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Well, there is the Vitrians in the Gaunts Ghost first novel. If I'm not mistaken....their black.

cadbren wrote:I think light skin is an adaption to living in cloudy environments, not cold ones.

touche, sir.

I suppose it's also about light (moreso than just cloudiness), meaning that only people living on Mordia, or spend all their time indoors (forgeworlds, etc.) would be white.

OP: Tallarn can be said to be Arabic or Persian in skin tone, in the Gaunt's Ghosts books the people of Hagia can be assumed to be of some Asian descent as well.
Alos, in Necropolis, unless I'm imagining things, the people of the hive varied in skin tone immensly.

Henners91 wrote:

cadbren wrote:For interest, what do you imagine one such black inhabited planet would be like?

Like you said, a Savannah world with Zulu tribes on it... Is there really one in the fluff?

Missed this, no there isn't to my knowledge. Some Zulu inspired IG armies exist though using converted 28mm historicals such as the plastic ones produced by Wargames Factory. Blame GW on that, they produced their Praetorians based on the 19th century British army and most people immediately think of the Zulu wars when seeing them. There's two movies set in that time about the battles of Islandwana and Rourke's Drift which are respectively: Zulu Dawn and Zulu.


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True Persians have skin tones like Europeans. I met a Farsi from Afghanistan once and he looked quite European, even had red facial hair.

Imperium is quite diverse and they're not racist(expect for mutants).On Valhalla black people are rare,but there are nearby planets on which everyone is black.-Caiphas Cain
I have to agree that there is too much caucasian space marines.
This is my first post after some time of dormancy,I'm back.

IvanTih wrote:
I have to agree that there is too much caucasian space marines.

Careful how you say that eh, that comes across as racist.

WH40KGuy757 wrote:Well, there is the Vitrians in the Gaunts Ghost first novel. If I'm not mistaken....their black.

I actually got the impression that the Vitrians were supposed to be Persian/Indian/Central Asian. But it's been years since I read First and Only.

sexiest_hero wrote:there is a pic of a black sister of battle in thier old codex.

I'd be interested in seeing this, if anyone has a link.

cadbren wrote:

IvanTih wrote:
I have to agree that there is too much caucasian space marines.

Careful how you say that eh, that comes across as racist.

"Suuuure are a lot of honkeys in here".

IvanTih wrote:Imperium is quite diverse and they're not racist(expect for mutants).

Or to quote Terry Pratchett: "Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because — what with trolls and dwarfs and so on — speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green."

cadbren wrote:

IvanTih wrote:
I have to agree that there is too much caucasian space marines.

Careful how you say that eh, that comes across as racist.

Sorry I didn't meant to sound like that.

I got tired of painting one skin tone. My Tallarn army has lots of black Catachans in desert fatigues... One may have a mohawk and numerous gold chains

That's be priceless!

Weren't the Lucifer Blacks in the Horus Heresy books black?

beezley1981 wrote:Weren't the Lucifer Blacks in the Horus Heresy books black?

I don't think it actually said.

It's a game written by white English guys about white English guys. It's just people writing what they know, and I don't think there's any deliberate exclusion.