Editing Blank (section)

==A Typical Case of Inconsistency caused by a laughable attempt at originality==
Essentially, everything in the ''Materium'' is reflected into the ''Immaterium'', and both of these aspects are linked with each other. Everything means all objects and phenomenons, be they rocks, plants, minerals, gaz, animals, insects, shrooms and likely, contrary to what some writers pretend, magnetic fields as well since gravity DOES affects the Warp (and this is both why ships avoid to exit the Warp inside a solar system, some old Fluff sources also explicitly state that the Gellar Field is gravity based). In the case of Warhammer's humans, souls are linked to our bodies by a region of the brain called ''Animus'' through a chain of willpower; what the psychic power "Force" does is to destroy that chain therefore rendering the victim literally ''inanimate''.

The lore also explicitly states that psychic cum powers consist in manipulating the psychic energy so as to produce a concrete effect on the Materium (and/or on the Immaterium, of course).

http://verrahrubicon.free.fr/documents/chaos_the_fictional_background_in_gw_games.pdf

These basics having been reminded, what does that mean for Blanks?

Firstly, they are said to have a [[warp]]-becalming presence, but is that even possible? This is exactly what Psychic Hoods do: they create a zone of neutrality essentially forcefully removing an enemy psyker's influence on that energy, but also all forms of Alignments in this energy, therefore neutralizing the psychic power. But Psychic Hoods have no effects such as those ascribed to Blankness: the [[Librarian]] doesn't fuck up his own brain or soul for that matter, and he doesn't affect those of others either.

Because, what is the natural state of the Warp? Alignment were brought about by complex life forms such as humans, eldars and orks, producing aligned energies... in other words, plants, minerals, low-intelligence animals and so on all have a Neutral [[Alignment]]. In other words, if the Blanks really had a be-calming effect on the Warp, they would most certainly not disturb the souls of anybody (to live a primitive life style instead of a civic one has the opposite effect of mental disturbance).

And then, there is the theory that psychic activity and blankness are both caused by genes... let's reformulate that: it's as if [[Games Workshop]] was stating that it is possible for a gene to make one being avoided by rays of light (and yes, it is a pertinent example since the Warp mirrors the "material universe", well, technically, the Warp ''is'' a material plan, not a metaphysical one). Even so, it makes you wonder: why are the Custodians neither Blanks nor Psykers? In modern Fluff, it is possible that, somehow, the Emperor could have planned to modify Custodians into Psykers if he managed to make them immune to Perils of the Warp (enjoy your Primarch stomping golden dildo with S8 and T8), but also that the Emperor was actually negatively affected by Blank presence too, just like everyone else, making it clear therefore why he would not have wanted Pariahs for Companions. But then, what about the Custodians? Is this Leadership value not disturbed by the Sisters of Silence? Not mentioning Grey Knights, who lost their special rule Fearless, and are also Psykers, but are still represented in the books as unaffected in their behavioral patterns by the presence of the damned blank girls (truth is, the Black Library didn't want to negatively impact sales, nor trigger feminists after making them sympathise with [[-4 Str|these persecuted forlorn women]]...).

And more importantly, the existence of the Animus begs a lot of question about blank physiology. For instance, do they have these chains of willpower at all or not? And if they don't have an Animus at all, what effects does it have on their brain (is the brain's structure different, or is the animus present but atrophies?!)? And if they have an animus, what's on the other side of the chain? Is it that unknown thing which is absorbing or neutralizing psychic energies? But if it was absorbing the energy, would it not be like a black hole (but black holes are connected to white holes to begin with...)? What's happening actually to the psychic energies of the surrounding... and what consequences does it have on the physical objects connected to these energies?

The lore about the Blanks isn't very clear or consistent, but this is what happens when you have got multiple writers retconning left & right without getting their shit together (think about it, Games Workshop is scarcely capable of making balanced codices, or rules, miniatures and fluff consistent with each others...).

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