I've never actually owned an ork codex(which will be rectified now I have a pile of orks) so must have missed that.
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So more than one nod to their true origins
Forgot about that.
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Mostly off topic, while its cool that the Blood Ravens have an official model now(though I would have liked some more chapter specific bits; the shoulder pad and the raven's head on the sword's pommel are neat, but that greave would be just as at home on any given Blood Angels model), I'm a bit concerned to discover that the Blood Ravens transfer sheet is no longer listed on the Forgeworld website. Maybe, given the Deathwatch model's shoulder is using the updated Space Marine game version of their emblem, it's a sign of things to come, given the transfer sheet was the Dawn of War 2 version. Or maybe it's just not coming back and it's a good thing I grabbed an extra. Fingers crossed they show up as a secondary force with some resin bits in the next Imperial Armor though. After all, I don't know when they updated the photos for it, but there's a Blood Ravens Thunderhawk among their images for it now...
Spawn of Cryptus may have just been an unusual example- I'm sure the methods of the cults adapts to the best strategy available, and the cult on the planet visited by the mother of the Spawn must have decided that impregnating her was the best strategy to spread their progeny.