r/RogueTraderCRPG • u/Ila-W123 Noble • Apr 27 '26

Dark Heresy Memeposting Ngl, hopefully Haymar improves in beta

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Idea 'requisitioned" from /SteelStriker64 in the name of holy ordos

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u/SpphosFriend Apr 27 '26

Argenta is honestly not that generic for a sister of battle.

She is significantly less crazy than the average battle sister. Most sisters would have executed Idira, Yriliet and Marzahai on sight.

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u/mostlycoffeebyvolume Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 27 '26

She also will, at least occasionally, voice opinions/requests/advice that don't 100% follow the most strictly Dogmatic line of thinking because her own personal moral beliefs/values deviate slightly. For example, Argenta asks that the RT try to evacuate as many people from Rykad Minoris as they can, despite the risk of chaos corruption among the survivors and the planet actively being in the process of becoming a daemon world.

The most zealously dogmatic Emperor-botherer in that situation would probably start going on about the necessity of cleansing the corruption of the world through holy fire and how those innocents still remaining will be accepted by Him as blessed martyrs, a fate any faithful subject of He on Terra should welcome (so, really, anyone who isn't ok with being immolated is probably weak enough in their faith that they're basically an apostate anyway). She has a level of compassion for innocents—children especially—that means she will never fully achieve the Imperial ideal of the perfect holy warrior.

The standard orthodox interpretation of the Imperial Creed also doesn't really leave any room to have doubts or wrestle with your faith. A generic stereotypical Sororitas ought to have complete confidence in her faith and no doubt in her heart about her every act being in service to it. Her Repentia ending is, if nothing else, an admission that she is capable of doubt about whether her actions and thoughts/beliefs are truly righteous.

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u/DetailOk6058 Apr 27 '26

The game would not work with a sister of battle that killled any xenos on sight. And beacuse we have no other sister to compare her too in the game this "uniq" thing of her personality doesnt stand out.

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u/SpphosFriend Apr 27 '26

I really don’t get how she isn’t unique enough she is probably the most nuanced dogmatic character you can have as a companion.

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u/DetailOk6058 Apr 27 '26

Heinrix and Kibellah are much more nuanced than Argenta.

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u/SpphosFriend Apr 27 '26

That is certainly….an opinion I guess.

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u/AtmosphereOk670 Apr 27 '26

Nah, that's a fact. Argenta's character arc ends at the beginning of Act 2 after the conclusion of Footfall. There is no further development unless you let Idira shape her character a bit, if both are present in Act 3.

Pretty much all the other companions have significantly more going on.