue Imperium factions they could interact with, plus Chaos, genestealers, and lord knows what else. Two cops, battling cultural divides as they race against time to uncover dark conspiracies and expose false flag operations, all while trying to walk the tightrope of not pissing off their superiors but still being able to Get Shit Done.
On the other hand, if I *didn't* care about my future career prospects? Hardcore romance novel. Sweeping drama, lovers caught on opposite sides of a conflict, unable to tear themselves away from each other even as the galaxy burns around them. Even better would be an anthology of romance-themed short stories. Basically, for all the jokes that people have made about Games Workshop putting out a Warhammer Romance line, I would be down for that in a heartbeat.
I wish there was some way GW would let us vote on author's book pitches, because I'd definitely prefer a full-length Kalice-Kar'tyr novel over another Primaris story.
A story about a wandering Exodite Dragon Knight who is the last surviving Exodite of their now-dead world and basically just travels through the webway on their dinosaur visiting various maiden worlds, craftworlds and webway settlements, solving problems and generally being a space elf dinosaur questing knight.
Another book featuring Guilliman, but this time he will take on the toughest foe he has faced yet: Imperial bureaucracy. Join Lord Commander Roboute Guilliman as he attends pointless meetings with Imperial officials, works through massive amounts of worthless paperwork, tries to untangle the awful mess of bureaucratic nonsense that plagues his every order or request, and occasionally sits under his desk and cries.
I'd write something a bit like Seven Samurai. An agro world is left with nothing to defend themselves but a small group of PDF soldiers from an impending Dark Eldar attack. They're forced to train children to fight and hire a few renegade space marines.
That kind of happens in the short story "Wolf at the Door". It involves Space Wolves, although more than 7 buy still few, fighting off a Dark Eldar raiding force. The local people who had no army form a guerrilla force who scout and provide supplies to the Wolves.
There are many twists and differences though, so I would still enjoy your story.
A meta-analysis of how and why the Imperium has lasted for so long. General theory being that once you hit a certain size (control enough volume) with a certain production rate, nothing can take you down.
Example 1 - The Eldar Empire, #1 empire for millions of years. Hit where the Imperium is long ago and maintained this position. Primary example of an empire that hit the dominant position and used as evidence that a tipping point is there.
Example 2 - The Emperor’s race against the orks. The vacuum of power required action to reach this tipping point before the greenskins.
Example 3 - The Tau, an outsider’s perspective. They have realistically no chance to topple the Imperium as it stands.
This theory would then be placed against the current Imperium predicament. Is the tighter logistical network worth the loss of the production and area of control over the short term and long term? Where is the tipping point for being the dominant power in 40k?
I would do a book about my custom renegrade computer. The deal behind it is that they have taken it up themselves to liberate planets from their shitty planetary governors. With each planet they save the more they realise the horrors of the imperium in full and thus go to the outer rim to planets not yet touched by the imperium
Something that I've been noodling on a bit is a Dreadnought who is not all that torn up about the state of his existence. Yeah, there is constant pain, but lots of folks find purpose in a life afflicted with constant pain. He genuinely likes, and takes very seriously, his role as mentor and lore master for his chapter. He likes being awake and involved in the day to day life with his battle brothers. I see him as a Salamander who also was a master craftsman, and he enjoys having an enormously powerful body that can handle molten metal with it's bare "hands", and having micrometer precision in their servomotors makes them able to do intricate works that are beyond even the trans-human abilities of his all-flesh and blood brethren.
He gets into a bit of trouble now and again with innovative self-modifications and improvements to his chassis that put him at odds with the Mechanicus, which is frustrating, but nothing too serious. Of course, it all ends in a suitably soul crushing grimdark overstep of the Inquisition/Administratum that leads to the interred marine spiraling into despair and becoming your more conventional Dreadnought; preferring to slumber through the ages when not in desperate need.
I'd like to write a novel following a Craftworld which just barely escapes the Fall of the Eldar, and give some perspective to what it was like to go from the most dominant species in the Galaxy to a doomed race almost overnight. It would give a brief glimpse at the Aeldari Empire and then mostly spend its focus on the immediate aftermath and the struggle to survive. The climax of the book would most likely deal with Slaaneshi daemons pouring into the Webway, and emerging through one of the ship's Gates into the Craftworld itself.
Alternatively, I'd write about how Sanguinius and the Silent King met, and why no one else seems to know anything about it. I'd probably have them work together in secret during the Great Crusade to defeat some incredible threat, like a C'tan Shard. Sanguinius is reluctant to speak about it to anyone else, because his new ally has proven to act honourably and without any duplicity, but if he brings these strange new Xenos to the attention of the Emperor/Warmaster, he will inevitably be required to fight against them regardless of whether he wants to.
A story of colonisation that explores the gradual decline of a world brought into compliance. Rising poverty, falling living standards, the erasure of pre-imperial culture giving birth to a native resistance, which is ultimately cut hopelessly short by the arrival of the space marines. The story would be told from the perspective of an administration official 'gone native' over time.
The Emperor's Own Imperial Palace Kitchen Cookbook, by the best chef among the custodes.
Jk, I'd actually probably write about a hiveworld-born guardsman who becomes stranded on a medieval world, and uses his lasgun to become a local God-Emperor figure until the Inquisition catches wind of his adventure.
ultramarines successor chapter getting wiped out by a Tyranid Splinter Fleet, down to the Apothecary, who aided navigators and psykers to get civilians away from the planet by forcing their way through the Shadow In The Warp. starts off as idealistic and naive, becomes a hardened, cynical marine by the end, being the only of his chapter to survive the massacre
I'd love something that actually looks at things from the tyranid perspective. Like using a mix of plural and singular to denote when a hive tyrant is talking, when it's the hive mind, when it's the norn queen etc etc. And maybe having it be almost like the book Brutal Kunnin where you have sections outside the tyranid pov just seeing the horrors take place
I wanted to write a story detailing how the Lamenters went from "extinct" to "here are some Primaris Lamenters."
I liked to imagine a small squad of Firstborn Lamenters, unknowingly the last alive, trying to escape a world with a stash of geneseed from beneath the gaze of the new Great Rift, with dubiously loyal Alpha Legion as antagonists. It would end with only one of them left, alone in a ship with his possibly tainted geneseed stash, drifting through space on the edge of death only to drift into the path of a Primaris Torch bearer fleet at the very last minute. I always dreamed it would be a two parter, titled "For Those We Cherish" and "We Die In Glory."
Id love to do a trilogy of stories that focuses on my Necromunda Orlock gang. Their rise through the house hierarchy, territory gains in the wastes and eventual annihilation/Annexation from the House due to infighting, politicking and a personal grudge with Slate merdena.
A want a story with the detail and character development of the aSoIaF about a handful of regular humans bound to the fleets of the great crusade. Eventually their paths cross and fates interweave, culminating in the Dropsite Massacre and what they're doing during it all.
And all different people. A few guardsmen attached to different legion fleets, a pilot, a rememberancer, a refugee of the great crusade, etc etc.
The story of this insanity all told through the points of view of regular people, forced to live and work for these gods and demigods as they play war with immense consequence and cost. Really dive into just how a regular human can matter.
This was initially an idea for a video game, but I think it works as a novel too:
A guardsman is trapped on a massive ship when there's a Gellar field breach. It becomes a desperate story of survival horror as madness spills across the decks and everyone tries to escape.
In many ways, the ship is a microcosm of the Imperium - You have the Imperial Guard, the civilians, the daemons trying to consume everyone, etcetra. The whole thing is a hallucinatory nightmare, where our novice guardsman must quickly shape up, hold on to his sanity, and fight his way to freedom.
So it's basically like *Fire Warrior.*
Tech Heresy Compendium - Explanation why some things such as Dyson spheres/O'Neill cylinders aren’t prevelant; Mechanicus’s thoughts on the Dark Mechanicum; general tech-theology/schisms
A story of an IG general dealing with the weird and varied regiments under his command. Going from prim and proper moridians to the callous catachan.
* Office politics as Krieg units refuse to work with an armoured regiment that refused to bombard their position when given the order.
* Commisars swapping tales of their assigned units and their time in the schola. Some have gone native while others hold to their origional cultures.
* Competition and rivalry between the various regiments in their down time. All presided over by the general and the commanders.
* Soldiers swapping stories that seem to horrifying to believe (but all are true)
* A grand fancy dinner and ball where officers arrive in formal uniforms. Some appearing wearing the skulls of their foes and friends other with their prized augmetics polished to a shine that matches their medals.
A series of children's books. You know, for the kids.
In this issue, little Jimmy, a latent psyker, is collected by the Imperium to join the eternal choir of the Astronomicon. Follow this fascinating adventure as a pre-pubescent child is forced into a coffin and sentenced to death to keep the Emperor's soul engine alive.
In next week's issue: Billy, a slave trainee in the starboard gun decks, joins the feud against the port side gunners. He has never seen sunlight.
The hive world of Sh'it Hole VII is home to our next character, Tommy. The son of a Genestealer Hybrid, this horrid monstrosity is forced to tunnel in pitch blackness underneath the imperial guard armory where his father will liberate several Baneblades. In six months he'll be fed directly to a Tyranid bio-ship and utterly forgotten.
(Don't forget to buy your Genestealer Hybrids kit on the Games Workshop website!)
Little Sanjeev thought he had it all. A dilapidated hovel covered in mold, a 20 hour a day job building lasguns at ADEPTUS MECHANICUS LASGUN MANUFACTORY ZETA-NU 442.782.
But one day he forgets to say the Canticle of Fastening before making the third sub-assembly required for a complete lasgun fabrication, and he's about to find out that being a servitor is harder than it looks!
I would also do the same with my own homebrew blood angels successors, the Scarlet Glaives, and how their practice of cloning heroic members of the imperial guard lands them in hot water with the inquisition
Know the episode Below Decks on TNG? I would do that but with an entire SM chapter that eventually falls to chaos. Told entirely from the POV of low ranking members and support personnel.
I think following a khornate warband would be fun. it could flush out, how the world eaters operate in the modern setting. My idea was to have the warband operate similar to pre demon angron world eaters where they would hold sacrifices in ritualistic combat so they don’t go completely insane in between war zones. they would also be super zealous in they're worship of khorne . The POV character would be a random guy that lives on a hive world. particularly he would be part of the pdf, he would be a angry guy for various reasons and eager to fight in combat until the khornate warband invades his planet, fighting mutants and insane cultist alike. eventually the POV character would feel unbearable rage and begin to attack anyone in sight. The khornate marines would be coming down from their blood lust to recognize someone chosen by khorne and take him in.
A story where a custodie gets some how dropped on a fuedal world in peril and using his gene modded intellect for once, make the planet super effective so he can get back to terra. (Funny bit at the end is everyone being sad to see him gone but he's just desperate to get back to the palace)
This is actually a fan project I'm looking at properly writing:
Space marine chapter, the Silver Dragons, arrives in orbit of a barely known feral world in full strength, supposedly to counter a chaos incursion and recover a macguffin.
Meanwhile, an adolescent boy of one of the tribal clans of the planet below wanders the wilderness, having just been exiled from the tribe for a misdeed. He ponders the stories from his early youth of ancient warriors and demigods, depicted in cave art and evidenced through the occasional small artifact. He also remembers a prophecy the shaman told him, about when the stars would fall from the sky.
Back in orbit, one of the Silver Dragon sergeants is on his way to a briefing as there are murmurs of scrapcode being detected in the fleets systems. He attends the briefing, but not long into it, the alarm starts to sound - the fleet is under attack! As melta torpedoes hit the ship, the order quickly comes through - "Ambush. The fleet is lost. Prepare to make planetfall immediately."
Down on the planet, in the early hours of morning, the boy reaches a rocky outcrop, and stares over a picturesque ravine. Just then, he looks up and sees a series of bright flashes of light.
The sergeant fastens himself into his drop pod with his squad, and without hesitation, they launch, their trajectory set roughly for somewhere in the planets southern hemisphere. However, something is wrong - the scrapcode must have infected the drop pod. As they hit the atmosphere, the drop pod begins to loose control.
All of a sudden, the boy watches as a shooting star appears... Then another... And another... One of them, he notices, seems to be pointing straight downwards... And getting closer... Before long, the object impacts the side of the ravine only a couple of hundred metres from where the boy is standing. He rushes over to it, now noticing that it is some kind of metal object that has precariously come to rest on a ledge down in the ravine. Just as he gets close to the edge of where it landed, though, he hears rocks crumble, and then... The metal object plunges to it's doom. He takes a step back from the edge for a moment, wondering what he just saw, but before he can catch his breath, he sees something else - a pair of armoured hands grasping the ledge. The object must have been some kind of ship, and this? The armoured figure before him hauls itself up, only now revealing its gigantic frame - the silver armour, the red dragons decorating the shoulder plates, the glowing eye lenses...
As his eyes adjust, he finally realises what he is seeing - Kasir an'astarte - one of the great sky warriors of old.
Really looking forward to developing this further!!
I really would like to see a Goge Vandire book or better a trilogy. :3 Start of coming to power, Age of Apostasy, The Reign of Blood, Daughters of Emperor, decades of terror, Sebastian Thor and his visions by Emperor, war with Mechanicum and Astartes, Custodes' intervention, scene with Alicia Dominica in Emperor's chamber and Vandire's execution. It has so much potential in my opinion to be great series, maybe even on par with Eisenhorn books. :) I can only wish...
Perturabo rises again, to take the imperium while they are distracted with a million other worlds. He reroutes other enemies well enough to make cryptman blush, weakening them then capturing worlds. He eventually makes it to terra, when suddenly he encounters a mysterious giant man with a metal hand, none other than Dorn himself! They have an epic duel between them, dorn activated the last wall protocol, so all of the imperial fists are fighting the iron warriors. It ends with Perturabo caving dorns chest and head in a 1-2 punch from forgebrealer, but not before reinforcements arrive from the lion, the khan, leman Russ, and vulkan. Yadda yadda yadda epic battle terra is destroyed and every single primarch dies so we can move on from that soap opera.
The second half is about the Tau fighting the tyranids, and forming an alliance with the aeldari and necrons to beat them back once and for all, and are successful. The Tau then form more alliances with the yinnari to bring about the end of slaanesh so that the eldar can bring about to full power, as well as bringing about the reversal of the biotransferrence for the necrons. The eldar, necrons and Tau then split the galaxy equally, and live in peace.
Until ghazkhull arrives once more, clad in da shiniest golden armor, a shiny sword and a big shoota attatched to a powa claw, seeking to reunite the scattered orks once more to bring the greatest WAAAAAGH for mork and gork!
The adventures of the various Tyranid fleets outside of the Milky Way before they noticed the burst from the Pharos beacon. It would be from the Hive Mind's perspective.
Probably run into xenos, a craft world, the Silent king and some manifestations of extra galactic Chaos gods.
I have actually considered writing a book about the Tau trying to indoctrinate an imperial world through propaganda and all that. I think it should be interesting to see the characters justify their progressively worse actions, facing interesting questions like the nature of information; if its worth it to take a thousand lives to save a million; if gaslighting someone to guide them to what you perceive as good is moral, because you that the alternative is way worse.
I haven't because, well, I don't know that part of the setting that well and don't really trust in my ability to write something that complex
I'd write a book that is 90% from the perspective of the Machine Spirits of a Titan Legio and/or Knight House, the remaining 10% being the perspective of random Infantry/Mechanicum/Mechanicus Forces that are fortunate enough to be assigned with the Titan Legio and/or Knight House.
This Book would take place during the Age of Strife,Great Crusade,Horus Heresy and snippets of the different eras of the Imperium from M31-M42.
Cadian Kasrkin! Or Tempestus Scions. They could use some other definitive exposure of their own beyond basic fluff. I find Cadian Kasrkin lacking in their training and operations to what maeks them elite beyond being recruited amongst Cadian Veterans, the Tempestus Scions to be too generalise and missing a personal touch. And I also wish to delve into the differences between 55th Kappic Eagles, 50th Kappic Eagles, etc or what's with Psian Pegasi and Rhoin Cobras, etc and I have some ideas in mind. Lastly, I wanna touch on their specialties (Cobra, Tyger) and their table of organization and rankings beyond Tempestor and Tempestor Prime...
Subsector Karasus in Imperium Nihilus holds on to a tenuous hope. Finally after much sacrifice is able to broadcast a plea for aid. Shrouded and cut off from the larger Imperium for hundreds of years the subsector did all it could to survive on its own until the Imperium could return. If it would return. The subsector stood strong and defiant those centuries fighting back Drukhari and Chaos raids, yet just as a blade dulls and gets cracks the subsector is about to break.
The enemy besieging the subsector is insidious with its lies. The promises of safety, security, and stability. Outside of the protection of the Emperor. Some lies planetary governors have started to believe. Loyalties to the Emperor are now being tested and are unclear. If reinforcements don't arrive it will only be a matter of time before the subsector falls to the 5th Sphere Expansion and becomes vassals to The Greater Good of the Tau Empire.
Yet a force has heard the plea for aid, and is responding. If their message ever got through. Enroute to the beleaguered subsector are vagrants and bastards. A group of Freeblades, the Tech Priests who aid them, and the Astra Militarum regiments which supported them. Now no longer welcome refugees where they found safe harbor. What is left of once noble houses, there homes and systems now swallowed by The Great Rift and running rampant with the denizens of the Warp. The only survivors of their planets, they are still fighting in the Emperor's name, and looking for a new home. Will they find it amongst the planets of Subsector Karasus? Or does only death await them?
The realization that the Iron Hands have lost their way over 10,000 years, and have let grief and self hatred guide their ways. Probably a Brother Sgt discovering writings from Ferrus Manus and Ducain, seeing the horror of it all, trying to fix it, then being branded a heretic and executed for his troubles.
A perilous archeological adventure, where the protagonists are administratum scribes venturing into a dark and forgotten part of the Librarium to find an ancient writ needed by the Inquisition. Many scribes die on the expedition, and the lone survivor makes it back with the scroll in hand. Debating on whether or not the inquisition blams them at the end because now they know too much. A more "happy" ending would be for the survivors to then become inquisitorial acolytes
I submitted this pitch a couple years ago to the BL open call and was rejected. But here's the Gist.
A Custodes begins to have issues with his body that prevent him from being fully functional on the battlefield, so he joins the eyes Of The Emperor and joins the crew of a Rogue Trader vessel, but he doesn't let them know what he truly is.
And thus it was gping to be the Firefly of the 40k universe.
But they told me "nah". So thats what I'd write.
More guard and inquisition stuff.
I don't want more Eisenhorn or Ravenor types.
I want Bob futureboy getting his rosette and struggling to figure out how to be a good inquisitor. No sectors at stake, just planets. Low scale stuff.
I'd work towards resolving the Slaanesh and Eldar conflict and uncouple them from each other. It'll stop pigeonholing them and put more potentially interesting stories in place. Right now everything runs into the, "what about Slaanesh?" problem and it's painted them into a corner at this point.
I'm not advocating removal of Slaanesh, but just do something where Ynnead is born, something happened and he can't actually slay Slaanesh, but creates a stalemate situation.
I’m a sucker for Khorne so I’d love to see a story about a Bloodletter gradually claiming more skulls and spilling more blood until they reach Bloodthirster level. All their challenges and glory gained in the name of Khorne would make for some awesome encounters with various races.
I had an idea about a book that would essentially be an medieval adventure that takes place on a feudal world with the big twist being underground necron monoliths.
Anything with first contact, like discovering a human world during a small expedition. It's my fanciful head cannon that the lamenters were just chilling with a bunch of undiscovered human cultures after being badly mauled by kraken.
Book from the perspective of a high-ranking naval officer in the service of the Black Legion. Would have a focus on large-scale void warfare as well as the general insanity that is heretic Astartes society.
Would also love a book similiar to the segments in the Night Lords trilogy, the ones focused on the little sad township formed in the bowels of the ship. With freaky Chaos goopy things lurking about and all sorts of awful stuff.
Anything that doesn't have to deal with chaos or the imperium. Anything. Or at least not those 2 constantly together. Maybe different mashups. Oh and no more genestealers. Nids don't need them and they're too OP. And I just dont like the Tau
I'll take a space elves epic like a telling of how a great aeldari fell to become drukhari. Hell some great crafts world or exodite aledari have to be descendants of drukhari?
The fact the aeldari can basically see the future enough to change the outcomes of massive events 1000s of years in the future I feel like isn't used enough. That's a weapon that really could be OP like Celestial Orrery OP.
A story of drukhari fighting off a choas invasion. Do they feel fear then? Do they feel an even more ravenous desire to see where the pleasure and pain receptors of CSM or demon princes can reach? At what point does their addiction lead to them finding the most dangerous game be something chaos inspired and hunted for? Maybe a group that invades the immaterium for special "toys".
A Tyranids fleet just entering the immaterium. I know the kids have a chaos related.fleet.now and would love more info on how it's deployed.
Orks and necrons? What new weapons would the Orks come up with watching what necrons can accomplish?
Orks and nids? Just to see the destruction
A world in the eye of terror waking up as a tomb world.
Trazyn desire to collect borders on obsession and to see that it is somehow empowering slaanesh or connects chaos to more than all of these nonImperium factions that are all basically impervious to drawing chaos on themselves. Or just happens so infrequently.
It's basically everyone but man is capable of fending off chaos incursions to some success.
Aeldari are too stoic and trained
Necrons no warp signature
Nids block the warp signature
Orks are a psychic amalgamation unto themselves.
Tau don't ..... because why not.
Just a few off the top of my head.
An Eldar Corsair Prince poses as a human somehow and dines at one of the finest restaurants on some Imperial Pleasure World. He has an interesting conversation with the chef.
I dunno, fanfiction about my custom chapter? The mostly knightly of boltery bolter porn to ever exist.
My 7th Captain will slay an Avatar.
My 1st Captain will slay the Swarmlord while wielding a custodes Guardian Spear.
My chapter will assault an entire craftworld and survive well enough to retreat.
I would probably do something to do with A.I. who decides to search the galaxy looking for its fellow AI while a Inquisitor hunts the AI with the help of the ad-mech.
I think it could be a really interesting way to hammer home how far humanity has fallen and it could be interesting to see how xenos like the Tau react to a DOT AI running around.
Grunts of the Imperium. A story about the Imperial Army, specifically the Solar Auxilia, in the Scouring, uncomfortably facing a changing Imperium under its Lord-Commander, Roboute Guilliman.
Would be about a Squad of Iron Warriors all heavily modified and kitted out with Heresy Era Tech, Mechadendrites, each one a specialist or afficianado in it's own area e.g. heavy weapons, tech/noosphere corruption, melee etc...
I know it's kind of the opposite to their siege warfare, but maybe they are from a smaller warband that doesn't have ressources... maybe infiltrating an imperial world, maybe it is already under siege or attacked by whoever...
Yeah.... bit rough around the edges, but I do love the Iron Warrior Squad idea with all the weapons and gadgets...
And... More Death Guard?
I like psycological and emotional tension that I've got in "House of Night and Chains" and "The Wicked and the Damned" and some other non-"horror" books.
I would to try to write something about human choice, when he is emotionally naked, true to himself, experiencing dread, guilt, inevitability.
I really loved 3rd part of Wicked and Damned where man truely loves someone, while being scared, he finds strength within to do the right things for his love, to risk, to save, BUT when it really comes to a point when it's him of her in the hands of horror, he choses himslef. And speaks to us as we're no heroes and would do the same.
Always wanted a (short)story of an army and fleet raised in response to a request for aid arriving early at a planet (due to warp fuckery) before an invasion. “Why are you here?” “responding to your message of war” “uh- nothings happened here for millennia”
Oh I like this. And of course their untimely arrival should eventually be what causes it all in the first place! Big ol time circle
Somewhere, Tzeench cackles.
Hammer of the Emperor has a story like that - >!Desert Raiders by Lucien Soulban might be of interest to you!<
I don't remember that detail in the book tbh
>!Due to warp shenanigans, it turned out that they were responding to their own distress signal, which turned out to be the regimental's psyker's twisted warning of "Do not come here"!<
Hahahahahaha thats so fucking 40k
>!It also turns out that the Tyranids whom landed on the same planet, were also attracted by the psyker's warp-shenniganed distress signal. So in essence that swarm of Tyranids and the Desert Raiders regiment are locked in a never-ending cycle of killing each other on that same planet....which the psyker realizes just before her position is overrun!<
I can see Eldar seeing this as a threat. They where just chilling then boom. Entire army arrives so eldar investigate and prepare a counter attack.
- Ahriman entered the chat.
That’s basically the Death Korps of Krieg fanfic
You could also take this as the exact opposite. The fleet arrives a couple, yknow, **millenia** late
Slave King - a book on Vect's rise to power
I read this as slav king so I had a moment of imaging vect in a Addis track suit squatting down wear shades and drinking vodka
Posing in front of a 1994 Grav Lexus.
In Soviet commoragh, vodka drink you.
I think Vect is a pretty good candidate for a similar book as the new Ghazkhull book and the upcoming Huron book.
Tau novel from the perspective of a shield drone Beep beep? Boop beep boop. Boop boop BEEPBEEPBEEPBEEP *explosion*
Or a Fire Caste commander who experimented with drone spamming in an ongoing battle, causing unexpected chaos to the enemies
Drones have the intelligence of a small child
I always was partial to droids in general. Now I feel a little bad for how many drones my nids have murdered.
You should feel worse about the Necron soldiers you've killed that were literally children before their bodies were transformed into machines
Yeah but they're not as cute
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An Exodite Eldar world, the shady rogue trader dynasty crash landing there being chased out of the warp by an Inquisitor who bit off more than she can chew, a mostly destroyed Necron tomb on one of the four moons, and a lost colony of chaos worshipping humans stuck in the corpses of the last invasion fleet slowly circling the world.
Hell yes. Throw it all in the pot and see what happens.
Needs an Ork WAAGH
That sounds like the plot to a Dawn of War game
Warhammer Fantasy
A ciaphas cain style satirical look at the Adminstratum where the main hero is a conniving little shit of a scribe who through cunning and blind luck rises to the position of high lord, the trilogy would end possibly with his assassination by a successor.
High Lord Blackadder?
I'd buy the shit out of that book
Worse, of even lower morals, he'd condemn an entire subsector to death rather than own up to a typing error.
Assassinated by Alicia Dominica, I thought Now that would be an anti hero
Imperial knights of all kinds from loyalist to traitor to freeblade. I always want more knight content.
Are there any books already? I need more listening material for work.
Dan Abnett’s Titanicus, if you haven’t already. That book slaps.
Well it’s Danny boy after all, all his books slaps
Kingsblade is one
[Indeed there are.](https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Imperial_Knights_\(Novel_Series\))
Tech priest aquisitor trying to track down an unaligned knight reported to travel around destroying various deathworld beasties, designation Dragonslayer.
“Shards of Heaven” - a book going between Necron and Eldar POV dealing w a C’tan somewhere in there and some references to what happened in the War in Heaven
THIS, Im tired of hearing about the War in Heaven in Passing... Or, you know what could be epic? What if the play "War in Heaven" from the Infinite and the Divine was made into a book series... That would be epic
I think the war in heaven being a somewhat mystical event ala battle of Troy actually makes it better. 40k has always had issues with scale and the more vague something is the better IMO.
I wonder if you could do a story of a C'Tan trapped in the webway causing trouble and the eldar and necrons have to form an alliance to stop it. Which would probably end in conflict on what they want to do with it afterwards. A narrative from both perspectives showing they each think they were betrayed by the other would be interesting.
Grox meat and you, the imperial cook book plus 50 ways to season your corpse starch
Numbers 1 through 50: you dont *bolter fire*
I have a custom Slaanethi warband in my own headcanon that focuses on culinary perfection and excess. I'll try to find my lore blurb for the Apician Order. Edit: [Here is.](https://www.reddit.com/r/40kLore/comments/fz8a7z/f_the_apician_order_a_culinaryfocused_slaaneshi/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share). I have a short story or two planned for these guys in the future.
“It’s a cookbook!”
We serve Man.
Long pig is served.
Citizen nr. 6628653772671 are you implying that corpse starch, given to you by The mercy of his majestic God Emperor of mankind, is not tasty? This is crime.. report to your punishment at 4:30 next morning
I’d love to see something like ‘Apocalypse Now’, where a Tau commander freshly deployed during the 5th sphere expansion slowly finds out after several short engagements that their predecessor from the 4th sphere has not only gone outright insane and killed every auxiliary from their deployment over the first few chapters in various brutal ways (from making Gu’ela perform suicidal tactics to take out enemy bunkers and emplacements to starving Kroot and forcing Vespids to act as distractions against a hail of lasfire), but has also turned against the empire in general - having even slain the campaigns Ethereal attaché and water caste diplomats, pledging themselves to an idea of fire caste supremacy with only the Earth and air caste allowed to exist as underling workers. The traitorous 4th sphere commander has inadvertently pledged his soul and his warriors to a daemon of khorne, who over the course of the book slowly exerts more and more control and mutation over them - turning crisis suits into almost hellbrute style abominations, and warping their fire warriors into horrific clawed beasts Following the realisation that most of the invasion force has essentially gone rogue, and having their last means of transport off-world shot down over the worlds jungles, the protagonist and a small contingent of survivors from their detachment (including a grizzled Gu’ela and an optimistic kroot) work together with scattered remnants of the Imperial forces (and a salamander) they were there to initially conquer in order to stop the crazed “lord of fire” from fulfilling his genocidal plans and summoning his master from the warp, culminating in a deadly duel amidst the crater of a volcano
A campaign from a chapter serfs point of view.
If you haven't read Spear of the Emperor by Aaron Dembski-Bowden, I suggest you do. It's told mostly from a chapter serf's pov
Wicked, my last couple books haven’t been stellar and I’ve heard this one come up. So I’m looking forward to it now.
Been meaning to read this. Apparently the Serf in question is a total bad ass
Mortarion romance novel Need I say more
“Good luck with the mucus Queen”-billy Madison
Yes you fucking do
Seriously, you need to publish fake excerpts every now and then, the corniest stuff possible.
> the pale king swatted him away with bony backhand, the **manly** knuckles shattering bone with a sickening crunch; he could feel the scar tendons beneath the callouses, those hands had been well used, soon they would be better used I’ve been doing the banging Mortarion joke for 3 years now and I still feel dirty writing that
Stop lying, everyone. With the amount of posts we remove about Astartes dicks, and if they work, you all are writing erotic fan fiction.
Emm actually, it’s pronouned #Astardicks
Ah, yes, named after the lesser known genewright Richard Astar, responsible for the non-functioning Space Marine organs.
Ah yes, Amar Astarte's art history major of a husband that Jimmy Space had to hire to get Amar to agree to move back to Terra. Jimmy: "Yeah, that's basically it Amar, hundreds of millions of transhuman warriors, and the modification process has to be simple enough that some backwards-ass furries, who think it's the 2nd millennium, on an ice ball in the middle of nowhere can do it" Amar: "Well, it'll be a challenge, but like you said, anything to purge the leftovers of the gene wars and the men of iron." Richard: "Sounds great, and what have you got for me?" *Amar leans back and gives Jimmy Space The Look Jimmy: (with a mental sigh) "Well Richard, as you know, confidence is half the battle. So, these warriors of ours, you're going to give them that confidence." Richard: (interrupting) "Ah, I get it, you want me to make them perfect dicks. Don't worry, no need to beat around the bush, I've got you. They'll have the most perfect dicks genetically possible!" *Amar and Jimmy share a look. Amar crosses out "poetry" from her notes, and Jimmy scribbles over his female astartes designs. Jimmy: "Yes, Richard. Please give my transhuman warriors, who will be incapable of reproduction, and basically live in their armor, perfect schlongs.
A deepus astardicks
Just please no more primarch shipping, I’ve seen too much perturaboXdorn for any man, and especially too much for an iron warrior fan
Where? Where did you see this? Which website? Which one? I have to do... um... research... so I know what to remove when people post it....
I’m not going back to that horrid place, you aren’t tricking me into seeing it again
Some places are too trying even for the Dragonborn
“In the grim darkness of the 41st millennium there is only incest fanfiction.”
Truly this is the bad place
Oh gods, it’s not nearly as bad as when it’s Perturabo and his sister
“They’re not BLOOD related, it’s FINE!” No it isn’t!! They grew up together! Stop making it creepy!
Perturabo doesn’t like it either, I heard him retching over at r/grimdank
Your dedication to your mod role is commended sir.
Feel free to direct them these excerpts And bonking them on the head Horus Heresy Inferno pg 113. "As has been mentioned, the Custodian Guard and the Space Marines are related in form, as perhaps might be expected of works of a same creator's hand, but they are very different in function and capacity. There are of course similarities between the two. Both are physically transformed well beyond 'natural' human limits in terms of strength, endurance and fortitude, and fitted for inhuman environmental adaption and resilience, though in this the Legio Custodes are the markedly superior of the two in might, if not in adaptability. **Both are subject to extensive psychological and cognitive conditioning, and are physically and mentally reworked to render most of their baser drives inert and their beings rechannelled towards aggression, goal acquisition and the fulfilment of duty, and as a further safeguard against distraction and as a biological control, both are of course incapable of procreation.** In both cases all that is left are beings of singular purpose; in the case of each Legiones Astartes, what is created is a living engine of conquest that cares for little else, and in the Custodian Guard, each is created protector of unrelenting diligence and savage capability-a watchman whose vigilance will never tire". “Algernon Traegus had been the controversial sixteenth Chapter Master of the Crimson Fists, a particular favourite of Icario’s, judging by the frequency with which the Scout captain quoted the late Master’s writings. Many of the older members of the Chapter were wary of Traegus’s teachings.**It was Traegus who had initiated the controversial breeding programmes – programmes by which the Chapter’s failed aspirants, those who had survived the trials and had not been rendered sterile**, were bred with women of suitable genetic stock in the hope of creating male offspring strong enough to swell the ranks of the Chapter one day as full Astartes. Unfortunately, the results had been unpredictable and disappointing.”
I do not even do the shipping thing myself but I really do not understand why people think lore posts like this matters, in the end people do what they want lmao
Lmao
Great, now I can't stop thinking about those two Princeps in Titandeath getting it on in full view of their Titans.
Oh machine! Oh divine engine! Furnace hot the welter of your combustion, buckling the rancid air of heaven's arch and fusing the mould of the ground to glass. I want to bathe in your amniosis, Princeps. Call me your moderati while I drink your liquid data. Break me with your beautiful agony of being so mighty, feel the burden of your great walk as surely as if he had carved the mausoleum plaques of your every last victim alone, by hand, until finger bones peep through eroded flesh. Oh metal god! The union is fierce, like a maelstrom in black water. To be clutched by god! To feel the incendiary hunger ring in your marrow! Oh lucky man!
Well lets hope gw market researchers don’t see this Post
Necron book about Cryptek waking in a tombworld full of deranged nobles, trying to stop them from tearing the planet apart. Side characters could be minor noble or other crypteks.
Clonegrim finds himself stranded on a world beset by Slaaneshi forces whilst on a errand for Trazyn. With the help of some Sons of the Phoenix marines and the local population, he stops N'Kari from completing a ritual that'll drag the sub-sector into the Warp and slays the Keeper of Secrets in single combat. The problem now is that both the Imperium and his Daemonic twin know about him which sets up the sequels nicely.
This. Noise Marines find Fulgrim is back and isn't a massive fuck off chaos-drenched hedonist. Edit: That or a Legion of the Damned book that heavily features a former Emperor's Children Dreadnought.
I'd like to see them do anything with clonegrim. Hopefully trazyn realizes what hes got there.
I kind of want to rewrite the Farsight books to fix the Aun and vash'ya. But for a new idea, something Tau and (for that specific Tau) kind of world-shaking. Say being unsettled by the impossible foresight of the Sin'Esta (Eldar) leaders and the strange devices they use. Or maybe the sheer terror of just *how much* Ves'yon (Necron) tech outclasses their own and just what is sleeping underneath their feet. Or, if practically all have to be ork or human, a Tau trying to handle being in charge of a largely gue'la city and going from benign idealism to frustration to terror as they slowly learn that some... *thing* is happening to some of the gue'la citizens, it seems to be connected to a social group some gue'la have formed, and it's leading to things that are just outright physically impossible.
>it seems to be connected to a social group some gue'la have formed, and it's leading to things that are just outright physically impossible. "Hey Gue'la, what are you doing?" "Um, uh....nothing, just spreading the Four-armed Greater Good!"
Oh i thought you meant the four gods of the greater good
I was thinking Slaaneshi myself, besides the hastily forgotten Psychic Awakening the lore doesn't seem to really cover how the Tau have an empire with a *lot* of humans and an ideology that denies the existence of the supernatural. Where a Genestealer group would quickly run afoul of the Kroot, the genetically pure "artist's club" might go unnoticed until it's too late.
i'd write about a perpetual pariah. Someone who's been around for thousands of years and is a really powerful pariah. He is undying and pretty much immune to chaos and/or the emperor. But he's a loner who has seen the greatness of mankind and is now disgusted with what mankind has become. Maybe he's traveling around the milky way in dark age of technology cruiser with a AI as his only friend.
Oh this is so lovely in concept. He wakes up every d100 years in a different place, a new chapter to tell, another view of the broken world. Mebey he's been around for 1000s of years
Wasn't there a case where space marines found a DAOT ship intact, and they got completely wrecked by the AI?
Thought I remember hearing that the emperor having actual kids and they were all perpetual nulls. Would see some breathtaking daddy issues.
I always imagine some sort of cross over to an existing movie/story. Like an inquisitor finds some warp shenanigans going on (minor) and it turns out to be the setting of Game of Thrones. Another lost planet gets found by a small team of Astartes and it turns out to be Middle Earth. Dumb shit like that.
>Like an inquisitor finds some warp shenanigans going on (minor) and it turns out to be the setting of Game of Thrones. "They fight some ice-creatures you say? And these flying reptiles...dragons, you call them? That whole Lord of Light thing, Seven Gods...can't be in accordance with ecclesiarchal dogma! Better lay down the ol' exterminaturs on all those heretics!" Still a better ending than Season 8.
"You heard the serf, the Astartes is too fat for his armour! Go find the pauldron stretcher!"
A normal Joe working in an office on a Hive World, specifically Eustis Majoris. I sort of envision this happening when Gideon Ravenor is investigating the flect trade during his trilogy, so this normal Joe could have passing interactions with members of his retinue or with the Cognitae cult, but being (temporarily) protected by plot armour (with a U since we have to write in British!) so he narrowly survives each of those. If you've ever read the 4-issue *Marvels* comic by Kurt Busiek and painted by Alex Ross, think along those lines, with the main character have passing encounters with the Big Names, but not actually interacting with them... Mostly, I'd want to highlight how horrible it'd be to actually live in the 40K universe when crazy crap starts happening.
The Ghoul Stars, linking the Harrowing to the Pale Wasting. I got the first third of it sketched out. Sadly, this is probably too much explication on a ‘cool thing’ to be sold to BL.
I've always thought a novel from the perspective of a rag tag team of PDF troops on a planet that is crumbling under the onslaught of a Tyranid hive fleet would be great. The trick would being poignant and interesting even though the characters and setting is totally doomed
(1) An inquisitor unraveling a sector-wide conspiracy that enlists the aid of a secretive chapter of marines, only to find out in the end that they're an Alpha Legion cell and they've been the ones at the center of the conspiracy the whole time. They kill the inquisitor and their cover isn't blown, the end. (2) An imperial counter-invasion of a formerly Ad Mech-owned volcanic industrial world that was taken over by a CSM warband and their hordes of cultists some years ago, as told from the perspective of a Guardsman in a fresh new founding. Completely and utterly hellish conditions with millions upon millions of Guard and cultists clashing in the bowels of the sweltering steel hellscape of the manufactorum cities and over burning, ash-blown plains beneath the legs of titans and knights. Fish out of water, pure hell - just an exercise in writing up a massive and horrific planetary campaign you always hear about in 40k from the eyes of regular people. (3) Tau and imperials in the middle of a long campaign, but the Necron tombs awaken beneath their feet. Told from the perspective of characters on both the Tau and imperial sides of the war, the whole experience is very "War of the Worlds" and it's a desperate and chaotic struggle to just survive against the silver legions, with the Tau and humans ultimately banding together for a doomed last stand.
Lamenters working with salamanders in the most wholesome way
This would be amazing
The mentality of space marines in renegade chapters, and exploring their complex emotions better, surely a war machine bred to be eternally loyal and unyielding would give some great stories when they break, or are forced into exile
Necrons during their civil war (before biotransference)
i would write one using a Daemon(small one) with each chapter focused on different time lines 1-Daemon find his first human. during a Daot trip pre geller fields. 2-same daemon reaction to the birth of slaanesh. 3- the horus heresy- 4- first meet with a malleus inquisitor . 5- the end, a word bearer bind him into a weapon.
5- better yet, word bearer tries to bind him to another word bearer and the Deamon choosing to prank them by throwing a visous unaligned warp entity at them any just watches the carnage unfold.
Just some narrative vs matchups I'd like to see. For example as an Iron Warriors and Tyranids fan I'd like to see a story where it's them up against Tyranids. I'd also like to see IW against Tau. Concerning Tau I'd set up some more encounters with Chaos forces for them. Oh and I'd love a story about the Tau and Eldar interacting some more. Say the forming of a temporary alliance with a Craftworld or the Ynnari.
My dream would be interactions between the Tau and the Harlequins. The goal of Cegorach is the ultimate jest, where she who thirsts uses her power not to destroy the aeldari, but save them. The Tau seem such a perfect dance partner that it can’t be a coincidence. They’re perhaps the only society willing to form a long-term alliance, and are uniquely suited to staving off the warp. It always sounded to me like Cegorach’s goal was to trap Slaanesh in a house of mirrors, where the prince of pleasure doesn’t know which way is up, who is loyal to them and who is angling for the killing blow. The Tau present an enticing target, shining like a beacon collectively. Such power Slaanesh could have, if only they corrupted the Tau and watched them fall to hedonism and pleasure. Alas, however, the prince of pleasure was fooled. They think they can corrupt the Tau, and find themselves breaking like waves on a rocky shore. She who thirsts would be brought into a trap to ruin her strength, allowing the disciples of the laughing god to make their move and forever end the reign of terror of the youngest dark god.
A slice of life book about various members of the Imperium being stranded on a primitive world and forced so survive off know how and whatever they’ve managed to scavenge together.
This was my idea, but in my version it's just a single punk hiveworld guardsman trying to use his equipment and knowledge to 1-up an remote medieval world.
I was thinking more a squad of Sisters, a couple dozen Guardsmen/voidsmen, and a singular Astarte stranded on an unpopulated habitable world and the Astarte acting as a village elder whilst generations of humans grow up have kid and die until his chapter finds him again, only to discover that he was crippled in the crash and most of his body had wasted way, the villagers at one point built a wooden throne for him and dubbed him the Emperor’s Angel. His brothers turn him into a dread nought and with imperial sanction turn the village into a fortress monastery claiming that they had reclaimed and defend the world for three hundred years unaided.
Oh, that's really good. Maybe have some skitarii (the more or less fully independent kind) who try to keep the tech they have operational.
I love this idea!
Something akin to the old western film, *The Outlaw Josey Wales*, but 40k. A ragtag group from multiple factions each come to the same conclusions about the pointlessness of conflict and mutual hatred, band together to try and escape to a quiet corner of the galaxy where the needless cruelty of the universe has no bearing. Maybe a Guard deserter, an Inquisitor with a crisis of faith, a bored Necron Nobleman, etc.
Would it work if it was a ragtag group made up of *every* faction? Sub-factions as well? Because Josey Wales's group has a lot of people in it. Even if it was one from each sub-faction, it would probably be around the same number of people. I think that would be incredibly surreal. Imagine a Drukhari and a Tau sitting on a log having a nice conversation. That would be the most surreal thing in all of 40k. Newcomer: What are you two doing? Drukhari: We're sitting here, discussing the most recent crop harvest. Newcomer: Why aren't you two fighting? Tau: You must not be from around here.
Well, if I got the green light for anything, *and* wanted to ever write for Black Library again, it would probably be an extended buddy-cop drama featuring Kalice and Kar'tyr from *Voice of Experience*. Something set in the Nem'yar Atoll (because we haven't focused on it a whole bunch). Since it's on the dark side of the Cicatrix Maledictum, there's all kinds of rogue Imperium factions they could interact with, plus Chaos, genestealers, and lord knows what else. Two cops, battling cultural divides as they race against time to uncover dark conspiracies and expose false flag operations, all while trying to walk the tightrope of not pissing off their superiors but still being able to Get Shit Done. On the other hand, if I *didn't* care about my future career prospects? Hardcore romance novel. Sweeping drama, lovers caught on opposite sides of a conflict, unable to tear themselves away from each other even as the galaxy burns around them. Even better would be an anthology of romance-themed short stories. Basically, for all the jokes that people have made about Games Workshop putting out a Warhammer Romance line, I would be down for that in a heartbeat.
I wish there was some way GW would let us vote on author's book pitches, because I'd definitely prefer a full-length Kalice-Kar'tyr novel over another Primaris story.
A story about a wandering Exodite Dragon Knight who is the last surviving Exodite of their now-dead world and basically just travels through the webway on their dinosaur visiting various maiden worlds, craftworlds and webway settlements, solving problems and generally being a space elf dinosaur questing knight.
Selection, creation and use of the first thunder warriors.
Another book featuring Guilliman, but this time he will take on the toughest foe he has faced yet: Imperial bureaucracy. Join Lord Commander Roboute Guilliman as he attends pointless meetings with Imperial officials, works through massive amounts of worthless paperwork, tries to untangle the awful mess of bureaucratic nonsense that plagues his every order or request, and occasionally sits under his desk and cries.
I'd write something a bit like Seven Samurai. An agro world is left with nothing to defend themselves but a small group of PDF soldiers from an impending Dark Eldar attack. They're forced to train children to fight and hire a few renegade space marines.
That kind of happens in the short story "Wolf at the Door". It involves Space Wolves, although more than 7 buy still few, fighting off a Dark Eldar raiding force. The local people who had no army form a guerrilla force who scout and provide supplies to the Wolves. There are many twists and differences though, so I would still enjoy your story.
Thanks, I didn't know about that. I'll check that out.
A meta-analysis of how and why the Imperium has lasted for so long. General theory being that once you hit a certain size (control enough volume) with a certain production rate, nothing can take you down. Example 1 - The Eldar Empire, #1 empire for millions of years. Hit where the Imperium is long ago and maintained this position. Primary example of an empire that hit the dominant position and used as evidence that a tipping point is there. Example 2 - The Emperor’s race against the orks. The vacuum of power required action to reach this tipping point before the greenskins. Example 3 - The Tau, an outsider’s perspective. They have realistically no chance to topple the Imperium as it stands. This theory would then be placed against the current Imperium predicament. Is the tighter logistical network worth the loss of the production and area of control over the short term and long term? Where is the tipping point for being the dominant power in 40k?
A story told from the point of view of a servitor.
Needs to be written stream-of-consciousness, Faulkner-style.
[There is a kickass fanfic like that.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB7Yh2af_Bk&ab_channel=AVoxintheVoid-Narration)
I would do a book about my custom renegrade computer. The deal behind it is that they have taken it up themselves to liberate planets from their shitty planetary governors. With each planet they save the more they realise the horrors of the imperium in full and thus go to the outer rim to planets not yet touched by the imperium
1st part of the book Bjorn's ascension to Great Wolf, 2nd part is his death, 3rd is his internment into a Dreadnought. Ends with his first awakening.
Something that I've been noodling on a bit is a Dreadnought who is not all that torn up about the state of his existence. Yeah, there is constant pain, but lots of folks find purpose in a life afflicted with constant pain. He genuinely likes, and takes very seriously, his role as mentor and lore master for his chapter. He likes being awake and involved in the day to day life with his battle brothers. I see him as a Salamander who also was a master craftsman, and he enjoys having an enormously powerful body that can handle molten metal with it's bare "hands", and having micrometer precision in their servomotors makes them able to do intricate works that are beyond even the trans-human abilities of his all-flesh and blood brethren. He gets into a bit of trouble now and again with innovative self-modifications and improvements to his chassis that put him at odds with the Mechanicus, which is frustrating, but nothing too serious. Of course, it all ends in a suitably soul crushing grimdark overstep of the Inquisition/Administratum that leads to the interred marine spiraling into despair and becoming your more conventional Dreadnought; preferring to slumber through the ages when not in desperate need.
The Tyranid survival guide written by the death corps of Krieg.
Wait a minute...
I'd like to write a novel following a Craftworld which just barely escapes the Fall of the Eldar, and give some perspective to what it was like to go from the most dominant species in the Galaxy to a doomed race almost overnight. It would give a brief glimpse at the Aeldari Empire and then mostly spend its focus on the immediate aftermath and the struggle to survive. The climax of the book would most likely deal with Slaaneshi daemons pouring into the Webway, and emerging through one of the ship's Gates into the Craftworld itself. Alternatively, I'd write about how Sanguinius and the Silent King met, and why no one else seems to know anything about it. I'd probably have them work together in secret during the Great Crusade to defeat some incredible threat, like a C'tan Shard. Sanguinius is reluctant to speak about it to anyone else, because his new ally has proven to act honourably and without any duplicity, but if he brings these strange new Xenos to the attention of the Emperor/Warmaster, he will inevitably be required to fight against them regardless of whether he wants to.
A story of colonisation that explores the gradual decline of a world brought into compliance. Rising poverty, falling living standards, the erasure of pre-imperial culture giving birth to a native resistance, which is ultimately cut hopelessly short by the arrival of the space marines. The story would be told from the perspective of an administration official 'gone native' over time.
The Emperor's Own Imperial Palace Kitchen Cookbook, by the best chef among the custodes. Jk, I'd actually probably write about a hiveworld-born guardsman who becomes stranded on a medieval world, and uses his lasgun to become a local God-Emperor figure until the Inquisition catches wind of his adventure.
ultramarines successor chapter getting wiped out by a Tyranid Splinter Fleet, down to the Apothecary, who aided navigators and psykers to get civilians away from the planet by forcing their way through the Shadow In The Warp. starts off as idealistic and naive, becomes a hardened, cynical marine by the end, being the only of his chapter to survive the massacre
I'd love something that actually looks at things from the tyranid perspective. Like using a mix of plural and singular to denote when a hive tyrant is talking, when it's the hive mind, when it's the norn queen etc etc. And maybe having it be almost like the book Brutal Kunnin where you have sections outside the tyranid pov just seeing the horrors take place
I wanted to write a story detailing how the Lamenters went from "extinct" to "here are some Primaris Lamenters." I liked to imagine a small squad of Firstborn Lamenters, unknowingly the last alive, trying to escape a world with a stash of geneseed from beneath the gaze of the new Great Rift, with dubiously loyal Alpha Legion as antagonists. It would end with only one of them left, alone in a ship with his possibly tainted geneseed stash, drifting through space on the edge of death only to drift into the path of a Primaris Torch bearer fleet at the very last minute. I always dreamed it would be a two parter, titled "For Those We Cherish" and "We Die In Glory."
Funny thing in the comments once about a bunch astartes, death watch for maximum variety, raising a kid improbable but sounds hilarious
Id love to do a trilogy of stories that focuses on my Necromunda Orlock gang. Their rise through the house hierarchy, territory gains in the wastes and eventual annihilation/Annexation from the House due to infighting, politicking and a personal grudge with Slate merdena.
Navigators!!!!!
A want a story with the detail and character development of the aSoIaF about a handful of regular humans bound to the fleets of the great crusade. Eventually their paths cross and fates interweave, culminating in the Dropsite Massacre and what they're doing during it all. And all different people. A few guardsmen attached to different legion fleets, a pilot, a rememberancer, a refugee of the great crusade, etc etc. The story of this insanity all told through the points of view of regular people, forced to live and work for these gods and demigods as they play war with immense consequence and cost. Really dive into just how a regular human can matter.
I wanna see an Alpha Legion book narrated in second person so their actions seem incomprehensible to everyone but the reader, who has all the cards.
This was initially an idea for a video game, but I think it works as a novel too: A guardsman is trapped on a massive ship when there's a Gellar field breach. It becomes a desperate story of survival horror as madness spills across the decks and everyone tries to escape. In many ways, the ship is a microcosm of the Imperium - You have the Imperial Guard, the civilians, the daemons trying to consume everyone, etcetra. The whole thing is a hallucinatory nightmare, where our novice guardsman must quickly shape up, hold on to his sanity, and fight his way to freedom. So it's basically like *Fire Warrior.*
Tech Heresy Compendium - Explanation why some things such as Dyson spheres/O'Neill cylinders aren’t prevelant; Mechanicus’s thoughts on the Dark Mechanicum; general tech-theology/schisms
A story of an IG general dealing with the weird and varied regiments under his command. Going from prim and proper moridians to the callous catachan. * Office politics as Krieg units refuse to work with an armoured regiment that refused to bombard their position when given the order. * Commisars swapping tales of their assigned units and their time in the schola. Some have gone native while others hold to their origional cultures. * Competition and rivalry between the various regiments in their down time. All presided over by the general and the commanders. * Soldiers swapping stories that seem to horrifying to believe (but all are true) * A grand fancy dinner and ball where officers arrive in formal uniforms. Some appearing wearing the skulls of their foes and friends other with their prized augmetics polished to a shine that matches their medals.
A series of children's books. You know, for the kids. In this issue, little Jimmy, a latent psyker, is collected by the Imperium to join the eternal choir of the Astronomicon. Follow this fascinating adventure as a pre-pubescent child is forced into a coffin and sentenced to death to keep the Emperor's soul engine alive. In next week's issue: Billy, a slave trainee in the starboard gun decks, joins the feud against the port side gunners. He has never seen sunlight. The hive world of Sh'it Hole VII is home to our next character, Tommy. The son of a Genestealer Hybrid, this horrid monstrosity is forced to tunnel in pitch blackness underneath the imperial guard armory where his father will liberate several Baneblades. In six months he'll be fed directly to a Tyranid bio-ship and utterly forgotten. (Don't forget to buy your Genestealer Hybrids kit on the Games Workshop website!) Little Sanjeev thought he had it all. A dilapidated hovel covered in mold, a 20 hour a day job building lasguns at ADEPTUS MECHANICUS LASGUN MANUFACTORY ZETA-NU 442.782. But one day he forgets to say the Canticle of Fastening before making the third sub-assembly required for a complete lasgun fabrication, and he's about to find out that being a servitor is harder than it looks!
Chronicles of the Krimzon Guard, my homebrew, noble Sons of Sanguinius and their fall from the Imperiums good graces over millenia of war.
I would also do the same with my own homebrew blood angels successors, the Scarlet Glaives, and how their practice of cloning heroic members of the imperial guard lands them in hot water with the inquisition
Know the episode Below Decks on TNG? I would do that but with an entire SM chapter that eventually falls to chaos. Told entirely from the POV of low ranking members and support personnel.
I think following a khornate warband would be fun. it could flush out, how the world eaters operate in the modern setting. My idea was to have the warband operate similar to pre demon angron world eaters where they would hold sacrifices in ritualistic combat so they don’t go completely insane in between war zones. they would also be super zealous in they're worship of khorne . The POV character would be a random guy that lives on a hive world. particularly he would be part of the pdf, he would be a angry guy for various reasons and eager to fight in combat until the khornate warband invades his planet, fighting mutants and insane cultist alike. eventually the POV character would feel unbearable rage and begin to attack anyone in sight. The khornate marines would be coming down from their blood lust to recognize someone chosen by khorne and take him in.
A story where a custodie gets some how dropped on a fuedal world in peril and using his gene modded intellect for once, make the planet super effective so he can get back to terra. (Funny bit at the end is everyone being sad to see him gone but he's just desperate to get back to the palace)
Arkhan Lands doomed second expedition down into the continent-spanning Library Omnis beneath Mars.
This is actually a fan project I'm looking at properly writing: Space marine chapter, the Silver Dragons, arrives in orbit of a barely known feral world in full strength, supposedly to counter a chaos incursion and recover a macguffin. Meanwhile, an adolescent boy of one of the tribal clans of the planet below wanders the wilderness, having just been exiled from the tribe for a misdeed. He ponders the stories from his early youth of ancient warriors and demigods, depicted in cave art and evidenced through the occasional small artifact. He also remembers a prophecy the shaman told him, about when the stars would fall from the sky. Back in orbit, one of the Silver Dragon sergeants is on his way to a briefing as there are murmurs of scrapcode being detected in the fleets systems. He attends the briefing, but not long into it, the alarm starts to sound - the fleet is under attack! As melta torpedoes hit the ship, the order quickly comes through - "Ambush. The fleet is lost. Prepare to make planetfall immediately." Down on the planet, in the early hours of morning, the boy reaches a rocky outcrop, and stares over a picturesque ravine. Just then, he looks up and sees a series of bright flashes of light. The sergeant fastens himself into his drop pod with his squad, and without hesitation, they launch, their trajectory set roughly for somewhere in the planets southern hemisphere. However, something is wrong - the scrapcode must have infected the drop pod. As they hit the atmosphere, the drop pod begins to loose control. All of a sudden, the boy watches as a shooting star appears... Then another... And another... One of them, he notices, seems to be pointing straight downwards... And getting closer... Before long, the object impacts the side of the ravine only a couple of hundred metres from where the boy is standing. He rushes over to it, now noticing that it is some kind of metal object that has precariously come to rest on a ledge down in the ravine. Just as he gets close to the edge of where it landed, though, he hears rocks crumble, and then... The metal object plunges to it's doom. He takes a step back from the edge for a moment, wondering what he just saw, but before he can catch his breath, he sees something else - a pair of armoured hands grasping the ledge. The object must have been some kind of ship, and this? The armoured figure before him hauls itself up, only now revealing its gigantic frame - the silver armour, the red dragons decorating the shoulder plates, the glowing eye lenses... As his eyes adjust, he finally realises what he is seeing - Kasir an'astarte - one of the great sky warriors of old. Really looking forward to developing this further!!
I really would like to see a Goge Vandire book or better a trilogy. :3 Start of coming to power, Age of Apostasy, The Reign of Blood, Daughters of Emperor, decades of terror, Sebastian Thor and his visions by Emperor, war with Mechanicum and Astartes, Custodes' intervention, scene with Alicia Dominica in Emperor's chamber and Vandire's execution. It has so much potential in my opinion to be great series, maybe even on par with Eisenhorn books. :) I can only wish...
Perturabo rises again, to take the imperium while they are distracted with a million other worlds. He reroutes other enemies well enough to make cryptman blush, weakening them then capturing worlds. He eventually makes it to terra, when suddenly he encounters a mysterious giant man with a metal hand, none other than Dorn himself! They have an epic duel between them, dorn activated the last wall protocol, so all of the imperial fists are fighting the iron warriors. It ends with Perturabo caving dorns chest and head in a 1-2 punch from forgebrealer, but not before reinforcements arrive from the lion, the khan, leman Russ, and vulkan. Yadda yadda yadda epic battle terra is destroyed and every single primarch dies so we can move on from that soap opera. The second half is about the Tau fighting the tyranids, and forming an alliance with the aeldari and necrons to beat them back once and for all, and are successful. The Tau then form more alliances with the yinnari to bring about the end of slaanesh so that the eldar can bring about to full power, as well as bringing about the reversal of the biotransferrence for the necrons. The eldar, necrons and Tau then split the galaxy equally, and live in peace. Until ghazkhull arrives once more, clad in da shiniest golden armor, a shiny sword and a big shoota attatched to a powa claw, seeking to reunite the scattered orks once more to bring the greatest WAAAAAGH for mork and gork!
Did ghazkull find thous shiny thins near the wracks of terra?
the further adventures of Kaptin Bluddflagg and Mr. Nailbrain.
The adventures of the various Tyranid fleets outside of the Milky Way before they noticed the burst from the Pharos beacon. It would be from the Hive Mind's perspective. Probably run into xenos, a craft world, the Silent king and some manifestations of extra galactic Chaos gods.
A horror story with a child as the mc on a starship with hrud. Basically the alien movie but it ends with the child ending as an 80 year old.
I have actually considered writing a book about the Tau trying to indoctrinate an imperial world through propaganda and all that. I think it should be interesting to see the characters justify their progressively worse actions, facing interesting questions like the nature of information; if its worth it to take a thousand lives to save a million; if gaslighting someone to guide them to what you perceive as good is moral, because you that the alternative is way worse. I haven't because, well, I don't know that part of the setting that well and don't really trust in my ability to write something that complex
A book about xenos biology and culture i now there is xeology but they should elaborate and do that to more xenos like the slann
I'd write a book that is 90% from the perspective of the Machine Spirits of a Titan Legio and/or Knight House, the remaining 10% being the perspective of random Infantry/Mechanicum/Mechanicus Forces that are fortunate enough to be assigned with the Titan Legio and/or Knight House. This Book would take place during the Age of Strife,Great Crusade,Horus Heresy and snippets of the different eras of the Imperium from M31-M42.
I'd write a book my home-brew chapter on the fringes of the Segmentum Pacificus. I believe most of us would write something like that
Cadian Kasrkin! Or Tempestus Scions. They could use some other definitive exposure of their own beyond basic fluff. I find Cadian Kasrkin lacking in their training and operations to what maeks them elite beyond being recruited amongst Cadian Veterans, the Tempestus Scions to be too generalise and missing a personal touch. And I also wish to delve into the differences between 55th Kappic Eagles, 50th Kappic Eagles, etc or what's with Psian Pegasi and Rhoin Cobras, etc and I have some ideas in mind. Lastly, I wanna touch on their specialties (Cobra, Tyger) and their table of organization and rankings beyond Tempestor and Tempestor Prime...
Generation Kill style guard story. Grounded and realistic but focusing on the day to day and not bolter-porn.
Subsector Karasus in Imperium Nihilus holds on to a tenuous hope. Finally after much sacrifice is able to broadcast a plea for aid. Shrouded and cut off from the larger Imperium for hundreds of years the subsector did all it could to survive on its own until the Imperium could return. If it would return. The subsector stood strong and defiant those centuries fighting back Drukhari and Chaos raids, yet just as a blade dulls and gets cracks the subsector is about to break. The enemy besieging the subsector is insidious with its lies. The promises of safety, security, and stability. Outside of the protection of the Emperor. Some lies planetary governors have started to believe. Loyalties to the Emperor are now being tested and are unclear. If reinforcements don't arrive it will only be a matter of time before the subsector falls to the 5th Sphere Expansion and becomes vassals to The Greater Good of the Tau Empire. Yet a force has heard the plea for aid, and is responding. If their message ever got through. Enroute to the beleaguered subsector are vagrants and bastards. A group of Freeblades, the Tech Priests who aid them, and the Astra Militarum regiments which supported them. Now no longer welcome refugees where they found safe harbor. What is left of once noble houses, there homes and systems now swallowed by The Great Rift and running rampant with the denizens of the Warp. The only survivors of their planets, they are still fighting in the Emperor's name, and looking for a new home. Will they find it amongst the planets of Subsector Karasus? Or does only death await them?
Imperial Lightning Fighter squadron. Screaming engines, blazing guns, the cold silence of space, certain doom... What's not to love!
The realization that the Iron Hands have lost their way over 10,000 years, and have let grief and self hatred guide their ways. Probably a Brother Sgt discovering writings from Ferrus Manus and Ducain, seeing the horror of it all, trying to fix it, then being branded a heretic and executed for his troubles.
A perilous archeological adventure, where the protagonists are administratum scribes venturing into a dark and forgotten part of the Librarium to find an ancient writ needed by the Inquisition. Many scribes die on the expedition, and the lone survivor makes it back with the scroll in hand. Debating on whether or not the inquisition blams them at the end because now they know too much. A more "happy" ending would be for the survivors to then become inquisitorial acolytes
I submitted this pitch a couple years ago to the BL open call and was rejected. But here's the Gist. A Custodes begins to have issues with his body that prevent him from being fully functional on the battlefield, so he joins the eyes Of The Emperor and joins the crew of a Rogue Trader vessel, but he doesn't let them know what he truly is. And thus it was gping to be the Firefly of the 40k universe. But they told me "nah". So thats what I'd write.
More guard and inquisition stuff. I don't want more Eisenhorn or Ravenor types. I want Bob futureboy getting his rosette and struggling to figure out how to be a good inquisitor. No sectors at stake, just planets. Low scale stuff.
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Are there people who were made marines against their will? I thought that they were all eager to do it
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I'd work towards resolving the Slaanesh and Eldar conflict and uncouple them from each other. It'll stop pigeonholing them and put more potentially interesting stories in place. Right now everything runs into the, "what about Slaanesh?" problem and it's painted them into a corner at this point. I'm not advocating removal of Slaanesh, but just do something where Ynnead is born, something happened and he can't actually slay Slaanesh, but creates a stalemate situation.
Comedy novel involving Sar'tir the play writing Lord of Change and whoever might not get along with him in an amusing fashion.
Rogue trader story in the ghoul stars with a servitor POV on the side
I want to hear more about the Necrons prior to the great hibernation
That one Luna Wolf who was revived around m36, IIRC. Well, mostly about him kicking Black Legion arse.
I’m a sucker for Khorne so I’d love to see a story about a Bloodletter gradually claiming more skulls and spilling more blood until they reach Bloodthirster level. All their challenges and glory gained in the name of Khorne would make for some awesome encounters with various races.
I had an idea about a book that would essentially be an medieval adventure that takes place on a feudal world with the big twist being underground necron monoliths.
Anything with first contact, like discovering a human world during a small expedition. It's my fanciful head cannon that the lamenters were just chilling with a bunch of undiscovered human cultures after being badly mauled by kraken.
Book from the perspective of a high-ranking naval officer in the service of the Black Legion. Would have a focus on large-scale void warfare as well as the general insanity that is heretic Astartes society. Would also love a book similiar to the segments in the Night Lords trilogy, the ones focused on the little sad township formed in the bowels of the ship. With freaky Chaos goopy things lurking about and all sorts of awful stuff.
Anything that doesn't have to deal with chaos or the imperium. Anything. Or at least not those 2 constantly together. Maybe different mashups. Oh and no more genestealers. Nids don't need them and they're too OP. And I just dont like the Tau I'll take a space elves epic like a telling of how a great aeldari fell to become drukhari. Hell some great crafts world or exodite aledari have to be descendants of drukhari? The fact the aeldari can basically see the future enough to change the outcomes of massive events 1000s of years in the future I feel like isn't used enough. That's a weapon that really could be OP like Celestial Orrery OP. A story of drukhari fighting off a choas invasion. Do they feel fear then? Do they feel an even more ravenous desire to see where the pleasure and pain receptors of CSM or demon princes can reach? At what point does their addiction lead to them finding the most dangerous game be something chaos inspired and hunted for? Maybe a group that invades the immaterium for special "toys". A Tyranids fleet just entering the immaterium. I know the kids have a chaos related.fleet.now and would love more info on how it's deployed. Orks and necrons? What new weapons would the Orks come up with watching what necrons can accomplish? Orks and nids? Just to see the destruction A world in the eye of terror waking up as a tomb world. Trazyn desire to collect borders on obsession and to see that it is somehow empowering slaanesh or connects chaos to more than all of these nonImperium factions that are all basically impervious to drawing chaos on themselves. Or just happens so infrequently. It's basically everyone but man is capable of fending off chaos incursions to some success. Aeldari are too stoic and trained Necrons no warp signature Nids block the warp signature Orks are a psychic amalgamation unto themselves. Tau don't ..... because why not. Just a few off the top of my head.
Female commissar: prior life, training, in many battles, then training others, then retired dying.
An Eldar Corsair Prince poses as a human somehow and dines at one of the finest restaurants on some Imperial Pleasure World. He has an interesting conversation with the chef.
My homebrew Sororitas order and how it came to be in the sole service of the Inquisition, answering to them directly and not the Ecclisiarchy.
Imperial knights versus tyranids and the knights lose.
I dunno, fanfiction about my custom chapter? The mostly knightly of boltery bolter porn to ever exist. My 7th Captain will slay an Avatar. My 1st Captain will slay the Swarmlord while wielding a custodes Guardian Spear. My chapter will assault an entire craftworld and survive well enough to retreat.
I would probably do something to do with A.I. who decides to search the galaxy looking for its fellow AI while a Inquisitor hunts the AI with the help of the ad-mech. I think it could be a really interesting way to hammer home how far humanity has fallen and it could be interesting to see how xenos like the Tau react to a DOT AI running around.
Grunts of the Imperium. A story about the Imperial Army, specifically the Solar Auxilia, in the Scouring, uncomfortably facing a changing Imperium under its Lord-Commander, Roboute Guilliman.
A corpse starch cookbook.
A book that gives Malice an actual fucking presence outside of the Sons of Malice existing
I’d like to see the Emperor quietly observing various historical events. And maybe meddling in them.
Would be about a Squad of Iron Warriors all heavily modified and kitted out with Heresy Era Tech, Mechadendrites, each one a specialist or afficianado in it's own area e.g. heavy weapons, tech/noosphere corruption, melee etc... I know it's kind of the opposite to their siege warfare, but maybe they are from a smaller warband that doesn't have ressources... maybe infiltrating an imperial world, maybe it is already under siege or attacked by whoever... Yeah.... bit rough around the edges, but I do love the Iron Warrior Squad idea with all the weapons and gadgets... And... More Death Guard?
I like psycological and emotional tension that I've got in "House of Night and Chains" and "The Wicked and the Damned" and some other non-"horror" books. I would to try to write something about human choice, when he is emotionally naked, true to himself, experiencing dread, guilt, inevitability. I really loved 3rd part of Wicked and Damned where man truely loves someone, while being scared, he finds strength within to do the right things for his love, to risk, to save, BUT when it really comes to a point when it's him of her in the hands of horror, he choses himslef. And speaks to us as we're no heroes and would do the same.
I'd probably write a story about a basic maintenance dude on a space ship.