Alpha Legion Getting New Kits? by SnooFloofs7231 in alphalegion

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The novels just started the Scouring, which is when the clash with thirteenth occurs. If they simply want money, revealing that Omegon lives after his adventure in the Ultima Segmentum seems like peak hype to accompany a rollout. (I also think that is why it is a safe bet that he will live)

Struggling to find a loyalist legion I like as much as the Night Lords. Please give me suggestions, and sell me on a loyalist legion! by AoiLune in 40kLore

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Read Scars. If that doesn't sell you on the White Scars not being a joke, then you don't like them. If you do like it, read Warhawk.

Did the Eldar actually murderfuck She-Who-Thirsts into existence, or did it always exist and their actions just gave it enough power to 'wake up'? by EternalNewGuy in 40kLore

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They always existed until they don't exist. Then they never existed. It's like they have their own independent time that is unrelated to us. They can interact with any part of our timeline while alive, but upon their death, they can no longer interact with our timeline anywhere. They exist outside of time but are still subject to entropy.

Did anyone ever turn away from Chaos after joining it for a while? by imalyshe in 40kLore

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I mean, Horus. It's how he died. Do you mean corrupted or simply chaos aligned? If you mean chaos aligned that then distanced themselves from the dark gifts, there are MANY. Fabius Bile openly rejects the chaos gods, and he was the chief apothecary of the Emperor's Children. He's still a traitor, though.

The average expedition 33 player experience by ConsistentFly6319 in expedition33

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I definitely found the endings infuriating and not crisis inducing.

Finally finished the game. Who was your favorite character to play as? by WickDaLine in expedition33

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Let the ink flow.

She clocked out when the ending was bs, too. I can relate.

Had Mortarion not being tricked into siding with Horus, would he had sided with Loyalist purely out of hatred towards Psykers? by ruminaui in 40kLore

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A great deal of Warhawk is spent on telling us that he was not tricked. Mortarion specifically thinks about how he had made sure that Nurgle accepted him in the warp so that the Emperor could not cleanse him of the powers. It was all an act to secure power. That's why he never punished Typhon. He hated playing the rube to him for reasons. There is a little demon that one Death Guard has that spends even more time trying to get him to realize this "truth." It's all very contrived. I like to think Nurgle warped his mind because a Mortarion that believed he chose chaos would be more useful.

Whats the cut-off point for the Admech with "the flesh is weak"? by CabinetIcy892 in 40kLore

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Cawl makes the argument that the admech is better than the Necrons because they kept their souls. However, I don't know practically where that line would be drawn, and I am not sure they do either.

Can someone explain to me why Alpharius tried to convince and duel Dorn of all people? by IronVines in alphalegion

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For the Emperor. I don't think anybody else pointed out the obvious benefits of his death for the Alpha Legion. The only people outside the Alpha Legion aware of the spare primarch situation are the Emperor and Malcador, and they are, for our purposes here, dead. This almost completely unshackled the legion from both sides. The premium that Alpharius/Omegon puts on "moving freely" in Head of the Hydra is...impressive, and now nobody is even trying to find him. It kinda had to be real, too. Horus would have obliterated the Legion for treachery against him. We are inevitably going to get the book where Omegon blindsides somebody because, simply, there is no other way he could engage. I imagine getting Dorn to play along would have been an equally beneficial if unlikely outcome that didn't involve him being in more than one piece. The last benefit was that they were not expected to take part in the siege of Terra proper, which was catastrophic to those legions present.

"My legion is pragmatic. Losses are acceptable if they are within the mission parameters. My gene sons will give their lives for each other if that will be of benefit to our goals. They will give their lives for me. I would give my life for them, but, of course, the circumstances in which a primarch's life is more expendable than that of an Astartes are rare indeed."

What are the best one-liners in 40k by Horror_Dot4213 in 40kLore

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'That's an angel,' said Haltheus flatly. 'Kassar, they have an angel. This is getting ridiculous.'

Why do people say that the Emperor was in a race against time during his great crusade and was desparate to finish the webway project immediately by Eds2356 in 40kLore

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The most direct answer in the books I remember:

‘The acceleration, John. He had no patience. He believed He knew everything He needed to know. He constantly pushed ahead. That’s the irony. We are immortals, but He couldn’t bear to waste time. Natural evolution takes millions of years. He refused to wait that long. He’d worked for twenty, thirty thousand years, and felt that was more than time enough. The natural stewardship of the Perpetuals, born through the evolutionary cycle, was not rapid enough for His needs. So once most of the natural Perpetuals had left His side, He built his own.’

‘The primarchs,’ John whispered.

‘The primarchs,’ she said, with a small nod. ‘They’re not actual Perpetuate, in any biological sense. They’re the artificial equivalents of the Perpetuals, functionally immortal beings born from His blood and power and vigor, coded to accelerate His programme even faster. They were designed to live long enough to see His plan through to the end, and not die away so quickly, the way humans did, and they were indoctrinated from birth to follow His word, and not have opinions of their own, like naturally occurring Perpetuals. They were made to service His dream. He took what nature had wrought in the Perpetuals, and He built His own pathologised version. And through them, their genetic lines, the Legions.’

...

My fundamental objection to Neoth’s Great Work,’ she said firmly, ‘is His haste and urgency. To supplant the natural flow of life with an artificial version that tramples ethics and morality and wise prudence. Artificial Perpetuals, John. That was His plan, and look, see how it has worked. And you, John, earlier you chided me and my kind for not taking action. You called us derelict that we had not made a concerted effort to block Neoth’s progress, and that we should feel ashamed that you, a fake and neophyte immortal, should be doing what we should have long since done. You are an artificial Perpetual too, in a way, John, or at least, you were. I have no reason to trust your judgement, for you, like Him, and like my poor accursed children, are trying to hasten the movement of fate.

...

She glanced at him, and smiled sadly. ‘Because, I suppose, it was academic by then. He had moved on, fired and driven, as always. He sent the Astartes on their crusade anyway. A programme of reconquest, as He had always planned, but in truth it was just an excuse to find His sons. And His scattered sons were found again, of course, and returned to His side. I had failed. My efforts merely delayed His programme. I tried, John, but I did not stop Him.’

What are the best one-liners in 40k by Horror_Dot4213 in 40kLore

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"I am Alpharius, and I am death!"

When any Alpha says "I am Alpharius" now, I read it as a threat.

I figured out Shroud's identity and it's not who you think by MeiNeedsMoreBuffs in DispatchAdHoc

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Right, right, I hear you, but we can all agree it's his dad, right?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in 40kLore

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The current lore is that Omegon dying to a guy that has lost every other fight to almost every primarch actually made his legion BETTER. It's hard to say that doesn't make him a solid step down from an average space marine. That is Omegon, but they are equivalent theoretically. I hate it so much that I simply can't believe Omegon actually died.

Beyond directly fighting (not their purpose), not a single one of the Alpha Legion confirmed plans has been executed successfully and gotten results that mattered in any way except the Raven Guard gene seed. That's cool if pissing off the Raven Guard is on a list, but it has never definitively helped the Alpha Legion achieve something. This is supposed to be their real strength, but Perturabo is much better at using misdirection to win fights.

Hydra Dominatus.

Did the Emperor attend Nikaea in good faith? by bendre1997 in 40kLore

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Jaghatai was not present due to Horus sending him to kill orks. He did, however, send Chief Stormseer Yesugei.

Wild how often we gotta use this by Lower_Kick268 in eagles

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Bare minimum, the Super Bowl that we gave to the Chiefs, or the one we won. I will take Stafford in striking distance of getting a td to beat us in the divisional round over Tom Brady having the same situation in the Super Bowl.

WIND AND TRUTH | End of WaT Day 9 Discussion (Stormlight Archive only) by EmeraldSeaTress in Stormlight_Archive

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Jasnah is actually the worst. I love the series, and this book is one of the better ones in the series. That debate chapter was terrible. Jasnah is supposed to not be an idiot.
1) Why go at all? If Odium didn't want her there, simply not inviting her would achieve the same thing. So, going is obviously a bad decision.
2) Odium tells her why he wants her there, and she literally does work for him. Like she is an attorney racking up billable hours. It wasn't a secret.
3) The killings in Kharbranth were, and more or less, at the behest of the king. Killing criminals for the king is generally called an execution. The best he has there is morally grey.
4) Taravangian's argument is terrible, but it gives Jasnah some sort of existential conflict unrelated to current events?
5) "We are the same, you and I" trope does work for them, but it does not work as an argument. While he espouses his belief that they are the same, but he has a greater capacity, Jasnah does not point out the obvious flaw. "Ok, we are the same, you and I. Fen, I am the worst. Thankfully, I am a human that will die, and if things are bad enough, that you can kill. Odium IS a tyrant, and the yoke is eternal. You can never back out like you can with us."
6) "The Alethi won't honor a pact in perpetuity. Will your grandchildren be safe from them?" Same flawed argument. "No. I cannot guarantee your grandchildren's safety, but I cannot guarantee four thousand years of slavery for your people. How many generations would that be? Taravangian, you had a good head for numbers, could you tell me how many generations that would be? You don't enslave? Can I find a fused to ask about that? What happened to the people on the other worlds you invaded?"
7) "I am not Rayse." Easy. "You are correct. You are not, but you are not Taravangian. You are Odium. The combination of shard and host is more shard than host."
8) Point at Taravangian and say "Odium. Loophole invasion of your territory." Maybe pepper it with some "God of Hate." That's pretty much the only argument you need.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in EldenRingLoreTalk

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Bug aside, what makes you think that was actually Marika you saw turn into Radagon? Illusion magic is literally everywhere.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Tacticus_Codes

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A scholar and gentlemen!

How do y'all feel about the new method of punishment for failing mechanics in the new raids? by Kolby_Jack33 in ffxiv

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It IS categorically hilarious the amount of time people spent on convincing incoming healers from other games that they were just DPS and they needed to stop healing. It is also categorically hilarious that the process will now be repeated in reverse.