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2011/08/13 12:00:40
Subject: Ulrik The Slayer, how old do you think he is?
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Ferocious Blood Claw
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In the Codex, it states Ulrik is older than Logan, and Logan has served the Imperium for 700 years! So what do you think? How old?
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"Listen closely Brothers, for my life's breath is all but spent. There shall come a time far from now when our Chapter itself is dying, even as I am now dying, and our foes shall gather to destroy us. Then my children, I shall listen for your call in whatever realm of death holds me, and come I shall, no matter what the laws of life and death forbid. At the end I will be there. For the final battle. For the Wolftime."-Last words of Leman Russ the Primarch of the Space Wolves Chapter of Space Marines. |
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2011/08/13 12:01:30
Subject: Ulrik The Slayer, how old do you think he is?
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Ancient Ultramarine Venerable Dreadnought
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Pretty damn old.
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2011/08/13 15:43:36
Subject: Ulrik The Slayer, how old do you think he is?
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Wolf Guard Bodyguard in Terminator Armor
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Walker and stewed prunes old.
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2011/08/13 15:51:43
Subject: Ulrik The Slayer, how old do you think he is?
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Legendary Master of the Chapter
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As old as Grimnar
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2011/08/13 20:06:13
Subject: Ulrik The Slayer, how old do you think he is?
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Gore-Soaked Lunatic Witchhunter
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Space Marines have an unknown natural lifespan. To look at the age of the Custodes, they may well be immortal.
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2011/08/13 22:41:19
Subject: Ulrik The Slayer, how old do you think he is?
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Ferocious Blood Claw
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So your saying if Ulrik doesn't die in battle, he could live forever?
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So your saying if Ulrik doesn't die in battle, he could live forever?
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"Listen closely Brothers, for my life's breath is all but spent. There shall come a time far from now when our Chapter itself is dying, even as I am now dying, and our foes shall gather to destroy us. Then my children, I shall listen for your call in whatever realm of death holds me, and come I shall, no matter what the laws of life and death forbid. At the end I will be there. For the final battle. For the Wolftime."-Last words of Leman Russ the Primarch of the Space Wolves Chapter of Space Marines. |
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2011/08/13 22:43:39
Subject: Ulrik The Slayer, how old do you think he is?
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Chaos Space Marine dedicated to Slaanesh
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really old..i cant put a number on it.
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2011/08/14 00:48:05
Subject: Ulrik The Slayer, how old do you think he is?
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Psienesis wrote:Space Marines have an unknown natural lifespan. To look at the age of the Custodes, they may well be immortal.
Thats a good point you have raised there.
If the Custodes just sit around and guard the big E with very little chance of actually getting called into action they could well end up living for ever! Could some still be survivors from Horus' assault on Terra?
Bet those 10k years have dragged guarding the same hallway.
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2011/08/14 01:07:49
Subject: Ulrik The Slayer, how old do you think he is?
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They do seem that they may easily be biologically immortal which generally means they can't die a natural death.
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Gods? There are no gods. Merely existences, obstacles to overcome.
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2011/08/14 01:28:30
Subject: Ulrik The Slayer, how old do you think he is?
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Isn't Dante the oldest living Space Marine, or is it oldest living Chapter Master?
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2011/08/14 01:29:59
Subject: Ulrik The Slayer, how old do you think he is?
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Ancient Ultramarine Venerable Dreadnought
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Oldest living Space Marine, excluding Dreadnoughts.
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2011/08/14 01:56:41
Subject: Ulrik The Slayer, how old do you think he is?
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Ok, then Ulrik is between 700 and ~1,100 then.
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2011/08/14 01:58:18
Subject: Ulrik The Slayer, how old do you think he is?
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Daston wrote:Psienesis wrote:Space Marines have an unknown natural lifespan. To look at the age of the Custodes, they may well be immortal.
Thats a good point you have raised there.
If the Custodes just sit around and guard the big E with very little chance of actually getting called into action they could well end up living for ever! Could some still be survivors from Horus' assault on Terra?
Bet those 10k years have dragged guarding the same hallway.
Custodes are different from space marines and are modified in different ways. Unfortunately we will never know how long an Astartes can actually live. Technically they are designed to be biologically immortal, but it can't really be proven.
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2011/08/15 18:43:01
Subject: Re:Ulrik The Slayer, how old do you think he is?
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Well, the Space Wolf book is kind of messed up in this regard. On the one hand, it syas Ulrik was a Wolf Guard or something during the First Armageddon war, whilst in the front of the book in that battle's section he's mentoring Grimnar as Chapter Master.
But yeah, as Coolyo said, 'pretty damn old'.
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2011/08/15 18:50:25
Subject: Ulrik The Slayer, how old do you think he is?
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Homicidal Veteran Blood Angel Assault Marine
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Andilus Greatsword wrote:Ok, then Ulrik is between 700 and ~1,100 then.
Dante is older than 1100 now. The current BA codex changed it to be that he has been chapter master for over 1100 years, they do not state how old he is.
In regards to Ulrik, being the Wolf Priest that recruited Logan doesn't give us much to go off of unfortunately. It could mean a relatively small age difference really, or it could mean a few centuries.
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2011/08/15 18:56:59
Subject: Re:Ulrik The Slayer, how old do you think he is?
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Courageous Space Marine Captain
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I heard that he was 1402.
Just off topic,does anyone else notice that Ulrik(a space wolf) is an abstraction of Ulric,who in Fantasy was a God of the Empire,who was symbolised by a wolf.Just a tidbit.
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2011/08/15 19:01:42
Subject: Ulrik The Slayer, how old do you think he is?
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Unhealthy Competition With Other Legions
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I'm going for around 1000 years old. In Horus Rising, it says that Marines are immortal, but not invulnerable. So, they could live forever, as long as they aren't killed.
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2011/08/15 19:33:46
Subject: Re:Ulrik The Slayer, how old do you think he is?
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The Conquerer
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Who knows how old he is.
as for Dante, we don't know how old he is. all we know is that Lysander can't remember a time when Dante wasn't chapter master.
Lysander was lost in the warp for a thousand years and was First Captain when lost.
He had to have been around a 100 to have even had a chance to be first captain.
so that makes Dante chapter master for 1100 years, and probably a few hundred before becoming Chapter Master himself. so Dante being >1500 seems like a safe estimation.
Ulrik is somewhere between 700 and 1500 years old.
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2011/08/15 22:42:15
Subject: Ulrik The Slayer, how old do you think he is?
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Fixture of Dakka
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Andilus Greatsword wrote:Isn't Dante the oldest living Space Marine, or is it oldest living Chapter Master?
The Sergeant of the scout squad Dante was in is still alive.
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This is an actual rule in the actual rulebook. Quit whining about how you can imagine someone's army touching you in a bad place and play by the actual rules.
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2011/08/16 00:12:07
Subject: Ulrik The Slayer, how old do you think he is?
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Homicidal Veteran Blood Angel Assault Marine
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DarknessEternal wrote:Andilus Greatsword wrote:Isn't Dante the oldest living Space Marine, or is it oldest living Chapter Master?
The Sergeant of the scout squad Dante was in is still alive.
Only if that character still exists. As far as I know he hasn't actually been retconned, but he is suspiciously absent from the last few codices.
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