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Hi there,
I started this thread to get everyones opinions on the best back story for characters of the 41st milennium;

i will kick things off with one character (of the many) that i love Arkio;

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Arkio

Heres a link there is not enough room for all of the parts of his story i love,

now what is your opinion on the best background

Torin

Dont personally like that story very much, I read the books and they were ok but alot of aspects of them i hated particularly Arkio the blesseds transformation and widespread acceptance by the surviving Blood Angels of the Bellus expedition.

My personal favourite stories are of Tuska the demon killa and the saga of Ragnar Blackmane as told through the space wolf omnibuses

The space marine Garro from the death guard. I really enjoyed his personality and his friendliness to those who weren't marines.

Farsight.

Assuming GW don't go down the 'Dawn Blade is Daemon hurrrr' route, I can see him doing something cool in future. Like, 'Ethereals suck, Imperium sucks, Eldar are... alright I guess, let's all hold hands and be Communists together' cool.

Farsight is tremendously cool (. . . for a Tau). I really like Shadowsun but she'd be nothing without contrasting her to Farsight.


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Yriel is also awesome.

Eldrad before the swines at /tg/ got their grubby mits on him, now he has become a lame joke about him being a male appendage to all pepoles of the 40k universe.

:gone:

Yes, this is the wrong thread for that discussion.

Corporal Penlan (Aka Jinxie)
And this is why-"But she's not nearly as accident prone as she's supposed to be. I'll grant you she fell down an ambull tunnel once, and there was that incident with the frag grenade and the latrine trench, but things tend to work out for her. The orks on Kastafore were as surprised as she was when the floor in the factory collapsed, and we'd have walked right into that hrud ambush on Skweki if she hadn't triggered the mine by chucking an empty food tin away... "

Ribon Fox wrote:Eldrad before the swines at /tg/ got their grubby mits on him, now he has become a lame joke about him being a male appendage to all pepoles of the 40k universe.

The /tg/ thing just makes him cooler. Also, read his fluff; Eldrad is a gigantic racist and eldar supremacist. Ergo, he's a d*ck. A cool character, but a d*ck.

Lucius and Erebus. I really hope we get to hear more about these two in future HH novels and the next chaos codex.

Im seriously hoping Erebus is dead and that his end is a nasty one, I think it would be awesome if the Emperor disintegrates him with a thought just before his battle with Horus on the bridge of the vengeant spirit, Erebus will say something annoying about Chaos being the truth and the Emperor will kill him from 200 yards away with mind bullets.

Sorry to burst your bubble but Erebus is well and kicking in the 41st millenium. He heads the dark council with Kor phaeron and leads the legion in Lorgar's absence. You can't kill the Boss...who cares if the Emperor killed Horus the real boss is still kicking arse.

Kharn. He always was a pretty great guy...
(Those /tg/ fics are damn funny, but I'm also thinking of "After Desh'ea", from Tales of Heresy.)

Yriel of Iyanden is a pretty interesting character, and The Doom of Iyanden is one of the best parts of the Eldar backstory.

Ragnar Blackmane, at least in the first half of the Space Wolf series, and definitely his initial recruitment. There was a real drop in prose quality after they changed authors.

Finally, Sebastian Thor and Alicia Dominicia.

I think Kharn is a pretty cool guy. eh kills spase muhreens and doesnt afraid of anything

Asdrubael Vect. Cunning, ancient, evil and ruthlessly brilliant.

purplefood wrote:Corporal Penlan (Aka Jinxie)
And this is why-"But she's not nearly as accident prone as she's supposed to be. I'll grant you she fell down an ambull tunnel once, and there was that incident with the frag grenade and the latrine trench, but things tend to work out for her. The orks on Kastafore were as surprised as she was when the floor in the factory collapsed, and we'd have walked right into that hrud ambush on Skweki if she hadn't triggered the mine by chucking an empty food tin away... "

I had a laugh when i read this

I like my reclusiarch, The grimaldus and also CHaplain Lemartes of the Blood angels.
Also love Tarik Torgaddon and Garro. Especially Garro is aan awesome character.

Scout Trooper "Ven" Mkvenner (or as me and my friends call him: Mk-kill a blood pact platoon and two wirewolf daemons with a fethin empty lasgun-venner)

I think the nickname speaks for itself, he's quite simply one of the most BA guardsmen alive....

yes, I said alive....

The mystery surrounding him about the nalsheen is quite captivating too.

Mkvenner is a Tallarn isn't he, out of them i'm quite a fan of Mkoll

Inquisitor Jaq Draco is a very interesting character; from The Inquisition War. So much of his story was based on morality and the possible outcomes, clashing with his Inquisitor education.

Another character from the same book; Googol the Navigator, was also interesting. The Warp Eye Kills!

Talos from Soul Hunter. By the end of the book i was genuinely rooting for him more than i have any loyalist marine.

Torin the Wayfarer wrote:Mkvenner is a Tallarn isn't he, out of them i'm quite a fan of Mkoll

Tallarn? No.

Tanith, Yes.



yes Mkoll is quite BA too.

Manchu wrote:Farsight is tremendously cool (. . . for a Tau). I really like Shadowsun but she'd be nothing without contrasting her to Farsight.

I think the Tau in general have a lot of promise fluff-wise, although some elements of grimdark are creeping into their fluff. Which is bad. We need at least one non-grimdark faction in 40k.

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Yriel is also awesome.

Yriel lost an entire Eldar fleet and turned up just in time to save the last 5 people from Iyanden from being eaten. He is a big foppy space elf.

kizzdougs wrote:Sorry to burst your bubble but Erebus is well and kicking in the 41st millenium. He heads the dark council with Kor phaeron and leads the legion in Lorgar's absence. You can't kill the Boss...who cares if the Emperor killed Horus the real boss is still kicking arse.

This.

Amaya wrote:I think Kharn is a pretty cool guy. eh kills spase muhreens and doesnt afraid of anything

Win.

I second Sebastian Thor, especially given his considerably humble beginnings.

But I'd also say that it's the nameless characters, the humble guardsman, the mighty Space Marine...that one gretchin that always passes that cover save and holds the objective...

I think there was a 40k saying that went like this: "For every honour and laurel there are 1000 unsung heroes whose deeds go unrecognised."

WARORK93 wrote:

Torin the Wayfarer wrote:Mkvenner is a Tallarn isn't he, out of them i'm quite a fan of Mkoll

Tallarn? No.

Tanith, Yes.



yes Mkoll is quite BA too.

Whoops, my bad...

Favorite character would either have to be Cain, Commissar Cain. If you don't know who he is, you really need to look him up.

Teh famous Commissar Yarrick because



He surfs tanks into battle with a power claw thats bigger than him....

nuff said....

+1 to Yarrick, forgot about him, just reread the armageddon scenario booket from 2nd edition talk about being a bad a$$

....I simply cannot believe noones mentioned Ciaphas Cain, but personally I have to go with Haegr and his screwed up Geneseed