Probably Biased

For the last few weeks I have been completely obsessed with the buggy but beautiful Kingdom Come Deliverance, a historic fantasy role-playing game set in Bohemia in the year 1403. I have distant recollections of the kickstarter campaign that launched this project years ago but lacked the money to devote to such projects at the time. Fast forward a few years and the release date for the game was finally announced and the trailers started to circulate. I was blown away by the ambition and the concept behind the game. Most fantasy RPGs that we see these days are engorged wonders like Skyrim or the Witcher, settings that only loosely relate to anything historical and as a lover of history the unique scope of Kingdom Come Deliverance sold me on the game almost immediately. I could hardly wait for the day to come that I could finally fire up KCD and get into the world of 1403 Bohemia. But behind all the hype was something darker, something nastier, you see apparently Kingdom Come Deli...

I have to admit that when I saw the first trailers for Altered Carbon it looked interesting but likely mediocre. The concept of human consciousness transfer between bodies was interesting but I did not know if it was good enough to be the basis for a science-fiction world. All that changed when I happened on my brother watching the first episode and looked over his shoulder for a few minutes. Very quickly we both sat down and together watched the first three episodes in one sitting and came back for the remaining seven over the next few days. From one episode to the next the story got progressively darker and more complex, weaving the backgrounds and traits of each character together in astonishing and refreshing ways. The technology of the Settled Worlds set up a narrative that allows for characters that are truly different and unique in a genre that feels like it ran out of new ideas decades ago. In addition to the stacks, physical storage devices for the human consciousness imp...

The Adeptus Custodes: A Comprehensive History The Legio Custodes Magna Imperator – Chamber Militant of the Imperial Household Bearers of the Magisterium: Lex Ultima The Custodian Guard, The Ten Thousand, Auric Mortalis (The Golden Death) “ Only in death does Duty End.” -First maxim of the Legio Custodes. Origins of the Emperor's Firstborn Sons It is widely believed by those with a marginal understanding of the existence and nature of the Adeptus Custodes to presume they are a more advanced version of the Adeptus Astartes, an improvement and evolution of the Emperor's genetic-engineering capabilities in much the same way as the Adeptus Astartes were themselves evolved from the Thunder Warrior prototypes. In reality the Custodian Guard are creatures as far apart form the Space Marines as the Space Marines are to unaugmented baseline humans. Everything about the Custodes origins and creation differs from the mass produced warriors of the ...