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 Dysartes wrote:
Go with the simple explanation, GW, given I don't think there was ever an on-screen body to confirm the death.

The vessel he was on was caught in a warp eddy during the pursuit of Ghazghkull, so he didn't actually die - maybe someone's PR people decided for morale it might be better that it look like he did rather than he was AWOL, but now he's managed to return to Armageddon for the latest round of Yarrick vs. Ghazghkull (vs Angry Ron?)

Yes, this would be infinitely preferable to loyalist marines doing warp magic to raise the dead tbh.

Who says it's warp magic? The Wolf Priests are masters of medical science, kind of necessarily. They reconstructed Kaspar Hawser in 30k; who says they can't still?

IF they bother to explain it I doubt it'll be anything to do with the wolves and their apparently amazing resurrection superscience, it'll probably just be a "reports of my death were greatly exaggerated" situation

Let's face it there was basically a 0% chance he was going to stay dead, GW haven't killed off a named character with a model since Cadia fell have they? (And Yarrick doesn't have a suspiciously similar-looking daughter to take his place)

Oh I'm sure some poor soul is working on a novel right now.

And/or his favorite chat bot.

Justin Hill has done some really good Yarrick stories, including the one about Yarrick's escape/being allowed to escape. Hopefully he gets this one too.

Gotta sell those $50 1" figures somehow.

IIRC, it used to be that Orks just made things operate more efficiently by believing they would.
So a vehicle that's painted red would go faster because the engine is working better than it should.
Their guns don't jam even though they are bad made because they believe their guns are well made.
Stuff like that. What doesn't happen is a rock turning into a nuke, because that just outright breaks the laws of physics and only daemons get to do that.

Then the fan base made a bunch of funny memes that took that concept and blew it out of proporation, then new people saw those memes and assumed it was fluff and started telling other people that to the point where most players believe that if enough orks believed that Khorne had IBS he'll never leave his throne or something absurd like that.

The point is, flanderization is bad, m'kay?