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A said last time that the Sisters of Battle saw him as a man, but they saw him in his armour, but it just occurred to me that the mechanicum made his armour so he'd be known to be what ever size that armour was and if he is known to be Primarch height then that would ad evidence that he was that height, unless he changed the memories of the adepts working on his armour that is.
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Guiiliman has a thought in Dark Imperium where even he can't remember. He knows his sword fits him, and he thinks he remembers him sometimes being primarch size, other times a normal man.
Did the Mechanicum make his armour, or is it a relic, or something he's done himself?
hes a 'riddle rolled up in an enigma' to paraphrase Churchill but its true, he appears to be whatever he and maybe whoever he is with want him to be..
That's what I believe but more info never hurts.
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phillv85 wrote: Guiiliman has a thought in Dark Imperium where even he can't remember. He knows his sword fits him, and he thinks he remembers him sometimes being primarch size, other times a normal man.
Did the Mechanicum make his armour, or is it a relic, or something he's done himself?
One source says the Mechanicum made it, though he did invent the first bolter. The other source just says its older technology:
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The same sigils of Terran Unity and Imperial nobility that showed on their
armour were cast thricefold upon His own. His armour joints didn’t growl with the crude industrial snarl
of mass-manufactured legionary plate, but purred with the song of older, purer technologies.
On His back, held by a simple strap against His flowing red cloak, was an ornate bolter of black and
bronze. In His hand He carried a sword – one that looked nothing like the blade portrayed in the victory
murals and illustrated sagas. By the standards of Terran lords and kings it was inarguably beautiful, but in
the grip of the ruler of an entire species it was, perhaps, rather plain. A weapon to wield, a tool for
shedding blood, not an ornament to be admired. Impossibly complicated circuitry latticed its blade, black
and coppery against a silver so hallowed that it was almost blue
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I think every look at him anyone has had was just a psychic projection.
In "reality" he is presumably regular human sized, or he wouldn't have been able to pass as human until he was powerful/skilled enough to be able to appear as a psychic projection to all people 100% of the time.
In one of the early Horus Heresy stories, someone get's a glimpse at his face where it looks old a shriveled. Were they seeing a vision of the future? Or somehow temporarily saw through his glamour?
Albino Squirrel wrote: I think every look at him anyone has had was just a psychic projection.
In "reality" he is presumably regular human sized, or he wouldn't have been able to pass as human until he was powerful/skilled enough to be able to appear as a psychic projection to all people 100% of the time.
In one of the early Horus Heresy stories, someone get's a glimpse at his face where it looks old a shriveled. Were they seeing a vision of the future? Or somehow temporarily saw through his glamour?
Well given his proficiency in biomancy, he could very well be Primarch size "in reality". At our scale of comprehension/perception, he's quite close to omnipotence.
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Albino Squirrel wrote: I think every look at him anyone has had was just a psychic projection.
In "reality" he is presumably regular human sized, or he wouldn't have been able to pass as human until he was powerful/skilled enough to be able to appear as a psychic projection to all people 100% of the time.
In one of the early Horus Heresy stories, someone get's a glimpse at his face where it looks old a shriveled. Were they seeing a vision of the future? Or somehow temporarily saw through his glamour?
What sticks out to me most is Corax, when he first met the Emperor he told him he recognised him and the Emperor was surprised, he say a man, neither young or old, fat or thin etc. Plus when he met the Emperor on the throne he asked if that was his real face and the Emperor said 'I've never actually had a real face.'
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The Emperor, being the most powerful psyker ever, could almost certainly change his form to whatever suited him. Or at least appear to be whatever he wanted to be. Otherwise, he could not have blended in on Earth as a normal human for >40,000 years. He was born in Anatolia in what is the Past for us today, and his powers and memories of the Shamen's didn't fully awaken for some time.
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Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
Given that Magnus, an extremely powerful psyker in his own right but still not as powerful as the Emperor, can change his size and form at will and is even remarked to be very like his father in that way by Lorgar, the Emperor certainly can.
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