@unclesam1756

1 year ago

The thing that irks me about people defending Black Templar primaris is that they always say things like "they're just being pragmatic." And it's like, do even know why they're named Templars? They're insane religious zealots. 'Pragmatic' is the absolute last word you could use to describe them (well, aside from atheistic, obviously). They're the guys that will choose death over a tactical retreat. They'd choose oblivion over a temporary alliance with eldar. If their chapter was on the verge of extinction they would spit in the faces of the Custodes rather than accept their "gift" of primaris created by a literal heretic tech priest. To them accepting primaris would be the same as accepting the gifts of a chaos god. They are the living embodiment of "death before dishonor." Even if there was just one Templar left in the entire Imperium he would wage a one man Crusade against the usurper Guilliman and his abominations. You want pragmatism? Go check out the Tau. They'll adopt any new technology, even abominable intelligence. You want Templars? Then to quote the 3rd edition rulebook intro "Forget the power of technology, science and common humanity. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for there is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter and the laughter of thirsting gods." The Black Templars are the literal poster children (being the focus of some of the most iconic 40k artwork) of the stagnation and religious fanaticism of the Imperium and it's mind boggling that anyone at GW or in the fanbase would forget this for even a second. As for why anyone would want to worship the evil gods of chaos... is this a joke? The chaos gods are nothing more than natural inclinations taken to excess. Khorne: aggression, violence and bloodshed are unavoidable aspects of life. Obviously there would be those who embrace it and take it too far (like super soldiers created to do nothing but fight). Nurgle: Bug chasers are already a thing. Some people are weird and want to get sick. Other people are just nihilists who accept that life sucks then you die. They aren't looking at disease riddled walking corpses and saying "yup, that's the life for me." And others are just people who are living under terrible conditions and just want the pain to go away. Nurgle worshippers are just what you get when people are either desperate or embrace the inevitable a little too hard. Slaanesh: Do we even need to address this? Everyone enjoys physical sensations. Drug addicts are a huge problem even now. Adrenaline junkies are a thing. Everyone enjoys sex. Hedonism and debauchery are one of humanity's longest standing societal problems. If the chaos gods existed in our universe then Earth would be overrun with slaaneshii cultists. And Tzeentch: Who among the poverty stricken masses wouldn't want magic powers and the ability to change their reality? Not to mention that humanity generally has a fondness for clever plots and schemes. It's why soap operas are a thing and why people debate the lore and writing of fictional universes. The point is that no one is looking at the ultimate outcome of worshipping chaos - the mountains of skulls, hordes of rotting corpses, whatever slaanesh has going on or the madness of tzeentch - and says yes, this is what I want. People just look at the immediate benefits of the faith and don't worry about the final outcome. That's how temptation and damnation work. Shit I wrote a lot. tl;dr - Templars: suffer not the heretic. Chaos: "just the tip" slippery slope.

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