Talk:Khornate Knights

do we put the below on the main page? it's pretty good.

No, it reads like a TVTropes page. And it's stupid. Tim 08:06, 28 June 2012 (BST)

Possible explanation?

It is possible that this episode was intended to stop people thinking about WH40K as of not-so-grimdark universe after reading all those tales about ultimate good in the form of knights in shining armour. You see, it is explictly stated that no GK ever fell to corruption, but it is also stated that their success is based on crazy preparations for everything they can run into. Having a name to counter specific demon? We'll give you one. Need some saint's mummyfied fingers to seal a Warp rift? Check your backpack. And so on. It is also stated that they possess a lot of other forbidden knowledge and techniques. At this point a reader should ask himself: "Okay, fine, none of GK ever suffered corruption, but what is the price of such purity? Wasn't I too naive to think that WH40K actually have unambiguously Good Guys who don't have to eat innocent orphanes to recieve power to fight Evil?". And suddenly you realize that there is no such thing as uncorruptable armor-clad men bringing light of hope into the 'verse, but a bunch of witty psykers who are taught to fight daemons using specific techniqies, which may demand one to commit dark rituals and other henious things to actually work. Remeber Inquisitor Kryptman exterminating dozen Imperial worlds to starve tyranids, killing billions in the process? That's how thigs are done in grimdark setting. Incorruptable Pure Puriness of a knights who can single-handedly kick chaos' ass while NOT having skeletons in their wardrobes just don't fit it (save them for noblebright WH, I think). However, an association of psykers who do outright disgusting things to avert things even more disgusting and evil (from certain PoV anyways), now that's something that fits. It seems sometimes that GW likes this Matt's approach of making things dark and hopeless. I mean, you know that this world is fucked when ultimate defenders of mankind are ones of "anti-hero" type and when even Necron race is ravaged by angst. ...aaaand now we have to ignore things like certain GK special characters kicking chaotic arses left and right without trouble, certain entities having unbelievable layer of plot armour and the like, in order to have consistent fluff. So, in my opinion, Khornate Knights incedent can be considered justified, but only if you can provide a good explanation of why some GK must pay huge price (ranging from their efforts to their humanity) for their power while others seem to get their "resouces" out of nowhere. Tl;dr: "Khornate Knights" episode is fine, it's just inconsistent with sugarbowl bullshit which is the rest of GK fluff, mostly. This inconsistence hurts the fluff, among other things.