>>11300051You're a secondary, anon.
>sweeping, unpopularI've seen plenty of retards throwing tantrums about it, but I've also seen those same retards keep throwing money at Games Workshop. Meanwhile, the majority of GWs core customers are busy building and painting models, and don't know or don't care.
>Zero supporting loreThe 10th edition Custodes codex contains a short story featuring a female custodian. The codexes are the most official primary sources available for Warhammer 40k, and the most recent one shows that some Custodes are female. So no, a "fucking hack twitter intern" did not make this decision, a codex writer did, and their editor signed off on it and sent it to print. Additionally, The Tithes (a GW-produced animated series that was in production WELL before the Twitter post was made) features a female custodian as a main character. So there's 2 supporting pieces of official media.
>Decades of pre-ceding lore that explicitly states they were ALWAYS menPlease, show me that lore. You're welcome to try, but I know for a fact that it does not exist. The fact of the matter is, only Space Marines are stated to exclusively be men. The lore you're thinking of is regarding Space Marine geneseed, which is irrelevant to the issue of Custodes. They are created via "arcane genetic alchemy", and have never been stated to make use of geneseed at all.
The only piece of "lore" regarding their gender is the passage from their first codex stating that "it is a great honor for those of noble Terran houses to submit a son" (to be a candidate for being made a custodian). This wording was changed slightly in 10th edition to say "child" instead of "son", an intentional change which was confirmed by the custodian in The Tithes and their social media team.
But guess what? The first custodes codex came out less than a decade ago, during 7th edition! So no, there are not "decades" of "pre-ceding" lore.
Feel free to show me the lore you're citing.
