Pacific wrote:I would say almost certainly. The move towards the Blood god would have been a gradual thing I think after the discovery of Angron, and the use of the Butcher's Nails began to become more widespread. As you say, the Warrior Lodges would have been a good way to facilitate the following of Khorne, even as the more traditional marines in the Legion would have had misgivings about it (we know these existed, as they were purged at Istvaan, as mentioned in Galaxy in Flames).

There is even some evidence to support this, in the form of artwork of Pre-Heresy Kharn from the Collected Visions book, with the 'bunny ears' (the symbol of Khorne) already visible.



Can I ask what kind of symbol you were thinking of specifically? I did read about some in some fan-fic a while ago, where the activation rune of the Butcher's Nails was represented in the Marine's heads-up display by a skull with the World-Eater 'maw' around it, was that the kind of thing you had in mind?

Chaos Emperor wrote:i dont think that they did use a proto-khorne symbol as they already had the skulls, nails and triumph rope.
you might want to look in on Throne of skulls.com as they are totally world eater and khorne centred so if they dont know, its probablly non existent.