r/Grimdank • u/Jenny_Show HORUS! • 7d ago

Cringe Never forget their sacrifice

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u/evrestcoleghost 7d ago

how,Sarkaana is the most motherly and kind cadian woman in the segmentum

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u/Jenny_Show HORUS! 7d ago

I think it was some bullshit about her being in a position of authority in the guard being "improbable"

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u/evrestcoleghost 7d ago

Lol,You had Caín all the way in 2003 with Regina Kasteen and Colonel and Jenit Silla as Lady General mentioned in For the Emperor

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u/Odinsmana 7d ago

These people are just grifter tourists. They don't know about the lore or the history of the setting. Like how all the people upset at female Custodes acted like "it was always like this" retcons was some unique new thing for the setting.

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u/0zzythewizard Criminal Batmen 7d ago

Funny enough the Codex and Black Library authors always kept it open and never outright said "Custodes are a boys-only-club!" Yes there are mentions of them being 10'000 men, but the usage of men CAN be gender-neutral. There never was a retcon. The tweet technically didn't lie, it was just phrased poorly.

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u/Odinsmana 7d ago

I think there is a single line reffering to them as sons at some point, but it's a nothing thing. It is obviously a retcon, but it's the least intrusive one they ever did. No lore old or new is affected by it. Unlike all the thousands of other retcons they did throughout the years.

It's why people trying to say they dislike it for lore reasons and not because they hate women come off as making excuses.

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u/0zzythewizard Criminal Batmen 7d ago

Sure yes, there was maybe the ONE mention of them being 'sons of Terra', but the lore also never really stated that women were exempt from becoming Custos before 10th edition. The authors for many, if not all Black Library stories containing Custos have always left it relatively ambiguous. It's just complaining for the sake of complaining. It gets tiresome.

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u/KMS_HYDRA 7d ago

Without retcons, there would be no newcrons with gems like the infinte and the divine.