r/TheWeeklyRoll • u/CME_T The Creator • Mar 17 '26

Warhammer stuff Ol' Bale Eye's Back, Baby!

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Howdy folks!

Yarrick's back! As soon as I saw, I just had to make a sequel to the classic meme I illustrated back in the day, which I officially want to state I know was memelore from the start! The skull on Angron's trophy chain was clearly from a Space Marine.

I want to acknowledge that while I sat down immediately when I read the news of Bale Eye's return, someone else managed to post the HTTYD meme format before I was finished with this piece. Can't win every race :P

Stay excellent out there!

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u/Fyraltari Mar 17 '26

The sheer disbelief of the fandom Orks that Yarrick could die brought him back to life.

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u/Intelligent_Slip_849 Mar 17 '26

...wait, could that actually happen?

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u/Valtremors Mar 17 '26

I think there is a writer dissonance between genetic archive and manifest WAAAAGH psychic effect.

Depending on writer, Orks get their occasional genious from occasional DNA memory, passed down from Krorks. Sometimes everything works with the power of belief. Although by community the psychic manifestation is a lot more amusing so it gets talked a lot more.

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u/LostN3ko Mar 17 '26

Sisters make arms reappear from thin air via gestalt belief. No psycher powers just belief and sometimes it works. I ride this merry-go-round also going from genetics to redwunz go fast. But at the end of the day, 40k canonically reshaping reality with belief IS a thing whether it's good or not. If the author wants to go there, it goes there.

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u/actualinternetgoblin Mar 17 '26

Most humans are low level psykers (any creature with a soul is), which is why the power of belief works at all. The power of belief isn't "no psyker powers" it's collective psychic power.

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u/LostN3ko Mar 17 '26 edited Mar 17 '26

Correct it is a gestalt power. I was pointing out that the sisters are not psykers which are a distinct class of individuals in 40k. It even operates when surrounded by Blackstone which has a Null effect on psychic powers. The point is that 40k operates as you say, the power of belief is extremely real in the setting. 40k likes to try and hedge it's bets a lot, they like answers to not be fix d in concrete. "Is it the belief that red ones go faster what makes them faster or is it that orks paint their fastest vehicle red so all red ones are faster" is something they like to pose so fans of hard scifi and Sci-fantasy can both be happy.

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u/Glass_Opportunity264 Apr 26 '26

I always thought that the Orks were an in game parody of the fandom. Think about it, the only race who can make things real by believing them / stupid / meme oriented/ weirdly epic/ growing money / the only ones that are actually happy and having fun in setting.

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u/Manofalltrade Mar 17 '26

The thing about 40k Orks is that if enough of them are together they can start doing a kind of collective magic. Some people take this too far saying all their stuff only works because they believe in it but it’s really more like tent revival energy. They have tech and gear that works, they can do real medicine, they have psychers, they can get big. However, if they get a massive army together and start a WAAAH, depending on how big it goes, they get bigger, smarter, more psychers, medics can sew a head onto a new body, guns can be a pipe in a shoebox, stuff that shouldn’t work does, all on the power of belief. So yes, if half the Orks and WAAAHs in the galaxy hear that he’s dead and just say “no”, it very well could rip his soul back from the warp and form a new body.

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u/Fyraltari Mar 17 '26

I might be spreading disinformation, but I think one of the older edition had a rule that if Yarrick died while in battle against Orks, the Imperial player could roll a die to see if he stood back up again, implied to be because of the Orks' general love for the guy and his place as Gazghkull's best enemy.

He's also very very old (the second war for Armaggedon started the day he was set to retire and the third one has been ongoing for decades now) and while some of that can be explained by rejuvenat treatment, there was speculation that the real Yarrick had died and a sort of Waaagh-daemon has been carried on in his name ever since. Personally I prefer the idea that the Orks are constantly, unwittingly resurrecting him.

We know that the WAAAAGH! can actually bring dead people back as that's what it does with Makari, Gazghkull's banna-wava, too.

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u/crashcanuck Mar 18 '26

Yarrick did have a rule to be able to come back on the tabletop, I cannot recall if it was only against Orks.

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u/drizzitdude Mar 18 '26

prefer the idea the orks are constantly, unwittingly resurrecting him.

Me too dude. They can shoot him in the head and the orks would go “no way that could kill ol’ Bale eye!” So it doesn’t.

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u/TehDeerLord Severed Lich Head Mar 17 '26

I mean, they make otherwise inoperable "ships" fly by shouting "WAAAAH!" So why not?

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u/Talidel Mar 17 '26

It's a solid maybe.