Orks appear on Tertium and a new Havoc 40 mission appears where the Reject Squad has to paint the Nurgle Daemonhosts and Nurgle Alters to a different color than green so that the Orks don’t side with the Nurglites.
My veteran is a Cadian who was being sent to a Penal Legion in the Moebian Domain because he witnessed the Planetary Governor's son's cowardice first hand. In an attempt to save face and hide that the next ruler of the planet was a complete coward, they slapped some false charges on the veteran in an effort to get him executed, but his Castellan step in when he saw the charges were bullshit and was able to change the punishment from execution to Penal Legion service so the veteran at least had a chance to survive.
Mine was from some random planet and rejected orders because some brass was a little B and tried to leave some people behind instead of doing the honorable thing. You know? Charge? Like actual guardsmen? Who let all these silver spoons buy high ranking positions?
My Vet (Billy, loose cannon) was a Sergeant from a nearby PDF who's crime was having an affair with a commisar's daughter. My Zealot (Mary, Scott) was charged with excessive use of force resulting in damage The Emperor's Property (a Church) when she killed a suspected heretic priest. My Psyker (Jack, Savant) worked with an Eldar ranger to bring down a Slaanesh cult, and for the crime of collaberating with Xeno was sent to the penal legion. My Ogryn (John, Slavic) was in the wrong place at the wrong time, he actually did nothing.
Considering that these ogryns are pretty smart (reloads ripper guns and stubbers by themselves), these ogryns are pretty much scouted by the inquisition. The crime charges might be a "negative reinforcement", I guess.
@@honeybadger6275honestly thats a good thing for us, if they made them lore-accurate, they wouldnt be fun to play, and the interactions wouldnt be as good
The fact that the Loner (unsanctioned) Psyker can control their powers at an equal level to the Savant makes me think they'd be truly amazing if properly trained.
My Ogryn is an Orkryn. An Ork raiding party pillaged his homeworld, and being the inquisitive scamp he was, he chased a squig onto an Ork ship and was accidentally kidnapped. He was raised by the Orks as he was "A biggun" and "A propah good scrappah!" until the Ork world was raidied by the Imperium. Lunk (Or BigLunk to the Orks) was deemed a heretic and was thrown onto a prison ship to be sent to a colony. Then the fire nation attacked....
The thing about the seer psycher possibly *just* being insane and actually only hearing stuff their mind makes up, doesn't really work, because their "beloved" does seem to feed them information that they propably shouldn't know. So i do believe it is a warp entity of some kind.
only one of my characters has a headcannon: my zealot she was a sister of battle, specifically a sister repentia, who was the only one to survive an encounter there she stood, drenched in blood, when she was found and immediately taken to prison because of what she saw why was she repentia? well she kept shouting something about blood for a god and skulls for a throne...
Patricia: Cadian Cutthroat Veteran, Very bitter about Cadia but does care deep down about the imperium. Alossia: Zealot. Former Redemptions. Burned down a hab-block. is happy to be able to do it and get paid. Robbie: Ogryn. Has no idea why he's there. Khepli: Savant Psyker. Egositcal but kind-hearted
My Cadian vet was working as a mercenary until a string of bad jobs with increasingly shady clients ended with him getting busted by Moebian enforcers, where he was further charged with Dereliction of Duty after he was identified as a Militarium deserter. Before going MIA after the Fall of Cadia, his record indicated he had served with a unit seconded to a different Inquisitor to investigate the various plagues and insurgencies that erupted around the sector during the Black Crusade. He was flagged as an ideal candidate for Grendel’s warband and transferred over as a reject. While not happy to be forced back into the service of the Imperium, he finds a renewed purpose in fighting defend Atoma and slowly begins to redeem himself as a warrior.
Theres a rare voice line where the psyker talks about a voice that sounds like his beloved, trying to lure him towards a castle of blue and purple fire in his dreams but he doesnt listen...
That suggests to me it really is the emperor normally If the Savant can tell the difference, then the lure sucks and nonbos with the normal voice, ergo the Beloved is not a daemon
@@hesperosshamshael2873its not the Emperor. For one, GW would never allow that. Him talking to Robute in Godblight (I think that was the book) was a huge deal. There's no way they just casually let Fatshark have some random mook canonically be best buds with the Emperor. Also I haven't really played since launch, but IIRC, the psyker's beloved cracks jokes (or at least isn't entirely humourless) and is intimated to care about the psyker in some capacity. The Emperor can barely string together a semi-coherent sentence when talking to his son, and had to literally fragment his personality and cast his compassion out into the warp in order to kill Horus. His beloved is 400% a demon and the implication that it could be the Emperor is just for fun.
@@youtubecommentmanguy Why not? The idea is that it's a random fragment of the Emperor, that may have different personality aspects/sense of humor/general coherency than the actual Emperor's body on the golden throne; after all, it is a fragment of the emperor's personality, his compassion and feeling. There's no reason you couldn't rule that one of those many fragments ended up in the mind of some random dude. And if it DID end up in the mind of some random dude, you know what I'd expect the symptoms to be? Mild/Severe insanity and the manfiestation of powerful psychic abilities. The fact that the "beloved" actually does help the Psyker by giving them useful information as they fight the forces of Chaos implies that it's probably not a Demon - even if it were the Demon of another Chaos God, it probably wouldn't actively help the Psyker fight back a Nurgle invasion just for funsies. While their dialogue is often inconsistent, Beloved does seem to genuinely want the Psyker to make it out okay. It could be some other warp entity, but the idea that it's the Emperor isn't just the most funny possibility, but I also think it's the most fitting. And, in lieu of any evidence to the contrary, I also think it's the most likely? LIke, if it's not a Demon, it's probably not a warp entity God from some other species (like an Eldar entity or something), and it's not just a figment of their imagination, I genuinely don't think it's probable that the beloved is anything else.
People were questioning why a bunch of rejects were given a toothpick known as a relic blade. A literal ancient weapon only a select few can even wield and what can be consider a family hierloom for powerful clans/families. But people should understand that Zealots are basically living saints and that is a rarity even compared to space marines. Like its a rough estimation but 1 living saint can equal an entire platoom of marines. Their use doesnt come from the firepower they bring but their power of faith and somehow being a literal walking propagand machine. Its right for Zealots to wield the relic blade with this kind of status especially one with high trust.
zealots are not living saints. zealots are literally just fanatical people who throw themselves at enemies of man. they're the ecclisarchy's version of a guardsmen basically.
you also have to remember that the Rejects' weapons are all peeled off of corpses. It's entirely possible those relic blades belonged to commanders who had no heir to their political dynasties, so Grendyl's men probably swooped it up, had Brunt tinker with it a bit, and sent it off to the Rejects.
To be fair, despite being rejects the player characters get their hands on a lot of weapons that theoretically an expendable grunt like themselves wouldn’t have a chance to get their hands on. The Veteran can get their hands on bolter weapons and a power sword. The Psyker get their hands on a wide array of force weaponry. The Zealot, minus the relic sword, get their hands on a bolt pistol, flamer, an eviscerator, and power weaponry. The Ogryn get heavy weapons like the twin-linked and heavy stubbers and power mauls. It’s most likely due to the fact that the warband we’re a part of strips what ever it can find from the battlefield into the hands of our rejects and because we’re a part of a Inquisition warband to begin with, which allows to get our hands on some pretty sweet toys.
I've never said this out of shame, but I would love to have ratlings as a fifth class. Hobbit sniper with an awful attitude would be a sick personality type to bounce off of from the rest of the cast.
I heard somwhere they wanted to make a halfling class but it didnt work hight wise. snipers don't work well when they cant see past their allies or the first line of the enemies
Since we're sharing characters, I'll share mine: Psyker: Aleric, a young hive ganger. Technically a voidborn, the ship Aleric was born on landed on a hive planet soon after his birth, and his parents had been passengers, not members of the ship's crew. They settled down on the hive planet to try to find work, but things progressed as they usually do in the 40k universe, and due to sickness, Aleric was left an orphan, and found his way into a rough crowd. His gang had a run-in with a local group of religious philanthropists deep in the underhive, and Aleric experienced his first premonition, giving him a gut feeling something was off about them. After some needling, he got his gang to act on it, and they discovered they were a newly-settled Genestealer cult, still young enough to not be a major threat. Needless to say, the gang exterminated them. However, they were caught in the act by enforcers, and never got a chance to secure evidence of their discovery, so the people of the underhive basically demanded their execution. Some of them were executed, some were servitorized, and some were sent to penal legions as part of the blood tithe. Aleric was in the last group. However, his psychic awakening happened in transport, and he was moved to a ship better equipped to deal with him, where he ended up on an Inquisitorial prison barge headed to Atoma. His experiences have left him embittered and spiteful. Veteran: Garret, a Cadian veteran. Garret, sadly, wasn't on Cadia when the 13th Black Crusade took place. His regiment had been seconded to another planet to deal with a Tyranid invasion, which Garret survived, often by the skin of his teeth. Many members of his squad died in the fighting, but he and a handful of others lived to return home. However, he received news of Cadia's fall while en route, and rather predictably broke. First accusing the messenger of lying, he started a fight and had to be restrained. He was court-martialled shortly after the incident, but because of the circumstances of his break, he was sent to a penal legion rather than executed. This is how he ended up en route to Tertium. Zealot: Gloriosa, a death-cult assassin. Raised among the members of the Chalice of the Blood Oath, a minor sanguinary death cult devoted to seeking out traitors in the name of Saint Messelina, Gloriana took part in the attempted murder of a high-ranking Ecclesiarch whose name had been cleared of multiple accusations of heresy. They discovered the opportunity to strike had in fact been a trap and their attempt was foiled, and they were to be executed, but before the execution date, an Inquisitorial sweep stole the lot of them away, having decided that such brazen fearlessness might - MIGHT - be worth something in the coming days, with danger looming on the horizon for Atoma Prime. I'd share my Ogryn, too, but honestly his backstory would probably be kinda boring in comparison to the last three. Edit: I misspelled Gloriosa as Gloriana for some reason. I actually named her Gloriosa after a poisonous red flower.
My Psyker is a Dark age Human who was a soldier for the Federation from before the Imperium, put into crypsleep and found by the Imperium, he forgot most everything of who he was, except his name due to it being on his uniform. He was slated to just be Emperor food until he helped save souls on the ship when Heretics attacked, now he serves as a sanctuoned psyker to continue his fight for Humanity being a loyal soldier Psyker.
My character is a ogryn bodyguard personality. Basically he was a slave born on mornax. toiling away in the planets mines. But he ended up meeting a commissar, who was so impressed with his ability to work 16 hour shifts of INSANELY grueling labor to the point many higher ups in the imperium would consider it a form of torture too far he was recruited. But then, due to his, and a bunch of other ogryns act of insubordination on komlar(Holding big hill from heretics and protecting the little ones for 3 days.) he was arrested and sentenced to death, were the events of darktide play out! Personally I think my operative (Snorble Grumblegut) will rejoin the guard after the events of darkide, and will join nork deddog as one of the highest ranking ogryns in the galaxy! "PROTECT DA LITTLE UNS!!!"
My veteran was an algae farmer that was swept up in a tithe was sent to many battles in the domain. Being a joker the higher ups did not like him and he was set to be executed. However, thanks to some favors being called in by people who had blackmail on the higher ups, he was transferred to a prison regiment. And now he gets to die on a hive planet. He has mix feelings on it.
I feel the Zealots are quite chill about Ogryns ingame, while they sometimes yell specific slurs to them, their bad manners extend more profusely towards the group overall, only really displaying actual hatred towards psyckers
When the game first came out, the Zealots talked a LOT of shit about Ogryns not having souls, being filthy mutants, etc. At least in the games I played they did.
I do hope our rejects get to visit or fight on the nearby worlds As for my characters: Kyra: a sister in wrath zealot from the world Crucis who enacted a war of faith on the planet Mornax but was falsely accused of heresy through subterfuge within a subgroup of her mission. Noxia: a psyker from Rocyria driven out by her tribe and reported to the Inquisition, which resulted in being conscripted. Her powers indirectly burned out her eyes but can still sense those around her. Joss: a former vox comms officer from Pavane that refused to relay orders that would result in abandoning an injured squad of guardsmen.
Short backgrounds of my characters. Veteran: Just a simple professional whose seen his fair share of battles. Attempts to do his job efficiently even if its now reject work. Finds nothing better than a trusty las recon and catachan weapon. Zealot: My Zealot is actually a hiver whose dedicated to the Emperor in a crusading way. She wears a lot of work equipment that you'd see in factories and other workshops as she can't afford a priestly attire. (And because Fatshark will never add a repentia outfit.) My Psyker is a Savant, prior Enforcer who worked alone, tracking down important targets but not too important that would require outside influence to be taken into account. She's dressed much like a bounty hunter, prefers to use a gun to hide her innate Psyker abilities. Unfortunately, when someone higher up realized she was a psyker working alone and without a handler, the Enforcers she worked with were also punished, as was she. Ogryn: Lovable Brute who often forgets what he's doing. He'll stop commonly in missions and ask where the "Hairy-ticks are.". Only to forget a few minutes later and come to a clarvoyant discovery of. "Waitaminute... These ARE the hairy-ticks!" He's mostly along for the ride, waiting for this alleged invasion to start while simultaneously not realizing he's participating in it.
You are so criminally underrated. I haven't seen someone explain Warhammer as entertainingly nor as witty since I found out about Isyander and Koda. You're a legend.
My zealot, Sire Tademar (Agitator) comes from a noble family with a legacy of saints and crusades. He was born a bastard child, and has been looked down upon his whole life. In his younger years he held a high, but tedious position in the ecclesiarchy and studied various holy texts. After coming of age, he heard of the heresy on Atoma Prime and was outraged. In an effort to prove himself to his family and to honor his legacy, he traveled to the Mourningstar and began helping the Inquisition by fighting alongside their kill teams with his bolt pistol and relic blade.
6:11 my personal head canon is that’s not actually Abbadon’s hair, but actually an Ork hair squig. Because Abbadon is evil due to his baldness he inherited from his dad and he’s just stuck in his rebellious teen years
Yooo i always said the same! Its the hair squig! And my headcanon is that it is sucking blood from Abbadon’s brain, making him evil and tactically inept.
Great video! Love the humor and broader explanations since I'm quite new to 40k in general. Darktide is one of my first Warhammer games and I am rather shocked at how much I love it. My favorite class by far is the Zealot. I like all the specs, but Fury of the Faithful is my favorite spec to play. I picked the male Judge because I love his voice and he's just so over the top.
Great video. Just got the game a week ago. First played as the zealot. Made her look like a sister of battle. Now im playing a psyker. Been having fun slaughtering hordes of heretics and talking on the bosses.
One of my favourite veteran dialogues is when a normal and cadian vet talk to each other. The normal one mentions hiw the current situation isn't as bad as the situations they've been and rhe cadian basically responds with "YOU'RE NOT FROM CADIA you don't know how bad it is"
My veteran is a harsh incredibly unfriendly Cadian named Pompey. Born and raised to fight in the Guard he was arrested for insubordination which ended up saving around 10 men. Pompey was promptly arrested a little bit after the Fall of Cadia and sent to die. He only gets along with other veterans and Ogryns. All he really cares about is duty above all else.
@Jo_Plays_Games all good, it was one mention in the largest paragraph, the guard works to have all commissars come from a different place then the people they're around with in an effort to prevent familiarity and fraternization
My headcanon for my zealot is that he is fueled by a golden age stash of four loko that he found so im glad im not the only one who gets the caffeine and alcohol vibe
My veteran (Cameron, loose cannon), was a dockguard in incron's planetary militia. He was caught letting a smuggler off the hook (despite such things being commonplace), and wound up in the situation he is now. I've gone out of my way to use the cheapest blue guardsman outfit I can get to show that he was in an aquatic-themed pdf.
My two rejects: -Lupus (Vet, Cutthroat) - decorated guard officer who objected to a general's suicidal orders -Zara (Zealot, Judge) - devout preacher who accused the wrong people of lacking faith in big E
awesome video, as always. i love the psyker loner. his pseudo german accent is so fun to listen to. btw, he is the same voice actor that also voices ogryn lines. how awesome ist that. My psykers crime was to like humans more than the empire and was talking bad things like "free will" "common sense" and worst of all "maybe not all xenos are inherently bad"
Male loner psyker is a treat. He reminds me of Saltzpyre. It's so crazy the one actor does both voices! Honestly, your psyker is very lucky he wasn't immediately shot, considering he's also unsanctioned. XD
Something interesting about some missions seem to take place at the same time for the rejects implying there is likely different groups of “the rejects” (theory crafting) But the closest to a callsign our rejects get is actually the hardest penance to currently get name. Survive havoc 35 of high without anyone going down. Called “the insane” Being the only penance which’s icon is literally each reject: zelot, veteran, pysker & Oygrn. In the similar poses to the ones on the title screen. While probably unlikely it is funny to think about considering the dialogue wolfer has about us in missions “Theres only four of them how hard is it to kill them?” (Roughly from memory) what he says about “us” being one of the few to people to refer to our rejects. I like the idea of our rejects being canon-esc to a degree rather than nameless characters. From whatever armor unlock description to most recent invitations to attempt to join the 53rd on some of their missions from the commissar dukane. Morrow surely has got his valued impossible milage out of the rejects. You can technically do a challenge of a zero death character theoretically get “the insane” penance if you dont like how it’s technically not canon if you die… if you so please for a “perma-death” run
My ogryn’s name is thud. He got his name because that’s the sound his head made when his mum dropped him. Thud spent his days as a humble algae farmer, and occasionally fending off raiders with his naval cannon of a shotgun. One day while running errands for the boss, he ran into and almost crushed a commissar. The commissar, noting the mountain of beef that is thud, convinced him to join up with the guard. Thud doesn’t remember much, just the shiny little one mentioned lots of rations. From there, it was off the races for thud.
I only have one reject currently and he's a veteran. he came from the water planet, I don't remember its name. but he has basically spent his entire life in the military structure. As a kid, he was conscripted into the local militia, and that basically instilled a sense of loyalty in him. so the second he got a chance to he enlisted and eventually reach the rank of a non-commissioned officer or a sergeant and he would still be in the guard if a snobbish officer didn't blame him for something he didn't do
I didn’t really make much for my Ogryn, but he's basically a leader of an Ogryn squadron, he got lost in the Warp which fried his Bonehead implant, and when he came back, he was imprisoned because he didn’t seem to be as loyal to the Emperor as he used to be. I really need to work on it more.
My head-cannon for my Zealot Gherick is that he was raised as a progena at the behest of a Preacher who took a liking to him after discovering that he had roused a group of his fellow hive children into killing a foreman he accused of being a witch (he wasn’t, Gherick just didn’t like the guy). At the Schola he was exposed to the great sermons of the Ecclesiarchy, and further developed his unrivaled flair for the dramatic, eventually being trained as a Confessor. He began to think of himself as nothing more than a performer, and he slowly went mad as he lost himself in playing his own character. Now a caricature of a preacher, he doesn’t even “hate” the heretic per se, only doing so to the extent that he acts as his character would. His love for the Emperor is equally a sort of facade, as it is merely a love for the aesthetics and verbiage of the Imperial Cult that he has confused for a love of the God Emperor. In his later years, he got in some trouble with the Ministorum when he organized an unsanctioned frateris militia against a noble family he figured would be a good target for a purging. He was unsuccessful at purging. He was in the process of being interrogated before execution when, luckily for him, the noble family turned out to coincidentally be involved in some light Chaos worship and, thinking the Ecclesiarchy was on to them, they exposed themselves by attempting an assassination on a local cardinal. After the Ecclesiarchy dealt with the situation, Gherick was still excommunicated from the Cult, but his sentence was commuted to one of hard labor rather than death. Whereupon he was saved by Zola.
I find the Zealot hilarious, because they are indirectly harnessing the Warp by invoking Holy Power through their faith in the God Emperor. Mega Heresy
My loose cannon Veteran Liari grew up on branx magna and at a young age joined a gang making her way through life with sticky fingers and quick wits. When recruited into the militarum under the 53rd she served in a few battles with her focus being survival first, objectives second. Her apparent cowardice and being caught red handed stealing from a commisar landed her on the path to the penal legion.
15:45 "My beloved asks why we continue to allow these Chaos worshipers to exist" "My mind once almost wandered into the realms of chaos you know. If it weren't for my beloved, I may have wandered a little too close" And then there's a few where he talks about Tarra only remember a few of them, but I honestly think that it actually might be a sliver of the emperor 's psyche that split off and is now just kind of clinging on to whoever it can to talk to.
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Head canon for my Rejects: Veteran - Former Tank Commander, ran Devil Dog pattern Hellhounds before being given command of a Leman Russ squadron, leading from his Executioner pattern Leman Russ. Sacked for insubordination because he didn't abandon a position against approaching Genestealer Cultists. Psyker - She is an Enforcer with insanely good luck. She doesn't realize that she is a Psyker, and always just assumed targets that started burning with blue flames were a result of something they wore when her Lasgun hit them. Weird how others burn normal though. Zealot - Under Hive Urchin and Cutthroat turned Confessor and attached to the Moebian's. He was mistaken for a deserter when he was found lost and struggling to find friendlies to warn about Wolfer going traitor. Ogryn - Thud hits good. Thud gets into loads of fights. Thud was brought to the planet as a prize fighter. Thud was let out for a walk. Thud got picked up by angry boys who called him abomination. Thud got penned up in a cage. Thuds cage got broke. Thud saved boss lady Zola. Thud hero.
My Psyker is a quirky Seer. He is always talking to someone that he calls his beloved. Most people think he is crazy, insane, or a freak, but his beloved let's him know not to get angry or teased by the others and stand strong. Though because of his mannerisms, it was mistaken as misplaced faith and into the reject pile he gets thrown in. With stuff hitting the fan, he prooves himself to be a very up tight loyalist. Though there are a few thoughts that can make very few think it is Tzeentch's big plan to take Nurgle out of the picture.
Cant wait for a speculation vid on the latest episode. So many vids of demons and the cult i wanna know what you think they were tryna do with that corpse and all those stims. Love ur vids!
My Ogryn, Kronk, can't remember why he was on the prison ship when the shouting started, but knows that he likes the noises it makes when you throw a box of grenades and it hits a heretic in the head
15:27 My theory is the Seer Psyker is talking directly to us, the player, breaking the 4th wall. - This kinda makes sense when it says "my beloved guieded me", because we are controlling the Seer Psyker actions.
My Loose Cannon Veteran has survived multiple deployments, fought different kinds of zenos, saved plenty of his brothers and sisters in arms but he got arrested for covering up his Civillian Relief Rations with ground-up rodent flesh.
Andreas De Reuter (Professional Veteran): Former Sergeant of the Moebian 13th Regiment, "The Stormrangers." His platoon's commander was wounded during the later days of the Haxorn Campaign, and the replacement was... less than ideal, to put it mildly. He dished out constant punishments for smallest inconveniences. At first, De Reuter figured this new lieutenant would not stay for long and be dismissed by company command. However, during an operation against Orks, he decided to direct the platoon into a frontal attack instead of the planned flank manoeuvre. All squad leaders, including De Reuter, objected. Enraged, the lieutenant shot one of them in the leg and threatened to execute anyone who disobeyed him. De Reuter finally had enough and knocked him out with a shovel. Given the impressive service record, he was sentenced to secondment to a penal legion instead of execution. Sebille Courbet (Savant Psyker): A former Tertium Enforcer. Her idealism and philanthropy often put her at odds with some of the less principled colleagues. The turning point was the discovery of a scheme involving the infamous Water Cartel who bribed the Enforcer Bastion command to look the other way while they ran their bloody business in the Torrent. The higher-ups decided to get rid of the nosy Witch, erased the records confirming Courbet's Sanction and fabricated charges of dereliction of duty against her. Augustus Layrand (Fanatic Zealot): A pilgrim from Messelina Gloriana. A fervent follower of Sebastian Thor's teachings, he once discovered the horrid state of one of the worker hab blocks on Branx Magna. After learning of the unjust tithes imposed upon them by a noble, Layrand made a speech that roused the downtrodden labourers to a mass strike. As the disgruntled noble arrived at the halted manufactorum with armed escort, he ordered to fire a few shots at the crowd, killing and wounding several men. Fueled with zeal, the crowd overpowered the escort and immobilised the noble, and Layrand beat him nearly to death as punishment for abuse of the Emperor's loyal servants. Only the arrival of local Enforcers could stop him from completely ending the noble's life. Metzger (Ogryn Bodyguard): De Reuter's companion from Mornax. Though Metzger served separately from his Boss in the Moebian 13th Ogryn Auxilia unit, the latter often visited him to remind him that he's not alone. Unknowing of De Reuter's arrest on Haxorn, he continued to serve till the incident on Komlar, where the Ogryns have defended the taken hill against heretic attacks for three days. In attempt to save face and not be ousted as cowards by the astonishingly brave actions of the Auxilia, the high command ordered all Ogryns who were on that hill arrested and sent to a distant penal colony.
My Psyker is from a regiment that serves a marine chapter and was charting the Mobian sector when they got captured and imprisoned now directly fighting within the conflict and slowly finding their brother and sisters of the guard who were sent out by Their regiment like him; now they are trying to stay alive and survive this war in order to *MAYBE* get the hell out. head canon is fun.
My seer Psyker is a former street side fortune teller/grifter who snapped when he started hearing voices from his “beloved”. He was considered unfit to keep his sanctioned status and was being carted off to Terra to become a sacrifice for the Throne. The fight or flight nature of the war against the 6th helped him (mostly) get his wits back, but still has problems zoning out/acting odd.
My Veteran, Markus "Bones" Hadel one of the few humans in 40k that actually loves his job (regardless of what the voicelines may say) was once apart of a Kasrkin Kill-Team deployed to Messelina Gloriana in order to provide support to the local PDF and Mobien Troops by acting as Special Forces and to advise and oversee the training of Stormtrooper Companies so they have their own elite shock troops in their fight against the Darktide. He took Wolfer and the 6th betrayal personally as they sent the Kasrkin Squad into an enemy ambush with Cadian blood spilled and his found-family dead Hadel had nothing to loose so went Renegade going on a revenge quest to kill wolfer and his lackies waging a one-man guerrilla war against the 6th but was soon captured by a squad of Adeptus Arbites so was thrown into a prison ship instead of being executed by the Commissariat and was inbound to Atoma Prime to face trial soon breaking himself out of prison having gladly accepted Zola's offer but even if he didn't would've tried to find a shuttle and went after Wolfer himself. He has a much longer backstory but that's the stuff that's relevant to Darktide.
Brian my veteran: it’s him Brian. A pretty chill dude Erika my zealot: literally just my dnd character. She killed a commissar one time Rock my ogryn: likes rocks Tim my psyker: “don’t worry sir I can be trusted with a firearm, I’m mentally stable”
My Professional Veteran is an greying old man who was raised in the Schola Progenium and was slated to join the Tempestus Scions after 30 years of decorated service. Then he and his best friend (my Ogryn character) ended up accidentally tripping a passing magistrate and got sent to jail
Funny enough, my Vet (Loose Cannon) and Ogryn (Brawler) searved together in my head canon. Vet was a Cadian Tanker Sergent who befriended a group of the Orgyn Infantry platoon after they covered their flanks in an engagement.
My Veteran, Damien, grew up in the mines of Mornax. He worked as a tunnel sentry, and was later conscripted into the Guard. His time in the Guard was difficult, but with the guiding hand of his Sergent, he grew to become a model guardsman. The Sergent ended up giving her own life to save him, which weighs heavily on his mind. Her replacement was a bloodthirsty fool, seeming more interested on sending men to death rather than victory. Damien, still freshly traumatized by his beloved Sergent's death, in a fit of grief and rage, insulted the replacement officer, going so far as to say he "spat on the memory of the real Sergent." The replacement then accused Damien of dereliction, sending him on a one way trip to a prison barge.
The story of my oygrn Brik, he was raised on a mining planet and was a labour till he joined the militia where he learned how to read perfectly but he just pretends he doesn’t know what things say just because he knows normal lil uns doubt smart oygrns like himself. The bone ead upgrade is just a nice bonus, but that reading capability also caused him to read something he wasn’t supposed
My psyker (called Mithicus because he is mithic and all that british naming convention) was native to Atoma, and lived in the middle part of the hive city. He joined the militia at the first opportunity he had, to seek approval from the people around him, and after surviving a pyrrhic victory against a gang where only he survived, he was taken by a black ship by a militia officer who saw the psyker's potential and protected him from all racism until the Sisters of Silence arrived. After that he became a sanctioned psyker, he went to the planet of Crucis to serve the militia there, but was made a reject after he asked a Ministorum Agent if the corpse ration was really made of corpses because it really tasted like it, and the rest is history.
My Zealot character grew up on Messelina Gloriana, and having been raised on a shrine world dedicated to such an important figure, felt compelled to join the civilian militia that defended the various temples and other holy sites on the planet. However, after uncovering a budding xenos cult within his local hab block and subsequently dispensing the Emperor's justice, the narrative spun by his peers painted him as an unhinged murderer who made up an excuse to go AWOL. The Ecclesiarchy caught wind of this and threw him in jail for dereliction of duty.
Space marines: We are the best of the best of the imperium Ogryn: Rock is friend Adeptus Custode: Hold my beer, just have to carry a war without support
My Vet (Marius) was a member of the IG during the Fringe War campaign. Was lost in the Warp and their ship was claimed as defecting to the enemy. Whole ship got slapped for insubordination. Zealot (Zeal), was a little too trigger-happy with her church's relic flamethrower (there were heretics in front of her). My psyker (Jester-Lavorre) just spoke at the wrong time at the wrong person. Ogryn (Ingerland) got rowdy at an Ogrynball tournament, having caught, thrown, and killed the planetaty governor with the ball (by accident, he wasn't even aiming at him, mind). Any attempts on execution would have brought the stadium down on everyone, so they instead sent him to the Penal Legion. My other Vet (Maria) also mouthed off to an officer, during a scheduled repositioning (she thought it was a retreat). She wasn't alone, and therefore she wasn't the only Cadian to end up in the Tancred Bastion.
My Veteran is Sly Garbo, estranged cousin of Sly Marbo. Instead of being a one-man wraith of death he’s just a really good marksman and squad leader. Sly Marbo threw a grenade, killed 5 orks, and then it exploded. Sly Garbo threw a grenade to kill 5 orks before retreating to a vantage point and covering his comrades as they reposition. He’s also a loose cannon because unlike his cousin he chose humor to cope instead of RAAAAAAAA
My psyker, Namiria (savant), was an orphqn born and living on the ocean world and tried to get by by selling leaches, then her psychic awakening came during a bad storm that swept the ocean. In that storm she heard whispers and voices, not in her head, but feom below the waves. These forces calmed the warp in her mind. She became a servant of these voices but also kinda their child and looked at the world for them. At one point she joined the enforcers to gives the beings below the waves more to observe but at one point she was found out, she had a psychic overload but was saved by an eldrich light. So off to the inquisition she was sent to study this phenominon. Still, she can hear the voices from her homeworld and feel their presence. This is the reason she sometimes mutters about drowning when quelling the perils of the warp, she isn't feeling like drowning, instead she tries to drown the warp in her mind.
The Seer's Beloved possesses information and makes remarks that the Psyker simply could not know otherwise. They (it? Him?) also know about the Psyker's temptation regarding Tzeench, and seem to be actively working to prevent their corruption, which is not behaviour one would expect from a Daemon.
Considering that each reject is sent on their first mission behind enemy lines without even a gas mask, realistically they will get purged after a successful mission or two. No wonder the warband goes through rejects like M&Ms
While it might be the emperor's voice the seer is hearing, there is another voice you can hear when you hit high peril and quell things like "the grandfather has you now" or is that just the roar of the warp
"Ahh yes, my beloved told me you'd say that..." Psyker...how many arms does the Emperor have? "Why that's a silly question, but if you insist.. four." Ohh boy..
My Zealot is a Cadian survivor, having lost his eye to warp magic being used against him and was pulled from the front lines. Having survived the battle, and becoming one of the endangered species, he was given task by the Adeptus Ministorum, as who better to speak the word of the Emperor than one who had been spared of death twice? He was about to go on pilgrimage to Atoma to see the Saintly Cathedrals and speak the word of the Emperor when he was caught up with a small PDF on one of the nearby worlds. It was a simple thing, dealing with an uprising, but when he executed the Captain of the PDF for heresy (unknown if it was real or not) he was made an example of. He was shackled, weapons, armor, and money stripped of him, and sent to die. As fate had it, he was able to slip away from that fate once more, and now stands with his Relic Blade, reclaimed armor, and has once more become the Crusader of the Emperor. My Ogryn is named Hammer Beatnail. He doesn't remember where he came from, but knew he had to help all the lil'uns! He runs with a slab shield and ripper, shouting for his allies to get behind him while he draws fire!
I see we're writing our characters'lore here, so here is go: Bortan:(Male seer psyker) originally from pavane, and as the imperial laws and the faith were a new developement in his village and was well liked by his people, he wasnt handed over to the inquisition when he had his psykic awakening while herding grox/farming algae one day. Believing his powers granted to him by the Emperor himself, he decided to use it to help his people the only way he could: tell their fortunes and help in achieving the good ones. While on one of these helping trips, his psykic energy was detected, and he was found when he questioned why a deacon would need THAT much gold on their clothes. Genevieve:(Female fanatic Zealot) Hailing from incron, the "water life" was in her blood, and she used her great diving/dredging skills to recover lost church artifacts she read about in the church's school books. One day, she found an ancient and really holy one at that, but a jealous coworker claimed she dug it up instead. When Genevieve tried desperately tried explaning this to the local deacon, she was arrested for insubordination Amberdine:(female loose cannon to professional veteran) From Cadia, though it's far from obvious: She lived as a ganger/smuggler, orphaned at a young age due to... you know... we dont talk about it... as she masterfully avoided recruitment for a long time, and made a lot of money with succesful crime sprees. Eventually she was recruited into a squad where she did the bare minimum she could get away with. During a fateful day, her sergeant saved her life, sacrificing hers. Her sergeant was an incredible woman, who always believed in her, despite everything, so when her legacy was at risk of getting tarnished, Amberdine backtalked an officer and went to prison for seditious activity Later in life, when she found out how her family and elders she looked up to in her childhood served, changing her attitude form "just survive" to "i do them dishonor by being like this", becoming a true soldier Rokka(brawler ogryn) From Mornax, where he spent his life as a mine guard, eventually having to joim the mining himself. One day during a mineshaft collapse, helped save a lot of (penal) miners by holding up the collapsed tunnel long enough, making him late for roll call, so they put him in prison for dereliction of duty.
I had made an ogrin called Bogus, he was an allege farmer and boy oh boy did he have a temper. People say all ogrin's are sweet boys, not Bogus. I went with the "bully" personality and the amount of death threats I heard from my own character was at first shocking and then hilarious when I remembered that when Bogus said he would break the veteran in half for friendly fire he both meant it and could probably do it easily. He also killed a plague ogrin with a rock once.
The loner psyker also sometimes will shout at the subtitles. Sadly this was nerfed. Yes Nerfed. The subtitles didn't use the correct word (four shortened that the subtitles says foreshortened) The loner then yells at the subtitles that it's the wrong word, and demands the subtitles to pay attention to him. All of this last bit used to not be subtitled which was great since it was even more clear that the loner was yelling specifically at the subtitles. It was nerfed by now accurately subtitling what the loner says which defeats the whole original point.
Ah yes the 4 classes, gun, unbridled rage, insanity and da big one
SHOOTY, SHOUTY, ZAPPY AND DA BEST
yeah i love deep rock galactic
@@6dragondaddy913 OI YA GIT! DON'T LET THE UMIES KNOW WERE ERE
@@therobotFrom94 WHO CARES? WE'Z SHOULDNT BE SNEAKIN' ROUND, WE GOTS TO GIT TO DA WAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHH
Orks appear on Tertium and a new Havoc 40 mission appears where the Reject Squad has to paint the Nurgle Daemonhosts and Nurgle Alters to a different color than green so that the Orks don’t side with the Nurglites.
A Reject tried to sell me fent behind Walmart!
@@Komadrei and how was it?
@@Jo_Plays_Games My arms fell off! #abaddondidnothingwrong
@@Komadrei You fool! The guy behind the Walmart was Abaddon all along!
@@EpicBob123 i am alpharius, this is a lie
@@junaugust2705ngl this got me
My veteran is a Cadian who was being sent to a Penal Legion in the Moebian Domain because he witnessed the Planetary Governor's son's cowardice first hand. In an attempt to save face and hide that the next ruler of the planet was a complete coward, they slapped some false charges on the veteran in an effort to get him executed, but his Castellan step in when he saw the charges were bullshit and was able to change the punishment from execution to Penal Legion service so the veteran at least had a chance to survive.
We should send them bags of Cadia as sign of solidarity
Cadia Stands!
Cadia Stands
Mine was from some random planet and rejected orders because some brass was a little B and tried to leave some people behind instead of doing the honorable thing. You know? Charge? Like actual guardsmen?
Who let all these silver spoons buy high ranking positions?
My Vet (Billy, loose cannon) was a Sergeant from a nearby PDF who's crime was having an affair with a commisar's daughter. My Zealot (Mary, Scott) was charged with excessive use of force resulting in damage The Emperor's Property (a Church) when she killed a suspected heretic priest. My Psyker (Jack, Savant) worked with an Eldar ranger to bring down a Slaanesh cult, and for the crime of collaberating with Xeno was sent to the penal legion. My Ogryn (John, Slavic) was in the wrong place at the wrong time, he actually did nothing.
Considering that these ogryns are pretty smart (reloads ripper guns and stubbers by themselves), these ogryns are pretty much scouted by the inquisition. The crime charges might be a "negative reinforcement", I guess.
@@therandomlaniusedward2140 Honestly the ogryn are too smart in the game.
@@honeybadger6275honestly thats a good thing for us, if they made them lore-accurate, they wouldnt be fun to play, and the interactions wouldnt be as good
The fact that the Loner (unsanctioned) Psyker can control their powers at an equal level to the Savant makes me think they'd be truly amazing if properly trained.
That is a REALLY excellent point.
My Ogryn is an Orkryn. An Ork raiding party pillaged his homeworld, and being the inquisitive scamp he was, he chased a squig onto an Ork ship and was accidentally kidnapped.
He was raised by the Orks as he was "A biggun" and "A propah good scrappah!" until the Ork world was raidied by the Imperium. Lunk (Or BigLunk to the Orks) was deemed a heretic and was thrown onto a prison ship to be sent to a colony. Then the fire nation attacked....
This is pretty great
The thing about the seer psycher possibly *just* being insane and actually only hearing stuff their mind makes up, doesn't really work, because their "beloved" does seem to feed them information that they propably shouldn't know.
So i do believe it is a warp entity of some kind.
The line about their Beloved mentioning that Felinids exist comes to mind.
As does the commentary about Abbadon.
only one of my characters has a headcannon: my zealot
she was a sister of battle, specifically a sister repentia, who was the only one to survive an encounter
there she stood, drenched in blood, when she was found and immediately taken to prison because of what she saw
why was she repentia? well she kept shouting something about blood for a god and skulls for a throne...
Patricia: Cadian Cutthroat Veteran, Very bitter about Cadia but does care deep down about the imperium.
Alossia: Zealot. Former Redemptions. Burned down a hab-block. is happy to be able to do it and get paid.
Robbie: Ogryn. Has no idea why he's there.
Khepli: Savant Psyker. Egositcal but kind-hearted
A psyker sold me corpse starch in the underhive of Tertium
My Cadian vet was working as a mercenary until a string of bad jobs with increasingly shady clients ended with him getting busted by Moebian enforcers, where he was further charged with Dereliction of Duty after he was identified as a Militarium deserter. Before going MIA after the Fall of Cadia, his record indicated he had served with a unit seconded to a different Inquisitor to investigate the various plagues and insurgencies that erupted around the sector during the Black Crusade. He was flagged as an ideal candidate for Grendel’s warband and transferred over as a reject. While not happy to be forced back into the service of the Imperium, he finds a renewed purpose in fighting defend Atoma and slowly begins to redeem himself as a warrior.
Psykers are top tier freaks of nature
0:22 I’ll have you know that is the beloved haircut of my Veteran Guardsman Ser “Nefarious Grundel”
Theres a rare voice line where the psyker talks about a voice that sounds like his beloved, trying to lure him towards a castle of blue and purple fire in his dreams but he doesnt listen...
I've heard that one! Veerrrrryyyy suspicious
That suggests to me it really is the emperor normally
If the Savant can tell the difference, then the lure sucks and nonbos with the normal voice, ergo the Beloved is not a daemon
@@hesperosshamshael2873its not the Emperor.
For one, GW would never allow that. Him talking to Robute in Godblight (I think that was the book) was a huge deal. There's no way they just casually let Fatshark have some random mook canonically be best buds with the Emperor.
Also I haven't really played since launch, but IIRC, the psyker's beloved cracks jokes (or at least isn't entirely humourless) and is intimated to care about the psyker in some capacity. The Emperor can barely string together a semi-coherent sentence when talking to his son, and had to literally fragment his personality and cast his compassion out into the warp in order to kill Horus.
His beloved is 400% a demon and the implication that it could be the Emperor is just for fun.
@@youtubecommentmanguy Why not? The idea is that it's a random fragment of the Emperor, that may have different personality aspects/sense of humor/general coherency than the actual Emperor's body on the golden throne; after all, it is a fragment of the emperor's personality, his compassion and feeling. There's no reason you couldn't rule that one of those many fragments ended up in the mind of some random dude. And if it DID end up in the mind of some random dude, you know what I'd expect the symptoms to be? Mild/Severe insanity and the manfiestation of powerful psychic abilities.
The fact that the "beloved" actually does help the Psyker by giving them useful information as they fight the forces of Chaos implies that it's probably not a Demon - even if it were the Demon of another Chaos God, it probably wouldn't actively help the Psyker fight back a Nurgle invasion just for funsies. While their dialogue is often inconsistent, Beloved does seem to genuinely want the Psyker to make it out okay. It could be some other warp entity, but the idea that it's the Emperor isn't just the most funny possibility, but I also think it's the most fitting. And, in lieu of any evidence to the contrary, I also think it's the most likely? LIke, if it's not a Demon, it's probably not a warp entity God from some other species (like an Eldar entity or something), and it's not just a figment of their imagination, I genuinely don't think it's probable that the beloved is anything else.
People were questioning why a bunch of rejects were given a toothpick known as a relic blade. A literal ancient weapon only a select few can even wield and what can be consider a family hierloom for powerful clans/families. But people should understand that Zealots are basically living saints and that is a rarity even compared to space marines. Like its a rough estimation but 1 living saint can equal an entire platoom of marines. Their use doesnt come from the firepower they bring but their power of faith and somehow being a literal walking propagand machine. Its right for Zealots to wield the relic blade with this kind of status especially one with high trust.
zealots are not living saints. zealots are literally just fanatical people who throw themselves at enemies of man. they're the ecclisarchy's version of a guardsmen basically.
you also have to remember that the Rejects' weapons are all peeled off of corpses. It's entirely possible those relic blades belonged to commanders who had no heir to their political dynasties, so Grendyl's men probably swooped it up, had Brunt tinker with it a bit, and sent it off to the Rejects.
Pro-zealot propaganda and as a fellow Zealot main I'm so here for it.
@@theinternetpolice2078"Sir, we found this weird big power sword"
Zealots find out and are soon all queing up demanding dibs.
To be fair, despite being rejects the player characters get their hands on a lot of weapons that theoretically an expendable grunt like themselves wouldn’t have a chance to get their hands on. The Veteran can get their hands on bolter weapons and a power sword. The Psyker get their hands on a wide array of force weaponry. The Zealot, minus the relic sword, get their hands on a bolt pistol, flamer, an eviscerator, and power weaponry. The Ogryn get heavy weapons like the twin-linked and heavy stubbers and power mauls.
It’s most likely due to the fact that the warband we’re a part of strips what ever it can find from the battlefield into the hands of our rejects and because we’re a part of a Inquisition warband to begin with, which allows to get our hands on some pretty sweet toys.
Jo: Ogryns are big dumb loveable goofballs
He's still lovable!
I've never said this out of shame, but I would love to have ratlings as a fifth class. Hobbit sniper with an awful attitude would be a sick personality type to bounce off of from the rest of the cast.
Or a "Bilba Squelchfoot" if you know warhams
Shame has no place here! Having sour attitude small guys that argue with Ogryns about rations would be fun.
I heard somwhere they wanted to make a halfling class but it didnt work hight wise.
snipers don't work well when they cant see past their allies or the first line of the enemies
Since we're sharing characters, I'll share mine:
Psyker: Aleric, a young hive ganger. Technically a voidborn, the ship Aleric was born on landed on a hive planet soon after his birth, and his parents had been passengers, not members of the ship's crew. They settled down on the hive planet to try to find work, but things progressed as they usually do in the 40k universe, and due to sickness, Aleric was left an orphan, and found his way into a rough crowd. His gang had a run-in with a local group of religious philanthropists deep in the underhive, and Aleric experienced his first premonition, giving him a gut feeling something was off about them. After some needling, he got his gang to act on it, and they discovered they were a newly-settled Genestealer cult, still young enough to not be a major threat. Needless to say, the gang exterminated them. However, they were caught in the act by enforcers, and never got a chance to secure evidence of their discovery, so the people of the underhive basically demanded their execution. Some of them were executed, some were servitorized, and some were sent to penal legions as part of the blood tithe. Aleric was in the last group. However, his psychic awakening happened in transport, and he was moved to a ship better equipped to deal with him, where he ended up on an Inquisitorial prison barge headed to Atoma. His experiences have left him embittered and spiteful.
Veteran: Garret, a Cadian veteran. Garret, sadly, wasn't on Cadia when the 13th Black Crusade took place. His regiment had been seconded to another planet to deal with a Tyranid invasion, which Garret survived, often by the skin of his teeth. Many members of his squad died in the fighting, but he and a handful of others lived to return home. However, he received news of Cadia's fall while en route, and rather predictably broke. First accusing the messenger of lying, he started a fight and had to be restrained. He was court-martialled shortly after the incident, but because of the circumstances of his break, he was sent to a penal legion rather than executed. This is how he ended up en route to Tertium.
Zealot: Gloriosa, a death-cult assassin. Raised among the members of the Chalice of the Blood Oath, a minor sanguinary death cult devoted to seeking out traitors in the name of Saint Messelina, Gloriana took part in the attempted murder of a high-ranking Ecclesiarch whose name had been cleared of multiple accusations of heresy. They discovered the opportunity to strike had in fact been a trap and their attempt was foiled, and they were to be executed, but before the execution date, an Inquisitorial sweep stole the lot of them away, having decided that such brazen fearlessness might - MIGHT - be worth something in the coming days, with danger looming on the horizon for Atoma Prime.
I'd share my Ogryn, too, but honestly his backstory would probably be kinda boring in comparison to the last three.
Edit: I misspelled Gloriosa as Gloriana for some reason. I actually named her Gloriosa after a poisonous red flower.
My Psyker is a Dark age Human who was a soldier for the Federation from before the Imperium, put into crypsleep and found by the Imperium, he forgot most everything of who he was, except his name due to it being on his uniform. He was slated to just be Emperor food until he helped save souls on the ship when Heretics attacked, now he serves as a sanctuoned psyker to continue his fight for Humanity being a loyal soldier Psyker.
My character is a ogryn bodyguard personality. Basically he was a slave born on mornax. toiling away in the planets mines. But he ended up meeting a commissar, who was so impressed with his ability to work 16 hour shifts of INSANELY grueling labor to the point many higher ups in the imperium would consider it a form of torture too far he was recruited. But then, due to his, and a bunch of other ogryns act of insubordination on komlar(Holding big hill from heretics and protecting the little ones for 3 days.) he was arrested and sentenced to death, were the events of darktide play out! Personally I think my operative (Snorble Grumblegut) will rejoin the guard after the events of darkide, and will join nork deddog as one of the highest ranking ogryns in the galaxy! "PROTECT DA LITTLE UNS!!!"
My veteran was an algae farmer that was swept up in a tithe was sent to many battles in the domain. Being a joker the higher ups did not like him and he was set to be executed. However, thanks to some favors being called in by people who had blackmail on the higher ups, he was transferred to a prison regiment. And now he gets to die on a hive planet. He has mix feelings on it.
I feel the Zealots are quite chill about Ogryns ingame, while they sometimes yell specific slurs to them, their bad manners extend more profusely towards the group overall, only really displaying actual hatred towards psyckers
When the game first came out, the Zealots talked a LOT of shit about Ogryns not having souls, being filthy mutants, etc. At least in the games I played they did.
I do hope our rejects get to visit or fight on the nearby worlds
As for my characters:
Kyra: a sister in wrath zealot from the world Crucis who enacted a war of faith on the planet Mornax but was falsely accused of heresy through subterfuge within a subgroup of her mission.
Noxia: a psyker from Rocyria driven out by her tribe and reported to the Inquisition, which resulted in being conscripted. Her powers indirectly burned out her eyes but can still sense those around her.
Joss: a former vox comms officer from Pavane that refused to relay orders that would result in abandoning an injured squad of guardsmen.
Am I off my meds, or have we never played a mission together? At least not in a while, right?
Short backgrounds of my characters.
Veteran: Just a simple professional whose seen his fair share of battles. Attempts to do his job efficiently even if its now reject work. Finds nothing better than a trusty las recon and catachan weapon.
Zealot: My Zealot is actually a hiver whose dedicated to the Emperor in a crusading way. She wears a lot of work equipment that you'd see in factories and other workshops as she can't afford a priestly attire. (And because Fatshark will never add a repentia outfit.)
My Psyker is a Savant, prior Enforcer who worked alone, tracking down important targets but not too important that would require outside influence to be taken into account. She's dressed much like a bounty hunter, prefers to use a gun to hide her innate Psyker abilities. Unfortunately, when someone higher up realized she was a psyker working alone and without a handler, the Enforcers she worked with were also punished, as was she.
Ogryn: Lovable Brute who often forgets what he's doing. He'll stop commonly in missions and ask where the "Hairy-ticks are.". Only to forget a few minutes later and come to a clarvoyant discovery of. "Waitaminute... These ARE the hairy-ticks!" He's mostly along for the ride, waiting for this alleged invasion to start while simultaneously not realizing he's participating in it.
You are so criminally underrated. I haven't seen someone explain Warhammer as entertainingly nor as witty since I found out about Isyander and Koda. You're a legend.
My zealot, Sire Tademar (Agitator) comes from a noble family with a legacy of saints and crusades. He was born a bastard child, and has been looked down upon his whole life. In his younger years he held a high, but tedious position in the ecclesiarchy and studied various holy texts. After coming of age, he heard of the heresy on Atoma Prime and was outraged. In an effort to prove himself to his family and to honor his legacy, he traveled to the Mourningstar and began helping the Inquisition by fighting alongside their kill teams with his bolt pistol and relic blade.
6:11 my personal head canon is that’s not actually Abbadon’s hair, but actually an Ork hair squig. Because Abbadon is evil due to his baldness he inherited from his dad and he’s just stuck in his rebellious teen years
Yooo i always said the same! Its the hair squig! And my headcanon is that it is sucking blood from Abbadon’s brain, making him evil and tactically inept.
@@MrVlad12340 “what’s that on the Warmaster’s head?” “Brain sucking hair squig.” “Aw, poor thing’s gonna starve :(“
Great video! Love the humor and broader explanations since I'm quite new to 40k in general. Darktide is one of my first Warhammer games and I am rather shocked at how much I love it. My favorite class by far is the Zealot. I like all the specs, but Fury of the Faithful is my favorite spec to play. I picked the male Judge because I love his voice and he's just so over the top.
Thanks so much for watching!
Veteran class truly is the most fun. No super strenght, no magic and no faith miracles. Just a dude with a gun fighting eldricht horrors.
I like to think my beloved is the Emperor, but it would be really funny if it was Tzeentch helping our siblings to fuck with Nurgle's day
I'm pretty sure it IS the voice of the Emperor. I've heard people theorize it's specifically his sense of humor, and I really like that.
Ok, the cat thing got me. Well played
Being fuzzy and cute is his only redeeming quality. Thanks for the sub!
Really enjoyed this. Please do the reject personalities next!
I will add that to my list of ideas!
Great video. Just got the game a week ago. First played as the zealot. Made her look like a sister of battle. Now im playing a psyker. Been having fun slaughtering hordes of heretics and talking on the bosses.
Thanks for watching!
One of my favourite veteran dialogues is when a normal and cadian vet talk to each other. The normal one mentions hiw the current situation isn't as bad as the situations they've been and rhe cadian basically responds with "YOU'RE NOT FROM CADIA you don't know how bad it is"
I really do love the fact that inquisitors are mostly psykers to some degree and they are one of the most powerful group in the setting
I cried when I heard "Cadia"
My zealot is a tanky small angry farm lady.
My veteran is a harsh incredibly unfriendly Cadian named Pompey. Born and raised to fight in the Guard he was arrested for insubordination which ended up saving around 10 men. Pompey was promptly arrested a little bit after the Fall of Cadia and sent to die. He only gets along with other veterans and Ogryns. All he really cares about is duty above all else.
CHORG HELP LITTLE FRIENDS. CHORG WONDERS WHERE ARE GIRL OGRYNS. CHORG CAN BASH CHORG CAN ALSO SHOOT. THIS CHORG'S STORY. OGRYN IS BEST.
Chorg good ogryn. Here are some extra rations for you.
10:46 this is REALLY well made! Watched this WAAAAAY too long into the night!
3:45 Commissar Dukane's from Thracian Primaris, she says it in her third diary entry
You are 100% correct. I missed that in Journal 3.
@Jo_Plays_Games all good, it was one mention in the largest paragraph, the guard works to have all commissars come from a different place then the people they're around with in an effort to prevent familiarity and fraternization
My headcanon for my zealot is that he is fueled by a golden age stash of four loko that he found so im glad im not the only one who gets the caffeine and alcohol vibe
My veteran (Cameron, loose cannon), was a dockguard in incron's planetary militia. He was caught letting a smuggler off the hook (despite such things being commonplace), and wound up in the situation he is now. I've gone out of my way to use the cheapest blue guardsman outfit I can get to show that he was in an aquatic-themed pdf.
Finally a worthy video,
THIS MEAL WILL BE LEGENDARY!
The obey my cat line gave me a good chuckle 😂
My two rejects:
-Lupus (Vet, Cutthroat) - decorated guard officer who objected to a general's suicidal orders
-Zara (Zealot, Judge) - devout preacher who accused the wrong people of lacking faith in big E
awesome video, as always. i love the psyker loner. his pseudo german accent is so fun to listen to. btw, he is the same voice actor that also voices ogryn lines. how awesome ist that.
My psykers crime was to like humans more than the empire and was talking bad things like "free will" "common sense" and worst of all "maybe not all xenos are inherently bad"
Male loner psyker is a treat. He reminds me of Saltzpyre. It's so crazy the one actor does both voices!
Honestly, your psyker is very lucky he wasn't immediately shot, considering he's also unsanctioned. XD
Something interesting about some missions seem to take place at the same time for the rejects implying there is likely different groups of “the rejects”
(theory crafting) But the closest to a callsign our rejects get is actually the hardest penance to currently get name.
Survive havoc 35 of high without anyone going down. Called “the insane”
Being the only penance which’s icon is literally each reject: zelot, veteran, pysker & Oygrn. In the similar poses to the ones on the title screen.
While probably unlikely it is funny to think about considering the dialogue wolfer has about us in missions
“Theres only four of them how hard is it to kill them?” (Roughly from memory)
what he says about “us” being one of the few to people to refer to our rejects. I like the idea of our rejects being canon-esc to a degree rather than nameless characters.
From whatever armor unlock description to most recent invitations to attempt to join the 53rd on some of their missions from the commissar dukane.
Morrow surely has got his valued impossible milage out of the rejects.
You can technically do a challenge of a zero death character theoretically get “the insane” penance if you dont like how it’s technically not canon if you die… if you so please for a “perma-death” run
My ogryn’s name is thud. He got his name because that’s the sound his head made when his mum dropped him. Thud spent his days as a humble algae farmer, and occasionally fending off raiders with his naval cannon of a shotgun. One day while running errands for the boss, he ran into and almost crushed a commissar. The commissar, noting the mountain of beef that is thud, convinced him to join up with the guard. Thud doesn’t remember much, just the shiny little one mentioned lots of rations. From there, it was off the races for thud.
I only have one reject currently and he's a veteran.
he came from the water planet, I don't remember its name. but he has basically spent his entire life in the military structure. As a kid, he was conscripted into the local militia, and that basically instilled a sense of loyalty in him. so the second he got a chance to he enlisted and eventually reach the rank of a non-commissioned officer or a sergeant and he would still be in the guard if a snobbish officer didn't blame him for something he didn't do
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I didn’t really make much for my Ogryn, but he's basically a leader of an Ogryn squadron, he got lost in the Warp which fried his Bonehead implant, and when he came back, he was imprisoned because he didn’t seem to be as loyal to the Emperor as he used to be.
I really need to work on it more.
My head-cannon for my Zealot Gherick is that he was raised as a progena at the behest of a Preacher who took a liking to him after discovering that he had roused a group of his fellow hive children into killing a foreman he accused of being a witch (he wasn’t, Gherick just didn’t like the guy). At the Schola he was exposed to the great sermons of the Ecclesiarchy, and further developed his unrivaled flair for the dramatic, eventually being trained as a Confessor. He began to think of himself as nothing more than a performer, and he slowly went mad as he lost himself in playing his own character. Now a caricature of a preacher, he doesn’t even “hate” the heretic per se, only doing so to the extent that he acts as his character would. His love for the Emperor is equally a sort of facade, as it is merely a love for the aesthetics and verbiage of the Imperial Cult that he has confused for a love of the God Emperor.
In his later years, he got in some trouble with the Ministorum when he organized an unsanctioned frateris militia against a noble family he figured would be a good target for a purging. He was unsuccessful at purging. He was in the process of being interrogated before execution when, luckily for him, the noble family turned out to coincidentally be involved in some light Chaos worship and, thinking the Ecclesiarchy was on to them, they exposed themselves by attempting an assassination on a local cardinal. After the Ecclesiarchy dealt with the situation, Gherick was still excommunicated from the Cult, but his sentence was commuted to one of hard labor rather than death. Whereupon he was saved by Zola.
I find the Zealot hilarious, because they are indirectly harnessing the Warp by invoking Holy Power through their faith in the God Emperor. Mega Heresy
My loose cannon Veteran Liari grew up on branx magna and at a young age joined a gang making her way through life with sticky fingers and quick wits. When recruited into the militarum under the 53rd she served in a few battles with her focus being survival first, objectives second. Her apparent cowardice and being caught red handed stealing from a commisar landed her on the path to the penal legion.
15 hours best audiobook by warhammer40k u did the guardsmen good with this one
Thanks!
15:45
"My beloved asks why we continue to allow these Chaos worshipers to exist"
"My mind once almost wandered into the realms of chaos you know. If it weren't for my beloved, I may have wandered a little too close"
And then there's a few where he talks about Tarra only remember a few of them, but I honestly think that it actually might be a sliver of the emperor 's psyche that split off and is now just kind of clinging on to whoever it can to talk to.
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Head canon for my Rejects:
Veteran - Former Tank Commander, ran Devil Dog pattern Hellhounds before being given command of a Leman Russ squadron, leading from his Executioner pattern Leman Russ. Sacked for insubordination because he didn't abandon a position against approaching Genestealer Cultists.
Psyker - She is an Enforcer with insanely good luck. She doesn't realize that she is a Psyker, and always just assumed targets that started burning with blue flames were a result of something they wore when her Lasgun hit them. Weird how others burn normal though.
Zealot - Under Hive Urchin and Cutthroat turned Confessor and attached to the Moebian's. He was mistaken for a deserter when he was found lost and struggling to find friendlies to warn about Wolfer going traitor.
Ogryn - Thud hits good. Thud gets into loads of fights. Thud was brought to the planet as a prize fighter. Thud was let out for a walk. Thud got picked up by angry boys who called him abomination. Thud got penned up in a cage. Thuds cage got broke. Thud saved boss lady Zola. Thud hero.
My Psyker is a quirky Seer. He is always talking to someone that he calls his beloved.
Most people think he is crazy, insane, or a freak, but his beloved let's him know not to get angry or teased by the others and stand strong.
Though because of his mannerisms, it was mistaken as misplaced faith and into the reject pile he gets thrown in.
With stuff hitting the fan, he prooves himself to be a very up tight loyalist.
Though there are a few thoughts that can make very few think it is Tzeentch's big plan to take Nurgle out of the picture.
You know, KrakDuk’s vid on Cadia just shows how crazy the whole event was. It certainly is an amazing videos to see if you never knew much about it.
Cant wait for a speculation vid on the latest episode. So many vids of demons and the cult i wanna know what you think they were tryna do with that corpse and all those stims.
Love ur vids!
Thanks so much! I'm working on a full breakdown of The Dark Communion right now, I suspect it will be quite a long script.
@@Jo_Plays_Games I'm so keen! Patient though you make that script as long as you want cause arrrrrgh WHERE DID HIS SOUL GO???
Like did he skedaddle to the warp or are we gonna have to track down that soul ghostbusters style? I am so down for a Ghostbusters mission.
@a_brick_wall4872 spoiler alert - I'm not convinced that was HIS soul.
@@Jo_Plays_GamesOoooooooh you've big thinkin cap on I hadn't considered that.
My Ogryn, Kronk, can't remember why he was on the prison ship when the shouting started, but knows that he likes the noises it makes when you throw a box of grenades and it hits a heretic in the head
15:27 My theory is the Seer Psyker is talking directly to us, the player, breaking the 4th wall. - This kinda makes sense when it says "my beloved guieded me", because we are controlling the Seer Psyker actions.
My Loose Cannon Veteran has survived multiple deployments, fought different kinds of zenos, saved plenty of his brothers and sisters in arms but he got arrested for covering up his Civillian Relief Rations with ground-up rodent flesh.
Andreas De Reuter (Professional Veteran): Former Sergeant of the Moebian 13th Regiment, "The Stormrangers." His platoon's commander was wounded during the later days of the Haxorn Campaign, and the replacement was... less than ideal, to put it mildly. He dished out constant punishments for smallest inconveniences. At first, De Reuter figured this new lieutenant would not stay for long and be dismissed by company command. However, during an operation against Orks, he decided to direct the platoon into a frontal attack instead of the planned flank manoeuvre. All squad leaders, including De Reuter, objected. Enraged, the lieutenant shot one of them in the leg and threatened to execute anyone who disobeyed him. De Reuter finally had enough and knocked him out with a shovel. Given the impressive service record, he was sentenced to secondment to a penal legion instead of execution.
Sebille Courbet (Savant Psyker): A former Tertium Enforcer. Her idealism and philanthropy often put her at odds with some of the less principled colleagues. The turning point was the discovery of a scheme involving the infamous Water Cartel who bribed the Enforcer Bastion command to look the other way while they ran their bloody business in the Torrent. The higher-ups decided to get rid of the nosy Witch, erased the records confirming Courbet's Sanction and fabricated charges of dereliction of duty against her.
Augustus Layrand (Fanatic Zealot): A pilgrim from Messelina Gloriana. A fervent follower of Sebastian Thor's teachings, he once discovered the horrid state of one of the worker hab blocks on Branx Magna. After learning of the unjust tithes imposed upon them by a noble, Layrand made a speech that roused the downtrodden labourers to a mass strike. As the disgruntled noble arrived at the halted manufactorum with armed escort, he ordered to fire a few shots at the crowd, killing and wounding several men. Fueled with zeal, the crowd overpowered the escort and immobilised the noble, and Layrand beat him nearly to death as punishment for abuse of the Emperor's loyal servants. Only the arrival of local Enforcers could stop him from completely ending the noble's life.
Metzger (Ogryn Bodyguard): De Reuter's companion from Mornax. Though Metzger served separately from his Boss in the Moebian 13th Ogryn Auxilia unit, the latter often visited him to remind him that he's not alone. Unknowing of De Reuter's arrest on Haxorn, he continued to serve till the incident on Komlar, where the Ogryns have defended the taken hill against heretic attacks for three days. In attempt to save face and not be ousted as cowards by the astonishingly brave actions of the Auxilia, the high command ordered all Ogryns who were on that hill arrested and sent to a distant penal colony.
My veteran nicknamed "Old man Joe" by his squad mates, took the blame for a mission gone wrong to protect the rest of his squad.
My Psyker is from a regiment that serves a marine chapter and was charting the Mobian sector when they got captured and imprisoned now directly fighting within the conflict and slowly finding their brother and sisters of the guard who were sent out by Their regiment like him; now they are trying to stay alive and survive this war in order to *MAYBE* get the hell out. head canon is fun.
My seer Psyker is a former street side fortune teller/grifter who snapped when he started hearing voices from his “beloved”. He was considered unfit to keep his sanctioned status and was being carted off to Terra to become a sacrifice for the Throne. The fight or flight nature of the war against the 6th helped him (mostly) get his wits back, but still has problems zoning out/acting odd.
I am John Darktide, first of my name. That is all.
Good thing you're on our side.
My Veteran, Markus "Bones" Hadel one of the few humans in 40k that actually loves his job (regardless of what the voicelines may say) was once apart of a Kasrkin Kill-Team deployed to Messelina Gloriana in order to provide support to the local PDF and Mobien Troops by acting as Special Forces and to advise and oversee the training of Stormtrooper Companies so they have their own elite shock troops in their fight against the Darktide. He took Wolfer and the 6th betrayal personally as they sent the Kasrkin Squad into an enemy ambush with Cadian blood spilled and his found-family dead Hadel had nothing to loose so went Renegade going on a revenge quest to kill wolfer and his lackies waging a one-man guerrilla war against the 6th but was soon captured by a squad of Adeptus Arbites so was thrown into a prison ship instead of being executed by the Commissariat and was inbound to Atoma Prime to face trial soon breaking himself out of prison having gladly accepted Zola's offer but even if he didn't would've tried to find a shuttle and went after Wolfer himself.
He has a much longer backstory but that's the stuff that's relevant to Darktide.
Brian my veteran: it’s him Brian. A pretty chill dude
Erika my zealot: literally just my dnd character. She killed a commissar one time
Rock my ogryn: likes rocks
Tim my psyker: “don’t worry sir I can be trusted with a firearm, I’m mentally stable”
This is a reminder that the Zealot does shout "Blood for the Emperor! Skulls for the Golden Throne!" But this is fine.
My Professional Veteran is an greying old man who was raised in the Schola Progenium and was slated to join the Tempestus Scions after 30 years of decorated service.
Then he and his best friend (my Ogryn character) ended up accidentally tripping a passing magistrate and got sent to jail
Hair style choice is "just fuck up my whole life, fam"
Funny enough, my Vet (Loose Cannon) and Ogryn (Brawler) searved together in my head canon. Vet was a Cadian Tanker Sergent who befriended a group of the Orgyn Infantry platoon after they covered their flanks in an engagement.
I love how ogryns are characterized in darktide. It's a stark difference from how derpy the fandom made them out to be.
My Veteran, Damien, grew up in the mines of Mornax. He worked as a tunnel sentry, and was later conscripted into the Guard. His time in the Guard was difficult, but with the guiding hand of his Sergent, he grew to become a model guardsman. The Sergent ended up giving her own life to save him, which weighs heavily on his mind. Her replacement was a bloodthirsty fool, seeming more interested on sending men to death rather than victory. Damien, still freshly traumatized by his beloved Sergent's death, in a fit of grief and rage, insulted the replacement officer, going so far as to say he "spat on the memory of the real Sergent." The replacement then accused Damien of dereliction, sending him on a one way trip to a prison barge.
I chose the Cadian background for my Veteran, it felt right and I love the voicelines that go along with it. Cadia Stands.
Cadia Stands!
The story of my oygrn Brik, he was raised on a mining planet and was a labour till he joined the militia where he learned how to read perfectly but he just pretends he doesn’t know what things say just because he knows normal lil uns doubt smart oygrns like himself. The bone ead upgrade is just a nice bonus, but that reading capability also caused him to read something he wasn’t supposed
My psyker (called Mithicus because he is mithic and all that british naming convention) was native to Atoma, and lived in the middle part of the hive city.
He joined the militia at the first opportunity he had, to seek approval from the people around him, and after surviving a pyrrhic victory against a gang where only he survived, he was taken by a black ship by a militia officer who saw the psyker's potential and protected him from all racism until the Sisters of Silence arrived.
After that he became a sanctioned psyker, he went to the planet of Crucis to serve the militia there, but was made a reject after he asked a Ministorum Agent if the corpse ration was really made of corpses because it really tasted like it, and the rest is history.
My Zealot character grew up on Messelina Gloriana, and having been raised on a shrine world dedicated to such an important figure, felt compelled to join the civilian militia that defended the various temples and other holy sites on the planet. However, after uncovering a budding xenos cult within his local hab block and subsequently dispensing the Emperor's justice, the narrative spun by his peers painted him as an unhinged murderer who made up an excuse to go AWOL. The Ecclesiarchy caught wind of this and threw him in jail for dereliction of duty.
Space marines: We are the best of the best of the imperium
Ogryn: Rock is friend
Adeptus Custode: Hold my beer, just have to carry a war without support
My Vet (Marius) was a member of the IG during the Fringe War campaign. Was lost in the Warp and their ship was claimed as defecting to the enemy. Whole ship got slapped for insubordination.
Zealot (Zeal), was a little too trigger-happy with her church's relic flamethrower (there were heretics in front of her).
My psyker (Jester-Lavorre) just spoke at the wrong time at the wrong person.
Ogryn (Ingerland) got rowdy at an Ogrynball tournament, having caught, thrown, and killed the planetaty governor with the ball (by accident, he wasn't even aiming at him, mind). Any attempts on execution would have brought the stadium down on everyone, so they instead sent him to the Penal Legion.
My other Vet (Maria) also mouthed off to an officer, during a scheduled repositioning (she thought it was a retreat). She wasn't alone, and therefore she wasn't the only Cadian to end up in the Tancred Bastion.
I don’t have much more for my Psyker yet, but I have named the demon you hear when your peril gets high. His name is Steve :)
Oh my god. I love this.
My Veteran is Sly Garbo, estranged cousin of Sly Marbo. Instead of being a one-man wraith of death he’s just a really good marksman and squad leader.
Sly Marbo threw a grenade, killed 5 orks, and then it exploded. Sly Garbo threw a grenade to kill 5 orks before retreating to a vantage point and covering his comrades as they reposition.
He’s also a loose cannon because unlike his cousin he chose humor to cope instead of RAAAAAAAA
My psyker, Namiria (savant), was an orphqn born and living on the ocean world and tried to get by by selling leaches, then her psychic awakening came during a bad storm that swept the ocean. In that storm she heard whispers and voices, not in her head, but feom below the waves. These forces calmed the warp in her mind. She became a servant of these voices but also kinda their child and looked at the world for them. At one point she joined the enforcers to gives the beings below the waves more to observe but at one point she was found out, she had a psychic overload but was saved by an eldrich light. So off to the inquisition she was sent to study this phenominon. Still, she can hear the voices from her homeworld and feel their presence. This is the reason she sometimes mutters about drowning when quelling the perils of the warp, she isn't feeling like drowning, instead she tries to drown the warp in her mind.
The Seer's Beloved possesses information and makes remarks that the Psyker simply could not know otherwise.
They (it? Him?) also know about the Psyker's temptation regarding Tzeench, and seem to be actively working to prevent their corruption, which is not behaviour one would expect from a Daemon.
I play ogryn. I have pet rock. Rock loves hugs. He has rebar inside so he hugs everyone. Gave him big googly eyes and smile
Considering that each reject is sent on their first mission behind enemy lines without even a gas mask, realistically they will get purged after a successful mission or two. No wonder the warband goes through rejects like M&Ms
While it might be the emperor's voice the seer is hearing, there is another voice you can hear when you hit high peril and quell things like "the grandfather has you now" or is that just the roar of the warp
"Ahh yes, my beloved told me you'd say that..."
Psyker...how many arms does the Emperor have?
"Why that's a silly question, but if you insist.. four."
Ohh boy..
0:40 meat and potatoes? what are you a high lord of terra? it’s the corpse starch
Lol, you got me there.
The rejects would simply be the everyday Heroes of the Imperium. No fate has ever smiled on the emperors champions, but they still get the work done.
At this point I got two of my friends to name their Zealots sister and brother. So you got Sister Anna( me), Brother Jacob, and Sister Nanami.
My Zealot is a Cadian survivor, having lost his eye to warp magic being used against him and was pulled from the front lines. Having survived the battle, and becoming one of the endangered species, he was given task by the Adeptus Ministorum, as who better to speak the word of the Emperor than one who had been spared of death twice? He was about to go on pilgrimage to Atoma to see the Saintly Cathedrals and speak the word of the Emperor when he was caught up with a small PDF on one of the nearby worlds. It was a simple thing, dealing with an uprising, but when he executed the Captain of the PDF for heresy (unknown if it was real or not) he was made an example of.
He was shackled, weapons, armor, and money stripped of him, and sent to die. As fate had it, he was able to slip away from that fate once more, and now stands with his Relic Blade, reclaimed armor, and has once more become the Crusader of the Emperor.
My Ogryn is named Hammer Beatnail. He doesn't remember where he came from, but knew he had to help all the lil'uns! He runs with a slab shield and ripper, shouting for his allies to get behind him while he draws fire!
I see we're writing our characters'lore here, so here is go:
Bortan:(Male seer psyker) originally from pavane, and as the imperial laws and the faith were a new developement in his village and was well liked by his people, he wasnt handed over to the inquisition when he had his psykic awakening while herding grox/farming algae one day. Believing his powers granted to him by the Emperor himself, he decided to use it to help his people the only way he could: tell their fortunes and help in achieving the good ones.
While on one of these helping trips, his psykic energy was detected, and he was found when he questioned why a deacon would need THAT much gold on their clothes.
Genevieve:(Female fanatic Zealot)
Hailing from incron, the "water life" was in her blood, and she used her great diving/dredging skills to recover lost church artifacts she read about in the church's school books. One day, she found an ancient and really holy one at that, but a jealous coworker claimed she dug it up instead. When Genevieve tried desperately tried explaning this to the local deacon, she was arrested for insubordination
Amberdine:(female loose cannon to professional veteran)
From Cadia, though it's far from obvious: She lived as a ganger/smuggler, orphaned at a young age due to... you know... we dont talk about it...
as she masterfully avoided recruitment for a long time, and made a lot of money with succesful crime sprees. Eventually she was recruited into a squad where she did the bare minimum she could get away with. During a fateful day, her sergeant saved her life, sacrificing hers.
Her sergeant was an incredible woman, who always believed in her, despite everything, so when her legacy was at risk of getting tarnished, Amberdine backtalked an officer and went to prison for seditious activity
Later in life, when she found out how her family and elders she looked up to in her childhood served, changing her attitude form "just survive" to "i do them dishonor by being like this", becoming a true soldier
Rokka(brawler ogryn)
From Mornax, where he spent his life as a mine guard, eventually having to joim the mining himself. One day during a mineshaft collapse, helped save a lot of (penal) miners by holding up the collapsed tunnel long enough, making him late for roll call, so they put him in prison for dereliction of duty.
I feel we skipped the giant killer fish in the water planet in that scooping algea bit.
I had made an ogrin called Bogus, he was an allege farmer and boy oh boy did he have a temper. People say all ogrin's are sweet boys, not Bogus.
I went with the "bully" personality and the amount of death threats I heard from my own character was at first shocking and then hilarious when I remembered that when Bogus said he would break the veteran in half for friendly fire he both meant it and could probably do it easily.
He also killed a plague ogrin with a rock once.
The loner psyker also sometimes will shout at the subtitles. Sadly this was nerfed. Yes Nerfed. The subtitles didn't use the correct word (four shortened that the subtitles says
foreshortened) The loner then yells at the subtitles that it's the wrong word, and demands the subtitles to pay attention to him. All of this last bit used to not be subtitled which was great since it was even more clear that the loner was yelling specifically at the subtitles. It was nerfed by now accurately subtitling what the loner says which defeats the whole original point.