#lorgar aurelion

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yes ok I have been asked about the updated codex let’s talk updated codex

So. Post Plague-Wars. Ultramar system. Guilliman and Yvraine have a strong alliance, and in completely and totally unrelated news have a daughter named Juno Vaeyncaria Guilliman.

MEANWHILE…

on the other side of the Imperium, the Emperor is given a Text-To-Speech Device. Now the original ITEHATTSD obviously happens prior to Plague Wars so while the basic framework is there (kitten exists, magnus is back, dorn and his Boy are there, etc.) it’s obviously a lil different. Through a series of convoluted events we don’t need to discuss at this point, Magnus accidentally pokes the timeline in a weird way and pops the dead primarchs back into existence. They remember everything just fine! They are just. no longer dead. and now in 42k.

This brings us to what I’m affectionately calling ‘2012 Avengers Tower Imperial Palace.’ All the known primarchs are active, though some are still running around 'lost-ish' in the warp. Most of the previously dead primarchs are ‘recovering’ in their former residencies alongside the TTS crew, seeing to what’s left of their legion and figuring out what the hell is going on with. whatever is happening in M42.

Horus in particular is in a weird spot. first, of all the returnees, he’s alone. Ferrus makes up with fulgrim pretty immediately, sang is permanently covered in various marines of his geneline, konrad’s having a Great Time Actually (we’ll get to that later). but nobody seems to like horus much, a position he’s never been in, and this includes his legion which is entirely under abaddon’s control and not going anywhere in the near future. so he does what any guy going through a midlife crisis does and gets himself a hobby.

See, two supposedly dead primarchs remain unaccounted for after Magnus’ spell, namely the two original Lost Primarchs. by logic this means they must still be alive, somewhere. everyone else is unbothered by this, as Malcador’s memory spell disallows any concentrated thought of the two, and even though the primarchs are aware they had more brothers, to their knowledge dad went out to meet with them and something Went Wrong 🤷🏻‍♀️ and then he came back and retired shortly thereafter. weird! oh well.

but horus was not just killed, he was Unmade. when he was reconstituted it was as though he was new, without the stain of chaos.

and free of malcador’s influence.

while ostensibly crashing on dad’s couch, Horus throws himself into finding out what he believes is the key to all of this, the thing that poisoned the imperium before even the Heresy, the original Deviation from the Plan: whatever actually happened to the two lost primarchs?

Ok it’s later now. Konrad Curze always believed in fate. He followed it dutifully into its darkest depths, to his own grisly death.

And then he came back! He never saw anything about that! He figures that, having lived out his fate to its completion, he’s now free of it entirely. Oh he still has visions, but he’s much more lax in interpreting them, and thinks himself above their dictates besides. So. He still likes flensing people and thinks fear makes a fine method of control and hes still got…issues…but he’s not quite as stuck and he's having a wonderful time about it. and he’s also hanging around the palace bc he’s also got very little contact with his legion, which is either scattered or under Sevatar and/or whichever NL prophet we're on now.

So he gets roped into fucking around in emps’ restricted history section with horus! yippee!

The two actually work really well as a buddy-cop kinda pair, with horus slowly repairing his relationships where he can while konrad trails him and learns how to be alive outside of the narrow scope of his futuresight. Magnus inevitably sticks his nose into things and gets to work undoing the mind-block on the rest of them. Alpharius gets involved because it turns out one of the lost legions might actually still exist. and even lion and leman join the hunt cause honestly they're really curious at this point.

Eventually the uncles drag their niece and her friends into the whole ordeal, in part because she happens to have a particularly strong psychic presence that attracts lost and dead marine souls in the warp. Like a cooler, named character version of the Legion of the Damned. Usefull when trying to gain accurate historical info.

oh yeah and emps gets off the throne at some point. he’s not bothering with the Mystery Gang because he’s too busy being one half of a political deadlock with guilliman, where it’s very clear gman does not actually trust him to lead the imperium anymore and is essentially running his own show off-leash from ultramar, but neither of them are remotely willing to like, discuss this. in any way. so instead they’re just stuck awkwardly across from each other, guilliman never offering control of the imperium back to his father and emps never reaching to take the regent position from him and i think if he stopped to think about it this is bc emps would be. a little nervous about resuming full command back from guilliman. because he’s not sure guilliman would give it to him. and he’s not sure he’s in a position to handle that. again. but emps is allergic to being emotionally competent so his brain skates over that thought, unable to confront it directly with any introspection, and instead he just. doesnt mention it! and guilliman doesnt mention it and emps sits in the wreckage of the dream he accidentally set on fire himself while his son methodically does the work to put it out and they won’t look at each other and its fine its all. fine.

and that’s the Updated Codex! 👍🏻 feel free to ask more

thanks to @wolf_feathers12 for the chance to give my ted talk, and tagging @thisuserissilly for lore posts (tm)

[geooricle]

So one of the prologues to The End and the Death Volume 3 is Lorgar and the Word Bearers in a city famed for its soothsayers and prophets, experts in every possible form of prognostication, a potential gold mine of information about the future. And what does Lorgar do? He burns down the city and reads his future in the flames.

This to me just sums up what the fatal flaw of Chaos is; while the Imperium is doomed to fail by it's fanaticism and blind adherence to tradition, Chaos are undone by thair need to be edgelords. They have to pick the most evil option, even to thair own detrement.

[gotham-at-nightfall]

Warhammer 40k

The Emperor of Mankind

Roboute Gulliman

Horus Lupercal

Lion El'Jonson

Angron

Leman Russ

Lorgar Aurelion

Corvus Corax

Alpharius / Omegon

Jaghatai Khan

Mortarion

Sanguinius

Fulgrim

Ferrus Manus

Konrad Curze

By Artrobot9000

[hinumay]

Ah yes the Lectitio Divinitatus with Lorgar Aurelion in the center of it

So im looking around at the official Warham merch site and the more I look, thr more baffled I get by how fucking weird some of the design choices are.

Tell me this isnt the fucking funniest shirt you have seen in a while? Im considering getting it because its soooo ugly:

[deus-blackheart]

And yet despite the setting, tone, militarism, and general nihilism of 40k the Satanic Panic people don’t latch on to that. I mean let’s lay it out here: they’re worried about Satanism right? 40k has multiple factions devoted to the worship of 4(5) demonic gods, all of which are just as bad if not slightly worse than the depictions of Christian hell.

Khorne wants bloodshed without end, his domain looks like your classic hell, lots of fire, brass, skulls, and a big old winged demon god at the centre of it being pissed off that his worshipers aren’t devoting enough kills and more importantly skulls to his greatness. He doesn’t just encourage violence against a foe, he does not care from where the blood flows. There is a pile of around (depending on what is and isn’t cannon now) 3-4 million skulls next to his throne made of skulls that is the personal kill count of Kharn the Betrayer who literally attacked his own men for taking cover in a snow storm that was able to freeze his fellow traitorous Astartes, with a god damn Flame Thrower.

There’s 3 other equally awful realms belonging to the Chaos Gods, but please consider that in the setting that humanity on the whole worships the God-Emperor of Mankind. This is another way in which 40k steals wholesale from the Dune saga, but I digress. This fedora tipping, misogynistic, atheist, who is supposedly immortal, was born in what is now ancient Turkey and killed his own uncle basically because he gave him a bad vibe. This man who claimed that his power was entirely his own, despite having dealing with the Chaos Gods for the knowledge of how to make the Astartes and their Primogenitor Primarchs, this guy goes ahead and unites humanity after we fuck up our planet, and then when people start worshiping him he says that GODS DON’T EXIST. 

One of his sons, who started worshiping him wrote a whole book on how awesome his dad was, and how we should all pray to him. This book would be initially banned but is now the main doctrine of the Cult Imperialis, the faith of the Imperium. That son was Lorgar Aurelion, who would turn to the worship of the Chaos Gods because his dad was pissed off at him and told him he was a disgrace for his worship.

Yeah, 40k is way more fucked up than fantasy role playing. It’s almost like people tend to want an escape from the unrelenting awfulness of the capitalistic nightmare we all live through.

Promise?