Whats it like being a psyker in 40K? What about a Sanctioned one?

Whats it like being a psyker in 40K? What about a Sanctioned one?

Is it all "Oh my emperor! the endless demon dicks!"

And other associated warpfuckery or can they live relatively normal lives if they don't use their powers?

It's like having an unlimited amount of hand grenades in your back pocket to tear shit up with as you please, but the hand grenades will explode if you let them get too hot or you sit on them funny.

Imagine you could hear everything anyone ever said, at the same time.

>or can they live relatively normal live

An undiscovered psyker could live a normal life, as long as he manages to keep his powers under control. Of course, these powers are notoriously dangerous and hard to control. EVen if you don't actually use your powers your mind is still a shining beacon in the warp, both a tasty morsel and a gateway to the land of tasty morsels for some very scary and very hungry things. Using your powers put you at greater risk, but you're never ever at no risk.

Apart from that either not knowing what the fuck is going on (if you don't know what a psyker is), or knowing that you'll be put down like a rabid dog if your secret gets out will also most likely be a good way to paranoia and depression, especially as various warp entities may try to nibble at your mind.

As a known psyker you'll generally be a social pariah. If you happen to be an inquisitor or some such your talents probably won't add too much to your burden, as your life is pretty different as it is. A space marine librarian even more so, amongst the living weapons you're just a different kind of weapon. But a more common man will find that his psychic talent defines his entire life, as he joins the ranks of the sanctioned psykers.

At this point you're allowed to live because of your potential usefulness, and watched carefully for any sign that you're slipping, or possessed. If someone thinks he sees such a sign, you'll be terminated at the spot. The pressure of that will probably wear down your sanity pretty quickly, if nothing else gets you. Not using your powers isn't an option either here any mroe than not fighting is an option for someone drafted into the guard.

So no, a normal, happy life is an exceedingly unlikely one for a psyker, even compared to people in general in 40k.

I think your very presence will make nearby people be wary of you, so say goodbye to your normal life.
You are also one bad day from getting yourself and your whole planet KILL BY DEMONS.

So the Inquisition picks you up.
You survive the harrowing experience of the Black Ships and are deemed fit to be more than just Astronomican fuel.
You are now in the military, and receive training to control your warp fuckery, to a certain extent. The pull is still there, and, as always, you are still one bad day from getting yourself and the planet you're on KILL BY DEMONS, except this time there maybe dudes around that will put a bullet to your head if you give even the slightest sign of having a bad day.

The voices in your head don't help either.
Neither do the flashes that show you things. Maybe the future. Maybe the present, somewhere else. Maybe they show you things you shouldn't have been shown. Maybe both the flashes and the voices are lies. You don't know.

To make things worse, you are basically an unperson. Your gifts don't inspire respect. Quite the opposite. Everyone is fully aware that you are a portal to the warp, one that could go out of control for no reason.
You are a living weapon. Their, and your, best hope is that when you detonate (and you inevitably will, unless you are exceptionally lucky) you do so in the middle of the enemy.

There's also the part with this huge black dog/weird bee/insert creepy creature that only appears when you are alone. And it gets closer every time.

t. The Scourged

I'd imagine it's like living with something like severe chronic depression, or schizophrenia, where if you don't have the means to control it it fucking sucks shit, but if you're sanctioned it's probably not quite as bad.

Sanctioned Psykers are, by definition, far more stable and safe than other psykers. When they're brought to terra from the black ships, the ones that can't hack it are ground up into a fine paste and injected into the emperor's shriveled, mummified eye socket.

>Not his shriveled dick

>can they live relatively normal lives
Depends on the definition.
While Empire fights on millions of fronts at the same time it also have billions of worlds so it depends if you are lucky.
If you are not you end as food for the emperor.
If you are moderately lucky you end in a guard. As sanctioned psyker you are rare resource so your life expectancy skyrockets as long as you avoid blowing yourself up. For this you had your training and remember the emperor protects. You'd be a social outcast too but it may be so that veteran guardsmen would prefer your company to that of rookies.
If you won at the lottery, then you could become warp expert for local governor on some comfy planet where you would play the role of the court wizard and do nothing. Then you have good salary and ear of most powerfull man on the planet, everyone would want to be best friend with you, most of them fake.
True jackpot would be getting along with rouge trader, wealth, high adventure and friends. Rouge traders don't give a fuck about you being a psyker neither do some random xeno sluts you managed to convince to fly with you.
In Inqusiton you have an options ranging from painful death and eternity of torment to becoming Malcador the Sigilate the second.

But living truly normal mundane live? Fuck you, not for you mate.

>implying he still has it

>implying he doesn't use the extra power t keep it up

You just know psyker juice makes the best aphrodisiac...

I now have a new plot point

Depends on your level (and willpower).
Some minor psykers just have good luck or intuition, while others are so powerful they rupture their mortal coils.

Eisenhorn and Ravenor seemed like decently equilibred fellas, considering their line of work.

But wouldn't using the psycic power to empower phantom dick, feed Slaanesh super hard?
Big E is a responsible guy, he wouldn't empower one of greatest enemy of mankind just for the sake of Little E

>it also have billions of worlds

Off by three-four orders of magnitude. They have about a million.

Wheter you go as food, Astronomican, astropath or sanctioned depends on your strength.

Those strong enough to stand up somewhat against all the things that want their mind become sanctioned psykers.

Those who are too weak for that, but can be shored up to manage, are soul bonded and become astropaths.

If you can't even manage that you go to the astronomican, where you won't last long.

And those who are too weak to be of use there are fed to the Golden Throne to sustain the Emperor.

>Rouge traders don't give a fuck about you being a psyker neither do some random xeno sluts you managed to convince to fly with you

Odds are they know full well that you're extremely dangerous to be around, due to miscasts and scary things possessing you to murder everyone in their sleep and devouring their souls. This will at least color their relationship with you, and will probably form the very basis for it.

These all sound terrible

Yeah welcome to being a psyker being able to use magic isn't half as cool when you and everyone around you understands that you have a portal to hell right in your head.

Wait who in their right mind would buy Viagrapysk? Psygra?

Heretics
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>can they live relatively normal lives if they don't use their powers?

Only if they're weak shit or godly to the point they wouldn't live an untermensch life anyway.

>Whats it like being a psyker in 40K? What about a Sanctioned one?
About as bad or worse than it is for mages in Dragon Age.

Anders was right

Quints well spent

Is it acceptable as an inquisitor to be fucking your psyker? Mainly for infiltration purposes where she plays the part of your arm candy but also during down time.

What methods can psykers take to make themselves more resistant to demonic possession?

There are different sorts of wards for fending off demons or psionic attack, names like Hexagrammic or Pentagrammic Wards. Would anything like that help if worn?
What about wards tattooed into their skin, is there anything like that in the setting?

Do normal psykers get access to anything similar to Psychic Hoods used by space marine librarians?

Weew

Anders was a faggot but apart from his sudden change in sexual orientation he was also a douchebag and needed purging.

DA2 was such a bad game.

Your general emotional state and willpower are, regardless of anything else, your primary and most vital defence to resist the effects of the Warp or Daemonic Possession, even if Hexagrammic and Pentagrammic Wards help they're definitely not foolproof if your mind isn't also in a strong state of defiance.

Wards and psychic implants are a thing, though they don't get too much spotlight. Primaris Psykers sometimes get psycho-reactive crystals weaved into their skulls and spines to bleed-off Warp presence, while wards and holy texts in flesh is all over the Imperium (note however that most wards that actually work are technological or psychically imprinted, actual symbols have minimal power.)

As for Psychic Hoods? As said earlier, the Scholastia Psykana has lots of equipment that assists in the powers or mental states of their Psykers, from the Psykana Mercy Blade to Aetheric Wave-Spars etc. etc. None of them are quite as potent as a Psychic Hood but yeah, psychic-tech is more common than is given notice on tabletop/in codexes.

In DA:Awakening he was quite cool guy.
Then he became a faggot both literally and figuratively in DA2

To all of that yes it helps and most psykers do get stuff like that, there are also far more extreme measures, as for the hood there is something like that but not nearly as powerfull as the space marine version.
Here is the but and it's a big one being a psyker is all about will power the abillity to believe you can not be touched by those horrid things on the other side of your mind.
Thing is those things know that and they'll promise you anything threathen you and everyone around you make you paranoid make you think they are you friends anything to make you lower your guard and then, BAM they got you now you are a daemonhost and everything is fucked.

This is old Inquisitor fluff but:
>Hexagrammic Wards protect against psykers, Pentagrammic Wards protect against daemons
>Wards being tattooed into your skin is fucking metal, so it definitely happens in 40k. Bear in mind lots of Sanctioned Psykers are scarred or physically/mentally damaged by their binding.
>Psychic Hoods were available in Inquisitor, but are rare tech and generally exclusively used by Space Marines.

As a last resort, there is always the Psykana Mercy Blade.

Wasn't he implied bi in awakening tho

Psykers actually have some of the best paychecks in the Imperium though- Right behind Priests and the nobility (At least, according to the Dark Heresy averages).

They have to spend that money in SOME way. Have some time to enjoy themselves.

[darkest dungeon rest quotes intensify]

Probably the same way all other humans do to un-stress after a long day channeling the raw power of the madhouse that is the warp and breaking all the laws of reality.

>They have to spend that money in SOME way.Have some time to enjoy themselves.
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How does this differ with all the big name important Inquisitors that are also big important Psykers? Despite combating Chaos/demonic forces directly in dramatic action scenes they seem to survive an awful long time

What you have to remember is any Psykers we see on TT, for example, are the best of the best (save for Wyrcdrane, but even they're better than the standard Astropaths) that Humanity can throw out. A huge amount of Psykers aren't even capable of reliably casting powers.

Most Inquisitor Psykers are that special breed of Psyker, like Primaris or Librarians, who aren't mentally completely fucked by their own powers or the Sanctioning.

Your lifespan as a Psyker also tends to increase the less you use your powers and the more you focus on keeping the Warp out, though such techniques are often only really available to the Sanctioned.

I wish to fug Medea

I should start collecting screencaps of dubsfags fucking up basic counting skills, because you dumbasses keep doing it.

You missed the joke

5 fours?
Get it?...
No?

Honestly living in the 40k universe is shit for everyone, unless you are one of those lucky people who happen to live on boring planets out of the way somewhere quiet that never get invaded, infiltrated, consumed or anything like that, while at the same lucking out and the government/Imperial representative running it isn't TOO tyrannical or horrible.

Which considering the scale of the Imperium is entirely possible but not the kind of thing you should be comfortable betting on.

I would

Not at all he only flirted with female wardens

Heretic get out

Get out before I call the Dark Angels Cypher

Psyagra

>"wait you're saying all I have to do is believe I can't be touched? And since I believe "that" then there's no reason for me to not also believe it's impossible for warp fuckery to get me? Woah... I'm immune to daemons."

Ladies and gentleman, I give you, the most optimistic psyker.

...

In this setting? Where decadent nobles and twisted hedonistic cults are everywhere?

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I intentionally decided against posting the LOSS version

It aint easy being a mage

Mistah Commissar, was the Lord-God Emprah a Psyker?

This psyker would either die horribly, or go on to be an anime protagonist

bumping for writefaggotry (please?)

Yes

Now eat your bland protein supplements

>Whats it like being a psyker in 40K? What about a Sanctioned one?
Being a sanctioned one means you won't be used to keep the light of terra alive i.e. not fed to the emperor.
>Is it all "Oh my emperor! the endless demon dicks!"
>And other associated warpfuckery or can they live relatively normal lives if they don't use their powers?

The last book in the calpurnia omnibus deals with a murder on a psycher enclave.
Goes into detail about their daily lives and different jobs they do and how it affects people differently.

They cannot live normal lives, for they are not normal. Depending on how powerful they are and what position they are in they may have comfortable lives.
According to the book they are pretty much asexual though, if you were asking about romantic relationships.

>According to the book they are pretty much asexual though, if you were asking about romantic relationships.
But Ravenor and Eisenhorn used to be sexual animals?

Nah but seriously I recall Rave fucking some amazon warrior chick and Eisen having a thing with a doctor

I don't think anyone from 40k can live a normal life

>But Ravenor and Eisenhorn used to be sexual animals?
Yeah those are inquisitors with psychic powers. The characters in the book, the spy and calpurnia talk about the astropaths in the tower though.
The guys that do nothing else but send or receive messages or mind those that do.

The way it's described in there is that after the soulbinding they don't really care for that stuff anymore. It's a radically live changing experience that might even leave them crippled in one way or another.

I'm no expert, but I don't think Inquisitors do the soulbinding.

Inquisition can't do legit soulbinding. The can do basic "get you by" wards which last long enough to bring a target to containment.

You can live in the Tau Empire; that's pretty okay.

Tau willingly send their citizens off to the dark eldar, and view genestealer infestations as a wonderful integration of alien cultures.

Sure, if you're a dirty pinko commie Xeno-fucker faggot.

You say that as if numerous Imperial leaders didn't also sell their citizens to the Dark Eldar, and the Tau only did that once, by accident. Also, the Genestealer thing is an outright lie.

True enough, but it's better than being a pseudo-fascist paranoiac with lips glued to the corpse-god's dick.

if you enjoy chemical gelding

>but it's better than being a pseudo-fascist paranoiac with lips glued to the corpse-god's dick
The difference is Tau are dicks by choice, humanity by necessity.
The only way the imperium can function at all is as the most brutally oppressive totalitarian regime imaginable. But they are fighting for their survival.

Fucking heretic, the Imperium is the only way humanity is going to survive, the Tau are a freckle on the ass of the galaxy that are too insignificant to actually achieve anything or survive if any of the real dangers of the universe spent more than 2 seconds paying attention to them.

Also enjoy your sterilization and brainwashing over there on the 'right side' of becoming a slave to a minor alien empire.

>humanity by necessity.

Lmao

But what about the psykers in the personal retinues of Inquisitors? What measures do they undergo.

>if you enjoy chemical gelding
Citation needed.

>The only way the imperium can function at all is as the most brutally oppressive totalitarian regime imaginable. But they are fighting for their survival.
I will admit that the Imperium is heavily burdened with the sins of its father. The Emperor probably doomed the Imperium well before the Horus Heresy, in numerous ways. But that doesn't change the fact that the Imperium is terribly dysfunctional and has virtually no redeeming qualities, not even survival-based ones; it's only lived this long out of inertia and the fractiousness/ineffectiveness/tininess of its foes.

This is why I don't like any 40k ttrpg. The entire setting is so bleak and hostile that I'm surprised any non miliatary NPCs actually exist.

>Honestly living in the 40k universe is shit for everyone

Still would trade it with my boring, depressing life in a heartbeat.
There is meaning and purpose in the 40k universe and it's a shitload less nihilistic than ours. Also Laserguns, Space Battles and fuck the gay ass square cube law.

all imperial psykers in general go through sanctioning in the black ships
those that are still too weak to resist chaos after that are brought before the emprah to be soulbound to him and become walking mailboxes
the only exception i can think of would be some inquisitor delibaretely taking some undiscovered psyker and keeping them unsanctioned

But are there methods of making non-officially 'sanctioned' psykers resistant to possession? Like the Inquisitors they serve don't seem to go through the standard procedure.

>it's a shitload less nihilistic than ours.
Wut? When you die, you get eaten by the Warp, end of story. The only way around that is to become a Daemon Prince, which... I guess could technically be considered less nihilistic?

>There is meaning and purpose in the 40k universe and it's a shitload less nihilistic than ours.
You realize that there are people in the imperium that spent their entire live turning the crank powering a spaceships plasma reactor?


If anything the grim darkness of the far future is as nihilistic as you can get.
Everybody loses in that setting. Except maybe orks, cause the love fighting, but everybody else is doomed.

Humanity is doomed to fail, Eldar already have failed, Dark Eldar haven't had the courage yet to realize they failed etc.

Tyranids are non sapient. Basically a galactic virus. So I guess they win.

40k would be better if it was just cheesy campy pulpy adventure where almost all the races could just hang out between there wild jaunts and bouts of slaughtering each other.

And there was no need to keep pushing back the 'end times' plotline to drag things out because there would be no end times, just continuing jolly adventures.

>40k would be better if it was just cheesy campy pulpy adventure
40k wouldn't exist if it was just cheesy campy pulpy adventure.

Further grinding away at something's identity to appeal to more people never makes things better.

Oh yeah, 40keks oh so meaningful identity

How strict is the thing with Psyk's and the whole Discipline setup?

Are they supposed to only really use abilities from a single discipline unless they are DBZ-tier or is it common to see someone using varied abilities from multiple disciplines?

In what world are you living that 40k doesn't have a distinct identity? Are you unable to recognize 40k art when you see it? Does it just look like generic science fiction art to you?

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jesuschristitsmotherfuckingbooneupinthisbitch

>be hangry bloodthirster
>searching for a tasty soul
>percieve lesser daemons crowding around a bright soul
>(why haven't any of them eaten it yet? Weaklings.)
>Charge through crowd at soul
>CLANG
>hit a barrier.
>WTF
Meanwhile, the psyker is cheerfully whistling.

used to keep the light of terra alive i.e. not fed to the emperor.
those are two different fates, user

There's four gods that want to eat all of humanity, all xeno species would happily exterminatus/make slaves of every human planet if they could, the orks are a constant threat to every living thing that's not them, psychic human beings can accidently exterminatus planets if they're not branded, and every time a rebellion breaks out in the imperium it falls to chaos centuries later.

There's nothing wrong with the imperium's fascism, and they are certainly not paranoid.

Four gods that gave zero fucks about humanity until the Emperor started making himself seem like a potential rival (and, from what I can tell, they've gone back to no longer caring very much, with Chaos enemies of the Imperium consisting of grudge-bearing CSMs, angry rebels, and natural disasters), and as for the other races... Eldar and Tau don't actually have the power to enslave the entirety of humanity (not that the Tau would in any case, and it's quite premature to say the Eldar definitely would), and the Orks and Tyranids don't really ever try to interact with humans politically, so the Imperium's totalitarianism is of no help there. Only the psyker issue is potentially justifiable, and even then, it could be greatly improved.

the chaos gods feed completly off of humanity at this point and if they feel they need a dessert they will gladly fuck over as many planets as they feel like.

As for the eldar they might not have the capacity to be a grand threat to humanity but will gladly exterminatus billions of humans to save a handfull of eldar, and if they ever regain even a modicum of their previous strength they would gladly wipe out all of the lesser races that they feel infest the galaxy.

And the tyranids if you think they aren't capable of taking over a planet well before a hive fleet has arrived then you have not heard of genestealer cults before, creatures that infest every lair of a planet and turn it's own inhabitants against it self to prepare the planet for the inevitable hive fleet arrival.

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They are a fair few steps and thrones behind nobles and priests but still above commoners.

Compared to being a Guardsman being an Arbitor seems pretty cool.

The way I remember it being described is that the Emperor's psychic presence IS the light of terra.
He's mankind's homingbeacon in the galaxy.

Without warptravel there would be no Imperium.

IT really comes down to that Inquisitors get the best bling. Even if they're a wimpy pysker that can barely snuff a candle, they can get all sorts of crystals and special training and relics (or even xenos and chaos equipment, if they dare) to keep their mind safe.

It doesn't hurt that they generally are better prepared and trained, where most sanctioned pyskers like in the Guard only have a vague sense of the threat of daemons or xenos pyskers.

I don't get it, when is that ever fun for anyone? After your D&D game, does your party get together with the surviving orcs you spent the last two hours butchering for a laugh about their 'jolly adventures?'

40k may take itself too seriously, but a setting that never bothered to take anything seriously at all is paper-thin.

Just because you kill one group of orks doesn't really mean you've killed all the orks.

That doesn't really change my point? Even during the campiest super hero comics, it's not as if the villains and the heroes get together after one's been stopped for a laugh.

Its hard to get together with the people that are dead, seeing the likes of random orks and guardsmen getting drunke off their ass while a lanky elfdar is brooding in the corner at the pub run by a blue dude with a vagina on his forehead during downtime between Rogue Trading runs seems as if its a more plausible scenario

That sounds fun for some form of 40k humor, but it doesn't sound interesting for 40k. It basically takes 40k and turns it into space D&D, which is not the point of the setting. The point of the setting is to be background for tabletop fights.