They got me and Julia in this novel (scheming girl elf archon with a paralyzing crush on a snow haired immaculate rival archon (just elf sephiroth) she keeps saving from death because he's so pretty, and a wych succubus with the demeanor of a tiger who only agrees to help because she Really wants to fight the super big Ork protagonist hand to hand in the arena)
I don't think this is true beyond the bounds of this test, I'm a true dark/water/ice type through and through, but I think the description fits well enough
Also completely thrilled with the dual implication that incubi are often transmasc ESPECIALLY because the big boss #1 incubi, Drazhar, was reborn into the "body of a woman" after he died and a girl incubi took up his armor
I knew this author loved to slip trans stuff into the lore like this but it's so awesome to see my own readings of howling banshees succubi and incubi confirmed like this
"... not all of them are female, of course, since Blood Bride was a title, rather than a description. Indeed, Tzuzuli herself had only taken on a female form in the last few decades since ascending to the rank of succubus. In the same way that every Asuryani warrior that ventured the path of the Howling Banshees was female, and most incubi were male. Some roles in Aeldari society overrode the tenuous grip of biology. It was one of the few constants across every strand of the species existence"
"All your armies are blue green and purple" well, yes, but, you understand, my Drukhari are Cold blue green and purple Ocean ways, my Craftworld are Warm blue and green like frutiger aero, and my space marines, would be blue green and purple, like an Aurora borealis
Incubi are an exception as the only Drukhari unit with no shooting, only big cool swords, because they're Fucking Badass, and Awesome
Crazy that an Ork novel is the one to actually give the perspective of a Drukhari remembering the first time she saw someone being tortured and being scared and panicked about it then thinking "but then like all Drukhari I got better : )". I don't demand "humanization" for Drukhari, but I think it's crucial that they don't *have* to live like this. She even mentions how Weak Drukhari flee to the craftworlds and exodites if they can't handle torture
Valerie Alexandria. He She or They. Brewery technician, proletarian internationalist, ⚣ with a degree in History + Classics
I like sports, Greek + Roman + Iranian history, reading novels, and warhammer 40k
Suffering for: Mariners, Dodgers, Bengals
Collecting: Drukhari, Asuryani
Reading: The Mountains of Parnassus