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A wych is a performer, a killer, an epicure of bloodsport.

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WIP Magnus at Nikea

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"you could've made anything, you made a sword."

some messy perturabo scribblesssss

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I see your take and contest that Nurgle would agree that success is assured for him, since all must suffer entropy, age and death. But work? I think if you could ask Nurgle, he’d say he’s just been playing this entire time. He does it all for the love of the game!

Hot take: Nurgle is the most hardworking and successful Chaos God. You can't change my mind.

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“What do humans know of our pain?”

—Eldrad, ancient farseer, sailor of the skeins of fate.

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A Sorcerer of Upheaval, Servant of Tzeentch, with his Neverborn Companion

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Test model for the rubricae I’ve just started painting! Guess what 40k novel series I’m finishing the second book of?

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Just sketching my personal private chaos lord: Siege Tyrant Ptolemon

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Oh to be clear I agree with you, even metaphysically the primarchs are implied to be incredibly sophisticated meat mechs for powerful warp beings. Biblical “messenger” angels are similar- motes of divine presence revealed in a “safe” physical form. Some angels in the Bible are mistaken for normal humans, at first.

In Warhammer, it seems the concept of Angel has undergone some memetic transformation, seeing as by 40k an angel can be a space marine. But to a layperson of the credo imperialis, a space marine is a “safe” embodiment of divine will.

I’m more indicating that once could read Fulgrim as being aware of his more “human” appearance, and as having been made to resent it in his fall. The big Horus Heresy theme of what to do with self-directed transhuman dread is on my mind. Fulgrim is a human, cursed with the knowledge that he was designed to be more, and yet still suffers from flaws and weaknesses to his character. How tragic! The metamorphosis into The Angel Exterminatus is a Self-sacrifice. Fulgrim chooses to die so that something that transcends flesh and its limits can live. Christlike, in a “why father have thou forsaken me?” Kind of way.

I keep hearing that Sanguinius and Fulgrim are both beautiful but in different ways. Fulgrim is this "human" beauty, as beautiful as a human can be, meanwhile Sanguinius is "perfectly" beautiful, to the point of coming out looking ethereal if not unreal. Which is why I propose: Fulgrim looks beautiful and approachable, while Sanguinius looks so pretty, to the point he just loops back into being uncanny, kinda like an angel is supposed to be. "Be not afraid" kind of deal. Like he is so beautiful, your brain starts screaming at you "THAT'S NOT A HUMAN" when you look at him. It's not noticeable when he is talking and is, like, moving and in action, but when he is staying still and is just looking at you, listening to you? That's when the uncanny valley feeling hits you with full force.

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I just finished Angel Exterminatus, and Fulgrim could certainly be read as trying to fix this dichotomy between him and his more truly angelic counterpart in Sanguinius. To use the term Angel to describe what he is becoming certainly felt loaded considering both Angron and Sanguinius have Angel in their titles.

I keep hearing that Sanguinius and Fulgrim are both beautiful but in different ways. Fulgrim is this "human" beauty, as beautiful as a human can be, meanwhile Sanguinius is "perfectly" beautiful, to the point of coming out looking ethereal if not unreal. Which is why I propose: Fulgrim looks beautiful and approachable, while Sanguinius looks so pretty, to the point he just loops back into being uncanny, kinda like an angel is supposed to be. "Be not afraid" kind of deal. Like he is so beautiful, your brain starts screaming at you "THAT'S NOT A HUMAN" when you look at him. It's not noticeable when he is talking and is, like, moving and in action, but when he is staying still and is just looking at you, listening to you? That's when the uncanny valley feeling hits you with full force.

(eldritch/cryptid primarchs enjoyers pspsps)

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lil study sketch of John Blanche's Fulgrim

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Shemuet, “The Thousandth Son”

“Would that anonymity followed shame, and death followed failure.”

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“Take a hit of this shit, man-thing!”

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Iron Within.

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Fulgrim slays Ferrus Manus

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The Lord of Iron, only seen for his value, never his worth.