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But remember its not power armour it's "powered" armour. That just means its armour with a generator, which primarchs do wear

This is one of the worst "wishlist" post ever made... wonder which codex will be the next on the Matt Ward fluff empower list.

TheAngrySquig wrote:But remember its not power armour it's "powered" armour. That just means its armour with a generator, which primarchs do wear

Thing is, 'power armor' is a generic term. Tau wear power armor, astartes wear power armor, even Eldar wear power armor (those Dark Reaper whatever guys, maybe others too). Just saying it's power armor doesn't narrow things down enough.

I'm pretty sure we know it's a human/superhuman

daveNYC wrote:

Oakenshield wrote:

Psienesis wrote:

ba·roque /bəˈroʊk; Fr. baˈrɔk/ [buh-rohk; Fr. ba-rawk] adjective

1.(often initial capital letter) of or pertaining to a style of architecture and art originating in Italy in the early 17th century and variously prevalent in Europe and the New World for a century and a half, characterized by free and sculptural use of the classical orders and ornament, by forms in elevation and plan suggesting movement, and by dramatic effect in which architecture, painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts often worked to combined effect.

2. (sometimes initial capital letter) of or pertaining to the musical period following the Renaissance, extending roughly from 1600 to 1750.

3. extravagantly ornate, florid, and convoluted in character or style: the baroque prose of the novel's more lurid passages.

4. irregular in shape: baroque pearls.

Except in the 40k universe it's generally established that we will see baroque descriptions as the first definition.

Heh? I'm pretty sure that most Imperial buildings look like nothing that came out of 17th century Italy.

Santa Susana. Rome. 1603.

Oakenshield wrote:

daveNYC wrote:

Oakenshield wrote:

Psienesis wrote:

ba·roque /bəˈroʊk; Fr. baˈrɔk/ [buh-rohk; Fr. ba-rawk] adjective

1.(often initial capital letter) of or pertaining to a style of architecture and art originating in Italy in the early 17th century and variously prevalent in Europe and the New World for a century and a half, characterized by free and sculptural use of the classical orders and ornament, by forms in elevation and plan suggesting movement, and by dramatic effect in which architecture, painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts often worked to combined effect.

2. (sometimes initial capital letter) of or pertaining to the musical period following the Renaissance, extending roughly from 1600 to 1750.

3. extravagantly ornate, florid, and convoluted in character or style: the baroque prose of the novel's more lurid passages.

4. irregular in shape: baroque pearls.

Except in the 40k universe it's generally established that we will see baroque descriptions as the first definition.

Heh? I'm pretty sure that most Imperial buildings look like nothing that came out of 17th century Italy.

Emperors Palace, Terra 28,000

Fix'd

Needs moar skulls.

Not big enough! The Emperor's palace can be seen from Mars, making it bigger than Earth!

Durza wrote:Not big enough! The Emperor's palace can be seen from Mars, making it bigger than Earth!

You can't see Earth from Mars...unless you have a very powerful telescope

Maybe Pluto got pissed that it wasn't a planet and punched Mars so that it replaced the moon.

From what we have heard it could be anything Human-ish. Heck, it could Almost be a dreadnought.

I don't think they would bother mentioning just a dreadnought

Brother Coa wrote:

Durza wrote:Not big enough! The Emperor's palace can be seen from Mars, making it bigger than Earth!

You can't see Earth from Mars...unless you have a very powerful telescope

Heh? How do you figure that? One can easily see Mars from Earth, and we can easily see Venus from Earth, so why would Earth not be visible from Mars?

daveNYC wrote:

Brother Coa wrote:

Durza wrote:Not big enough! The Emperor's palace can be seen from Mars, making it bigger than Earth!

You can't see Earth from Mars...unless you have a very powerful telescope

Heh? How do you figure that? One can easily see Mars from Earth, and we can easily see Venus from Earth, so why would Earth not be visible from Mars?

That's true, I think when they said you could see the palace from mars they meant, with the assistance of_______ (most likely a telescope or something of the sort). We can see mars and venus but to the naked eye, they're nothing more than stars. So I think obviously they mean with some sort of viewing device. Which is still pretty amazing that you can see a palace on the planet's surface

It has to be like, New York City sized or bigger

TheAngrySquig wrote:Well lets still look at our options
Russ- No, armour not baroque
Corax- Possible, but not particularly big as primarchs go, still 10 feet tall tho
Vulkan- Probable, baroque armour, huge, everything fits
Khan- No, probably owned by Vect
I'm not including the two missing ones because their dead

Mentioning him as a giant and specifically mentioning baroque power armour leads me to think of Vulkan. Someone who meticulously crafts his own armour in his own style and is noted as being amongst the biggest primarch (IIRC he and Ferrus were the biggest). With that kind of statement obviously written to invoke this kind of discussion, they've obviuosly put in clues as to who it is in what they wrote. They know people will assume a Primarch, GW writers aren't known for subtlety. So we're looking for a giant amongst giants.

It's probably Vulkan, I would guess that they would only mention a giant in baroque Armour if he was super huge and super baroque. So second biggest Primarch with best craftmanship ever is a pretty good guess

-Loki- wrote:

TheAngrySquig wrote:Well lets still look at our options
Russ- No, armour not baroque
Corax- Possible, but not particularly big as primarchs go, still 10 feet tall tho
Vulkan- Probable, baroque armour, huge, everything fits
Khan- No, probably owned by Vect
I'm not including the two missing ones because their dead

Mentioning him as a giant and specifically mentioning baroque power armour leads me to think of Vulkan. Someone who meticulously crafts his own armour in his own style and is noted as being amongst the biggest primarch (IIRC he and Ferrus were the biggest). With that kind of statement obviously written to invoke this kind of discussion, they've obviuosly put in clues as to who it is in what they wrote. They know people will assume a Primarch, GW writers aren't known for subtlety. So we're looking for a giant amongst giants.

Now that you mention it... GW are known for their obvious subtlety... if that made anysense...

They're so obvious they're subtle? Or.... I've confused myself.....

Perhaps one of Vulkan's artifacts was taken by Trayzn and something.......

He was trying for the sarcasm font I think

Maybe it's meant to be a Chaos primarch.

Durza wrote:Maybe it's meant to be a Chaos primarch.

As far as we know, they are all accounted for, except maybe for Omegon, but it seems unlikely that the most cunning, devious, sneaky and mysterious being of all time (save the Deceiver, perhaps) got captured by a space robot.

This captured being can't be one of the two lost primarchs either, they were lost/destroyed/corrupted long before the awakening of the necrons.

It can't be Guilliman, or Rogal Dorn, or any of the primarchs whose location is still known to the IoM for very obvious reasons.

That leaves us with: Vulkan, Khan, Russ and Corax.

-Khan is rumored to be held captive by the DE, and I find it really hard for someone to be held captive by two different groups of douche-bags at the same time, even for a primarch.

-Russ and Corax were last seen heading for the EoT, and if there's one place in the entire galaxy where the necrons don't go, that's the EoT.

-That leaves us with Vulkan. Indeed, his craftsmanship among the primarchs was unrivaled (which could explain the "baroque power armor") and he was described as a pretty strong primarch (second only to Ferrus in sheer physical strength, which could explain the "giant man").

So yeah, I'd say Vulkan, he is the "least unlikely" of the four primarchs to get captured by the necron super-villain.

CONFIRMED: Trazyn has captured Vulkan.

Thanks Laodamia!

I think I'm going to make that canon in my brain's own personal fluff-space. It's too amusing not to.

TheAngrySquig wrote:It has to be like, New York City sized or bigger

The palace sits on top of Himalayas. And remember how big that chain of mountains is?


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blazinpsycho&typhooni wrote:

Heh? How do you figure that? One can easily see Mars from Earth, and we can easily see Venus from Earth, so why would Earth not be visible from Mars?

That's true, I think when they said you could see the palace from mars they meant, with the assistance of_______ (most likely a telescope or something of the sort). We can see mars and venus but to the naked eye, they're nothing more than stars. So I think obviously they mean with some sort of viewing device. Which is still pretty amazing that you can see a palace on the planet's surface

This, we can't see Mars from Earth trough naked eye but we would mistaken it for a star. Adn it's impossible for us to see surface of Mars with naked eye from Earth without telescope.

In the grimdarkness of the 41st millenium, nobody gives a feth about astronomy

TheAngrySquig wrote:In the grimdarkness of the 41st millenium, nobody gives a feth about astronomy

+1

They probably just moved the planets closer together anyway, we all know Mars is a spaceship. (If you got the Zim reference, I commend you)

Uh......that would be impossible because gravity is a bitch.

Laodamia wrote:

Durza wrote:Maybe it's meant to be a Chaos primarch.

As far as we know, they are all accounted for, except maybe for Omegon, but it seems unlikely that the most cunning, devious, sneaky and mysterious being of all time (save the Deceiver, perhaps) got captured by a space robot.

This is Matt Ward. Matt Ward who said that Mortarion, the primarch who never leaves his daemon world, magicked himself into the middle of a Grey Knights army for no particular reason. Do you really think he's above claiming they stole Pertuabo or Lorgar for the lolz?

Isn't Lorgar the only daemon primarch who has actually dropped off the map?

daveNYC wrote:Isn't Lorgar the only daemon primarch who has actually dropped off the map?

No. Fulgrim has completely vanished, not even the Emperor's Children can find the planet of infinite pleasure he lives on. Mortarion rarely leaves his plague planet apart from his occasional extreme open heart surgery.