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The Gorgon's? Or do you mean how Forge World did Fulgrim dirty?

I see Farsight getting named a lot. Isn't his model relatively new?

Are Primaris ever going to be 'complete' or do they plan on releasing new unit profiles with a slightly different weapon forever?

EviscerationPlague wrote:
I see Farsight getting named a lot. Isn't his model relatively new?

It's not extremely old, but it's also still made in Finecast.

EviscerationPlague wrote:
I see Farsight getting named a lot. Isn't his model relatively new?

GW definitely doesn't update models in order of age.

The Young Warrior Arks of Omen card showed the Tau symbol and the Dawnblade and the text said it was a warrior "far beyond the Imperium's sight" or something along those lines. Combined with the silhouette of a Tau model with a big sword from a previous preview show, there's reasons why a new model seems imminent.

I think people mix up farsight with shadowsun, the latter did get a new model very recently.

Farsight is definitely coming tho, for all the reasons listed above

A model that was quite clearly Farsight was even shown in one of the teaser videos near the start of the year.

That and Snikrot are the only 2 from that video we haven't seen fully yet.

 Mentlegen324 wrote:
A model that was quite clearly Farsight was even shown in one of the teaser videos near the start of the year.

That and Snikrot are the only 2 from that video we haven't seen fully yet.

Just in time for another series of reveals for warhammer day and then later adepticon

EviscerationPlague wrote:
I see Farsight getting named a lot. Isn't his model relatively new?

April 2013 apparently, so ten years old by the time the new model is released.

Goose LeChance wrote:
Are Primaris ever going to be 'complete' or do they plan on releasing new unit profiles with a slightly different weapon forever?

pretty sure that's exactly what they're going to do to keep the treadmill going

Today's Tarot Card:

https://twitter.com/warhammer/status/1629134106243092483

Purgator - 'And here, a fatherless son, alone in the endless night'

Like we speculated, the Card could match both the Lion and Sanguinor/Dante: both are in a sense 'fatherless' - it fits the Blood Angels slightly better, because they're actually, not only technically fatherless, and the Lion would not be 'alone' as long as Guilliman is around. On the other hand, the Lion was living as a literal lost child in the forests of Caliban for decades, during a time when Caliban had lost contact with the wider universe, literally called 'Old Night', and so far the Tarot Cards followed the pattern that the 1st card represented the Past of the character, so it would match the Lion.

So it probably is the Lion still.

Tsagualsa wrote:
Today's Tarot Card:

https://twitter.com/warhammer/status/1629134106243092483

Purgator - 'And here, a fatherless son, alone in the endless night'

Like we speculated, the Card could match both the Lion and Sanguinor/Dante: both are in a sense 'fatherless' - it fits the Blood Angels slightly better, because they're actually, not only technically fatherless, and the Lion would not be 'alone' as long as Guilliman is around. On the other hand, the Lion was living as a literal lost child in the forests of Caliban for decades, during a time when Caliban had lost contact with the wider universe, literally called 'Old Night', and so far the Tarot Cards followed the pattern that the 1st card represented the Past of the character, so it would match the Lion.

So it probably is the Lion still.

Well, he was purging Caliban of the Chaos taint growing up. He will probably be purging his legion when he returns for all the flaws that he sees and purging the Fallen as well.

Beat me to it. I'll add "Purgator" ('ator' suffix - doer of thing) and blonde locks on child. I'd say Lion, purgin' his wayward lads.

Theophony wrote:

Tsagualsa wrote:
Today's Tarot Card:

https://twitter.com/warhammer/status/1629134106243092483

Purgator - 'And here, a fatherless son, alone in the endless night'

Like we speculated, the Card could match both the Lion and Sanguinor/Dante: both are in a sense 'fatherless' - it fits the Blood Angels slightly better, because they're actually, not only technically fatherless, and the Lion would not be 'alone' as long as Guilliman is around. On the other hand, the Lion was living as a literal lost child in the forests of Caliban for decades, during a time when Caliban had lost contact with the wider universe, literally called 'Old Night', and so far the Tarot Cards followed the pattern that the 1st card represented the Past of the character, so it would match the Lion.

So it probably is the Lion still.

Well, he was purging Caliban of the Chaos taint growing up. He will probably be purging his legion when he returns for all the flaws that he sees and purging the Fallen as well.

JWBS wrote:Beat me to it. I'll add "Purgator" ('ator' suffix - doer of thing) and blonde locks on child. I'd say Lion, purgin' his wayward lads.

Both very convincing arguments - for now, there remains just enough doubt about it being the Lion that i'll not mark the rumour that AoO5 will be about the Sanguinor as 'proven fake' yet, but that point is not far away now.

If that's not supposed to be the Lion GW is definitely trying to make you think it's him on purpose.

I'm leaning towards Blood Angels because the baby's robes are red. I'm a simple guy like that.
To extrapolate further, I think the lost child is Dante, out in Imperium Nihilus

Leggy wrote:
I'm leaning towards Blood Angels because the baby's robes are red. I'm a simple guy like that.
To extrapolate further, I think the lost child is Dante, out in Imperium Nihilus

The Lion is blonde. Heresy-era Dark Angels have a ton of red elements in their color scheme. And, as far as everyone but the Watchers in the Dark are concerned, the Lion is still lost.

"And so, after millennia spent in dark slumber, his mind wandering, lost amidst the horrors of the warp even as his broken body lay still in the cold depths of the Rock; his tortured psyche eternally reliving the pain and anguish of his final duel with Luther, so did The Lion awake. To return when he was needed most. To wrestle the fate of the Imperium back into the hands of humanity, from the clutches of ruinous gods and vile xenos. To purge his Father's empire clean. The Lion drew his first true breath in over ten thousand years. His emerald eyes slowly opened....

...he took one look at the Primaris vehicle designs. He sighed and closed his eyes once more. Another few millennia of napping couldn't hurt."

JimmyWolf87 wrote:
"And so, after millennia spent in dark slumber, his mind wandering, lost amidst the horrors of the warp even as his broken body lay still in the cold depths of the Rock; his tortured psyche eternally reliving the pain and anguish of his final duel with Luther, so did The Lion awake. To return when he was needed most. To wrestle the fate of the Imperium back into the hands of humanity, from the clutches of ruinous gods and vile xenos. To purge his Father's empire clean. The Lion drew his first true breath in over ten thousand years. His emerald eyes slowly opened....

...he took one look at the Primaris vehicle designs. He sighed and closed his eyes once more. Another few millennia of napping couldn't hurt."

Exalted

Tsagualsa wrote:
Today's Tarot Card:

so far the Tarot Cards followed the pattern that the 1st card represented the Past of the character, so it would match the Lion.

No they haven't. The first card for each set of 4 has been:

Galaxy
The Great Hoste
Daemon
The Horde

None of which were "representing the past" of a character. The first card for each has been the main driving factor behind the following events.

Eh, the initial Grav tanks were pretty bad along with the Predator equivalents, and the ATV is kinda silly. However, the Impulsor is fine and the Speeders are okay. The Dreads are also way better than the other Box Dreads available. I'm also a fan of the turret thing with the Techmarine but I understand that's not to everyone's taste.

 Manfred von Drakken wrote:

Leggy wrote:
I'm leaning towards Blood Angels because the baby's robes are red. I'm a simple guy like that.
To extrapolate further, I think the lost child is Dante, out in Imperium Nihilus

The Lion is blonde. Heresy-era Dark Angels have a ton of red elements in their color scheme. And, as far as everyone but the Watchers in the Dark are concerned, the Lion is still lost.

Also, someone data-mined the file and apparently this was the original version of the upload:

 Altruizine wrote:

 Manfred von Drakken wrote:

Leggy wrote:
I'm leaning towards Blood Angels because the baby's robes are red. I'm a simple guy like that.
To extrapolate further, I think the lost child is Dante, out in Imperium Nihilus

The Lion is blonde. Heresy-era Dark Angels have a ton of red elements in their color scheme. And, as far as everyone but the Watchers in the Dark are concerned, the Lion is still lost.

Also, someone data-mined the file and apparently this was the original version of the upload:

Air Guitar Squat.

Saying that this hints at the Lion is a perfect example of confirmation bias at work. Without knowing any rumours nobody would say anything other than Dante.

alone in the endless night -> alone in the Dark Imperium
blonde curly hair -> Dante
fatherless son -> Primarch dead
red fabric -> Blood Angels
Purgator(io) -> second act of Dante's divine comedy

And none of the other riddles hides its real meaning behind an obvious meaning.

It's probably the Lion, but the hints could also imply Sanguinor. Curled blonde hair is the mainstay for Blood Angels. And Lost in the night might be an allegory for the Warp. Fatherless implies a dead "genefather", which could be the emperor, but I think it's more likely Sanguinius (also implying heavily he's dead and gone)

I'm really hoping Sanguinor, for I prefer the story involving than another primarch.

The rumours however prove this might not be the case.

 Vovin wrote:
Saying that this hints at the Lion is a perfect example of confirmation bias at work. Without knowing any rumours nobody would say anything other than Dante.

alone in the endless night -> alone in the Dark Imperium
blonde curly hair -> Dante
fatherless son -> Primarch dead
red fabric -> Blood Angels
Purgator(io) -> second act of Dante's divine comedy

And none of the other riddles hides its real meaning behind an obvious meaning.

Yep, the other cards haven't all been literal. Just taking this at face value and meaning exactly what it says would be boring and unlike the other cards.

It would also mean, if it is the Lion, that they're giving facts that seemingly have little to no actual relevance to whats going on. The Lion was raised alone 10,000 years ago, yeah.....but how would that specific bit of information have any bearing on the potential Arks of Omen direction? Where's the relevance of that to any of whats going on specifically? It's a quite meaningless thing to have as a card and include in the context of these events.

 Vovin wrote:
Saying that this hints at the Lion is a perfect example of confirmation bias at work. Without knowing any rumours nobody would say anything other than Dante.

alone in the endless night -> alone in the Dark Imperium
blonde curly hair -> Dante
fatherless son -> Primarch dead
red fabric -> Blood Angels
Purgator(io) -> second act of Dante's divine comedy

And none of the other riddles hides its real meaning behind an obvious meaning.

Exactly this

Yeah the Inferno reference suggests a Dante curveball. The kid is looking left, like Jack of spades and clubs, which apparently represent Ogier the Dane and Lancelot, both knights.

edit - cartomancy is all over the place depending where you look, not useful.

Eh, kids too ugly to be a Blood Angel.

Must be a Dark Angel.

 TalonZahn wrote:
Eh, kids too ugly to be a Blood Angel.

Must be a Dark Angel.

Didn't baby Sanguinius also have, you know... wings?