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Forgive me if this has been addressed before, but I couldn't find anything by searching.
This has been on my mind for a while. You know how pict-slate documents are sealed with a gene-key that pricks your finger and draws blood? Why not just poison it? Wouldn't that make the assassination of any bureaucrat or even inquisitor a piece of cake?

Has that been addressed at all by GW writers? It's a minuscule detail, but it sprang to mind the moment I first read about it.

I don't think GW writers have written about this but I am pretty sure that it has cropped up in their thoughts, nd the thoughts of others.

Good idea though.

Because GW has seen fit not to include the other 2 assassinorum temples in the fluff.

Poison would fall under the realm of the Venenum Temple, who is largely absent from canon, except for the mention of Urhua Thereaux in the 3rd edition Codex: Assassins, who was sent to assassinate the ruler of a renegade planet. The ship Thereaux was traveling on was caight in a warp roft for 698 years. Once the ship emerged, the assassin proceded to the planet, and found that the ruler had died and been replaced by a committee of 1,000 members. It was still anti-Imperial, so Thereaux spent 3 days poisoning the chairs of each member and killed all 1,000 of them.

shealyr wrote:Because GW has seen fit not to include the other 2 assassinorum temples in the fluff.

Poison would fall under the realm of the Venenum Temple, who is largely absent from canon, except for the mention of Urhua Thereaux in the 3rd edition Codex: Assassins, who was sent to assassinate the ruler of a renegade planet. The ship Thereaux was traveling on was caight in a warp roft for 698 years. Once the ship emerged, the assassin proceded to the planet, and found that the ruler had died and been replaced by a committee of 1,000 members. It was still anti-Imperial, so Thereaux spent 3 days poisoning the chairs of each member and killed all 1,000 of them.

Have a read of HH Nemesis. Includes Clades Venenum and Vanus.

Its Black Library, so depending on your point of view it is either canon, or not.

There's a great movie like that called "The Name of the Rose" check it out, it a murder mystery in a Catholic Monastery, but they used your idea kind of...

Mr. Burning wrote:

shealyr wrote:Because GW has seen fit not to include the other 2 assassinorum temples in the fluff.

Poison would fall under the realm of the Venenum Temple, who is largely absent from canon, except for the mention of Urhua Thereaux in the 3rd edition Codex: Assassins, who was sent to assassinate the ruler of a renegade planet. The ship Thereaux was traveling on was caight in a warp roft for 698 years. Once the ship emerged, the assassin proceded to the planet, and found that the ruler had died and been replaced by a committee of 1,000 members. It was still anti-Imperial, so Thereaux spent 3 days poisoning the chairs of each member and killed all 1,000 of them.

Have a read of HH Nemesis. Includes Clades Venenum and Vanus.

Its Black Library, so depending on your point of view it is either canon, or not.

Yeah... I don't do HH. I prefer to be like the average Imperial citizen, and not really know more than the basics.

Plus, I have a thing against poor writing. Unless it's written by Dan Abnett, it's just codex fluff written into novel form.

shealyr wrote:Unless it's written by Dan Abnett, it's just codex fluff written into novel form.

I don't mean to start an argument, but if you've never read it, how do you know it's bad?

King_of_desu@yahoo.ca wrote:

shealyr wrote:Unless it's written by Dan Abnett, it's just codex fluff written into novel form.

I don't mean to start an argument, but if you've never read it, how do you know it's bad?

Perhaps bad isn't what I mean.

Some people like the codex approach to writing, aka, "RAWR! Blood Angels swoop down breaking Daemons over their knees and partnering with Necrons to beat the Nids because the have exclusive tech, the best gene seed, best looks, get crazy badass when they go ape and have more special rules than youuuuuu!!!"

I prefer more story-driven writing and characterization. Most Black Library authors that I have read (basically, all except Abnett), have codex writing syndrom.

Personally I enjoyed the Nemesis novel. I really think Swallow does better with the HH novels than he does with the non-HH books (see also, Blood Angels series).

At any rate, the specified technique would most definitely fit within the area of the Venenum temple.

Mr. Burning wrote:

shealyr wrote:Because GW has seen fit not to include the other 2 assassinorum temples in the fluff.

Poison would fall under the realm of the Venenum Temple, who is largely absent from canon, except for the mention of Urhua Thereaux in the 3rd edition Codex: Assassins, who was sent to assassinate the ruler of a renegade planet. The ship Thereaux was traveling on was caight in a warp roft for 698 years. Once the ship emerged, the assassin proceded to the planet, and found that the ruler had died and been replaced by a committee of 1,000 members. It was still anti-Imperial, so Thereaux spent 3 days poisoning the chairs of each member and killed all 1,000 of them.

Have a read of HH Nemesis. Includes Clades Venenum and Vanus.

Its Black Library, so depending on your point of view it is either canon, or not.

It's Cannon,but it's below Rulebooks and Codexes,BL novels are equal to IA in cannon.

Except where codexes contradict each other, presumably.

GW doesnt do "canon" (not cannon ) particularly well, as they have no official statements. IN theory everything is equal - in fact IA should be above BL as they are a) studio writers and b) the IA books actually give real figures.