-Loki- wrote:He he, Johnson.

LoneLictor wrote: 40k has generally avoided sexuality altogether (except in the case of Slaaneshi Worshippers and even then they're pretty vague) and so having an entire Legion be gay wouldn't be a good idea in the designer's eyes.

Jimsolo wrote:If they are gay, oh well. No one in 40k has sex anyway, so sexual preference is kind of moot.

Ailaros wrote:Racist? You know "dark" angels refers to the color of their... you know what, never mind.

LoneLictor wrote:

So, what are people's thoughts on this? I'd especially like to hear the opinions of Dark Angels players. How are you taking this startling revelation?

1) The first ever Black Library novel was Dan Abnett’s First and Only.
2) There are over two hundred Black Library books set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, as well as a host of audio dramas and art books.
3) Gobbledegook was a goblin comic character semi-regularly appearing in his own column in White Dwarf until about issue 100. In one issue he even teleported through a magical gateway and ended up fighting Space Marines.
4) All of the Space Marine Battles novels are based on famous battles that have appeared in codexes and rulebooks.
5) When designing the box game Space Marine it was too expensive to produce a xenos sprue, so after finding an obscure reference to an Imperial civil war in Rick Priestly’s original writings, the box included a red sprue and a blue sprue of Space Marines and the Horus Heresy was born!
6) Dan Abnett makes reference to this in Know No Fear, see if you can spot it...
7) Ian Watson’s novel Space Marine featured Zoats and Slann, long before they appeared in the Warhammer world.
8) The battle for Rynn’s World was first immortalised on the cover for Rogue Trader and has since been made into a novel by Steve Parker.
9) The first ever Space Marne Bike was called the ‘Vincent Black Shadow’.
10) Dan Abnett’s Colonel Commissar Ibram Gaunt appeared in novels before becoming a model and even getting his own rules in the previous edition of the Imperial Guard codex.
11) There have been six iterations of rules for Space Marines, each developing the army, adding in new units and characters, many of whom have gone on to feature in novels of their own.
12) Leman Russ is the only primarch to have had a model made of him.
13) It is a common misconception that orks speak to each other in thick cockney accents. In fact, they rarely use Gothic and instead converse in their own language.
14) One of the first uses of the phrase ‘Dakka Dakka’ was in the classic comic strip ‘Deff Skwadron’.
15) Space Marines featured briefly in an issue of Thrudd the Barbarian.
16) Games Workshop started a record label in the early nineties. They had a band called D-rok who sang heavy metal songs about 40k.
17) "Teef" are widely used as ork currency - they grow back very quickly. Value is determined by the size and width of the toof. It’s not uncommon for an ork to undergo "sergery" to fix a problem, and wake up with no teef left, and the Dok nowhere to be found.
18) Some ork stormboyz used to worship Khorne, but this was seen by other orks as being 'just a phase' and being a bit juvenile.
19) Orks are actually a fungal race, which might explain why they are so hard to kill.
20) Alpharius was the last of the primarchs to be rediscovered by the Emperor.
21) The word ‘Freki’, the name of one of Russ’s wolves means ‘fierce’ in Fenrisian.
22) Ferrus Manus was the first primarch to die at the hands of one of his brothers, during the Horus Heresy.
23) The symbol that Garro and his Knights Errant wear on their shoulder is actually Malcador’s ‘Eye’, not the commonly believed inquisitorial =][=.
24) The Sisters of Battle were originally called the ‘Brides of the Emperor’.
25) The primarch of the Dark Angels, Lion El’Johnson was named after a nineteenth century English poet, Lionel Johnson, who wrote a poem called ‘The Dark Angel’.

25) The primarch of the Dark Angels, Lion El’Johnson was named after a nineteenth century English poet, Lionel Johnson, who wrote a poem called ‘The Dark Angel’.

Steelmage99 wrote:

25) The primarch of the Dark Angels, Lion El’Johnson was named after a nineteenth century English poet, Lionel Johnson, who wrote a poem called ‘The Dark Angel’.

I don't think GW even thought about the gay part.
Back in the back most of the references weren't really that deep or thought-through. "Lionel Johnson wrote a poem called 'The Dark Angel'?...Cool, lets call the primarch of the Dark Angels Lion El'Johnson......", and that was pretty much as far as they thought.

20) Alpharius was the last of the primarchs to be rediscovered by the Emperor.

DeffDred wrote:

20) Alpharius was the last of the primarchs to be rediscovered by the Emperor.

I thought Lion El'Johnson was the last found.

First created, last found.
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LoneLictor wrote:Okay, I found it out. Look at this and this. And, if you're too lazy to read, let me summarize; The Dark Angels are gay. That was supposed to be their big secret. Yeah. Of course, they changed this secret to that half of their Legion fell to Chaos, because people realized that this was a bad idea. 40k has generally avoided sexuality altogether (except in the case of Slaaneshi Worshippers and even then they're pretty vague) and so having an entire Legion be gay wouldn't be a good idea in the designer's eyes.

So, what are people's thoughts on this? I'd especially like to hear the opinions of Dark Angels players. How are you taking this startling revelation?