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TL;DR Marika didn't get the world she wanted and was forced to live as a slave in the new one, so she broke the world in the hope of freeing herself in the process.


TL;DR is that I think Fia and Dungeater's endings are probably the best two, Ranni's is likely on par with the default ending, Goldmask and the Frenzied Flame's endings are the worst.

Just to answer the hypothetical of someone being forcibly transitioned by their parents as an infant, there is actually a precedent for this. Quite a few really, though I don't have concrete numbers.

For one specific incident we can look at the story of David Reimer.

There's a lot of nasty stuff in the story, but the cliffnotes version is that due to a botched circumcision at birth, the doctors surgically altered him to present as female, and he was then raised as a girl, given estrogen during puberty and so on. I get the impression this was standard practice at the time if the doctor's accidentally chopped a baby's penis off. He was told about these circumstances and surgically and hormonally transitioned back to male at the age of fourteen.

As for how things were going in his brain during all this? Hard to say, the doctor, who saw this as a chance to determine if gender was learned or innate, studying him and his twin brother through the whole thing was far from good at his job, and was acting with little to no proper oversight, and essentially molested the two boys. His study claimed David was identifying as a girl, but his judgement was suspect at best. There's probably little to actually learn from the case other than that children aren't lab rats.

David and his brother both eventually committed suicide at different times and in different ways. Not the only case of this sort of thing happening, but the one that I can most easily recall and find stuff about.


More broadly, 'corrective' surgical intervention on the genitals of newborns wasn't exactly an uncommon surgical practice in the recent past, fortunately a lot less common now to my knowledge. Children born with genitalia that didn't match their genes, who had ambiguous genitalia or who were otherwise abnormal in that regard were usually surgically altered according to what was most convenient to do with what genitalia they had and given hormones to make them externally present as their assigned gender. Micropenises turned into vaginas, penis/vagina combinations turned into whichever it already most resembled, that sort of thing. Not super clear on the specifics tbh, I just know it was done with the good but misguided intentions to allow the child to live a 'normal' life.

It was part of the 'gender is entirely learned' school of psychology. Much like the studies that wanted to determine if 'being human' was learned or innate it was filled with really sketchy practices, and gleaned very little actual information due to poor methodology and low sample sizes. The theory went that if you raised a boy as a girl, they would be a girl, no internal biology would be prodding them and saying 'but we're a boy.' Applied in reverse as well.

It was a very simple theory, and a very simple view of gender. Like it was an on/off switch. Two options, no sliding scales, no nuance. Simple, easy, convenient. Lazy really.


I don't know if David Reimer suspected something was off before he was told about the whole 'whoops, we cut your dick off as a baby,' thing and transitioned, but I imagine on some level he must have. In theory a modern Reimer might just identify as a transman even before being told he was more accurately amab. There might be studies on intersex and reassigned at birth people that could shed some light on that, and they might be informative to some extent about trans people.


Fun fact: As I recall I first learned about the whole surgically altering babies genitals things from a Ripley's Believe it or Not! book my brother and I had as kids, which had a page about an intersex person who had transitioned to the opposite gender from the one they were assigned at birth as an adult. Might be misremembering, but it was one of many, many things I learned about as a kid that gave me a dim view on the medical practices of the recent past.

We're also kind of badly made biologically speaking. Bad joints, bad posture, weird bone proportions, weak digestion, flawed biochemistry in more than a few ways, the whole skull/pelvis ratio deal.

We're basically held together by duct tape, we have no higher purpose other than to reproduce, or facilitate the reproduction of our kin, same as any other organism. That we can think in what seems to be a more abstract manner than most other animals doesn't really mean anything, it's just an incidental byproduct of our meat tubes becoming better at making more meat tubes.

What is a herring for? It's for making more herring. Ants make more ants, deer more deer, wolves more wolves, so on and so forth. Meat that makes meat, in whatever way it can, and most fail. Humans are no different.

I find myself wanting to play a Phyrexian PC some time.

A missionary sent from New Phyrexia via experimental magitech, to spread the good word of the Machine Orthodoxy on a new world.

Not malevolent per se, more just indiferent to morality and convinced that becoming Compleat is the best thing that can happen to anyone, and that unifying the world under Phyrexia will end all it's suffering. Lacking numbers, or large quantities of phyrexian oil, the character is reduced to actually preaching and convincing people to submit to infection through rhetoric and deed, in hopes of creating more phyrexians to further the cause and give the infection a chance to take root.

Honestly if I were to pare my mods list back to the absolute minimum, I think Colony Manager is the only one that's actually kind of essential to me. I have a tendency to tab out when I don't have any actual stuff to do, and letting the game auto assign hunting and chopping for me is the main barrier between coming back to a starving colony or not.

There's a heap of other mods I like to have, quality of life and content related, but they aren't as fundamental to how I play the game as CM is.

Sorry if this came up before, but is it clear what exactly happens to human souls in WH40K?
Like, Eldar souls are slurped up by Slaanesh.  Unless they are imprismed (sic) and recovered.
And presumably someone who has fallen to chaos would go to their patron...
or to chaos undivided somehow?

But what if someone was, random example, a gue'vesa in service to the Greater Good?

For that matter, what happens to loyal servants of the Emperor?

A lot of them get eaten by daemons. What situations allow daemons to eat you is vague, but largely seems to consist of dying anywhere that daemons know will involve a chance to feed. If you die on a battlefield where daemons are manifested they can literally snatch your soul and eat it as it leaves your body, and they like to wait in the Warp for new souls to become vulnerable to consumption. Safe bet is that the majority of human and xenos souls are consumed by various Warp entities (not necessarily, daemons, but most likely daemons,) at least until GW decides to advance the timeline and make another army of ghost warriors.

What exactly happens to the ones that don't get eaten by daemons is unclear, some Imperial souls like Saint Celestine's definitely get protected by the Emperor, but there's no Heaven in the Warp so where the ones who aren't sent back into realspace go is up in the air. Maybe the Emperor 'eats' them to power his defenses against the daemons.

Gue'vesa have no real protections against soul devouring, so presumably most of them get eaten. Though there is a manifestation of the Greater Good that some gue'vesa claim to have seen during a failed attempt to use one of the Tau's experimental warp engines, so maybe they are instead subsumed by this nascent godling.


Being eaten or dissolved into the Warp isn't the same as being destroyed mind you. The soul still exists, it's just in pieces or subservient to a warp entity. Soldiers who die in their sleep become blacksmiths in Khorne's realm for example, Slaanesh's victims become trapped in the layers of his palace. They have been 'eaten' by a god, but are still distinct from him. Similarly there are devices and powers that can call a soul back into some coherence to ask it questions or bind it to a new form. It's all rather inconsistent, or perhaps just vague and undefined. Warhammer is all about edge cases and leaving space for personal lore.

I would say that cookies tend to be easy in general, and typically rely least on gluten for structure (if they don't rise properly and hold that shape it doesn't really matter). The gluten-free variants probably just use more binding agent (eggs etc) and whatever dry/liquid rebalancing comes with that. Peanut butter cookies might be a good pick to avoid lactose.

A cake that relies on rising (and not collapsing) sounds harder to me, though I haven't tried it.

I think you're right, I've been doing some more looking around and the recipe that looks best is a cookie one. All I could get at the moment was coconut flour because I was stupid enough not to prepare properly ahead of time, and the only all coconut flour recipes I've found so far are cookies and 'pretzel bites'. Pretzels or cake will need to wait until I can get rice flour and such, or a blended gluten free flour. It'll be a first time for me in two ways, but I need to start with something and cookies are looking like a good place to start.

Plus cookies and the mild coconut flavour the flour has go together, I might even put some dried coconut in them. Wouldn't be as pleasant a taste in a proper pretzel I imagine.

Friend's going to be in the country for a few weeks, so I can make something savoury or a cake later on when I've had time to go to a shop that has more options for gluten free flour and can take a proper running start at it.