Subject: Do not go to the Scape for counsel.
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Posted on: 2022-07-14 23:02:52 UTC

For she will say both =[ and =].

I do want to make something clear: the Fenrykan Heresy is an ongoing project and will be added to with whatever cool stuff my brain finds lying around like a seagull hunting chips. There's just so much goddamn Heresy that any document is inherently incomplete. The version linked in the OP was specifically published because I felt like I had a critical mass of Stuff To Show Off, with really strong narrative sections like the fall of the Blood Angels and the eventual fate of Fulgrim. I intend to keep updating it every time I write something worth adding.

However, this extremely informal approach means there isn't a Huge Overarching Plan. This is a great and terrible disappointment to Rochdale Gillingham, so I can only imagine how it feels for you, Nesh, and Phobos. I know that I want the Saviour Sons (that's Perry and Morty, with occasional assistance from whoever else is on hand) to have been more actively fighting against the Imperium Pandaemonium, with the crusading and heretic-hunting and such being a much more proactive process than in canon due to basically having, like, at least eighty-odd versions of the Black Templars for Imperial commanders to let loose, as well as the White Templars later on in the timeline. Fleet-based chapters on both sides of the Long War are a hell of a lot more common too, allowing them to operate as roving armed forces that can deploy wherever and whenever they see fit.

Sidenote: one very important point that you might have missed because it's only mentioned in passing: unlike the canon Black Templars, the Word Bearers' successor chapters all have a full Librarius that works closely with the chapter's Reclusiam. This is because they know through the Hymnalis Aurelian, the adapted foundational text of the Ecclesiarchy, that the Emperor himself was a master of the psychic arts -- which later theologians (post-Heresy) contrast directly with the warp sorcery of Russ, Jaghatai, and so on. Indeed, for the Word Bearers themselves, their Librarius is their Reclusiam, and vice versa; they have practiced and honed their psychic gifts into vehicles for the praise of the Emperor rather than mere conduits to the inchoate powers of the Immaterium.

So no, I haven't got something for you to try and tease out of my brain. I've got something far better: watching you tease things out of your brains, coming up with theories and ideas I'd never considered, using canon knowledge I don't always have to develop those ideas into fully-fledged ideas, and then getting to use those ideas to springboard my own creativity. I won't include anything directly written by you guys without your informed and explicit consent, obviously, but watching people care about this is what inspires me to think about the setting of the Fenrykan Heresy more, and therefore make more Fenrykan Heresy content. =]

Thank you. Thank you both.

And I'd also like to offer my sincere thanks to everyone else who has engaged with the Fenrykan Heresy Project on any level. You all helped me make a thing I'm genuinely proud of, and I'm so grateful to you for that.

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