Kain wrote:
Omega Minus if memory serves, is a blank on such a scale as to be a threat to Emperor level psykers.

 Melissia wrote:

 Kain wrote:
Omega Minus if memory serves, is a blank on such a scale as to be a threat to Emperor level psykers.

Omega Minus are Culexis level Blanks.

 Kain wrote:

 Melissia wrote:

 Kain wrote:
Omega Minus if memory serves, is a blank on such a scale as to be a threat to Emperor level psykers.

Omega Minus are Culexis level Blanks.

Ah right so it's just the Black Pariah who broke the scale.

 Talizvar wrote:
They discuss the blunts being much like a living thing without a soul, a maw or black hole for psy energy to fall into without end.

Need to find specific reference but it was likened to Slanesh feeding on Eldar souls: horrific to face for the psi gifted.

Unsure how you "remove" a power like this when it is described as an unnatural something missing. Bind to them a soul?

 Melissia wrote:
Omega Minus are Culexis level Blanks.

 Fezman wrote:
Another theory I would throw out is that maybe blanks generate a field that pushes the warp away. In that case perhaps limiter cuffs and suchlike contain this anti-warp field and greatly reduce its range. That way they might still be able to cancel a psyker if they got close enough.

Sir Pseudonymous wrote:

 Fezman wrote:
Another theory I would throw out is that maybe blanks generate a field that pushes the warp away. In that case perhaps limiter cuffs and suchlike contain this anti-warp field and greatly reduce its range. That way they might still be able to cancel a psyker if they got close enough.

This is similar to my own interpretation: beings with a positive warp presence are like gravity wells from the warp's perspective, while beings with a negative warp presence would be like an inverted gravity well - a gravity hill, if you will. Positive warp presences draw the warp towards the materium, in most cases not doing a whole lot, but with more powerful ones causing reality to warp according to their will, and providing a thin enough barrier for daemons to break through. Blanks have the opposite effect, increasing the distance between the warp and the materium, causing discomfort to beings with positive warp presences (why even normal humans find them off putting; almost all humans are psykers, just far too weak to be classed as such, though still able to influence reality through particularly fanatic acts of belief) and blocking the effects of the warp being drawn through.

I find this a clean and easy way to visualize the relationship between the different effects, and while it's clearly an oversimplification, it does a nice job of explaining what we see when it comes to psykers and blanks.

 Melissia wrote:
Omega Minus are Culexis level Blanks.

danp164 wrote:
Problem with being a blank is while it hurts the pysker nearby, your probably just going to annoy him/her/it enough to conjure some very REAL fire/force/daemons/floating sledgehammer to kill you and therefore nullify the annoyance, depending on the psykers abilities being a blank could just stick a target on your head.

Also remember while a blank interrupts the psykers link with the warp, once the psyker has created a physical affect, such as the aforementioned fire/force/daemons/floating sledgehammer their kinda screwed.

Iracundus wrote:
The solution is like all those old RPG discussions of ways to bypass magic resistance.

Levitate rock or other nearby existing hard object (so it is not conjured up from the warp), and release (not throw or propel) it over the target at a height sufficient to kill and sufficient to be out of the range of the untouchable's effect. Some adjustment and aiming might be necessary to account for target movement. The object would be falling under gravity with no warp power influencing it anymore in any way. Untouchables may have resistance/immunity to warp conjured objects or energy, but they are vulnerable to realspace objects and weapons. A natural boulder or girder falling on top of them due to gravity would be lethal.

danp164 wrote:
I think that would depend on the daemon

 AlmightyWalrus wrote:

As a side-note, what do you get if you turn a blank into a Grey Knight? Ignoring for a second that it'd wreak havoc with the Chapter, if Grey Knights are anathema to daemons, would a blank/null/pariah Grey Knight not be doing to daemons what a blast furnace would do to a snowman?

 Void__Dragon wrote:
Some psykers are so powerful they can override Pariah invulnerability.

No but really, why won't you answer my question?

 Kain wrote:

 Void__Dragon wrote:
Some psykers are so powerful they can override Pariah invulnerability.

No but really, why won't you answer my question?

And like Psykers, Blanks have varying degrees of power. And like psykers, extremely low level blanks are largely ignored by fluff because there's really nothing interesting about them. The highest level blank ever, the Black Pariah, was seriously believed to be a threat to the Emperor himself.

 AlmightyWalrus wrote:

 Kain wrote:

 Void__Dragon wrote:
Some psykers are so powerful they can override Pariah invulnerability.

No but really, why won't you answer my question?

And like Psykers, Blanks have varying degrees of power. And like psykers, extremely low level blanks are largely ignored by fluff because there's really nothing interesting about them. The highest level blank ever, the Black Pariah, was seriously believed to be a threat to the Emperor himself.

Seriously believed by himself, no? That's some pretty epic-level hubris right there TBH.

 AlmightyWalrus wrote:


As a side-note, what do you get if you turn a blank into a Grey Knight? Ignoring for a second that it'd wreak havoc with the Chapter, if Grey Knights are anathema to daemons, would a blank/null/pariah Grey Knight not be doing to daemons what a blast furnace would do to a snowman?