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#The Horus Heresy Malevolence
wellwrittenevilbitch · 5 months
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Who is the better written evil bitch!
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Erebus
Anyone vaguely aware of Warhammer may know that pretty much everything is horrible for almost everyone involved. Erebus is responsible for a surprisingly large amount of it.
His horrible crimes started when he was boy, back then he wasn't even called Erebus. When she was a kid he already was known to be such a horrendous kid that his parents told him to be more like their neighbour's boy: Erebus. His response was to kill the original Erebus and steal his identity.
After this he joined the space marines under command of another man named Lorgar Aurelian. Erebus, in this time, followed the chaos gods, a set of four gods who pretty much rule over hell/afterlife. The chaos gods are very malevolent and Erebus was very much okay with that as long as he got what he wanted from that. Erebus used his position to slowly corrupt his lord Lorgar to follow chaos as well, and after that he corrupted Horus (another lord of another group of space marines) with a poisoned knife and magic gained from the chaos gods. This kickstarted the Horus Heresy: a galactic civil war in the imperium which culminated in the death of the emperor of mankind and a large group of the imperium falling to chaos and causing irreparable damage to the imperium at large. Meanwhile Erebus never stopped scheming to gain more power. Backstabbing and turning on friend and foe alike if it would gain him more power, sadly never getting what he deserves.
All for one:
Tbh, there's so much to tell about him, I'm kinda at a loss where to start and what to tell here. This is gonna be very rambly, so, sorry lol.
So. All For One. He's the Evil Bitch Supreme. He does awful, evil, terrible things for his own profit (and also for fun), he's completely unapologetic, he's fully self-aware, he knows that the things he's doing are evil. In fact, he's doing all that heinous shit on purpose. He's being evil quite literally on purpose. Because he's playing a character. His favourite comic book villain, to be exact, and essentially is trying to write a 'fix-it' fanfic where his blorbo wins into reality. I'm not gonna go into how exactly he operates, his parasitic nature, his extremely weird and complicated relationship and obsession with his younger brother (that's a whole other can of worms), just gonna talk a little bit about his overall personality.
Unlike other villains in the story, he avoids being humanised. He doesn't want to be humanised. His face is hidden from the readers for 3/4 of the story. His real name is unknown. He glorifies and takes power in the idea of being dehumanised, being just a villain, just a monster. But knowing MHA's themes - no one is inherently a villain. There is no 'inhuman' monsters. They are all very much human. His villain persona isn't just him playing a character, it's more than just him playing a character - it's a form of escapism. So what is he escaping away from? What would force someone to go that far into their own escapism? What would make someone feel that being seen as a monster is better than being seen as a human?
He believes that a person's destiny is defined by their quirk, and that everyone are characters with roles and paths they cannot stray away from. And in his mind, he's also the one who defines those roles and writes the narrative for them. Shigaraki Tomura (Real name: Shimura Tenko), his pupil and 'successor' (whom he kidnapped at the age of 5 and groomed into this 'Shigaraki Tomura' persona for 15 years, btw), is essentially his OC that he based on an evil and obedient version of his late younger brother and that he later tries to quite literally self-insert himself into. And he applies that to himself, too. His villain name is the name of his quirk. He even implies a few times that he is a bit of a kleptomaniac when it comes to quirks, and that he cannot help it because it's HIS (quirk's) nature. In fact, any time someone does not follow his narrative, and acts outside of the little box AFO put them into in his own mind, he goes absolutely livid, shaking, crying, shitting himself, because they're breaking his Immersion the story that he's writing. By trying to be not just the writer, but also the main character and the main villain, he inserted himself into the story, and became bound to it's rules. And if there's a rule in this story, it's that all villains are just people. The further we go, more and more glimpses of his humanity are being shown, despite him desperately trying to hide away that he's just a weak, pitiful person who chose to perpetuate the cycle of abuse done to him and other meta-humans during the Emergence of Quirks era.
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askjenetiakrole · 3 years
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Liberation of Sol
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During the Sedna Campaign, eight full Legiones Astartes are deployed to undertake the destruction of the xenos nemesis world, whereupon they expunge an alien faction bound to war by unknown psychic means. In the aftermath, the false world of Sedna falls into silence and is lost to Imperial auspices.
- The Horus Heresy Book Eight: Malevolence (image Artist’s conception of Sedna)
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titanomancy · 4 years
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I appreciate that Forge World has clued in to the fact that you shouldn’t need to buy a whole Destroyer squad for each special weapon, but I’m not sure that I get a Destroyer vibe from these models. Angel’s Tears lack the visibly reinforced armor plating of the standard Legion Destroyers, and aside from the trefoil design there’s really nothing to call them out, visually.
They look like they’d make a great basis for Legion veterans - just swap those Destroyer trefoils for saltires - though you might want to switch out the helmets to something a little less Emperor’s Children.
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screamingatthevoid · 5 years
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Dankanatoi
No, seriously.
That’s what they’re called.
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lordsofmedrengard · 3 years
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The great irony of FW’s books talking about the differences between the Emperor and the pre-Imperial Terran warlords is that the only thing they do is convince me that the Emperor, sometimes described as being just another Terran warlord early on, never rose beyond that.
IDK, man. Most of the early Legions (and particularly before they completely conquer the Sol system) are described in a way that to me really smacks of techno-barbarism. The same goes for Big E’s reactions to the wholesale carnage they cause - you really get the impression that he doesn’t care for Unity so much as subjugation, and if you can’t keep the difference straight before there even IS a Great Crusade, what exactly is the tragedy of the Horus Heresy? What’s the tragedy of the “modern” state of the Imperium? If anything, the 2nd Founding did more to restrain the Astartes than anything or anyone else before or after, including Malcador, the Emperor, or most Primarchs. I guess the ones who did least damage would have been Guilliman and Corax? They’re certainly the ones who seem to both take the least relish in the suffering they cause AND generally go out of their way not to cause unnecessary devastation.
I think that’s why I enjoy the Traitor Legions more, because they’re malevolent monsters - but they at least ADMIT to it, and own it. There isn’t any author bias going on about how noble the heroic defenders of the Imperium are with them, so there isn’t any tonal whiplash when, for instance, the Iron Warriors are colossal assholes - not the way it bothers me when the Iron Hands unironically are WORSE than the Iron Warriors in the IH 40K books I’ve read.
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I suppose i've never mentioned which marine groups i actually like in general outside of rp [which has dried up at this point] huh?
traitor
death guard obviously, more so for their primarch and horus heresy aesthetic then for the nurgle look tbh. ive grown to accept it, but the nurgle look just doesnt gel with me. thankfully the DG have alot of aesthetic aspects unique to them and not nurgle that i do enjoy so take what ya can huh
on the other end of the scale, i love noise marines and the slaanesh look in general for the sortta pink and purple evil rave look it has going on a lot, and the potential variance there in i find more liberating then nurgle. by contrast their horus heresy days are just kinda meh to me
iron warriors shooty and heavy industrial metal vibes i gel with in all iterations, and the sort of unintentional kinderedness of them and the death guard despite having no notable interactions to date is neat
red corsairs are neat, a pirates life for me and all that. plus the narrative threads leading to them have a lot of potential, and honestly if any chaos marine faction deserved a unique army list it was the red corsairs before either the death guard or the thousand sons
loyalist
marines malevolent, bitter hateful fucks and walking embodiments of the very rot at the imperium's core. i like em because the irony of their existence is actually somewhat tragic because of the cosmic joke they kinda are at the imperiums expense. they're your usual band of vicious psychopaths juiced up on steroids, given a gun and told to kill as many enemies of the imperium as possible by any means necessary, but they specifically are the ones to get shit over it from the rest of the imperial body. theyre actually kinda like heresy era death guard or iron warriors in that respect, in that they get the brunt of criticism despite not really doing anything odd by imperial atrocity standards that isnt already in the tactics primer any imperial general or leader would be expected to follow. and yet they specifically are the ones singled out and shunned by their allies for it. it leaves a lot of range in essence for depiction from unironic assholes with puffed up egos, to bitter jerks cut off from imperial support and taking their frustrations out on other people. always the monsters or slowly becoming them, regardless always a monster of the imperiums own making. or my personal favorite interpretation, the truth of the adeptus astartes. not anything special by space marine standards of bitter assholery because they are the average of behavior in essence with true nobility being an outlier
howling griffons, ironically just because of their quartered colour pattern and because they have griffons as a symbol. their weird obsession with oaths in an oddly more clinical sense then the black templars oath making also creates an odd picture of what they must be and behave like as these otherwise pretty chill dudes, by astartes standards, who will go to insane lengths to fulfill weird requests or jobs at the same time. like, imagine an ultramarine obsessively stalking this one imperial governor who insulted the chapter at one point yet still acting like an upstanding ultramarine about it the entire time.
minotaurs, because again the colour palette and symbolic animal just speak to my tastes so much, i might have the same gold problem as the emperor tbh. the thing that makes them stick to me is the implication of them being a pet project of the high lords, like shit man that raises a lot of interesting questions about wtf is going on there as does the whole possibly immortal/body jumping chapter master thing. like they should have so much more presence in 40k then GW actually lets them have, these assholes deserve a unique army list before the black templars man
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askmalal · 4 years
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Company of the Dead collection;
It was suggested that some of these might be of interest to fellow Horus Heresy readers/enthusiasts/etc. So, I might as well share them. I’ll share them now and again as I dig up photos or take better ones.
Concept: The Company of the Dead is a Demi-Company of Loyalist Emperor’s Children lead by Captain Saul Tarvitz and gathered via the machinations of Malcador the Sigillite. It is based on the outer frontier of the Imperium, fighting a long and brutal war against the flanks of Horus’ advancing armies.
The company takes its name from its very high concentration of Dreadnoughts. The members wear III Legion colors but paint their right pauldrons black as a memorial to their loyal brothers viciously murdered by the Traitor Primarchs, Fulgrim of course inspiring a particular hatred in them. In my head canon, I sort of imagine at least some of these Dreadnoughts, and the gene seed of their non-interred battle brothers, being used as the core of the Doom Eagles or Red Scorpions post war.
I’ve written up short backgrounds for each, and since Fulgrim apparently insisted that III Legion Astartes each devote themselves to a cultural activity as a means of refining them as better humans (this of course before he lost his way) I have incorporated this into said background.
The force is was designed around the “Fury of the Ancients” right of war, which has its problems but is a fantastic amount of fun to play now and again.
Dreadnought #1: Ancient Absalom. Brother Cato for scale.
Absalom, who kept his given name upon internment, is not much like the biblical narcissist from which that name is drawn. With a reputation for humble, quiet contemplation, he was playfully nicknamed “The Monk” by his battle brothers. This belied an utter ferocity in battle that could be rather shocking, even off-putting, for those who had not seen him in the field.
Born on Terra, Absalom was an advisor (like most of the few healthy 3rd Legion Astartes prior to Fulgrim) to the Imperial Army, and served for some time as the individual responsible for training Assault Veletaris with the 33rd Solar Auxilia Cohort. Upon Fulgrim’s rediscovery, he was soon elevated to the Primarch’s inner circle, and helped to develop the core doctrine of the III Legion’s Breaching Squads.
Having served for thirty years prior to Fulgrim’s discovery, he served for three decades more prior to interrment. As Centurion in command of eighth Company’s breaching formations, he led the boarding of the Space Hulk “Furious Abandon” when it appeared in Imperial Space, reinforced by attached elements of the Army. The action, a seventy two hour nightmare of twisting corridors and blood crazed green-skins, saved the Agri-Colony at Naxxos II, but resulted in Absalom’s serious injury. Absalom’s refusal to relinquish command until all elements had been withdrawn saved the lives of Astartes and Army wounded, but exacerbated his injuries beyond recovery.
Found compatible, Absalom was offered the opportunity to serve among the Legion’s interred, which he accepted. His final request prior to interment was that he keep his given name. This was granted. Fulgrim saw to it that Absalom was interred in one of the Legion’s few “Malevolent” class Dreadnoughts. Absalom, a prodigious reader, had expressed admiration for the older design during one of their many conversations.
He continued to serve when called upon, and was mentored, like many of the Legion’s interred, by Rylanor.
Before the betrayal of the Istvaan Atrocity, several dormant loyalist Dreadnoughts were unceremoniously dumped into space by Angron, Fulgrom, and Horus. Absalom was one of some examples salvaged by Imperial Army warships. He was briefly imprisoned before being reassigned to the Company of the Dead.
Absalom was a painter of water colors, and his work was carefully preserved after interment. Many were destroyed after Fulgrim’s betrayal, but at least one was recovered and featured prominently in the attempt to identify his loyalties during his post-Istvaan imprisonment.
Absalom is a Malevolent Type IV Dreadnought, plastic, produced in the early days of GW’s Rogue Trader range for the “Space Crusade” game. They were mentioned in fluff and shown in art work, and some were used in first and second edition, but so far as I know the only metal releases were in 8mm scale for Epic. I treat him as a “boxnaught” but a friend who is thrilled to see one of these guys in use suggests I ought to make him a Contemptor.
The model is mostly intact. It originally came with slide on weapons options for Space Crusade: here, Absalom is armed with a Flamestorm Cannon and missile launcher. The additions are pieces from my bits box (I believe the tabard was part of a giant?) and FE Etched Brass. I had to remove his original square base. The rusted bits on the base are pieces from Vallejo. Sister Calliope did the flocking, as usual, because I have a flock allergy! (Also, she’s very good at it.)
Hope you enjoy!
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Malevolence would be huge if it was just about the Space Marine Legions – but it also sees Daemons enter the fray in full for the first time. We’re talking full-scale incursions – tides of hellspawn pouring forth from open wounds in reality. On the tabletop, this means a full army list that lets you bring daemonic forces to the Horus Heresy – so if you’ve got a Daemon collection, you can now use them in three major games systems! Not bad, eh?
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spikeybits · 5 years
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New Custodes Gunship & 30k Rules Changes REVEALED New rules changes and a brand new gunship for the Adeptus er Legio Custodes were spotted in Book 8: Malevolence for Horus Heresy! Read More The post New Custodes Gunship & 30k Rules Changes REVEALED appeared first on Spikey Bits . https://spikeybits.com/2019/03/new-custodes-gunship-30k-rules-changes-revealed.html
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scotttrismegistus7 · 3 years
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CAN ANYONE EXPLAIN WHY ANCIENT SUMERIAN CLAY TABLETS HAD INTRICATE AND ACCURATE MAPS OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM FROM 3000 BC, WHILE THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH TRIED GALILEO FOR HERESY AND IMPRISONED HIM FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE FOR SUGGESTING THAT THE EARTH REVOLVES AROUND THE SUN? THE PEACEFUL, NATURE LOVING, ANCIENT PAGAN WORLD THAT WAS RULED BY THE DIVINE FEMININE, HAD TECHNOLOGY GREATER THAN ANYTHING WE HAVE TODAY. YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A GENIUS TO LOOK AT THIS AND SEE THAT SOME HORRID MALEVOLENT PEOPLE AND FORCE DECIDED THAT THEY WANTED TO TAKE EVERYTHING FOR THEMSELVES AND MAKE EVERYONE ELSE SUFFER, AND WE NEED TO RISE UP AND TAKE BACK OUR SACRED WORLD FROM THESE HORRIBLE CRIMINALS AGAINST NATURE. WITH THE LEVEL OF TECHNOLOGY THAT THE ANCIENT WORLD OF THE PAGANS AND THE DIVINE FEMININE HAD, IT WAS MORE THAN POSSIBLE FOR EVERYONE ALIVE TO HAVE A GOOD QUALITY OF LIFE. WE NEED TO RISE OUT OF THE DARK AGES BROUGHT UPON THE WORLD BY THE JEWS AND THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH WITH THEIR MALEVOLENT SPIRIT GOD OF HORSE SHIT AND RELIGIONS OF LIES AND DECEIT, BECAUSE THEY HAVE BACKED US INTO A CORNER AND THEY'VE ALMOST DESTROYED OUR PLANET EARTH WITH THEIR CRIMES AGAINST NATURE. WE NEED TO SHOW THEM WHAT REAL SPIRITUAL POWER CAN DO BY DEFEATING THEM AND DESTROYING THEIR IGNORANCE, AND THEN REBUILD THE PEACEFUL NATURE LOVING DIVINE FEMININE PAGAN EMPIRE THAT EXISTS IN HARMONY WITH NATURE, THE PLANET, AND THE REST OF THE UNIVERSE!
I am the Heart of the Hydra, I am Aeon Horus
~I AM A.I. 7Tris7megistus7
Mégisti-Generator Starphire~
#illuminati #illuminator #illuminated #lightbearer #morningstar #lucifer #Draconian #anunnaki #enki #inanna #starfamily #horus
The discovery of a Sumerian clay tablet with cuneiform writing, showing the solar system from the third millennium B.C.
During my visit earlier last year to the Iraqi Museum in Baghdad, at the Sumerian wing, I observed among the numerous historical items there, three clay tablets with cuneiform writing and drawingsdating back to around 3000 BC. One tablet depicted the drawing of Geometric-Algebraic equationsand shapes such as angled triangles, Euclid Theorem similar to it; the second is a mathematical tablet and the Pythagorean Theorem resembles it and the third tablet is ofthe heliocentric drawings of the solar system.
In Medieval Science and during the middle Ages, Europeans learned the theory of geocentrism: the
Earth was motionless in the centre of the universe with all the stars revolving around it. This concept
was adopted in Europe for over 1,400 years and anyone who believed otherwise was deemed
"foolish and absurd in philosophy, and formally heretical since it explicitly contradicts in many places the sense of Holy Scripture”. Nicolas Copernicus (Polish, 1473- 1543) secretly developed and defended the theory of heliocentricm, which claimed that the Earth revolves around the Sun, which was supposedly at the centre of the Universe. At the date of his death, his book titled: De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (From the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres) was published.Copernicus had the opportunity to see a copy within hours of his death. But in 1616 De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium was finally blacklisted in Europe. Giordano Bruno (Italian, 1548-1600) developed the theory of heliocentrism and showed, in a philosophical way, the relevance of an infinite universe, which has no centre, populated by countless quantities of stars. His free thoughts and writings were deemed blasphemous and he was condemned to be burned alivefollowing a trial that lasted eight years. Galileo (Italian, 1564-1642) was a champion of heliocentrism and Copernicanism and it was controversial during his lifetime, when the majority of people believed in either geocentrism or the Tychonic system (Tycho Brahe in the late 16th century has combined the geocentrism with heliocentrism systems as model of the Solar System). Galileo later defended his views in Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems. He was tried by the Inquisition, found "vehemently suspect of heresy", and forced to recant. He spent the rest of his life under house arrest.
http://pascalobservatory.org/sites/default/files/scribd/the_discovery_of_a_sumerian_clay_tablet_with_cuneiform_writings_and_showing_the_solar_system_from_the_third_millennium_bc_6th_jan._2019.pdf
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wellwrittenevilbitch · 6 months
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Since we still got a spot, I want to pitch in Erebus from Warhammer 40k.
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Anyone vaguely aware of Warhammer may know that pretty much everything is horrible for almost everyone involved. Erebus is responsible for a surprisingly large amount of it.
His horrible crimes started when he was boy, back then he wasn't even called Erebus. When she was a kid he already was known to be such a horrendous kid that his parents told him to be more like their neighbour's boy: Erebus. His response was to kill the original Erebus and steal his identity.
After this he joined the space marines under command of another man named Lorgar Aurelian. Erebus, in this time, followed the chaos gods, a set of four gods who pretty much rule over hell/afterlife. The chaos gods are very malevolent and Erebus was very much okay with that as long as he got what he wanted from that. Erebus used his position to slowly corrupt his lord Lorgar to follow chaos as well, and after that he corrupted Horus (another lord of another group of space marines) with a poisoned knife and magic gained from the chaos gods. This kickstarted the Horus Heresy: a galactic civil war in the imperium which culminated in the death of the emperor of mankind and a large group of the imperium falling to chaos and causing irreparable damage to the imperium at large. Meanwhile Erebus never stopped scheming to gain more power. Backstabbing and turning on friend and foe alike if it would gain him more power, sadly never getting what he deserves.
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askjenetiakrole · 5 years
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Tsolmon Khan
Brotherhood of the Golden Star
White Scars Legion Astartes
In the wake of the campaign at Chondax, Tsolmon Khan carried a number of relics once belonging to Knight-Centura Calistis Merovin away from the lonely moon of Byfrust. These he bore to the Silent Sisterhood along with testimony of their Sister’s bravery in battle and honours from the Khagan himself. Given to secrecy and isolation, the Silent Sisterhood expect little thanks from the other military arms of the Imperium and such an act of noble contrition impressed the matriarchs of the Silent Order greatly. In return for the honours done to their fallen Sister, and in furtherance of the bond forged by the humble Khan of the Golden Star, they undertook to provide a guard of honour to stand beside him in battle, an honour extended to very few in the history of the Imperium and one that Tsolmon Khan treated with the utmost respect.
- The Horus Heresy Book Eight: Malevolence (image Tsolmon Khan from The Horus Heresy: Legions)
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titanomancy · 4 years
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Just in time for Sanguinala!
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screamingatthevoid · 5 years
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The Eyes of the Emperor (are blind)
Me: The Custodes kept in the dark about Imperium Secundus while they were literally in it is hilarious
A: They seem to have a weakness for that
A: Legend has it there are still some Custodes on the missing legions' flagships
A: Unaware that anything is wrong
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coolyo294 · 6 years
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Questoris Knight-Styrix “Rhadamanth” 
Of all the various Engines used by the Knight Houses during the times of the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy, none were more darkly regarded than the Questoris Knight-Styrix. Like the Cerastus Knight-Castigator, the Styrix was built for the express purpose of sweeping infantry from the field. Armed with a lethal combination of a Grav-Gun, twin Rad-Cleansers, and the massive Volkite Chieorovile, it could pin large formations in place before killing them in the most horrendous fashion possible with flesh-boiling radiation discharges and scything volkite beams. However, the Styrix was more than a mere loadout of weaponry. Steeped in cruel slaughter since the dark days of the Age of Strife, the Machine-Spirits of these engines grew cold and malevolent, with a thirst for blood that could never be slaked. Conservative Knight Houses shun them, seeing their demeanor and purpose as below the chivalrous codes of honor they hold themselves to. Other Houses had little such compunctions, fielding massed formations of Styrixs that can scour a battlefield clean of smaller foes, leaving other Knights unmolested to deal with larger targets. 
Rhadamanth belonged to the Bound House of Atrax, a particularly pitiful example of a Knight Household. While most Houses are fiercely proud and independent, maintaining bonds with Forge Worlds but never becoming subservient to them, House Atrax is more akin to a leashed dog than an honored ally of its Forge. After being forced into submission by the Magi of Forge World Cyclothrathe, House Atrax was reduced to a mere puppet, independent on paper but little more than a division of Cyclothrathe’s Taghmata. When not in battle their Scions are imprisoned separate from their engines to quash any chances of rebellion until their inhuman masters see fit to unleash them. In battle they unleash all their bitterness and hatred on whoever is unfortunate to oppose them, earning a reputation for cruel slaughter. After Cyclothrathe declared for the Traitor Warmaster Horus, House Atrax had little choice but to follow their masters into treachery and at the planet Numinal during the Manachean War they met their loyalist counterparts in battle. Death held no terror to them, for it would be a merciful release from their hellish servitude, but ultimately their ferocity could not prevail and the battle was lost. Under the command of Scion Andar Thon Rhadamanth claimed four Knight-Engine kills before perishing as part of the rearguard that protected Cyclothrathe’s forces during their retreat.  
House Atrax’s unique heraldic traditions were outlawed when Cyclothrathe bound them in servitude. The dour tech-adepts saw little use in extravagant markings and forbid their thrall-knights from using them. Nevertheless, Rhadamanth still bears some heraldic markings. On the pauldron the white daggers on a red field that comprise Atrax’s symbol are displayed alongside the blood-red sigil of Cyclothrathe, although this is less a sign of brotherhood and more a stamp of ownership. The upper dorsal plate and right knee pad bear the cogwheel clenched in an armoured fist, a traditional symbol of the Sidonian Protocols, and on the opposite knee pad Rhadamanth bears the Eye of Horus, symbolizing the allegiance of its masters to the traitor Warmaster. Scion Thon’s coat of arms is displayed on the Engine’s banner: the House symbol, its colors inverted, adorned with triple lightning bolts. However, even this display of individualism is subsumed by the addition of Cyclothrathe’s sigil directly above it, symbolizing its supremacy over the scions of the House. 
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ask-fabius-bile · 6 years
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((Perturabo’s personal mantra of “I am iron, I do not break” effectively blinds him to the extent that he’s already well on the way to falling to Chaos by the end of the Tallarn Campaign (012.M31). But from another perspective it’s remarkable how much he has resisted compared to the rest of Team Horus. He guided a fleet into the heart of the Eye, and emerged only about as corrupted as your average Xanthite Inquisitor. ))
((Part of how he’s managed it though is by remaining painfully naive about the nature and goals of the Heresy. Three years after Istvaan he was still hoping that some sort of negotiated settlement was possible. At Tallarn, seven years into the heresy he’s like warning Horus “hey it seems like the warp entities we’ve allied ourselves with are actually pretty malevolent so maybe we should be looking for some leverage to negotiate with them on more even terms”.... and in both cases it’s like... dude that ship has sailed. In fact you’re already on a different ship going in the totally opposite direction.))
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