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**Exor**

Been reading Fulgrim recently and yet again, another Avatar dies in a ridiculous fashion.

Spoiler:

Do authors just hate the eldar, or more specifically, the avatars? Every 40k book i read with an avatar in it just fills me with dread.

"Oh god.... not another avatar"

It's ridiculous!! Avatars are incarnations of a god, yet they are killed in such stupid ways. e.g. Calgar and his power fists

Does anyone have any idea as to why this is happening?

**Frazzled**

You want an Avatar from an "eldar point of view" read Shadowpoint.

Spoiler:

**Sanctjud**

SM are GW poster boy, everything else is supposed to be spanked.

For Fulgrim it shows primarchs are bad asses.

For Calgar, I do agree it's over the top.

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I remember that book, the Harlies immediately drop whatever and bow to it in the webway...wow, it's been a long time since I read that.

**Locclo**

Exor wrote:Been reading Fulgrim recently and yet again, another Avatar dies in a ridiculous fashion.

Spoiler:

Fulgrim punches the avatar in the face, then chokes it to death

Do authors just hate the eldar, or more specifically, the avatars? Every 40k book i read with an avatar in it just fills me with dread.

"Oh god.... not another avatar"

It's ridiculous!! Avatars are incarnations of a god, yet they are killed in such stupid ways. e.g. Calgar and his power fists

Does anyone have any idea as to why this is happening?

What the feth? Didn't know that one happened...time to start reading Fulgrim now (After I finish Ragnar's Claw)

**KingCracker**

I think they do it, simply because they want to portray "this guy is an awesome sauce taco" And so have them killing Avatars with ease. Why? Because everyone that has faced an Avatar, KNOWS they dont die with ease (and if someone comments on how a lone guardsmen took one out with a laspistol Im mailing you anthrax) so now you know, man that guy is some kind of awesome

**Defiler**

Well, to be fair an avatar is just a representation of a higher power's true energy.

So I don't think it's so crazy a powerfist punches one out. I'd say it's on par with a Marine Sgt killing a Greater Daemon. It's a little ridiculous but I just view it as dramatic license.

**children of filth**

did i tell you about the time my friend's lone guardsman killed an avatar with a laspistol?

**Iron_Chaos_Brute**

KingCracker wrote:(and if someone comments on how a lone guardsmen took one out with a laspistol Im mailing you anthrax)

And KingCracker's I.P. address is run through a database and his name added to another database...

**Tyrant Valafar**

The big scary "monsters" in books always get slain to show just how awesome the main character is though it does suck how not once have I read the avatar not dying lol. Least they just go back to the craftworld after "dying".

**Elthrai**

I'll take the Primarch killing one, now choking it to death. Last I checked they were iron constructs with molten metal running through them. Just how does it need to breathe?

But as for Calgar, the things are representations of the god of war. Maybe they are not the full fledged war god but they are WS 10 in the game. They should be able to kill a marine with a tea cup if they wanted. Shenanigans I say.