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The War of The Beast

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'''The War of the Beast''' is the focus of the ''The Beast Arises'' series and is one of the major events in [[40k]] history in which the [[Imperium]] got the biggest [[Anal circumference|buttfuck]] it would ever get in between the [[Horus Heresy]] and [[Time of Ending|the tremendous dumpster fire that is the late 41st millennium]].

==The Imperium at the time==
Believe it or not, during the years prior to the biggest [[WAAAGH]]! ever been the Imperium was living a time one might call peaceful. Yes, there were silly little wars here and there such as the first Black Crusade, the first battle of Cadia, the Battle of the Fang, multiple traitor Primarchs fucking over many worlds, not to mention all of the Daemon cults that were popping up everywhere, but if we ignore all of those 'minor' events/chaos invasions we're left with a few others which basically consisted of the Imperials wiping out some xenos races. The Astartes were ''dying out'' because the author forgot the other shit that happened, the Imperial Fists-for example- hadn't left Terra for centuries and it was said nearly none of its battle brothers had had real battle experience in any substantial terms. The Emperor's Herd had grown complacent.

==The Catastrophe: slaughter at Ardamantua==
For the first time since centuries the [[Imperial Fists]] left their role as praetorians of the throneworld and went on to slaughter alien scum known as the '''Chromes''' who were considered little better than non-sentient vermin.

The Fists were caught by surprise by strange gravitational hazards which started chewing up the landscape and causing their starships to fail and crash, thus they were dealt severe losses. The [[High Lords of Terra]] reluctant to lend their own aid to the Fists on what they considered a trivial matter of fighting Chrome pests, so they allowed the remaining Fists who were guarding the throneworld to deploy to Ardamantua, along with a contingent of Guard forces commanded by the '''Lord Commander Militant Heth.'''

When the counter attack was taken into effect, an ENTIRE MOON materialized in the system; the process by which it was traveling had been messing up the planet's gravity, practically destroying it, while causing navigational hazards which scattered the fleets and crushing them.

Then appeared the WAAAGH! Beast. It was said that its boyz were as strong and big as space marines, as tall as them and quite cunning to boot. Its nobs were massive. But its biggest threat was the Ork Warboss: [[the Beast]], (who will bring much) Slaughter. He was a leader with a great deal of tactical acumen and sophistication, going as far as being to shape the ork forces into a semi-cohesive force capable of using tactics and making frigging diplomats!

Lord Commander Militant Heth died as his forces where slaughtered right after warning the Imperium of the greatest threat they had ever faced before. The Imperial Fists were literally slaughtered to a man. There remained only one survivor: '''Captain [[Slaughter Koorland]]'''. The future chapter master of the Imperial Fists and then Lord Commander of the Imperium.

==Galaxy Spanning threat==
The WAAAGH! Beast threatened to engulf the whole galaxy: the guard was bogged down in many fronts, the space marine chapters were mostly tied down trying to fight the invading orks. The Ultramarines had 2 of their worlds invaded and had been forced to bring in successor reinforcements. Many chapters were annihilated as they struggled to fend off an enemy the likes of which they hadn't ever faced. Worst of all was the fact that the orks were DEVELOPING technology, having such things as gravitational whips and massive teleporters capable of teleporting whole armadas in the blink of an eye.

The Imperium couldn't help but lose ground as '''Lord High Admiral Lansung,''' leader of the [[Imperial Navy]] and main topdog of the High-Lords, focused more on deploying his fleets to gain favours from other high lords and protect his own interests rather than ferrying the Imperial Guard and fighting the ork fleets. The rest of the lords were about as incompetent barring one man: '''Drakan Vangorich''', the infamous Grand Master of Assassins who would later stage [[The Beheading]]. The man was a patriot and tried his damn best to get the imperials to move their damn fat asses. The pay off took a while but it was noticeable.

==Battle for Port Sanctus==
After a lot of political maneuvering and tug-o-war, Lansung decided to move its fat ass into fighting the orks (mainly because one of his admirals had broken his orders and he didn't want to lose face) for the shipyards of Port Sanctus. There half of what was a segmentum's fleet fought the Orks. And it went horribly at the beginning: the ork attack moon's gravity whip was so powerful that BATTLESHIPS were torn apart by it and the moon's WAAAGH! gate brought in constant reinforcements to fend off the imperial navy as thousands of boarding ships and small cruisers sent in boarding parties to the imperial vessels, even with the void shields up and the gellar fields on.
Lansung decided he couldn't take more of this shit, and for the first time in two whole novels of total incompetence he went on and got shit done: he led a suicidal assault towards the moon. Dozens of battlecruisers and battleships were lost to the Imperium but the void shields of the gargantuan construct were drained by the energy consumption and the Imperial Navy was able to obliterate the threat.

==Terra under threat and the Proletarian Crusade==
But all wasn't so nice. Yes, the Navy had, at a great cost, destroyed the attack moon ''(and closed its WAAAGH! Gate)'' but the thing was that the orks had more of those buggers around. And one of them had recently popped out... on Earth. Right then the Navy assets were on Port Sanctus and the massive network of star forts was still in construction. Basically the throne world was under threat and there was nothing that could defend them. At that time Lansung's power had been almost lost as many of its political allies turned from him, a new figure taking his place: '''Juskina Tull.''' Tull represented the chartist captains and had a "brilliant idea" ''(read: a suicidal, stupid idea)'': lead a crusade made by the people. The idea was to take the massive merchant fleet available in Sol and load it chock full with people: guardsmen and civilian alike. Literally billions were ferried into ships that ranged from massive mass conveyors to tiny shuttles in a massive tide of steel. The ork defense forces shut down a great number (if not the majority) of the vessels but the Imperials still managed to land millions of sods and hundreds of vehicles.

There they frigging zerg rushed and beat the crap of the ork forces on the surfaces... only to be crushed by mountains. The orks manipulated the surface of the moon and shifted the mountains close to a door to the moon's interior. Trapped between the stones, the imperial forces were crushed by their own bodies and the master-crafted trap the orks laid.
Thus ended the last ditch effort of the Proletarian Crusade, with a single survivor: a female adeptus arbite.

Oh, and the [[Eldar]] show up in the Imperial Palace trying to warn the humans not to let the Orks distract them from [[Chaos]], cuz, you know, chaos has to be your #1 priority even though the Imperium is being torn apart by killer Ork death stars. This cryptic crap achieves absolutely nothing other than getting the hard-line [[Inquisitor]]s into a frenzy of saying "I told you so" to anyone who will listen.

==The Last Wall, a Legion unified==
Dorn had envisioned the chance of something BIG happening. So he had ordered his sons that, should the need arise, they reunited at '''Phall''', where the Heresy began for the Imperial Fists. There they would unify into a single legion and fight as one again, albeit keeping their traditional heraldry. The note was sent with not much time in advance but the majority of the second founding chapters managed to be present. There Koorland revealed to the utter shock of his fellow chapter masters from the [[Black Templars]], [[Crimson Fists]], [[Excoriators]] and the [[Fists Exemplar]] that he was the last Imperial Fist alive. The truth was almost too much for them to process but in the end they decided to get over it and banded together.
Over 3000 astartes and 50 ships went into [[Terra]] and led a glorious assault to neutralize the attack moon.

The fleet was joined by the [[Iron Knights]] chapter and succeeded in destroying the WAAAGH gate at the heart of the moon and rescuing the remaining human prisoners ''(including the aforementioned female Arbitrator)'' but unfortunately leaving the moon intact. While also suffering substantial casualties, amongst which was Chapter Master Malfons of the Iron Knights, who sacrificed himself to save Koorland from an Ork warboss the size of a Dreadnought.

==The Imperium Strikes Back==
After the battle of Terra and the blockade of the attack moon, the Last Wall ''(the new name for the Fist Legion)'' were praised by The Lord Guilliman ''(also: Lord Commander of the Imperium, also: Warmaster, also: your boss)'' '''Udin Macht Udo''' ''(a fellow more useless than Abaddon)'' who wanted to make a show of having five chapters bow to him and invited them to a party. He also wanted to keep the loss of the [[Imperial Fists]] chapter a secret for public relations and ordered the successors to play dress up and give Koorland an honour guard. Udo would also show himself "gracious" enough to ratify Koorlands's position as Chapter Master, since according to rules lawyers, the successors aren't allowed to do that.

The Fists were explicitly ordered NOT to destroy the attack moon that remained in orbit, because the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] wanted the Ork technology for themselves. ''(oh the irony)'' The Fists were also disgusted by the constant power playing between the high lords and were happy enough to leave. Suffice to say, the space marines consider them all dicks.

==So that thing about Chaos? Orks are way worse==
Despite the warnings from the Eldar, Chaos, or more specifically: some [[Iron Warriors]] were also getting their asses kicked by Orks. While also being hunted by some Black Templars with a grudge. Realizing that the fight won't end well, they decide to join forces temporarily, but still can't overcome the Orks. When a relief force of Fists Exemplar show up to pull them out. However, the Orks use their gravity based weapons to SPAWN A FREAKIN' BLACK HOLE, which destroys the star system, the Imperial fleet escapes by scattering into the warp, where one ship turns up on '''Prax''' along with the Iron Warriors.

Prax turns out to be a key world in the new "Ork Empire" and reveals that the Orks have been evolving even further than anticipated. Where previously they were considered to be little but savages who could hammer bits of technology together and make it work, they now have their own society and specialists, "Bloody Axes" and "Leering Moons" and so forth. They actively conquer and enslave other races; taking humans, feeding them steroids and farming them like cattle, while some "lucky ones" get their teeth punched out, shaved bald, branded like slaves and get pushed into battle as [[Gue'vesa|auxilia cannon fodder]].

The combined Fists and Iron Warriors then destroy the planet rather than letting the Orks keep it.

Back on Terra, Vangorich manoeuvres Koorland into taking the top job of '''Lord Guilliman''' from Udo, who seems to think its business as usual, despite the Ork threat still signalling imminent doom. The Imperial Fists strut into the Senatorium and denounce him, and Udo orders their arrest, not noticing that everyone bar the Ecclesiarch and the Fabricator General have switched sides and actually ''wants'' someone competent to take command.

==The new regime==
With Koorland in charge, Vangorich brought him evidence of the Mechanicum withholding vital information to the war effort because of their fanatical need to hoard knowledge ''(and abscond with any new Ork tech)''. So Koorland's first act was to land military troops on Mars and bluff the Mechanicum into stepping into line. After a brief "incident" which was totally not a micro civil war the Fabricator General finally started singing the Imperial national anthem and revealed that the Orks were coming from '''Ullanor''', which had sunk into ancient legend because of its significance to the Great Crusade.

Deciding the Imperium needed its own legend, they went looking for [[Vulkan]], since the [[Inquisition]] conveniently knew where he was ''(and had been for a thousand years)''. Gathering a fleet, they went to the backwater volcanic planet and found Vulkan singlehandedly defending it against MILLIONS of Orks. Their arrival turned the tide, eliminated the attack moon being constructed in orbit. Providing the first major victory of the War. Between then and the end of the war the Deathwatch was born as a means of fighting the Ork WAAAGH! with a chance of success.

==Major revelations==

'''Here come some major spoilers!'''

The series has revealed many event which have been only hinted or no one could think about:
*The [[Imperial Fists]] were completely wiped out during the war, it took the combined effort of the successor chapters to bring them back.
*It was Captain Koorland who came with the idea of creating the Deathwatch from the marines who have survived the first months of the war.
*Drakan Vangorich was actually quite a cool guy, and it was only after 100 years passed from the beheading that he went mad and had to be removed.
*The novel series gives an excellent idea of the state of the human colonies during the Age of Strife when there wasn't an Imperium to defend mankind from the alien threat and those who actually tried to negotiate with them.
*That inquisitor name Veritus? None other than Kyril Sindermann, Luna Wolves' iterator and one of the founders of the [[Imperial Creed]], this explains how he knew so much about everything, and he came with the idea of the Ordo Malleus and the Ordo Xenos as separate defined branches.
*Chapter Master Janus from the [[Grey Knights]] makes a cameo.
*Vulcan was still alive, and of course he may still be due being a perpetual, but it was good to have him back for a while, also, there may be hints Rogal Dorn is still alive too.
*After the defeat of the Beast the Mechanicus feinted destroying the planet of Ullanor by teleporting it to another solar system. It has become well known in the 41st millennium by the name of [[Armageddon]].
*All the remaining Sisters of Silence were killed during the final battle against the Beast, the last one sacrificing herself to destroy the Ork-Prime, however, it remains to be seen if the imperials can pull the same trick they did with the Imperial Fists.
*[[Eldrad]] had a hand helping the Imperium to stop the orks, and during the final passages of the last book it was revealed to him that Mankind and [[Eldar]] fates are irrevocably twined.
*Throughout the siege of Terra, the Orks taunted the defenders with transmissions from orbit across all vox-channels in their own tongue: the name of their commander, a phrase roughly translating as "Beast", "I am Slaughter", or "Lord Who Brings Great Slaughter". It is revealed in the final passages of the last book that, in Orkish, this phrase is "Mag Uruk Thraka" but don't read too much into that. [[Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka]] has exactly nothing on the Beast... Yet. Could be a sort of title given to Warlords destined to give the entire galaxy a good, thorough spanking.

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Racial Holy War

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[[Image:RHW.jpg|thumb|right|For those whose Klansman's Hoods are on backwards (and also [[/pol/]]).]]

''"I don't know whether to give it to a scientist to examine or a priest to exorcise!"''

— Nostalgia Critic (regarding the Garbage Pail Kids movie but it works here too)

Veterans of [[1d4chan]] and [[/tg/]] in general will notice that when we tend to review and, more commonly, openly make fun of shitty RPGs, we still tend to discuss what positive features they have, if any. For example, [[Ironclaw]] may be sort of fail, but it works fine once [[Ironclaw/Furless|the furries are removed from the setting]]. Conversely, you have settings which have few directly appreciable features, but are so eminently mockable that one can't help but get a chuckle out of it. [[Poison'd]] and references to Esophagus-fucking may be a great example of this phenomenon, though the ur-example remains [[FATAL]], which for all of its hideously broken design, is a fucking singularity of humor that allows for borderline-infinite mockery. [[Anal Circumference]] alone has led to countless lulz on /tg/ and beyond.

And then you have '''Racial Holy War''', also known as '''RaHoWa''', which has ''none'' of these redeeming features.

It is below contempt, even if you're not racially/ethnically sensitive or even disapprove of racism altogether. It is not an RPG you can really make fun of for laughs because of its complete idiocy - everything about it is just devoid of humor. It somehow manages to out-do FATAL as being the worst RPG made, because whilst FATAL may be completely defunct mechanically, FATAL at least can, like a shitty movie being MST3Ked, get a laugh out of someone for ''being'' that broken and having ideas ''that'' stupid. Out-doing FATAL in badness is an achievement in and of itself, but RaHoWa takes it to the nth degree.

Putting it simply: RaHoWa is a White Supremacist RPG, an RPG that is made by - and for - the sort of people who cherry-picked the worst of [[Nazi|Hitler]]'s short-lived ideals (apparently forgetting that Hitler eventually [[retcon|retconned]] his early racism during his escapades in WW2) and still biting into the whole concept of: "Whites are the best because we're white and our god told us we are." (apparently ignoring that [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%2010:34-35 the] [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians%203:28 Bible] [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+10%3A12-13 consistently] '''[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+28%3A18-20 condemns racism]'''). It is a ridiculous attempt to lionize this belief as <strike>a form of propaganda - in RPG format, of course</strike> fuck that, even bad propaganda can gather a guffaw or two. Its concept and setting are beyond /tg/'s ability to make ostensible humour via mockery. It is broken ruleset-wise - because of course it is - however, the fact that it adds a dimension of glorifying a mindset that is all too happy to grab progress by its proverbial ankles and drag it, screaming, to the Lovecraftian depths is what pushes it over the pale, as the mindset it espouses has led to countless atrocities and horrors.

Seriously, [[FATAL]] is infinitely ''less'' cringe-worthy than this shit. At least FATAL has humor in its shock value, and is [[Anal Circumference|meme-worthy]]. RaHoWa has none of that. It's ''almost'' too stupid to be offensive, ''almost'' too pathetic to hate, and too disgusting to pity.

==Premise==
The synopsis of RaHoWa is that in the not-so-distant future, the world is on the edge of collapse, and it's all the doing of the evil non-white races and their insidious Jewish masterminds, having reduced the superior white race to a downtrodden minority (why the white race is superior when it's been so thoroughly outmaneuvered by the Jews is anyone's guess). Fortunately for the world (but not for our sanity) a team of brave White Warriors (read: The Players) emerges in the hopes of "cleansing the world of all the vermin" (yes, this is an actual quote from the game).

Throw in such great missions as "destroying a drug cartel run by awful [[What|latrinos]]," and you have a strong case for this being the only RPG in history that makes FATAL look slightly better by comparison; that's right. Yes, folks, the bar has once again been lowered with the force of a tactical nuke. Thanks a fucking ''bunch'', Reverend Molyneux.

==Mechanics==
When you open with a premise of blind racial genocide on the premise of "muh racial superiority", the only direction you have to go is straight down, unless your game is saved by a relatively decent ruleset that can still be fun to use in some way, making it infamously memorable. Unfortunately for RaHoWa and fortunately for us; RaHoWa fails just as much as an actual RPG. In fact, just classifying it as an RPG is a grave blasphemy to the legacy of the genre in general.

Character creation is a relatively boring affair, with a similar points-based attribute system to most RPGs- the problem is that what these attributes actually do is only mentioned in passing, if at all. From there, you choose a class and the skills of your choice, which include Clothesmaking (suggested uses for it include making swastika shirts), [[Video games]], and [[Ecclesiarchy|Holy Books of Creativity]] (the latter of which involves "the study and enlightenment of the greatest books ever written- Nature’s Eternal Religion and The White Man’s Bible", which somehow manage to heal the White Warriors by "soothing and inspiring them". You can even heal yourself by giving yourself a speech!).

For the combat part; you only have 3 generic weapons: a handgun, assault rifle, and shotgun. From here, you can pretty much see how downhill things go for combat: weapon selection is so god damn basic that there's no fun to be had in variety. But all this is nothing compared to the biggest problem of all that pretty much breaks the game in half- [[Fail|weapons themselves have no rules or stats, hell, there's not even a rule that explains how to calculate a player's base accuracy]]. This makes it essentially unplayable [[Derp|as there is no way to tell whether or not your attacks hit an enemy]], because of this you can only assume that your weapons are actually imaginary guns that you attempt to materialize by making gunshot sounds with your mouth and positioning your hands like you're holding a gun, which would explain more how you're unable to hit anything at all.

Although the mental image of the last hope of the "White Empire" being completely incapable of fighting even the weakest enemies is certainly hilarious, it also makes it abundantly clear that the writers simply didn't care enough to even check if their game was complete before printing it out. One wonders if the authors involved with the creation of this game even played a single RPG before trying to make their own.

==Enemies==
As one last bit of flaming stupidity, the game takes unnecessary pleasure in categorizing enemy NPCs into ethnic stereotypes, each with their own special attack. It isn't even good if taken as a joke; it is completely devoid of any comedic material for even the most ethnically offensive comedian to use. It also makes whites the weakest race in the game since they are the only ones that don't get a special attack, demolishing its own claims about whites being superior. These special attacks have their use fully explained, which means that the writer was more interested in pushing his views than making his game playable.
*Niggers: "Smelly, stupid creatures" which can reduce PCs' accuracy via their [[Luke|body odor]]. Also an accurate description of the game's creators. (Wait, how the hell do you lower something that doesn't exist? Isn't that dividing by Zero!?)
*Latrinos: "Lazy and criminal vermin" ([[Games Workshop|gee, that sounds familiar]]) with the ability to strike first in combat. (Because they sneak across the border so much, get it? So funny I forgot to laugh.) (Hey, I thought they were lazy. Shouldn't they attack last? These fucks can't keep their own propaganda straight for a full sentence.) Also, yes, the book consistently calls them "Latrinos", because poop jokes fit so nicely with the established motif. Stay classy, Molyneaux.
*Sand Niggers: "Scumbags" that have "declared the White Race as one of their many enemies in their 'Jihad' or holy war" (ironic given that "holy war" is in the fucking title) which can try to blow themselves up to attack.
*Gooks: "Timid, annoying, slanty-eyed pieces of excrement that so desperately wish they were White" which can gain extra attacks in hand-to-hand combat from watching "fake martial arts movies", which makes you wonder how they would gain extra attacks if the movies are fake. (The only piece of excrement here is the one you're reading about.)
*Kikes: "The worst and most evil parasites that the world has ever seen" who can bribe the PCs with [[Meme|jewgold]] to skip their turn, courtesy of the power of "brain pollution". (Which, paradoxically, pretty much destroys the premise of the White Warriors as "superior" beings and more of them being hypocritical race traitors who sold their race for money. As we've said previously, these people have the fluff-writing skills that would make the likes of [[Matt Ward]] and [[C.S Goto]] seem like [[Dan Abnett]] in comparison.)

==So in Conclusion...==

Racial Holy War is a perfect example of something so terribly awful it can't even be used an example of how ''not'' to do something. If you desperately want to lose friends, there is no sure faster way then presenting this to them and going on what a great idea you think it is. About the only good thing to come out of it is some horrible jokes that it's about as close as one can get to a Pen-and-Paper version of [[/pol/]], and even that's debatable. While [[FATAL]] can at least be delivered to one's roleplay group as some sort of sadistic April Fools joke, Racial Holy War truly has ''no'' redeemable qualities whatsoever. Its only function is to remain hidden somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle: its unfunny racial stereotypes, broken mechanics and incomprehensible fluff accessible only by those too stupid to live.

==Creator==
Many neckbeards and ca/tg/irls may ask themselves; who the fuck created this mess?

The creator is a lesser-known (thank the [[Emperor]]) racist priest, "game" creator and lobotomy recipient known as Reverand Molyneaux. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Molyneux No, not that Molyneaux], as Peter Molyneaux's discarded anal waste is more valuable than the reverand's contributions. His "works", if you can even call it that, consist of RaHoWa, a shitty blog and his pitifully un-entertaining and completely unreadable white supremacy fapfic known as [[Imperium of Man|"White Empire"]], which features a [[Mary Sue|Gary Lu self-insert]] and Tom-Cruise-in-Top-Gun-ripoff known as "John Granger". I'm sure that [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Granger the ''real'' John Granger, an actual fucking pilot in the US Marine Corps and a half-decent writer], is thrilled to share names with this idiot's literary projection of his tiny dick. The real John Granger knows [[Harry Potter|JK Rowling]] and [[meme|doesn't afraid of anything]].

If you're noticing that Rev. Molyneaux tends to repeat the same tired plots inserts again and again across various mediums, then congratulations! You're officially smarter than he is.

==External Links==
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20080212094700/http://atrocities.primaryerror.net/rahowasucks.html] A review of RaHoWa.
*[http://creativityalliance.com/eBook-KennethMolyneaux-RacialHolyWarTheGame.pdf PDF] of Racial Holy War. Best played <strike>in between cross-burnings</strike> NEVER.
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FATAL

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''Were you looking for [[FATAL_card_game|F.A.T.A.L. the card game]]? Please tell me you were looking for the card game.

'' "So basically, FATAL is the date rape RPG."'''''
 - Darren MacLennan in his and Jason Sartin's infamous review.

'' "Another faulty conclusion by Darren. '''Where is dating included?'''"''
 - Byron Hall, proving everyone right.

'''Fantasy Adventure to Adult Lechery''' is, in theory, an [[RPG]] that lets [[neckbeards]] live out their rape fantasies. The gaming community has more or less unanimously come to the conclusion that FATAL (aka "The Date Rape RPG...without the dating") is simply the second worst RPG ever conceived. There is one documented occurrence of a game played. The rulebook (written by one Byron Hall and a few of his friends, who go by nicknames such as "Torturon", "Burnout", and "Satan") is as terribly mechanically written as it is obsessed with bizarre sexual perversions that make /d/ seem prudish by comparison. It is filled with enough pointless random charts and obtuse rules to deter even a veteran [[/d/M]] who has played ''[[Rolemaster]]'' for years. Quadratic equations are a requirement of most game mechanics. The [[Anal circumference]] table [[meme]] originates with FATAL.

The game was apparently revised and given a new name for the acronym. '''From Another Time, Another Land''' makes minor changes to the text (read: removes the magical armor that turns the wearer into an ethnic stereotype) but is still an abortion of gaming.

The FATAL Games website is now thankfully defunct. The current page is some kind of time portal to the 90's. However, some [[fags of 4chan|fine gentlemen]] at the Wayback Machine have archived it in all its neon-on-black-plastered-with-animated-gifs glory. [http://web.archive.org/web/20030205182630/www.fatalgames.com/fatal.html Enter at your own risk.]

==Mechanics==
...Are you sure? Are you ''absolutely'' sure?

...Okay, you asked for it.

The GM is called the "Aedile", because that's an actual Latin word for 'master of the coliseum games', or 'game-master' for short. What is it with authors of explicitly smutty rpg materials like this and "The Book of Erotic Fantasy" that they have to be pretentious dicks about it? (Answer: Because in the original version he was... wait for it... the '''Maim'''Master. You may now groan.)

The intro says you only need to know a little algebra, "and even that is relatively rare." It also says you only need two d10. Both of these are '''filthy lies'''. Ability scores are derived from averaging 'sub-abilities' rolled as '''(4[[d100]]/4)-1''' and modified by one of three different types of percentages, and conditions during the game may change your sub-abilities which means you need to recalculate your ability scores on-the-fly. Ability score checks are 3d10, so no you need more than two dice.

And you need more that "a little algebra" because [[what|you solve quadratic formulas to find out whether or not your rape slave is pregnant]]. Then you roll [[What|d10,000,000]] to find out if she's going to have quintuplets.

The character sheet is '''eleven pages long'''. There are 20 sub-abilities (including "Enunciation" and "Spatial Intelligence"; also note that by this point in chargen you have already rolled your 2d10 eighty times), which determine 5 ability scores. The ethics system has "ethic points" which are different from "moral points", four different "temperament" scores based on bodily humours, a primary and secondary temperament in addition to that, and a disposition that is different from that too. On the second page of the character sheet are the following essential measurements: manhood length, manhood circumference, [[anal circumference]] potential, vaginal circumference potential, vaginal depth potential, areola diameter, nipple length, cup size, tongue size, hymen resistance, areola hue, foot size, fist circumference, head circumference, handedness. These measurements are ''essential'' because during combat you can roll "rape" as a combat result and accidentally start raping your opponent, and how many hitpoints they lose depends on the mismatch between your circumference and theirs. In case you missed some of that: '''it is possible to accidentally rape an opponent to death during normal combat.''' THEN you have to roll for other things like your height and weight (and then calculate your BMI based on those), most and least attractive features, hair color, skin color, visual acuity, age (which also acts as a modifier for all those abilities and sub-abilities), a check to see if your Intelligence score is low enough to qualify for "Retard Strength" bonuses, birthday, social class, birthplace, number of siblings, and marital status.

In other words, roll randomly for just about everything that any other game system would allow the player to choose for themselves.

Among the '''four-hundred and eighteen skills''' each character must keep track of are "Basketweaving" (Hand-Eye, Common Sense), "Clockmaking" (Spatial), "Delousing" (Hand-Eye), "Glovemaking" (Spatial), "Massage" (Kinetic Charisma, Hand-Eye), "Spitting" (Enunciation), and even "Urinating". Yes, pissing is a skill. Yes, you can fail your rolls to piss.

A character's body has '''seventeen hit-locations''', each with independent hit-point totals, each with their own armour equipment slots, and each of the seventeen pieces of armour have four different types of damage resistance (brawling, hacking, pounding and stabbing).

Magical items range from the mostly useless to the suicidally dangerous to the completely insane. Here's a list of notable ones.
*Philter of (race name) Lust: Drink this and every being of the race listed within 100 feet will try to fuck you.
*Cloak of Self-Craving: The wearer will try to perform oral sex on themselves, possibly breaking his/her neck in the process.
*Chastity Belt of Cursed Impregnation: The wearer is knocked up. The difference between this and the uncursed version is that the cursed version always makes the unborn child a girl. Really.
*Jar of Jacking Off: "Whenever a male opens this jar, they must pass a Drive sub-ability check at TH 80 or be compelled to force their fuckstick into the jar. Once inside, the jar will inexplicably grip it firmly and jerk it to completion, even against the will of the opener. Upon completion, the cummer must roll percentile dice. If the results are 01-10, then the jar becomes pregnant. If the jar is pregnant, it will not allow itself to be opened, but will care for the fetus within, which will be heard screaming by others within 1d100 feet day and night. After 9 months of fetal torture, the child will be born and the jar will break. If the jar is broken during its pregnancy, then the dying and twitching fetus will explode after 1d6 rounds of twitching. The explosion will cause 1d4 Life Points of sonic damage to all within 1d4 miles. Baby parts are inexplicably everywhere. When born, the baby will be Unethical Immoral (translation: Chaotic Evil), will serve the father loyally, will obsessively collect jars, and seem to be male but have no penis, but oversized testicles, which can never ejaculate. Therefore, this child will be forever frustrated. Any child of a jar will insist that others call them “Chucky."
*Seed of Hate: Planting this seed in front of a druid's house causes a tree to grow that makes everything hate the druid in question. The only way to kill a tree that resulted from this seed is for the druid to start having anal sex with random animals until he sows a "seed of love". This may cause him to develop a bestiality fetish.
*Mirror of Many: A ripoff of the mirror from Evil Dead.
*[[Lord of the Rings|Ring of the Lords]]: It's the fucking One Ring.
*Cursed Dildo of Impregnation: The user is impregnated with another dildo, which is likely to kill her.
*(weapon) of Ravishing: The user will occasionally try to rape random women with the weapon, which will somehow impregnate them with another rapist-weapon (that kills them upon giving "birth" to it).
* Armor of Jewy Jewbacca: "Whosoever dons this armor will acquire a nose twice the size and a manhood half the size. Further, the wearer will become extremely greedy and fight to the death for one silver piece. Finally, the wearer acquires 2 inches of hair all over their body, resulting in halving their Facial Charisma and Bodily Attractiveness. While hairy, the wearer must bathe every 1d6 hours or smell foul." There are three other armors just like this which turn the wearer into an ethnic stereotype with no benefits whatsoever. According to Byron, this was supposed to be "controversial humor". So funny everyone forgot to laugh.
*(weapon) of Torturon: The wielder becomes obsessed with removing his victim's eyes and shoving them into his nose (the victim's nose, not the wielder's) and also takes up sunbathing naked on top of cottages. Okay, that's oddly specific and rather disturbing, especially given that one of Byron Hall's friends is called Torturon...

The magic system is split into ceremonial magic (which is situational at best and often utterly useless for doing anything you might actually need) and chaos magic (which requires you to perform a ritual that requires a roll on a large-ass syllable chart in case it requires a chant to perform, some random ingredients you might not even be able to acquire, and can take days to perform the required ritual). An example of a few spells follows; italicized spell names are ceremonial magic, and everything else is chaos magic:
*''Against Every Wild Animal, Aquatic Creature, and Robbers'': Keeps wild animals, aquatic creatures, and robbers away from you. Everything else that can kill you can still do so.
*Call God: Summons a god. The rulebook specifically states that whatever god in question will not be happy about being summoned and will probably kill the caster.
*''Eternal Spell for Binding a Lover'': Smear the listed ingredients on the head of your dick, and when you fuck someone with it they'll beg you to stick it in them at least once a day. (Numerous other "love spells" with similar effects are also present.)
*Fatal: [[Exterminatus|Kills everything on whatever horrid world the game takes place on, including the user.]] If only every game started with this spell being cast.
*Force Fart: Forces the target to fart, obviously.
*Have Her Cadaver: Cast this on a dead woman and she'll look, sound, smell, taste, and feel just like she was alive but unconscious. The spell description explicitly states that it is meant to aid necrophilia. Draw your own conclusions.
*Oroanal: The victim's mouth now doubles as his anus (or vice versa). Did we mention that the effects of this spell are permanent?
*Perpetual Orgasm:...take a fucking guess. The rulebook mentions that not only does this kill the target, but also that they continue to have an orgasm even after they die.
*''Test of Pregnancy'': Self-explanatory, and disturbingly likely to be necessary.
*Wish: Like the DnD version, but the GM is encouraged to be as literal and unhelpful about it as possible. A character wishes for a lot of gold? He gets several thousand pounds of gold bars. Dropped on top of him.

And then there are the miscast tables, which have a variety of notably bizarre effects, including but certainly not limited to:
*The next shit you take coming to life and trying to kill you.
*Fruit growing out of the caster's penis/vagina, which can be consumed for stat bonuses.
*Gay ogres popping out of nowhere and trying to have buttsex with everyone nearby.
*A "scratch and sniff" vagina appears on the caster's head.
*An eyeball appears on the caster's penis, and can somehow act as a lie detector.
*The target's skin turns black. "Aedile may decide appropriate penalties."
*A gerbil falls out of the target's asshole. Congrats, you are now Richard Gere.
*The nearest woman is convinced that her name is "Cuntrina", and insists that everyone nearby refers to her as such.
*A disembodied penis with wings appears and tries to rape everything nearby.
*Accidentally cast FATAL (see above). Everybody hopes to get this one.
And many, many more.

Classes are no less peculiar- they range from the standard fare of Warriors, Mages, and the like to things which no sane person would play (such as Delousers, Inkmakers, and of course Whores). Every class earns AP (the equivalent of experience points) in different ways, and in some cases it is earned so slowly that a character (or even their player) can die of old age before they even reach level 2.

==External Links==
===Files===
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20030228195602/http://www.hyperbooks.com/fatal/fatal.pdf 2003's "Fantasy Adventure to Adult Lechery" the 1st Edition of FATAL]
**'''(DO NOT EXPOSE GAME TO FACE. <s>FIRE IS BETTER ALTERNATIVE.</s> BURNING IT IS A GRAVE [[HERESY]] TO FIRE. FIRE ON FACE IS BETTER ALTERNATIVE TO GAME.)'''
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20040413024552/http://www.hyperbooks.com/fatal/fatal.pdf 2004's "From Another Time, Another Land" the 2nd edition]
**Sanitized, removes some of the nigger jokes and child-anus-tearing rape. What a truly depressing display of The Man's censorship.
*URL for random character generator needed

===Reviews===
*The (in)famous [http://web.archive.org/web/20080208091645/http://atrocities.primaryerror.net/fatal.html Review] of FATAL, courtesy of the Wayback Machine ([http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/14/14567.phtml Updated, non-Geocities version]).
*The [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/FATALReviewRebuttal "rebuttal" to said review] in which the author and one of his friends dig their own graves. It's comedy gold, in a disgusting and shameful sort of way, but you'll probably laugh your ass off regardless.
*A group of Irish roleplayers taking a crack at doing character creation. It goes as well as you'd expect. [http://theadventuringparty.libsyn.com/character-creation-may-2011-from-another-time-another-land]
*The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TLlbVW-VA0 official theme song (no, really) of FATAL]

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==See Also==
* [[Black Tokyo]], a game that, according to at least one anon is ''even worse''. [[http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?searchall=Black+Tokyo]]
* [[GURPS Sex]]
* [[Racial Holy War]], another game that is widely considered to be equally shitty. Yes, it's pretty much what the name makes it sound like.
* [[The Aristocrats, FATAL-style]]
* [[Tournament of Rapists]]
* [[VTNL]], a Russian game which is a serious contender to being even worse than FATAL. It was designed for 14 years, by a complete autist who ignored everything RPG related during that time, to keep his original vision. It has rules for how to properly roll dice, and the GM is encouraged to punch the players in the face, if they fail to roll according to them.

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The War of The Beast

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'''The War of the Beast''' is the focus of the ''The Beast Arises'' series and is one of the major events in [[40k]] history in which the [[Imperium]] got the biggest [[FATAL|buttfuck]] it would ever get in between the [[Horus Heresy]] and [[Time of Ending|the tremendous dumpster fire that is the late 41st millennium]].

==The Imperium at the time==
Believe it or not, during the years prior to the biggest [[WAAAGH]]! ever been the Imperium was living a time one might call peaceful. Yes, there were silly little wars here and there such as the first Black Crusade, the first battle of Cadia, the Battle of the Fang, multiple traitor Primarchs fucking over many worlds, not to mention all of the Daemon cults that were popping up everywhere, but if we ignore all of those 'minor' events/chaos invasions we're left with a few others which basically consisted of the Imperials wiping out some xenos races. The Astartes were ''dying out'' because the author forgot the other shit that happened, the Imperial Fists-for example- hadn't left Terra for centuries and it was said nearly none of its battle brothers had had real battle experience in any substantial terms. The Emperor's Herd had grown complacent.

==The Catastrophe: slaughter at Ardamantua==
For the first time since centuries the [[Imperial Fists]] left their role as praetorians of the throneworld and went on to slaughter alien scum known as the '''Chromes''' who were considered little better than non-sentient vermin.

The Fists were caught by surprise by strange gravitational hazards which started chewing up the landscape and causing their starships to fail and crash, thus they were dealt severe losses. The [[High Lords of Terra]] reluctant to lend their own aid to the Fists on what they considered a trivial matter of fighting Chrome pests, so they allowed the remaining Fists who were guarding the throneworld to deploy to Ardamantua, along with a contingent of Guard forces commanded by the '''Lord Commander Militant Heth.'''

When the counter attack was taken into effect, an ENTIRE MOON materialized in the system; the process by which it was traveling had been messing up the planet's gravity, practically destroying it, while causing navigational hazards which scattered the fleets and crushing them.

Then appeared the WAAAGH! Beast. It was said that its boyz were as strong and big as space marines, as tall as them and quite cunning to boot. Its nobs were massive. But its biggest threat was the Ork Warboss: [[the Beast]], (who will bring much) Slaughter. He was a leader with a great deal of tactical acumen and sophistication, going as far as being to shape the ork forces into a semi-cohesive force capable of using tactics and making frigging diplomats!

Lord Commander Militant Heth died as his forces where slaughtered right after warning the Imperium of the greatest threat they had ever faced before. The Imperial Fists were literally slaughtered to a man. There remained only one survivor: '''Captain [[Slaughter Koorland]]'''. The future chapter master of the Imperial Fists and then Lord Commander of the Imperium.

==Galaxy Spanning threat==
The WAAAGH! Beast threatened to engulf the whole galaxy: the guard was bogged down in many fronts, the space marine chapters were mostly tied down trying to fight the invading orks. The Ultramarines had 2 of their worlds invaded and had been forced to bring in successor reinforcements. Many chapters were annihilated as they struggled to fend off an enemy the likes of which they hadn't ever faced. Worst of all was the fact that the orks were DEVELOPING technology, having such things as gravitational whips and massive teleporters capable of teleporting whole armadas in the blink of an eye.

The Imperium couldn't help but lose ground as '''Lord High Admiral Lansung,''' leader of the [[Imperial Navy]] and main topdog of the High-Lords, focused more on deploying his fleets to gain favours from other high lords and protect his own interests rather than ferrying the Imperial Guard and fighting the ork fleets. The rest of the lords were about as incompetent barring one man: '''Drakan Vangorich''', the infamous Grand Master of Assassins who would later stage [[The Beheading]]. The man was a patriot and tried his damn best to get the imperials to move their damn fat asses. The pay off took a while but it was noticeable.

==Battle for Port Sanctus==
After a lot of political maneuvering and tug-o-war, Lansung decided to move its fat ass into fighting the orks (mainly because one of his admirals had broken his orders and he didn't want to lose face) for the shipyards of Port Sanctus. There half of what was a segmentum's fleet fought the Orks. And it went horribly at the beginning: the ork attack moon's gravity whip was so powerful that BATTLESHIPS were torn apart by it and the moon's WAAAGH! gate brought in constant reinforcements to fend off the imperial navy as thousands of boarding ships and small cruisers sent in boarding parties to the imperial vessels, even with the void shields up and the gellar fields on.
Lansung decided he couldn't take more of this shit, and for the first time in two whole novels of total incompetence he went on and got shit done: he led a suicidal assault towards the moon. Dozens of battlecruisers and battleships were lost to the Imperium but the void shields of the gargantuan construct were drained by the energy consumption and the Imperial Navy was able to obliterate the threat.

==Terra under threat and the Proletarian Crusade==
But all wasn't so nice. Yes, the Navy had, at a great cost, destroyed the attack moon ''(and closed its WAAAGH! Gate)'' but the thing was that the orks had more of those buggers around. And one of them had recently popped out... on Earth. Right then the Navy assets were on Port Sanctus and the massive network of star forts was still in construction. Basically the throne world was under threat and there was nothing that could defend them. At that time Lansung's power had been almost lost as many of its political allies turned from him, a new figure taking his place: '''Juskina Tull.''' Tull represented the chartist captains and had a "brilliant idea" ''(read: a suicidal, stupid idea)'': lead a crusade made by the people. The idea was to take the massive merchant fleet available in Sol and load it chock full with people: guardsmen and civilian alike. Literally billions were ferried into ships that ranged from massive mass conveyors to tiny shuttles in a massive tide of steel. The ork defense forces shut down a great number (if not the majority) of the vessels but the Imperials still managed to land millions of sods and hundreds of vehicles.

There they frigging zerg rushed and beat the crap of the ork forces on the surfaces... only to be crushed by mountains. The orks manipulated the surface of the moon and shifted the mountains close to a door to the moon's interior. Trapped between the stones, the imperial forces were crushed by their own bodies and the master-crafted trap the orks laid.
Thus ended the last ditch effort of the Proletarian Crusade, with a single survivor: a female adeptus arbite.

Oh, and the [[Eldar]] show up in the Imperial Palace trying to warn the humans not to let the Orks distract them from [[Chaos]], cuz, you know, chaos has to be your #1 priority even though the Imperium is being torn apart by killer Ork death stars. This cryptic crap achieves absolutely nothing other than getting the hard-line [[Inquisitor]]s into a frenzy of saying "I told you so" to anyone who will listen.

==The Last Wall, a Legion unified==
Dorn had envisioned the chance of something BIG happening. So he had ordered his sons that, should the need arise, they reunited at '''Phall''', where the Heresy began for the Imperial Fists. There they would unify into a single legion and fight as one again, albeit keeping their traditional heraldry. The note was sent with not much time in advance but the majority of the second founding chapters managed to be present. There Koorland revealed to the utter shock of his fellow chapter masters from the [[Black Templars]], [[Crimson Fists]], [[Excoriators]] and the [[Fists Exemplar]] that he was the last Imperial Fist alive. The truth was almost too much for them to process but in the end they decided to get over it and banded together.
Over 3000 astartes and 50 ships went into [[Terra]] and led a glorious assault to neutralize the attack moon.

The fleet was joined by the [[Iron Knights]] chapter and succeeded in destroying the WAAAGH gate at the heart of the moon and rescuing the remaining human prisoners ''(including the aforementioned female Arbitrator)'' but unfortunately leaving the moon intact. While also suffering substantial casualties, amongst which was Chapter Master Malfons of the Iron Knights, who sacrificed himself to save Koorland from an Ork warboss the size of a Dreadnought.

==The Imperium Strikes Back==
After the battle of Terra and the blockade of the attack moon, the Last Wall ''(the new name for the Fist Legion)'' were praised by The Lord Guilliman ''(also: Lord Commander of the Imperium, also: Warmaster, also: your boss)'' '''Udin Macht Udo''' ''(a fellow more useless than Abaddon)'' who wanted to make a show of having five chapters bow to him and invited them to a party. He also wanted to keep the loss of the [[Imperial Fists]] chapter a secret for public relations and ordered the successors to play dress up and give Koorland an honour guard. Udo would also show himself "gracious" enough to ratify Koorlands's position as Chapter Master, since according to rules lawyers, the successors aren't allowed to do that.

The Fists were explicitly ordered NOT to destroy the attack moon that remained in orbit, because the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] wanted the Ork technology for themselves. ''(oh the irony)'' The Fists were also disgusted by the constant power playing between the high lords and were happy enough to leave. Suffice to say, the space marines consider them all dicks.

==So that thing about Chaos? Orks are way worse==
Despite the warnings from the Eldar, Chaos, or more specifically: some [[Iron Warriors]] were also getting their asses kicked by Orks. While also being hunted by some Black Templars with a grudge. Realizing that the fight won't end well, they decide to join forces temporarily, but still can't overcome the Orks. When a relief force of Fists Exemplar show up to pull them out. However, the Orks use their gravity based weapons to SPAWN A FREAKIN' BLACK HOLE, which destroys the star system, the Imperial fleet escapes by scattering into the warp, where one ship turns up on '''Prax''' along with the Iron Warriors.

Prax turns out to be a key world in the new "Ork Empire" and reveals that the Orks have been evolving even further than anticipated. Where previously they were considered to be little but savages who could hammer bits of technology together and make it work, they now have their own society and specialists, "Bloody Axes" and "Leering Moons" and so forth. They actively conquer and enslave other races; taking humans, feeding them steroids and farming them like cattle, while some "lucky ones" get their teeth punched out, shaved bald, branded like slaves and get pushed into battle as [[Gue'vesa|auxilia cannon fodder]].

The combined Fists and Iron Warriors then destroy the planet rather than letting the Orks keep it.

Back on Terra, Vangorich manoeuvres Koorland into taking the top job of '''Lord Guilliman''' from Udo, who seems to think its business as usual, despite the Ork threat still signalling imminent doom. The Imperial Fists strut into the Senatorium and denounce him, and Udo orders their arrest, not noticing that everyone bar the Ecclesiarch and the Fabricator General have switched sides and actually ''wants'' someone competent to take command.

==The new regime==
With Koorland in charge, Vangorich brought him evidence of the Mechanicum withholding vital information to the war effort because of their fanatical need to hoard knowledge ''(and abscond with any new Ork tech)''. So Koorland's first act was to land military troops on Mars and bluff the Mechanicum into stepping into line. After a brief "incident" which was totally not a micro civil war the Fabricator General finally started singing the Imperial national anthem and revealed that the Orks were coming from '''Ullanor''', which had sunk into ancient legend because of its significance to the Great Crusade.

Deciding the Imperium needed its own legend, they went looking for [[Vulkan]], since the [[Inquisition]] conveniently knew where he was ''(and had been for a thousand years)''. Gathering a fleet, they went to the backwater volcanic planet and found Vulkan singlehandedly defending it against MILLIONS of Orks. Their arrival turned the tide, eliminated the attack moon being constructed in orbit. Providing the first major victory of the War. Between then and the end of the war the Deathwatch was born as a means of fighting the Ork WAAAGH! with a chance of success.

==Major revelations==

'''Here come some major spoilers!'''

The series has revealed many event which have been only hinted or no one could think about:
*The [[Imperial Fists]] were completely wiped out during the war, it took the combined effort of the successor chapters to bring them back.
*It was Captain Koorland who came with the idea of creating the Deathwatch from the marines who have survived the first months of the war.
*Drakan Vangorich was actually quite a cool guy, and it was only after 100 years passed from the beheading that he went mad and had to be removed.
*The novel series gives an excellent idea of the state of the human colonies during the Age of Strife when there wasn't an Imperium to defend mankind from the alien threat and those who actually tried to negotiate with them.
*That inquisitor name Veritus? None other than Kyril Sindermann, Luna Wolves' iterator and one of the founders of the [[Imperial Creed]], this explains how he knew so much about everything, and he came with the idea of the Ordo Malleus and the Ordo Xenos as separate defined branches.
*Chapter Master Janus from the [[Grey Knights]] makes a cameo.
*Vulcan was still alive, and of course he may still be due being a perpetual, but it was good to have him back for a while, also, there may be hints Rogal Dorn is still alive too.
*After the defeat of the Beast the Mechanicus feinted destroying the planet of Ullanor by teleporting it to another solar system. It has become well known in the 41st millennium by the name of [[Armageddon]].
*All the remaining Sisters of Silence were killed during the final battle against the Beast, the last one sacrificing herself to destroy the Ork-Prime, however, it remains to be seen if the imperials can pull the same trick they did with the Imperial Fists.
*[[Eldrad]] had a hand helping the Imperium to stop the orks, and during the final passages of the last book it was revealed to him that Mankind and [[Eldar]] fates are irrevocably twined.
*Throughout the siege of Terra, the Orks taunted the defenders with transmissions from orbit across all vox-channels in their own tongue: the name of their commander, a phrase roughly translating as "Beast", "I am Slaughter", or "Lord Who Brings Great Slaughter". It is revealed in the final passages of the last book that, in Orkish, this phrase is "Mag Uruk Thraka" but don't read too much into that. [[Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka]] has exactly nothing on the Beast... Yet. Could be a sort of title given to Warlords destined to give the entire galaxy a good, thorough spanking.

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