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I just think someone was watching Doctor Who. They have a "Jack Harkness" ring to them. For those who don't follow the show, Captain Jack Harkness is a fixed "fact" of the Universe, like gravity. He can't die. He's been blown apart by bombs and still started knitting himself together from what was pretty much charred bone. It's not a biological regeneration so much as it is the Universe resetting to its default state. But they also have a bit of a Clara-vibe to them (again, Doctor Who). She's fractured through Time so keeps reoccurring like a pattern. At one point, she might be a barmaid, at another looking after kids on a space ship. But she always has the same basic personality and looks and even her life seems to keep echoing some basic template (looking after kids).

It's like someone got Doctor Who in the WH40K setting. And I reckon that's part of people's dislike. It's a late addition that doesn't quite fit with anything else in WH40K either tonally or in terms of the setting's science / metaphysics. *Maybe* they can work - but it's weird that they're suddenly added like this. It really is as if someone watched some Doctor Who or Highlander and thought "cool! lets add some secret immortals to the setting". Even though a secret controlling cabal doesn't really jibe with the doom-y doom entropy of the setting.

For anyone who is a long-term Shadowrun player / reader, we've been here before. A rich, well thought-out setting, then they added Immortal Elves who had been with us through history and had actually been various famous people. They were generally _hated_.

Question for others : Don't there seem to be two types of perpetuals?

Vulkan - Instant regen

Grammaticus seems to be reincarnated, new form. I don't think Slau Da or whomever is picking up his corpse.

Or did I just make this up myself?

No you didn´t. There are two types of perpetuals. Some are natural and others were created by the Cabal, a xeno alliance, some time in the past. They have been (both naturals and artificials) controlling humanity´s destiny since 10000 bc or before.

I am serious. Stupid as it seems, Grammaticus immortality is artificial, and Pius was an argonaut who had sex with Medea.

I refuse to give more explanations (there are more things to say) in order to protect what little is left of my sanity and dignity.