Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-24180680-20140312145854/@comment-24180680-20140324195558

Well... lets really look at them as characters then...

The first real appearance of the Family was in secrets of thelican, where it was Wartem that caught sindri trying attempting to influence vulture with the warp. We wouldn't see him again until "into the Webway".

Wartek appeared shortly after to lead vultures forces on the septimus assualt, but he didn't do much, especially since he's killed off a few posts later. Only to return as one of the currently known Beast Warte's, a warp monster that resulted from a warte body being thrown into the warpforge. Wartek became some type of trcking moster meant to hunt down people of interest... only to fail at nearly all attempts.

Next is Wartel who is seen serving the sentinels. Its revealed later on that these characters with very similar names were in fact family, and its mostly split down the middle, roughly half supporting Vulture whilst the other half supports the imperium... or more precisesly, the Senintels exclusively. He seemed like a compentent librarian, with a focus on ice based skills and abilities, along with a more supportive role than that of attack. However, because Dan's posts during the campaign were scarce, we never got that much characterization. He eventually fell to wartem in combat, after saving most of the senitel squad he was with... or at least thought he saved.

Here we get a bit more on Wartem, in that he mainly prefers fire attacks and seems to run his mouth. Its here we also first learn of the Judgements, one of which is in wartem's possesion. For what litte their is, he seemed to be more of a planner, one that would manipulate others than take care of it himself, though he wouldn't be opposed to it. However, before we had a chance to learn more, he was rashly killed off by something completely random. He would then become another beast Warte and a much more effective one, his hands being made of pure Melta energy, allowing him to literally wave his hand through nearly any known metal in the galaxy, including what the necrons use. He can also produce metla beams, making him a very effective killer... to 'nearly' everything we have seen.

In dans last few posts on ITW, we got a sneak peak at wartez, a very powerful sorceror said to be nearly equal to vulture in power (Pre-god Fusion) and is further strengthend by his own darkness based Judgement. Its also been hinted, if not outright shown, that he may have access to the Alhendors abyssal powers. He thus far seems to be one of the most serious of the few we've seen, giving off an aura that he usually shound't need to get invovled in anothers mission. It is also revealed that he is vultures right hand and highest confident, further boasting his already high power. He is also the leader of Vulture's hand, the five highest and most powerful sorcerors in vulture's military. The others being Wartey, Wartex, Wartew, and Wartev. He is completely loyal to vulture, and will most likely defend him to his death. His powers embrace shadows and darkness. It also seems he can create clones out of darkness and shadows that are indistinguisable from the actual thing (His appearances in the dark city are revealed to be these during a recent post)

Now we get to the one of the few warte's that stole most of the dark eldars 'enemy fuel' through nearly half of the RTDC campaign, Wartev. Out of all that we have seen so far, Wartev has been seen and interacted with the most, as he became a major character in the campaign. Revealed to have been... 'touched'... by slanesh him/herself, Explaining much of his rather... 'odd' behavior. His thoughts and actions range from ridiculus and non-sensical, to downright brilliant and exteremly effective. From buying some food and jumping around in glee, to raising hordes of zombies and taking the soul of dark eldar commander quite easily, along with sequring several thousand troops for Vultures army, all in the same week. With his control over souls, it can be said he is a much more dangerous oppenent than most. Whilst the body can grow back, be rebuilt, or replaced in some cases, your soul cannot. Addtionally, one of wartev's judgement's abilities prevents his own soul from ever being taken, the use being seen in the fight with the dark eldar menitoned before. Its shown that the only thing keeping him back is his personality. Because of his rash, girly, and downright 'fabulous' nature, he usually falls short, never finishs, or simply loses interest in many of his original goals, allowing his enemies to live, targets to escape, and even send adversaries straight to there own goals (despite conflicting with his own). Despite this, he is still a really good villian, showing the true insanity of the warp and chaos as whole, and why chaos in the end would lose. But I have a feeling that he will somehow win in the end... he's just too awesome not too.

I know we saw Wartea and Wartex as well, but I think I've made most of My point... Where given time, Dan can really work with a character and make him memerable... to me at least.