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2011/09/26 16:33:34
Subject: Horus Heresy Book Question
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Rampaging Chaos Russ Driver
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Which book features the parable about the men in the cave? where one runs off and sees the sun then tries to show the other men in the cave and they kill him. One of the Primarchs or the Emperor told the story, but I don't remember exactly who it was that told the story and which book it was in. Any help is appreciated.
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2011/09/26 16:34:29
Subject: Horus Heresy Book Question
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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One of the first 3 books, I think.
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2011/09/26 16:35:20
Subject: Re:Horus Heresy Book Question
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Boosting Space Marine Biker
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I think that's the one where the emperor is speaking to the priest on the mountaintop in one of the short stories from "Tales of Heresy". It's about the last church on Terra. I can't remember the title.
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2011/09/26 16:48:12
Subject: Re:Horus Heresy Book Question
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Wraith
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All incorrect. It is from Thousand Sons
It is from the speech made by Magnus at the Trials of Nicea.
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2011/09/26 17:33:54
Subject: Re:Horus Heresy Book Question
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Dominar
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skrulnik wrote:All incorrect. It is from Thousand Sons
It is from the speech made by Magnus at the Trials of Nicea.
This.
Magnus stylizes himself as the sympathetic protagonist attempting to bring enlightenment to his society.
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2011/09/26 19:02:22
Subject: Re:Horus Heresy Book Question
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Wraith
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If I remember correctly, he even altered the story so that the one who brought the light succeeds.
The real story was the one who brought light was killed and forgotten by the rest.
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Bam, said the lady!
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2011/09/26 20:23:43
Subject: Horus Heresy Book Question
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Dominar
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Ah good point. I'm pretty sure you're right, as that does kinda jog my memory.
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2011/09/26 21:18:18
Subject: Horus Heresy Book Question
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Servoarm Flailing Magos
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It's not one of those elements the HH writers have sneakily used as running themes across books, is it? I have read a passage about it at least once, but I couldn't say it's not in multiple books.
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2011/09/26 21:30:03
Subject: Horus Heresy Book Question
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Dominar
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I don't recall it being in any of the other books. Or at least not explicitly.
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2011/09/28 15:14:45
Subject: Re:Horus Heresy Book Question
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Enginseer with a Wrench
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Plato's The Republic 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_Cave
...and less facetiously, it's in Graham McNeill's A Thousand Sons.
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