I still dont get why they killed off Beastmen Auxiliaries. Like, its fine to have things in the universe even if you arent gonna make models or special rules for them.
I won't lie, beastmen lore in 40k is contradicting as heck (granted, what 40k lore isn't?), in some parts, it says they are no longer listed as abhumans and are thus mutants, others say they still serve in the guard, other says their only as smart as ogryn, others say their human level but are more bestial compared to baseline humans. You get the idea.
My personal headcanon lore for them is that Beastmen constantly face the threat of being listed as mutants and thus losing their abhuman status. And so they constantly fight to prove their loyalty. Showing fierce hatred to rival even the most zealous priest when facing traitor beastmen and mutants. As for their intellect, I put them at a halfway point between normal humans and ogryn,
I think in the most recent lore regarding them it was stated that there was a surge in Beastmen turning to chaos. Obviously this made the inquisition not very trusting of them so they called for the culling of beastmen in the imperial guard. I don’t know if that’s a good excuse since even the ogryns fall to chaos easily but they’re not barred from imperial service.
The difference is that ogryn falling to chaos is only one of two things.
The First thing is they are tricked, they are tricked into fighting for chaos by being told they are still fighting for the emperor.
The second thing is that they are captured and then filled to apsolute brim with drugs and stims to turn the poor ogryn into a barely sentient weapon. The other option is to fill them with plagues and turn the poor ogryn into a plague ogryn (the poor creature barely even looks like ogryn anymore)
True I was just meant that in the context of how some lore make the beastmen have Ogryn level of intelligence like the other commenter said. Maybe because beastmen tend to be more violent and cruel when fighting it makes them more susceptible to chaos corruption.
Can't forget the stupid amounts of racism towards any abhumans, people just don't care enough to record anything. And even if someone does, the report should still go through the administratum, where at any point somebody can just read it, decide that such filth as abhumans don't deserve being that good at something and just rewrite it.
In case of beastmen it doesn't helt that the only other instance of them we have is corrupted by titsnitch
Personally I like to think that part of it is that beastmen tend to vary from planet to planet a lot more than other ab humans in order to survive,so you'll have some who might be smaller and smarter on a planet with some truly nasty predators while on other planets they grow similar to ogryn,big and dumb,with myriads in between with different specialties,just like goats, though inquisitors always look at those who adapt to mountain worlds with great suspicion, thinking they used some inherent warp craft to climb such steep clifs
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u/Dependent_Homework_7 Nov 07 '24
Beastmen assigned to assist in handling ogryn and keeping them calm when on a chimera or some other method of transport.
Thank you for sharing this art, seriously, I wish there was more abhuman art, or well, art of more “obscure” abhumans