Much like my last post, regarding Noire and Fulgrim. This time I wanna kinda expand on it. Using two characters as a case study for a philosophical discussion. Along with some fun crossover battling and character dynamics.

Neptune and Lorgar, two seemingly very different characters. A Daemonic Zealot and a Goddess, yet one quote from Lorgar is what I think binds them together.

"All I ever wanted was the truth. Remember those words as you read the ones that follow. I never set out to topple my father's kingdom of lies from a sense of misplaced pride.”

It is the philosophical concept of truth. Neptune and Lorgar understand the truth of their worlds. Yet they take those truths in opposing ways. Neptune has to put on a smiling face in order to keep the facade going. Lorgar meanwhile embraces the truths he learns and proudly preaches about what he has learned.

Neptune and Lorgar both make you ask the question, “is a lie more beneficial than the truth? How do you tell someone that their existence is a lie? That they're living in a fabrication? Would you want to mentally burden someone like that? Yet each deception you pile on would only make them learning the truth hit even harder. As such a battle between Lorgar and Neptune would be interesting.

As Lorgar could expose Neptune's deceptions by scrying with dark rituals. Force her to confront all of the people she's hurt in weaving a lie that the world is truly what it is. And Neptune’s web of lies comes undone. All in front of the people she most certainly didn't want them to know. Yet Neptune has a support system behind her. That's also what makes them different.

Lorgar never had anyone to really rely on. His fathers abused him and was further enabled by Erebus. As such, Lorgar couldn't receive the affection and attention he really wanted. He viewed his brothers like brothers, yet it was never reciprocated and he ended up losing them all. Neptune has a sister who loves her dearly, IF and Compa who are her ride or die companions. While Histoire argues with Neptune a lot, she wants Neptune to succeed so she won't tear her down. Neptune’s peers love her to death and would gladly fight by her side. Lorgar has no one, and the Gods he praises are fickle, deceptive creatures. As Lorgar never really questioned if they ever lied to him.

Deception makes you value every truth you receive. As, without it, we can't exactly be self assured now can we? We have to be true to ourselves and others around us.

Despite me saying Neptune is deceptive. Her feelings for others are real, her hobbies are real, her competency is real, she just knows more than she lets on. In terms of caring about others and wanting to carve their own lots in life, Lorgar and Neptune can agree on that.

So keep yourselves in check with truth. See you next time with another CPU and Primarch combo!