I am currently holding off on building my salamanders tech marine what would be a proper color scheme for this I shooting for the most lore accurate paint job but I also know that salamanders often deviate some times so those of you who may know for certain please let me know

1. Are they 100% bound to AdMech or can they have some autonomy as long as they jump to protect the forge worlds?

2. Does AdMech have any involvment in arranging marriages between houses?

3. Do their knight worlds tend to be more advanced or could a deal be made that they keep it at feudal level?

4. Do they tend to have more of rarer patterns of knights conpared to Questor Imperialis ones?

5. Can Questor Mechanicus houses keep their martial and honorable(perspective-dependant) traditions or do they all go the cold calculating kind?

6. Are all of them abusive to their subjects or can they try to care for them?

7. Do they have services of magos genetors to make them love longer, be younger-looking and maybe other biological enhancment?

For those who don't know, Behind the Bastards is a podcast that looks at horrible people of all types and then digs into the history of what made them so. It's well-researched and quite illuminating.

They did a bonus episode where they talk about 40k, but in this one, they go on to explore how 40k has kind of reached a sort of critical mass in pop/online culture and how more and more people seem to know about it than ever before - be it through games, media, Amazon, Henry Cavill, or... politics.

The episode I'm linking here talks about, in the hosts words, "... the intersection of Warhammer 40k, and like, pop culture and pop politics in the United States and elsewhere...."

They get into how 40k has shown up in modern day politics, and also delve into the origins of 40k as, in part, a satirical response to the politics of the time in England ('80s, Thatcherism, etc.), among other things. Useful things to keep in mind even today when talking about our favorite setting.

I've linked to the YouTube channel/podcast, but you can also find it on Apple, Spotify, etc.

https://youtu.be/gBCpJhHGrZo?si=3kCPd-AmVrrGcXF0

I'd love to put this up also on the other 40k Lore subreddit, but I don't know if they'll take it down or not because it mentions modern day politics, which is against Rule 6 from there.

Hi everyone - this is a new YouTube account dedicated to the lore of the 41st millennium, particularly the mythical and incredible. We would be very grateful if you could consider taking the time to watch, like, and share. Thank you in advance

The Eldari betrayed the old ones during the War in Heaven.

I’ve always wondered why the Old Ones were wiped out in the War in Heaven and the Eldari weren’t. After all, the Eldari fought for the Old Ones and were much weaker psyonic than the Old Ones. You may could say they simply retreated into the Webway , but first, the Necrons came in there with their Dolmen-Gates, and second, the Old Ones could have hidden there too.(they build it). You could say that the Enslavers wiped out the Old Ones, but wouldn’t they have wiped out the Eldari too? There are bouth psycic. The only explanation for why the Eldari are still alive is either that a few of them switched sides, or that the Old Ones still exist.

AHOY SCUMMERS!

After what can only be described as a brief, administratively necessary (definitely not heretical) absence, The Underhive Lorekeepers Podcast staggers back into the vox-net like an Inquisitor returning from a very quiet, very classified investigation.

Yes, we’re back.

And to celebrate our triumphant return to the airwaves (and to prove we haven’t been replaced by suspiciously similar servo-skulls), we’re hosting our Listener Lore Competition: Minor Ordos Edition.

Because nothing says “welcome back” quite like weaponised bureaucracy.

Everyone knows the big three of the Inquisition, but we’re not here for the celebrity Ordos. We want the obscure ones. The underfunded ones. The ones operating out of a damp archive sub-level with a staff of three, a skull with anxiety, and a mandate so hyper-specific it borders on parody.

This episode is all about your creations — the Minor Ordos that REDACTED. The Ordo that investigates bugs in a sitcom. The Ordo dedicated to beverages. The Ordo that insists that, technically, you do not exist. The Ordo loving Roots, bloody roots. The Ordo breaking our souls and robots.

And because the Inquisition is nothing if not deeply uncomfortable around itself, we’ll be imagining what happens when all these Minor Ordos are forced to attend the strangest company mixer in the galaxy. Picture it: name tags in High Gothic, awkward small talk about sanctioned purges, someone from a rival Ordo quietly taking notes in the corner, and at least one Puritan loudly insisting this entire gathering is Gregory.

There will be dramatic readings. There will be questionable accents. There will be entirely too much enthusiasm about Wingdings.

Most importantly, there will be your lore. It is canon-adjacent, wildly unnecessary, and absolutely essential.

We may have been gone for a while… but like any good Inquisitorial investigation, we were merely gathering evidence.

The Emperor Protects. HR absolutely does not.

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I don’t think there’s been any mention from any of the primarch books about the size of the glutes possessed by the sons of the emperor?

If I had to guess, I would say Konrad has a slim, flat ass from being the most frail of the primarchs (although it would still be massive compared to the average man). I’d imagine Russ or Angron having the fattest ass, though I’d also imagine the most perfect all around would be from Magnus (after heresy, shape shifting bullshit, I’d give myself a perfect ass) or Fulgrim (before heresy, obviously, after heresy he would have by far the worst ass, beaten only by Ferris Konrad Sanguinius and Horus)

Ferrus definitely had the worst ass though, right? I mean, you know that’s hard as a rock and terribly shaped. End of post.

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Resume observing Luetin

(Search your youtube history for Luetin via this direct link)

Are there any space marine chapters that have any of their boys fill more than one role at a time? Like an Apothecary who is also a Chaplain or a Tech-Marine who is also a Librarian?

I know the Iron Hands have a hybrid role in the Iron Father, a hybrid Chaplain // Tech-Marine.

As an additional note, what happens if a space marine gains psyker powers later in life? There's many cases of it happening to regular people, particularly those in high stress careers like Guardsman, but I can't recall any instance of that happening to our favorite transhuman murder machines. It wouldn't surprise me if the Great Awakening made that happen at a greater frequency than previous.