Well, everyone's talking about the Veteran Skitarii Cohort and other rules and stuff in Warzone Charadon: The Book of Fire, but I'm actually more interested in the lore.
Did they? Well...spoilers ahead, obviously, but I don't think anyone cares. Nobody reads this blog anyway (except one or two), and even if by chance there are, I doubt they care about the wider implications of Warzon Charadon with regards to the fluff or lore of the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Nonetheless, I'll go against the grain (all those videos talking about Be'lakor's new rules, the Veteran Skitarii Cohort, the supplement for the Order of the Martyred Lady, etc.) and talk about the lore instead!
Well, as we know, Metalica is under siege by the Death Guard. But Morvenn Vahl leads Battle Group Tarsus of Crusade Fleet Primus to reclaim parts of the Charadon Sector, apparently killing the Lord Discordant, Zeid, in a powerful strike.
The Alpha Legion and Word Bearers, or rather, a group from each of these legions united under the moniker Disciples, completed a summoning ritual and called forth Be'lakor into real space. As an added bonus, the ritual was done by sacrificing the captured Patriarch of Dhaku's Genestealer Cult, which is awesome. Heh. Foul xenos. He then descends with a legion of Daemons onto the home world of House Raven, Kolossi, and invaded the Keep Inviolate. After a brief and violent clash, Be'lakor somehow managed to spirit the entire knight world of Kolossi away into the warp. And this was after a group of Adepta Sororitas braved all odds against an Alpha Legion and Word Bearers fleet to make planetfall.
Yeah, you heard that right. House Raven...might not be dead, exactly, but their home world is gone. However, Kolossi apparently showed up deep inside Imperium Nihilus, discovered by the Inquisition. The Knights left back to defend the Keep Inviolate have been corrupted, and they are now House Korvax, a Chaos Knight House. Now, they and the corrupted residents of Kolossi fight under the amused gaze of Be'lakor, who sets them against each other for his own amusement.
Though Vahl reclaimed parts of Warzone Charadon, Metalica itself was left in ruins. The Imperium managed to drive back the Death Guard eventually, and Typhus retreated after suffering like 80% casualties of his forces, but...Chaos won. Typhus achieved his mission of infecting Forge World Metalica with the Nemesis Wurm, or rather he infected Fabricator-General Khleng, and now Metalica is doomed to die a slow death, often outbursts of Nurgle stuff coming up and destroying infrastructure, corrupting Skitarii, tech-priests and servitors. Despite their best efforts to scrub the forge world clean, the infection would always return, and Metalica loses more of itself with each passing day. They will eventually die unless they find a way to get rid of the Nemesis Wurm. Typhus, on the other hand, received Nurgle's favor, and was blessed and rewarded. I'm not sure what will happen to him, maybe he gets extra relics or something, but Nurgle was pleased with what he had accomplished. Yay? As for Khleng, he's dead, and good riddance. I say this as an Adeptus Mechanicus guy. His eradication arks and extremist "all flesh must be destroyed" beliefs did little to endear him to me. My forge world, Draconis IV, follows the tenets of Ryza, as well as the Prime Conduit of the Omnissiah (Belisarius Cawl).
The Deimos didn't really do much...apparently, they showed up and like Vahl and Battle Group Tarsus, reclaimed parts of Sector Charadon. We have the standard "everything is in ruins, the Charadon Sector is a mere shadow of its former self, will probably never recover, and they can't contribute to the Imperium's war efforts" rhetoric, which kind of sucks, to be honest, but...it is what it is. The Grey Knights never did anything. The Thousand Sons fought against the Death Guard, and Tzeentch against Nurgle, but again, nothing came out of that. Why were they even mentioned? No idea.
Big implications: Metalica will probably die in the end. House Raven is now a spacefaring Knight House, having lost their home world and the Keep Inviolate. Not good. Not good at all. Princeps Grevan and the rest of House Raven swore to find Kolossi and make whoever was responsible for it pay (Be'lakor and his disciples), but...I doubt anything will come out of that. Like Metalica, House Raven is probably ruined. Ouch. Don't know what's going to happen to the Knight STC, or how they will replenish their numbers, but I'm sure they will manage somehow. Not fun to have your army invalidated and written off from the lore, but you know, House Raven is basically just another Cadia.
Yeah, they took the Cadian route. Just like Cadians, House Raven lost their home world, and now they are a spaceborne army. Uh...yeah. Apparently only Space Marines are allowed to win, am I right? Oh, well.
That's pretty much it.
Hey, this reflects the meta somewhat. Death Guard are doing well, so they won. Chaos Space Marines are pretty awful right now, so the Black Legion got their asses kicked by the new Sisters codex. And Knights, well...yeah, they are in a rough spot, so House Raven lost their home world, Kolossi. On the other hand, Be'lakor has some insane new rules, so...yeah. Oh, and the Genestealer Cults are a joke right now, which was why they got eradicated so quickly. I probably don't even have to mention the poor Astra Militarum, who were slaughtered in great numbers by the Death Guard and everyone else. Only aberration is that the overpowered Adeptus Mechanicus (or Skitarii) lost to Death Guard, but...meh. Oh, wait...that's Lucius. Metalica is awful right now, ha ha, nobody plays Metalica. On the other hand, Deimos seems to have won, so...there's your Adeptus Mechanicus victory. And the Grey Knights and Thousand Sons codex are nowhere to be seen, just like them being strangely absent in the book, despite being mentioned a couple of times...with no real consequence.
If you guys have any questions about the lore and fluff regarding Warzone Charadon, go ahead and ask! I can't promise to give all the answers because I'm not an expert, but I have both books and I will do my best!
Also, I think I'm going to plan a campaign using the rules in Warzone Charadon for my gaming group in Dreamers Vault. I'll probably be the campaign master. I'll discuss with the kids and my friends and see if they want to play. I'll do my best to run the campaign, but it all depends on them, really. One of them plays Death Guard, another plays Blood Angels, so I think this will suit them. If need be, I have Knights and Adeptus Mechanicus to replicate several of the scenarios here, but being the campaign master, I probably will be overseeing the campaign, handing out rewards and keeping track of scores and the victory tally instead of gaming. Still, we'll see!
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