u/Oberon_lavellan

Hear me out, the guy indirectly, with his shitty plan, caused one of the three rogue traders in the expansion to start fixing the stupid mess that Theodora, Calcazar, and the other two idiots caused. There was literally no possible salvation at that point.

Calligos Whisterscale was about to become a worshipper of Khorne

incendia chorda was already outside the limits of the useless-Dogmatic scale

Theodora literally left such a horrible mess in the expansion that you spend 3 chapters and 1 DLC fixing everything

And then we have the rampant Ordo-Xenos in the expansion wanting to play with C'tan bullshit.

Just one of these things would be enough to break the panic button, but all three together is enough to make you grab your gun and shoot yourself in the temple; it's easier than trying to fix anything.

Except that, blessed and cursed be Kunrad, he manages to create such a huge mess that Theodora ends up dead, and his magnanimous heir has the throne seat free to open a fat bottle of Amasec and start putting out the fire. This guy put on the playing field the only person competent enough to work a miracle of such magnitude as saving this whole mess.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH KUNRAD, FOR BEING COMPLETELY USELESS IN YOUR REBELLION PLAN.

Lore accurate follower of tzench

So, nobody finds all this Argenta stuff anticlimactic, right now, at that moment in Act 3, and it's like, she drops the bombshell that she killed Theodora and it's so undramatic that it leaves you indifferent

At least for me, it was initially disbelief, because she tells me so casually in the middle of the second worst hell in the lore, that at first I thought some drukahri had done something to her head, and then it turns out that yes, she killed Theodora. I hadn't noticed this shit in my first two playthroughs and it wasn't until I accidentally took her with me that I found out about it. I mean, it's so damn irrelevant that you can't know unless you take her to Act 3.

I'll always feel it was a missed opportunity that they didn't delve deeper into the profound spirituality of Imperial society, like Kibellah and its Tarot deck. These cards carry enormous weight in the franchise, as shown in the Horus Heresy books, with characters like the Marine Leetu. It's not just about incoherent prayers to a god; it's about the Imperium's unique cosmological vision. Luck, destiny, and divine providence aren't simply matters of chance; they're quite real, and the Imperium's people experience them recurrently to varying degrees. Don't get me wrong, Owlcat's work is excellent, and the entire Voidshadow DLC introduces a great deal of that rich theological lore, but I still feel it lacked further development, such as the Argenta storyline or the Imperium's spiritual world.

Having now finished all three routes of the game, I've decided to create a short comic for each route, using whatever means necessary. The plan is to make one for each route, at most 10 pages, perhaps less in the case of Heretic, but the central idea is that it has to be consistent with what the slides show for a perfect playthrough of Dogmatist, Iconoclast, and Heretic.

The first one will be iconoclastic

I'm not a writer, so I was hoping to find some interesting ideas or dialogue in this wonderful community. My basic idea is for the RT to have a conversation with Abelard, Theodora's ghost, or even Papa Smurf himself. Perhaps a combination of the three would be a good idea, but I'm already finding it difficult to create dialogues for just one.

I was waiting for the game to reveal at any moment that one of the nobles was a vampire.

This is no joke, I really feel terribly uncomfortable with all of this.

Aside from the Space Wolves and the Word Bearers, what other chapters would you have liked to see and interact with? Personally, I would have loved to see the Iron Warriors and the Black Templars; the Iron Warriors so I could roleplay a pragmatic heretic, and the Black Templars so I could bully and humiliate them every chance I got.

I've been thinking about this for days now, ever since I finished the Bloodweb missions and the game.

When you do that ritual where you see the distorted version of the Emperor that the Bloodweb possesses, I couldn't help but wonder what it would have been like to have a conversation with the Lord of Mankind. Dogmatic, heretical, or iconoclastic—frankly, it would have been a memorable experience. From my perspective, the heretical and dogmatic reactions are pretty obvious, but iconoclastic... I can only imagine him looking at the Emperor with pure pity.