PGMason said:
I've never seen the downside to 'fluff' personally - I see it as the contrast to 'cruch' - which is the mechanical side of things. Both are important, and which is more so depends on context.
'Lore' I find to be slightly infantile. It sets my teeth on edge in the same way that medieval dialogue spoken with an American accent does. (It doesn't work, as clearly everyone in the middle ages talked like a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company). Completely arbitrary and ridiculous I know but it's a personal prejudice of mine.
Er. Sometihng on topic perhaps. There are enough accounts of xenos chaos worshippers (such as the Saruthi in the aforementioned Eisenhorn books) or cults around xenos (e.g. genestealer cults) to allow for plenty of overlap between ordos.
Agree 100% In fact, Dragon magazine used to have advertisements comparing themselves to a jar of fluffernutter.
While I can understand there being overlap for Deathwatch and the Sisters of Battle, I find it highly unlikely that Grey Knights would have the same level of overlap. Only because as the militant arm of Ordo Malleus, it's pretty hard to confuse a demonic incursion with xenos activity or heretical cells.