"We take you, the outcast and the criminal, the lost and the damned. Because you have nothing left to lose. So you're the scum we're counting on now... and if it's come to this... then God Emperor help us all." -Explicator Zola (Rejects Will Rise trailer)
The player-characters (rejects, convicts, outcasts, no-hopers, scum, and rabble) are recently inducted acolytes who serve as fodder for the Inquisitions losing battle of attrition. We are given a second chance for redemption as a member of Inquisitor Grendyl's Warband.
Eventually, as the rejects build up levels of trust with the Inquisition. Recruits are elevated from expendable fodder sent on suicide missions, to useful Operatives, and eventually some of the best Auric Operatives on the Mourningstar.
As Operatives gain trust by proving themselves, they gain access to the wider Inquisitorial warband's arsenal of weapons and services to better serve the Inquisition's war effort. However, no matter how exemplary an operative proves themselves to be, they are but servants to the Inquisition and expendable tools to be used as the Emperor and the Inquisition sees fit.
While the Imperial Guard is a blunt instrument to bludgeon the bulk of the Imperium's enemies into submission, the Inquisition is a scalpel. Our strike teams are used in a similar manner to secure key objectives in enemy territory. Rather than being used as fodder to be ground up on the front lines, our operatives showed some glimmer of aptitude that Inquisition saw fit to use differently.
Creation of a Convict[]
In Darktide, you are a criminal of the Imperium of Man, sentenced to death for an infraction of your choice in the Character Creator. If it be from psykinetic abilities, unwavering faith, your handling of a gun, or sheer dumb luck--you find yourself a somewhat willing member of the imperial inquisition. Your death sentence is now commuted, for as long as you can stay alive.
Convicts to Inquisitorial Acolyte[]
Grendyl and/or Rannick makes the decision to start pressganging penal soldiers into the warband to fill in the gaps after suffering losses of Auric operatives to the traitor guard.
You are able to choose from 4 classes with 3 distinct personalities representing different backgrounds and perspectives of said class.
Quotes: Player Conversations[]
(AKA Reject Rumours)
Reject conversations occur somewhat regularly during downtime between horde waves and objectives. Some missions have more opportunities to trigger one of these random conversations, due to how objectives are spaced to provide reliable points of deescalating action. They roughly happen every 4 minutes.
The conversations themselves are general lore tid-bits are don't add any new lore to the setting. Instead they give a flavourful characterization as of how a handful of common citizens of the Imperium view these grand events or give their opinion on the subject.
For those curious about how these voice-lines work, take a look at Fatshark's Darktide 101: Voice Over Recording & Rules - Dev Blog.
(Transcribing the random comments that apply to the wider 40k universe. Alongside personal recording, other are sourced from posted videos on Youtube, such as those of Locken, Hypnotic, Gatlee, Janfon1, Ordo Hereticus Archives, and Relaver.)
Conversations have two formats:
- Standard Conversations: The standard conversation topic has 3 different players speak, each reject speaks once, and the order is random. The standard conversation format has 3 parts: Intro, middle, and end. Each conversation part is different depending on the personality, but both genders of the personality say the same thing.
- Bonding Conversations: The non-standard conversation is typically an interpersonal conversation tailor between one voice actor and another. It is not shared across both genders of a personality like the standard conversation. These conversation tend to be bespoke and have several lines of dialogue back and forth.
Abhumans[]
Aside from the primary abhuman variants featured in guardsmen regiments (Ogryns and Ratlings), a various of other obscure abhuman variants have been mentioned or referenced by our rejects. Such as Pelagers, Nightsiders, Neandors, Beastmen, Felinids, Troths, and others.
Souls[]
- Male Fanatic 1: Do abhumans win their place by the God-Emperor's side in death? That depends on whether they have souls.
- Male Judge: The Covenant of Saint Dalarik states that they are not soulless, but are possessed of lesser souls.
- Male Fanatic 2: I'd rather not spend eternity in the next life carousing with Ratlings, that's for sure...
- Male Agitator: Is the abhuman more than beast, or mutant? Did the Master of Mankind giveth unto them human souls?
- Male Cutthroat: They've got as much of a soul as you. Maybe more.
- Judge: A philosophical question: did the Emperor imbue abhumans with souls when he made them?
- Brawler: Shut you snivelling mouth Shouty...
- Professional: Reckon the Emperor does right by his flock, human or otherwise.
- Judge: A philosophical question: did the Emperor imbue abhumans with souls when he made them?
- M Seer: My Beloved sayd they do have souls. And so do lots of other creatures you don't like.
- Bodyguard: If Ogryn have soul, it isw biggest and best!
- Male Fanatic 1: Do abhumans win their place by the God-Emperor's side in death? That depends on whether they have souls.
- Male Judge: The Covenant of Saint Dalarik states that they are not soulless, but are possessed of lesser souls.
- Bully: Lalala... not listening!
- M Fanatic: Do abhumans win their place by the God-Emperor's side in death? That depends on whether they have souls.
- M Professional: There's none more loyal than an Ogryn. Be pretty sad if the Emperor didn't give 'em souls.
- F Cutthroat: Trust them more than I trust most humans. Clear?
Plight[]
- Female Savant: The lot of Abhumans is a harsh one. We're on the same side, yet they are so often reviled.
- Male Judge: Their path to redemption is all the harder, it is true.
- Male Fanatic: It be Neandors I dislike. A dark reflection of Man's basest form.
- Savant: That we even catagorise abhumans as such is abhorrent. Are they not simply comrades?
- Professional: Not as many stable strains as there once were. Maybe they're dying out...
- Seer: My Beloved says Felinids are particularly beautiful. I'd like to see one very much.
- F Seer: I think I feel most sorry for abhumans. Nobody likes them much.
- M Professional: Not as many stable strains as there once were. Maybe they're dying out...
- M Judge: I give thanks daily that the Emperor made me a proper human.
- F Savant: Him on Terra blesses us all differently. Why then, are abhumans singled out so cruelly?
- M Cutthroat: Abhumans are better than most humans.
- M Agitator: None could look upon the likes of Homo Sapiens Variatus and feel anything but revulsion.
- M Seer: I think I feel sorry for abhumans. Nobody likes them much.
- M Cutthroat: Abhumans're better than most humans.
- M Professional: Some of 'em can't even leave their home world. Like Troths - they're a funny bunch.
- M Savant: The lot of abhumans is a harsh one. We're on the same side, yet they are so often reviled.
- M Loose-Cannon: If they can fight and die, we'll find a use for them.
- M Agitator: None could look upon the likes of Homo Sapiens Variatus and feel anything but revulsion.
- Seer: It's very unfair how abhumans are treated, don't you think?
- Loose-Cannon: If they can fight and die, we'll find a use for them.
- Professional: Ever seen a Nightsider? Big eyes... See in the dark. Creepy.
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- 2
- 3 Agitator: (mentions something about a Pelager being out of water (AKA a fish out of water))
- 3 Loose-Cannon: (Mentions serving alongside a Beastmen unit and getting the creeps)
- F Savant: Why are abhumans abused so, when we fight for the same cause?
- M Agitator: You know nothing, Freak! Many abhumans art rewarded with Imperial citizenship, despite being abominations.
- F Savant: If we don't embrace them, we are rejecting a gift from Him on Terra.
- M Loner: The plight of abhumans saddens me. The Imperium treats life as little more than a commodity.
- F Judge: Their path to redemption is all the harder, it is true.
- Brawler: Wait... Ogryns abhumans?
Ogryns[]
- Male Seer: Yes Beloved. It was angry, wasn't it?
- Bodyguard: Tough little man. Not so tough as ogryn. Feel bad for him.
- Male Seer: See? The Brute feels things, don't you, my sweet? But you can overinvest in individuals.
- Female Fanatic: Slab, are ye prepared to unleash your righteous fury on the foe?
- Bully: I'm always ready... Why, what have you heard?
- Female Fanatic: It matters not. I was eye certain that those rumours of indolence were nothing but pernicious slander.
- Female Fanatic: On! The God-Emperor guides me!
- Bully: You're dead loud, Shouty.
- Female Fanatic: If that is so, it is only because I have a duty to proclaim the God-Emperor's truth far and wide!
- Bully: Want to have a shouting contest?
- Female Fanatic: Perhaps another time.
- Female Fanatic: Your wrath is nothing to mine, Rager!
- Bully: Liked him. Was dead angry. Like me.
- Male Professional: Don't you go feeling kinship with traitors, Big Man.
- Bodyguard: You think I'm stupid? I see it in your eyes.
- Male Professional: That ain't what I think. Not at all.
- Brawler: Wish I could read.
- Agitator: Thou cannot? Truly? Was not thy bone 'ead implant intended to raise thee to the point of learning such skills?
- Brawler: Can't remember me best mate's name. I forget loads ...
- Judge: No matter, so long as your thoughts are filled with purpose.
- Brawler: Too much thinking makes me Done 'ead implant tingle...
- Female Agitator: Tis the Master's way of telling thee to leave thinking to thy betters.
- Loose-Cannon: You've got me, Big Man. I've got you. Teamwork, right?
- Bully: Yeah. Long as I'm in charge.
- Loose-Cannon: Whatever you say. As long as you go first.
- Bully: I always go first. 'Cos I'm in charge.
- Loose-Cannon: Glad to hear it! I'll be fight behind. You make for good cover.
- Bully: Eh?
- M Agitator: Thou really art a lummox, Slab!
- Bodyguard: Yes. From long line of lummoxes. Have pedigree.
- M Agitator: Truly? I must say, I find that surprising.
- Bodyguard: An Ogryn of hidden depths. Everybody says so.
- Bodyguard: Gotta think more. Need Bone 'Ead upgrade.
- Professional: Reckon your doing just fine as you are.
- Male Fanatic: I see now one singular truth that had eluded me prior: every man of faith should have an Ogryn at his side.
- Brawler: Because we're strong? Loyal? Handsome?
- Male Fanatic: Because you're tough. Why, ye laugh off wounds that would leave me screaming. I'm glad for ye tae bear them in my stead.
- Brawler: Always here to serve. Even when it hurts.
- Bully: Nobody stronger than me!
- F Professional: When you're right, you're right.
- Bodyguard: Want to be Bone 'Ead. Think better. Smarter!
- F Savant: The times change, and we must change with them. (low level)
- Bully: Why be weak when you can be strong?
- M Loose-Cannon: Magic, Big Man. Lots and lots of magic.
- Brawler: Used to count me scars... Now there's too many...
- M Professional: I envy you, Big Man. You don't think about the scars on the inside.
- Brawler: They call me abhuman. That good? Or bad?
- M Agitator: It means thou art evolved from human stock, but are no more human than a common aurox.
- Brawler: They call me abhuman. That good? Or bad?
- M Fanatic: It means ye've been categorized by the blessed office of the Tithes Chamber Notaries, that's all.
- Brawler: What's an abhuman?
- M Fanatic: It means ye be a degenerate. Useful, aye, but a degenerate nonetheless.
Ogryn Variants[]
- Bully: You know there's other kinds of Ogryn?
- Brawler: We're the future. Told you.
- M Cutthroat: Only type that matters is Soldier or not.
- Bodyguard: Many kinds of Ogryn. Not all as friendly as me.
- M Fanatic: Surely ye don't mean the abhuman is also prone to mutation? Yet more corruption!
- F Savant: We're all His servants.
- Brawler: Me not only type of Ogryn.
- M Loner: There must be many genetic variations. Life is incredible. And repulsive.
- Bully 2: I only Ogryn that matters.
- Bully: Heard 'em say there's more than one kind of Ogryn.
- Male Agitator: Yes, yes, Slab. So many of you, and not one who can counteth the fingers on one hand.
- Female Savant: We're all His servants.
Ratlings[]
- Cutthroat: Ratlings? The best murders with sniper weapons I've seen.
- Professional: They'd be useless on this mission. Spend half their time asleep!
- Savant: As long as you follow protocol, makes no odds if you're an abhuman.
- Professional: Served with a Ratling squad once. Best fragging snipers I ever saw.
- Seer: How can something so small be so dangerous?
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- Professional: Ever seen a Ratling Sniper in action? Take out a heretic from a mile away.
- Female Judge: Though wouldst place faith in the indolent Homo Sapiens Minimus? Thy judgement is sorely clouded!
- Female Savant: As long as you follow protocol, makes no odds if you're an abhuman.
- M Professional: You know what we need? Ratling Snipers. Best marksmen in the Guard.
- Seer: How can something so small be so dangerous?
- M Judge: Untrustworthy creatures. We are better off without them.
- Professional: Wouldn't mind some sniper support. Ratlings would be my choice.
- Seer: How can something so small be so dangerous?
- Loose-Cannon: Thieving sewer-rats, the lot of 'em. Good thieves, mind. Kind you can count on.
- M Loose-Cannon: Sniper's what we need. None better than a Ratling.
- Seer: How can something so small be so dangerous?
- M Judge: I have never met one, nor do I want to.
Moebian Domain[]
Atoma Prime & Tertium[]
- M Professional: Never seen a hive city in one piece like this. They're normally in ruins by the time the Guard get called in.
- Zola: Tertium's impressive ... until you start scurrying through the nooks and crannies, searching for your next meal.
- F Loner: I really don't understand the attraction of this place. It's a cage. Nothing more.
- Zola: Tertium isn't much, but it's the closest thing to civilisation on Atoma.
- Player: (Hive)
- Zola: There are worse hive cities in the Imperium ... at least, so I'm told.
- F Savant: I'm sure you're aware of Tertium's importance in the sector. She is a beacon for all humanity.
- M Professional: Maybe they can restore it when we're done.
- F Savant: I'm sure you're aware of Tertium's importance in the sector. She is a beacon for all humanity.
- Bodyguard: This place? Then I am honoured!
- Bully: This place is a bleeding dump.
- M Agitator: Corruption doth sink its roots into the very foundations of this world.
- M Loose-Cannon: Well, this planet's done for, ain't it?
- Bully: Don't matter. Still fighting.
- F Savant: I can think of no greater honour for my offworld associates than to be deployed in defence of the sector's most magnificent settlement.
- M Fanatic: There lurks a rot in these benighted halls. I feel it in my bones.
- F Savant: Our craftspeople are the most highly skilled in the sector. You're aware of Moebian Iron? It's made here. Superb.
- Bodyguard: Not food. Not ammo. No good.
- F Savant: Our craftspeople are the most highly skilled in the sector. You're aware of Moebian Iron? It's made here. Superb.
- Male Seer: My Beloved says it's hard to dream here, so far from the open sky.
- M Savant: Offworld associates may be unaware of Tertium's thriving liturgical drama scene. Very highly regarded across the sector. Saint Messelina is central, of course.
- Professional: I could use a bit of festivity right now, that's for sure.
- F Savant: Some of our associates would surely benefit from seeing faith celebrated in such a way.
- Savant: It's not to my taste, but the camelid racing on Atoma is said to be superlative. Absolutely riveting.
- Male judge: We will see it returned so. (approximate from memory)
- Savant: I'm sure you must have heard of Saint Messelina? She is held in great esteem here. You should see Atoma during her festival!
- Male Fanatic: We'll bring righteous faith back to Atoma... or else see it burn!
- Savant: I can think of no greater honour for my offworld associates than to be deployed in defence of the sector's most magnificent settlement.
- Fanatic: Yet she be brought low... I feel bodements of further sorrows to come.
- Loner: In the distance ... a thousand souls ... screaming ... The war does not go well.
- Fanatic: Bah! If they be righteous, then their souls would suffer no torment.
- Savant 1: I'm sure you're aware of Tertium's importance in the sector. She is a beacon for all humanity.
- Brawler: Emp-rah's throne... the golden one... How's it work, then?
- Savant 2: I imagine that is a closely-guarded secret, Brute.
- Professional: Tertium's another of the Emperor's great works, brought to ruin. Poor lass.
- Savant: So, you understand the tragedy, Roughneck.
- Loose-Cannon: Beats sitting around in a jail cell, don't it?
- Savant: Tertium's the greatest planetary capital for three sectors, and I daresay the finest.
- Cutthroat: Can't promise we'll leave it as we found it.
- Cutthroat: Are we making any progress here, sarge? Any at all?
- Zola: If I had information on the state of the war, I wouldn't be cleared to tell you.
- M Seer: I have dreamed of endless war. There is no excaping it. Sorry!
- M Professional: Long as I've ammo and a reliable gun, bring it on.
- Fanatic: The God-Emperor rules a million worlds. He'll not let a single one fall. Not even this one.
- Cutthroat: Every year more worlds burn. Lose enough battles and they'll soon be none.
- Judge: We will rekindle Atoma's light in His holy name.
- F Savant: I'm sure you must have heard of Saint Messelina? She is held in great esteem here. You should see Atoma during her festival!
- M Loner: I hear Messelina was put to death by the very creed who now venerate her. Funny how that works.
- F Savant: Our craftpeople are the most highly skilled in the sector. You're aware of Moebian Iron? It's made here. Superb.
- F Judge: All the more reason to strive ardently for peace.
- F Savant: Atoma must be reclaimed! Atoma will be reclaimed!
- F Agitator: Yes! Yes! In this I can agree with thee! Let the heretics be cast out and the Master's will be done.
- F Savant: And the innocent be saved?
- F Agitator: Well ... Yes, if the opportunity presents itself.
- M Professional: I know it looks bad, but we're not losing this world.
- M Judge: The Beneficent Emperor has commanded us to win or die.
- M Loose-Cannon: Had a bad dream last night. Can't shake it.
- F Savant: I too dreamt of something wicked: a wolf hiding in the shadows, waiting to devour this city and everything in it.
- M Loose-Cannon: Really? Mine was just about my teeth all falling out and then laughing at me. Cocky little karkers. But wolves? I ain't seen anything like that on Atoma. Apart from them big dogs.
- F Savant: This was no animal. It had a mind of malice.
- F Loose-Cannon: You know what? A bit of singing will keep the spirits up.
- M Savant: Wonderful! We have some very moving local dirges.
- M Loner: In the distance ... a thousand souls ... screaming ... The war does not go well.
- F Cutthroat: Means nothing. War is suffering. You fight until it's won.
- Agitator: This place hath been befouled by enemies within.
- Loose-Cannon: Yeah. It's not pretty.
- M Seer: (Talks of a "shadow" looming over Tertium.)
- Savant: I'm sure you're aware of Tertium's importance in the sector. She is a beacon for all humanity.
- M Fanatic: Yet she be brought low... I feel bodements of further sorrows to come.
- F Professional: Shame to see Tertium like this. She deserves better.
- Bully: Getting senny-- senti-- senny-men-taal is stupid.
- Bodyguard: I like it on Atoma. There is always something to do.
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- Bodyguard: This place is bad, right through.
- Fanatic: Aye, Slab. I fear it be beyond redemption.
- M Professional: Right cosy little place this. Who the Hell lives here by choice?
- M Judge: Only those who have nowhere left to be.
- Bully: Was thinking ...
- M Loner: Really? Well do keep those updates coming.
- Bully: Was thinking ... that this is a nasty world. Ain't no fun.
- M Loner: I ... and I cannot believe I'm saying this ... cannot take issue with that statement.
- Bully: Really? Cor.
- M Loner: I know. The whole world's gone topsy-turvey.
- Bully: Sorry.
- M Loner: Ach, it's not your fault.
- M Judge: It may yet be that this world must be cleansed by purging flame.
- F Loner: Yes, yes, yes. I knew that was coming.
- M Judge: What was coming?
- F Loner: "I'm bored now, burn it all!" The first resort of the Fanatic.
- M Judge: I think you meant "last resort".
- F Loner: I know hwat I meant.
Manufactorums[]
- M Judge: Atoma's people slave away in its manufactoria. Suffering is holy, if it has purpose.
- M Seer: Must we really make a tour of some smelly old factories?
- M Professional: Even if we can save the metalfabs, they're nowt without workers to man them.
- M Fanatic: The Manufactorums of this hive be vital to the war effort. By the God-Emperor, we must protect them.
- M Judge: And yet if Atoma falls, the secret of forging Moebian steel will be lost forever.
- M Loose-Cannon: Be a while before the metalfabs are back to capacity, if ever.
- Male Fanatic: (some something to seer about 1 atoma factory being worth 3 lesser ones in the sector. when speaking w/ Male Seer?)
- Male Seer:
- M Agitator: The blessed metalfabs of Atoma are highly prized. We just protect them in the Master's name!
- M Seer: Yes, Beloved. Apparently without Moebian Steel, your tanks would be poorly protected.
- M Professional: Even if we save the metalfabs, they're nowt without workers to man them.
- Bully: This place is a bleeding dump.
- Seer: Oh, I don't know. No ... No ... You're. It'll all have to go.
Tanks[]
- Bully: We need some bleeding tanks!
- Bodyguard: Only if I get to drive, yes?
- Female Professional: They make Leman Russ battle-tanks here on Atoma. Good ones, too.
- Bully: Wish we had some tanks!
- M Fanatic: Armoured Companies be walls of steel and iron, twixt Mankind and horrors too unspeakable to name.
- M Loner: Grunts and their toys... Did you learn nothing from Armageddon? I'd rather not be embroiled in a war of that magnitude.
Second Hive City[]
- Psyker Loner: Atoma's second hive city... it isn't lost. I sense its occupants. Why does everyone pretend it is forsaken?
- Zola: We don't talk about that. Nor will you, if you're wise.
- Judge: The sinners here speak of a second hive city here on Atoma. As if one pit of sin was not enough.
- Fanatic: I fear the rumoured second hive city is no mere fiction, but a nest of heresy beyond imagining.
- Cutthroat: So I heard there's a second hive city. A sister settlement. What's that about?
- Zola: Some things are better left forgotten. You'll come to understand that, if you survive.
- Seer: When are we going to the other hive city? The bad one that everyone pretends is lost?
- Savant: I'd like news of Tertium's sister city.... but nobody will speak of it.
- Zola: We don't talk about that. Nor will you, if you're wise.
Crime[]
- Fanatic: Ach, but for a corrupt adjudicator, I'd yet be at home.
- Bodyguard: Sad story. Kill something. That will cheer you up.
Era Indomitus - The Dark Imperium[]
Great Awakening (Psychic Awakening)[]
- M Savant: Numbers of Psykers have surged since the Great Awakening. Is humanity ready for them?
- M Professional: Lots of Psykers losing control... Losing their minds. And you know what happens after that...
- F Loose-Cannon: Hear the Emperor needs more soul-bindings these days. Good timing, I guess.
- Seer 1: Since the Psychic Awakening I have more siblings than ever. Not all of them good.
- Cutthroat: A plague of witches... another enemy to fight.
- Seer 2: Oh, I have ever such a bad feeling about all this.
- F Savant: More Psykers are born daily, since the Great Awakening. A great and terrible rescource...
- F Professional: Lots of psykers losing control... Losing their minds. And you know what happens after that...
Battle of Lion's Gate[]
- M Agitator: The Battle of Lion's Gate hath shown the cost of complacency against the Ruinous Powers.
- M Savant: They say thousands of Adeptus Custodes died in the defence. A horror beyond belief.
- M Professional: Heard two thousand Adeptus Custodes fell... How's that even possible?
- F Judge: Be like the Lion's Gate, Pilgrims. Though assailed by daemons, it stood fast.
- M Professional: If it could happen there, it could happen anywhere... Even here.
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- Agitator: The thrice-cursed Daemons art now so audacious they would assail the Lion's Gate itself!
- Fanatic: Aye, Guardian. Even Holy Terra be not safe while evil dwell in the hearts of men.
- Brawler: Sorry we missed big battle. I like a good fight!
- M Judge: These are the days that try our souls. That we should live to see the Lion's Gate assailed by Daemons!
- Brawler: First, finish mission. Then, find Daemons and kill them, yes?
- M Fanatic: I hope every last one of them heretics was burned to ash!
Roboute Guilliman[]
- M Seer: The return of Roboute Guilliman has made My Beloved very happy.
- M Loose-Cannon: I'll believe it when I see it.
- Male Professional: Look, he's the Lord Commander of the Imperium. The roster don't lie.
- F Seer: Yes, Beloved, I know you're happy about Guilliman's return. Others are sure to follow.
- M Loose-Cannon: I'll believe it when I see it.
- F Cutthroat: Believe it's true, believe it's false, means nothing.
- M Loner: If Roboute Guilliman really is back, it must presage some great calamity.
- M Professional: Never thought I'd live to see such days.
- M Cutthroat: Even if a son of the Emperor has returned, it's not going to help this sump hole of a world.
- M Loner: Can it really be true that Roboute Guilliman has returned? It barely seems possible.
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- M Seer 1: Many don't believe Roboute Guilliman has really returned, but My Beloved assures me it's true.
- M Professional: Said he'd return in our darkest hour. Huess this is it.
- M Seer 3: No, Beloved, I don't think the enemy will let this go unanswered either.
Indomitus Crusade[]
- Male Savant: The Indomitus crusade is a declaration of the Imperium's strength at the darkest of times.
- Male Seer: No, Beloved. It doesn't seem like a good idea to me either.
- Brawler 1: Indomitus Crusade? What is it, mates?
- Judge: Hundreds of thousands of souls, committed to drive Chaos back from whence it came.
- Brawler 2: After mission we should join. Do our part!
- Bodyguard: What is happening with Indomitus Crusade?
- M Professional: Seriously, Big Man? It's only the biggest mobilisation since the Macharian Crusade.
- Bully: Sounds like fun. Wanna sign up!
- Bully: What's a bleeding Indomitus Crusade?
- M Professional: It's pretty big news. Don't you pay any attention to the vox?
- M Agitator: Lord Guilliman hath appointed ten Fleetmasters to control the grand muster. Their power is great, their reach vast.
Codex Astartes[]
- Male Fanatic: To think how much the Imperium owes to Guilliman's sacred Codex Astartes..
- Agitator: True, Guardian. Tis much more than a book of doctrine. Many important teachings are contained within.
- Professional: Without the Codex, things would be pretty bleak. Well... more bleak.
- Fanatic: I read recently some passages from Guilliman's sacred Codex Astartes. A remarkable work!
- Judge: I dearly wish to read it myself, and to reflect on the spiritual truths contained within.
- Cutthroat: Right now, a fresh reload would be more use than a book.
- M Fanatic: I read recently some passages from Guilliman's sacred Codex Astartes. A remarkable work!
- Bully: Books good for one thing... And it ain't reading.
- F Savant: The Codes must be a means to an end, not an end in itself.
- Fanatic 1: There be much wisdom in Guilliman's Codex Astartes, even for mere mortals.
- Fanatic 2: A tome born of humility. Pity we all cannae be as wise as Guilliman.
- Loner: One must display grudging respect for those Chapters who deviated from Guilliman's dictates.
Cadia[]
- M Loose-Cannon 1: Never had much love for Cadia, but wouldn't wish that on anyone.
- M Professional: That damned Eye of Terror. Threw every possible horror at Cadia until it fell.
- M Loose-Cannon 2: Things must be bad if Guilliman is back.
- Male Loose-Cannon: I'll be honest, when Cadia fell I thought it was game over.
- Male Professional: That damned Eye of Terror. Threw every possible horror at Cadia until it fell.
- Female Seer: It was foreseen. But that's the thing with prophecy. Nobody really believes it.
- Male Loose-Cannon: Never had much love for Cadia, but wouldn't wish that on anyone.
- Male Fanatic: Thrice-cursed be the name of the Despoiler. His end will come, be sure of it.
- Male Loose-Cannon: Things must be bad if Guilliman is back.
- Male Cutthroat: For millennia Cadia held the gate to the Eye of Terror. Do you know how much blood that cost?
- Male Seer: My Beloved tried everything. You have to believe him. He really tried...
- Male Fanatic: Remember kindred, we play our own small part. Every heretic we destroy restores light to the darkness.
- Female Agitator: Thou art a vessel of divine fury!
- Male Cutthroat: That's the training. Cadian training.
- Female Agitator: Twas a shame about Cadia. Still ... I'm sure the world wouldst not hath fallen had its warriors been truly faithful.
- Male Cutthroat: You come over here and say that!
- Male Cutthroat: Cadia fell and places like this endure. Where's the justice in that?
- Female Agitator: If falleth to us seek redress. Blessed Master, we shall do so!
- Loose-Cannon: Cadia... gone. Doesn't seem real.
- M Fanatic: Thrice-cursed be the name of the Despoiler. His end will come, be sure of it.
- M Seer: My Beloved was desperate. He says he might have made a mistake.
- M Cutthroat: Take my advice: Give up on hope. Hold onto vengeance. That's all.
- M Loner: Enough with the Cadian poetry already ...
- M Cutthroat: Cadia fell, burned to ash, but we live! Hear that? Cadia lives!
- M Seer: My Beloved tried everything. You have to believe him. He really tried...
- F Fanatic: Aye, but they died with hearts full of zeal and faith a-burning in their eyes.
- Professional 1: Still can't believe Cadia is gone...
- Professional 2: That damned Eye of Terror. Threw every possible horror at Cadia until it fell.
- Cutthroat: Cadia did it's duty, and still does.
- Loose-Cannon: Cadia... gone. Doesn't seem real.
- Agitator: We sing the lament for the fortress-world still. Many were the souls of the faithful that joined the Master that day.
- Cutthroat: Cadia did it's duty, and still does.
Eye of Terror[]
- Brawler: I forgot, what is the Eye of Terror?
- Agitator: Tis a birthing place of daemons, an unblinking eye that pulseth with blasphemous energies.
- Loner: Be thankful you aren't blessed with the Sight. The screams of Cadia's dead still echo in my mind.
- Bully: What is Eye of Terror?
- M Cutthroat: Home to daemons and the traitor legions. No worse place in the galaxy.
- M Agitator: Twas a gibbering horde of daemons that didst smite Cadia, and twas from the Ocularis Tenrribus they came...
- Brawler: Eye of Terror? Is this a thing?
- Bodyguard: I hear only bad things about Eye of Terror.
- F Loose-Cannon: Don't reckon they'll ever stop fighting over the Cadian Gate.
Cicatrix Maledictum (The Great Rift)[]
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Player: (Question) | Heard an officer talking about something called the Cicatrix Maledictum earlier on. What's that about then? | So what's the deal with this Cicatrix Maledictum, anyway? You don't hear much trapped in stasis. | I hate admitting ignorance, but what is the Cicatrix Maledictum when it's at home? | Everywhere we turn, we hear hear whispers of the 'Cicatrix Maledictum'. Some blasphemous artefact, I would guess? | Anyone know of the 'Cicatrix Maledictum'? I heard whisper of it at the Enforcers' Bastion. | |||||||
Morrow | The Imperium's split in two: the bad half, and the even nastier half. The Cicatrix Maledictum's what did it. That clear it up? / It's a damn great warp scar of immeasurable proportions. Does that help? / Rannick said it's the result of a realspace cascade summoned by an anti-astropathic surge. That make any sense to you? | |||||||||||
Zola | You should be more concerned with what's waiting for you up ahead. Stay on mission. / Trouble. That's what it is. Don't concern yourselves with the details. | |||||||||||
Player: (Comment) | Yeah. Clear as Frekkian mud. | Just my karking luck, that's what it is. | I'm sorry I wasn't listening. Would you mind saying that again? | Even Ogryns heard of 'The Great Rift'. | Don't understand. Don't care. |
Imperium Nihilus (Dark Imperium)[]
- F Agitator: Joineth me in prayer for those poor souls in the Imperium Nihilus, for hath not the Cicatrix Maledictum trapped them in darkness?
- Bully: Shouty makes sense... for once.
- M Professional: We'll get it back. Lord Commander Dante is in charge in the Dark Imperium, and he never loses.
- Male Fanatic: Some say the Great Rift be the very gates of Hel, and none know it better than those in the Imperium Nihilus.
- Male Professional: I hear there are whole Space Marine chapters stuck in the Dark Imperium.
- Male Seer: Time flows differently in the Dark Imperium. Who knows how long they've been fighting the nightmare?
- M Fanatic: Some say the Great Rift be the very gates of Hel, and none know it better than those in the Imperium Nihilus.
- F Fanatic: The "Dark Imperium" they call it, for the God-Emperor's light no longer illuminates it.
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- Male Fanatic: Some say the Great Rift be the very gates of Hel, and none know it better than those in the Imperium Nihilus.
- F Loose-Cannon: I'm just glad I'm Terran-side, after what I've heard.
- Bully: Didn't know 'bout this. Blimey...
- M Fanatic: Spare a thought for the billions of souls in the Imperium Nihilus. The Great Rift has consigned them to darkness.
- M Savant: It is impossible to describe the horror of seeing the Astronomican falter... I felt I would die.
- F Loose-Cannon: But that's what Guilliman is fighting for. Reunification.
- M Judge: The Empire is divided by the great rift, half in dark and half in light. We are fortunate to be spared.
- M Professional: I hear there are whole Space Marine chapters stuck in the Dark Imperium.
- M Agitator: Though Lord Guilliman both seek to reunify the Imperium, his reforms doth anger some in the Ecclesiarchy...
- F Judge: I pray for those souls in the Imperium Nihilus. May the Emperor grant them mercy.
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Emperor of Mankind[]
- Judge: You are weary, Pilgrims, I know, but your deeds are known to Him.
- Brawler: Emp-rah watching. True.
- F Judge: Our sacrifices are paltry compared to those of the Beneficent Emperor.
- Bodyguard: So... he wanted to die, yes?
- F Fanatic: Be ye not moved to prayer when you imagine the God-Emperor's supreme sacrifice?
- M Fanatic: The God-Emperor made the Golden Throne, knowing what may come. Yet willingly he went!
- Bodyguard: Long live Emperor!
- Fanatic: We fight in the name of the God-Emperor, so his supreme sacrifice be not in vain!
- Loose-Cannon: Yeah... When my time comes, just put me out of my misery.
- Seer: My Beloved inhabits a realm of nightmares, so you don't have to.
Astronomican / Sacrifice of Souls[]
- M Seer: My Beloved is restless. They must be making the sacrifice of souls again... Will it never end?
- M Agitator: Silence, freak! Those sacrifices doth pay for the Astronomican, without which the Imperium wouldst crumble!
- M Seer: My Beloved is restless. They must be making the sacrifice of souls again... Will it never end?
- M Loose-Cannon: I mean... Does he literally eat them? Nasty...
- F Savant: I believe the souls the Emperor consumes must be a terrible agony to him...
- M Seer: Without sacrifice, there would be no Astronomican. Without the Astronomican, My Beloved would not speak to me.
- M Fanatic: With faith there must sometimes come sacrifice. It be not our choice the when and where.
- F Savant: The souls the Emperor daily consumes is a terrible price for humanity...
- M Professional: Can't have unsanctioned witches running about. Might as well put 'em to use.
- M Judge: I pray for the souls of the lost, and honour their sacrifice.
- F Savant: The souls the Emperor daily consumes is a terrible price for humanity...
- M Loose-Cannon: Yeah, don't like to think about that too much.
God-Emperor's Divinity[]
- Bully: This Emperor bloke... He a god then?
- F Loner: From the mouths of Brutes come the truth it seems. But not the Imperial Truth. I believe that doctrine is now deemed heresy...
- Bodyguard: It is good we have god on our side. Means we will win!
- Brawler: Emp-rah is god, yeah?
- F Agitator: Though He once walked amongst Humanity as one of our own, He is - and always shall be - the one true Master of Mankind!
- Loose-Cannon: Let's have some quiet time, shall we... Before we get executed.
- Bodyguard: So Emperor is god? Strange, no?
- M Professional: The Infantryman's primer says He's a god, and that's good enough for me.
- M Seer: My Beloved doesn't mind if you don't believe. His light is there to guide use no matter what.
- Bodyguard: So Emperor is god? Strange, no?
- Bully: Who bleeding cares?
- Fanatic: Time we all said a wee prayer to the God-Emperor, to beg forgiveness for such loose words.
Golden Throne[]
- Bully: How does Emperor's big throne work?
- F Professional: Reckon only the Emperor knows, and he ain't telling.
- Brawler: Yeah... sorry I asked, mate.
- Bodyguard: Golden Throne sound impressive, yes? But how it work?
- M Fanatic: The God-Emperor's will and the Machine Spirit within make the workings of the throne unknowable.
- M Loose-Cannon: Let's just hope it keeps working, or we all kark it.
Voice of the Emperor[]
- M Loose-Cannon: Ever wonder how the Emperor gives his order?
- M Professional: Couldn't even imagine hearing the Emperor's voice...
- M Cutthroat: He's a God. His will's not for us to understand, only to obey.
- F Loose-Cannon: Does the Emperor give orders? Or is he just sort of... psychic.
- F Savant: I suspect Blunts could only experience a shadow of his words' splendour...
- M Savant: My Beloved does try, but the High Lords of Terra don't always listen.
- F Loose-Cannon: Does the Emperor give orders? Or is he just sort of... psychic.
- F Judge: The righteous know His will without need of words.
- M Fanatic: Through sheer will does the God-Emperor command the High Lords of Terra.
- Cutthroat: Sometimes I hear the Emperor's voice in the sound of battle.
- Fanatic: The God-Emperor has no need of words! Those of the faith understand Him well enough.
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- Cutthroat: The Emperor speaks, but does anyone hear his voice?
- Professional: Couldn't even imagine hearing the Emperor's voice...
- Professional: Well, he must command the High Lords of Terra somehow.
- M Professional: Imagine what it must be like to hear the Emperor's voice...
- F Savant: I suspect Blunts could only experience a shadow of his words' splendour...
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Hive Cities[]
- Savant 1: Perhaps I'm biased, but I believe Hive Cities are the most perfect form of habitation.
- Savant 2: Some hives, which I shan't mention, are plagued by parasitic slime. Very unhygienic.
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- Loner: Hive-cities are much like their namesakes. Billions of good little drones all working themselves to death for an unknowable Emperor.
- Savant: I hear that some hives are infested with sump beasts. Disgusting!
- Bully: Can't wait to get out of here.
- Loner: Too many souls suffering ill treatment, a ruling class who cares not, and too few enforcers per head. Hive-cities are a breeding ground for insurrection.
- M Loose-Cannon: You don't survive in the lower hive by staying on the straight and narrow. Trust me.
- M Seer: Yes, Beloved, I also think we'd be better off in the High Hive.
- Loner: Too many souls suffering ill treatment, a ruling class who cares not, and too few enforcers per head. Hive-cities are a breeding ground for insurrection.
- Judge: Then pray tell us what you would build in their place.
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Spireside Nobles[]
- Brawler 1: Scum at bottom of hive, but who on top?
- M Fanatic: Those of rank live spireside, where we pray they remain safe.
- Brawler 2: No crawlbeasts up top. Nasty grutters they are!
- Brawler: Scum at bottom of hive, but who on top?
- M Professional: Highborn families, Administratum officials, maybe even a deacon or two. Powerful people.
- M Agitator: I wouldst hope you imbeciles question not the Highborn's right to rule. They are chosen by the Master of Mankind, and he maketh no mistakes!
- Bully: Who lives at the top of the bleeding hive?
- Savant: The highborn. Free from trouble, and mostly free from the Lex.
- Professional: Lots of those families send their second-born children to join the Ministorum. Keeps the wheels greased.
Hive Gangers[]
- Male Loose-Cannon: Life's tough in the lower hive. S'why there's so many gangers.
- Male Fanatic: Aye, Templar. I'd love a wee crack at ministering to this rabble, if you take my meaning.
- Male Professional: Scum of the earth... But I've seen 'em get trained up to be pretty good soldiers.
- Male Cutthroat: Hives grow, and gangs breed in the sump at the bottom.
- Brawler: Nothing wrong with good gang fight!
- Male Fanatic: They transgress against the God-Emperor's law. Permitting them to live is a crime itself.
- Male Cutthroat: Hive gangs. Dregs of the Imperium.
- Male Savant: Most gang violence comes from turf wars and other petty squabbles.
- Male Professional: Scum of the earth... But I've seen 'em get trained up to be pretty good soldiers.
- Loose-Cannon 1: Karking hive gangs...
- Professional: I try not to judge ninety-billion hivers by the deeds of the few... But I really hate gangers.
- Loose-Cannon 2: Get in with the right sort and there's creds to be made... So I'm told.
- Cutthroat: Hive gangs. Dregs of the Imperium.
- Bodyguard: You want me kill gangers, I kill gangers. No problem!
- Professional: Official numbers put the criminal underworld at two percent of population. Could've fooled me.
- M Professional: Every hive's the same. Fragging gangers stinking the place up.
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- M Professional: Problem with hive-cities is all the fragging gangs.
- F Savant: You leave civilian matters to the Enforcers. The last thing this city needs is your heroics.
- F Loose-Cannon: Get in with the right sort and there's creds to be made... So I'm told.
- M Loose-Cannon: Karking hive gangs...
- F Professional: Ninety billion souls in Hive Tertium alone. Gonna be a lot of bad elements among 'em.
- M Seer: Perhaps the gangers are just misunderstood.
- M Professional: I know we have to stay on-mission, but by the Throne I'd like to take out some of the gangs...
- M Seer: I sense darkness ahead. There is more to fear in Hive Tertium than mere gangs...
- F Loose-Cannon: Get in with the right sort and there's creds to be made... So I'm told.
- Loose-Cannon: Karking hive gangs...
- Professional: I try not to judge ninety-billion hivers by the deeds of the few... But I really hate gangers.
- They're ruthless, merciless killers... fine material forthe Astra Militarum.
Imperial Guard (Astra Militarum)[]
- Professional: What I wouldn't give for the support of my old platoon...
- Male Fanatic: Aye! Give me a hundred men of faith, and we'll scour this place free of blasphemers!
- Male Loose-Cannon: Best this about the Guard is that there's always someone else to blame.
- Professional 1: What I wouldn't give for the support of my old platoon...
- Cutthroat: The Guard is everything.
- Professional 3: Few Sentinels. Air support strafing around outside. Boots on the ground... Can't beat it.
- Professional: What I wouldn't give for the support of my old platoon...
- Agitator: Should the threat level on Atoma grow great enough, thy Astra Militarum brethren may yet be deployed.
- Loose-Cannon: Best thing about the Guard is that there's always someone else to blame.
- Male Professional: What I wouldn't give for the support of my old platoon...
- Female Loner: Look on the bright side, Roughneck. With greater responsibility comes a greater chance of dying a hideous death, alone.
- Male Seer: Steel-eyed, cold-blooded killers. I like them.
- Male Loose-Cannon: Could be curtains for Atoma, don't you think?
- Female Loose-Cannon: Looks like. Then again, the Guard have pulled places back from worse.
- Male Judge: I knew a Chaplain with the Astra Militarum. He used to say he would rather enter the Eye of Terror than face another day with his regiment.
- Male Professional: Once they started preaching, nothing short of death would stop 'em.
- Brawler: Shouty is easy job... just yell and snivel.
- Male Professional: You know what I'd like?
- Bodyguard: What's that, Boss?
- Male Professional: Some proper armour. You know, like those Tempestus Scions have.
- Bodyguard: Me too! Only ... Would not fit. Is not fair.
- F Professional: Do me a favour? Keep your heads in the next fire fight.
- Brawler: Sah? Yes sah!
- M Cutthroat: We're damned. That's why we're still alive. The good and pure are already in their graves.
- Bully: Lazy. Heh. Better off without 'em.
- M Professional: Really miss the Guard. Being part of something bigger.
- F Seer: You have new friends now, Roughneck. At least, I hope we're friends. I'd be most upset if not.
- M Judge: If the Astra Militarum are a mighty hammer, we are the surgeon's scalpel.
- F Loose-Cannon: Anyways, back when you were in the Guard--
- M Professional: Will you cut it out? I don't want to talk about the past. I just want to kill heretics, got it?
- F Loose-Cannon: Oooo ... Touchy, ain't we? Could it be you're homesick?
- M Professional: I said I don't want to talk about it.
- M Professional: You got any movement over there?
- F Loose-Cannon: Nothing worth noting. What about you?
- M Professional: About the same. For the moement. You know how it goes: it's all quiet, then something tries to kill you.
- F Loose-Cannon: Just another day in the Guard, right?
- M Professional: Just another day in the fragging Guard.
Chaplains / Preachers[]
- Male Judge: I once knew a Chaplin with the Astra Militarum. He used to say he would rather enter the Eye of Terror than face another day with his regiment.
- Male Professional: Once they started preaching, nothing short of death would stop 'em.
- Brawler: Shouty is easy job... just yell and snivel.
- F Agitator: The Astra Militarum, though glorious in purpose, oweth much to the spiritual leadership of its preachers.
- Bully: You would bleeding say that...
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- M Fanatic: Say a prayer for the preachers of the Imperial Guard; defenders of the faith!
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- F Judge: Without the preachers who serve the Astra Militarum, surely the whole imperial army would fall to corruption.
- Fanatic: If ye think that task be thankless, just look at what we're working with here.
- M Judge 1: As a child, I longed to serve as a Chaplain of the Astra Militarum, but I have since seen the error of my ways.
- Bully: You would bleeding say that...
- M Judge 3: Unless the pay is truly excellent, I have no intention of volunteering myself.
- F Agitator: I wonder how the preachers of the Astra Militarum doth cope with the company of such faithless imbeciles.
- F Professional: They knew how to get a battle-line fired up, that's for sure.
- M Cutthroat: Prayers keep you true, but soldiers win wars.
Combat Rations[]
- M Professional: Keep an eye open for grub, comrades. Anything's better than those rations Morrow doles out.
- F Loner: You do know they're probably made from people?
- M Professional: Can't shift the taste of those combat rations, even through a mouthful of blood.
- Brawler: Rations [Mmmmmm sound]
- Brawler: We get more rations if Emp-rah is pleased with us...
- Male Fanatic: Typical Slab! Ye should need no reward to serve the God-Emperor.
- M Fanatic: Do any of the rest of ye feel like the day is dragging?
- Brawler: Not me. Loving every moment. Especially the rations.
- M Fanatic: Rations? we're not supposed to be stuffing your face, but fighting the enemies of the God-Emperor!
- Brawler: Have to do one to do the other. Is best way.
- Brawler: Don't like medals. Can't eat 'em...
- M Seer: My Beloved told me what's in our rations. You can have mine.
Commissars[]
- F Savant: I suspect our Militarum comrades never encountered a Commissar, given they're still alive.
- F Seer: Oh, but they do have very nice uniforms.
- Bodyguard: Do as told. Get medal. Simple.
- M Seer: Have you ever met an Imperial Guard Commissar? They're so frightful!
- F Savant: They persuade with bullets where the priests have failed with words...
- Bully: Always bleeding moaning...
- M Seer: Have you ever met an Imperial Guard Commissar? They're so frightful!
- M Professional: Be fair, their job is to inspire, as well as... erm... execute cowards.
- Bodyguard: Do as told. Get medal. Simple.
- M Seer: MY Beloved calls Imperial Guard Commissars a necessary evil. I wonder what he means.
- M Professional: I can see how dishing out summary executions could give someone a bad rap...
Melee[]
- M Professional: That's why I don't do "up close and personal" unless I have to.
- M Cutthroat: Close quarters is efficient. Save ammo. Taste the blood.
- M Loner: You're welcome to it. So very barbaric.
- M Professional: Well, each to their own, I suppose.
- M Loose-Cannon: Get in close next time! Make the Karkers fear you!
- F Savant: I'm not sure that's tactically sound, or in line with approved protocol.
- F Loose-Cannon: Get in close next time! Make the karkers fear you!
- M Seer: I'll certainly try, but I do find it all a bit barbaric.
Inquisition[]
- M Savant: The Inquisition stand apart from Imperial Law... I confess. that is uncomfortable for me...
- M Seer: My Beloved always intended the law to be applied equitably, but alas!
- M Seer: My Beloved says many in the Inquisition forget the burden of being above the law.
- F Savant: As long as I'm here, the Lex Atoma still applies. Understand?
- M Professional: It's a hierarchy, see. Enforcers; Adeptus Arbites; us.
- F Savant: Whilst the Inquisition's above it, I'd ask that you still respect the Lex Atoma.
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Rejects[]
- Loner: This is most untenable. We are an expendable resource to the others.
- Fanatic: A faithful soul such as myself deserves better. As for the rest of you ... ?
- Loner: This is most untenable. We are an expendable resource to the others.
- Cutthroat: In other news, water proven to be wet.
- F Loner: Remember: we have value only so long as we remain useful.
- F Agitator: Thou speaketh sense for once, Freak. Usefulness is its own reward.
Age of Apostasy[]
- Female Agitator: If thou imbeciles think times are hard, you have clearly not studied the darkest of all epochs: the Age of Apostasy!
- Male Judge: They say the very street ran with blood, all on the orders of the traitor Vandire.
- Male Loose-Cannon: The Adeptus Custodes took their sweet time bringing down Vandire.
- F Judge: I often wonder what would have transpired had the Ecclesiarchy perished in the Age of Apostasy.
- F Cutthroat: Blood and madness, that's what I heard it was.
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Ordo Hereticus[]
- Male Fanatic: Be there any more righteous calling than the Ordo Hereticus?
- Male Loose-Cannon: Creed's Swagger... Here we go again.
- Male Seer: My Beloved doesn't really want you to kill for him. He thinks perhaps you just enjoy it.
- F Judge: What an honour to serve the Ordo Hereticus. Truly there is no higher calling.
- M Professional: It's kinda satisfying, uncovering corruption in high places.
- F Fanatic: After the Age of Apostasy, a creed like ours were sorely needed.
- Agitator: Tis the greatest honour of all to join the Ordo Hereticus. Dost thou not agree?
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- Judge: As a child, I always longed to join the Ordo Hereticus.
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- M Fanatic: The work of the Ordo Hereticus surely be the most vital in the Imperium!
- M Loner: Oddly enough, working for people who call themselves "Witch Hunters" is hardly my idea of fulfilling employment.
- F Professional: The Ordo was founded 'cos the others failed. I call that righteous.
- M Agitator: To be an avolyte of the Ordo Hereticus is surely the finest calling the righteous may receiveth!
- Bully: Ret-i-cus is... um... Besticus!
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Assassins[]
- Brawler: Heard Assassins good at fighting. We need one?
- Female Fanatic: Pah! This be a job for the Inquisition, not some sneekit scrowl!
- Bodyguard: Do not like this talk of Assassins.
- Bodyguard: Need Assassin here, yes?
- Male Loose-Cannon: Saw a Death Cultist once. [Shudder / creeped-out noise]
- Female Seer: Even acknowledging the existence of the Officio Assassinorum is a crime deserving assassination. So they say.
- Bodyguard: Think Boss should send Assassin, yes?
- Male Fanatic: I wouldn't tempt fate, Slab. Not without an agent of the Ordo Sicarius present to control them.
- Bully: Help ain't coming. Get used to it.
- Bodyguard: Think Boss should send Assassin, yes?
- F Savant: An assassin need a target... we can't very well just point them at Atoma.
- M Seer: My Beloved thinks we should speak no more of this. You never know who's listening...
- Bodyguard: Think Boss should send Assassin, yes?
- M Cutthroat: Officio Assassinorum don't turn up for trouble like this.
- M Seer: Even acknowledging the existence of the Officio Assassinorum is a crime deserving assassination. So they say.
Imperium of Man[]
Imperial Heroes[]
- Male Professional: I think Solar Macharius was the greatest hero of the Imperium. Wish we knew more about him.
- Male Fanatic: The Imperium were crying out for a hero like Saint Macharius.
- Male Seer: He fancied himself incorruptible... My Beloved believes that was not the case.
- Brawler: Did I ever tell you of famous Ogryn, Nork Deddog?
- M Professional: Heard he saved the lives of over a hundred officers.
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Imperial Tithe[]
- M Seer: I dreamt last night of the Imperial Tithe. Of children torn from their home worlds. Pain...
- Brawler: Emp-rah always gets his!
- M Professional: Pay the piper, or face the consequences. Nowt wrong with that.
- F Savant: Death and tithes are the only certainties... yet I hope Atoma's given leniency in the latter...
- M Seer: My Beloved would like it known that tithes guarantee protection for all.
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- F Loner: Have you ever heard of a world that actually benefits from the Imperial Tithe? It is a travesty.
- M Fanatic: Don't doubt the Administratum, Freak. The Imperial Tithe be fairly reckoned.
- M Judge: The virtuous embrace a life of service to the Emperor with a glad heart.
- M Savant: I reckon Atoma will be in no position to pay her tithe for a while...
- F Savant: It must be for the good of all... there's no benefit to Atoma if she's tithed now...
- Bodyguard: It is honour to be offered to Emperor!
- F Loner: You speak of a great and benevolent Imperium, but so many worlds are crippled by unfair tithes.
- M Davant: It must be for the good of all... there's no benefit to Atoma if she's tithed now...
- Bully: Give stuff to Empr-rah, or get smashed!
- M Savant: Death and tithes are the only certainties.. yet I hope Atoma's given leniency in the latter...
- M Seer: In My Beloved's defence, not all tithes are paid in souls.
- M Cutthroat: No tithe. No Imperium. No humanity. Simple.
- F Seer: Do you think Atoma will ever start paying the tithe again? I hope not. It seems unfair.
- F Loose-Cannon: I got tithed. Most guard did. Just how it is.
- M Agitator: There is no finer test of loyalty. A governor who cannot meet Terra's Due lacks both faith and strength.
Bell of Lost Souls[]
- Bodyguard: We will be remembered as greatest heroes!
- Female Professional: Be a miracle if they ring the Bell of Lost Souls for us...
- Male Seer: The most extraordinary things turn up in the most unlikely places. That's how My Beloved found me.
- Male Seer: My Beloved says many a charlatan has had the Bell of Lost Souls tolled for them, so why not us?
- Male Savant: How you did matters more than if your death is commemorated.
- Bully: I'm mighty hero! Am!
- M Professional: Be a miracle if they ring the Bell of Lost Souls for us...
- Brawler: Bell. Statue. Medals. Sure...
Exterminatus[]
- Loose-Cannon: Reckon we could Exterminatus this place? Logistically, I mean.
- Bodyguard: Plant big bomb under hive, yes?
- Bully: Boom! [Hur-hur...]
- Agitator: I wouldst rather this entire accursed world burn than one heretic survive!
- Brawler: You don't always make sense Shouty, but that did!
- Professional: It's a sorry state down here. Don't see it getting better until the war's over.
- Loose-Cannon: Probably not even then. Clock's ticking. They'll bomb this place flat before they let the heretics take it.
- Professional: Don't talk like that, please. Not while we're still down here.
- Cutthroat: Oh, it's not like we'll feel anything. Not for long.
- Loose-Cannon: Exterminatus... That's what I'd like to see.
- Loner: The cost of an orbital bombardment is worth more than the lives of every man, woman and child on this accursed world.
- Bully: Make it go boom!
- Professional: If you could... y'know... Exterminatus this place... How would you do it?
- Cutthroat: Crack open the planet's skin like an egg shell. Whole place becomes ash.
- Bodyguard: Maybe we fix things first, yes?
- Male Loose-Cannon: Exterminatus... That's what I'd like to see.
- Female Agitator: Exterminatus protocols clearly state that lance strike are preferred in such instances.
- Male Professional: I like to think we're the better option. Not the cheaper option.
- M Fanatic: There be no fear if ye have conviction.
- M Agitator: Fear cometh from logical analysis. Conviction dismisseth logic!
Faith and the Imperial Creed[]
- Male Agitator: I hath long dreamt of serving in a holy crusade. Now the hour lieth at hand, I findeth it somehow... lacking.
- Female Judge: Yours is a soul ever-yearning for fulfilment. But purpose cannot come from without, only within.
- Male Agitator: Not so! Purpose cometh from the Master alone.
- Female Judge: By our service, we reflect the Beneficent Emperor's purpose, but only we can choose to embrace it.
- Male Agitator: Yes... Yes, of course. I perceiveth your meaning now, if dimly.
- Male Fanatic: How long have we been doing this now? It feels like forever.
- Female Seer: Oh I know, that the problem with dreams isn't it? They all blur together.
- Male Fanatic: This is nay dream. Tis a nightmare without end.
- Female Seer: It'll get better you'll see! You just need to have faith.
- Male Fanatic: A black day indeed where one such as ye lectures me... ME about faith!
- Brawler: If not fighting, should be eating, should be eating or sleeping..
- Female Agitator: I admire thee, Slab. Blessed is the mind too small for doubt, and they mind is perhaps one of the smallest.
- Brawler: It's not true, you know.
- Female Agitator: Doust thou question one of the Master's parables?
- Female Agitator: Doust thou worship the Master, Slab?
- Brawler: Emp'rah? Yeah. Loves the Emp'rah, I do. Is dead strong. And wise. And... and... strong!
- Female Agitator: Indeed, his is the might of ages, wielded against the undeserving. And in you I see his strong right hand.
- Brawler: I dunno. Me left hand's pretty strong too.
- Female Agitator: Iam sure. If only thou hadst wit to match. Alas.
- Brawler: Not a lass, Ogryn. Not like you make a mistake, Shouty.
- Male Agitator: We must not falter, we must not!
- Male Fanatic: Are you sure? Ye didn't seem your usual buoyant self.
- Male Agitator: I am resplendent! No... no I am not not. This horror! It takes it's toll.
- Male Fanatic: Have faith kin! Steep yourselves in the blood of the heretics! It shall revive ye!
- Male Agitator: Yes... yes! Let us slay them together!
- Male Fanatic: Lay on and I shall gladly follow!
- Male Judge: Do you ever pray to the Beneficent Emperor, Slab?
- Bully: Nah. Can't find the words.
- Male Judge: Then in this, I shall aid you once the mission is done.
- Bully: Okay.
- Female Judge: For every grox returned to the fold, the grox herd rejoices! So the Emperor longs to see each world returned to his light!
- Male Agitator: Thy knowledge of scripture is inspiring.
- Female Judge: Why thankyou! It is the product of many long years of tutelage and selfless dedication.
- Male Agitator: For many years I hath no tutor, saveth the Master's hand upon mine shoulder. I feareth the subtleties of His teachings may hath escaped me.
- Female Judge: You have nothing to regret. We each walk our own path.
- Bully: What do you do for fun, Shouty?
- Male Judge: For recreation, you mean? Why, I pray, mortify my flesh and hold vigil over the souls in my charge.
- Bully: Doesn't sound fun to me.
- Male Judge: It would be the making of you, I feel certain.
- Fanatic 1: I warn ye kindred, I'm cranksome this day.
- Fanatic 2: It is a natural fury, kindred. Be not ashamed.
- Fanatic: I warn ye kindred, I'm cranksome this day.
- Judge: (Have you eaten and slept enough lately, pilgrim?) (approximate from memory)
- Fanatic 1: If in doubt kindred, place your faith in fire. The hotter the better!
- Fanatic 2: Aye, there is no finer sight than burning heretics!
- Judge: The heresy on Atoma has kindled a great wrath in me.
- Fanatic: My ire has never dwindled. Atoma merely fans the flames.
- Female Agitator: Focus on thy labours! Minds without purpose wandereth in dark places.
- Male Fanatic: Those who forget their duty become little more than beasts!
- M Professional: Look ... ain't no easy way to say this, but once this is done with ... will you hear my confession?
- M Judge: Gladly, Templar. We all have sins to be shriven.
- M Professional: [Sigh] That's a real weight off my mind. Don't want to die dragged down by ... all that.
- M Judge: Then stand true, for the foe will come again.
- M Professional: I know my business ... but ... thanks.
- M Agitator: Fight without fear. We art the faithful, whose blessed reward is martyrdom!
- M Professional: Too bloody right! We fight for the fragging Throne!
- F Judge: We have a moment. Who will lead us in prayer?
- F Loner: Follow me, if you wish, though I fancy you will not like where I lead.
- M Fanatic: The Master of Mankind will deliver us this day!
- M Loose-Cannon: I'd sooner put my faith in a bayonet and rifle, if it's all the same to you.
- M Fanatic: Even your simple soul shall understand His glory before the end.
- M Judge: Praise be to the Beneficent Emperor! Who will be the first to offer their thanks?
- Brawler: Do what now?
Ecclesiarchy[]
- Male Fanatic: We move with glorious purpose! Maybe the Holy Synod themselves might hear of our deeds.
- Male Professional: Us? Get a commendation from a cardinal? Seems unlikely.
- Male Seer: My Beloved rather likes the New Ecclesiarch. He's much better than the last one.
- Male Fanatic: We move with glorious purpose! Maybe the Holy Synod themselves might hear of our deeds.
- Male Professional: Us? Get a commendation from a cardinal? Seems unlikely.
- Female Savant: The Synod be the holiest of the God-Emperor's servants. His very voice on Earth!
- M Fanatic: Purge the heretics, and the Holy Synod may add your names to the psalms!
- M Loner: Why not, Fanatic? A cardinal is not much different from you. Except for the fabulous riches and frequent baths.
- M Professional: Can't see the Ecclesiarch paying attention to us. He's a fragging High Lord!
- M Agitator: The Holy Synod of Terra doth weigh and measure all righteous deeds - ours includeth!
- M Loose-Cannon: I'd rather just make it through the day, thanks.
- M Seer: My Beloved cannot count the number of Ecclesiarchs he's seen come and go.
- M Judge: It seems to me that we are spiritual descendants of Confessor Malifax, striving to hold back an apostate tide.
- M Loner: And what, pray, happened to the good confessor?
- M Judge: Why, he drowned.
A Million Worlds[]
- M Judge: A million worlds, all beneath the Beneficent Emperor's glorious banner...
- M Seer: My Beloved finds it all very tiring.
- M Professional: Had guard duty on a Shrine World once. That was an eye-opener.
- M Fanatic: This world be but one of a million that make up the Imperium
- M Judge: And yet there is such darkness between worlds. We must be the bearers of His light.
- M Professional: Had guard duty on a Shrine World once. That was an eye-opener.
- M Judge: Have you ever seen a clear night sky? A million worlds, held in the Emperor's gaze.
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- M Fanatic: To think, the Imperium contains a million worlds, maybe more!
- F Loner: It seems the Carrion Lord's thirst for war knows no bounds.
- M Cutthroat: This rock we stand on right now's the only one that matters.
Missionarus Galaxia[]
- Male Loner: The Missionarus Galaxia are an odd bunch. Always spreading light to those who'd much prefer the dark.
- Male Fanatic: It be a fine calling, bringing the God-Emperor's light to benighted worlds.
- Male Seer: It's surprising how many Missionaries don't make it back. Apparently not everyone(everybody?*) likes them.
- M Seer 1: Pity all the Imperial Missionaries are off exploring. Could have done with a few here.
- F Fanatic: It be a fine calling, bringing the God-Emperor's light to benighted worlds.
- M Seer 2: I'd make a good Missionary. But My Beloved says he needs me here.
Forget the Past[]
- Seer 1: All this has happened before, and will happen again if we don't learn from past eras.
- Professional: What, like the Age of Strife, when the xenos almost wiped us out?
- Seer 3: No, Beloved, there is little comfort or hope to be found in this dark era...
- Seer 1: Yes, Beloved, they close their minds to the past, and cannot dream of a brighter future.
- Professional: What, like the Age of Strife, when the xenos almost wiped us out?
- Seer 3: Every era is an Age of Battle. In my dreams I see fires rage from star to star, for all time...
- Savant: It is illogical to deprive ourselves of past knowledge, do you not agree?
- M Seer: Yes, Beloved. For all their faith, I think they'd just let you suffer all over again.
- M Loose-Cannon: Focus on the here and now. Might be dead tomorrow.
Servitors[]
- Male Professional?: Do you not find servitors reassuring?
- Male Savant: Their souls are leaden and dull. Whatever they once were is long stripped away.
- Male Fanatic: Those who toil without complaint be truly blessed.
- Professional: Can't imagine an Imperium without servitors.
- Loose-Cannon: Nasty little tech-zombies. All watching with their dead eyes.
- Cutthroat: Not my kind of service, I admit. I'm happier with a rifle and bayonet.
- Professional: Can't imagine an Imperium without servitors.
- Brawler: Servitors good at fixing. Breaking more fun!
- Seer: Ah, but are we any less the cogs in the Imperium's great machine?
- Fanatic: Some say Servitors are made in the Master's image. If so, they are blessed.
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- Female Professional: Can't imagine an Imperium without servitors.
- Male Cutthroat: Proof of life beyond death that I'd rather not be aware of.
- Female Agitator: We can but all pray that we might serveth the Master so diligently.
- Female Cutthroat: Servitors have their place. Preferably wherever I am not.
- Male Loose-Cannon: Can you not smell the grave whenever one lurches past?
- Male Cutthroat: We each serve in our own way.
- Male Professional: Can't imagine an Imperium without servitors.
- Male Seer: They perceive a world we cannot see. I suppose some might call them blessed.
- Female Professional: Not my kind of service, I admit. I'm happier with a rifle and bayonet.
Terra[]
- Male Loose-Cannon: Reckon Terra is all it's cracked up to be?
- Bodyguard: Hmm. Would like to see Emperor.
- Female Seer: I'd hate to see My Beloved shackled to that Golden Throne. He's better off here, with me.
- M Professional: Imagine being on Holy Terra. What would that be like?
- Bully: Probably just another dump.
- F Judge: I pray for Holy Terra, and for the salvation for Mankind.
- M Loose-Cannon: Heard the boss going on about Terra. What do you think it's like there?
- M Agitator: I wouldst give anything to see the Sanctum Imperialis, where stands the mighty Titanolith!
- M Cutthroat: Never going to see it this side of the grave.
- M Professional: If I could be anywhere else, I reckon I'd pick Holy Terra.
- M Judge: To hang my eyes on Holy Terra... The very thought of it.
- M Seer: My Beloved would love to show us around, but the other's won't let him.
- F Cutthroat: My one wish? To see Terra.
- M Cutthroat: Terra is going to be like everywhere else - at war.
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- F Cutthroat: Any of you seen Terra?
- F Agitator: I wouldst give anything to see the Sanctum Imperialis, where stands the mighty Titanolith!
- M Cutthroat: Never going to see it this side of the grave.
- Loose-Cannon: Reckon Terra is all it's cracked up to be?
- M Agitator: I wouldst give anything to see the Sanctum Imperialis, where stands the mighty Titanolith!
- Professional: It sure would be something to see the Golden Throne, wouldn't it?
- M Loose-Cannon: You ever think about Terra? Wonder what it's like.
- M Professional: Lines are so long, most pilgrims die before they even reach the Sol System.
- M Seer: My Beloved would love to show us around, but the other's won't let him.
- M Professional: Wonder what things are like on Holy Terra? Must be better than this.
- F Savant: I suspect it would not be an enjoyable trip for myself or my siblings...
- M Cutthroat: We fight for Terra, nothing else matters.
Warp Travel[]
- Bodyguard: How does ship enter warp then?
- Female Professional: Well, it sort of folds into the Immaterium and... um... Does anyone else wanna take this?
- Male Loose-Cannon: Used to plug psykers into the engines. Don't think they do that anymore...
- Male Professional: I love the Guard. Except for the Warp jumps. Not so keen on them.
- Female Agitator: A mind filled with faith has no room for doubt.
- Female Professional: Sticking to the Mandeville Points is the secret to safe travel. Mostly.
- Female Cutthroat: Stay awake for Warp jumps. The dreams are worse than anything.
- Male Cutthroat: The Warp can swallow a ship and never let it go.
- Male Seer: To gaze into the Warp is to stare into the abyss. And sometimes it stares back.
- Bully: Warp-jumps confusing. How? Why?
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- F Cutthroat: Warp travel is like swimming in bad dreams...
- M Cutthroat: The Warp can swallow a ship and never let it go.
- Brawler: Don't like travel no ways.
- M Loose-Cannon: Know what I hate most? Warp travel.
- Bodyguard: Sleep through whole thing, no time to worry.
- M Professional: Always prefer to spend extra time getting to a Mandeville Point. Safer that way.
- M Loose-Cannon 1: Know what I hate the most? Warp travel.
- M Savant: If only the things you fear in the Immaterium were restricted to it...
- M Loose-Cannon 3: Short, controlled jumps. That's the secret.
Chaos[]
Chaos Gods[]
- M Loose-Cannon: Karking heretics think they're worshipping gods. Maybe they're right.
- F Savant: They believe them to be Gods, that much seems clear...
- Cutthroat: If people were not weak the Daemons would have no way in. Me, I don't blame Chaos, I blame those that fall to it.
- M Professional: The things the heretics worship. They're jsut daemons, right? I mean... they couldn't really be gods?
- F Savant: It's best not to dwell upon what they believe, Roughneck.
- M Judge: See what becomes of those who accept the gifts of the false gods. Madness and corruption.
Chaos Space Marines (CSM)[]
- Female Fanatic: We must be on our guard always, kindred. Even the blessed Space Marines are not immune to the wiles of Chaos.
- Male Fanatic: I'll not believe the tales of the Horus Heresy. It suggests the God-Emperor may be fallible, and that cannae be true.
- Male Judge: Surely the Blessed Adeptus Astartes are too pure to be tempted by the wiles of the enemy...?
- Female Agitator: Some disputeth the facts of the Great Heresy, but tis said the Warmaster Horus, the Emperor's favoured son, was first to fall.
- Male Loose-Cannon: If you ever see one of the karkers, call in heavy support, or run like hel.
- Male Judge 1: Do you think it is possible that the Enemy has Space Marines of its own?
- Male Fanatic: Aye, I've heard the tales, but I'll not believe it till I see the testament of my own eyes.
- Male Judge 2: Think no more on this. That way lies only corruption.
- M Fanatic: We must be on our guard always, kindred. Even the blessed Space Marines are not immune to the wiles of Chaos.
- F Judge: If the Blessed Sons of the Emperor can fall, what hope remains for the rest of us?
- Bully: Ogryn stronger than Space Marine!
Nurgle Cultists[]
- Brawler: Why so many plaguey heretics?
- Male Fanatic: They worship a plague-daemon, who they name "Nurgle" - a blasphemous mound of filth and virulence.
- Male Seer: In my dreams I've seen entire systems fall to plague. And with it comes madness.
- Bully: Why heretics all plague-ridden? Bleeding disgusting.
- Male Loner: They look upon disease as a blessing - is not pestilence the most unfettered form of life? Some misguide souls would call it divine.
- Bodyguard: Ogryn never get sick. Ogryn strong!
- Bodyguard: What is with plague-heretics? Why they like goo so much?
- F Judge: They worship a plague daemon, and are punished for their blasphemy.
- F Cutthroat: Shoot them, burn them, and still you can't be sure they're done.
Poxwalkers[]
- Female Loner: Poxwalkers. Always Poxwalkers. I hate them.
- Male Loose-Cannon: The way I see it, walking corpses are halfway where we want 'em.
- Bully: Kill em dead. If they get up, kill em again.
- M Professional: It's the only language they understand, true enough.
- F Loner: I do not care for these Poxwalkers. Their thoughts are... unsettling.
- M Fanatic: Aye. Such creatures have no place in the God-Emperor's realm.
The Warp (The Immaterium)[]
- Savant 1: The disorder the Empyrean wreaks upon the passage of time is most perturbing...
- Bully: Didn't notice.
- Savant 2: All this talk of time makes me sad for my Beloved. The ravages of time are not kind to him.
- Male Loner: If you only understood how thin the veil that separates us from the Realm of Chaos, you would likely lose your minds.
- Male Seer: No one but my Beloved can gaze into the Realm of Chaos. The rest of us would just go mad, and you wouldn't want that.
- Male Cutthroat: Hel is real. I've seen it.
- Male Seer: Sometimes, in my dream, I see the Realm of Chaos. Were it not for My Beloved, I might just drift towards the maddening laughter and never return.
- Male Fanatic: Calm yourself, Freak. Don't be giving me no reason to purge ye!
- Male Loose-Cannon: Fine. There's a Realm of Chaos. I call it Hel, and that's where I'm sending the heretics.
- Female Judge: The Warp is the domain of blasphemous... things.
- Male Seer: Shh! Don't talk about the Warp entities. If they hear you, they'll get very cross.
- Bodyguard: No more of this talk. It bad luck.
- Male Seer: All of our enemies hail from the Realm of Chaos. It is a place of nightmare, where souls are damned.
- Female Loose-Cannon: So, when we make Warp jumps we're... visiting Daemon-land? You've gotta be kidding...
- Bodyguard: I do not understand anything you said.
- Male Savant: I've heard whispers of the Realm of Chaos. Islands of evil, floating on a sea of madness...
- Male Loose-Cannon: Make sense I suppose. Daemons gotta live somewhere, right?
- Male Judge: Think no more of such things. That way corruption lies.
- Savant 1: The disorder the Empyrean wreaks upon the passage of time is most perturbing...
- Brawler: Time to eat or time to fight only important time.
- Savant 2: Would that there was an alternative to voyaging this sea of nightmares...
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- Male Agitator: Yes, Guardian, Thou speaketh of Warp entities - vile shadows that lurketh beyond the veil.
- Male Professional: Sweat I saw an Enslaver once. So many tentacles...
- F Savant 1: I wonder what causes the Warp's distortion of time? Something unholy, no doubt...
- Bully: Wait, so we... When? Eh?
- F Savant 2: The peril is most acute for those like myself and my siblings [shudder]
- Savant: I wonder what causes the Warp's distortion of time? Something unholy no doubt...
- Fanatic: Further out ye get from the God-Emperor's light, the more unpredictable it gets.
- Professional: Could be worse. Could run into a Warp storm.
- Brawler: Not sure I follow this Warp stuff?
- Loose-Cannon: Try not to think about it, Big Man. It'll give you nightmares.
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- Brawler: Not sure I follow this Warp stuff?
- M Seer: Some will tell you it is Warp Drives, or the Astronomican, or Navigators. Really, it's just magic.
- M Professional: Put it this way, there's a reason the Navis Nobilite are the waelthiest families in the galaxy.
Daemons[]
- Loose-Cannon: Daemons are Warp-creatures. Won't see any down here.
- Savant: That would be preferable. Unfortunately, it's not true.
- Professional: Won't be any daemons here, right? They don't exist outside the Warp... [Nervous laughter]
- Savant: Assume nothing when it comes to Daemons.
- Fanatic: The daemonic are without number, and their legions span the galaxy.
- Cutthroat: Daemons exist in the Warp. Outside of it they are weak.
- Seer: Daemons are always just one bad dream away...
- Cutthroat: Believe what you like. Just keep your weapons close and (your?*) eyes open.
- Professional: Won't be any daemons here, right? They don't exist outside the Warp... [Nervous laughter]
- Fanatic: The Daemon fears the faithful more than all else. Keep faith, and repel the Warp-spawn!
- Loose-Cannon: Next you'll be saying that Grey Knights are real...
- Professional: We're mostly safe from daemons when we're not Warp-jumping... I hope.
- Brawler: Daemons don't die easy. Good fight!
- Fanatic: The daemonic are without number, and their legions span the galaxy.
- Loose-Cannon: Ha! Ain't afraid of no Daemons, least not in realspace.
- Bully: Daemon comes near me, it dies.
- Professional: I did hear that thing about Absolom Reach... But that's just a story...
- Cutthroat: The Warp is where Daemons exist. As long as they stay there we are safe.
- Fanatic: The Daemon fears the faithful more than all else. Keep faith, and repel the Warp-spawn!
- Professional: I did hear that thing about Absolom Reach... But that's just a story...
Moebian Traitors[]
- M Loose-Cannon: Sure, I've had my beefs with command, but I couldn't turn traitor like this lot.
- M Seer: I don't like them either.
- F Professional: If you ask me, we should be going after the Moebians' leaders. You know, cut the head off the snake.
- M Professional: Can't argue there, but I ain't rightly sure we've got the numbers.
- F Professional: We ain't got the numbers for any of this, but we forge on all the same.
- M Professional: You might be onto something there. Might be worth talking to Zola.
- F Professional: Rather you than me. She's been in one of her moods lately.
Psykers[]
- Seer: If nothing else, death and destruction make for an entertaining dream ...
- Savant: Now, dreams without death and destruction would be a trick indeed...
- M Seer: Will someone tell the dead to stop pestering me? I'm trying to think!
- F Loner: Oh, just tell them to go away.
- M Seer: A medicognisant once told me I was delusional, can you believe that? So I made him go away.
- M Judge: However did he reach that conclusion?
- M Seer: No Beloved, I don't want to bother him. He looks budy.
- M Fanatic: What are ye blethering about now?
- M Seer: Oh, nothing really. My Beloved just wants use to work together. He says we can be good influences on one another.
- M Fanatic: I doubt that's true ... Och, dinnae look at me like that ... Very well, have it your way.
- M Seer: Not my way. My Beloved's way.
- M Fanatic: [Sotto] God-Emperor preserve me.
- Seer: The Imperium began in blood. It is sustained by blood. And it will drown in blood. [Laugh]
- Savant: I'd tone it down around any Zealots, Sibling.
- Seer: The Imperium began in blood. It is sustained by blood. And it will drown in blood. [Laugh]
- Professional: You're not wrong. Best not to think about it.
- Loner: This is a waste of my unparalleled mind. Morrow should have sent a blunt.
- Fanatic: I think we'd all be happier with fewer of your kind about.
- Loner: I was meant for better than this.
- Savant: We may forge our value through duty, Sibling.
- Loner: You should think more kindly of me, you know. I might be listening.
- Savant: Please Sibling, have some professional courtesy.
- M Judge: Suffer not the witch to live, so the scriptures tell us.
- M Fanatic: Their minfs be like open gates, and the baying hordes of Chaos be waiting on the threshold!
- M Cutthroat: Psyker goes bad, shoot them before they turn you inside out.
- M Loner: Would you believe this is actually more pleasant than much of my recent life?
- F Seer: Mine too! I suppose that's why it's a dream, not a nightmare.
- M Fanatic: Beware the witch: They pose the greatest threat to the faithful.
- F Savant: Oh? And you're an expert are you? Been through the training yourself? [disgusted snort]
- Bully: Ain't scared of them. Scrawny little bleeders.
- F Savant: How many of you actually know what protocol means?
- M Fanatic: Protocol is the only reason I be suffering ye to live, Freak.
- M Loner: You really should all be nicer to me. I have feelings, you know.
- F Seer: I'm treated even worse ... I see how you all look at me!
- F Seer: I'm sure I could repel daemonic manifestation. I've trained for it. Theoretically, anyway...
- M Loner: I couldn't be possessed, if that's what you mean. It's already rather crowded here.
- F Seer: Will someone tell the dead to stop pestering me? I'm trying to think!
- M Seer: Maybe we should make friends with them? I'd like that.
- M Seer: You do know you're not real, don't you? I'm all alone.
- M Fanatic: Hear the Freak? They're mad, I tell ye. Mad!
Daemonic Possession[]
- M Seer: If a Daemon ever got past my defences, things would be bad for you. Very bad.
- M Professional: Throne... You don't mean a Daemon might possess you?
- M Judge: Remember, the ways of the enemy are cubtle. Watch the Psyker always for signs of taint.
- F Loner: My "training" for this mission was more akin to torture. Better than suffering Daemonic interference, I suppose.
- M Professional: Throne... You don't mean a Daemon might possess you?
- Cutthroat: All witches are harbingers of ruin.
- F Loner: My "training" for this mission was more akin to torture. Better than suffering Daemonic interference, I suppose.
- M Loose-Cannon: You start acting Daemonic, I'll put you down.
Unsanctioned / Rogue Psykers[]
- M Agitator: Do not rogue psykers pose the greatest threat to the Imperium? They art abominations!
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- M Seer: Sometimes, in my dream, I can hear Daemons scratching at my mind. I hope they don't get in.
- F Cutthroat: You show the signs of possession, I'll kill you and not shed a tear.
- F Loose-Cannon: This is why we don't tolerate rogue psykers, see!
- M Fanatic: Beware the witch. The unsanctioned psyker be a plasphemy against the God-Emperor!
- M Judge: They are weak-willed, conduits for the evil that lies in the Empyrean.
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- Judge: Fear the witch, for they corrupt the virtuous by their very nature.
- M Agitator: Tis said that but one in a thousand psykers may gaze into the Empyrean and live. Better to purge them all, just to be safe...
- M Cutthroat: Sanctioning makes no difference. All psykers can go bad.
- Judge: Fear the witch, for they corrupt the virtuous by their very nature.
- M Professional: The Priest's got a point. I mean, they're practically gateways to possession...
- F Savant: If you were to purge all Psykers, answer me this Zealot. Would you spare Him on Terra?
Reinforcements[]
- Seer: I'm sure I dreamed up other warriors to protect this world. I wish they were here.
- Zola: Would we be employing rejects if we had any other choice?
- Cutthroat: Wishful thinking, that's all.
- Judge: I pray that the Emperor in his wisdom sends his daughters to cleanse this place.
- Morrow: If there's help coming, you don't need to know. You'd better get used to being heroes.
- Professional: It's like I'm back in the Guard. Alone in the dark until the enemy open fire...
- Cutthroat: Some of them Space Marines would be useful right about now.
- Hadron: I have complete confidence in you ... Was that convincing? I can never tell.
- Professional: It's like I'm back in the Guard. Alone in the dark until the enemy open fire...
- Agitator: Oh, to see a host of Adepta Sororitas descend upon this benighted world, the Emperor's light upon their saintly brows!
- Zola: Reinforcements are unlikely for the time being. Why else do you think you're still alive?
- Brawler: No help comes, course we'll do it ourselves.
- Male Loose-Cannon 1: You know what I'd like to karking see? A squad of Space Marines, right here, right now.
- Masozi: Do not worry. It will all be fine. And if not we will already be dead.
- Male Loose-Cannon 2: Just as well I'm awesome, isn't it? You stick with me, it'll be fine. Promise.
- Professional: Where's the fragging Space Marines? This a job for them, not us.
- Masozi: Do not worry. It will all be fine. And if not we will already be dead.
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- Professional: Where's the fragging Space Marines? This a job for them, not us.
- Hadron: Astronomicon function: impaired. Reinforcements: unlikely.
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- Loose-Cannon: You know what I'd like to karking see? A squad of Space Marines, right here, right now.
- Morrow: If there's help coming you don't need to know. You'd all better get used to being heroes.
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- Fanatic: This world deserves no less than assault by the saintly hosts of the Ecclesiarchy.
- Hadron: I calculate an ... acceptable probability that we will prevail alone.
- Cutthroat: Wishful thinking, that's all.
- Cutthroat: Some of them Space Marines would be useful right about now.
- Hadron: I calculate an ... acceptable probability that we will prevail alone.
- Professional: It's like I'm back in the Guard. Alone in the dark until the enemy open fire...
Assassins[]
- Bully 1: Big Boss should send an Assassin.
- M Loner: It would barely surprise me to learn they've been here already. Perhaps we're to clean up the mess they made.
- Bully 2: Help ain't coming. Get used to it.
- Bodyguard: Need Assassin here, yes?
- M Judge: The point of assassins is that you don't see them. Until it is too late.
- M Seer: My Beloved thinks we should speak no more of this. You never know who's listening...
Sisters of Battle (Adepta Sororitas)[]
- M Professional: If things get bad, reckon the Sisters of Battle might lend a hand?
- Savant: I concur their tactics would align with the Ordo Hereticus... perhaps too well...
- Savant: They are not known for thei moderation... more of Atoma may be left without their aid...
- Loose-Cannon 1: Should call in the Battle Sisters; that'd sort these heretics out.
- Female Loose-Cannon: Really? Why not get a Space Marine company in while you're at it?
- Loose-Cannon 2: Mind you, I've always wanted to see a Penitus Engine in action...
- M Loose-Cannon: Should call in the Battle Sisters; that'd sort these heretics out.
- M Fanatic: Let us test our own faith against the vile heretics afore we seek assistance!
- F Agitator: In these dark times, where evil seepeth through the void, the Adepta Sororitas are surely needed elsewhere.
- Male Fanatic: This world deserves no less than assault by the saintly host of the Ecclesiarchy.
- F Professional: The chamber Militant of the Ecclesiarchy... Just imagine it!
- Loose-Cannon: Mind you, I've always wanted to see a Penitus Engine in action...
- Loose-Cannon: Need some Sisters of Battle to sort out these heretics.
- Fanatic: Let us test out own faith against the vile heretics afore we seek assistance!
- Judge: If the Sisters arrive, we shall know things have gone badly wrong.
- M Loose-Cannon: Should call in the Battle Sisters; that'd sort these heretics out.
- M Professional: The chamber Militant of the Ecclesiarchy... Just imagine it!
- F Loose-Cannon: Might as well just declare Atoma Exterminatus. Result'd be the same.
Space Marines (Adeptus Astartes)[]
- Male Loose-Cannon: How many have to die before we call in some Space Marines?
- Male Agitator: Ah, wouldst that I be so fortunate to see the Angels of Death with mine own eyes!
- Male Professional: If they come, I hope they send the Ultramarines.
- Male Cutthroat: Space Marines could go through this in hours.
- Brawler: Space Marines fight good... Emp-rah's finest!
- Male Agitator: If our faith proveth insufficient, we could hope for no more pious allies than the Black Templars.
- Professional: How bad's it have to get before the Space Marines get involved?
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- Veteran (pro? LC?): Still not sure about these Primaris marines though. I mean, like Space Marines weren't big enough...
- Male Loose-Cannon: How many have to die before we call in some Space Marines?
- Male Seer: Yes, Beloved, they're talking about the Adeptus Astartes. No, no... the good ones.
- Female Cutthroat: If they come, I hope they send the Ultramarines or the Silver Skulls.
- Female Professional: Never any Space Marines around when you need them.
- Male Cutthroat: Adeptus Astartes won't get involved. These days you need a bigger mess than this.
- Female Agitator: A pity the Black Templars are not here. Their intolerance is a virtue that driveth me almost to envy!
- Bully: Why're Space Marines so bleeding big?
- M Professional: Guess they take after the Emperor.
- M Cutthroat: Ancient power and mysteries run in their blood.
- M Cutthroat: Space Marines, that what this situation requires.
- M Loner: Wonderful. I might live to get purged by a seven-foot-tall power-armoured tyrant. Can't wait.
- M Professional: If they come, I hope they send the Ultramarines.
- Professional: Never any Space Marines around when you need them.
- Cutthroat: Adeptus Astartes won't get involved. These days you need a bigger mess than this.
- Agitator: A pity the Black Templars are not here. Their intolerance is a virtue that driveth me almost to envy!
Xenos[]
Aside from the primary tabletop factions, a various of other obscure xenos species have been referenced and potentially eluded to by our Rejects. Such as Lotalx, Hrud, Enslavers (Warp creature), Lacrymole, Q'orl, K'nib, Lacrymole, and others.
- M Professional: Since I signed up for Hereticus detail, I sure do miss fighting xenos.
- M Loose-Cannon: I hear you. Least you can take an alien down once you know how.
- M Seer: My Beloved warns of a race of metallic warriors; least understood, and most likely to endure.
- M Professional: Bet most of you lot never fought against xenos. Some weird stuff out there, I can tell you.
- M Seer: Oh I think daemons are far worse. It's not xenos who scratch away inside my head every night.
- Bodyguard: Do not mind. Just follow orders.
- Bully: Heard about alien what live inside human. It true?
- Professional: News to me. Sounds nasty though.
- Loose-Cannon: The longer they go undiscovered, the more human they look. Creepy.
- Female Loose-Cannon: Not sure what's worse: Heretics or xenos.
- Female Agitator: He who doth allow the alien to live shareth in the crime of its existence.
- M Cutthroat: Aliens, traitors, doesn't matter - we fight.
- Brawler: Can some Xenos infect people? Turn you into... things.
- M Cutthroat: It's possible.
- M Profeccional: Hold on... There was the Lacrymole, wasn't there? Pretty sure they're extinct though.
- M Cutthroat: Heretics have objective you can understand. Xenos... they're something else.
- F Agitator: Between the stars, the enemies of Mankind do wait and hunger. Pray thou dost not become their next meal.
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Aeldari[]
- Male Agitator: I have lately learned of a vile xenos called the Aeldari, who doth duffer witches and worship false idols.
- Male Professional: Ever seen 'em fight? Might as well try to catch starlight as fight Aeldari up close.
- Bully: Point-ears weak. Ogryn strong!
- Male Fanatic: Ye think it's true that the Aeldari worship false idols?
- Male Loner: We should look to the Aeldari and learn from them. For are they not living proof of what the human race is to become?
- Male Agitator: Perfidious Aeldari! Tis said they once held the stars in their grasp, and yet how they fell. They are worthy of nought but contempt!
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- Bodyguard: Do not worry comrades. I protect you from pointy-ears.
Genestealers[]
- Brawler:Fought zenos things called "hybrid" once. But Boss say not to mention them.
- Professional: Creed's swagger, who's been telling the big 'un about hybrids?
- Psyker (?*): It sounds like something the Tyranids might do, for are those vile creatures not masters of biological manipulation?
Xenos Technology[]
- Savant: How to use xenos technology safely... nobody's mastered that trick yet.
- Professional: I don't think the Ordo Xenos are beyond dabbling, but I wouldn't try it myself.
- Loose-Cannon: wouldn't mind getting my hands on a Hrud fusil rifle though. A soldier can dream...
- F Savant 1: There are those who think we can learn from the xenos... their tales never end well.
- M Loose-Cannon: Reckon there's more alien tech in the Imperium than you might think.
- F Savant 2: We impounded a shipment of T'au tech at our Bastion. Filthy, but I tell you, I've never seen sensors like it...
Miscellaneous[]
- Loose-Cannon: Can't think of anything I'd rather be doing. Oh, wait ...
- Loner: I confess I'd prefer to sneak around, rather than engage in head-on confrontation.
- Loose-Cannon: Being stealthy takes longer, and I'm bored already.
- Bully: Volunteer, they said. Be fun, they said ...
- Loner: They lied. They always lie. Then they kill you for spurious reasons.
- Loose-Cannon: You lot are all right, d'you know that?
- Professional: And you. I've certainly has worse folk watching my back.
- Bully: You look like you're thinking again.
- Savant: I am always thinking. Life is a puzzle that should be explored.
- Bully: Don't like puzzles. Pieces never fit right. Makes me angry.
- Savant: I did not say the exploration was always pleasant ... or soothing.
- Male Loose-Cannon: Oi! Are you sneaking around again?
- Female Loner: Me? I don't sneak anywhere. Just because I don't stomp around like an Ogryn.
- Male Loose-Cannon: That ain't my fault. It's these boots, They're too heavy.
- Female Loner: Yes, yes, yes. A likely story.
- M Seer: It's really not fair. You keep shooting people before I can do unspeakable things to them.
- F Loose-Cannon: Gotta admit, as a conversation-starter that's gonna take some beating.
- M Seer: It's not conversation, it's instruction. Stop doing it!
- F Loose-Cannon: Yes sir, Very-Probably-Unstable Psyker Sir. Stopping it now! [Sotto] Nuttier than camellid dung.
- M Loner: I confess, I do like working with you, Roughneck. You're more professional than the others.
- F Professional: Yeah? Well, a life in the Guard's like the scars it gives you: never leaves.
- M Loner: So would you say you were indoctrinated?
- F Professional: I wouldn't know. I just shoot stuff.
- M Loner: Well as philosophies go, I suppose yours has the benefit of concision.
- F Seer: There is such beauty in this dream. I mean, there's filth too, but there's beuty underneath.
- Bully: Hate filth. Hate beauty.
- F Seer: Oh, that can't be true, Sweet Brute. After all, you're beautiful.
- Bully: Am I? Cor.
- M Seer: Would you mind carrying me the rest of the way, Sweet Brute? I'm very tired.
- Bully: Would do, but gotta carry me gun. Otherwise metalface will be angry.
- M Seer: I suppose we can't have that. I'd better trudge on.
- Bully: Sorry, Spark 'Ead.
- F Loose-Cannon: You reckon we'll ever get a day off? You know, a bit of leave?
- M Seer: I'm already asleep, remember? This is all a dream. My dream. Not yours.
- F Loose-Cannon: How are you doing over there? Still hearing imaginary voices?
- M Seer: Oh no, but thank you anyways. It's just my Beloved ... and of course all those nasty little self doubts of yours.
- F Loose-Cannon: Doubts? I don't have doubts. Doubts are for folk who don't live in the moment.
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- M Agitator: Alas, we findeth ourselves without opponents. For shame.
- M Fanatic: It does my heart good to hear ye, guardian!
- M Fanatic: I don't suppose ye've a nip of liquor to spare, kindred?
- Brawler: I could use a guzzle, myself!
- M Agitator: Fight without fear. We art the faithful, whose blessed reward is martydom!
- M Seer: That's the best kind of promise! One that no one can prove you didn't fulfil!
- M Fanatic: Annoint yourselves in heretics blood, kindred!
- M Seer: Your brain is so strange. It floats on a cloud of [Sniffs] alcohol.
- Brawler: Shooting ok, but clubbing foe to pulp is like reward!
- M Professional: I'll stick to the guns, if it's all the same to you.
- F Fanatic: Ye fight with faith and zeal! It be a shame that ye also be an abomination, and therefore unworthy of redemption.
- F Savant: Who knows, perhaps with proper guidance I might earn even that?
- F Fanatic: Aye, with proper guidance. Frae a firm and objective mentor.
- F Savant: It sounds as though you are volunteering for the task.
- F Fanatic: I mean to consider it, aye.
- Fanatic: I don't suppose ye've a nip of liquor to spare, kindred?
- Judge: This place would turn anyone to drink.
- Fanatic: Is there nothing worth drinking around here? I've a dowie mood.
- Seer: I'm afraid my dream is strictly teetotal. Sorry.
- Fanatic: Kindred, I beseech ye. You'd not resent me a wee dram of something fiery?
- Judge: When the battle is done, we will toast victory together.
- F Cutthroat: The galaxy's sliding into hel. It'll take discipline and cold steel to change that.
- M Seer: My Beloved has seen Hel. He says we really don't want to go there.
- F Loose-Cannon: There's a heretic lurking under every rock, ain't there?
- M Seer: Most of them aren't even lurking. They're running, screaming, dying ...
- F Loose-Cannon: You really give me the creeps, you know that?
- M Seer: Oh, that is nice. I think ... It is meant to be nice?
- F Loose-Cannon: I guess it's one of those "eye of the beholder" things.
- M Seer: I don't see why you had to bring eyeballs into this. I was being perfectly civil.