Codex: Inquisition

By TorogTarkdacil812, in Dark Heresy

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I tend to just pick whatever is the newest, with a highly selective memory, trying to tie it all together in a manner that "makes sense" to me, which is why my mileage may vary when professing the factual state of the fluff. :P

Wow... How can you keep up/keep it all straight? *boggles*

I tend to go with whatever I feel like, and failing that, the oldest fluff. For example, in our take on the setting, the warp isn't a Hell-dimension. It's just a malleable sort of unreality. It's one of the primary reasons its denizens tends to murder-hate sapient realspace critters: realspace things with imagination and feelings impose both on the warp, much to the dismay and the occasional mass-death of its natural inhabitants.

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I tend to just pick whatever is the newest, with a highly selective memory, trying to tie it all together in a manner that "makes sense" to me, which is why my mileage may vary when professing the factual state of the fluff. :P

Wow... How can you keep up/keep it all straight? *boggles*

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It's easy; I don't! :P

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I was wrong, though. It wasn't in Deathwatch, although it's alluded to in Deathwatch - First Founding, pg. 88. But the story of Ordo Xenos just up and disappearing is in Dark Heresy - Ascension, pg. 171.

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Lord-Inquisitor of the Ordo Chronos Marty McFly

Juuuuuust sayin. :P

Clearly Doc Brown is a Chrono Heretek.

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In that it's a poorly executed version of something that came before it?

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Basically, Ordo Chronos was removed from the universe in.. Deathwatch, I believe. They just up and vanished. Poof. Every last member just gone.

Which, as you might imagine, kinda throws a wrench into everything for anyone wanting to make actual use of the fluff surrounding Ordo Chronos. Yes, yes, I realize that you can pick and choose for your own private campaign, but I like sticking close to fluff; or at least my interpretation of it.

The stuff in Codex: Inquisition, however, makes the state of Ordo Chronos a lot more.. ambiguous. It doesn't go deep into Ordo Chronos as such, but it suggests that the Ordo is simply hiding, or have gone undercover en masse. Gone is the suggestion that they just up and disappeared like some wide-scale Houdini vanishing act, and there is more leeway in interpretation.



There's still tons of fun to be had with the Ordo Chronos concept even if they HAVE all just suddenly vanished. After all, if you take it as read that they have access to time travel technology (a big assumption, I know) then their sudden vanishing act can be explained by simple time travel. Which means that any of them could reappear at any time.

Here's a campaign concept I came up with a while back which could be used to explain their sudden disappearance...

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