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Hellish Haemonculus






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My favorite Horus Heresy character is John Grammaticus.

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Banelord Titan Princeps of Khorne




Noctis Labyrinthus

Only several of their number rejected Magnus when the depth of his betrayal was realized (And no, not stopping your father from making what amounts to a glorified telephone call, even against the Emperor's orders, is not equivelant to aiding in a rebellion against the Imperium of Man).

Ahriman did not use the Rubric for the sake of increasing his own power, that was a side-effect. He used the Rubric to save his legion from the Flesh Change, as Magnus was silent.

Magnus wasn't whining in Aurelian, though I haven't read any other depictions of him after that novella, so he might have in, say, Betrayer, admittedly.
   
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Sinister Chaos Marine




Sevatar and Curze win this one for me, definitely feels like Curze manages to stand out from the other Primarchs in a lot of almost funny ways.
   
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Perturbed Blood Angel Tactical Marine





Uk, east anglia

Just saw that I spelt sevatar as severus. Lol no idea where I got severus from. The night lords in general are awesome. I also love the iron hands morlock caption, can't remember his name.

Argal tal is badass too.

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Executing Exarch






Tarvitz. Love the part where eidolon is attacking and Tarvitz thinks to himsellf 'If only I had 100 space marines.....hang on a minute!'
And then proceeds to introduce eidolon's force to an absolute kicking.
Then he completely suckers Lucius.
All this from a 'line officer'

 Blacksails wrote:

Its because ordinance is still a word.
However, firing ordinance at someone isn't nearly as threatening as firing ordnance at someone.
Ordinance is a local law, or bill, or other form of legislation.
Ordnance is high caliber explosives.
No 'I' in ordnance.
Don't drown the enemy in legislation, drown them in explosives.
 
   
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 Jimsolo wrote:
My favorite Horus Heresy character is John Grammaticus.


I am very intrigued about him and Oll Persson. I hope those two play bigger roles in the books to come.

 
   
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Solahma






RVA

"Glorified telephone call" is ... a bit misleading. I've never received a call that caused daemons to burst through portals in my house. Magnus was reckless in his arrogance on that occasion, as on every other. I agree that it's certainly not the same things as directly murdering loyalist marines. But betrayal is still betrayal. The Thousand Sons stood with their Primarch in utter disregard of Nikaea. To use an archaic phrase, they are inconstant. The Flesh Change is a fitting literalization of their psychological nature. And Ahriman pulled the exact same reckless, arrogant, and ultimately catastrophic gak -- all to save the Legion? I severely doubt it. After so many very bad decisions, I think a bit of skepticism regarding their motives is in order. The Thousand Sons are very good a deluding themselves, as is fitting for Tzeentchian pawns.

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It's either loken, tarvitz, or kharn. I love the valor and intelligence of loken and tarvitz. But the apathy and choice of rage of kharn and his just don't give a gak attitude despite clearly being pretty intelligent is fun to me.
   
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Manchester, England

Loken, just for punching Lucius in the nose.

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Garro or Loken are they two choices I am stuck between.

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"In short there is no Order only Chaos eternal so lament and be quelled with fear if you serve the False Emperor or accept the gifts bestowed by the pantheon of the four gods and rejoice as the galaxy burns." - Unknown Wordbearer  
   
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 Jimsolo wrote:
My favorite Horus Heresy character is John Grammaticus.

How could I forget about him
I actually felt sorry for him, and that doesn't happen often when I'm reading books.

   
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NoVA

Sevatar.

Also, Lion really grew on me, especially when...

Spoiler:
He defeated Curze, believing him finished. The Lion didn't taunt or relish in his victory, he just salute Curze as he fell


I was mainly reading about Night Lords, so I got a lot of the Dark Angels also. It made me like both more.

Playing: Droids (Legion), Starks (ASOIAF), BB2
Working on: Starks (ASOIAF), Twilight Kin (KoW). Droids (Legion)
 
   
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Been Around the Block




St Custards

Kharn - putting flesh on the bones of a hugely one dimensional character. His appearances is After De'shea and Butchers Nails, plus the one where he's beating seven bells out of the Thousand Sons captain, show you the gradual slide from an honourable, devoted and intelligent man, if a single-minded tool of war when his blood is up, towards the one-track loon he ends up. Haven't read Betrayer yet.

Samus, just because of his unexpected return.

Indias Cavalerio is great, showing the Princeps' transition from straight plug in to being in a casket. Very much the spiritual forebear of Lord Gearheart.

Corax. Nuff said.

The Iron Warriors Warsmith Barabus who mangles his traitor colleagues in Iron Within, Iron Without..

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Hurr! Ogryn Bone 'Ead!






Western Australia

I related most to Magnus. I mean, come on dakkans, what would you do if you had etherical powers and had to fight a war. Don't tell me you wouldn't use them and spit on them and not use them.
Bollocks.
You would aid yourself to not get shot and destroy all in your path. As Magnus did and showed it to his legion, who also did. It was what made the Thousand Sons legion so good at killing, but (with the exception of Magnus and the guy who killed Callipso for her future telling [I think that's her name, it's 12:30 in the morning, sue me]). It was their legions being to gather more knowledge as knowledge is power.
But it really began when a dozen Space Wolves attacked Magnus and all they could do was defend themselves against the furry savages, and blood being spilt over a library! If it wasn't for that and Russ's vow for revenge, then I don't think that Etheric powers would be banned and the Thousand Sons wouldn't die (I'm up to the bit in the 3rd book [listening to audio book bc I can] when Callipso dies for the Space Marines).
Just a side note, who has seen Game of Thrones. Anyone who has you will probably know what I'm talking about.
Stark-Space Wolves
Lannisters-Thousand Sons (This does not include Goeffery, who can die in a hole for all I care)
Black Watch-Death Watch
Khaleesi-White Scars
Any other legion.

Anyway, off topic, but had to be said.
That's all the rambling from me.
Cheers
-Bax123

"Tell the Colonel... We've been thrown to the Wolves." -Templeton.
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Alluring Sorcerer of Slaanesh






Reading, UK

Ignace Karkasy and Hastur Sejanus

No pity, no remorse, no shoes 
   
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Willing Inquisitorial Excruciator




Croatia

Wait for the third season, it will be great (i've read the book), but later game of thrones goes to crap...

ADB: I showed the Wolves revealing the key weakness at the heart of the World Eaters; showing Angron that his Legion was broken and worthless compared to the others; that he was the one primarch who couldn't trust his own warriors, and that they didn't care if he lived or died; showing that loyalty to brothers and sons is the heart of success for the Legiones Astartes, to the point even Lorgar makes a big deal out of saying the World Eaters and their primarch were massively outclassed by Russ, and Angron was too stupid to see the lesson Russ had sacrificed time, sweat, and blood, to teach. We're talking about a battle the Wolves won, by isolating the enemy general through pack tactics, and threatening to kill him, without a hope of defending himself. It was a balance, 50/50 - Angron overpowered Russ, and the Wolves were losing ground to the World Eaters; but Russ and his warriors had Angron by the balls, and barely broke a sweat. They won, no question. Lorgar even says: "The Wolves won, meathead."

Dorn won’t help you either. He’s too busy being the Emperor’s groundskeeper, hiding behind the palace walls. The Wolf is too busy cutting off heads as our father’s executioner, while the Lion holds on to his secrets, and has no special fondness for you. Who else will come? Not Ferrus, certainly. Nor Corax either. Even as we speak, I suspect he flees for Deliverance. Sanguinius?’ Curze laughed cruelly. ‘The angel is more cursed than I. The Khan? He does not wish to be found. So who is left? No one, Vulkan. None of them will come. You are simply not that important. You are alone.’ Konrad Curze to Vulkan


 
   
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A random ditch next to a zoo (self imposed exile)

I quite like Argel Tal. He's a really nice bloke, I think. I was actually quite moved by his thought process just before he gave the order to open fire on Isstvan 5...thinking about his family and stuff.

"How many people here have telekenetic powers raise my hand" - The Emperor, The council of Nikae

"Never raise your hand to your children, it leaves your midsection unprotected" - The Emperor

"My father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic" - Kharn 
   
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Crushing Black Templar Crusader Pilot




Philippines

Sevatar ~!

Your honor is your life, let non dispute it!  
   
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Willing Inquisitorial Excruciator




Croatia

 Viersche wrote:
Sevatar ~!

Yeah, killing 10000 dark angels with a pocket knife make's him cool...

ADB: I showed the Wolves revealing the key weakness at the heart of the World Eaters; showing Angron that his Legion was broken and worthless compared to the others; that he was the one primarch who couldn't trust his own warriors, and that they didn't care if he lived or died; showing that loyalty to brothers and sons is the heart of success for the Legiones Astartes, to the point even Lorgar makes a big deal out of saying the World Eaters and their primarch were massively outclassed by Russ, and Angron was too stupid to see the lesson Russ had sacrificed time, sweat, and blood, to teach. We're talking about a battle the Wolves won, by isolating the enemy general through pack tactics, and threatening to kill him, without a hope of defending himself. It was a balance, 50/50 - Angron overpowered Russ, and the Wolves were losing ground to the World Eaters; but Russ and his warriors had Angron by the balls, and barely broke a sweat. They won, no question. Lorgar even says: "The Wolves won, meathead."

Dorn won’t help you either. He’s too busy being the Emperor’s groundskeeper, hiding behind the palace walls. The Wolf is too busy cutting off heads as our father’s executioner, while the Lion holds on to his secrets, and has no special fondness for you. Who else will come? Not Ferrus, certainly. Nor Corax either. Even as we speak, I suspect he flees for Deliverance. Sanguinius?’ Curze laughed cruelly. ‘The angel is more cursed than I. The Khan? He does not wish to be found. So who is left? No one, Vulkan. None of them will come. You are simply not that important. You are alone.’ Konrad Curze to Vulkan


 
   
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Noctis Labyrinthus

Not as cool as throwing a spear into a Daemon Primarch's eye and making him scared of you for the rest of his life, amirite?
   
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Unhealthy Competition With Other Legions





Yeah Sevetar’s personality in “Prince of Crowns” was a little hard for me to digest. What a shame…

 amanita wrote:
So dare I ask what happens if he farts? Could it blow the seals on the lower portion of his armor? Or is a space marine's system immune to such mundane fluctuations of bodily conduct?

 Moktor wrote:
No one should be complaining about this codex. It gave regular Eldar a much needed buff by allowing us to drop Fire Dragons and D-Scythe Wraithguard wherever we want, without scatter. Without this, I almost lost a game once. It was scary. I almost took to buying fixed dice to ensure it never happened again.
 
   
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 Void__Dragon wrote:
Not as cool as throwing a spear into a Daemon Primarch's eye and making him scared of you for the rest of his life, amirite?


For RUSS!

not that Ragnar having his own series of 6 books in anyway influences the thickness of his plot armour....
Stll, at least he's not Rafen.

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 Blacksails wrote:

Its because ordinance is still a word.
However, firing ordinance at someone isn't nearly as threatening as firing ordnance at someone.
Ordinance is a local law, or bill, or other form of legislation.
Ordnance is high caliber explosives.
No 'I' in ordnance.
Don't drown the enemy in legislation, drown them in explosives.
 
   
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The drinking halls of Fenris or South London as its sometimes called

For me its got to be Bjorn and Argel Tal.

R.I.P Amy Winehouse


 
   
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USA

 theheartcollectors wrote:
Good choice. My fav part with tarik is when he mugs off that pompous emperors children caption on planet murder.


This is in Horus Rising, right? Well, I'm reading Fulgrim and it says Lucius got beaten by Tarik some one. I'm pretty sure the smug captain you speak of is Lucius the Eternal.

My favorite characters, even though I haven't read every book would have to be Fulgrim, Ahriman, Russ, and Sevatar.

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 Typhus the Betrayer wrote:
 theheartcollectors wrote:
Good choice. My fav part with tarik is when he mugs off that pompous emperors children caption on planet murder.


This is in Horus Rising, right? Well, I'm reading Fulgrim and it says Lucius got beaten by Tarik some one. I'm pretty sure the smug captain you speak of is Lucius the Eternal.


Nope, the smug captain was Eidelon, whilst it was Loken that beat (quite literally) Lucius in a fight IIRC.

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"It is the great irony of the Legiones Astartes: engineered to kill to achieve a victory of peace that they can then be no part of."
- Roboute Guilliman

"As I recall, your face was tortured. Imagine that - the Master of the Wolves, his ferocity twisted into grief. And yet you still carried out your duty. You always did what was asked of you. So loyal. So tenacious. Truly you were the attack dog of the Emperor. You took no pleasure in what you did. I knew that then, and I know it now. But all things change, my brother. I'm not the same as I was, and you're... well, let us not mention where you are now."
- Magnus the Red, to a statue of Leman Russ
 
   
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Croatia

Lucius was beaten by Loken, then he whooop Loken's arse second time, then Tarvitz (on Istvaan) beat him in the same way as Loken did first time.....
Spoiler:
But then Lucy was raped by that Raven Guard who killed him, and tought him a lesson in swordfightnin'....

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ADB: I showed the Wolves revealing the key weakness at the heart of the World Eaters; showing Angron that his Legion was broken and worthless compared to the others; that he was the one primarch who couldn't trust his own warriors, and that they didn't care if he lived or died; showing that loyalty to brothers and sons is the heart of success for the Legiones Astartes, to the point even Lorgar makes a big deal out of saying the World Eaters and their primarch were massively outclassed by Russ, and Angron was too stupid to see the lesson Russ had sacrificed time, sweat, and blood, to teach. We're talking about a battle the Wolves won, by isolating the enemy general through pack tactics, and threatening to kill him, without a hope of defending himself. It was a balance, 50/50 - Angron overpowered Russ, and the Wolves were losing ground to the World Eaters; but Russ and his warriors had Angron by the balls, and barely broke a sweat. They won, no question. Lorgar even says: "The Wolves won, meathead."

Dorn won’t help you either. He’s too busy being the Emperor’s groundskeeper, hiding behind the palace walls. The Wolf is too busy cutting off heads as our father’s executioner, while the Lion holds on to his secrets, and has no special fondness for you. Who else will come? Not Ferrus, certainly. Nor Corax either. Even as we speak, I suspect he flees for Deliverance. Sanguinius?’ Curze laughed cruelly. ‘The angel is more cursed than I. The Khan? He does not wish to be found. So who is left? No one, Vulkan. None of them will come. You are simply not that important. You are alone.’ Konrad Curze to Vulkan


 
   
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 DarthMarko wrote:
Lucius was beaten by Loken, then he whooop Loken's arse second time, then Tarvitz (on Istvaan) beat him in the same way as Loken did first time.....
Spoiler:
But then Lucy was raped by that Raven Guard who killed him, and tought him a lesson in swordfightnin'....


Spoilers, man. I haven't even read Angel Exterminatus.

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"It is the great irony of the Legiones Astartes: engineered to kill to achieve a victory of peace that they can then be no part of."
- Roboute Guilliman

"As I recall, your face was tortured. Imagine that - the Master of the Wolves, his ferocity twisted into grief. And yet you still carried out your duty. You always did what was asked of you. So loyal. So tenacious. Truly you were the attack dog of the Emperor. You took no pleasure in what you did. I knew that then, and I know it now. But all things change, my brother. I'm not the same as I was, and you're... well, let us not mention where you are now."
- Magnus the Red, to a statue of Leman Russ
 
   
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Croatia

Sorry Dave...

ADB: I showed the Wolves revealing the key weakness at the heart of the World Eaters; showing Angron that his Legion was broken and worthless compared to the others; that he was the one primarch who couldn't trust his own warriors, and that they didn't care if he lived or died; showing that loyalty to brothers and sons is the heart of success for the Legiones Astartes, to the point even Lorgar makes a big deal out of saying the World Eaters and their primarch were massively outclassed by Russ, and Angron was too stupid to see the lesson Russ had sacrificed time, sweat, and blood, to teach. We're talking about a battle the Wolves won, by isolating the enemy general through pack tactics, and threatening to kill him, without a hope of defending himself. It was a balance, 50/50 - Angron overpowered Russ, and the Wolves were losing ground to the World Eaters; but Russ and his warriors had Angron by the balls, and barely broke a sweat. They won, no question. Lorgar even says: "The Wolves won, meathead."

Dorn won’t help you either. He’s too busy being the Emperor’s groundskeeper, hiding behind the palace walls. The Wolf is too busy cutting off heads as our father’s executioner, while the Lion holds on to his secrets, and has no special fondness for you. Who else will come? Not Ferrus, certainly. Nor Corax either. Even as we speak, I suspect he flees for Deliverance. Sanguinius?’ Curze laughed cruelly. ‘The angel is more cursed than I. The Khan? He does not wish to be found. So who is left? No one, Vulkan. None of them will come. You are simply not that important. You are alone.’ Konrad Curze to Vulkan


 
   
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Uk, east anglia

yes i was referring to tarik verbally destroying eidelon on the planet murder. loken did beat lucius but unfairly. lucius is probably one of my fav characters but he is scumbag. but then sevetar is amazing too and hes the biggest scumbag ever.

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Croatia

Huh ? He didn't beat him fairly ? He punched him straight in the face IIRC...
Also Sevatar is cool, but A-DB went little to far with him...

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ADB: I showed the Wolves revealing the key weakness at the heart of the World Eaters; showing Angron that his Legion was broken and worthless compared to the others; that he was the one primarch who couldn't trust his own warriors, and that they didn't care if he lived or died; showing that loyalty to brothers and sons is the heart of success for the Legiones Astartes, to the point even Lorgar makes a big deal out of saying the World Eaters and their primarch were massively outclassed by Russ, and Angron was too stupid to see the lesson Russ had sacrificed time, sweat, and blood, to teach. We're talking about a battle the Wolves won, by isolating the enemy general through pack tactics, and threatening to kill him, without a hope of defending himself. It was a balance, 50/50 - Angron overpowered Russ, and the Wolves were losing ground to the World Eaters; but Russ and his warriors had Angron by the balls, and barely broke a sweat. They won, no question. Lorgar even says: "The Wolves won, meathead."

Dorn won’t help you either. He’s too busy being the Emperor’s groundskeeper, hiding behind the palace walls. The Wolf is too busy cutting off heads as our father’s executioner, while the Lion holds on to his secrets, and has no special fondness for you. Who else will come? Not Ferrus, certainly. Nor Corax either. Even as we speak, I suspect he flees for Deliverance. Sanguinius?’ Curze laughed cruelly. ‘The angel is more cursed than I. The Khan? He does not wish to be found. So who is left? No one, Vulkan. None of them will come. You are simply not that important. You are alone.’ Konrad Curze to Vulkan


 
   
 
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