How many primarchs did Horus kill?

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**BrianDavion**

Big Mac wrote:
Dorn killed Alpharius, the runt of the litter; Guilliman killed Omegon, Alpharius' twin.

Gulliman MAY have.

**Iron_Captain**

Big Mac wrote:
Dorn killed Alpharius, the runt of the litter; Guilliman killed Omegon, Alpharius' twin.

Both may still be alive. With Alpharius/Omegon you can never be sure. For all we know in some future book it will be revealed that Dorn just killed a body double while the real Alpharius was away plotting something nasty. There is no way of knowing whether the real Alpharius is dead or not since no one (even within the Alpha Legion) knows who the real Alpharius is. Alpha Legion fluff is never this straightforward, you can be sure that there is some kind of future plot twist planned.

**Mellow**

Alpharius IS dead. He died quite spectacularly and if you think he's still alive you're a wrongun.

Guilliman is not dead either obviously. This must be an old thread.

**Ynneadwraith**

Mellow wrote:
Someone who called himself Alpharius IS dead.

FTFY

**Captain Joystick**

BrainDeleted wrote:
Durza wrote:
Dorn: Is either dead or walking around the Warp with no hands, depending on who you believe. Loses points for being killed by a non-main character.

I thought the Fists had his skeleton encased in amber as well?

The Fists only recovered one of Dorn's hands. No kill was confirmed.

Frankly it's rather annoying that the Imperial Fists just seem to have assumed he died after finding the hand.

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Iron_Captain wrote:
For all we know in some future book it will be revealed that Dorn just killed a body double while the real Alpharius was away plotting something nasty.

You aren't wrong, but I hope they don't do that. If you don't plan on reading Praetorian of Dorn:

Spoiler:

Having him turn out to be a body-double all along would spoil a pretty decent entry in the series.

**Alpharius**

The whole thing has been spoiled by Dorn

Spoiler:

As for Guilliman - even back when there was 'only' one Alpharius, it was almost 100% a certainty that he killed someone other than the Legion's primarch.

Now?

Who knows where the story will go.

After all, Alpharius and Alpha Legion marines were among the *tallest* marines back then - with Alpha being almost as tall as Horus.

Ah, how things change...

Also, yes, this thread is really old...

**Mellow**

It makes more sense to be smaller. They are essentially two made from one. So half as good each.

The scene shows Omegon noticing the link between them is broken. I think authors have even confirmed it's a real death.

**Alpharius**

Because there are no tall twins in the world?!? LOLWUT?!?

It makes...no sense.

Or as much sense as anything else in 30K/40K.

Also, watch your spoiler tags - given BL's release schedule, I don't think many have read PRAETORIANS OF DORN yet!

**Lance845**

Manus is also potentially being cloned and killed over and over again in the Eye while Fulgrim continues to try to convince him to join Chaos.

**Mellow**

That's not potentially. That's actually happening.

Cloned from a drop of blood or something else relatively small. But no metal arms obviously. His real body was shredded to tiny bits.

**Alpharius**

Where is this information coming from?!?