Editing Golgothos (section)

==Wargear==

During the Great Crusade, Golgothos was interred in an Ossuary Pattern Dreadnought. His Dreadnought is massive, dull grey with white details, and his own skull is mounted for the head. The Leviathan-class Dreadnought has a minor modification: flanking the decorative skull, on either side, are repositories with the skulls of fallen Entombed veterans stacked within. These repositories, large rectangular things, would eventually be integrated into the bulkier design of later Dreadnoughts. On one side of the Dreadnought, where an arm should be, is a massive Demolisher Cannon, capable of leveling entire buildings. On the other side is a mighty power fist, which has crushed Golgothos' hated foes many times.

While being bound to a mighty siege Dreadnought presented certain perks for Golgothos, it was more of a curse than a blessing. Golgothos lacked many things his flesh body had taken for granted - sleep, to begin with. He would only experience something close to sleeping when he was placed into stasis hibernation. Always being awake put an enormous strain on his mind, a strain that would quickly break a lesser man. To pass the time and relieve the stress, Golgothos would spend a lot of time thinking - far more than any other primarch. Philosophical by nature, he held long, elaborate conversations with himself, about war, about peace, about life, but mostly about death. All this thinking made him a wise man, but the Great Crusade had little use for such wisdom.

Besides the sleeplessness, there was pain, and it was constant. His mortal body was sheathed in a cyberorganic web, laced into electro-fibre systems, and shut in an armoured sarcophagus. There was be no opportunity to manage pain the way he had done before, no mechanism for pain control. He had to simply hide it and endure, no matter how bad it was. And at times it was truly unbearable.

Naturally, there were also rage and anger - the farther into the Great Crusade, the worse they got. Despite the devastating power bequeathed to him as a Dreadnought, he missed his mortal state. Initially, he resented his death, regretted the circumstances of it, fixated upon it, hated the cold-shell life he had been given in exchange. He consequently went through all of the stages of grief - denial, anger, bargaining, depression - only he was grieving for himself. Finally, he came to terms with his death and accepted it as a fact that couldn't be changed. Already going insane at this stage, he even started finding positives about it. From seeing himself as a pathetic cybernetic zombie, he came to see himself as a true immortal, and the inconveniences of being in a dreadnought as the price he had to pay for immortality. And this thinking naturally led to his desire to share this gift with the rest of Humanity.