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2013/04/14 13:58:33
Subject: Death Guard recruitment under Mortarion?
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Anyone else curious/got ideas about how Mortarion altered his legion with his upbringing on Barbarus, the whole trial by poison episode in Flight of the Eisenstein made me wonder what it would be like for a neophyte
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We, the unwilling are led by the unknowing, for the ungrateful. We've done so much for so long with so little, we are now qualified to do something with nothing. |
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2013/04/14 20:54:18
Subject: Death Guard recruitment under Mortarion?
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Thunderhawk Pilot Dropping From Orbit
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I think that's all we have to go on.
Unless some fluff master has some old and dusty scrolls laying about that sheds any light on the situation?
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Come into my web, said the spider to the fly.
Come rest your wings, and let us talk eye to eye.
For I am a spider, and you are the fly. Now that you are here, let us sit, and say hi.
But I have have no morsel to share, nor anything to eat. But wait, what is that stickiness upon your feet.
Ah now I have you, now I can eat. Now I can enjoy you, or store you as meat.
For I am the spider, and you are the fly. How else could it have gone, between one such as you, and one such as I.
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2013/04/14 21:01:13
Subject: Death Guard recruitment under Mortarion?
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I would be eternally grateful should said fluff master appear and deign to enlighten me.
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We, the unwilling are led by the unknowing, for the ungrateful. We've done so much for so long with so little, we are now qualified to do something with nothing. |
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2013/04/14 21:10:12
Subject: Re:Death Guard recruitment under Mortarion?
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Horus Heresy Book 1: Betrayal is your best source for information concerning Mortarion's impact on the Death Guard after he took control of them. He was noted as being a particularly hands-on primarch when it came to choosing recruits for implantation and even in assigning marines to be apothecaries. He was very against using any other sources of recruits besides those from Barbarus as most of the poison and contagion resistant the Death Guard were known for came from being born onto such a poisonous world.
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2013/04/14 21:43:11
Subject: Death Guard recruitment under Mortarion?
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I have read betrayal, but was hoping for something a little more. But thanks for the advice nonetheless
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We, the unwilling are led by the unknowing, for the ungrateful. We've done so much for so long with so little, we are now qualified to do something with nothing. |
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2013/04/15 20:43:06
Subject: Death Guard recruitment under Mortarion?
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I kinda thought that the final test would be like a college frat drinking game test wherein the candidate gets to join the group as long as he doesn't pass out from the booze, with the deathguard it's just that the neophyte drinks poisoned booze, but that's just my view 
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2013/04/15 20:58:57
Subject: Death Guard recruitment under Mortarion?
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In the Einstein book it said the neophyte drinks poison and willingly expose themselves to chemicals throughout the trials, and the garden of thorns was one of the lasts tests before becoming a scout. Read the bits with Garro's housecarl Keleb, as a few of the trails are revealed when he talks with Gul..Gul...? The commander that wanted to kill Garro.  
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Come into my web, said the spider to the fly.
Come rest your wings, and let us talk eye to eye.
For I am a spider, and you are the fly. Now that you are here, let us sit, and say hi.
But I have have no morsel to share, nor anything to eat. But wait, what is that stickiness upon your feet.
Ah now I have you, now I can eat. Now I can enjoy you, or store you as meat.
For I am the spider, and you are the fly. How else could it have gone, between one such as you, and one such as I.
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2013/04/15 21:33:19
Subject: Death Guard recruitment under Mortarion?
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Fixture of Dakka
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Ignatius Grulgor 
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"It is the great irony of the Legiones Astartes: engineered to kill to achieve a victory of peace that they can then be no part of."
- Roboute Guilliman
"As I recall, your face was tortured. Imagine that - the Master of the Wolves, his ferocity twisted into grief. And yet you still carried out your duty. You always did what was asked of you. So loyal. So tenacious. Truly you were the attack dog of the Emperor. You took no pleasure in what you did. I knew that then, and I know it now. But all things change, my brother. I'm not the same as I was, and you're... well, let us not mention where you are now."
- Magnus the Red, to a statue of Leman Russ
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2013/04/17 13:21:55
Subject: Death Guard recruitment under Mortarion?
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Cheers.
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Come into my web, said the spider to the fly.
Come rest your wings, and let us talk eye to eye.
For I am a spider, and you are the fly. Now that you are here, let us sit, and say hi.
But I have have no morsel to share, nor anything to eat. But wait, what is that stickiness upon your feet.
Ah now I have you, now I can eat. Now I can enjoy you, or store you as meat.
For I am the spider, and you are the fly. How else could it have gone, between one such as you, and one such as I.
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