Indomitus novel (2020)
>There was no cure for the biotransference. Whatever plans and dreams the likes of Szarekh thought up, Zozar knew that they could no more harness their lost souls than they could grip the vacuum itself.

So some Necrons actually have souls??

forgot the 2nd part:
>The minds of the Necrontyr were placed into living metal bodies, and the true price of their bargain was revealed as the C'tan devoured the souls of all but the ruling castes - obliterating all personality and free will.
>but the ruling castes

>>95948547 (OP)
>>95948552
I think their souls are fused with their minds or something.

>>95948589
I fucking hate how inconsistent everything is.

>>95948709
It's not a bug, it's a feature! If everything is jumbled and inconsistent, it allows GW to parachute new units into each collection as they dream them up! Long gone are the stifling days of only a couple of troop, fast, elite or heavy choices being available for each army, now anything goes, allowing you to spend, spend, spend as fast as can think of new stuff up for you to buy!

>>95948788
Lore books actually get people to buy models?

>>95948788
Kek, stop being a hysterical faggot. Are you implying that GW are intentionally obfuscating the specific mechanics of how Necron souls work in order to sell more types of Necrons? Please let me know when GW releases the Necron SoulBounds as a contrast to the Necron SoulUnbounds as elite troop choices and then I'll admit you had a point.

>>95948547 (OP)
How can Tau have puny souls and still be as sentient as eldar with gigasouls?

>>95948795
Of course, the whole publishing wing exists as a way to advertise the setting and models. A cool Imperial Guard story? Man, wouldn't it be sweet to make up a guard army just like in that cool story you just read? It all comes down to "buy our fucking toys, idiot!" with the GW ancillary media(books, video games, their crappy streaming service, etc.)

>>95949136
The "size" (Warp-presence) of your soul only determines your ability to use psychic powers. Think of it like a hole into the Warp that you can pull Warp-energy through to power your psychic abilities. The bigger the hole, the more energy can flow through it, but the downside is that daemons can more easily enter your body through it and possess you. Tau basically have a tiny pinprick into the Warp that would only allow a trickle of power through, far too little to ever use psychic abilities but also too small for daemons to notice and enter. The average human is also largely unnoticed by daemons most of the time, and they can usually only squeeze through the hole under specific circumstances (a ritual to bind a daemon to a person or a location where the Warp is already bleeding into realspace), while psykers have a window into the Warp a daemon can easily enter through unless the psyker is very careful.

Reminder we got the Pokemon retcon because people liked the C'tan more than the Meme Gods of Chaos.

>>95949136
What the other anon said, but also given how Eldar thought patterns are described you could argue that neither Tau nor Humans are as sentient as them.

>>95950136
It's actually because literally nobody played oldcrons so they rebooted them into something people gave a fuck about

>>95951987
Lots of people played oldcrons

>>95952394
no

>>95952615
I did

Well according to lore on the wikis the Silent King Szarekh knew his soul was gone, and he was the only one to receive perfect engrammatic circuitry. Engrams which not only could simulate the full details of his original mind and store all his memories, but which could even expand upon it. So likely this is another GW downs syndrome event.

If we instead assume Szarekh, and possibly others of the highest stature, actually kept their souls, then lots of other things don't really make sense. But if we really want this to be true, I suppose we could. It would just mean some lucky few Necrons have no reason to reverse biotransference. Unless somehow they can'r be creative or some shit because of a limitation on mind simulation by engrams.

>>95948547 (OP)
>they could no more harness their lost souls than they could grip the vacuum itself.
He's saying that their souls are lost, they don't exist anymore. They were eaten by the C'tan.

>>95953763
did u read the 2nd post tho

can someone explain warhammer to me?

>>95960542
Nerds in the 80s compile their favorite sci-fi and fantasy franchises into one setting that their miniature war game takes place in. 30 years later, dozens of bush league sci-fi authors have piled on to the lore until it is a contradictory mess of lore. Some of it is cool, some of it is the dumbest shit you've ever read.

I think it's more likely an author/editing goof. The Twice-Dead King series explicitly shows Necrontyr of royal blood getting tossed into the Biotransference forges and their souls are objectively gone.
>The minds of the Necrontyr were placed into living metal bodies, and the true price of their bargain was revealed as the C'tan devoured the souls of all but the ruling castes - obliterating all personality and free will.
Souls in this case was likely a poorly chosen way to represent the personality of a person without thinking of the metaphysical ramifications of this choice. "Essence" or "minds" would have been a better fit.

>>95948709
That's what happens when you try to take the Cosmic Body Horror faction and turn them into Le Whacky Ebin Space Undead Egypt. A problem with an easy solution: ignore all Wardian Faggotry and stick with the original fluff, then embellish it in line with your own preferences.

>>95948709
Warhammer makes Bloat its identity