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Giving a character with the mark of Khorne, Demonic talons AND an axe of Khorne?

the explanation being that the axe is a "gift of Khorne" in the armory, not under the weapons heading, and the demonic talons entry states that "it may use no other WEAPONS, but will always count as having an additional close combat weapon"

Umm, is that legal?  seems RAW, but I'm no metaphysical RAW savant like some of you.

The rules for Talons don't reference the armoury, so the armoury cassification of Weapons is meaningless.

There is no actual general rules definition of what is a weapon or not, so we're left with the regular meaning of the word. Under which, the Axe of Khorne is most definitely a weapon.

Regardless of whether they both can be given to a model you still couldn't combine their effects.

Both are clearly special close combat attacks and you would therefore have to pick one or the other to use.


Also, I'm going to assume that you would want to consider the Axe of Khorne a weapon, since otherwise there is no justification for allowing it to be used in close combat anyway (the rules for the AoK doesn't even say it is used in close combat).


So in short, I belive this is a completely moot point.