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Author:  dafrca [ Sun Jul 13, 2003 6:11 am ]
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In the old days I thought there was a person who was called something like sensai or something like it. He had a following and was gaining influence until he was eliminated (can't remember how).

Does this ring a bell with anyone or am I just mixing up old game backgrounds?

Dafrca
Author:  Tas [ Sun Jul 13, 2003 10:59 am ]
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weren't the sensei the immortal sons of the Emperor who roamed around with followers, generally maiming the Imperium's foes?  Its was a RT era thing that has been quietly dropped I think
Author:  MaksimSmelchak [ Sun Jul 13, 2003 3:59 pm ]
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Dafrca,

I remember the Sensai well. There was an abandoned plot hook that included the Sensai and the "Star Children" around the RT-era in the early White Dwarfs.

http://www.criticalhit.co.uk/w40krp/appendix.shtml

The link I typed in will take you to a compilation of old WD articles including the one about the Sensai.

OK. The article was called: The Sensei and the Star Child based on Realm of chaos: Slaves to Darkness and Lost and the Damned.

Shalom,
Maksim-Smelchak.
Author:  primarch [ Sun Jul 13, 2003 4:03 pm ]
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Hi!

Sensei are immortal sons of the Emperor. He has no knowledge of them because they are "psychic blanks" meaning they cannot be detected by psychic means and the dangers of the warp have no meaning to them. A group known as the Illuminati (who are individuals who have been possessed by chaos and then escaped and therefore is impervious to it) are trying to enlighten these Sensei to sacrifice themselves so the Emperor can be reborn through the Star Child, who is a "fetal god" that is hidden from chaos, but needs the Sensei to be born.

Primarch
Author:  dafrca [ Sun Jul 13, 2003 4:55 pm ]
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Thanks guys. I was trying to remember but then when I could not find anything I was starting to think I was mixing up some other games background up with 40k. Thanks for helping me.

dafrca
Author:  MaksimSmelchak [ Sun Jul 13, 2003 6:58 pm ]
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Dafrca,

Thanks guys. I was trying to remember but then when I could not find anything I was starting to think I was mixing up some other games background up with 40k.


I do this all the time! ?:)

Thanks for helping me. - Dafrca

You're welcome.

Hey! Check out that link I posted earlier. There is some classic fluff there.

Shalom,
Maksim-Smelchak.

P.S.
What is the word that writers prefer for fluff? Colour background or somesuch?
Author:  stormseer [ Sun Jul 13, 2003 8:38 pm ]
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The Sensai and Illuminati have not been abandoned.. I recall seeing an article for Inquisitor a year or so ago in WD going into detail about them and other interesting factions to introduce in games- the basics were as Tas, Maksim and Primarch mention, if I remember correctly, but I'll see if I can dig it out and compare.....

-Maksim; Studio types genrally refer to fluff simply as 'background', but they call the little stories and scenes in codexs and rulebooks "colour text".... hope that helps! :;):
Author:  Jimbo [ Sun Jul 13, 2003 9:57 pm ]
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remember

fluff and background are never written out

it only fades away, not to be mentioned for many years, sometimes it hasn't been mentioned since the RT era, but it may come back at some point...

???
Author:  primarch [ Mon Jul 14, 2003 12:08 am ]
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Hi!

Actually, a lot of the old fluff is alive and kicking in all those novels GW's black library pump out. I have been reading a few and are quite entertaining. At least those conserve that dark old gothic feel.

Primarch
Author:  dafrca [ Mon Jul 14, 2003 1:03 am ]
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Quote (MaksimSmelchak @ 13 2003 July,10:58)
Hey! Check out that link I posted earlier. There is some classic fluff there.

Oh, I have been. Some good stuff there. Some I knew about and some I had forgotten about. Great stuff all around.

dafrca
Author:  stormseer [ Tue Jul 15, 2003 10:50 pm ]
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Good to see you are liking some BL stuff Primarch....

I really do reccomend (most) of them, as they are quite unlike any other startrek/wars, D&D etc rubbish that people may have been put off by...
Author:  primarch [ Wed Jul 16, 2003 12:03 am ]
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Hi!

I have become quite fond of the BL books actually. I have bought and read about 2 dozen of them and plan on getting some more. I think its the only GW product that still makes me feel like when I first started reading the 40k universe so long ago.

Nice books.

Primarch
Author:  netepic [ Wed Jul 16, 2003 1:45 pm ]
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I seem to remember that in a fluff seminar a few years back Andy C made a bold statement that the Inquisition had purged all of the Squats and all of the Sensei... and the Illuminati.

Provoked quite a response back then...
Author:  dafrca [ Thu Jul 17, 2003 3:23 am ]
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Quote (netepic @ 16 2003 July,05:45)
I seem to remember that in a fluff seminar a few years back Andy C made a bold statement that the Inquisition had purged all of the Squats and all of the Sensei... and the Illuminati.

Provoked quite a response back then...

GW and the top "fluff" guys have always shown a great disregard for how such comments effect the fanboys.  :;):

Many of these fanbys take this stuff very seriously.

dafrca
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