Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

Hey dakka, Im currently feeling like stretching my creative writing muscles again, and writing about my deathwatch army Im crafting from converted Primaris and regular sized kill team veterans, and I had a few questions before I start writing so I don't butcher any fluff...

1. Can Inquisitors switch ordos in their life time? I think I saw somewhere they can

2. If they could not, would an ordo xenos inquisitor be caught dead dressed like the Inqisitor model with pointing bionic arm, plasma pistol, and kinda robes/an overcoat/duster look, instead of power armor?

3: chapter masters and the deathwatch... would it be fluffy to have a sole-survivng member of a chapter also be a chapter master, and also be a regular veteran, instead of a Blackshield? Like, honoring his fallen chapter instead of doing the logical thing of "welp, I'm the last one, better blackshield and join the watch." I plan on writing him rather humble, or at the least very open to the knowlege of marines far younger then he, despite his venerable status and being over 75% bionics. Successor of the Iron Hands. A real "teach this old dog some new tricks" kinda guy, not a "feth you sarge, Im way more experienced, I say we do X")

4. Watch master: I converted a watch master from the Word bearers HQ guy from betrayal at calth, and to make his DW pad fit, I shaved away the corner of his cape, so it looks like its draped over what would be his chapter pad at that medallion connector only. Are there any chapters more likely to be "my chapter doesn't really matter, the watch matters" or would him being a blackshield that rose through the ranks make more sense?

And lastly, 5: A primaris marine being recognized by either said ancient chapter master (im picturing him being put in stasis similar to a dread) or a venerable dreadnaught from a legion that is now a fixture of the watch: absolute bullgak or a touching and strange moment? Asume warp shenanigans for the extreme age/longevity of the dread/chapter master

Thank you for any and all input

A bit tired so I'll keep this one brief:

1. yes they can, with very little difficulty.

2. All puritan Inquisitors theoretically have access to the same wargear so no, wouldn't be a problem.

3. Sounds awesome, go for it. A bunch of chapters got killed of for 8th ed so it even fits great in the timeline.

4. Sounds more personal then chapter wise. I'm sure there's marines out there who think exactly that. Both ideas work.

5. Sounds like it could make a good story. I read a similar one with a legendary old Space marine Captain that had been in hibernation inside a (dormant) Tyranid hive ship. He was woken up alongside the hive ship. He actually used his own Space marine mebraine thing to enter hibernation and survive dormant in the vaccume of Space, alongside the hive ship. So yeah, definetly possible and sounds cool.

 Nerak wrote:
A bit tired so I'll keep this one brief:

1. yes they can, with very little difficulty.

2. All puritan Inquisitors theoretically have access to the same wargear so no, wouldn't be a problem.

3. Sounds awesome, go for it. A bunch of chapters got killed of for 8th ed so it even fits great in the timeline.

4. Sounds more personal then chapter wise. I'm sure there's marines out there who think exactly that. Both ideas work.

5. Sounds like it could make a good story. I read a similar one with a legendary old Space marine Captain that had been in hibernation inside a (dormant) Tyranid hive ship. He was woken up alongside the hive ship. He actually used his own Space marine mebraine thing to enter hibernation and survive dormant in the vaccume of Space, alongside the hive ship. So yeah, definetly possible and sounds cool.

Awesome answers.

 Nerak wrote:
A bit tired so I'll keep this one brief:

1. yes they can, with very little difficulty.

2. All puritan Inquisitors theoretically have access to the same wargear so no, wouldn't be a problem.

3. Sounds awesome, go for it. A bunch of chapters got killed of for 8th ed so it even fits great in the timeline.

4. Sounds more personal then chapter wise. I'm sure there's marines out there who think exactly that. Both ideas work.

5. Sounds like it could make a good story. I read a similar one with a legendary old Space marine Captain that had been in hibernation inside a (dormant) Tyranid hive ship. He was woken up alongside the hive ship. He actually used his own Space marine mebraine thing to enter hibernation and survive dormant in the vaccume of Space, alongside the hive ship. So yeah, definetly possible and sounds cool.

Thank you! I didnt want to write anything that butchers the fluff, trying to keep the feeling of grimdark while writing your own is tough some times

 Battle Brother Lucifer wrote:
1. Can Inquisitors switch ordos in their life time? I think I saw somewhere they can

Inquisitorial Ordos are informal arrangements. So... yes.

 Battle Brother Lucifer wrote:
3: chapter masters and the deathwatch... would it be fluffy to have a sole-survivng member of a chapter also be a chapter master, and also be a regular veteran, instead of a Blackshield?

If the chapter performed heroically instead of being suspected of failure or heresy, sure.

 Battle Brother Lucifer wrote:
Are there any chapters more likely to be "my chapter doesn't really matter, the watch matters" or would him being a blackshield that rose through the ranks make more sense?

That's less a chapter thing and more a personal thing for each marine.

 Melissia wrote:

 Battle Brother Lucifer wrote:
3: chapter masters and the deathwatch... would it be fluffy to have a sole-survivng member of a chapter also be a chapter master, and also be a regular veteran, instead of a Blackshield?

If the chapter performed heroically instead of being suspected of failure or heresy, sure

I was picturing a mass sacrifice to prevent some sort of chaos ritual or something; the chapter lays down their lives to stop X, and due to being mostly machine the chapter master survives a killing wound but is unable to prevent the death of the rest of his chapter, even though they were sucessful in stopping X.

Maybe. That feels more like a daemon-hunter thing rather than a deathwatch thing, though.

Nothing inherently wrong with it mind you.

Youre right... perhaps a terrible xenos disease infected and killed most of the chapter; with the rest in stasis, the chapter master attempts to find any means of saving his chapter through knowledge gleaned from service in the watch?

Yeah that works. For Deathwatch a heroic last stand against foul Xenos (chais tainted or not) would work