So what good is a Lord of Change then? I mean i always thought they were the ones who liked to come up with complicated strategies and had a great sense of tactical know-how? I mean don't get me wrong Blood Thristers are great at making carnage and destruction, though i would have thought of them as more of the "Kill now and ask questions later" type of daemons. I mean their IQ are much more intelligent than the more common bloodletter, but there is no way they are far more intelligent at strategy or cunning than a Lord of Change.
Tzeentch is not about "tactical genious", it's about scheming. If a Tzeentchian goes to battle is because it has seen the effect of such an action in the future and such future, through the actions in battle serve his or her purpose. It's all about the big picture, not the "here and now tactics". About the main topic, the Blood Ravens, there is one, and only one fact, although so big it is enough for me, to despise them and the entire DOW series, and THQ as a whole. Azariah Kyras was a PSYKER, that turned to KHORNE. Khorne despises psykers. In several games, such as Black Crusade, etc, If you follow Khorne, your psyker traits are DISABLED. The Warhammer universe is complex, and rich, and the ********* chose JUST the wrong combination. a Khornate PSYKER. I have yet to see a BIGGER and MORE INSULTING kick right into the groin to the Warhammer 40k lore. I am glad they are gone. This fits any Tzeentchian follower View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO21ze8Up34
Just to follow on with your point, no Greater Daemon is stupid. They all have knowledge of things usually hidden to mortals because they exist outside the timestream. Having said that, they each mirror their gods traits; Tzeentch is more manipulative, Nurgle is more friendly, Khorne is more rowdy, and Slaanesh has a fantastic grasp of mortal motivations. Yet, each has a combination of those traits, because all the Gods sort of bleed into each other to some degree. All of them are capable of independent action, and all are self serving to some degree as well. How many times did Azariah pull out his force stave and zap somebody with some lightning when he was worshipping Khorne? None? If so, wouldn't you say that he has disabled his psychic powers? Khorne despises the usage of psychic powers, he doesn't despise psykers. Once upon a time, Khorne used to have Blood Priests.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfAXPCl4RHs&list=PLTE4WqbXbTRvLVDeSmP9sv2qSmz3IzMyu 3:30 and forth, Azariah's speech. The effects on the portrait are clearly "warpish", his "presence" there while he is not there is a form of sorcery, not some photoshopping from the Chapter Master. It's the use of his psychic powers, which can be supported by the visual effect that I have already mentioned of his portrait. You can, however, choose to believe what you please. Which is fine. However, besides some "visual effects", other facts to support what I have said, that he is a "psyker" who is a Khornate, I will share. http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Azariah_Kyras#.Urj8HPR5PRU Even though there are millions of shades of grey in Warhammer 40k, where almost everything is possible, even If just in counted few cases, saying that a PSYKER falls to Nurgle-THEN Khorne is like saying a "Convinced, true pacifist" turned a bloodthirsty killer that enjoys it. To avoid cheap argumental resources: No, I do not mean a psyker = pacifist. I just mean that Psyker and Khorne are anathema, because Tzeentch feeds on psykers, for they CHANGE reality to their will, for they have the Will to Change Reality to their Will, while Khorne abhors psykers, considering them cowardly. Even If still it is possible, sure, I accept that, I still criticize the company for having a billion other choices and deciding to choose the less likely. The less fitting. The most uncomfortable, under my point of view. Also, after becoming a Khornate, in the Judgement of Carrion, he becomes CHIEF LIBRARIAN without having or using Psychic powers? Doesn't make sense. He was a khornate psyker, as far as we can know by the information we can get, and that is simple nonsense.
Yea, it bugs me a lot too. I don't know why Ulkair didn't just infect him with a disease to make him serve Nurgle for survival. Tzeench not being the Chaos god in that makes no sense. Their saying about about knowledge and it's power, and he was a Librarian manipulating people for his needs.
Well in the CSM Campaign it is suggested a little bit that Kyras was actually scheming to become a Warmaster of chaos rather than to just simply serve Khorne and since Khorne is considered to be one of the more powerful of the chaos gods, it would make more since for Kyras to gain his Favor by sacrificing the blood ravens to him. He already has Nurgle's blessing by possessing Galan and bounding Ulkair to Aurelia so the planet could get sucked into the warp, he probably has Tzeentch's blessing since he is a Psyker and corrupted the blood ravens chapter from the inside out without detection until it was too late for the Loyalists to really do anything. The only thing is that he never really gained a blessing from Slaanesh, though he was able to get his hands on the eldar Farseer Taldeer and torture her relentlessly until she got sucked into her soul stone after her death.
That's pretty compelling. To be honest, I've had problems with them before with Sindri belonging to the 'Blood Legion of Khorne' well before DoW2 came out, even though I loved his character. In a way, I blame Sindri for Azariah, because it seems to me they realized what an awesome character he was and tried to ape themselves. When I said that though about Azariah not explicitly using psychic powers, I really did just think about the events of the game (i.e., he never shoots lightning), but not the background leading up to it. More than anything, a Chief Librarian not using psychic powers is just numbskull.
Not sure how it was in 5th ed, but in 6th they've made it possible for successor chapters to be based off the traitors because the Administratum has gene-samples of all their legions still on file. Apparently the ones that turned to Chaos are kept under lock and key, but presumably the Inquisitors could still access it, and at the end of the day things could easily be mis-filled in the Administratum or could have been released by a 'bureaucraticerror.'
Meh I think Sindri proved himself to Tzeentch, he did after all Manipulate Isador into helping him uncover the pieces he needed in order to find and use the Maledictum to become a Daemon Prince of chaos, not to mention he knew that about a billion deaths were needed to truly break the daemon free, which is why he called on the orks to help fight the Blood ravens, used Bale, the Eldar, and even Isador himself as a way to make Gabriel Ignore Inquisitor Toth's warnings and Blindly feed the daemon more power by recklessly killing those who had betrayed him, or wanted him dead, etc.
