#legions

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Satan Summoning his Legions by John Robert Cozens

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Warhammer 40k: Horus Heresy - Legions - Spiteful Challenge

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“Roman Testudo” Paweł Kurowski 2019 Illustration for the board game Lumeria: War of the Gods.

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Wall of Hope

"What cage would you rather be inside of than out?" —Daru riddle

Artist: David Martin TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

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Flavor Text Highlights - Legions

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Cool - Glowrider

“It is not yet time.”

Funny - Enormous Baloth

Its diet consists of fruits, plants, small woodland animals, large woodland animals, woodlands, fruit groves, fruit farmers, and small cities.

Worldbuilding - Blade Sliver

After breaking free from the Riptide Project, the slivers quickly adapted to life on Otaria—much to the dismay of life on Otaria.

Emotional - Defiant Elf

“I lost one home when Yavimaya was destroyed. I will not lose another.”

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Caller of the Claw (Legions) - Matt Cavotta

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Legion and/or Primarch ranking?

For me, such a ranking makes little sense, as I have found that I actually enjoy reading every Legion and Primarch if they are well written.

Of course, there are exceptions. I always look at my favourites with a sympathetic eye, even if they end up in the hands of less talented authors.

But in general, I believe that a good author can make any legion palatable to me.

So I can only speak of "currently I like less" when I say that legions or Primarchs don't interest me that much.

My favourites are clear - Emperor's Children, Word Bearers and Salamanders are undisputed at the top because I just love them as a whole package. Yes, their Primarchs all struggle with hard meme stereotypes. But what Primarch doesn't? I'm very glad that TTS never reached Fulgrim and Lorgar, and at least they didn't give Vulkan quite as bad a time as other canon characters (poor Cato and Calgar for example. Or Dorn. Damn, did they do a number on Dorn!).

Lorgar and Fulgrim come across as far too nice and harmless in the fandom at the moment. But I'm not here to dictate other people's headcanon. Gods forbid!

There are legions and Primarchs that I just haven't found any access to, come hell or high water. It's just because their novels haven't grabbed me. Absolute potential, but not written in such a way that I want to know more.

This definitely includes The Iron Warriors with Perturabo. And the Raven Guard with Corax.

Or the Lion and his Dark Angels. It's not good for him that authors drag him in different directions and break him in the process.

I also have a hard time with Sanguinius and his boys, because the authors just keep pushing into my head how wonderful he is, but never provide examples of why exactly. That creates too much dissonance for me.

What I like, on the other hand, is how Khan is allowed to be a defiant teenager. Feeling absolutely misunderstood by everyone and wanting to be cool (trying waaaay too hard), but then being offended when no one is looking. That makes him likeable. So while I can't find the White Scars particularly interesting as a legion, I can respect them.

I wish Horus would finally get some decent treatment. Just one or two novels that don't make him a caricature of himself. The man has the rebellion named after him - he needs a bit more shine please!

I hope it's clear now that for me there are no bad Legions, only boring/bad writers.

Hence no ranking. Just the fact that I have my favourites.

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The Roman legions were probably the main reason the Roman Empire was so successful. These incredibly organized military units marched all over the ancient world and remained in key colonies of the empire long after the last battle was fought. Roman legions, however, developed over time and as they evolved they became finely tuned parts of the war machine.

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𝔖𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔣𝔩𝔶 - 𝔏𝔢𝔤𝔦𝔬𝔫𝔰

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Savatage - Legions

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Satan summoning his Legions by Sir Thomas Lawrence

'Awake, arise, or be for ever fallen!' — John Milton's Paradise Lost

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Leigh dancing and singing to ‘don’t say love’ with all the fans in LA.

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“Les Aigles de Rome: Livre V” Enrico Marini 2016

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Beacon of Destiny

"We all borrowed life from the Ancestor to exist in this world. Today, I repay that debt."

Artist: Tim Hildebrandt TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

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> Hyperfectonia: Escape into the apartment building with the crowd.

Mars and Vekla escape unscathed, because they're literally ponies, but one of the cops notices you, given that you're an anthropomorphic rabbit creature on all fours pretending to be a pony with a severe deformity.

COP: Identification, please. HYPERFECTONIA: acab.

> Hyperfectonia: FRAY.

You reach for the cop's gun, and succeed. The policeman shudders under you as you reach under them and knock it out from the bottom, its barrel down the throat of the policeman attacking you, as they drop the shield in shock. Other policemen begin to surround you, closing in tighter and tighter, with vehicles as large as tanks lining the periphery of your vision.

> Hyperfectonia: DAUNT.

The policemen close around you, various missiles being pointed directly at your head. You're in massive danger, and you don't care. You begin levitating above the police, firing a barrage of bullets onto the ground with the Dutch angle being insane. But that's not all you do.

Your Thief of Mind powers give you the ability to warp the sense of balance of the ponies below you, their faces twisting and contorting as the tanks feel like they dislodge from the ground, with a bearcat entirely dislodging from its tracks. Multiple vehicles lose balance and flip onto their side, some ponies are found upside down. They feel as if gravity itself is the force causing them to fail, they buckle, and multiple get grazed by stray bullets.

You're not being careful, but by a stroke of luck, you avoid killing any cops. They talk amongst themselves, screaming and crying, some with broken legs, lying in pain while wondering what they could have possibly done to anger you, an alien god beyond their comprehension. They take a minute to get up, staring up at a floating bipedal rabbit creature, with all their former duties comprising nothing but riot dispersal and dealing with those following the theories of Pony Mao Zedong.

HYPERFECTONIA: who the fuck is your boss? COP: Princess Razzleberry of Equestria. But... But. Good luck getting a fucking audience with her. HYPERFECTONIA: youre gonna get me a fucking audience, ok. COP: I don't think... I don't think I can guarantee that- HYPERFECTONIA: i deserve one.

You knock the cop further off balance, his legs twisting further.

COP: ffffUCK COP: Fine! Fine! I'll make it happen.

You yell at your teammates.

HYPERFECTONIA: hey yall, come the FUCK out!

> Mars: Don't.

Ok.

> Vekla: Exit building.

You exit the building, and see the absolute onslaught of pony police attempting to control the situation. Hyper gives you a meek little wave.

HYPERFECTONIA: hi vekla!

You look behind you and pretend you don't know what's happening right now.

> Hyperfectonia: Engage police.

HYPERFECTONIA: sorry to have had to cause a scene like that. COP: What do you mean HAD TO? HYPERFECTONIA: there wasnt another way i was gonna, you know, get her to talk to someone as im?ortant as i am. COP: Jesus fucking... god. God save the fucking Princess. OK. Fine. Fine. COP: Just let us go, okay? HYPERFECTONIA: ok.

You gesture at Vekla and Mars, both still pretending to be bystanders and shifted into pony form. The cops look at the two of them and are confused as to how they're implicated in this, believing that they're co-conspirators with some kind of rebellion organization.

> Hyperfectonia: Take a piss.