>a gentle reminder
"WE WERE MADE FOR A CRUSADE, CHAPTER MADE IN 34TH MILLENNIUM. OUR GRANPAS ARE BLOOD ANGELS AND WE HAVE OVERSENSITIVE EYES, WE SEE GOOD IN DARKNESS BUT NEED TO WEAR SHADES FOR OUTSIDE. WE'RE SCIONS OF MARS AND OUR LEGENDBRO IS MASTER CHAPTER WHO KICKED ORK ASSES SO HARD HE'S THE VOLDEMORT TO THEM NOW. WE LIVE ON FERAL ICE WORLD AND WE ASSUMED DIRECT CONTROL OVER THE SUB-HUMAN NOT CYBERVAMPIRES. WE DROP POD INTO BATTLE AND RIDE FUCKING YETIS OUT OF THE DROP PODS. WE HONOUR OUR ANCESTORS TOO BUT WHO CARES. WE RECENTLY GOT OUR SHIT BEAT IN BUT NOT TOO HARD, OUR BUTT-CHEEKS WILL HEAL IN A DECADE OR SO. WE LOVE THE ADEPTUS ARBITES AND HATE OVERSIZED SPACE COCKROACHES."

old thread: >>39322254

threat theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g95U2WhuIR8

>>39328525
and now I'm so glad I put that on the page

Posted about our past chapter masters and their hero deeds from the other thread. Some write anon can take over on them!

>>39328459
Armor Anon here, almost got a pic detailing the basic armors for each rank.

Also I can't wait until we get a drawfag. Can't wait to see our Chapter Symbol and Chaplain helmets.

>>39328552
You did the Emperor's work there, son

>>39328564
got the names of the shades? I'd like to feed it to my generator - it spits out random special characters with extra bling, it might be useful

>>39328564
Seconded. We must obtain a Drawfag at once.

>>39328459
So that's the final colors then? I can dig it.

Now, have we fleshed out how the yetis look like? Roided out gorillas, lean and sinewy abominations or what?

And is the chapter badge still a fanged deerskull on a snowflake?

>>39328640
I believe those things are still up in the air.

>>39328601
you mean the name of the Face or the color I used from Bolter and Chainsword

Bringing this over from other thread...


These who exist only to devour
>they they will starve in the wasteland
These who seek only war
>their final battle will be against the blizzards
These who plot from their havenships
>will die in our frozen hell
These who prosper and build
>their expansion will end on the glaciers
These who kill all the living
>will only find death here

I really liked the Litany of Serene Conflict in the last thread, sort of thing I expect some Wraiths would say. Especially with the thought of becoming a Wendigo hanging over their heads to remain calm and level-headed.

How do the Wraiths get along with the IG? Do xeno-eating cyborg vampire supersoldiers play nice with the trench troopers?
Mission first or Lives first?

>>39328640
I'm thinking somewhere between bear and moose with oddly human faces. But that's me.

>>39328673
I meant the name of the colour in B&C
I'm unable to set mouth grille and soft armour to custom at the moment - there's a new version, but it's fuck-late here to start updating, but I'd like to toy a bit with it tomorrow
I

>>39328714
Is that a separate litany or part of the litany of serene conflict?

>>39328755
i wasn't the original anon who wrote it but it was a new one he added after the thread switch

>>39328546
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FLQ4rACE-0
It's Skyrim, but fuck it. Also the dragon language could easily be the native russian-inuit-psuedogothic language.
Works well with the ancestor-honoring side of things at least.

>>39328755
I'd like to imagine it's Verse 43, Book LXIX of the Litanies of the Serene Conflict

ice planet blood angels trying to tone it down with a fuckton of battle litanies to avoid losing it and becoming Wendigos fits the picture

>>39328755
Original anon. They are meant to be part of same litany of hate,but writing on phone is suffering

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>>39328726
Skull White, Blood Red, Mithril Silver, Chaos Black, Ice Blue

>>39328564
here are all armor types right now, or at least the basic ones without psychic hoods or other decorations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g95U2WhuIR8 This is our original chapter Battle Hymn, to be sung A Capella, if you all recall.

>>39328716
pretty sure wraiths get along pretty well with the ig since Lord Marshal Riddick the First, also known as Lord Riddick the Bloody Shade, was the First Scout Sargent to become a Chapter Master

>>39328857
I'd say that the difference between steel and ghost be more pronounced if we use them that way.

>>39328874
The difference is that Ghost Face are a matte white, while Steel Face are shiny silver. Though I see your point. Perhaps just having only Ghost Face for default marine?

>>39328970
That would probably be best. Although it would be nice for there to be something that could set the New Blood apart from the basic marines.

It's not only Wendigos that are camouflaged for maximum effect. Part of marine's standard kit choices are camo capes for ambush tactics and recon work. In snowstorms a veteran can appear to become invisible at will to his foes and attack from unpredictable directions.
Indeed, it was this method of attack that gave the fledgling Chapter it's name.

The then unnamed Chapter had landed on their new homeworld and were preparing it as a staging post against the Ork hordes when they were first met with the greenskins and the natives of the planet. Well, the Codex was wheeled up and someone was sent to fetch the magnifying glass to check what it had to say about ice combat when it was noted the native warriors used skillfully made and painted hide cloaks to hide from the orks or strike at them when ignored. Fortunately, the wisdom of such a tactic was seen before someone found the index of the Codex and was shown to be of great use against the orks who had little idea of how to fight an opponent they couldn't see and could even hope to aim and land a meaningful hit against the swift astartes before they retreated beyond visibility.
Thus the name came to be whispered among the natives of the planet that the astartes were not mere men, or even supermen but mythical "Ice Wraiths", spirits of ice and vengeance that struck the unwary during storms. As it turned out, the new Chapter rather liked the name.
To this day, camo cloaks of various design are distributed to the marines to suit numerous battlefields and have fooled foes from across the galaxy long enough it was too late for them.

>>39328970
yeah, that's enough

Also:

>Lord Marshall Riddick and all the men of the Wraiths drew up their forces by the Raven's Rock; and the Greenskins and their Nobs rode at them, driving themselves like a wedge through their army. And there was a great slaughter of Orks... they fought with them during the pursuit on the ice seven versts short of the shore. And there fell a countless number of Grenskins, and 400 of their leaders, and they took fifty's head with their hands and they took them to the Fortress-Monastery.

(adapted from the Novgorod First Chronicle about the historical Battle on Ice)

>>39329056
I'd say their helmet has no red highlights. Part of their initiation involves hunting a local beast and eating it. Proves you're a survivor, a fighter and that you use your kills to strengthen yourself.
Mi-Go Tyranids give double points.

Mixing up your blood hunt with your yeti capture is not the best idea. You kill the beast and tame the yeti. Not the other way around.

>>39329056
The New Blood could lack the red on the helmet. In hunting cultures a new hunter is marked on the face with the blood of their first kill.

we have 3 chapter masters named at the moment with some lore TG.

We need writefags to take over for.

Lord Marshal Riddick IV fought a two day long fight with a Ork warboss on the world of Nacht and won by freezing the orks arms off before kicking him over a cliff!


Lord Marshal Riddick the IX they say when his Drill Pod broke, he punched his way through the ground and ended up clearing an entire nest of Tyranids by himself


Lord Marshal Riddick XIV got swallowed whole by a Tyranid and then froze the beast from the inside out

>>39329178
>>39329282

remember that time Lord Marshal Riddick XIII managed to sneak up on a Tyranid during his initiation and rode it into a yeti camp. he chased the biggest yeti untill both the tyranid and the yeti were out of stamina, he then slaughtered the nid and fed part of it to teh yeti who would later become his comapnion

>>39329178
>>39329234
Yeah, lacking the red on the helmet is a solid idea for the new blood.

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>>39329178
>>39329056
would this work? Blue tubes denoting his fangs are without blood, but are as fresh ice

>>39329347
Subtle yet effective. I like it. Say, Armor Anon, can you post the individual images for the armor variations so I can put them on the page?

>>39329291
I'm still not convinced his yeti wasn't a 'nid in disguise who knew better than to fight back. Thing was vicious and was more intelligent than most of the initiates.

Hey, remember ol' Magos "Freeze" Fluoxus? Heard he's still tinkering with the local wildlife in his laboratory. Saw one his rejects walking the wastes. Some kind of natural cryothium gland, tried to freeze my foot to the ice with it's spit. Let me tell you, he ever makes something he's happy with I want to see it teched-up in battle against some greenskins.

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>>39329376
Certainly

>captcha: havel

By the Way, what ever did happen to Sargent Brother Havel of the Terminator Squad?

>>39329394
Dont get e started on techmarines. Do you remember Ivan IV?He spend around 172 years to build a campfire made of ice.He suceeded

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>>39329473
I know, who knew that if you compressed enough Cryothium within a single space exposed to oxygen and and meat that it'd burs into flames.

Ivan never grew those eyebrows back, did he?

If our fortress-monastery basically has a castlevania dungeon built in for initiates and attackers..
Do we seed the initiate's wargear throughout the dungeon for them to claim as they ascend the fortress? Can't get through this door, you need to hit a target from far away. But wait! Behind that ravenous beast is a bolter! This bridge won't lower without a voice command from a marine. Now if only you had a vox.. like that helmet does. Past that gauntlet. So it's like castlevania again in that you need to arm yourself as you progress. You kill, and you keep the spoils of what you kill.
Once the initiate is fully armed and armored, they can meet a Master of the Chapter who spars against them, final boss style to ensure they learnt the lessons of the dungeon below. On succeeding, they're a member of the Chapter.

Actually, this sounds harder than just their blood hunt.
Maybe you have to do the dungeon to be recognize as a Veteran? You have to cast aside your knowledge and power to reclaim it and surpass yourself.
Unless the blood hunt is just to BECOME an initiate? Holy fuck do they have some high standards.

>>39329282
The actions that aided in the ascension of Lord Marshal Riddick XIV were challenged by the other contender for the position, Captain Fyor. Fyor argued that the account of being swallowed and killing the beast from within was a fabrication and that the cryogenic weaponry had simply caused the Tyranid's carapace to fracture under the stress of battle and exposed its vitals to attack. As such, the fight was a common victory seen by the Ice Wraiths and the future Lord Marshal was simply embellishing to further his status. This resulted in an honor duel that ended with Captain Fyor's death and the securing of the Lord Marshal position by the future Riddick XIV. Rumors of outside help by compatriots of the Lord Marshal abounded, but were quickly suppressed once he took command.

>>39329568
Most chapters do. But really, becoming an initiate involves being cast out into the wilderness and being hunted by newbloods.

>>39329557
It should be Sangikuqq, not Sangiqukk, surely?
...also, maybe Sangikuqq Mystic would help. Then they can be referred to as Mystics informally.

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>>39329601
fixed it

>>39329568
Normal dungeon and hunting released convicts and making way through are for Initiates to become Neohpytes. Blood Hunt is to make it as an Initiate. Super Dungeon you mentioned is for being recognized as Veteran.
Blood. At least I think that's fair.

Who do the Ice Wraiths NOT get along with? I remember someone mentioning the more puritan Sororitas would not like our sangikuqq due to their almost-but-no-quite sorcery psyker tomfoolery.
Maybe we piss off the administratum with our constant requests for more cryothium than the Salamanders ask for in promethium back when they were an entire Legion. Quill pushers be all "Who the fuck even uses this stuff? ONE Chapter in the ass end of the galaxy."

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>>39329514

>>39329685
"I'm a veteran! I served for many years so they put bolts in my head! Yay."
>"I'm a veteran. I was thrown in an icy citadel with basic clothing and a knife against gene-modded animals and the most inventive traps an entire Chapter spent thousands of years developing, having to fight off monsters to claim a lousy bolt pistol. But I fucking did it. So they spray painted my mouth black."

Oh hey, I just thought. Some chapters stave off red thirst and the like with concentrating on scrimshaw. The carving and inking of bones. That's goddamn inuit as fuck. The wraiths should have carved bone accessories.

>>39329718
There's probably one or two chapters we don't get along with.

>>39329780
>The wraiths should have carved bone accessories.

Agreed.

>>39329780
BAs use art generally, so don't forget the ice sculptures.

>>39329787
Imperial fists and successors do not like us cause blood magic. Space wolves think we stealin their style. We're too deviant for smurfs

>>39329832
Yeah, that sounds accurate.

>>39329787
Salamanders

>>39329718
I'd imagine they have a love/hate relationship with the Rogue Traders and various merchantile organizations that supply them with cryothium. Their suppliers charge them exorbitant prices since they're the only people who buy the stuff and they need so much of it.

There's an old /tg/ Sororitas homebrew called the Order of the Obsidian Mirror who were basically battle nun KGB. They weren't puritan at all, but group of spies using questionable methods to run a massive information network covering both Imperials and Xenos would make for some great jurisdictional friction.

>>39329817
>intricate, detailed ork warboss statue
>life sized with grot minions
>a whole emperor-damned year between other duties but wow, it's finished
>some faggot wendigo sees it, flips the fuck out
>now have to start again
If it wasn't that going mad would involve becoming a wendigo myself...

>>39329832
Huh.. do they save civilians and stuff? Or are they cold motherfuckers who do their job first, help people in need second?

>>39329879
From the previous thread, seems they have a friendly rivalry going on. Both like their technology, and know what it's like when your home planet's temperature makes others seem near inhospitable. They just have different views on what their liquid spewing weaponry should be using. But cool guns remain cool guns, so they're generally cool with each other.

>>39329898
I'm guessing cryothium does have other uses in cooling systems, and the wraiths try to manufacture what they can but yeah... Traders are going to be a big thing for the experimental-tech Chapter who use coolant like it's fuel.

>>39329926
I think that we try to distance ourselves from civilians cause of wendigos and terror tactics

>>39329718
Sir, we got another order of, and I quote, "a gigantic buttload of cryothium", by the Ice Wraiths.

REALLY!? WHAT IN THE EMPERORS NAME ARE THY DOING WITH THAT STUFF!? WE JUST SEND THEM MORE LAST MONTH!
...fine, you know what? FINE! GET ME A RETRIBUTION CLASS BATTLESHIP, FILL THE THING TO THE BRIM WITH CRYOTHIUM AND SEND IT TO THEIR HOMEWORLD!

b-but sir-

I SAID DO IT!

>meanwhile on Nixarteria

hey Grigori, guess what

what?

Brother Ivan smuggled some fluff nids in the fortress to create some "more deadly" traps

and?

well, someone told Chaplain Alexandrovich, so he gave the order to freeze the whole damn place down. said only that which walks out by itself deserves to live.

he's been doing that a lot recently hasnt he?
I dont like food, freeze the kitchen!
I dont like these new weapons, freeze the armory
I dont like how that guys in the mirror looks at me, freeze the bathroom!

>>39330023
Ok I actually did laugh out loud at this. Captain Alexadrovich is now cannon

>>39330023
kekked enough a tear nearly came out. There is a standing order to freeze it for heresy.

I hope the Wraiths eat a lot of popsicles from their new kitchen... wait.
>"Brother! Oh no! What has.. you have succumbed to the Red Thirst!"
"What? No! I'm just eating a berry popsicle and it gets everywhere. I think I stained my tabard.."

>>39329466
>>39329514
I cannot see a difference between Ghost and Steel, I fear that it's gonna be lost on most people as well.

>>39329996
>Look, I know we quoted you at 1000 thrones per cubic ton, but after your next shipment we're going to be upping the price to 4000.
>There's no need to get mad or pull a gun on me. It's just business. I've got the governor of Phylos Deep blowing up my astropath begging for cryothium to use in his fish processing factories.
>And I mean literally blowing up my astropath. He let out a shriek and next thing we knew we were cleaning up blood and brain bits out of the carpet. You, uh, you wouldn't happen to need an astropath corpse would you? Tell you what, I'll toss it in with the next shipment, a little gift from me to you.

>>39329718

Smurfs hate us for not being compliant, as well as our usage of Tyranids in rituals and hunts.

Wolves either respect us fr similair cultur, or hate us for blood rituals, shamanistic magic, love of stategy and stuff, reliance on tech, and preference over smaller weapons

Black Templars hate us for being degenerate wizard lovers and for relying on teched up Xenos to fight

Dark Angels find our castle tacky and think we're a bunch of mutants.

The Admech would find our willingness to swag up and use trophy equipment taken from kills to be Tech Heresy, and hate us for keeping the secrets of our STCs and Cryothium to ourselves

Ironhands think we're fags for preferring to tech up beasts and not ourselves. Also because Each Riddick prefers to walk around shirtless at the monestary and show off his well earned muscular body.

Imperial Fists are probably cool with us, as are the White Scars.

Ice Wraiths despise the Bluhd Ravens, because they keep always stealing our swag and their kleptomaniac tendencies are completely at odds with "keep what you kill"

Flesh Tearers probably think we aren't psycho enough and that we should stop sitting on a planet and should go eat things.

Am I missing anyone?

>>39329780
Keep what you kill. Most non-neohpytes always take trophies from thier kills and end up decorating thier armor and weapons with all manner of swag, so scrimshaw is common practice

>>39330126
Ghost have matte white face and blue face pipes. Steel has shiny silver face and red face pipes

>>39330023
They're on a FROZEN planet! Why do they even need military coolant? Just stick it in the snow or something!

Apparently.. they use it to freeze cold-resistant xenos.

...this entire imperium feels like it's made up entirely of idiots at times.

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>>39330165
See, it's that "Matte White" and "Silver" faces part that's the problem. They are so alike, how can one tell the difference at a distance?

>>39329718
Wait, I thought tat Cryothium was an STC that Wraiths had market on and produced the stuff en masse

>>39330190
Thats where the blue and red face tubes come in. We discussed this earlier.

>>39330199
No cryothium is a coolant commonly used throughout the imperium. We simply have STCs to weaponize it and we ain't sharin

the white crotch looks a bit like a nappy

If some anon was to play the Ice Wraiths in chapter master the game, what would be their pros and cons for the chapter building? Whats our main battle barge called?

>>39330199
Maybe it could be a byproduct that the tyranids produce, or they go whaling and use xeno-blubber to make it.

>>39330184
Polar bears do fine in the Arctic but will still die when you dump liquid nitrogen on them.

>>39330165
They DO have the "Scions of Mars" demeanor. AdMech are at least neutral to them.. and they do have juicy enough STCs to keep on their good side.

>>39330199
Cryothium weaponry, and their specialty drill pods Ice Fangs.
It's still possible to use flamers with a cryothium tank and old Termite drillers.

Or maybe we gave the formula away because making wargear is one thing, the ammunition too? Tricky.

>>39330231
Oooh, I like this too. They certainly are cold-resistant. Maybe they have some kind of ultra-cryo that's broken out for special occasions?

>>39330223
Its a silver crotch. besides, most Wraiths end up making loincloths covered in the bones and trophies of thier fallen enemies so its not that big a deal.

>>39330220
Ah, I see. Can we still produce the stuff too? I'm sure we can stranglesome Nids with frost breath for thier glands.

Just like brother Petrov did when we dared him to strangle that one Lictor with his legs

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>>39328970
Huh... this is my chapter's paint scheme...

>>39330313
THIN YOUR PAINTS!

>>39330269
Makes more sense then having STC tech and NOT SHARING it and then expecting the imperium to give you what you need to use it. The Admech would be blockading your ass until they got it, if not outright declaring war.
They gave two guys a planet each for discovering the combat knife, you think they wont destroy a chapter?

Brothers where is Master of Sanctity Putin? I swear if he is riding that gene-hanced frost-bear shirtless again....

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>>39330359
>They gave two guys a planet each for discovering the combat knife
wait what? This is a thing

>>39330371
I knew we shouldn't have loaned him to the White Scars that one time.

>>39330408
They did indeed, the Imperium, and especially the Admech, are REALLY serious about STC tech, its something you dont fuck with.

>>39330329
Paints aside, I like the color scheme, particularly the brass over the red.

>>39330165
Perhaps a friendly rivalry with the white scars. Both go in for psykers and are a bit nuts. Perhaps they share a sick sense of humor, etc.

>>39330359
Okay... idea; the Wraiths discovered and "donated" the STC for cryothium. Which is actually a pretty big deal for the Imperium, military spec coolant and speciality ammunition. It just isn't as flashy as a new piece of wargear so people don't hear about it. Still, nearly every goddamn Leman Russ in the galaxy these days has some cryothium sloshing about keeping the machine spirit's drinks cool.
So basically, the closest forge worlds to the wraiths these days pump it out by the shipload, and for discovering the STC in the first place, the Wraiths won a lifetime's supply of it.

Fast forward a bit with techpriests and techmarines aplenty in one place with near infinite cryothium available and not much else... the Wraiths naturally developed the cryo-weaponry and advanced Termites on their own because fuck the Arbites. Except not really, they're bros.
The AdMech aren't the happiest about the new technology, but since it was developed with heavy Mars-trained priest oversight and the Wraiths did get them awesome coolant... they're still on the positive side of the AdMech. Too many plusses with only a few minuses.

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>>39330508
I'd imagine we'd be close friends since we both love riding suped up things into battle

Also, time to talk Yeti Riding. I nominate our Yetis to look kinda like pic related, but with cooler antlers.

>>39330515
Sounds alot more plausible, and the Admech would probably be in dicksuck mode for life due to the STC find, and it explains how the got the weaponry, I like it.

Ok I added a "current heroes" section to the wiki page and made Captain Alexandrovich and Chaplain Putin the inaugural entries. Someone should add the master of the forge who's secretly a wendigo as well

>>39330558
I was thinking more bipedal.

Verkast huddled in the coat he had stripped from a corpse and tried to understand what had happened to his world. Three days ago it had been 30 degrees celsius and their rebellion against the Imperium had seemed a glorious success. Now neither of those things were true.

Two days ago dark clouds had suddenly filled the sky over the capitol while the vox squawked about "cryogenic weapons detonating in the upper atmosphere". A massive blizzard plunged the capitol into a complete white out and the vox started screaming about "orbital assaults" and "drop pods". Then it was screaming about "monsters". Then it was just screaming. Then it was silent.

Verkast's patrol had come across some of the pods, and across the bodies. Some were torn apart as if by clawed monsters. Some were shattered and scattered in frozen chunks. Some where intact except for viscous neck wounds; the medic said they'd died from blood loss, but there didn't seem to be much blood on the ground. Verkast didn't like to think about that, but at least he'd gotten an extra coat off one of them.

Then the patrol got hit. The enemy were giants who just seemed to materialized out of the swirling snow fall. They came out of the blinding white with chainswords roaring, and suddenly Sergeant Liekus just didn't have arms anymore. One shot a blast of mist from what looked like a flamer, engulfing three men. One simply stopped in his tracks while the other two toppled over, and shattered when they hit the ground. Verkast didn't see the rest die, he was already running, but he heard their screams. He'd been taught about the Adeptus Astartes, the Space Marines, but he'd always assumed the claims of their prowess were just exaggerations. Now he understood why they were called the Emperor's "Angels of Death".

cont...

>>39330588
Verkast fled into a tram station. Power was out through the whole city, so it was just him running through dark tunnels alone. Thankfully it was little warmer down below, and there was no snow. The angels seemed to like the snow, so he figured they stay on the surface. The emergency lights were active in the tunnels. Though frightfully dim, they none the less gave Verkast some comfort.

"At least I'll see them coming," he muttered to himself.

"Do you really think so?" a voice calmly asked; from right behind him.

Shaking, Verkast turned slowly around. One of the angels stepped out from the thick shadows the emergency lights failed to pierce. With a hiss the seal on it's helmet released, and a wave of cold air washed over Verkast face as the angel revealed it's own. It's eyes gleamed in the darkness, like ice reflecting fire light, and frozen blood glistened on it's mouth and chin. The last thing Verkast thought as the astartes fell upon him was "angels shouldn't have fangs".

>>39330588
Cool so far, but Ice Wraiths prefer trenchknives, thunderclaws, and power machetes over chain weapons. Chain Weapons are too liable to freeze up and get ice caught in the motor.

>>39330588
>>39330642
Awesome

>>39330588
It's like they worked out a way to bring Russia with them to make every battlefield a war against russians during winter.
And everyone becomes grim and drinks copious amounts of strong alcohol to cope.
Seriously read that like it was a piece of eastern european writing. But then I've been reading Metro 2033 lately so a lot of things have the voice in my head reciting lines in a terrible russian accent.

>>39330650
Could just be non-standard marines who like the "ohfuck" factor when they're revved up in the ambush.

>>39330650
>They came out of the blinding white with the snap hiss of activating power swords, and suddenly Sergeant Liekus just didn't have arms anymore.

better?

>>39330653
agreed!

>>39330695
> ... the vox started screaming about "orbital assaults" and "drop pods". Then it was screaming about "monsters". Then it was just screaming. Then it was silent. Such is life.

better?

>>39330695
>Could just be non-standard marines who like the "ohfuck" factor when they're revved up in the ambush.
that is a valid statement

>>39330696
its fine as is, just telling you for future reference.

>>39330719
> ... the vox started screaming about "orbital assaults" and "drop pods". Then it vas screaming about "monsters". Then it vas just screaming. Then it vas silent. Such is life.

>>39330582
Hmmm. How about a thickly built beast with shoulders like a gorilla and a long neck. It has a mane and antlers. Perhaps they have tails, long, for balance. I suppose I'm imagining something of a daemon ape.

>>39330779
That would work.

>>39330753
A blizzard of blue, white, and bronze that leaves only red in its wake.

>>39330719
Hey I *like* grim russian shit. That was pretty funny though.

>>39330588
>>39330642
anon could I have permission to put this on the wiki page? If so, what would you entitle it? our writefaggotry section could use it

>>39330779
i was thinking about a combination of a gorilla and a lion.
and it has antlers obviously

When a yeti dies, does the marine generally immediately seek out another or get by on snowmobiles and bikes?

>>39330919
Is it just me or would hanging little bells in their hair or antlers be ridiculously creepy. There'd be silence, then the soft tinkling of bells, then bestial roars and death.

>>39329817
Contests where contestants have to carve ice sculptures with chainswords? Or would that be an initiate exercise to teach finesse and control of the chain blade as they control themselves?

>>39331052
They get nothing. Letting your life-companion die in battle is a great dishonour. Old age isnt a problem cause gradually replace what fails with technology

>>39330884
Sure. Not certain about titles

>Angles Shouldn't Have Fangs
>Cold Front
>Verkast's tale
>The fall of Hollengrad

pick one or make a better one

>>39331068
It's just something done for fun. They try to pretend it's a initiate test as a joke. Raising the stakes every time they succeed. Now you gotta do it... blindfolded!

One marine is currently half-way through turning half a mountainside into a giant statue of the Emperor. Not for penance or anything, he just likes it.

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>>39331068
I'd imagine a finesse exercise.

though >>39331130 sounds funnier though otas realistic

>>39331068
Both are brilliant.

>>39331068
I would imagine that though they use less flashy weapons in melee combat, to use anything more precise than a chainsword in sculpting would be a grave offence.

How about they use intense cold to suppress the black rage and red thirst at bay. Thus, their power armor having cryonic features.

>>39331272
It was mentioned last thread that many marines turn off their thermal coils, so used they are to the cold..
So yeah, it sounds pretty neat that to help stave it off a marine will command his suit to chill him or simply stop heating him.
Makes wendigos a bit more creepy if they're also ice cold to the touch. Even off their native planet.

Well done /tg/ I had thought you guys had stopped doing these.

>>39331129
Alrighty its up

>>39331336
Stopped doing them? We haven't even gotten started.

>>39331377
he means threads where we just randomly roll a chapter and fluff them.
>>39331336
They still happen occasionally and are usually full of win when they do

I'm thinking of writefagging up an inquisitorial report,anyone have links to one already that I may draw inspiration and inference from?

>>39331336
Where have you been? We've been doing them for ages now. Heck I think we had one around 4 weeks ago

>>39331373
where?

>>39331394
I know that. I was trying to sound cool.

>>39331425
Our 1d4chan page.>>39331428

>>39328459
>Drilling drop-pod using russian-inuit cyborg vampires riding doped up yetis into battle alongside policemen against the ravenous alien hoards.
Somehow I missed the first thread, but I just want to say that THIS is what 40k is supposed to be about. Not autist-level nitpicking discussions about canon in a franchise that's never really cared about having a consistent canon

>>39331455
It should be mentioned that the link in the OP is technically out of date, it's now
>http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Ice_Wraiths

Spacing and whatnot, going to /Icewraiths gives you an incomplete page.

>>39331537
Hehe my bad guys. Thanks for correcting that one

>>39331572
Don't forget to add the new pics of each marine with thier base Face-color armor

>>39331589
uhhhhhh... so much wooooooooooooork. I got a final tmo and have been doing this instead of studying

>>39331609
sorry, wish I could help, but I can't into wikimagic

>>39331589
Speaking of the face grill variations, I think that was really a nice touch.

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>>39328857
Marine face grills would pretty hard to notice IRL, let alone on the tabletop.

The reason unit patches, rank, insignia and such are put on shoulders, chests, and headgear in modern militaries is because these are places everyone looks and it's hard not to notice them. Somebody's mouth is a hell of a place to recognize what unit they're in.

>>39331673
True, and officers will likely have additional insignia.
But don't forget that every single one of the Astartes has an intuitive and highly intelligent nervous-system linked HUD. They can look at another marine from behind and know their name, rank, what they look like under their helmet and probably request data from the apothecaries on what their favorite brand of protein slop is.
So long the IG can spot the one marine with gold trim and know to shout stuff at him first, they're fine. No need to know the specifics of their heraldry.

>>39331731
Also i think we're trying to make them pretty aloof and mysterious cause they use such unorthodox tactics with the Terror-causing Wendigos so having them all look the same would be disorienting for anyone who didn't know specifically where to look

>>39331673
As for the tabletop, perhaps adding the color as the trim on one shoulder.

>>39331257
Like, they deliberately use a complicated and difficult tool to carve sculptures, because that increases the challenge? Sounds like something Marines would do.
And I could absolutely see >>39331130
marines pulling that as a joke on the initiates.

>>39331731
>>39331673

Also there is the fact of "Keep what you Kill" and each and every marine is going to eventually personalize and swag up their armor with trophies.

>>39331772
or add different swag bits. They basically gonna be as blinged up with gubbinz as an ork

>>39331767
Hmm... detatchable officer insignia? When dealing with the normies, take the magnets out and stick 'em on your helmet. When trying to be legion, striking from outside low visibility, take them off?
They work in ten man squads too, so they generally know who to listen to.

>>39331775
It seems to be a recurring theme with this chapter, doesn't it?

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>>39328459
>>39328525
/tg/, will you cease to amaze me?

Oh, forgot to mention. Added this thread to suptg, a couple clicks would ensure it doesn't disappear from there.

>>39331836
It's cold and dark in the long winter months in the fortress monastery. Gotta amuse yourself somehow.
Yeti polo helps. Ice hockey is just a little too violent.

>>39331836
well, when you live on an Ice Ball where most all you do is hunt beasties, Orks and Tyranids, waiting to get your numbers up and sending detachments to help fight alongside the Arbites, you need to find something to take your mind off of things.

By the by, is there anymore stuff written about the Batman plotline thats goig on?

>>39331895
I don't think so.

>>39331873
It indeed has been a good day on /tg/ for us

>>39331873
Have you anything to contribute, good sir?

This thread is up on suptg now. Link is here
>http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=ice+wraiths
and on the wiki page. Go and vote for it and the last one if you haven't brothers

>>39331272
>>39331315

The use of cryotherapy to hold the Red Thirst at bey is not completely successful. It leads to a condition the Ice Wraiths call "Zamorozhennyye Dusha", or "The Frozen Soul". The predatory hunger of the Red Thirst is still present, but it is tempered by a cold poise. Brothers succumbing to The Frozen Soul will often toy with their targets, spreading fear and confusion in order to better enjoy the panic of their prey. Some have even been known to converse with their prey before killing them.

Such behaviour is often seen even after a brother falls to the Black Rage. The infamous "Wendigos" of the Ice Wraith Chapter are no less savage and murderous than their counterparts in the death companies of other Sanguinary chapters, but they posses a psychotic patience which allows them to act with stealth while still compelling them to hunt their prey. It is only the most far gone of the Wendigo who lapse into the berserker fury the other sons of Sanguinius are known.

>>39331919
>>39331944
I don't think I can. I'm just going to get caught up on everything before I do anything if that's okay.

Do the Ice Wraiths have any artifacts? Any relics of note?
Could be a power sword excalibur or a hanky the emperor used once. But what have they killed and now have?

>>39331985
Why we have the armour and weapons of Riddick of course!!!!!! Unique-looking relic blades and artificier armour that allows for a great range of movement while still offering protection to the wearer

>>39331965
>are known.

are known for.

>>39331965
Ooooh... this is good fluff. The idea of a Wendigo toying with his prey, even letting it get close enough to FEEL the cold radiating off him. Gentle conversation, but always heading towards execution.
Yes. This is metal cyborg vampires. This is the good shit.

>>39331982
Check out the wiki page. it'll pretty much bring you up to speed

>>39331985
Well they seem to be small melee weapon and cryo weapon focused, so...

>>39331985
from the last threat
>Interestingly enough, thier assault marines tend to favor short weapons over the traditional chain weapons and thunder hammers. Each assault marine and Scout carries what can best be described as a power-trenchknife, though combat machetes are also common and Terminators are fond of Chainfists. To an Ice Wraith, close combat should be swift, efficient, and using as little force and energy as possible. The Chapter Master himself uses a pair of curved power blades of odd shape, which he claimed to have made from tusks of an Orc Warboss he killed with his own hands.

>>39332039
We need to get it all on the page.

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>>39332041
Thanks. So far this seems better than what I come up with. Anyway, what do these Beakies think about other chapters? How do they feel about Eldar?

>>39332039
I need to mix in more of the cyborg element. Maybe they also use some form of neural augmentation to channel the Black Rage. Or they replace their blood with a form of autosanguine laced with anti-freeze.

>>39332039
That sounds like Night Lords.

>>39332079
>>39330165

>>39331965
I love it! That's fucking amazing.
I think the Red Wendigos should draw inspiration from the Nightkin of Fallout. Invisible, psychotically broken individuals who whisper their litany in the shadows, the noise echoing throughout the halls and bases of our enemies. They watched, poised to strike, the whispers following their prey as they revel in their fear in an almost euphoric state. Some wendigos enjoy the sight of their prey commiting suicide, whilst others are enraged at their prize being taken from them.

>>39332096
Or they tend to lose bits of themselves to frost bite during their initiations, so they often have a hand or foot replaced with bionics. A brother who gets in without losing at least a couple of toes is considered bad luck.

>>39332122
Oh. Can't believe I missed that. He missed Raven Guard.

Where does terminator armor come into this, if at all?

>>39332137
And they are kept in cryo, like Eversor assassins, until they are unleashed upon the enemy.

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>>39331985
The First High Marshal Riddick was well known for using a pair of small handblades, which he made from ripping ot the tusks of an Ork Warboss a,d beating him to death with his bare hands. These blades have been passed from one Riddick to the next as a sign of the office.

Because of the Keep what you Kill philosophy each Riddick ends up introducing a new relic for the chapter with each successful crusade, whether the weaon was earned and weilded a a Riddick themselves, or was used by a brother of distinction in a particularly impressive battle.

Because of the need for many Ice Wraiths to constantly decorate and build upon their weapons, when they die thier gear is often entombed within a great subterranian armory and displayed in a manner as a form of ancestral respect and remembrance fr the accomplishments of thier predecessors.

It is very rare for any new Ice wraith to take upon themselves the weaponof a previous warrior. You keep what you kill, even in death, and all Ice Wraiths understand this and respectfully choose to build thier own legacy than borrow power from another.

You keep what you kill.

>>39332096
They love to cyborg up thier mounts, and being Orbital Drop specialists, then tend to need to replace a few parts every now and again. Some warriors who love a bodypart fighting a great foe will often either take that foe's arm or weapon and choose to have it grafted on.

>>39332157
I'd imagine they have great respect for each other due to similar ways in which they work.

>>39331965
>>39332039
>>39332137
How's this?

Master of the Forge Ivan:
The current Master of the Forge, Ivan is a technical savant even among a fairly technophilic chapter. He recently completely overhauled his personal wargear and armour to be more melee focused which only fueled the rumours that he has fallen to the Wendigo Curse. The Forgemaster himself seems to be spending an unhealthy amount time trying to see if cryothium can halt or reverse the effects of the curse.

>>39332187
I have a feeling that you might be right.

>>39332167
The Terminator formations of the Ice Wraiths are best known for their "winter storm" tactic. This involves deploying cryothuim grenades to freeze their enemies enmass and then smashing them to pieces with thunder hammers.

>>39332171
Exactly. Either they return and are "put on ice" until next they're needed. Or they go full psychotic break and destroy their target, and everyone in a 20mile radius. In which case, they died in battle, on their feet. Keep what you take, your honour is yours today Wendigo.

>>39332210
Go back to the last thread.
His name was Chekhov, the Forge Master who when he's not locking himself in the forge he's being launched from a cannon. This maneuver is called Chekhov's Gun.

>>39332079
Eldar? Xenos. Purge. Admittedly on the lower priority of xenos to purge. Gotta get the tyranids and orks first, they breed faster. Tau? ...who? Oh yeah. The Ultramarine's pet xeno crusade.

Other Chapters... >>39330165 hits a lot of the right notes.
We're the "Snowflakes" to a lot of chapters. One measly fuzzy tyranid encursion? Okay they know that there are actual reasons, but there's not a ton of respect around. Quite a small Chapter, known for assisting the cause of cooling systems more than military honors.. we're not exactly the Ultras over here.
Still, the 'manders and a few others like the Iron Hands like us. And Deathwatch loves someone who lives for xeno hunting and brings their own blades.
In fact for a Wraith, standard tyranids are seen as "naked" and a bit too squishy. Too fragile. Of course, other hive fleets make up for that in sheer numbers compared to Mi-Go's behemoths. But someone who will complain that the tyranids die too easily is someone Deathwatch will like.

>>39331836
True. Similar to the Royal Navy, when you've got a bunch of people living in close confines with minimal contact with the outside world, everybody tries to get along ,not hold grudges, and indulges in occasional tomfoolery to pass the time.

Do you think the Wraiths sing? Or do they try to sing and accidentally terrify the Orks with disembodied voices wailing on the wind? Add a little more to the Wendigo mythos.

>>39332210
>The Forgemaster himself seems to be spending an unhealthy amount time trying to see if cryothium can halt or reverse the effects of the curse.

A sure sign of "kholodno zavisimost" or "cold addiction", a common affliction of the Ice Wraiths falling to the Wendigo curse.

>>39332249
kek. Changing that right now
>>39332187
added to the Wiki under "You keep what you kill"

>>39332102
There's only so many ways to be a vampire.

>>39332210
Brother Ivan is just some crazy guy that tends to think a bit too much out of the box, like that one time he sawed of his cryothrower, effectivly turning it into a flash freeze shotgun

Lector is the Forgemaster

>>39332249
>This maneuver is called Chekhov's Gun.

kek, still a better name than "steel rain"

>>39332267
They sing their battle theme acapella.

>>39332293
Hymn, sorry.

>>39332256
Kek.
>>39332281
But NLs aren't vampiric. This thread is making me think of this one chapter I made called the Tundra Talons.

>>39332249
Oddly enough, Chekhov refuses to use actual guns. Blades, explosives.. all good.
It's thought that the day Chekhov actually picks up a gun and fires it is the day the Chapter will fall because nothing less than that would have compelled him.

>>39332210
love it

>>39332282
You see ivan, when hold boolter like me, you shall never shoot the inaccurate for fear of shooting fingers!

Ivan is the epitome of russian engineering and apparent madness among the Wraiths.

>>39332187
But then with the "Keep what you Kill" view, how does the Chapter prevent all these weapons from just building up over the centuries?

Perhaps there's a doctrinal need clause, like if the chapter is threatened with annihilation or a true, deep need arises, every battle-brother, initiate, and chapter serf goes into the armory and takes up a Relic Weapon. Imagine, a thousand Marines and assorted humans suddenly going from relatively standard armament to balls-out insane level of unusual weapons and ancient relics all over the place, re-sanctifiing the Chapter's legacy in the blood of their enemies?

Sort of a Helm's Deep type of scenario: "Every man who can wield a weapon has been sent to the armory my lord."

>>39332384
"You keep what you kill" Applies more to trophies and personalized weapons. Standard stuff like bolters and power armour are passed down through the ages but when a marine is buried it is recorded on a purity seal in his grave what wargear he used

>>39332384
its only the weapons of the Riddick that are beeing kept as artifacts, and we're only up to the XXII
so the armory is actually quite small currently

>>39332364
>>39332384
I think Sanginius would drop his teacup during his tea party with Ferrus and Curze if he took a moment to see these marines.

>>39332384
I kind of like it. You can't "keep" it, but you can break a battle brother's relic out of the armory and give him a few more kills.
Thing is though, you can't keep anything from kills attributed to the wargear you took. It's not your kill.

>>39332423
I like this, standard gear is recorded but not kept. After all I suppose, he didn't kill for his Chapter-issued bolter. True relics and personal affects are.

Makes me wonder if the Chapter goes on ork and csm raids to obtain new trophies. Once they've been soothed and purified by techpriests of course.

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Any ideas about Dreadnoughts? How the various Ice Wraiths might look upon box-dom or any special shtick? Maybe they just shove the Dreads into the side of a glacier and plant flags with beacons to mark the position, then dig them out when needed?

>>39332468
Hi dad! We killed like, AAAAAALLLLL the aliens and wore their skulls as hats after ate them! Do you like the drawings we made on the skulls? This one has me punching a daemon in the FACE!
Dad? Why are you looking at me like that? Am I too cold again?

>>39332490
Given the insanity of this chapter, they are bound to do something crazy.

Ok Brother Ivan is now officially in the chapter Heroes list

>Brother Ivan
Known for his lateral thinking and unorthodox methodology as well as thick native accent, Brother Ivan often creates insane combinations of weapons and armour out of ordinary materials and other weapons and armour. Attached to the command Squad of Captain Alexandrovich more to keep an eye on him than any other reason, Ivan's creations and ideas are usually prefaced by the words "You see brothers, when Ivan..."

>>39332502
That's the charm of the Ice Wraiths.

>>39332496
>Son, I don't know what to say.
>You're all good boys.

>>39332469
That's a good idea, a continuation of the "even in death I still serve" concept. Earning kills from beyond the grave, and aided by those who carry the spirit of the chapter forward. I can see this working quite well.

I doubt the Wraiths explicitly go on raids to gain trophy, but if they're fighting and they see an enemy commander with some horns that would make a good spear or a defiled Land Raider, they might make an extra effort to kill the previous owners with minimal damage to the artifact in question. As in: "Forward brothers, I shall kill that traitor with his own helmet or my name's not Riddick XIV!"

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>>39332364
>image related

>>39332490
Half the time, they're still covered in ice as they attack.
Since they can't melt out of sight like normal wraith marines, they half bury themselves and jump out at anyone who gets too close like a goddamn trapdoor spider with guns and freeze rays.

>>39332534
Maybe they plant Dreadnoughts into glaciers on ice worlds as a form of mines so when filthy Eldar try using camouflage to blend with snow, they regret hiding near the glacier when a dread pops out of it?

>>39332490
guys
what if
the dreanaughts
are the ice sculptures the marine makes during his initiation?

they're are just the alpha print, if a wraith gets boxed, a negative will be made of the sculpture, the tech bits and the wraith placed, and then water and cryothium will be poured in.
once its solidified the ice golem gets activated to once again slaughter prey on the battlefield

>>39332591
>dreadnought frozen soul
"Well well boys, you made a right old mistake didn't you? See, that campfire warms my old heart... I froze my heart you see, so I would stop doing what I'm about to do. Well no, that's a lie. I froze it so I'd stop enjoying what I'm about to enjoy doing..."

>>39332594
In that case I'm worried about the guy making the giant Emperor statue.

>>39332594
This... This could actually work.

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>>39332496
such is life.

>>39332490
I'd imagine that they aren't too common, given that if they don't die in battle then the Black Rage takes them.

The few Dreads that they have are, which is probably about only three, they tend to be more gubbinzed up than a Warboss on a Forge World.

Also they usualy have one arm with a Freezer. the other and is usually either a giant knife, or some other wierd thing they earned.

Such as Honorable Dreadaught Tepes, who has a giant spear made up of a dozen Eldar Weapons welded together in honor of his glorious victory over the Eldar before succumbing to their number before being put in the Dreadnaught. Whenever h gets awaken for duty, he finds a placeto hide before springing out and going on an "impalement spree"

also >>39332571 is ofs having idea.

>>39332594
we already stated the Ice sculptor thing is a joke, they probably stop them half way when they are finished with their laughs.

>>39332384
"Keep what you kill" originally meant you were entitled to the property and social status of whoever you killed. For space marines this would mean a license to take trophies from enemies they've slain, and possibly indicate you could only claim the weapons of a fallen battle brother if you killed the enemy who slew Them. Thus, the weapons and armor of Riddick XII may only be wielded by the marine who successfully hunts down and executes Korraletch, the Dark Eldar Haemonculus who slew the twelf Riddick with a poisoned blade.

This would also mean promotions can be based on being able to take out the enemy which had killed the prior occupant of a position. So if you slay the 'nid lictor which killed your sargeant, then you become the new sargeant.

"Keep what you kill" in this sense leads to the Ice Wraiths being obsessed with vendettas against particularly dangerous foes. These "blood hunts" can take decades or centuries and span hundreds or thousands of light years.

>>39332594
I like the ice dreadnought idea. Helps make the chapter unique in a way.

>>39332701
>Helps make the chapter unique in a way
like we weren't already?

>>39332695
oooooooohhhhhh...
I like this one

>>39332645
I love it. But I wouldn't be worry about a marine making an Emperor statue for his dreadnaught. Just worry if he makes a tri-beam like dread that has a freeze ray, flamer, and assault cannon on one arm.

>>39332591
>>39332571
Loving these ideas for the Dreads. Just buried all over the planet at strategic sites and woken up with a coded signal that starts warming up the sarcophagus to wake the Marine inside up. The:
"SUPRISE FOUL XENOS, IT IS I, ANCIENT PUSHKIN!"

>>39332645
Also the danger that a rare Dread doesn't go entirely to sleep or something goes wrong and when his battle brothers come to put him back in the glacier, he goes all Frozen Soul. Maybe there's a wandering solitary Frozen Dreadnought that the Chapter is constantly trying to hunt down, a game of cat-and-mouse?

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>meanwhile, with the Ice Wraith Techmarines

>>39332695
This is an awesome idea! Kinda Dark Souls-ish.

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>>39332712
It also means that a Marine who has to give his Brother the Emperor's Peace inherits his vendettas and obligations.

>>39332695
I'd say the promotion side of things certainly helps, but it's not going to guarentee anything.
If the chapter serf manages to near-accidentally kill the daemon that killed the first company captain, he's still a serf.
Admittedly a serf who has a goddamn daemon trophy and can probably relax back at the fortress with the admiration of the entire planet of normies and some marines.

>>39332714
"MWAHAHAHA! I AM MECHA-EMPEROR NOW!"
>get down from there petyr, you're ridiculous
"BOW DOWN, PUNY XENOS!"
>throne damn it this is probably heresy. get down before an inquisitor notices or something
"BITCH YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO, I'M THE EMPEROR NOW"
>i fucking knew this would happen.

>>39332761
Goddamnit Ivan. That shouldn't work. Why does it work? - Every techpriest

>>39332774
Well if you don't, what are you saying about your brother and yourself?
Only the big stuff mind. Like trophies. You don't inherit his library fines or that time he lent someone a spare cryo flask.

>>39332747
I think the IWs would like that idea.
>>39332777
Petyr has gone mad.

>>39332761
Brother Grigori, check this out, we dared Ivan to lick the tank and his tounge got frozen stuck
Techpriest Lector is already preparing a new mechanical tounge

>>39332777
>I'd say the promotion side of things certainly helps, but it's not going to guarentee anything.
>If the chapter serf manages to near-accidentally kill the daemon that killed the first company captain, he's still a serf.
>Admittedly a serf who has a goddamn daemon trophy and can probably relax back at the fortress with the admiration of the entire planet of normies and some marines.

Right, it's understood that he won great honor for himself and the chapter by that kill.

>>39328459
Red Wendigoes

90pnts
WS BS S T A W I Sv
5 3 4 4 2 1 5 4+
5 3 4 4 3 2 5 4+ (Sergeant)

Unit Composition
4 Red Wendigoes and a Red Wendigo sergeant

Wargear:
Wendigo Armor
Two Close Combat Weapons

Special Rules:
Fearless
Rage
Furious Charge
Crusader

Wendigo Armor:
Grants shrouded.

May purchase up to 15 more Red Wendigoes for 18pnts/each.

Red Wendigos may replace their close combat weapons with Power Swords for +10pnts a model
Red Wendigos may replace their close combat weapons with Lightning Claws for +15pnts a model.

>>39332810
Such is life in Nixarteria

>>39332801
No but you become responsible for caring for his serfs, fulfilling his oaths of moment, returning his wargear to the chapter, and tending to any other matters of honor he left outstanding.

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>>39332777
I'm imagining the local tech priests being something like this with fuzzy cloaks and a tendency towards ice puns. It got old after the first thousand years so now all the Marines just ignore them

>>39332846
A few hundred years in, it's said, a techmarine came up with a new ice pun that had the entire fortress in giggles for a week.
Strange thing, that techpriest ended up a magos.

It's tradition now for the priests to try and think up an as-yet unheard of pun. Several millennium later, no luck. And a couple very bored marines.

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>>39332846
But do they have the STC for chainsaw faces?

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>see filename

>>39332950
Who the fuck let Ivan talk to the wendigos again?
And who put a piano there? Looking at you Petyr. Crazy dreadnought..

>>39332950
They're musicians?! Their flaw grants them musical talent?!

>>39332998
Distracting yourself with art does help to resist the red and black urges.
Ice sculpture, litanies, scrimshaw, music.. they're all good. Except maybe cookery.

>>39332998
Their Chapter Hymn is sung in A Capella go back to near beginning of thread.

They probably have good practice with ominous throat sound.

>>39333034
Isn't that what one chapter did until the Changling tricked them?

>>39333043
So we have loyalist Noise Marines?

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I know we're not supposed to speak the names of the ones turned into wendigos, but I still remember the day it happened to Brother Ivan (Sr.)
No matter how hardwe tried, we did not manage to rid him of his many "inventions" so we ended up flash freezing him with them. we obviously needed a bigger drop pod then usual..
We discovered a moon circling a planet close to our own home planet, completely infested by the tyranids. this was the day we decided to droped ivan. er had to go in quickly, so ivan only droped about 3 hours earlier so he had time do defrost and become active
never would I have imagined it would be the easiest workday of our lives.

>>39333043
Oh holy shit, you just reminded me of something perfect. Wardruna.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz3O0JftA5w
They can do some creepy shit. And just plain appropriate music that fits the planet and culture.

>>39333074
Nah, Wendigos are just good at being super spoopy

>>39333115
I mean seriously, does this not sound like an average day in the Wraith's chapel?
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbgvgk50e94

Hell, the Ice Wraiths could well be known for their non-Gothic war songs before a big fight.

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>>39333135
I'm now imaging a squad of Wendigos giving someone an experience equal to pic related.

>>39333176
>they are immediately purged for obvious Chaos worship

>>39333176
I can see some sadistic frozen souls doing that.

>>39333202
A barbershop quartet consisting solely of wendigos.

>>39333159
Fuck it. One final one because Wardruna just fucking fits.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwAr6ciwoUg

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>>39333197
They're just giving an enemy of the Emperor torment in this life to prepare them for eternal torment in the next one.
>>39333202
>>39333220
THE RIDE NEVER ENDS!

>>39333159
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz3O0JftA5w
Even during. It could flood the voxes, whispered threats in the wind. Rattles and chanting and then the marines strike through the icy fog.

>>39332774
Last thread I made a post that said stuff to the effect that if you burn something, you're not killing it but removing all other ownership but that of the Emperor and thus offering it up.
Understandably didn't catch on. But if true, then if you give the Emperor's peace by fire, you're instead giving him up to the Emperor.
Maybe all marines carry a single incendiary explosive to immolate themselves and avoid weighing down their brothers.
Actually taking on a brother's debts is a mark of no homo affection and honor.

>>39333364
Helvegen is probably the most appropriate for the Chapter in both sound and translated lyrics. Try that song.

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Well, I gotta sleep for tonight.

Here have this as a goodnight gift

>>39333525
I better see that on the 1d4chan page this time tomorrow.

>>39333500
Or taking on a brothers honor debts is a vital part of freeing his soul to enter the Emperor's service. The fallen brother is unbound from mortal concerns and thus his soul's honor and duty belong only to the Emperor thereafter. Ice Wraiths may fear that a spirit still bound by honor debts may be trapped in this world and will haunt the living until the debt is expunged.

>>39333749
That would make for the coolest game of Pajama
Sam.

>>39333749
This really works with the honour the ancestors thing we have.

>>39333622
There you go

>>39333749
Great idea.

Bump for the Emperor.

A bump for lord marshal Riddick.

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Bump.

>>39335563
Ack, sorry, on phone.

I COME BACK FROM A SHITTY NIGHT, STILL HALFWAY IN PYJAMAS, I CHECK THE OLD THREAD AND I SEE YOU CHUCKLES MAKING ANOTHER ONE.

I AM SO HAPPY.

>>39337356
Do you like Forge Master Chekhov?

>>39337356
>I CHECK THE OLD THREAD AND I SEE YOU CHUCKLES MAKING ANOTHER ONE

Lucky bastard, my threads never get this kind of attention. How much for lessons?

>>39335751
oh.. thought you lived in Australia for a sec.

>>39337410
YES.

ESPECIALLY THE EVERYTHING PART.

>>39337449
I ACTUALLY JUST GOT LUCKY WITH THE ROLLS THESE ALL ANONS ARE WHAT MADE THE THREAD AND SHOULD GET THE BOON FOR IT, NOT ME.

>>39332747
The wind was cold and the snow was deep, but Brother Prokop could only feel the warmth of his blood trickling down his side. For hours he had walked, his left leg stiff as the Dreadnought's attack had splintered the servos and artificial musculature that allowed it move freely. Nine other brothers had accompanied him, ten souls dancing across the ice as they hunted the Wendigo-in-Iron, laughing and brave. He had hunted before, a perfunctory task to track the beast once a man until its engines might die and the corpse brought back for burial with honors. He would hunt again, without mercy or restraint and mark his face with blood hard earned.

His head pounded loud enough to drown out the wind as he lurched along. His pack was torn open, its generator useless; soon the batteries would run out and his body would be as stiff as his leg. A cough brought more blood to fall from his wounds but no warmth. The beast killed Fyodor first, erupting from a snowbank and rending him in twain with its claws. Then fell Ygor, doused in freezing liquid and armor shattered to die naked in the snow. Artur died next, crushed underfoot. Why was he on the ground? Makar tired to shoot it, but...was it Makar or Oleg? Was Oleg there? Brother Prokop stopped and shook his head, the helmet turning slowly as the armor's powered ebbed and his vision dimmed. He was no longer cold.

>>39337788
Hands no longer shaking, he removed his helmet and dropped it, leaving it behind as he staggered onward. The shelter was somewhere ahead of him; he was sure of it, as long as he kept moving forward. He would rest and eat then gather weapons and fell the beast, reciting his brother's names. He didn't look back. He could hear it over the wind, ever since he ran fast into the fog. He had heard that some of the Wendigo liked to taunt their prey, to play with it like a child torturing a bug. Laughter escaped his cracked and bleeding lips, how boring this beast, who only followed behind him and watched. Coming to a stop, he closed his eyes and fell forward, faintly trying to crawl before giving up. The roar was deafening now.

Turning on his back he saw the ice encrusted beast, the Wendigo-in-Iron who wore his cage like armor. Weakly he tried to reach upwards, to grasp it, to fight. His dim thoughts turning only to violence and bloodshed, to avenge the comrades his tongue no longer could name, to consume the beast and take from it the souls and courage of those it had killed. His arm dropped to his side and all that was left was the gurgling in his throat as the world turned indistinct. And in the back of his mind, a memory long forgotten of a warm hearth and wise elders accompanied him into the dark.

"To see the Wendigo is to become the Wendigo."

Wendigo Librarians, anyone?

>>39337873
They've already been mentioned.

>>39337516
Oh hey OP. What's up?

>>39338166
Hey Pagefag, how much stuff do we have on Nixarteria and its culture?

>>39338199
We have some stuff about the planet itself but not a whole lot about anything on itri

>>39338210
It right now. Jesus mobile sucks

>>39338166
NOT WHOLE LOT, DOING HOMEWORK N SHIT. HOW ABOUT YOURSELF FELLOW TRIP+NAMEFAG?

>>39338210
What exactly do we need to write up?

>>39338225
Just on a train. Going to take a final. That I haven't studied for. I blame all of you. That's ok though.

>>39338226
Well anything that we've come up with regarding the human cultures of the planet isn't there, as well as most details about stuff that isn't directly involved with the Wraiths themselves. I'm thinking of editing the page later and giving the planet and chapter history/traditions their own sections. I also need to upload the different armour schemes and whatnot

>>39338246
How populated is the planet? We're going with strong Russian vibe and Russia is fairly empty, especially once you get past the Urals.

>>39338292
We were thinking pretty sparsely. Inuit-like nomads for the most part, with maybe 1 permanent settlement that cropped up inside the glacier where the fortress monastery is

>>39338299
I think maybe a few permanent settlements, mostly just Ice Wraith outposts populated by chapter serfs and the occasional nomad camp. If for no other reason than to have trans-Siberian railway-esque scenarios.

>>39338292
We figured native population is sparse, with inuit-like culture, while fortress monastery is rather more Russian-themed with Inuit undertones

>>39338338
That could be interesting, however I remember the "emperor's nightmare" chapter that has a bajillion pages on having a similar vein

>>39338363
Could be, I didn't really check their fluff beyond a cursory glance. I'll do it now.

>>39338376
What if we did tunnels? We already have a vampire/subterranean thing going, we could have tunnel networks that connect the various outposts of the planet under the ice

>>39338376
fuck me, that's a lot of writefaggotry. That's tl;dr for me right now - please sum up what I have to avoid

>>39338381
Tunnels as in Tibetans tunnelling under the world, Good Omens-like? All right, I'll think about it

>>39338394
Yeah tunnels and passages would be cool. As for the nightmare thing I think their homeworld has like a massive railway guild and noble/trade houses with railway being the primary mode of transport across the planet between hives

>>39338394
Massive caravans heading deep underground to bypass blizzards. Fuel, food, and energy carefully rationed as they crawl through freezing, danger infested tunnels. Entire tribes wiped out by claustrophobia and paranoia turning them against each when supplies got low.

>>39338422
So the whole population lives underground? We need to scrap low-tech approach to the natives in this case, you won't dig tunnels in sub-zero temperatures with primitive tools

>>39338432
No no the caves are a means of transport for the chapter. The nomads primarily live above ground it would be off-worlders or hivers that use the tunnels

>>39338422
>>39338432
The nomads should fear the tunnels as full of monsters (wendigos and yetis and marines)

>>39338443
That's better. Do we have a Fortress-Monastery, or we rather take the decentralised approach with separate crypts/outposts? I'd rather like to go with gothic horror theme tunnel-wise, it tickles my fancy

>>39338432
No, the tunnels are built by the Ice Wraiths for their own purposes to connect their outposts without having to deal with the issues of the surface on transport. The natives use them when things get to rough outside, but it's very risky as animals, including leftover 'Nids, live in the tunnels, access points are few and far between and are difficult to open, the IW will kick them out if they're impeding tunnel usage, and automated supply trains have no issues with barreling through a group of people at 100kph.

>>39338472
There is a Fortress-Monastery. There are also outposts.

>>39338472
Go back to first thread and search for monastery. Its basically if Castlevania were covered in a three meter layer of ice>>39338492

>>39338492
What about Wendigos sleeping around in crypts/stasis chambers here and there in the tunnels? It could create some spooky legends about unwitting fools stumbling into them.

>>39338531
Why would you stick Wendigos in random places in the tunnels?

>>39338522
ahh, right. I was preoccupied with the colour scheme, I missed that

>>39338534
I mean half-forgotten repositories (only visited by Chaplains) in the constantly changing castle/fortress layout being accessible from the tunnels, not purposefully drilling holes and sticking people in them

Welp I gotta go try to scrape together a passing grade on this final, so I'll see you gents later this afternoon (here anyway). I'll add whatever we come up with to the page when I rejoin you. Emperor be with you brothers

Do the IW Techmarines have any...Specialized modifications?

>>39332274
Ivan is guy who invented campfire made of ice
Why? Nobody knows

>>39339885
Ivan was originally a member of a branch of the Ice Wraiths designed explicitly to combat orks, to fight the greenskins these marines where created to think like them, but all but one of them were killed when their cryopods malfunctioned, the last one was Ivan.

Alright, we should probably get cracking on the symbol, don't we?
So far, the suggestions i've seen are a Blood drop in a snowflake, a fanged deer skull, and a fanged deerskull in front of a snowflake. Possibly with wings as horns, but that was decided to make it to busy.

Day 73

We’ve been fighting these filthy greenskins for what feels like forever now.
No matter how many we shoot, there always seem more coming.
We managed to retreat into what seems like an abandoned fortress behind a mountain passage. The choke point is at least helping us to stop the Orks advancing onto our position. I do fear however what will happen if they do find a way to finally breach our defenses. Some of the men have been trying to get an old distress beacon working again. They say they managed to send a short message before the thing went up in smoke.
May the Emperor guide us through this darkness.

>>39340431
Day 74

I slept uneasy this night, it was if though the ground was trembling, almost like Orks managed to get through the passage and run wild in the fortress. No screams though, so this couldn’t be the case. Dark clouds are building on the horizon. It seems as though even the planet itself is now working against us. Could these be the final days?

>>39340447
Day 75

The dark clouds have enveloped the entire sky, and a thick blanket of snow the ground. This seems to not only confuse us, but also the Orks as some of the men reported that they stopped advancing onto our position.
There is talk about us trying to attack and slaughter as many of the greenskins as long as they’re still confused.

>>39340458
Day 76

I have seen something. Something I believed was impossible. Something I didn't even dared to dream about.
We went through the mountain pass and discovered an empty Ork camp. Wondering where they could have went, me and some men scouted ahead. And there we saw it.
It was an Ork, a single one, but something was different about him.
These shivers, the way he was rubbing his arms, it wasn't because he was cold and tried to warm himself up, it was something I have never seen an Ork do.
He... was scarred.
He seemed to be running and trying to hide from something.
It was then I noticed a deep dark humming. A gust of wind carrying a lot of snow engulfed the Ork. All I could see through the snow was a faint red glow. As it finally settled, the Ork was ripped in half, the corpse completely frozen over.
The humming got louder, and seemed to be originating from behind us.
Through the blizzard that was becoming stronger a voice told us to get of this planet as long as fast as we possibly could. Without questioning I ran back to the fortress to tell the others.
But they wouldn't believe me, they said leaving this post would be heresy and that we should fight till our last breath.
Was it really just my mind playing tricks on me?

>>39340340
im voting blood drop on a snowlake or pic related

>>39340478
Where's the pic?

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>>39340478
and by pic related ive meant

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here is a something I made
havent used photoshop since collage so this didnt quite come out the way i wanted it to

>>39340812
Too complicated. Maybe remove the splatter and have two droplets come off the flake's tips?

Ok I'm baaaack
>>39340812
I like this.

>Transmission Recieved
>Authenticating...
>...
>Clearance level authenticated
>...
>Administratum Planetary Report: 4e697861727465726961 (Nixarteria)
>Security Level: Orange -If you are viewing this document without sufficient clearance, report to your superiors IMMEDIATELY-
>Planetary Designation: Phi Lambda (Feral), Ice
>Additional classifications (if any): Astartes Chapter Homeworld (Ice Wraiths)
>Imperial Tithe level: Solutio Nil, (Astartes fiefdom)
>Threat level: High (Xeno, Tyranid) NOTE: Resident Chapter currently suppressing xeno presence. Guard or Deathwatch reinforcements may be required in the future.
>...
>Description begins, report by Plenius Malnan
Nixarteria is a planet of bitter cold, orbiting it's star on one of the widest orbits in the Imperium that still permits human survival without climate controlled buildings and can be easily used as a dramatic example of a complete Ice World.
The planet is covered in numerous Minor Biomes of varying temperature and hostility, notably the large mountain ring known locally as the "Ring of Paradise" contains temperatures and greenery more suited to temperate Imperial planets than the rest of the Ice World and the "Daemon's Chasm" (Local name only, no Chaos incursions have been reported in millenia), a massive undergound cavern that contains a unique ecosystem largely involving fungi. The majority of the planet however can be divided into three Major Biomes.

>>39340977
The two poles are best known as the Wastes, due to the surface of ice and snow being regularly blasted with intense snowstorms that drive even the hardy local wildlife away. The largest native lifeform in the Wastes are small rodent-like creatures that burrow under the surface. The polar wastes contain both the resident Astartes Chapter on the Northern pole and the entrenched foullness of the xeno incursion on the Southern pole. During the summer months, both forces emerge from their fortresses to wage war over the surface of the planet before retreating in the winter months where warfare is near impossible to conduct with any strategy. Underground however, both sides create and maintain twisting tunnels through ice and snow to quickly travel out of sight and weather, the non-uniform nature of the tunnels serving to disorient the opposing force. Tunnel skirmishes, unlike surface battles, continue all year round. During my inspection I heard the sound of distant battle before I was escorted to safer tunnels.

>>39340988
Closer to the equator are the two halves of the vast Tundra biome, where the short hardy plantlife grows between the rocky surface of the planet. The infamous "Yeti" xeno mounts of the Ice Wraiths are to be found here, eating the vegetation or occasionally scavenging from corpses who fell to cold or predators. A few sites in this biome have been marked for possible mining efforts should the planet rise to a higher classification and Imperial industry efforts can begin. Some travelling feral Clans travel from sites of interest within this biome, occasionally making aspirant tithes difficult.
At the equatoral band lies a dense Taiga-like forest. The majority of Nixarteria's human population and the larger Clans reside here. There are plenty of local names for the forest involving local superstition and spirits. An unfortunate failing of many feral worlders. "The Spirit Forest", "Worldforest" and "Forest of the Stars" are the closest Gothic translations of the most common names. I was informed by my Astartes escorts that fighting is often extremely close quarters and sudden here, as the noble protectors attempt to prevent any biomass from being devoured by the repulsive xeno behemoths. A local legend mentioned a tyranid of monstrous size who would devour the largest trees within seconds. Presumably exaggeration by the natives, however to hold off complete destruction on a homeworld of our beloved Emperor's angels of death speaks to the xeno's resiliance if nothing else.

>>39341000
>Local Governance Description begins, report by Plenius Malnan
Rule regarding the various Nixarterian "Clans of Men" is held entirely by the Ice Wraith Chapter Master and Lord Marshall Riddick XXI at the time of this recording. The foresight and intelligence of the local citizenry simply lacking to allow local governance at a major level. Great Clan Meets are held every major lunar year (Approximately 50 Terran years) where any major planet-wide decisions are made by the Chapter Master and his advisors. Many aspirants are often gathered at this time, however at every minor lunar year (10 Terran Years) the Chapter will seek out aspirants at traditional meeting sites. Minor inter-Clan disputes may also be resolved by the Astartes at this point. The trials the Chapter then puts their initiates through are, of course, private to the Chapter. Any logs or documents involving such can only be pursued at their Fortress-Monastery.
The only well-known Rite is the Yeti Capture, where an initiate must locate and bend one of the local xeno lifeforms to his authority. The Yeti then becomes the initiate and later marine's mount and companion upon some form of technological augmentation.

>>39341020
And that's all I got. Should have mentioned the tunnel tribes in the polar wastes and probably a whole ton of other stuff, but I forgot.

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>>39340853
>>39340812
i was missing the outlines...
anyways, looks much better now

>>39341070
Now that's something I can see on a pauldron. The blood drop denotes lineage, The ice is goddamn ice and everyone likes skulls in the Imperium.

>>39341070
make blood drops smaller and we have heraldy

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>>39341119
now with 100% more transparent background

>>39341070
Seems a tad overcomplicated, its much more silly compared to our forbares. Give me a second And I have a simpler one.

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>>39341181
Beautiful. This chapter is one of /tg/'s best works.

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Armor anon here. This is my version, though you may not like it.

Also its hard to find a good Blood Angel blood drop to crop.

>>39341213
And will propably be forgotten just like Emperors Nightmares and Reasonable Marines(or whatever was their chapter called)

>>39341181
This. So much this

>>39341243
They were called "The Knights Inductor" if I recall.
Also I liked the Emperor's Nightmares, and the reason no one talks about the Reasonables is because people see them as mary sues.

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>>39341243
Knights Inductor. And you're probably right but I'll remember it.

>>39341243
I still like the Conservators, Greyskulls and Nightmares.
The Reasonable are just a tad TOO reasonable for 40k though I admit. Need to be more pointlessly metal.

>>39341263
I see them as mary sues too,but Nightmares were good and forgotten. They had own heraldy,own organisation and tons of writefaggotery, i think even more then angry marines.
We musnt forget the Wraiths

>>39341323
They need to be an option for the Chapter Master game like the Nightmares.

Now I want to see a Deathwatch squad with all-/tg/ Chapters. Joke-Chapters aside.
Nightmare, Wraith, Conservator, Inductor... who else we got?

>>39341323
What matters is not if others don't remember.

What matters is that we keep them in our hearts, and find joy in the process of making them.

So long as they are within our hearts, even if their names are never spoken again, then they will have never died.

Also we can bug Blazboros for drawfaggotry, He did art for the Nightmares, so he might enjoy doing the Wraiths as well.

>>39341393
Blood Jaguars, I can see them and the Ice Wraiths hangin out together.

>>39341393
Knights Repentin or something like that.

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>>39341407
Dangit, forgot my pic

We dont even have "official" color scheme.
This one on 1d4chan is for Blood Wendigos.
We still havent decided what our insignia be like
I vote for>>39341274