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IMPERFECT SCIENCE

It feels like war is all that ace mech pilot Maris Keigh has ever known. One of the only constants she can cling to in a life defined violence and chaos are her post-sortie check-ups — and the technician who conducts them…

Trazyn looks couple millennia younger

Tzeentchie Orikan is still a birb

FISTS YOU

My headworld is a sort of alternate earth. Its evolutionary line followed very similar branches(reptiles, mammals, birds, etc), but with twists here and there. A major one being that all vertebrates after fish came from a common hexapodal ancestor.

Although most lost the third limb pair in favor of easier locomotion, some lines still retained them and adapted those limbs to specific functions. In this example, a clade of omnivorous felinid animals adapted for climbing and foraging, using its highly specialized third limb pair to climb as they pick food such as fruits and insects.

Over time their climbing limbs would also be adapted for gliding, which allows the animal to chase after small prey and also make a quick escape from predators. The skin membranes are supported by cartilaginous structures they can fold, similar to a pterosaur's wings.

That's the basic idea of how dragons would come to evolve in my headworld. These animals would gradually adapt their arms further into bat wings and develop powered flight. And for extra context, in this world true dragons are mammalian, while winged reptiles are considered false dragons.

There is truly something bitterly comedic of how GW rolls out the introduction, in lore, for what are meant to be in-universe terrifying foes. Much like Magnus and Mortarion, who returned only to instantly lose, the Norn Emissaries have the same fate.

Billed as the most dangerous and terrifying new creatures of the Hivefleet, the Nor Emissaries featured prominently in the 10th Edition's roll out lore, as both the key antagonists of the Campaign book for the Fourth Tyrannic War and as the key foes of the tie-in novel Leviathen.

Thus, we have the dramatic first appearance of the Norn Emissaries, these most devastating new evolutions of the Hivemind, which go on to IMMEDIATELY lost all their engagements.