Am I retarded? I never saw that pic related looks like a stylized skull

Slaanesh is reminiscent of a gender symbol, Nurgle is supposed to look like a fly's head, and Tzeentch is an eye.

World Bearers would be a neat Loyalist chapter. Give them a vaguely Greek theme and make their Chapter icon Atlas holding up Holy Terra.

Give them a thing for defense and fortifications (Imperial Fists successors?) and they hold up worlds throughout conflict.

No idea what these would be.

>stylized skull
>not just a sideways DK
I mean, it makes sense considering that Khorne has no style, and he has no grace

Upsidedown it's a dude with a flaming/spiky head.

>chaos undivided: stylized anus

This god has a funny face.

He collects skulls
when he needs to

Wait what?

Well, Space Marines can gain knowledge and memories by eating brains, right? So what about a chapter dedicated to accumulating knowledge that way?

Honestly, they'd probably be a small Inquisitorial cabal dedicated to keeping certain insights and knowledge secret.

Otherwise it's too much a joke name to make for a good serious Chapter name. Inquisitors are a little more eclectic in that regard.

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How have I never noticed this...

I saw an upside down smiling man years before I noticed the skull.

no I refuse this was always called word bearers

this must be some sort of reality retcon bullshit

Who would have guessed it, a skull in Warhammer.

Yeah, it IS the Word Bearers. He just thought they were the World Bearers.

And swings his arms out to decapitate you

*autistic monkey noise*

You were just never sleep-deprived enough.

No OP, you were just never sleep-deprived enough.

Whoops, brainfart.

You were just never sleep-deprived enough, OP.

You never lacked enough sleep, OP.

You were never a deep-sleep seeker op

You always had too much beddy bye bye time OP.

I always thought it was a smiling stick figure man, upside down.

That's not the original Khorne symbol. The original was not a stylized skull, it didn't have the teeth on the bottom.

I THOUGHT THAT TOO UNTIL NOW
I'VE PLAYED A WOR...LD BEARER ARMY FOR YEARS

FUCK

Always thought it looked kinda like a lucha mask

You always slept too much op

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OF FUCK

English isn't my first language and I thought the letter in bloodletter is that one from the alphabet and not someone lets out blood.

I don't know what or who you are, but that makes two of us.

Welcome to the Internet: where completely unknown anons can find common ground on the flimsiest things.

OH FUCK

When did they add teeth to it actually? I've never seen OP's rendition to my knowledge

Aaaaand now that I also realize that, the symbol just looks goofy. Cannot unsee.

Years ago, I remember seeing people being completely blown away by the realisation that Terra was actually Earth all along!

Oh shit, It's like that moment you realize they named a warboss after Margret Thatcher.

It's literally called the skull rune of khorne.

...oh no

Do they talk smack about the loyalists before jobbing every time they fight?

Wait what
gib source.

I think it may just be khorne because of his war like tendencies. However, nurgle's symbol kind of looks like a gas mask in a way.

Ghazghull Mag Uruk Thrakka
??????? MargAret Thatcher

Mag
Uruk
Thraka

Mag
Aret
Thatcher

NO FUCKING WAY

Wew thanks guys, thats probably the most british GW can get.

Dude I've been playing 40k for 15 years and I thought the same till yesterday, Time to make my primaris marine chapter the World bearers.

It's a fly, you mongoloid.

The Chapter Master has to be called Atlas.

The creators say that it was randomly generated since they needed a stupidly long name in orkish

I am worse.
For some time I read them as Word Beavers.

I'm thinking of a colour scheme pretty close to the sons of horus.
Chapter symbol I made, in a second if I was a better painter or artist I would do human hands.

This is amazing you've made my weekend anons

Seems too on-the-nose for me. I mean, this is 40k, but at the very least we can try and do it one better. Most successor Chapters draw from at least one or two traditions plus some random influences to make their aesthetic. Of course, this is Veeky Forums and our Chapter names are so on-the-nose because we take after the Space Wolves apparently.

As for colorscheme, you could to white marble, giving them marbled patterns rather than a flat color, giving them an aesthetic of unpainted Greek statues. It would also harken back to the World Eater's pre-Heresy white colorscheme.

Holy fuck.

Yes. I imagine that they said that.

It just happened to end up sounding like Margaret Thatcher. In the 80s.

I like where this is going. How about marble colored power shortswords and spears as weapons?
Also some red, yellow and blue trimming on some parts of the armor since temples and statues were painted with mainly those colors.

Bronze colored*, fUCK.
Also how about we steal details and iconography from Achilles' Hephaestus-made armor from the Iliad? We could even make a nod to the myth by saying it's hinted to be of salamander origin or some shit like that.

>"of salamander origin"
So it's a Blood Ravens successor chapter?

Red, Yellow, and Blue can make for a childish colorscheme if used to much. You could instead do what they already do, and paint details that color; mostly shoulder trim and kneepads which denote rank and company.

As for weapons, we could incorporate a bronze theme into it as well, or wrought iron, but making everything marble is way too much. Maybe even gold for characters. Still, the aesthetic of antiquities and primitive metal would make for a good one, if the theme is kept consistent.

Could work with the hinted Salamander's origin, which also fits the theme of defense and protectiveness (World Bearers) after the Salamanders. I was thinking Imperial Fists because of their fortification specialty (if we go that direction at all) but Salamanders could work well. Might keep their true origins murky and have it only hinted so people can decide for themselves which rules they want to use.

How about geneseed mutations? Would this cause them to be black-skinned and red-eyed? Or would they have mutated this one out of their system, or reduced its overactivity and are now just excessively tan? Perhaps their geneseed is Chimeric, and contains elements of both Imperial Fist and Salamander geneseed, or maybe they hail from the Heresy from a company or character that didn't develop such a mutation.

>Nurgle
>stylized fidget spinner

Nurgle is a fly/gas mask/biohazard-like symbol

I was referring to the chapter masters armor, but i went full retard and didn't write WHOSE armor i was referring to (mainly as a nod to the fact that Vulkan is the roman equivalent to Hephaestus). And actually that could turn pretty fitting given their defensive nature like you said.
As per mutations, i don't know, since the Salamanders' skin mutation is a reaction to their Homeworlds enviroment i guess it would depend on the World Bearers own world.

I guess the armor could be a present from their parent chapter?

Guess all those tumors and mutations finally make sense.

Could be their own world is relatively mild in climate, or has a much thicker atmosphere like the Dead Sea, which reduces their exposure to radioactivity. But, Space Marines being badasses it's probably also volcanic in a good few places and also a Deathworld filled with hostile flora and fauna.

Or a relic from an unnamed source, either gifted from another Chapter, mastercrafted by themselves, or acquired some other way for some reason. We could leave it all as mysterious as their potential Progenitors.

Hell, to throw people off the scent, we could have them working very strictly with the Codex Astartes and working on a somewhat stylized but otherwise similar system of government and organization to Macragge, though probably no more than a single planet and maybe a moon or two. So we have potential Imperial Fists, Salamanders, and Ultramarines influences to disguise their true lost origins. They could worship Primarch above all as some kind of great hero (who might be described as an amalgam of Heracles, Achilles, and Hephaestus references plus some stuff of his own), or directly venerate the Emperor to circumvent the lost knowledge of their founding.

>That's not the original Khorne symbol. The original was not a stylized skull,

it could be shown both with and without teefs

It's also stupid and merciless. Wew.

God damnit that was acctually funny.

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>check
>they are word bearers
Quick, is it the berenstain or berenstein universe?

In finnish, "eating words" equals oatbreaking.

Ouch. Sounds like either penitent Astartes or Traitors. But it does sound awesome in that context.

Not him, but still represents a futa.

pffft

I know right? it's like people forget they can close their mouths

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berzerker #1: Frank I just noticed something.

berzerker #2: These Imperials are all cowards.

berzerker #1: Have you looked at our pauldrons recently?

berzerker #2:Our pauldrons?

berzerker #1: The symbol on our pauldrons, have you looked at them?

berzerker #2: What...no... a bit.

berzerker #1:They've got skulls on them.

berzerker #2: Hmmm?

berzerker #1: Have you noticed that our pauldrons have actual pictures of skulls on them?

berzerker #2: I don't....uh.

berzerker #1: Frank.... are we the baddies?

berzerker #2: The other guys have skulls too, Ted.

what about tzeentch?

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A fish.

I thought Cadians were Canadians for my first year or so in the hobby. Thought it was funny that Canada became the dominant human military force after 40,000 years.

A moon, fire or eye; all three having roots in Divination

An eye, and the Flame of Knowledge.

I think it's supposed to be a comet. I always thought it looked like a stylized crescent moon.