Editing Warhammer Adventures (section)

=== 40k ===
'''Zelia Lor:''' A young daughter of a [[Rogue Trader|galactic explorer]], she [[Heresy|helps her mom dig up ancient alien artifacts]] and [[Derp|hates weapons in a setting where everything that's alien (and most things that aren't) is actively trying to kill you.]] Instead, she believes that the best way to overcome fear is by [[Magnus|learning]]. Voted most likely to be slowly tortured to death by the [[Inquisition]] for seeking out [[Chaos|the truth]]. Either that or Guilliman has her earmarked to become a historitor (Most likely the latter, because let’s be honest - this IS a kids’ book series). Also, her pacifism is naturally met with disdain from others, so at least that's not being outright ignored. Told by her mother to seek safety at the [[Golden Throne|Emperor's Seat]], likely referring to [[Holy Terra]], though given the civilian landscape of the homeworld of Mankind its not as safe as one would first believe.

'''Talen Stormweaver:''' The son of an [[Imperial Guard]] officer, Talen decided to run away from home to [[Heresy|avoid military conscription]] and became a hive ganger (so, he ran away from a hard life as a soldier for a harder life as a hooligan constantly look over his shoulder for both the authorities, his family, and his fellow gangers, and that's BEFORE factoring in [[Tyranids|external]] [[Dark Eldar|threats]] [[Chaos|visiting]] [[Orks|his]] [[Necrons|homeworld]]...brilliant). He's fairly aggressive and kind of a brute; however, that is offset by his [[noblebright|loyalty to his friends]]. He carries around a [[miniature|toy soldier]], which is one of the only reminders he has of his older brother who went off to war. All in all, the only character whose preview is not a thinking-emoji level setup, let alone one of [[C.S. Goto|potentially multilasered]] proportions. Expect someone to make a greenstuff version of him as a [[Necromunda]] Juve. It would be ironic if his gang got conscripted by the Imperial Guard anyway, as they are known to do - he just better hope that the Commissar never finds out about the whole draft-dodging thing (pfft, who are we kidding? His family totally reported him and his gang will be conscripted solely for the Commissar to execute him). 

Well, his gang is definitely not getting conscripted, considering they and their planet got ground to dust by the [[Pokemon]] Masters. He's also traumatized due to the whole ordeal, as well as the fact his gang ends up hating him and tries to kill him right before said metal skeletons come in guns blazing.

'''Mekki:''' What happens when you cross a [[tech-priest]] with Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory. (...so "Young Sheldon"?) He hails from [[Mars]] and is described as an [[Heretek|inventor]], due to his creation of a small robotic swarm that assist him with certain duties. His right arm is paralyzed, so instead of doing the normal, cool Mechanicus thing and replacing it with cybernetics he decides to just build a brace to help him move it. Omnissiah only knows why he wasn't forcefully re-purposed as a [[servitor]] for his blatant tech-heresy yet, especially considering he's from Mars; even on backwater Forge Worlds things like Vorax Automata are shunned and forbidden because of their animalistic intelligence. This goes double as this is post-Great Rift, where Guilliman's protection of Cawl's tech heresies (one of which includes AI-tech) has the AdMech inching closer to another civil war. Mekki also looks like [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|Aang]], complete with bald head and warm-colored clothing. He's also the only one that can effectively communicate with Fleapit via the Jokaero's cybernetics.
This has been confirmed that Mekki was implied to have escaped from Mars to avoid such fate and Rogue Traders tend to be too distant for Mechanicus to investigate along with their habit of hiring Techpriests who sometimes dabble in Heretek.

'''Fleapit the [[Jokaero]]''': Yes, a frigging techno space-ape is in this book series and it is helping the children. Well sort of. The kids are awful to him and nickname him 'fleapit'. He's got a proper name of course (unfortunately he got stuck with one practically asking for him to get his nickname - Flegan-Pala), but these are Imperial Kids. This is still Warhammer 40K, after all. Has [[TVTropes|hammerspace]] of the pocket dimension variety, and is aware of his race's creators.

'''Inquisitor Jeremias''': As everyone expected, the kids eventually get the attention of the [[Inquisition]], but surprisingly the Inquisitor in question [[What|puts them under their protection, instead of interrogating/purging them due to reasons already raised]]. Likely a Radical as a result, as they'd be less likely to {{BLAM|'''BLAM'''}} them if he were himself skirting the line. He's also a mysterious one, though to be fair all Inquisitors would be to common Imperial citizens.

'''Elise Lor''': Remember the Rogue Trader mom of Zelia we mentioned? This is her. Due to the actions of her main sidekick, she indirectly causes a Necron assault on the planet she was doing her archaeological digs on, Targian, that [[Exterminatus|gets the place blown to bits by Necron orbital weaponry after the surface is scoured]]. [[Grimdark|Gets separated from her daughter and assistants in the resulting chaos]], only reunited with Zelia and Mekki (the one who caused all this, Erasmus, bites it of his own volition very early on) in the finale of the series. [[Heresy|Like her daughter, she's also a pacifist]], despite her line of work often involving combat. At least we know Zelia didn't get that belief on her own, as even the other kids accept violence as a fact of life in the 42nd millennium so childish naivety was always out of the question.

'''Tyrian Stormweaver''': [[Awesome|A staunch motherfucker who stood for what it means to be a]] [[Imperial Guard|Guardsman]] and an Officer, but alas [[Grimdark|probably dead since life expectancy is poor in the Astra Militarum]]. Probably ''very'' displeased (post mortem) that his son [[Heresy|pussied out of service]], but nonetheless his lessons in survival in the Imperium are explicitly stated to be why Talen is even alive at this point. Also meant to show how dogmatic and totalitarian the Imperium is by proxy, and as such is not a character we are given a chance to form any emotional attachment to, though some fa/tg/uys believe the main Black Library 40k line could pick him up, flesh him out to make him not a Guard stereotype, and add him to the ranks of Astra Militarum heroes. Most don't consider it worth having Warhammer Adventures canonized, though.

'''Erasmus''': [[Lexmechanic]] assistant to Elise that [[FAIL|fucks things up]] by [[Heresy|not disposing of a Necron artifact]], leading to a Necron fleet arriving with its deadly occupants who promptly [[Rape|shatter Targian after scouring it of life]]. After he and the protagonists are sent through the Warp to an ice world due to a badly timed escape pod launch ([[Derp|How they survived without a Gellar Field is not known]]), he sacrifices his life to bury himself and a [[Deathmark]] that trailed them - the Artifact, known as the Diadem, being safely stored in [[What|one of Fleapit's microverses]] (given that the Jokaero are made by the Old Ones in the main lore, and outright namedropped when we get to see things from Fleapit's perspective, them having access to pocket dimensions makes some sense).

'''[[Space Marines]]:''' Here as usual. Depicted in [[Primaris Marines|Primary-sue]] armour, so this bright and happy tale is happening post-[[Great Rift]]. Naturally, they're using the [[Ultramarines|Ultrasmurfs]], as they're "[[Matt Ward|bravest of all the heroic Space Marines]]", and not because they're just the most easily recognizable Chapter that gets the most publicity, honest. And surprisingly, in the first book they ''aren't'' the Mary Sues they usually are, getting their asses handed to them by the Necrons despite saving Elise from joining the planet (and presumably the brave Marines) in death. They come to avenge their fallen comrades in the finale too, showing up with a large force this time.

'''[[Necrons]]:''' The cold and unfeeling [[Derp|"enslaving tyrants"]] we all know and purge, probably chosen because killing robots is much more family-friendly than shooting at living things, and some of their [[Gauss|primary weapons]] kill cleanly too. Less retarded than it sounds, since Wardcrons have enough variation in their personalities that some random Phaeron keeping Enfleshed as pets makes perfect sense, especially considering [[Trazyn]]'s "collection." Ol' Trollzyn as an evil space collector who traps living beings to keep as exhibits in his space museum would actually make him a pretty good kid-adventure villain (possibly leaving out the eternal agony parts in regards to some of his captives).

[[Anal circumference|Against all expectations for a kids' book, they go fucking hard]], shown in the beginning of the first book when they completely shut down any and all Imperial attempts to defend Tarigan and reduce the planet to a new asteroid field [[/tg/ gets shit done|''in a matter of hours'']]. Even the Ultrasmurfs stood no chance. And they weren't done after that, sending a Deathmark to track down the protagonists and particularly Erasmus for having one of their bits. [[Meme|Spooky scary skeletons]], indeed.

They return for a final showdown in the final book in the series, wanting to still get their hands on the artifact the protagonists have in their possession. Possibly this means a showdown with the [[Necron Lord]] that's after it. They also have to fight the Ultrasmurfs again, who returned with a much more significant force to avenge Tarigan and their fallen brothers. Might tie into 9E's return of the [[Silent King]] and [[Szarekhan Dynasty|his personal Dynasty]], given Imperium vs Necrons is a general theme.

'''[[Genestealers]]''': Also present on the Ice World that the kids land on, a surprising pick given what Genestealers do to spread. And the fact their methods of killing are...[[Rip and tear|messy]].

'''[[Tau]]''': Surprising nobody, the weeaboo space communists have their own showing, getting the spotlight in the third book in the series. A natural fit for the kids-adventure setting, given they're less hardcore than the other factions but still have their own grimdark elements to not seem (too) out of place.

'''[[Orks]]''': Yet another natural fit for the Warhammer Adventures series due to Orks being Orks, the Greenskins pop up in the fourth book, seen in their natural state of beating the shit out of each other. Appear to be either feral Orks or Snakebites fighting the more "technological" of their kind.

'''[[Nurgling|Nurglings]]''': Grandpapa [[Nurgle]] sent in some of the stinky-but-somewhat-cute Lesser [[Daemon]]s while corrupting a Forge World the Protagonists were on. Surprisingly don't result in the kids being executed for witnessing Daemons, though they probably got a pass for being under Jeremias' wing (aka unofficial [[Acolyte]]s) by the time it happens.

'''The [[Adeptus Mechanicus]]''': Featured alongside the aforementioned Nurglings, [[Derp|they are mentioned as being their own "cybernetic race" despite just being heavily augmented humans who worship the Machine God]]. Probably displeased with Mekki's inventor streak, but by the point they show up [[Internet Troll|they can't do shit about it due to Jeremias]].