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 Delvarus Centurion wrote:
Just admit you are wrong, so what if it was 5 years he was warmaster, that's not what you thought or said.

Your proof that Magnus knew about chaos was that Horus knew about it, so that it was reasonable to assume that Magnus knew too. My counter to that was that the quote you posted was from a Horus that was on the verge of turning to chaos himself a short time before the Horus heresy, so it would make sense that he would have found out about the true nature of chaos at this point and that doesn't mean that Magnus knew.

 Formosa wrote:
Delvarus is correct, Magnus was carrying a montrously powerful deamon around in his book, but hard to claim he didn’t know about Deamons when he carried one everywhere.

Magnus knew that he had trapped an extremely powerful warp entity in his book, but most likely didn't understand that it was a daemon and everything that THAT entails as we as readers do. Remember, the emperor was still trying to pretend that daemons were extradimensional xenos and that the chaos gods didn't exist at this point.

I think Magnus started to get an inkling of the true nature of chaos after Aghuro, but I don't think he really comprehended what that meant until after he broke through the psychic barriers around Terra. Magnus realized that he had been serving chaos unintentionally all along and that he had been played hard by an entity with an intelligence so vast that it entirely outstripped his own.

Magnus made bargains with daemons willingly, but he didn't realize what that MEANT. He merely thought he was bargaining for information with warp creatures. Sure it was going to cost him, but he was willing to pay for knowledge. He didn't realize until the very end that the price you pay for bargaining with daemons is your soul, no matter how clever you are.