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Hi all,

In reading through the background info on the Black Legion in the codex release, it talks about how Abaddon had the clones of Horus killed, eradicated the Warmaster's remains, and changed the legion's name from the Son's of Horus - thinking that Horus was weak for not defeating the Emperor during the Horus Heresy.

That being the case, it looks like the Eye of Horus is still used as a symbol on Black Legion gear. Is that correct, and if so, why would the symbol of the former Warmaster still be on the Black Legion gear if Abaddon was trying to purge any trace of Horus?

Thanks.

I have the iPad version and on page 25 of that it is under a separate box titled: A mark of shame and devotion. Basically it says he kept it as the sole reminder of their origins.

There are other splinter warbands of the Black Legion that keep the Eye of Horus in a more positive light. The True Sons being the main one.

I'd think that it's also kept as a moral thing.

The same reason they wear black, a reminder of their shameful defeat.

If I may be permitted to slightly hijack the thread (Unreserved apologies OP ), what exactly does the Eye of Horus represent in 40K? It's clearly not directly analogous to the Egyptian myth of Horus's eye being torn out by the evil god Seth, as I'm gathering it doesn't so much ward off evil as much as it seems to represents evil. Furthermore, it looks very much like the eye symbol used by the Emperor...

Horus is the emperors eye or was...