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H.B.M.C. wrote: The Ecclesiarchy is very good at coming up with nonsense relics.
Church of the Damned, one of the Dark Heresy books, has a relic that is three skulls of the same saint (one at age 12, one at age 50 and the other at age 150).
Think about that for a moment.
Wait, and no-one in the fiction ever comments about it? That's amazing, I love it!
H.B.M.C. wrote: The Ecclesiarchy is very good at coming up with nonsense relics.
Church of the Damned, one of the Dark Heresy books, has a relic that is three skulls of the same saint (one at age 12, one at age 50 and the other at age 150).
Think about that for a moment.
Wait, and no-one in the fiction ever comments about it? That's amazing, I love it!
commenting about it would be a good way to get yourself burnt at the stake
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H.B.M.C. wrote: The Ecclesiarchy is very good at coming up with nonsense relics.
Church of the Damned, one of the Dark Heresy books, has a relic that is three skulls of the same saint (one at age 12, one at age 50 and the other at age 150).
Think about that for a moment.
Wait, and no-one in the fiction ever comments about it? That's amazing, I love it!
commenting about it would be a good way to get yourself burnt at the stake
H.B.M.C. wrote: The Ecclesiarchy is very good at coming up with nonsense relics.
Church of the Damned, one of the Dark Heresy books, has a relic that is three skulls of the same saint (one at age 12, one at age 50 and the other at age 150).
Think about that for a moment.
Wait, and no-one in the fiction ever comments about it? That's amazing, I love it!
commenting about it would be a good way to get yourself burnt at the stake
Lol
Bonus points if the saint is the one wielding the relic
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H.B.M.C. wrote: I just want the Sisters that are in that kit, rather than the kit itself.
'Spose I can turn the body into an objective, and then base the others separately.
They'd make an excellent Kill Team. Also would be awesome fun to have them fight the relatively new Genestealer Cult characters.
Oh wait...what if someone took away the Sisters from this piece and replaced them with the GSC characters? :O
So much heresy!
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Casbyness wrote: Oh wait...what if someone took away the Sisters from this piece and replaced them with the GSC characters? :O
That's a fantastic idea. Her up the front (or him), a pair of these guys flanking the casket, this guy monitoring the corpse (the "First Patriarch" or something), this guy laying down the phat beats endless droning sermon, and a banner bearer up the back.
That'd be awesome.
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It's hinted throughout the fiction that 'Living Saints' are the Emperor's attempts to artificially create Perpetuals. So it makes sense that some of them would have incomplete or imperfect regeneration and so leave behind 'miraculously preserved' body parts, even potentially in multiples.
Presumably Saint Katherine's heart regenerated after her death, but the rest of her didn't. She would have been one of the Emperor's earliest attempts.
Saint Uther might have kept getting decapitated and regenerating, but leaving the severed head behind each time. And then he lost the ability and died for good the third time. (His epithet 'the Cataplast' actually implies this, as cataplasia is the term for when cells revert to an earlier form - a Perpetual turning back into a regular mortal could be described as a cataplast).
A little bit of righteous anger now and then is good, actually. Don't trust a person who never gets angry.
H.B.M.C. wrote: The Ecclesiarchy is very good at coming up with nonsense relics.
Church of the Damned, one of the Dark Heresy books, has a relic that is three skulls of the same saint (one at age 12, one at age 50 and the other at age 150).
Think about that for a moment.
Wait, and no-one in the fiction ever comments about it? That's amazing, I love it!
Relics were always a bit dodgy in our history
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Duskweaver wrote: It's hinted throughout the fiction that 'Living Saints' are the Emperor's attempts to artificially create Perpetuals. So it makes sense that some of them would have incomplete or imperfect regeneration and so leave behind 'miraculously preserved' body parts, even potentially in multiples.
porkuslime wrote: I realize this is not the best place to ask, but since it is tangentally related to the Army Box..
Anyone who grabbed multple boxes want to trade/sell to me tow of the 3 Arcoflagellants? (one of each sculpt)
I cannot fathom spending 30 bucks for 3 on ebay..
Why not just wait for the multipart kit to drop?
My belief is that the ones in the army box are fixed pose guys that you cannot easily repllicate in the upcoming box set. Even if you COULD replicate them, you would not have to, since you already had those 2..
Mainly just a way of adding additional variety
2+2=5 for sufficiently large values of 2.
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So pre-orders tomorrow-- in that case, looking forward to ordering a squad of battle sisters tomorrow. Would get more but I'm between contracts, so gotta slim down on spending.
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H.B.M.C. wrote: The Ecclesiarchy is very good at coming up with nonsense relics.
Church of the Damned, one of the Dark Heresy books, has a relic that is three skulls of the same saint (one at age 12, one at age 50 and the other at age 150).
Think about that for a moment.
Well the ...Of Mars books had a tech priest whose servo skull was made with his own skull... so there's that.
But yeah. In the middle ages there were famous cases of Saints' with multiple skulls, bones and other parts floating around.
H.B.M.C. wrote: The Ecclesiarchy is very good at coming up with nonsense relics.
Church of the Damned, one of the Dark Heresy books, has a relic that is three skulls of the same saint (one at age 12, one at age 50 and the other at age 150).
Think about that for a moment.
Well the ...Of Mars books had a tech priest whose servo skull was made with his own skull... so there's that.
But yeah. In the middle ages there were famous cases of Saints' with multiple skulls, bones and other parts floating around.
That's hilarious but also more probable. All you have to do is carefully take bits of the skull out, replace the bit with metal, and reassemble the skull once your head's fully metal. It would make a cool basis for a Skitarii or Iron Hands force
Well considering how "Cult of the Warmason" ended, I kinda expect that huge number of so called relics are actually hoax or something entirely different.
The Inquisitor novel poked at this too; Draco at one point ruminated on how most of the faithful would be horrified to discover that Sebastian Thor actually had two heads, four arms and no less than five hands… or something like that.
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H.B.M.C. wrote: The Ecclesiarchy is very good at coming up with nonsense relics.
Church of the Damned, one of the Dark Heresy books, has a relic that is three skulls of the same saint (one at age 12, one at age 50 and the other at age 150).
Think about that for a moment.
Well the ...Of Mars books had a tech priest whose servo skull was made with his own skull... so there's that.
But yeah. In the middle ages there were famous cases of Saints' with multiple skulls, bones and other parts floating around.
I thought he had scanned his skull and used it as the basis for his servo skull.
I think the question was if GW was holding back more new surprises in the form of replacement models for those options. Considering that they didn't cull them when they culled the rest I never expected them to replace them at this stage. Little surprised at the Crusaders as they would have been an ideal infantry to replace. Still its not all bad and there's a massive load of models updated that should be more than enough to keep people busy for a year or more building up a fresh force of plastic Sisters of Battle.
Ah. The models that were barely even referenced (if at all) during the year of previews and sneak peaks and were for sale the whole time? That struck me as an 'obviously not,' rather than a question.
Plus, it's GW. Why go the extra baby step to make an army 100% plastic and new when you can settle a few steps away at mostly finished...?
Blackstone Fortress and expansions did give us a priest and crusader model in plastic, while Kill Team Rogue Trader gave us a Death cult assassin. A basic preacher could maybe appear later as a clampack alongside an IG release of some sort if they needed to spread out the characters a bit (see how the kellermorph was make a kill team model to cheat the numbers for GSC characters)
