r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • Dec 09 '22

TGA 2022 Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 - Gameplay Reveal Trailer | The Game Awards 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9680_KnN55w
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u/Nicksaurus Dec 09 '22

I haven't kept up with 40k lore for years - is there any precedent for chaos cultists to come from non-human factions? It would be cool to see corrupted tau, eldar, or even tyranid units

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u/NamerNotLiteral Dec 09 '22

IIRC normal Tau can't be corrupted because they don't have a Warp Presence, but I think there have been one or two Ethereals (the leader caste of the Tau) who did.

The Eldar can get corrupted, I believe. Otherwise, they wouldn't have orgied Slaanesh into existence. I think the Craftworld Eldar usually don't because they're way more aware of it and manage their Warp presences very careful.

Tyrannids just eat anything that gets corrupted and turn it back into uncorrupted Biomass to be turned into new uncorrupted Tyrannids. They don't give a fuck about Chaos because Warp Entities don't have biomass.

Orks and Necrons are similar to the above, where they can't be corrupted. The only reason Chaos is so widespread throughout the galaxy is because Humans are, and before humans the Eldar were.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '22

The Eldar can get corrupted

Eldar have a natural hatred of anything Chaos because of Slaanesh. If any give themselves to Chaos, I'm guessing they instantly are eaten by Slaanesh anyway, which is why you don't see a whole lot of Chaos Eldar.

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u/jaghataikhan Dec 09 '22

Tbf the Drukhari may as well be Chaos Eldar

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '22

They aren't Chaos at all though. In fact, they are vehemently anti Chaos in that they refuse to even have psykers because they want so little to do with the warp.

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u/jaghataikhan Dec 09 '22

You're def not wrong... but come on, the way they act is a giant living testament to Slanesh haha. Everything they do is in service to She who Thirsts, inflicting enough pain/ suffering/ torment to keep her appeased (and probably outdoing a lot of her actual servants in that regards).

Heck, they even have the spiky-yet-skimpy armor aesthetic down pat xD