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 Altruizine wrote:
This is the kind of icky detail GW mightn't touch with a ten-foot-pole, but I wonder if multiple offspring from one set of infected parents could then reproduce with each other (and if it would degrade the resultant offspring). If so, that'd be a good basis for a Warhammer Horror novel -- the isolated remnants of a defeated cult movement, in which the Broodlord was killed, who isolate/reproduce for multiple generations in order to generate another purestrain who can restart the cult cycle en masse.

 00001 wrote:
Always felt like GSC was stepping on the toes of the chaos cults, they're too similar in concept for my taste or at least the lore should focus on non human infections and see what they do to Tau or Orks.

I find GSC far more interesting, because they're an actual asymmetrical guerilla organization that has to persist for generations, and can't just "summon daemon, solve problem."

a quick check on the wiki shows the basic idea is to breed with uninfected but indoctrinated humans on each cycle, to create each of the less obviously mutated generations. I'd harzard a guess that reproduction between two of the same generation might produce the next one, or it might make another of the same.

and yhea, the removal of the broodlord removes the broodmind element but not the existing biological changes to them, so they would continue to "Be fruitful and multiply" and create a new set of purestrains eventually.


its also worth pointing out that many imperial worlds have significant populations of mutants and such scraping a living down in the dregs of society, sufffcient that most of the 3rd generation of cultists, still significantly inhuman, can pass and exist in the open with their mutations without comment.

Slight hijack with a quick fluff question - only the hybrids have no hair, right? It doesn't drop out if you're 'kissed' into the Cult?
(I'm building Necromunda Outcasts and looking at the heads...)

beast_gts wrote:
Slight hijack with a quick fluff question - only the hybrids have no hair, right? It doesn't drop out if you're 'kissed' into the Cult?
(I'm building Necromunda Outcasts and looking at the heads...)

no, those kissed in still look human, its only thier kids that get the mutations.