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Just read Fabius Bile: Primogenitor, loved it.

One thing i missed though is that the whole book takes place in M34! which after finding that out made me really really get a strong urge to know what the old man is upto (iutside of codex fluff) in the current era.

5000 years is a long time from the events of Primogenitor! anyone got any other works, background sources or if JR has plans to do any other novels more set in the current 40k timeline on olde fabius?

There were a few short stories about him around 3rd/4th ed

And I think he came up in a few sotries from the Inferno mags..

Cant tell you exactly where though

Generally he's just been hiring himself out to warlords who either want their ranks refilling or their warriors 'enhanced', in exchange they give him things/people/aliens to experiment on.

He is currently being hunted by a chapter successor of the Imperial Fists and fled to Arkhona.

Did see a few novel references vs the blood angels, not sure what time period that is set in though?

 Latro_ wrote:
Just read Fabius Bile: Primogenitor, loved it.

One thing i missed though is that the whole book takes place in M34! which after finding that out made me really really get a strong urge to know what the old man is upto (iutside of codex fluff) in the current era.

5000 years is a long time from the events of Primogenitor! anyone got any other works, background sources or if JR has plans to do any other novels more set in the current 40k timeline on olde fabius?

haha I didn't notice that.

It was a surprisingly good book.

He himself said that he had no more than hundreds of years left, which means that either he cured his cancer (unlikely) or in the eye of terror, only a few hundred years (if that) have gone by.

Josh Reynolds ia good teller of tales.

 Quarterdime wrote:
He himself said that he had no more than hundreds of years left, which means that either he cured his cancer (unlikely) or in the eye of terror, only a few hundred years (if that) have gone by.

Generally in this setting they repalce Cancer effected organs with cybernetics... I'm sure he can revert to that (not that he is a fan)

GodDamUser wrote:

 Quarterdime wrote:
He himself said that he had no more than hundreds of years left, which means that either he cured his cancer (unlikely) or in the eye of terror, only a few hundred years (if that) have gone by.

Generally in this setting they repalce Cancer effected organs with cybernetics... I'm sure he can revert to that (not that he is a fan)

That renders what he said meaningless.

 Quarterdime wrote:

That renders what he said meaningless.

Well it just depends if he is going to be stubborn and try to stay organic..

but then again.. nothing says he cant just clone replacement cancer free organs.. and do that...

Yeah Fabious dying from cancer would be terrible terrible fluff

It isn't that simple.

Fabius is affected by the blight that nearly wiped out the III prior to the rediscovery of Fulgrim. He himself was instrumental in the execution of many Legionaries that suffered from it, using the preogenoid glands harvested from the corpses to fabricate a serum to keep the symptoms under control and hide his own taint.

The search for a cure would appear to be the genesis of all his experimentation.

Once Fulgrim was reunited with the Legion, he was able to provide fresh genetic material to manufacture new Marines, but, to my knowledge, no cure was ever found for Marines created with tainted geneseed, and I expect by M34, if not much sooner, Fabius is likely the only one left.

Even if he was prepared to replace organs, or even become interred in a dread, whatever organic matter that was originally him would still be subject to the effects of the taint.