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some background for those who missed it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZsxKcRlaTk
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I'm not familiar with the lore but someone mentioned in another thread how they added some woman that was stronger then the emperor and that was somehow responsible for the creation of the Astartes despite the pre-establish lore specifically stating that the emperor created them.
So I can see GW shitting on the canon when ever they feel like pushing more woke crap.
They would have been referring to Erda, introduced to the lore in 2020 via black library as the woman with whom the emperor created the Primarchs.
An unnecessary lore addition as he surely didn't need a woman to achieve his goals, especially considering the artificial wombs used by the Death Korps of Krieg.
However, she was never 'stronger than the emperor', and also, she betrayed him, and she is dead - though not by his hand.
I still have no idea what the flying fuck GW was thinking with Erda.
They introduce an oh-so-important female character completely out of the blue, with no prep-work or hint, who was intimately involved in one of the most founding and critical events of the setting in what screams to be absolute pandering to the soy crowd...
...and then promptly have her be responsible for cataclysmically fucking up by giving the Primarch's over to chaos in an attempt to... not have them raised by the Emperor for... reasons. With the end result basically being 'Local woman ruins everything, forever.'
What the fuck. It's so schizo I can only fathom this entire clusterfuck was the result of several different writers/producers going at it in a sort of unholy, twisted cold war of creative effort.
This is common across the woke world. It's pandering, but they don't really believe in it. The real SJWs mixed into creative and influential positions are a minority but they have power because the rest of the midwit liberals go along with it. The liberals are tools who call you a bigot if you speak up, but then in their actual work they consciously or unconsciously half-ass the virtue signaling and try to put out legitimate products without their harpy coworkers noticing.
She doesn't even exist in my Canon lol
She is dead? That is odd, not very woke of them. Who knows maybe GW will not go down the woke path just yet
There are definitely cracks beginning to show, as these days, you can't pick up a squad of human miniatures without seeing a token negro on the box.
I think they are hedging their bets and laying the groundwork they'll need in case they have to go woke.
Yeah, Erda is dead now, but if femshittery wins the culture war to the point that female led shit actually sells, now they have a new Goddess-Empress to bring to the forefront on another golden throne hidden in the warp itself.
On the other hand, one of the most recent major additions to the lore is Ursala Creed, who is Ursarkar Creed's daughter. Much like her father, she has become the Lord-Castellan of Cadia (even if that is an honorary title now), she is an extremely skilled commander of the Guard, and is still a skilled fighter even if that is not where her skills are best used.
"That sounds like they just gender-flipped Creed" I can already hear the retorts. Except no. She feels like she didnt really deserve the role and thinks that other commanders would do the job better (said commanders dont agree, which is why they dont take her place), she has made mistakes that Creed would have seen through and she knows it, she is constantly self-conscious of the fact that she will be compared to her father and how big of a weight that carries, and she is constantly grappling with the fact that she knows he is still alive and no one believes her (because Trazyn decided to do Trazyn things and left her proof of him still being alive).
At a very basic level, it may just be gender-flipped Creed. But it manages to do it in a way that actually feels compelling instead of forced or "woke", and infinitely better than any Mary Sue depiction.
So to that end, at least for the moment, I will continue to contend that GW's greatest sin continues to be merely greed. Sad about Templin taking this route though, because I love their stuff. I probably wont stop watching their channel, but it is definitely going to leave a bad taste in my mouth going forward.