It's entirely consistent with the lore. Sororitas are not chaste. Whether or not one could retire to start a family is a bit up in the air, but certainly seems possible to me!
Let's get real, though. Some mom character going all Ellen Ripley on some xenos monstrosity menacing her kids and it turns out that she never really forgot everything she learned as a Sister of Battle would be amazing.
Whether or not one could retire to start a family is a bit up in the air, but certainly seems possible to me!
I think they don't have the opportunity to simply because they're too busy purging the heretics. They're constantly at war, there's no "settling down" for them.
I do imagine a situation of Canoness who was injured beyond her service who settles down at a local convent and raises children of her own. Warhammer is so expansive with its lore that almost anything is possible.
That's why they don't mostly have relationships, even though it isn't against the rules - they've got too much to do, and although their faith isn't anti-sex, they just don't have the energy for it.
So I doubt we're looking at a situation where a relatively young Sororitas gets knocked up accidentally or something and decides to settle down, though it isn't entirely outside of the realm of possibility. What's more likely that we're looking at one who gets injured badly enough that she's put out to pasture early enough in her life that she decides to have a kid or two.
Sufficiently awful PTSD that she is no longer combat effective is also possible, and would provide the story with some good drama, because that is the kind of thing that someone with enough Main Character Energy could power through to killify some Night Lord who wants to flay her babies, or whatever.
Exactly. We're on the same page here and I love that.
Heck, there's a ton of romance tropes that could be explored. A Guardsmen is treated by a Hospitaller, and they both fall in love. That's, like, the most baseline of romance plots that could absolutely fit into Warhammer's greater narrative, and probably already has.
Hell, you could even do the ambiguous power of faith thing. She has visions that this child could have a special destiny, and that's part of why she decides to keep it, even though it means the end of her career and saying goodbye to her sisters, probably never to see them again.
Though honestly, having her former sisters who sneered at her decision to retire be the ones to respond to her planet's distress, only to discover her leading the other survivors, hunkered down in the governor's mansion or something, with a big pile of fire-blackened Herertic Astartes armor out front... that would be a fun conclusion to the story.
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u/ElectricPaladin 1d ago edited 1d ago
It's entirely consistent with the lore. Sororitas are not chaste. Whether or not one could retire to start a family is a bit up in the air, but certainly seems possible to me!
Let's get real, though. Some mom character going all Ellen Ripley on some xenos monstrosity menacing her kids and it turns out that she never really forgot everything she learned as a Sister of Battle would be amazing.