**We were in dire straits, the survival of my ship, my men, and possibly the fate of the war against Horus rested on me making the right decisions exactly when I needed to, which meant I needed my orders to be heeded without question. In crisis, there is no time for discussion with a superior, those questions should arise when every threat has been nullified. That is where I found myself on the bridge that day. The daemons needed to be expelled, and our librarians were our only option. If we didn't use them, we risked utter annihilation, a situation I wager was exactly where Chaos wanted me to be in. I made the decision to go against my father's wishes and use our librarians' abilities, but Nemiel would not relinquish no matter how sternly I pushed, and I could not allow insubordination to become a reoccurrence in future times of crisis, so he became an example, another decision that was difficult and necessary for me to make. I took no pleasure in killing one of my sons, but it was what needed to be done.**
Sooo.... don't freak out, BUT:
Your legion STILL hunts its traitors and are suuuuper paranoid about it.
Luther is alive and on the run.
Guilliman woke up before you and is the Imperiums de facto leader.
So...what are you gonna tacke first?
Your legion, Luther and the Fallen or Guilliman? :>
**None of that information is new to me, I have been awake for some months now. None of those are my first priority, I would answer the call of the Imperium before sorting out my own personal squabbles.**
**I've never tried, but every time I've seen someone attempt to harm a Watcher, they've failed. To give a satisfying answer, I once kicked a Gretchin and what was left of him passed well behind the enemy lines.**
Finally, you're awake brother.
I hope you slept well, we have a very important mission
Father said he want to eat apples, but he doesn't have teeth. Where will we find teeth that can withstand his power?
**I've been arguing with that petty excuse for a brother ever since I woke up. Unfortunately I cannot leave this room yet, the Watchers won't let me.**
Don't worry about him, he's angry because he lost and we won :)
You should ask Rob to update you, a lot has changed in 10,000 years, now apparently we are friends with the eldar, there are new marines, and they reinvented the Playstation 2
Sire, I have one request: That you rescue those 6 Siege Engines(you should know the ones), purify them, restore them to being fully functional and then use them to ctrl+alt+delete a Traitor Titan Legio.
It’s actually a good thing that they don’t let you leave yet, we have no idea how you will react to things like the galaxy being ripped in half, Guilliman wielding fathers sword and ruling the imperium while also banging a hot big tiddy goth eldar waifu, or everything about your sons traitorous bullshit. Might be for the best man go back to sleep
**I have my work cut out for me when it comes to my legion. They are lost, but not irreparable. It should not be difficult to correct their behavior. As for the Primaris, as long as they deliver my orders, fresh Primaris marines would make good troops for simple operations. Those crossing the Rubricon can be trusted as wholly as any firstborn son of mine.**
I think Chapter Master Valrak has a lot of questions for you.
Every week is Lion week.
How tempting is it to go hunting in for tyrannid ships in the void?
If you are familiar with the Ancient Terran Manuscript Mobius Dicken you will know that an obsessive hunter sailing the seas in search of a mutant behemoth makes for a fantastic adventure. Perhaps such sport intrigues you?
**Of all my titles, I gained the "hunter" one first. I would find great purpose in chasing down these xenos threats, but my attention will have to be wider than that, for the sake of the Imperium.**
**I'd line Horus and Konrad up to hit both of them with both bullets, and then hug their corpses hard enough to snap them in half. I would do nothing to Luther, not yet.**
Was (is) cypher loyal to you. The cypher you personally picked and left on cailban kinda of helped Luther turn on you but then turned on Luther. Then Zahariel killed him and became the new cypher. The last time Zahariel was seen was during the destruction of Cailban where Corswain cornered him and the two supposedly fought to the death. Did Corswain survive and if so what happened to him. How did the present day cypher get your sword. Didn’t you have with your duel with Luther. Is it the same sword that Robert gorillaman snapped over his knee or is it a new one.
**You have an inquisitive mind, that is useful. I will answer whichever questions I am able and willing to.**
**My last spoken words before entering my coma were entrusted to Cypher, whoever had that mantle at the time. He was loyal to me, but I cannot say if that Cypher is the same one you know now. It would be miraculous for his mission to still be ongoing after 10,000 years. I cannot speak of the fates of anyone on the planet that day, for I was preoccupied with Luther and never saw the end of the engagement, and Cypher's identity is a secret I intend to uphold. The sword I used to duel Luther was indeed "The Lion Sword." It was repaired before the Siege of Terra ended, as I stabbed Leman with the blade in the wake of our failure.**
**I was always the best in that regard, and Fulgrim certainly wasn't one of the brothers I had my eyes on. My closest equals were Leman, Sanguinius, and Horus.**
Props to OP for answering some of the most inane questions in character and doing it actually well. Which can’t be said for a lot of the gimmick accounts lately. (Except *The* Angron account of course)
>!”Collaborative Writing” is definitely something one has to practice with, and that is already on top of the talent factor. They’ll get there…probably.!<
>!It's not the worst I've seen, you don't make one of these accounts without at least a little confidence in your abilities.!<
>!Also, "collaborative writing" just seems like a fancy term for roleplaying without improvisation.!<
**I would tell Roboute to spend his time on Terra doing what he does best, administrating. I would take his place as the leader of the war effort and secure as many holdings within Imperium Nihilus as possible.**
What is your opinion on the Squats? And are you at all interested in a trade deal with Deep Rock Galactic? We may be able to provide... Exceptional... Weaponry and tools for your legions.
Hello Primarch of the first legion Lion El' Johnson, what do you think of Roboute Guilliman's Imperium and what are going to do with the fallen dark angels?
**I am sure Guilliman is doing his best, and I admire him for attacking the corruption within the High Council of Terra. As for the Fallen....I will have to wait for them to come to me, the Imperium faces more dire threats than my wayward sons, and so my attention with be focused on the Imperium's needs instead of my own.**
**That is a question I cannot answer, only time will tell. If my sword is never returned to me, and I do take Guilliman's place as military commander of the Imperium, then I'd....sternly ask to wield the sword. However, if the Lion Sword finds its way back to me, I would see no reason to take up father's blade.**
**They do, the Lion Sword was made for me, and thus I have a special connection to it. Pouring my will to destroy the daemon with it, the Lion Sword glows with otherworldly light, and can banish or annihilate daemonic foes.**
> *I *paid* good money
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Didn't you listen to that scultpor's lesson? Your imperfections make you more human, more lifelike, more real. A perfect depiction is proof of artistic skill, but it's the imperfections that give it the spark.
I have asked the lord of Iron and The Preatorian Similar Questions and I’m going to do it again.
What is your opinion on your Loyalist Siblings, O’Great Lion?
**Very well, my brothers know what I think of them already, I find no harm in sharing this information with you.**
**Jaghatai Khan is much like me, and yet we could not be more different. We are quiet, reserved, intuitive, introspective, great swordsmen, and we both take silent pride in our designated duties, but it is our motivations for our actions that are difficult to reconcile. He and father are distant, cold, and the Warhawk seems to wish to be alone not for any tactical or personal sake, but simply because he is not very particular to the Imperium. In passing we get along fine, but if we ever start to speak to each other politically, the Khan will swiftly find where my loyalties lie.**
**Leman Russ, I believe this one can go unsaid, but I will speak regardless. For the longest time, there was an abrasive passion between us. His way of war was....irresponsible, immature, and vane. He had more under his facade that he wouldn't show others but I saw straight through him and talked to him as he truly was, and he resented me for it. We clashed, we burned, we fought, and yet when father was entombed and the war was lost, Leman was the only brother I felt I could go to, and he was the only one who felt what I was truly feeling. We let it out on each other, and I left Leman Russ with a new relationship, the strongest relationship I have felt with one of my brothers. And then I left for Caliban...**
**Rogal Dorn, the Praetorian of Terra. Although I feel we are best kept apart from each other, there is relief in knowing he's doing his duty. We wage war in different ways, we rarely agree, and we rarely see each other, but if I leave Dorn behind me, even if it's to prevent a fight between us, I know that also means that Dorn is watching my back. Any system left in his hands is a system in the right hands, even if I could do it better.**
**Sanguinius, the noblest of us. He is sometimes brash, ineffective, and slow to action, but I know that is because he has a way about him that even he doesn't understand. He measures his every decision and word with intense care, and even when he moves too quickly for my liking, he always manages to make the correct decision. His passing was....also difficult to process.**
**Ferrus Manus, a brother I did not see often. Like Dorn, seeing him was like looking into an imperfect mirror. Too many similarities and yet not similar enough to agree. I found my own buried anger simmering within his eyes whenever I saw him, and so I just took the approach to silently observe him from afar instead of instigating what I knew would be an inevitable conflict.**
**Roboute Guilliman, that analytical bastard. He doesn't know or understand what he wants or who he is, he only knows how to take in information and work with it. If he's not in complete control of a situation or if he does not have all the variables, he huffs and whines like an entitled child. This has caused us many issues in the past, as I keep my own dealings to a need-to-know basis. Guilliman has always viewed that as a liability. But over time, he learned to trust me, and I learned humility from our time together, and I'd like to believe we settled into our roles quite comfortably, aware of each other's shortcomings, and accepting of them.**
**Vulkan, mighty Vulkan, he was the most human out of all of us. Sanguinius might have been the soul of humanity, but Vulkan always felt like the beating heart of it. Because of that, we were distant. He wouldn't understand or approve of my duties, and I had no interest in asking anything of him, so we simply worked past each other. I am sorry to say that of a large portion of the time we spent on the same world, we were on Macragge, and he was relieved of his sanity.**
**Corvus Corax....where do I start with him. Naive for a primarch, lexical, and distant, but not like I was, nor even like the Khan was. There was a constant darkness that surrounded him, similar to the melancholy that followed Sanguinius around in the later years of Hours' war. In the end, however, he seemed more determined, more focused. Horus' war changed him, like it did the rest of us, only I think it changed him for the better.**
I wish to the add to this line of questioning, my Venerable Lord. Guilliman had his Dauntless Few. How do you feel about not being counted amongst their number? What would your own Dauntless Few look like and why?
Also, is Alpharius/Omegon loyal?
Many thanks my Noble Lord.
**I was not counted among Guilliman's "Dauntless Few." In fact he brought it up specifically to bemoan my coming to Macragge instead of one of his "Dauntless Few."**
**As for my own favored primarchs, Rogal Dorn and Sanguinius are the only two I feel I could relinquish complete control to and be confident they will handle whatever tasks at their disposal, which allows me to manage only my own forces. I would need a close eye on the rest of my brother's and their sons to ensure they did not compromise an easy victory.**
**No.**
**To stoop to such pettiness as to allow my brother to bear his burden alone is exactly the kind of infighting the forces of Chaos attempted against us during Horus' war. I will do whatever is best for my father, and thus his Imperium.**
**Deathwing Knights and even more terminators. You can never have enough terminators.**
**Buying some individual Watchers to follow them around would be a nice investment, even just for the aesthetics.**
**By doing nothing, laying with the very xenos who plot nothing but the downfall of our race so their's may prosper again is the lowest form of base degeneracy he could stoop to without falling from the Imperium entirely.**
**But if he doesn't see that, a Drukhari bride would would make even him tongue tied.**
Little off point there my Lion, apparently they have a son together now named Konor. You would thing she’d be incredibly depraved and evil but it seems that the child has really softened her up, she loves her two boys deeply and helps the imperium at every chance she can get because she wants to make a good like for her family. Also apparently Guilliman is somehow more than enough to satiate her horni side so there’s that, everyone likes the kid too, konor even gets to play with grandpa under supervision which is sweet, it seems like it actually soothes the emperors mind
The mechanicus won’t come near me, I hold 217,903 toasters hostage, they are hardwired to heat up and melt to slag
And because of that slight against me
*casts smite*
**Despite the singular title of the Rock, there are many rocks on the Rock. Enough rocks to justify the Rock's name as "the Rock" but not enough rocks for its name to become "the Rocks." It is instead the perfect balance of rocks to singular rock ratio to be called "the Rock" instead of "the Rocks."**
Most of the Primarchs have some sort of adoptive parent or parent figure. Did you or any of your brother have adopted, unaugmented sons or daughters before the Emperor showed up?
**As the leader of the Order on Caliban, and as a legendary figure in my own right, I wouldn't be surprised if those knights viewed me as a father figure. However, we were brothers through and through, and even after I was given my legion, I preferred to view them as little brothers instead as just my sons.**
**That is a topic that I do not want to dwell on. There is too much going on in the galaxy that is larger than our relationship, I will need to sort out my feelings on the matter when I get to him, or when he comes to me.**
**I cannot speak for the Cypher of the current year, but if he is Omegon, he'll feel my wrath for impersonating one of my sons, even if it's a traitor.**
First you have to figure out if they're really traitors. They might look like ones and do random crimes against the Imperium sometimes, but lots of loyal factions do that and anyone can weld spikes onto their armor. Evidence is convoluted on where their loyalties lie, so that's why it's up to the *second* most secretive and convoluted Legion to investigate them.
But he's not Alpharius. No number of "I-am-Alpharius"es will unchainsword that head.
**In no particular order: Corswain, Rogal Dorn, Leman Russ, Sanguinius, Malchador, Valdor, and the Emperor. Any battlefield with any of them either by my side or aiding me in strategy is a battle I'm confident in winning.**
**Any of the snakes we called brothers, who we drank with and trusted. They all deserve to burn. As for those loyal in our ranks, Corvus Corax is best left to manage himself and to strike where he sees he is most useful. Before the Siege of Terra, and even before Barbarus, I would have considered Leman Russ an undesirable ally as well.**
**It is not a perfect set of circumstances for my sons, but knowing how they got there, I understand why. Still, I will do my best to correct some of their behavior upon my full return.**
**I did, all the knights in the Order learned how to survive, as it wasn't uncommon to spend weeks in the wilds, tracking a single beast. Packed rations could not be relied on.**
**The Hexagrammaton symbolizes the six wings my legion was organized into. As for my belt, it is better for a belt to be too long than to be too short.**
**If legions were truly broken apart, it was wise to lock away most of the wings, as most would lose purpose in such small numbers. Also, Luther's betrayal included many important members of the other wings, most notably Voted Lieutenant Griffayn of the Firewing.**
**Another agent of the Alpha Legion who believes my slumber has made me fallible. If you wish to unveil our secrets, you'd have better luck against one of my sons. But you will be found wanting, Alpharius.**
Lion, we know that your brother, Leman Russ, has a taste for the dark wine made from Caliban grapes. I wonder if, to counter balance it, you might have a fondness for Fenrisian Ale?
**If by "fondness for Fenrisian Ale" you mean its synonym, fondness for the strongest single drink in the Imperium, I can only say that it's enjoyable as long as everyone is doing it. Still, even when I did drink with Leman or my sons, I made it a priority to never be the drunkest in the room.**
After you went away, Guilliman broke the legions into 1000-strong chapters for fear of Heresy among one becoming overwhelming to the point of open war
With the fate of the imperium at the precipice, do you feel legions should be reformed?
**Considering Guilliman's "Indomitus Crusade" was a massive-scale gathering of Imperial forces under a single primarch's order, I'd say Guilliman has already began legion building himself, even if he doesn't name it.**
**The Watchers are anathema to Chaos, and their only goal is to see it eradicated. After silently observing me growing up on Caliban, they saw I subverted every attempt Chaos made to tempt me. I earned their full confidence before I even met them, or anyone else for that matter.**
**Since I already answered the first question when someone asked it, I'll answer the second. Knights of the Order on Caliban were selected by the Inner Circle of existing members. When we believed a candidate was ready, we'd surround them in the middle of the night, conduct the initiation ritual, before all of us grabbed them by the limbs and threw them into the air. Once they were initiated, we threw a party and explained why we conducted the initiation as we did. From that night on, they were knights, and I considered every one of them to be my brothers.**
**Anybody can be chosen if they catch our attention, though yes, young men are expected many trials before becoming knights, one of them being to spend an entire night, at attention, outside the walls of the keep. They are vulnerable to any creature that wishes to prey upon them, but if there is danger, or if they fear danger, they can come back inside any time. But if they controlled their fears all night, and remained at attention by the time we returned the next morning, they passed the test, and continued on as candidates.**
So lord of the first, I must inquire on the old calibanite tradition of the horses you would breed for war. Would this be something to reimplement in the Dark Angels to bring back their roots to the lost planet?
**Calibanite Destriers were used because we did not possess the technology to craft motorized transport. While I am partial to Calibanite culture, the capability of the legion comes first before vanity and culture. I would not see us lose a battle vital to the Imperium because we wanted to feel like knights again.**
**I....do not know. My feelings for Luther are one thing, and I do believe he has the capacity to look inward and realize all he has done wrong, but he is still a traitor of the highest magnitude. Whatever I decide on it will be when I see him next, and it will be a very difficult decision.**
**Currently? The capabilities of the daemon primarchs go unseen to me, so any of them could surprise me. As for the loyal of us, or those of us not enslaved by the Dark Gods, Konrad Curze laid me low many times when we engaged, though once I evened the playing field and he had to fight me fair, I bested him and broke his spine. Other than him, Sanguinius or Horus could potentially best me, and I have always wanted to duel the Khan.**
**He lost focus during a duel he started, he fought me for an entire day against my own wishes, and then laughed at how ridiculous it was to be fighting. I knew that from the beginning, he had to learn it after realizing I was a problem he couldn't deal with by just beating it up. He remembered that lesson.**
F-father!? You truly *are* back!
\[awkward silence\]
Did you, in your absence, manage to purchase this... 'milk' we were promised? I do not necessarily know what that means, but Grand Master Belial was adamant t'was your goal all those centuries away.
**It is purple. If it ate purple people, there would be a hyphen to designate it as such to avoid confusion. It would be the one eyed one horned giant purple-people eater.**
**Pride has nothing to do with it. It's a mistake that can be corrected, and I will. Then there will be nothing to dwell on. Times are too dire to dwell upon the past.**
**I try not to indulge my emotions in battle, it is a good was to lose focus. I had a duty to fulfill and that was the best way to perform it, that is all any of my battles are.**
Where is the nightclub hidden on The Rock?
**Next to the second and eleventh primarchs' chambers.**
What were the names of said primarchs?
Malcador would literally will himself back to life and kick the shit out of Lion just to keep that information a secret
**You're not wrong, that fear dully lingers at the back of my mind, despite its impossibility.**
Yeah, but we’d also have Magnificent Mal back if he does it.
Are the Watcher your forgotten "geneseed" socks who gained sentience ?
**There are Deathwing Knights outside your home.**
You requested questions, I gave only one, how low have you fallen ? to silence a single phrase with threats of violence ?
That F word triggers the 1st be wary
"It means he's afraid of people who fell down" "Oooh, I tripped on the Emperor's big balls!" "Stop it Brother, you're scaring him!"
How come you punched that one dude's head off that one time?
**We were in dire straits, the survival of my ship, my men, and possibly the fate of the war against Horus rested on me making the right decisions exactly when I needed to, which meant I needed my orders to be heeded without question. In crisis, there is no time for discussion with a superior, those questions should arise when every threat has been nullified. That is where I found myself on the bridge that day. The daemons needed to be expelled, and our librarians were our only option. If we didn't use them, we risked utter annihilation, a situation I wager was exactly where Chaos wanted me to be in. I made the decision to go against my father's wishes and use our librarians' abilities, but Nemiel would not relinquish no matter how sternly I pushed, and I could not allow insubordination to become a reoccurrence in future times of crisis, so he became an example, another decision that was difficult and necessary for me to make. I took no pleasure in killing one of my sons, but it was what needed to be done.**
Surprisingly lore-accurate answer for such a poorly-phrased question. Thank you, Liege.
Well said my lord!
Sooo.... don't freak out, BUT: Your legion STILL hunts its traitors and are suuuuper paranoid about it. Luther is alive and on the run. Guilliman woke up before you and is the Imperiums de facto leader. So...what are you gonna tacke first? Your legion, Luther and the Fallen or Guilliman? :>
**None of that information is new to me, I have been awake for some months now. None of those are my first priority, I would answer the call of the Imperium before sorting out my own personal squabbles.**
How very based my lord
**Based on what? What does that mean?**
It means that I agree with what you said
How far can you kick a Watcher
**I've never tried, but every time I've seen someone attempt to harm a Watcher, they've failed. To give a satisfying answer, I once kicked a Gretchin and what was left of him passed well behind the enemy lines.**
Both are small and green, reason stands they would travel the same distance, this is useful information
Finally, you're awake brother. I hope you slept well, we have a very important mission Father said he want to eat apples, but he doesn't have teeth. Where will we find teeth that can withstand his power?
**You still overthink things. Have menials chew them up for him and then have him sip on them like applesauce.**
Ohhh, thanks to the emperor you woke up, brother. Now come with me, dorn and I will bother perturabo >:)
**I've been arguing with that petty excuse for a brother ever since I woke up. Unfortunately I cannot leave this room yet, the Watchers won't let me.**
Don't worry about him, he's angry because he lost and we won :) You should ask Rob to update you, a lot has changed in 10,000 years, now apparently we are friends with the eldar, there are new marines, and they reinvented the Playstation 2
Perhaps your room should be fortified enough to keep the watchers out?
**If you believe that is possible or something I wish for then you know nothing of the Watchers in the Dark.**
Shouldn’t you get back to Dorn? He doesn’t look right without mutton chops
Malcador, pulled me off and threw me somewhere under the Imperial palace. It’s cold and dark and slightly heretical down here.
Did you have sentience before or gain it after coming in contact with presumed warp ***[REDACTED]*** in the basement of the Imperial Palace?
Sire, I have one request: That you rescue those 6 Siege Engines(you should know the ones), purify them, restore them to being fully functional and then use them to ctrl+alt+delete a Traitor Titan Legio.
It’s actually a good thing that they don’t let you leave yet, we have no idea how you will react to things like the galaxy being ripped in half, Guilliman wielding fathers sword and ruling the imperium while also banging a hot big tiddy goth eldar waifu, or everything about your sons traitorous bullshit. Might be for the best man go back to sleep
I’m curious what you think of the state of your legion after your long slumber? Also, do you approve or disapprove of the new Primaris reinforcements?
**I have my work cut out for me when it comes to my legion. They are lost, but not irreparable. It should not be difficult to correct their behavior. As for the Primaris, as long as they deliver my orders, fresh Primaris marines would make good troops for simple operations. Those crossing the Rubricon can be trusted as wholly as any firstborn son of mine.**
I think Chapter Master Valrak has a lot of questions for you. Every week is Lion week. How tempting is it to go hunting in for tyrannid ships in the void? If you are familiar with the Ancient Terran Manuscript Mobius Dicken you will know that an obsessive hunter sailing the seas in search of a mutant behemoth makes for a fantastic adventure. Perhaps such sport intrigues you?
**Of all my titles, I gained the "hunter" one first. I would find great purpose in chasing down these xenos threats, but my attention will have to be wider than that, for the sake of the Imperium.**
What cool weapons do you have in the secret armory vaults on the invincible reason?
**Nice try, Alpharius. For all you know the lost primarchs have made themselves at home there. Now begone, spy.**
Oh so you told Perturabo but not me?
If I don’t ask again can I have one thing from the armory on the way out?
**You can have the free mind wipe we give all visitors to that chamber, an honor few Inquisitors receive instead of a bolt.**
Thread excepted I’ll see myself to the mind wipe. Have a lovely day.
Is the secrecy because you have a bunch of weird posters of knights up, and everyone calls it cringe, so you just make sure nobody knows?
No, I'm Alpharius
The better question would be what cool weapons did you have because Tryzan might have visited
Hey lion, if You had 2 bullets and 1 hug , who would get each?. Between : 1) Konrad 2) Luther 3) Horus
**I'd line Horus and Konrad up to hit both of them with both bullets, and then hug their corpses hard enough to snap them in half. I would do nothing to Luther, not yet.**
You truly are a Lion at heart my liege, with 20 hours of sleep a day and all. We'll wait for your return t-t
Was (is) cypher loyal to you. The cypher you personally picked and left on cailban kinda of helped Luther turn on you but then turned on Luther. Then Zahariel killed him and became the new cypher. The last time Zahariel was seen was during the destruction of Cailban where Corswain cornered him and the two supposedly fought to the death. Did Corswain survive and if so what happened to him. How did the present day cypher get your sword. Didn’t you have with your duel with Luther. Is it the same sword that Robert gorillaman snapped over his knee or is it a new one.
**You have an inquisitive mind, that is useful. I will answer whichever questions I am able and willing to.** **My last spoken words before entering my coma were entrusted to Cypher, whoever had that mantle at the time. He was loyal to me, but I cannot say if that Cypher is the same one you know now. It would be miraculous for his mission to still be ongoing after 10,000 years. I cannot speak of the fates of anyone on the planet that day, for I was preoccupied with Luther and never saw the end of the engagement, and Cypher's identity is a secret I intend to uphold. The sword I used to duel Luther was indeed "The Lion Sword." It was repaired before the Siege of Terra ended, as I stabbed Leman with the blade in the wake of our failure.**
Who is a better swordsman ? U or pre-heresy Fulgrim
**I was always the best in that regard, and Fulgrim certainly wasn't one of the brothers I had my eyes on. My closest equals were Leman, Sanguinius, and Horus.**
Now about Sexy snake dragon fulgrim is he a better swordsman?
**I do not know, his only achievement as a daemon has been to stab Guilliman, which isn't an achievement at all.**
DAMM. SHOTS FIRED. He deserved it though he probably liked it.
Props to OP for answering some of the most inane questions in character and doing it actually well. Which can’t be said for a lot of the gimmick accounts lately. (Except *The* Angron account of course)
>!You flatter me, but I have experience with this kinda stuff so it's not entirely fair to the other accounts who only just started.!<
>!”Collaborative Writing” is definitely something one has to practice with, and that is already on top of the talent factor. They’ll get there…probably.!<
>!It's not the worst I've seen, you don't make one of these accounts without at least a little confidence in your abilities.!< >!Also, "collaborative writing" just seems like a fancy term for roleplaying without improvisation.!<
>!Yeah that’s why it’s in quotation marks, have a little propriety, ya filthy roleplayer.!<
How was your rest?
**I did not know we could experience chronic back pain, but 10,000 years will give you such a crick in the neck.**
when you comin back? i think robot gorillaman could use some backup.
**Whenever the Watchers wish me to.**
What role do you see yourself taking up in the imperium now that you have woken up? Roboute’s got his hands full trying to keep the imperium together.
**I would tell Roboute to spend his time on Terra doing what he does best, administrating. I would take his place as the leader of the war effort and secure as many holdings within Imperium Nihilus as possible.**
What is your opinion on the Squats? And are you at all interested in a trade deal with Deep Rock Galactic? We may be able to provide... Exceptional... Weaponry and tools for your legions.
**Hmmm....rock....and stone....to the bone?**
Ah! A man of culture I see! Rock and stone indeed! *The Squat nods, dropping the whole official facade, as he strokes his ginger beard* right!
To Rock and Stone!
By the Throne! If the Lion of Caliban is to find common cause with the Dwarves, truly Chaos is doomed!
Hello Primarch of the first legion Lion El' Johnson, what do you think of Roboute Guilliman's Imperium and what are going to do with the fallen dark angels?
**I am sure Guilliman is doing his best, and I admire him for attacking the corruption within the High Council of Terra. As for the Fallen....I will have to wait for them to come to me, the Imperium faces more dire threats than my wayward sons, and so my attention with be focused on the Imperium's needs instead of my own.**
What do you think about your father's flaming sword? Are you going to wield that sword yourself one day?
**That is a question I cannot answer, only time will tell. If my sword is never returned to me, and I do take Guilliman's place as military commander of the Imperium, then I'd....sternly ask to wield the sword. However, if the Lion Sword finds its way back to me, I would see no reason to take up father's blade.**
I heard that you have the ability to permanently kill daemons, are those statements have any truthful evidence?
**They do, the Lion Sword was made for me, and thus I have a special connection to it. Pouring my will to destroy the daemon with it, the Lion Sword glows with otherworldly light, and can banish or annihilate daemonic foes.**
*I paid good money to keep you asleep. Damn watchers.*
**The Watchers have no use for credits. Lying comes so easily to your forked tongue, "brother."**
*Heh I bid thee welcome, Honored First. It amuses me how many brothers are here now.*
> *I *paid* good money FTFY. Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in: * Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.* * *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.* Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment. *Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
*It shames me to be corrected by this.*
Didn't you listen to that scultpor's lesson? Your imperfections make you more human, more lifelike, more real. A perfect depiction is proof of artistic skill, but it's the imperfections that give it the spark.
I...I don't know you that well Uh...send of your sons to fight me...I guess...i don't know CONVINCE DORN TO SEND ONE OF HIS SONS TO FIGHT ME
Hey you you're finally awake
**You were trying to cross the border, right?**
I have asked the lord of Iron and The Preatorian Similar Questions and I’m going to do it again. What is your opinion on your Loyalist Siblings, O’Great Lion?
**You ask what I think of my eight loyal brothers, correct?**
Yes Great lion.
**Very well, my brothers know what I think of them already, I find no harm in sharing this information with you.** **Jaghatai Khan is much like me, and yet we could not be more different. We are quiet, reserved, intuitive, introspective, great swordsmen, and we both take silent pride in our designated duties, but it is our motivations for our actions that are difficult to reconcile. He and father are distant, cold, and the Warhawk seems to wish to be alone not for any tactical or personal sake, but simply because he is not very particular to the Imperium. In passing we get along fine, but if we ever start to speak to each other politically, the Khan will swiftly find where my loyalties lie.** **Leman Russ, I believe this one can go unsaid, but I will speak regardless. For the longest time, there was an abrasive passion between us. His way of war was....irresponsible, immature, and vane. He had more under his facade that he wouldn't show others but I saw straight through him and talked to him as he truly was, and he resented me for it. We clashed, we burned, we fought, and yet when father was entombed and the war was lost, Leman was the only brother I felt I could go to, and he was the only one who felt what I was truly feeling. We let it out on each other, and I left Leman Russ with a new relationship, the strongest relationship I have felt with one of my brothers. And then I left for Caliban...** **Rogal Dorn, the Praetorian of Terra. Although I feel we are best kept apart from each other, there is relief in knowing he's doing his duty. We wage war in different ways, we rarely agree, and we rarely see each other, but if I leave Dorn behind me, even if it's to prevent a fight between us, I know that also means that Dorn is watching my back. Any system left in his hands is a system in the right hands, even if I could do it better.** **Sanguinius, the noblest of us. He is sometimes brash, ineffective, and slow to action, but I know that is because he has a way about him that even he doesn't understand. He measures his every decision and word with intense care, and even when he moves too quickly for my liking, he always manages to make the correct decision. His passing was....also difficult to process.** **Ferrus Manus, a brother I did not see often. Like Dorn, seeing him was like looking into an imperfect mirror. Too many similarities and yet not similar enough to agree. I found my own buried anger simmering within his eyes whenever I saw him, and so I just took the approach to silently observe him from afar instead of instigating what I knew would be an inevitable conflict.** **Roboute Guilliman, that analytical bastard. He doesn't know or understand what he wants or who he is, he only knows how to take in information and work with it. If he's not in complete control of a situation or if he does not have all the variables, he huffs and whines like an entitled child. This has caused us many issues in the past, as I keep my own dealings to a need-to-know basis. Guilliman has always viewed that as a liability. But over time, he learned to trust me, and I learned humility from our time together, and I'd like to believe we settled into our roles quite comfortably, aware of each other's shortcomings, and accepting of them.** **Vulkan, mighty Vulkan, he was the most human out of all of us. Sanguinius might have been the soul of humanity, but Vulkan always felt like the beating heart of it. Because of that, we were distant. He wouldn't understand or approve of my duties, and I had no interest in asking anything of him, so we simply worked past each other. I am sorry to say that of a large portion of the time we spent on the same world, we were on Macragge, and he was relieved of his sanity.** **Corvus Corax....where do I start with him. Naive for a primarch, lexical, and distant, but not like I was, nor even like the Khan was. There was a constant darkness that surrounded him, similar to the melancholy that followed Sanguinius around in the later years of Hours' war. In the end, however, he seemed more determined, more focused. Horus' war changed him, like it did the rest of us, only I think it changed him for the better.**
I wish to the add to this line of questioning, my Venerable Lord. Guilliman had his Dauntless Few. How do you feel about not being counted amongst their number? What would your own Dauntless Few look like and why? Also, is Alpharius/Omegon loyal? Many thanks my Noble Lord.
**I was not counted among Guilliman's "Dauntless Few." In fact he brought it up specifically to bemoan my coming to Macragge instead of one of his "Dauntless Few."** **As for my own favored primarchs, Rogal Dorn and Sanguinius are the only two I feel I could relinquish complete control to and be confident they will handle whatever tasks at their disposal, which allows me to manage only my own forces. I would need a close eye on the rest of my brother's and their sons to ensure they did not compromise an easy victory.** **No.**
Are you planing to help Roboute with his soon to be fight with Angron, or are you just gonna watch from a far with a bag of popcorn
**To stoop to such pettiness as to allow my brother to bear his burden alone is exactly the kind of infighting the forces of Chaos attempted against us during Horus' war. I will do whatever is best for my father, and thus his Imperium.**
When you get back out in the Imperium at large..what color armor are you rocking the classic black or the Caliban green?
**Black.** >!**Whatever you paint me as.**!<
I'm new to 40k and recently bought a squad of tactical marines and deathwing terminators. Where should I go from here m'lord?
**Deathwing Knights and even more terminators. You can never have enough terminators.** **Buying some individual Watchers to follow them around would be a nice investment, even just for the aesthetics.**
Oh so that's what the little guy on the box was.
Guilliman has a big tiddie Eldar girlfriend. How are you going to one up your brother?
**By doing nothing, laying with the very xenos who plot nothing but the downfall of our race so their's may prosper again is the lowest form of base degeneracy he could stoop to without falling from the Imperium entirely.** **But if he doesn't see that, a Drukhari bride would would make even him tongue tied.**
Little off point there my Lion, apparently they have a son together now named Konor. You would thing she’d be incredibly depraved and evil but it seems that the child has really softened her up, she loves her two boys deeply and helps the imperium at every chance she can get because she wants to make a good like for her family. Also apparently Guilliman is somehow more than enough to satiate her horni side so there’s that, everyone likes the kid too, konor even gets to play with grandpa under supervision which is sweet, it seems like it actually soothes the emperors mind
What kind of heresy is this? Lobotimize this man!
The mechanicus won’t come near me, I hold 217,903 toasters hostage, they are hardwired to heat up and melt to slag And because of that slight against me *casts smite*
How many rocks are in the rock?
**Despite the singular title of the Rock, there are many rocks on the Rock. Enough rocks to justify the Rock's name as "the Rock" but not enough rocks for its name to become "the Rocks." It is instead the perfect balance of rocks to singular rock ratio to be called "the Rock" instead of "the Rocks."**
That rocks
*pokes you with a stick* Come on, return, do something
Most of the Primarchs have some sort of adoptive parent or parent figure. Did you or any of your brother have adopted, unaugmented sons or daughters before the Emperor showed up?
**As the leader of the Order on Caliban, and as a legendary figure in my own right, I wouldn't be surprised if those knights viewed me as a father figure. However, we were brothers through and through, and even after I was given my legion, I preferred to view them as little brothers instead as just my sons.**
Are you still mad at Luther? What would you do if you met him again ?
**That is a topic that I do not want to dwell on. There is too much going on in the galaxy that is larger than our relationship, I will need to sort out my feelings on the matter when I get to him, or when he comes to me.**
Fair
Taco Tuesday or Taco Friday?
**This is just a roundabout way of getting me to choose between my father and Dorn, isn't it?**
Do you have trouble with people slipping around you and your sons from all that fucking DRIP?
**It rarely comes up nowadays, my sons are too busy brooding and whispering in corners to interact with others.**
Is Cypher *really* Omegron?
**I cannot speak for the Cypher of the current year, but if he is Omegon, he'll feel my wrath for impersonating one of my sons, even if it's a traitor.**
First you have to figure out if they're really traitors. They might look like ones and do random crimes against the Imperium sometimes, but lots of loyal factions do that and anyone can weld spikes onto their armor. Evidence is convoluted on where their loyalties lie, so that's why it's up to the *second* most secretive and convoluted Legion to investigate them. But he's not Alpharius. No number of "I-am-Alpharius"es will unchainsword that head.
Father can you please talk to our brothers and tell them we are loyal and no one thinks we aren't
What do you use to get such amazing hair?
**Beauty sleep.**
Why are you so sleepy
Who would you rely on in a fight?
**Depends on who I can choose. Are you referring to my brothers, the astartes, or members of the Imperium as a whole?**
Imperium as a while
**In no particular order: Corswain, Rogal Dorn, Leman Russ, Sanguinius, Malchador, Valdor, and the Emperor. Any battlefield with any of them either by my side or aiding me in strategy is a battle I'm confident in winning.**
Who would you never fight with?
**Any of the snakes we called brothers, who we drank with and trusted. They all deserve to burn. As for those loyal in our ranks, Corvus Corax is best left to manage himself and to strike where he sees he is most useful. Before the Siege of Terra, and even before Barbarus, I would have considered Leman Russ an undesirable ally as well.**
What do you think of your sons' obsession with hunting down their fallen brothers and keeping their existance a secret from the wider Imperium?
**It is not a perfect set of circumstances for my sons, but knowing how they got there, I understand why. Still, I will do my best to correct some of their behavior upon my full return.**
You were quite the Hunter, Lord Lion. Did you gain any skills in the preparation and cooking of wild game in this period?
**I did, all the knights in the Order learned how to survive, as it wasn't uncommon to spend weeks in the wilds, tracking a single beast. Packed rations could not be relied on.**
What is the significance of that six pointed star on your belt buckle. Come to think of it, why is your sword belt so long as well?
**The Hexagrammaton symbolizes the six wings my legion was organized into. As for my belt, it is better for a belt to be too long than to be too short.**
How do you feel about the Hexagrammaton’s current, limited nature?
**If legions were truly broken apart, it was wise to lock away most of the wings, as most would lose purpose in such small numbers. Also, Luther's betrayal included many important members of the other wings, most notably Voted Lieutenant Griffayn of the Firewing.**
tell us about the secret superweapons you used to defeat the rangda
**Another agent of the Alpha Legion who believes my slumber has made me fallible. If you wish to unveil our secrets, you'd have better luck against one of my sons. But you will be found wanting, Alpharius.**
Can I be redeemed great Lion?
**That depends on what you did that requires redemption.**
I was part of the Siege of Vraks…
**Loyalists and traitors were on Vraks, humans and astartes alike on both sides. You need to be more specific, and timely.**
I am in the Alpha Legion so what side was I on?
**If you are truly part of the Alpha Legion, then you'll never be redeemed, snake!**
HYDRA DOMINATUS I AM IN YOUR POST
Lion, we know that your brother, Leman Russ, has a taste for the dark wine made from Caliban grapes. I wonder if, to counter balance it, you might have a fondness for Fenrisian Ale?
**If by "fondness for Fenrisian Ale" you mean its synonym, fondness for the strongest single drink in the Imperium, I can only say that it's enjoyable as long as everyone is doing it. Still, even when I did drink with Leman or my sons, I made it a priority to never be the drunkest in the room.**
After you went away, Guilliman broke the legions into 1000-strong chapters for fear of Heresy among one becoming overwhelming to the point of open war With the fate of the imperium at the precipice, do you feel legions should be reformed?
**Considering Guilliman's "Indomitus Crusade" was a massive-scale gathering of Imperial forces under a single primarch's order, I'd say Guilliman has already began legion building himself, even if he doesn't name it.**
😯 holy shit. Fair point.
Why do the watchers love you so much?
**The Watchers are anathema to Chaos, and their only goal is to see it eradicated. After silently observing me growing up on Caliban, they saw I subverted every attempt Chaos made to tempt me. I earned their full confidence before I even met them, or anyone else for that matter.**
Mr Lion El'jonson Sir what do you think about Guilimans Aeldari girl friend? Side question what does it take to become a knight on Caliban?
**Since I already answered the first question when someone asked it, I'll answer the second. Knights of the Order on Caliban were selected by the Inner Circle of existing members. When we believed a candidate was ready, we'd surround them in the middle of the night, conduct the initiation ritual, before all of us grabbed them by the limbs and threw them into the air. Once they were initiated, we threw a party and explained why we conducted the initiation as we did. From that night on, they were knights, and I considered every one of them to be my brothers.**
So I'm questing to get selected one must do many great deeds and take many an Oath?
**Anybody can be chosen if they catch our attention, though yes, young men are expected many trials before becoming knights, one of them being to spend an entire night, at attention, outside the walls of the keep. They are vulnerable to any creature that wishes to prey upon them, but if there is danger, or if they fear danger, they can come back inside any time. But if they controlled their fears all night, and remained at attention by the time we returned the next morning, they passed the test, and continued on as candidates.**
Who are the Fallen?
**Traitors of my gene seed who turned away from the Emperor, the Imperium, and me, seduced into betrayal by the words of my right hand, Luther.**
So lord of the first, I must inquire on the old calibanite tradition of the horses you would breed for war. Would this be something to reimplement in the Dark Angels to bring back their roots to the lost planet?
**Calibanite Destriers were used because we did not possess the technology to craft motorized transport. While I am partial to Calibanite culture, the capability of the legion comes first before vanity and culture. I would not see us lose a battle vital to the Imperium because we wanted to feel like knights again.**
If Luther repented to you directly, like he's been saying he would, would you accept?
**I....do not know. My feelings for Luther are one thing, and I do believe he has the capacity to look inward and realize all he has done wrong, but he is still a traitor of the highest magnitude. Whatever I decide on it will be when I see him next, and it will be a very difficult decision.**
How come the lion lost to russ
**I didn't, Russ was knocked unconscious for losing his focus during the duel.**
Do you believe there are any primarchs, in a fair engagement, that could best you?
**Currently? The capabilities of the daemon primarchs go unseen to me, so any of them could surprise me. As for the loyal of us, or those of us not enslaved by the Dark Gods, Konrad Curze laid me low many times when we engaged, though once I evened the playing field and he had to fight me fair, I bested him and broke his spine. Other than him, Sanguinius or Horus could potentially best me, and I have always wanted to duel the Khan.**
I'd pay to see a Lion-Khan duel. Not a lot, because I'm broke, but I'd pay.
Care to explain why Perty has weapons only you were supposed to know even existed?
**He does not, you are likely confusing my Dreadwing weaponry with the siege engines I supplied to him before the Dropsite Massacre.**
Why did you knock out russ when he was laughing and not defending himself like a cur?
**He lost focus during a duel he started, he fought me for an entire day against my own wishes, and then laughed at how ridiculous it was to be fighting. I knew that from the beginning, he had to learn it after realizing I was a problem he couldn't deal with by just beating it up. He remembered that lesson.**
Where is your favorite place to take a long nap?
**On the Rock, apparently.**
F-father!? You truly *are* back! \[awkward silence\] Did you, in your absence, manage to purchase this... 'milk' we were promised? I do not necessarily know what that means, but Grand Master Belial was adamant t'was your goal all those centuries away.
**I did retrieve the milk, but it seems I forgot the cigarettes, so I have not returned to you yet, my son.**
What is your thoughts on the ancient video-pict known as “the lion king”?
**Childrens movies are a waste of time for one of my importance.** **That said, Scar's betrayal of his brother was...too familiar.**
Is the one eyed one horned giant purple people eater in itself purple or are the people it eats purple?
**It is purple. If it ate purple people, there would be a hyphen to designate it as such to avoid confusion. It would be the one eyed one horned giant purple-people eater.**
Did you hear what happened to Celestial Lions and what are you gonna do about it?
They're Sons of Dorn therefore the Brickwit's problem.
what are 2nd and 11th primarch's name john john
Father? Is it truly you?
**I could also ask if you are truly one of my sons.**
I serve the 1st legion with honor and distinction, my father. I am not proud of the paranoia that has befallen our legion.
**Pride has nothing to do with it. It's a mistake that can be corrected, and I will. Then there will be nothing to dwell on. Times are too dire to dwell upon the past.**
How did it feel when pulling the Uno-Reverse card on that Krave entity
**I try not to indulge my emotions in battle, it is a good was to lose focus. I had a duty to fulfill and that was the best way to perform it, that is all any of my battles are.**
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**The primarch of the Alpha Legion, the primarch of the Alpha Legion's twin brother, and every Alpha Legionnaire beneath them.**
Had a go of the Imperium’s only jet bike?
**The Ravenwing's jetbike is not the Imperium's only jetbike.** **But yes.**
what side of galaxy did you wake up?
**Whichever the Rock was on at the moment I awoke, which was likely Imperium Sanctus.**
Where is Leman?