Been hearing a lot of rumblings from normal people in the warhammer community they are tired of fascists worshipping the imperium of man in their community.
is it like a human supremacist group in the lore or something like the empire in Star Wars?
Been hearing a lot of rumblings from normal people in the warhammer community they are tired of fascists worshipping the imperium of man in their community.
is it like a human supremacist group in the lore or something like the empire in Star Wars?
I had an idea. What if the Dark Eldar went Monsters Inc and made everyone laugh to save their owns souls from Slaanesh?
Did I just noblebright the Dark Eldar?
it litreally makes no sense they cause pain and are sadistic. it is so stupid. being a satanist by torturing people and shit makes no tactical sense considering the hordes of enemies it would make because you torture their cousin or whatever
I also had an idea, that in a way, might be even darker. They still do the torture thing, but they don't enjoy it. It's just their 9-5 grind, working at the torture factory. And also could be a decent imperialist satire.
that would actually be clever and could open up the possibility for a sympathetic Dark Eldaar protagonist (maybe even one which becomes a chaos cultist and stays sympathetic oh jesus) which would require putting effort into writing
And also removes the plothole of them making too many enemies, by them JITing the torture. Like, there's this entire corporate bureaucracy through torture, but instead of "line goes up", it's "Slaanesh is pleased".
I think you're looking at it on a grand scale; instead look at it as personal, moral failings. Khorne is definitely a macro scale evil, with wars and such, but Dark Eldar aren't conducting torture for military purposes, to them torture is just a hobby like binge gaming or binge watching netflix. Plus what hordes of enemies? Orks don't care, the Eldar are already on the warpath against them and the imperium treats people as toilet paper. Tyranids probably can't be tortured and if you did the other tyranids don't care, and genestealers are more concerned with infiltrating societies for the sake of the Tyranid and probably accepted that this was a possibility ages ago (also I'm not sure if they care if their members are taken for torture purposes).
Theoretically, the Dark Eldar torture to save themselves from having their souls eternally tortured by Slaanesh, but that motive is kind of obfuscated by the fact they enjoy it so much. I'd like to see the Dark Eldar not enjoy it, but also not hate it, like it's a 9-5 job for them, as I mentioned elsewhere here. It could be a parody of capitalism and work culture as well.