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Emil Darkhammer

2022-12-24T12:20:23Z

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[[File:IMP_N_Darkhammer.png|thumb|300px|right|Darkhammer in BFGA2]]

'''Emil Darkhammer''' was an [[Ordo Xenos]] [[Inquisitor]] Lord. As a follower of the '''Monodominant''' philosophy, he is insanely anti-xenos tech, which puts him at odds with [[Inquisitor Valeria]].

==Biography==

In his pursuit of extreme purity, Inquisitor Darkhammer has personally ordered the [[Exterminatus]] of more than thirty worlds. While he has done this for actual important reasons -- heresy, corruption, sedition -- he could also be quite ''petty''. Like nuking a world to destroy a xenos Artifact his rival Helyna Valeria had been pursuing. This happened ''multiple times''.

This rivalry eventually comes to head when he learned about the newest device that Valeria was after: the Dimensional Forge, which could supposedly create a null zone sectors-wide where Daemons could not manifest. He ordered an Exterminatus on the world that Valeria thought the artifact was kept. Billions died, but that was the final straw; Valeria declaired him ''Excommunicate Traitoris'', and chased him across Segmentum Obscurus to the world of Mindo Station.

Their followers battled there for a day, but in the end Darkhammer managed to escape on a starliner.

Codex: Inquisition would add a small aside about Darkhammer being part of the Months of Shame, but interestingly enough he was noted to NOT pursue ships with Armageddon survivors, because he was terrified of what the [[Space Wolves]] would do to him.

==Meta==

Emil Darkhammer was introduced in the 5th Edition [[Grey Knights]] codex as part of Inquisitor Valeria's background fluff as a rival.

==In Other Media==

Inquisitor Darkhammer is an important part in the third part of the Imperial Campaign, after he BLAMM's Fleet Commander Drax for being an [[Alpha Legion]] double-agent. As mentioned, he is ridiculously anti-xenos, and takes a lot of glee when Spire puts down Aeldari Craftworlder and Corsair raiders.

In the timeline that BFGA2 follows, it is he that eventually gains the upper hand over Inquisitor Valeria, with the latter being executed for being compromised by Xenos (likely due to being a penpall of [[Trazyn the Infinite]]). He is rather smug about this fact.

Spire is eventually forced to either ally with him in destroying [[Craftworld]] '''O'Stara''', or put down the mad inquisitor to save the Space Elves.

{{Famous members of the Inquisition}}
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Mephiston

2022-12-22T12:04:23Z

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{{Awesome}}
{{topquote|And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.|Judges xvi, 30}}
{{topquote|The Emperor is not a god. All gods are LIES.|Mephiston, ''Darkness In The Blood'' - The Lord Of Death himself simultaneously being badass, terrifying, and displaying his utter loyalty to the Master of Mankind.}}

[[File:DeathstormMephiston.png|350px|thumb|Whoever [[Kaldor Draigo|you are]], Mephiston eats like ten of your sorry asses for breakfast.|right]]
'''Mephiston''' a.k.a. angry Lucius Malfoy in SPEEHHSS is the Chief [[Librarian]] of the [[Blood Angels]] [[Space Marine]] chapter, one of the most powerful [[psykers]] in the [[Imperium]], and he bears the title "Lord of Death" for A FUCKING REASON! The [[Grey Knights]], [[Thousand Sons]], and others may come to mind first when one thinks of psychic heavy-hitters, but Mephiston is at an entirely different level; no joke, he's been able fuck with the schemes of daemon-primarch Magnus (albeit [[Not as Planned|kinda on accident]]). He's a monstrous creature in artificer armour and his sole purpose in life is to fuck you in close combat. He's the biggest [[Mary Sue]] of the entire setting, even compared to other Imperial characters, able to summon daemons without being corrupted, defeat Greater Daemons with his mind alone, able to stop time, give heart attacks to Farseers, overcome the Black Rage twice just by wanting to... Whether that makes him [[Awesome]] or [[Derp|stupid]] is up to you. He often contends with the likes of [[Ahzek Ahriman]], [[Njal Stormcaller]], [[Eldrad |that dick]], [[Varro Tigurius]], [[Swarmlord|THE SWARMLORD]] and [[Kaldor Draigo]] for the title of baddest psychic motherfucker in the galaxy that's still mortal. Well, technically Space Marines are functionally immortal but are killed in action long before it can be considered relevant.

==Origin and History==
Once upon a time, <s>Ramenphiston[https://i.imgur.com/tgQGpml.png]</s> Mephiston was called Brother Calistarius, one of many librarians of the Blood Angels (and possibly the same from the Sin of Damnation book, which would also make him the same Librarian Calistarius in the Space Hulk games). You know, just your average 8-foot tall, superhuman killing machine with psychic powers and [[vampire]]-ish tendencies. Nothing that special. Then one day, he was overcome by the effects of the Red Thirst.

Once a Blood Angel is overcome with the Red Thirst, he is afflicted by the [[Black Rage]] and is inducted into the [[Death Company]]. Death Company Marines are bat-shit crazy, berserker, vampire Space Marines. Since there's no cure for the Black Rage, the only thing that can be done for the Death Company is to use them as shock troops and throw them onto the front lines of the most brutal, meat grinder, suicide assaults and let them find a glorious death on the battlefield, like Samson in the House of Dagon.

During the second war for Armageddon, Brother Calistarius, as a Death Company Marine, was used to assault the [[Orks]] holding up in the Ecclesorium building of Hades Hive. As he and his fellow bat-shit crazy, berserker, vampire Space Marine brothers [[RIP AND TEAR|hacked, slashed and raped]] their way through the Orks' defences, they might have gotten a little bit too enthusiastic. As in, they brought the entire fucking building down on their heads.

Calistarius was the only one left alive, buried in the rubble with his body crushed and broken. Trapped, denied his glorious death, and unable to vent his rage by raping the shit out of the enemy, he was forced to sit and stew in his blind fury for seven days and seven nights. The madness of the Black Rage was tearing at his mind, screaming for blood and death, causing him to trip balls with out-of-this-world, fucked up visions that had driven all before him right off the deep end!

With nowhere to go and nothing to do, he had no choice but to stare down the visions and fight the madness. At midnight on the seventh day, he finally overcame the Black Rage and the Red Thirst and was reborn as Mephiston, LORD OF DEATH!

Having done what no Blood Angel had EVER done, he was reborn with new strength and power unlike anything he had ever felt before. Feeling the utter RAAAAAGE! and fury of Mephiston's rebirth, the thousand tons of rubble that had been crushing down on him and keeping him trapped SHIT ITSELF (how does rubble shit itself, you ask? Mephiston was angry with it, that's how!) and tried to escape, allowing Mephiston to burst free.

[[File:Lord of Death.PNG|250px|thumb|[[RAGE|A real champion is he who doesn't piss his pants at the mere presence of this bastard.]]|left]]As he burst free, he attracted the attention of a nearby Ork band. Now, there were several hundred heavily armed Orks and Mephiston was alone, his armour was shredded, he had no weapons, and was exhausted after what had just occurred. Given all this, it's clear Mephy wasn't really at his best. The odds were stacked against him, so it's fairly obvious what happened next...'''he fucked them ''right'' up!''' He butchered them, tore them apart with his bare hands. Then he grabbed hold of the biggest motherfucking Ork, PUNCHED A HOLE THROUGH HIS CHEST, AND TORE OUT HIS MOTHERFUCKING HEART. Then he skull fucked him while the other Orks just watched and cried girly tears of fear and defeat.

After this, because of his awesome power and the fact that the other Blood Angels were a bit scared of him and wouldn't refuse his application for promotion when he applied for one, he quickly rose through the ranks to the position of Chief Librarian.

===The Cybele Incident===
Mephiston was involved in, and helped to resolve, a conflict that nearly tore the Blood Angels Chapter apart. In the novels ''Blood Angels: Deus Encarmine'' and ''Blood Angels: Deus Sanguinius'', a schism occurs within the chapter during a campaign against the forces of [[Chaos]] on Cybele. A young Marine, Arkio, grew wings and then got all uppity and powerful, proclaiming himself to be the reincarnation of [[Sanguinius]], the Blood Angels' late [[Primarch]]. While many of his fellow Marines swore fealty to him, a number of others, including his older brother Rafen (his actual biological brother as well as fellow Blood Angel), refused to acknowledge any truth to his claim. As it turns out, they were right; the whole shebang turned out to be a typically dickish [[Tzeentch|Tzeentchian]] plot intended to tear the Blood Angels apart and turn them to Chaos, and was orchestrated by Inquisitor Remius Stele, a traitor and agent of Chaos.

Eventually, [[Dante|Commander Dante]], who was suspicious of the events on Cybele, sent Mephiston to assess the situation and decide if Arkio really was the reincarnation of Sanguinius. Almost immediately upon arriving, Mephiston sensed the taint of Chaos in Arkio, denounced him as a fraud, and identified Inquisitor Stele as a [[HERESY|heretic]] and a traitor, because Mephiston is a fucking discerning motherfucker and was way too smart for any of those asshats. But Arkio persisted in his claims, and Mephiston, feeling unusually gracious, allowed Rafen to kill him instead of just [[RIP AND TEAR|eviscerating]] the little bastard himself. Still, Mephiston got to annihilate scores of other Chaos Marines and cultists while he was there, so it was a good time overall.

===Divinatus Prime===
In ''Mephiston: Blood of Sanguinius'' it was revealed that while Mephiston had been "cured" of the Black Rage, whenever he tried to unleash his full might he would be overcome by a bout of UNSTOPPABLE RAGE (seriously, he conjured miniature Warp Storms several times in this book). Furthermore, his body was slowly changing (his skin turned darker, his RAGE became harder and harder to stop, etc.).

Mephiston sought the Blade Petrific, a Xenos artifact which could amplify its user's psychic power, as an answer to his problem (don't have to unleash full power if you can amplify less). The Blade was housed on the shrine world of Divinatus Prime, which had been lost to the Astronomican (Mephiston and his retinue had to jump, and traverse the Immaterium blind). Two Chaos Sorcerers, vying to be the protege of a third one, decided to make a little contest: Both of them would try to manipulate Divinatus Prime's populations to wage a civil war to see who would get the blade first.

Unfortunately, in the end, one of them escaped with the blade. [[Just as planned]], Mephiston deliberately let her to lead him to the third Chaos Sorcerer (whose identity he was implied to know.) Mephiston also realized that there was no salvation for him (his body had almost completely changed), but he said he "would be the Blood Angels' hope." This also shows his deep loyalty. Rather than take the blade to save himself, he sacrificed his possible chance simply for a lead to a threat against humanity so he could destroy it.

==Revenant Crusade==

In 'Mephiston Revenant Crusade', good' ol Mephiston seems to have gone "blind" to the warp, this brings him to a world infested by insane Necrons. One of which boards his ship, and with his bodyguard of warriors, gets obliterated by a lieutenant and a few hellblasters. Mephiston then has them accompany him and his old friend Gaius, (not Merlin) down to the planet.

Whilst this is going on, A Codicier from Blood of Sanguinius named Antros, has been sent to investigate a way to cure the Rage or Mephiston warp overdose .
This brings him into contact with the Sons of Helios Chapter, a near dead Chapter who live next to the Great Rift. Without falling to Chaos. [[Just as Planned]]. Using the chant from the Sorcerer guy 'We dream, dreaming, dreamed,' ye. This is then turned out to be the result of a Chaos trick.

Antros then joins Mephiston. But in the end things get fixed, but Antros may be corrupted.

==Blood of Baal==
The third book of the [[Psychic Awakening]] event, it seems that two things are very clear: Mephiston has become [[Primaris Space Marines|Primaris]] and that the battle between the Blood Angels and Tyranids is going to have a rematch.

''Darkness in the Blood'' expands on Mephiston's transformation. Mephiston was being used as a kind of pseudo-guide for the fleets in Imperium Nihilus, and Mephiston seemed to be growing in power with the opening of the Great Rift. But despite his caution and his emphatic loyalty to Sanguinius and The Emperor, the sheer level of power increase occurring so rapidly, outpaced his self-discipline, and so Mephiston was losing control of it. This all came to a head during a trap laid by [[Slaanesh]], where Mephiston pretty much wiped the floor with Kyriss, but damn near succumbed to the Black Rage as a result. Fortunately however, Dante knocked Mephiston the fuck out so that they could return him to Baal, where the Lord of Death was volunteered to test the Rubicon Primaris. During the process, Mephiston's soul was cast into the ethereal plane, and ultimately greeted by none other than Sanguinous himself, who explained to the Lord of Death that the Sanguinor and Angel of Darkness represented the Purity and Red Thirst/Black Rage, respectively, inherent to all those of Sanguinius' bloodline, whom referred to themselves as "those of the blood". Mephiston was given the choice to take the embodiment of the Flaw into himself, similar to the Sanguinor, but acting as its opposite counterpart, with all the most savage parts of the Blood Angels.

After his rebirth, Primaris Mephiston is now a containment vessel for the Flaw, but realizes that drawing on that strength without restraint will make the Black Rage stronger and eventually reduce all those of the blood into something exponentially worse than even the [[World Eaters]]. That being said, when coupled with their self-discipline, the power boost granted by the flaw to those of the blood (and Mephiston in particular) becomes immeasurable. To paraphrase from the book somewhat, though it takes a toll, the flaw acts as a tool; one that may harm its wielder if not handled with care, but when tempered by disciple, duty, and loyalty to [[Emperor|The Master of Mankind]], becomes invaluable. To illustrate this point, Mephiston's first combat action after crossing the Rubicon Primaris saw him solo-ing a fucking [[Genestealer Patriarch]] (including the attending dozens of elites of its inner circle), all while simultaneously entirely blocking the psychic call they were attempting to send to the Hivemind. Mephiston didn't even break a sweat.

None but Mephiston are aware of the responsibility he accepted, but no one can deny Mephiston is still utterly loyal to Big-E, even if he is most likely the single most dangerous individual threat to the Blood Angels' souls. Astorath was prepared to kill him and Dante even considered it. But Dante judged (probably correctly) that the Space Vampires need Mephiston more than ever. It's also worth noting that though he is unsure whether or not his meeting with Sanguinius was real, it nonetheless had a profound impact on him, seeming to instill in him some humility and even restoring some small traces of the humanity (albeit slight) that he'd previously thought gone from him forever. Nowhere was this more apparent than when he met Sanguinius; from the first moment Sanguinius revealed his identity, Mephiston, the Lord of Death himself, was so awe-struck that he fell to his knees and wept, immediately addressing him as "my father".

==For All You Illiterate Folks==
Mephiston, however, is not based on a vampire, regardless of the Blood Angels connection. He is based on Mephistopheles, or Mephisto, a demon of Satan, marvel comic character and one of the Seven Chief (see the connection?) Devils. Mephistopheles was the demon who turned up to take [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust Faust's] soul when he made a deal with the Devil, or Satan. When Mephistopheles first appeared to Faust, he actually advised Faust not to sell his soul. Mephistopheles didn't spend his time finding people to corrupt, but came to collect on souls from people who were close, or already, damned.

So you see, Faust is Brother Calistarius and Mephistopheles is Mephiston. Calistarius overcomes the Black Rage (his soul is already damned) and becomes Mephiston (sells his soul for great power). This theory is further reinforced by the fact that, in the Blood Angels Codex itself, it says (paraphrased) "in over coming the Black Rage, he became something much worse". As in, he sold his soul to overcome the torment of the Black Rage and in doing so became a demon, or one of the Seven Chief Devils of Satan.

This similarity is touched upon in the Lord of Death book, in which a lost Blood Angel chaplain accuses Mephiston of losing his [[Black Rage|"soul"]], referencing the twin curses of the chapter as being the heart and soul of who the Blood Angels are—and the reason for their humility and nobility. Mephiston rebukes him, stating that while part of the Blood Angels' humility was acquired by their suffering, it was in fact the tenets and beliefs of Sanguinius that truly fostered it. The chaplain dismisses this and [[rip and tear|very nearly comes to realize how very much of Mephiston's "soul" is still there.]] In the end, Mephy proves his loyalties as [[Doombreed]] himself screams to Khorne that he cannot [[Star Wars|sway Mephiston to turn to Chaos]]. Doombreed then leaves with Mephy knowing that he should have died right then and there

It should also be noted that [[Gabriel Seth]], [[Chapter Master]] of the [[Flesh Tearers]], of all people considers Mephiston a monster and an abomination. This sentiment earned him the scorn of basically every Chapter Master of every Blood Angels' successor chapter with Malakim of the Lamenters straight up saying that Seth's boys murder more people horribly than any one of the Lamenters' Death Company. Take that as you will. Although, Seth has too much of a fixation on the flaws. His main reason for disliking the Primaris Marines, for example, is their lack of the flaws which he believes are what defines the Sons of Sanguinius. Also he's a raging douchebag on even the best of occasions.

==On the Tabletop==
{| class=wikitable
! || Pts || M || WS || BS || S || T || W || A || Ld || Sv
|-
| '''Mephiston (Primaris)''' || 145 || 7" || 2+ || 2+ || 5 || 5 || 6 || 5 || 9 || 2+/5+++
|}

Mephiston is similar to last edition, with 5s for S, T, and W instead of 6s like the days of yore (or 4s for a standard librarian), but he makes up for it in other ways. His Sanguine Sword is now a Power Fist with no to-hit penalty; his other benefits include M7 (although he has no jump pack), BS2+ with his Plasma Pistol, A5 (6 on the charge/charged/intervention), a 2+ save, a 5+++ FNP, denying 2 powers instead of 1, and knowing 3 powers instead of 2, but that last is particularly lackluster, as he can still only cast 2; you'll probably want to take Unleash Rage (or Quickening, if you want him to buff himself better [[derp|since THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE MEPHISTON!]]), Shield of Sanguinius, and Wings of Sanguinius on him, then only cast the third power when you really need to get him into position. All of those benefits will cost you 57 points over a normal Librarian, or 47 more than a Primaris Librarian.

Mephiston has an excellent statline, lots of melee power (combined with a Sanguinary Priest, he can hit at S12!), can buff himself and/or others well, and is priced decently. He makes a good HQ (although his warlord trait is lackluster). His only weaknesses are no way to generate anything better than a 5++, allowing basic power swords to hurt him, and no means to deep strike with other choppy units. otherwise he can perform any HQ role quite well. He's in direct competition with a librarian dreadnought, given how much of his special character oomph was directed into making him beatstickier.E.

Mephiston with Quickening and the Red Rampage stratagem adds 2d3 extra S10 AP-3 D1d3 attacks that wound everything up to toughness 9 on 2s... holy shit, it won't matter if there can be only one, there's gonna be nothing left!

*His new Primaris model has arrived - and it's awesome. Depending on which of the two alternate arms you give him, it's essentially a miniature of the incredible black and white drawing of Mephiston standing and wiping his mouth while a shrine burns behind him.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Mephiston.jpg|He's as pissed off as an [[Angry Marine]] — on one of his quiet days.
File:Will power incarnate.jpg|Sheer willpower is what keeps him from tearing his own guys apart. ([[Mark Gibbons|MG]])
File:Warhammer-40000-Mephiston.jpeg|Some artwork depicts his hair as blonde, others make it look silver/white...
File:Awesome Art.jpeg|Mephiston has a lot of awesome artwork. Choosing a favorite is indeed hard.
File:Lord Mephiston.jpg|Kain of Nosgoth called; he wants his aesthetic back.
</gallery>

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[[Category:Blood Angels]]

Mephiston

2022-12-22T12:02:49Z

2603:8001:6901:2586:4135:77C6:E673:B9DE: /* Blood of Baal */

{{Awesome}}
{{topquote|And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.|Judges xvi, 30}}
{{topquote|The Emperor is not a god. All gods are LIES.|Mephiston, ''Darkness In The Blood'' - The Lord Of Death himself simultaneously being badass, terrifying, and displaying his utter loyalty to the Master of Mankind.}}

[[File:DeathstormMephiston.png|350px|thumb|Whoever [[Kaldor Draigo|you are]], Mephiston eats like ten of your sorry asses for breakfast.|right]]
'''Mephiston''' a.k.a. angry Lucius Malfoy in SPEEHHSS is the Chief [[Librarian]] of the [[Blood Angels]] [[Space Marine]] chapter, one of the most powerful [[psykers]] in the [[Imperium]], and he bears the title "Lord of Death" for A FUCKING REASON! The [[Grey Knights]], [[Thousand Sons]], and others may come to mind first when one thinks of psychic heavy-hitters, but Mephiston is at an entirely different level; no joke, he's been able fuck with the schemes of daemon-primarch Magnus (albeit [[Not as Planned|kinda on accident]]) He's a monstrous creature in artificer armour and his sole purpose in life is to fuck you in close combat. He's the biggest [[Mary Sue]] of the entire setting, even compared to other Imperial characters, able to summon daemons without being corrupted, defeat Greater Daemons with his mind alone, able to stop time, give heart attacks to Farseers, overcome the Black Rage twice just by wanting to... Whether that makes him [[Awesome]] or [[Derp|stupid]] is up to you. He often contends with the likes of [[Ahzek Ahriman]], [[Njal Stormcaller]], [[Eldrad |that dick]], [[Varro Tigurius]], [[Swarmlord|THE SWARMLORD]] and [[Kaldor Draigo]] for the title of baddest psychic motherfucker in the galaxy that's still mortal. Well, technically Space Marines are functionally immortal but are killed in action long before it can be considered relevant.

==Origin and History==
Once upon a time, <s>Ramenphiston[https://i.imgur.com/tgQGpml.png]</s> Mephiston was called Brother Calistarius, one of many librarians of the Blood Angels (and possibly the same from the Sin of Damnation book, which would also make him the same Librarian Calistarius in the Space Hulk games). You know, just your average 8-foot tall, superhuman killing machine with psychic powers and [[vampire]]-ish tendencies. Nothing that special. Then one day, he was overcome by the effects of the Red Thirst.

Once a Blood Angel is overcome with the Red Thirst, he is afflicted by the [[Black Rage]] and is inducted into the [[Death Company]]. Death Company Marines are bat-shit crazy, berserker, vampire Space Marines. Since there's no cure for the Black Rage, the only thing that can be done for the Death Company is to use them as shock troops and throw them onto the front lines of the most brutal, meat grinder, suicide assaults and let them find a glorious death on the battlefield, like Samson in the House of Dagon.

During the second war for Armageddon, Brother Calistarius, as a Death Company Marine, was used to assault the [[Orks]] holding up in the Ecclesorium building of Hades Hive. As he and his fellow bat-shit crazy, berserker, vampire Space Marine brothers [[RIP AND TEAR|hacked, slashed and raped]] their way through the Orks' defences, they might have gotten a little bit too enthusiastic. As in, they brought the entire fucking building down on their heads.

Calistarius was the only one left alive, buried in the rubble with his body crushed and broken. Trapped, denied his glorious death, and unable to vent his rage by raping the shit out of the enemy, he was forced to sit and stew in his blind fury for seven days and seven nights. The madness of the Black Rage was tearing at his mind, screaming for blood and death, causing him to trip balls with out-of-this-world, fucked up visions that had driven all before him right off the deep end!

With nowhere to go and nothing to do, he had no choice but to stare down the visions and fight the madness. At midnight on the seventh day, he finally overcame the Black Rage and the Red Thirst and was reborn as Mephiston, LORD OF DEATH!

Having done what no Blood Angel had EVER done, he was reborn with new strength and power unlike anything he had ever felt before. Feeling the utter RAAAAAGE! and fury of Mephiston's rebirth, the thousand tons of rubble that had been crushing down on him and keeping him trapped SHIT ITSELF (how does rubble shit itself, you ask? Mephiston was angry with it, that's how!) and tried to escape, allowing Mephiston to burst free.

[[File:Lord of Death.PNG|250px|thumb|[[RAGE|A real champion is he who doesn't piss his pants at the mere presence of this bastard.]]|left]]As he burst free, he attracted the attention of a nearby Ork band. Now, there were several hundred heavily armed Orks and Mephiston was alone, his armour was shredded, he had no weapons, and was exhausted after what had just occurred. Given all this, it's clear Mephy wasn't really at his best. The odds were stacked against him, so it's fairly obvious what happened next...'''he fucked them ''right'' up!''' He butchered them, tore them apart with his bare hands. Then he grabbed hold of the biggest motherfucking Ork, PUNCHED A HOLE THROUGH HIS CHEST, AND TORE OUT HIS MOTHERFUCKING HEART. Then he skull fucked him while the other Orks just watched and cried girly tears of fear and defeat.

After this, because of his awesome power and the fact that the other Blood Angels were a bit scared of him and wouldn't refuse his application for promotion when he applied for one, he quickly rose through the ranks to the position of Chief Librarian.

===The Cybele Incident===
Mephiston was involved in, and helped to resolve, a conflict that nearly tore the Blood Angels Chapter apart. In the novels ''Blood Angels: Deus Encarmine'' and ''Blood Angels: Deus Sanguinius'', a schism occurs within the chapter during a campaign against the forces of [[Chaos]] on Cybele. A young Marine, Arkio, grew wings and then got all uppity and powerful, proclaiming himself to be the reincarnation of [[Sanguinius]], the Blood Angels' late [[Primarch]]. While many of his fellow Marines swore fealty to him, a number of others, including his older brother Rafen (his actual biological brother as well as fellow Blood Angel), refused to acknowledge any truth to his claim. As it turns out, they were right; the whole shebang turned out to be a typically dickish [[Tzeentch|Tzeentchian]] plot intended to tear the Blood Angels apart and turn them to Chaos, and was orchestrated by Inquisitor Remius Stele, a traitor and agent of Chaos.

Eventually, [[Dante|Commander Dante]], who was suspicious of the events on Cybele, sent Mephiston to assess the situation and decide if Arkio really was the reincarnation of Sanguinius. Almost immediately upon arriving, Mephiston sensed the taint of Chaos in Arkio, denounced him as a fraud, and identified Inquisitor Stele as a [[HERESY|heretic]] and a traitor, because Mephiston is a fucking discerning motherfucker and was way too smart for any of those asshats. But Arkio persisted in his claims, and Mephiston, feeling unusually gracious, allowed Rafen to kill him instead of just [[RIP AND TEAR|eviscerating]] the little bastard himself. Still, Mephiston got to annihilate scores of other Chaos Marines and cultists while he was there, so it was a good time overall.

===Divinatus Prime===
In ''Mephiston: Blood of Sanguinius'' it was revealed that while Mephiston had been "cured" of the Black Rage, whenever he tried to unleash his full might he would be overcome by a bout of UNSTOPPABLE RAGE (seriously, he conjured miniature Warp Storms several times in this book). Furthermore, his body was slowly changing (his skin turned darker, his RAGE became harder and harder to stop, etc.).

Mephiston sought the Blade Petrific, a Xenos artifact which could amplify its user's psychic power, as an answer to his problem (don't have to unleash full power if you can amplify less). The Blade was housed on the shrine world of Divinatus Prime, which had been lost to the Astronomican (Mephiston and his retinue had to jump, and traverse the Immaterium blind). Two Chaos Sorcerers, vying to be the protege of a third one, decided to make a little contest: Both of them would try to manipulate Divinatus Prime's populations to wage a civil war to see who would get the blade first.

Unfortunately, in the end, one of them escaped with the blade. [[Just as planned]], Mephiston deliberately let her to lead him to the third Chaos Sorcerer (whose identity he was implied to know.) Mephiston also realized that there was no salvation for him (his body had almost completely changed), but he said he "would be the Blood Angels' hope." This also shows his deep loyalty. Rather than take the blade to save himself, he sacrificed his possible chance simply for a lead to a threat against humanity so he could destroy it.

==Revenant Crusade==

In 'Mephiston Revenant Crusade', good' ol Mephiston seems to have gone "blind" to the warp, this brings him to a world infested by insane Necrons. One of which boards his ship, and with his bodyguard of warriors, gets obliterated by a lieutenant and a few hellblasters. Mephiston then has them accompany him and his old friend Gaius, (not Merlin) down to the planet.

Whilst this is going on, A Codicier from Blood of Sanguinius named Antros, has been sent to investigate a way to cure the Rage or Mephiston warp overdose .
This brings him into contact with the Sons of Helios Chapter, a near dead Chapter who live next to the Great Rift. Without falling to Chaos. [[Just as Planned]]. Using the chant from the Sorcerer guy 'We dream, dreaming, dreamed,' ye. This is then turned out to be the result of a Chaos trick.

Antros then joins Mephiston. But in the end things get fixed, but Antros may be corrupted.

==Blood of Baal==
The third book of the [[Psychic Awakening]] event, it seems that two things are very clear: Mephiston has become [[Primaris Space Marines|Primaris]] and that the battle between the Blood Angels and Tyranids is going to have a rematch.

''Darkness in the Blood'' expands on Mephiston's transformation. Mephiston was being used as a kind of pseudo-guide for the fleets in Imperium Nihilus, and Mephiston seemed to be growing in power with the opening of the Great Rift. But despite his caution and his emphatic loyalty to Sanguinius and The Emperor, the sheer level of power increase occurring so rapidly, outpaced his self-discipline, and so Mephiston was losing control of it. This all came to a head during a trap laid by [[Slaanesh]], where Mephiston pretty much wiped the floor with Kyriss, but damn near succumbed to the Black Rage as a result. Fortunately however, Dante knocked Mephiston the fuck out so that they could return him to Baal, where the Lord of Death was volunteered to test the Rubicon Primaris. During the process, Mephiston's soul was cast into the ethereal plane, and ultimately greeted by none other than Sanguinous himself, who explained to the Lord of Death that the Sanguinor and Angel of Darkness represented the Purity and Red Thirst/Black Rage, respectively, inherent to all those of Sanguinius' bloodline, whom referred to themselves as "those of the blood". Mephiston was given the choice to take the embodiment of the Flaw into himself, similar to the Sanguinor, but acting as its opposite counterpart, with all the most savage parts of the Blood Angels.

After his rebirth, Primaris Mephiston is now a containment vessel for the Flaw, but realizes that drawing on that strength without restraint will make the Black Rage stronger and eventually reduce all those of the blood into something exponentially worse than even the [[World Eaters]]. That being said, when coupled with their self-discipline, the power boost granted by the flaw to those of the blood (and Mephiston in particular) becomes immeasurable. To paraphrase from the book somewhat, though it takes a toll, the flaw acts as a tool; one that may harm its wielder if not handled with care, but when tempered by disciple, duty, and loyalty to [[Emperor|The Master of Mankind]], becomes invaluable. To illustrate this point, Mephiston's first combat action after crossing the Rubicon Primaris saw him solo-ing a fucking [[Genestealer Patriarch]] (including the attending dozens of elites of its inner circle), all while simultaneously entirely blocking the psychic call they were attempting to send to the Hivemind. Mephiston didn't even break a sweat.

None but Mephiston are aware of the responsibility he accepted, but no one can deny Mephiston is still utterly loyal to Big-E, even if he is most likely the single most dangerous individual threat to the Blood Angels' souls. Astorath was prepared to kill him and Dante even considered it. But Dante judged (probably correctly) that the Space Vampires need Mephiston more than ever. It's also worth noting that though he is unsure whether or not his meeting with Sanguinius was real, it nonetheless had a profound impact on him, seeming to instill in him some humility and even restoring some small traces of the humanity (albeit slight) that he'd previously thought gone from him forever. Nowhere was this more apparent than when he met Sanguinius; from the first moment Sanguinius revealed his identity, Mephiston, the Lord of Death himself, was so awe-struck that he fell to his knees and wept, immediately addressing him as "my father".

==For All You Illiterate Folks==
Mephiston, however, is not based on a vampire, regardless of the Blood Angels connection. He is based on Mephistopheles, or Mephisto, a demon of Satan, marvel comic character and one of the Seven Chief (see the connection?) Devils. Mephistopheles was the demon who turned up to take [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust Faust's] soul when he made a deal with the Devil, or Satan. When Mephistopheles first appeared to Faust, he actually advised Faust not to sell his soul. Mephistopheles didn't spend his time finding people to corrupt, but came to collect on souls from people who were close, or already, damned.

So you see, Faust is Brother Calistarius and Mephistopheles is Mephiston. Calistarius overcomes the Black Rage (his soul is already damned) and becomes Mephiston (sells his soul for great power). This theory is further reinforced by the fact that, in the Blood Angels Codex itself, it says (paraphrased) "in over coming the Black Rage, he became something much worse". As in, he sold his soul to overcome the torment of the Black Rage and in doing so became a demon, or one of the Seven Chief Devils of Satan.

This similarity is touched upon in the Lord of Death book, in which a lost Blood Angel chaplain accuses Mephiston of losing his [[Black Rage|"soul"]], referencing the twin curses of the chapter as being the heart and soul of who the Blood Angels are—and the reason for their humility and nobility. Mephiston rebukes him, stating that while part of the Blood Angels' humility was acquired by their suffering, it was in fact the tenets and beliefs of Sanguinius that truly fostered it. The chaplain dismisses this and [[rip and tear|very nearly comes to realize how very much of Mephiston's "soul" is still there.]] In the end, Mephy proves his loyalties as [[Doombreed]] himself screams to Khorne that he cannot [[Star Wars|sway Mephiston to turn to Chaos]]. Doombreed then leaves with Mephy knowing that he should have died right then and there

It should also be noted that [[Gabriel Seth]], [[Chapter Master]] of the [[Flesh Tearers]], of all people considers Mephiston a monster and an abomination. This sentiment earned him the scorn of basically every Chapter Master of every Blood Angels' successor chapter with Malakim of the Lamenters straight up saying that Seth's boys murder more people horribly than any one of the Lamenters' Death Company. Take that as you will. Although, Seth has too much of a fixation on the flaws. His main reason for disliking the Primaris Marines, for example, is their lack of the flaws which he believes are what defines the Sons of Sanguinius. Also he's a raging douchebag on even the best of occasions.

==On the Tabletop==
{| class=wikitable
! || Pts || M || WS || BS || S || T || W || A || Ld || Sv
|-
| '''Mephiston (Primaris)''' || 145 || 7" || 2+ || 2+ || 5 || 5 || 6 || 5 || 9 || 2+/5+++
|}

Mephiston is similar to last edition, with 5s for S, T, and W instead of 6s like the days of yore (or 4s for a standard librarian), but he makes up for it in other ways. His Sanguine Sword is now a Power Fist with no to-hit penalty; his other benefits include M7 (although he has no jump pack), BS2+ with his Plasma Pistol, A5 (6 on the charge/charged/intervention), a 2+ save, a 5+++ FNP, denying 2 powers instead of 1, and knowing 3 powers instead of 2, but that last is particularly lackluster, as he can still only cast 2; you'll probably want to take Unleash Rage (or Quickening, if you want him to buff himself better [[derp|since THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE MEPHISTON!]]), Shield of Sanguinius, and Wings of Sanguinius on him, then only cast the third power when you really need to get him into position. All of those benefits will cost you 57 points over a normal Librarian, or 47 more than a Primaris Librarian.

Mephiston has an excellent statline, lots of melee power (combined with a Sanguinary Priest, he can hit at S12!), can buff himself and/or others well, and is priced decently. He makes a good HQ (although his warlord trait is lackluster). His only weaknesses are no way to generate anything better than a 5++, allowing basic power swords to hurt him, and no means to deep strike with other choppy units. otherwise he can perform any HQ role quite well. He's in direct competition with a librarian dreadnought, given how much of his special character oomph was directed into making him beatstickier.E.

Mephiston with Quickening and the Red Rampage stratagem adds 2d3 extra S10 AP-3 D1d3 attacks that wound everything up to toughness 9 on 2s... holy shit, it won't matter if there can be only one, there's gonna be nothing left!

*His new Primaris model has arrived - and it's awesome. Depending on which of the two alternate arms you give him, it's essentially a miniature of the incredible black and white drawing of Mephiston standing and wiping his mouth while a shrine burns behind him.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Mephiston.jpg|He's as pissed off as an [[Angry Marine]] — on one of his quiet days.
File:Will power incarnate.jpg|Sheer willpower is what keeps him from tearing his own guys apart. ([[Mark Gibbons|MG]])
File:Warhammer-40000-Mephiston.jpeg|Some artwork depicts his hair as blonde, others make it look silver/white...
File:Awesome Art.jpeg|Mephiston has a lot of awesome artwork. Choosing a favorite is indeed hard.
File:Lord Mephiston.jpg|Kain of Nosgoth called; he wants his aesthetic back.
</gallery>

{{Marines-Characters}}

[[Category:Blood Angels]]

Mephiston

2022-12-19T10:51:48Z

2603:8001:6901:2586:4135:77C6:E673:B9DE: /* Blood of Baal */

{{Awesome}}
{{topquote|And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.|Judges xvi, 30}}
{{topquote|The Emperor is not a god. All gods are LIES.|Mephiston, ''Darkness In The Blood'' - The Lord Of Death himself simultaneously being badass, terrifying, and displaying his utter loyalty to the Master of Mankind.}}

[[File:DeathstormMephiston.png|350px|thumb|Whoever [[Kaldor Draigo|you are]], Mephiston eats like ten of your sorry asses for breakfast.|right]]
'''Mephiston''' a.k.a. angry Lucius Malfoy in SPEEHHSS is the Chief [[Librarian]] of the [[Blood Angels]] [[Space Marine]] chapter, one of the most powerful [[psykers]] in the [[Imperium]], and he bears the title "Lord of Death" for A FUCKING REASON! He's a monstrous creature in artificer armour and his sole purpose in life is to fuck you in close combat. He's the biggest [[Mary Sue]] of the entire setting, even compared to other Imperial characters, able to summon demons without being corrupted, defeat Greater Daemons with his mind alone, able to stop time, give heart attacks to Farseers, overcome the Black Rage twice just by wanting to... Whether that makes him [[Awesome]] or [[Derp|stupid]] is up to you. He often contends with the likes of [[Ahzek Ahriman]], [[Njal Stormcaller]], [[Eldrad |that dick]], [[Varro Tigurius]], [[Swarmlord|THE SWARMLORD]] and [[Kaldor Draigo]] for the title of baddest psychic motherfucker in the galaxy that's still mortal. Well, technically Space Marines are functionally immortal but are killed in action long before it can be considered relevant.

==Origin and History==
Once upon a time, <s>Ramenphiston[https://i.imgur.com/tgQGpml.png]</s> Mephiston was called Brother Calistarius, one of many librarians of the Blood Angels (and possibly the same from the Sin of Damnation book, which would also make him the same Librarian Calistarius in the Space Hulk games). You know, just your average 8-foot tall, superhuman killing machine with psychic powers and [[vampire]]-ish tendencies. Nothing that special. Then one day, he was overcome by the effects of the Red Thirst.

Once a Blood Angel is overcome with the Red Thirst, he is afflicted by the [[Black Rage]] and is inducted into the [[Death Company]]. Death Company Marines are bat-shit crazy, berserker, vampire Space Marines. Since there's no cure for the Black Rage, the only thing that can be done for the Death Company is to use them as shock troops and throw them onto the front lines of the most brutal, meat grinder, suicide assaults and let them find a glorious death on the battlefield, like Samson in the House of Dagon.

During the second war for Armageddon, Brother Calistarius, as a Death Company Marine, was used to assault the [[Orks]] holding up in the Ecclesorium building of Hades Hive. As he and his fellow bat-shit crazy, berserker, vampire Space Marine brothers [[RIP AND TEAR|hacked, slashed and raped]] their way through the Orks' defences, they might have gotten a little bit too enthusiastic. As in, they brought the entire fucking building down on their heads.

Calistarius was the only one left alive, buried in the rubble with his body crushed and broken. Trapped, denied his glorious death, and unable to vent his rage by raping the shit out of the enemy, he was forced to sit and stew in his blind fury for seven days and seven nights. The madness of the Black Rage was tearing at his mind, screaming for blood and death, causing him to trip balls with out-of-this-world, fucked up visions that had driven all before him right off the deep end!

With nowhere to go and nothing to do, he had no choice but to stare down the visions and fight the madness. At midnight on the seventh day, he finally overcame the Black Rage and the Red Thirst and was reborn as Mephiston, LORD OF DEATH!

Having done what no Blood Angel had EVER done, he was reborn with new strength and power unlike anything he had ever felt before. Feeling the utter RAAAAAGE! and fury of Mephiston's rebirth, the thousand tons of rubble that had been crushing down on him and keeping him trapped SHIT ITSELF (how does rubble shit itself, you ask? Mephiston was angry with it, that's how!) and tried to escape, allowing Mephiston to burst free.

[[File:Lord of Death.PNG|250px|thumb|[[RAGE|A real champion is he who doesn't piss his pants at the mere presence of this bastard.]]|left]]As he burst free, he attracted the attention of a nearby Ork band. Now, there were several hundred heavily armed Orks and Mephiston was alone, his armour was shredded, he had no weapons, and was exhausted after what had just occurred. Given all this, it's clear Mephy wasn't really at his best. The odds were stacked against him, so it's fairly obvious what happened next...'''he fucked them ''right'' up!''' He butchered them, tore them apart with his bare hands. Then he grabbed hold of the biggest motherfucking Ork, PUNCHED A HOLE THROUGH HIS CHEST, AND TORE OUT HIS MOTHERFUCKING HEART. Then he skull fucked him while the other Orks just watched and cried girly tears of fear and defeat.

After this, because of his awesome power and the fact that the other Blood Angels were a bit scared of him and wouldn't refuse his application for promotion when he applied for one, he quickly rose through the ranks to the position of Chief Librarian.

===The Cybele Incident===
Mephiston was involved in, and helped to resolve, a conflict that nearly tore the Blood Angels Chapter apart. In the novels ''Blood Angels: Deus Encarmine'' and ''Blood Angels: Deus Sanguinius'', a schism occurs within the chapter during a campaign against the forces of [[Chaos]] on Cybele. A young Marine, Arkio, grew wings and then got all uppity and powerful, proclaiming himself to be the reincarnation of [[Sanguinius]], the Blood Angels' late [[Primarch]]. While many of his fellow Marines swore fealty to him, a number of others, including his older brother Rafen (his actual biological brother as well as fellow Blood Angel), refused to acknowledge any truth to his claim. As it turns out, they were right; the whole shebang turned out to be a typically dickish [[Tzeentch|Tzeentchian]] plot intended to tear the Blood Angels apart and turn them to Chaos, and was orchestrated by Inquisitor Remius Stele, a traitor and agent of Chaos.

Eventually, [[Dante|Commander Dante]], who was suspicious of the events on Cybele, sent Mephiston to assess the situation and decide if Arkio really was the reincarnation of Sanguinius. Almost immediately upon arriving, Mephiston sensed the taint of Chaos in Arkio, denounced him as a fraud, and identified Inquisitor Stele as a [[HERESY|heretic]] and a traitor, because Mephiston is a fucking discerning motherfucker and was way too smart for any of those asshats. But Arkio persisted in his claims, and Mephiston, feeling unusually gracious, allowed Rafen to kill him instead of just [[RIP AND TEAR|eviscerating]] the little bastard himself. Still, Mephiston got to annihilate scores of other Chaos Marines and cultists while he was there, so it was a good time overall.

===Divinatus Prime===
In ''Mephiston: Blood of Sanguinius'' it was revealed that while Mephiston had been "cured" of the Black Rage, whenever he tried to unleash his full might he would be overcome by a bout of UNSTOPPABLE RAGE (seriously, he conjured miniature Warp Storms several times in this book). Furthermore, his body was slowly changing (his skin turned darker, his RAGE became harder and harder to stop, etc.).

Mephiston sought the Blade Petrific, a Xenos artifact which could amplify its user's psychic power, as an answer to his problem (don't have to unleash full power if you can amplify less). The Blade was housed on the shrine world of Divinatus Prime, which had been lost to the Astronomican (Mephiston and his retinue had to jump, and traverse the Immaterium blind). Two Chaos Sorcerers, vying to be the protege of a third one, decided to make a little contest: Both of them would try to manipulate Divinatus Prime's populations to wage a civil war to see who would get the blade first.

Unfortunately, in the end, one of them escaped with the blade. [[Just as planned]], Mephiston deliberately let her to lead him to the third Chaos Sorcerer (whose identity he was implied to know.) Mephiston also realized that there was no salvation for him (his body had almost completely changed), but he said he "would be the Blood Angels' hope." This also shows his deep loyalty. Rather than take the blade to save himself, he sacrificed his possible chance simply for a lead to a threat against humanity so he could destroy it.

==Revenant Crusade==

In 'Mephiston Revenant Crusade', good' ol Mephiston seems to have gone "blind" to the warp, this brings him to a world infested by insane Necrons. One of which boards his ship, and with his bodyguard of warriors, gets obliterated by a lieutenant and a few hellblasters. Mephiston then has them accompany him and his old friend Gaius, (not Merlin) down to the planet.

Whilst this is going on, A Codicier from Blood of Sanguinius named Antros, has been sent to investigate a way to cure the Rage or Mephiston warp overdose .
This brings him into contact with the Sons of Helios Chapter, a near dead Chapter who live next to the Great Rift. Without falling to Chaos. [[Just as Planned]]. Using the chant from the Sorcerer guy 'We dream, dreaming, dreamed,' ye. This is then turned out to be the result of a Chaos trick.

Antros then joins Mephiston. But in the end things get fixed, but Antros may be corrupted.

==Blood of Baal==
The third book of the [[Psychic Awakening]] event, it seems that two things are very clear: Mephiston has become [[Primaris Space Marines|Primaris]] and that the battle between the Blood Angels and Tyranids is going to have a rematch.

Darkness in the Blood expands on Mephiston's transformation. Mephiston was being used as a kind of pseudo-guide for the fleets in imperium Nihilus, and Mephiston seemed to be growing in power with the opening of the Great Rift. But despite his caution and his emphatic loyalty to Sanguinius and The Emperor, the sheer level of power increase occurring so rapidly, outpaced his self-discipline, and so Mephiston was losing control of it. This all came to a head during a trap laid by [[Slaanesh]], where Mephiston pretty much wiped the floor with Kyriss, but damn near succumbed to the Black Rage as a result. Fortunately however, Dante knocked him out long enough to return him to Baal, where the Lord of Death was volunteered to test the Rubicon Primaris. During the process, Mephiston's soul was cast into the ethereal plane, and ultimately greeted by none other than Sanguinous himself, who explained to the Lord of Death that the Sanguinor and Angel of Darkness represented the Purity and Red Thirst/Black Rage, respectively, inherent to all those of Sanguinius' bloodline, whom referred to themselves as "those of the blood". Mephiston was given the choice to take the embodiment of the Flaw into himself, similar to the Sanguinor, but acting as its opposite counterpart, with all the most savage parts of the Blood Angels.

After his rebirth, Primaris Mephiston is now a containment vessel for the Flaw, but realizes that drawing on that strength without restraint will make the Black Rage stronger and eventually reduce all those of the blood into something exponentially worse than even the [[World Eaters]]. That being said, when coupled with their self-discipline, the power boost granted by the flaw to those of the blood (and Mephiston in particular) becomes immeasurable. To paraphrase from the book somewhat, though it takes a toll, the flaw acts as a tool; one that may harm its wielder if not handled with care, but when tempered by disciple, duty, and loyalty to [[Emperor|The Master of Mankind]], becomes invaluable. To illustrate this point, Mephiston's first combat action after crossing the Rubicon Primaris saw him solo-ing a fucking [[Genestealer Patriarch]] (including the attending dozens of elites of its inner circle), all while simultaneously entirely blocking the psychic call they were attempting to send to the Hivemind. Mephiston didn't even break a sweat.

None but Mephiston are aware of the responsibility he accepted, but no one can deny Mephiston is still utterly loyal to Big-E, even if he is most likely the single most dangerous individual threat to the Blood Angels' souls. Astorath was prepared to kill him and Dante even considered it. But Dante judged (probably correctly) that the Space Vampires need Mephiston more than ever. It's also worth noting that though he is unsure whether or not his meeting with Sanguinius was real, it nonetheless had a profound impact on him, seeming to instill in him some humility and even some small traces of the humanity (albeit slight) that he'd previously thought gone from him forever. Nowhere was this more apparent than when he met Sanguinius; from the first moment Sanguinius revealed his identity, Mephiston, the Lord of Death himself, was so awe-struck that he fell to his knees and wept, immediately addressing him as "my father".

==For All You Illiterate Folks==
Mephiston, however, is not based on a vampire, regardless of the Blood Angels connection. He is based on Mephistopheles, or Mephisto, a demon of Satan, marvel comic character and one of the Seven Chief (see the connection?) Devils. Mephistopheles was the demon who turned up to take [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust Faust's] soul when he made a deal with the Devil, or Satan. When Mephistopheles first appeared to Faust, he actually advised Faust not to sell his soul. Mephistopheles didn't spend his time finding people to corrupt, but came to collect on souls from people who were close, or already, damned.

So you see, Faust is Brother Calistarius and Mephistopheles is Mephiston. Calistarius overcomes the Black Rage (his soul is already damned) and becomes Mephiston (sells his soul for great power). This theory is further reinforced by the fact that, in the Blood Angels Codex itself, it says (paraphrased) "in over coming the Black Rage, he became something much worse". As in, he sold his soul to overcome the torment of the Black Rage and in doing so became a demon, or one of the Seven Chief Devils of Satan.

This similarity is touched upon in the Lord of Death book, in which a lost Blood Angel chaplain accuses Mephiston of losing his [[Black Rage|"soul"]], referencing the twin curses of the chapter as being the heart and soul of who the Blood Angels are—and the reason for their humility and nobility. Mephiston rebukes him, stating that while part of the Blood Angels' humility was acquired by their suffering, it was in fact the tenets and beliefs of Sanguinius that truly fostered it. The chaplain dismisses this and [[rip and tear|very nearly comes to realize how very much of Mephiston's "soul" is still there.]] In the end, Mephy proves his loyalties as [[Doombreed]] himself screams to Khorne that he cannot [[Star Wars|sway Mephiston to turn to Chaos]]. Doombreed then leaves with Mephy knowing that he should have died right then and there

It should also be noted that [[Gabriel Seth]], [[Chapter Master]] of the [[Flesh Tearers]], of all people considers Mephiston a monster and an abomination. This sentiment earned him the scorn of basically every Chapter Master of every Blood Angels' successor chapter with Malakim of the Lamenters straight up saying that Seth's boys murder more people horribly than any one of the Lamenters' Death Company. Take that as you will. Although, Seth has too much of a fixation on the flaws. His main reason for disliking the Primaris Marines, for example, is their lack of the flaws which he believes are what defines the Sons of Sanguinius. Also he's a raging douchebag on even the best of occasions.

==On the Tabletop==
{| class=wikitable
! || Pts || M || WS || BS || S || T || W || A || Ld || Sv
|-
| '''Mephiston (Primaris)''' || 145 || 7" || 2+ || 2+ || 5 || 5 || 6 || 5 || 9 || 2+/5+++
|}

Mephiston is similar to last edition, with 5s for S, T, and W instead of 6s like the days of yore (or 4s for a standard librarian), but he makes up for it in other ways. His Sanguine Sword is now a Power Fist with no to-hit penalty; his other benefits include M7 (although he has no jump pack), BS2+ with his Plasma Pistol, A5 (6 on the charge/charged/intervention), a 2+ save, a 5+++ FNP, denying 2 powers instead of 1, and knowing 3 powers instead of 2, but that last is particularly lackluster, as he can still only cast 2; you'll probably want to take Unleash Rage (or Quickening, if you want him to buff himself better [[derp|since THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE MEPHISTON!]]), Shield of Sanguinius, and Wings of Sanguinius on him, then only cast the third power when you really need to get him into position. All of those benefits will cost you 57 points over a normal Librarian, or 47 more than a Primaris Librarian.

Mephiston has an excellent statline, lots of melee power (combined with a Sanguinary Priest, he can hit at S12!), can buff himself and/or others well, and is priced decently. He makes a good HQ (although his warlord trait is lackluster). His only weaknesses are no way to generate anything better than a 5++, allowing basic power swords to hurt him, and no means to deep strike with other choppy units. otherwise he can perform any HQ role quite well. He's in direct competition with a librarian dreadnought, given how much of his special character oomph was directed into making him beatstickier.E.

Mephiston with Quickening and the Red Rampage stratagem adds 2d3 extra S10 AP-3 D1d3 attacks that wound everything up to toughness 9 on 2s... holy shit, it won't matter if there can be only one, there's gonna be nothing left!

*His new Primaris model has arrived - and it's awesome. Depending on which of the two alternate arms you give him, it's essentially a miniature of the incredible black and white drawing of Mephiston standing and wiping his mouth while a shrine burns behind him.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Mephiston.jpg|He's as pissed off as an [[Angry Marine]] — on one of his quiet days.
File:Will power incarnate.jpg|Sheer willpower is what keeps him from tearing his own guys apart. ([[Mark Gibbons|MG]])
File:Warhammer-40000-Mephiston.jpeg|Some artwork depicts his hair as blonde, others make it look silver/white...
File:Awesome Art.jpeg|Mephiston has a lot of awesome artwork. Choosing a favorite is indeed hard.
File:Lord Mephiston.jpg|Kain of Nosgoth called; he wants his aesthetic back.
</gallery>

{{Marines-Characters}}

[[Category:Blood Angels]]

Lugft Huron

2022-12-08T07:58:24Z

2603:8001:6901:2586:4135:77C6:E673:B9DE: /* Chaos Lord */

{{heresy}}

{{Topquote|It is a blessing for a man to have a hand in determining his own fate.|Blackbeard}}

[[File:TyrantofBadab.jpg|250px|thumb|left|Lugft Huron as the Chapter Master of the Astral Claws. Note that even his claw has a claw. This is before he got his [[heresy]] on...]]

[[File:Huron_Blackheart.jpg|250px|thumb|right|...And here in full [[heresy]]]]

'''Lugft/Lufgt Huron''' <s>(pronounce Lüg-ft Hú-ron)</s> (a name which remains [[Cthulhu|unpronounceable]] and inconsistently spelled to this day), also known as "Captain Jack Sparrow", "Blackbeard", and other pirate-related names, was the Chapter Master of the [[Astral Claws]] [[Space Marine]] Chapter, and later the Pirate Lord of the [[Red Corsairs]]. He is also known as the "'''Blood Reaver'''" and by his more recent name: "'''Huron Blackheart'''".

If it's any consolation, the vidya gaem: Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 pronounces his original first name as "Luh-ft", so we can assume that the g is silent. Though that game also pronounces [[Horus|Lupercal]] as loo-PURR-cull, so take its pronunciations with a teaspoon of salt.

Fun fact; he's actually one of the oldest special characters that the [[Chaos Space Marines]] have; he debuted all the way back in the original "Codex: Chaos" for 40K 2nd edition, alongside [[Abaddon]], [[Ahzek Ahriman]], [[Fabius Bile]] and [[Kharn]]. That's right, [[Typhus]] and [[Lucius]] didn't show up until around 4th edition!

== History ==
=== Chapter Master ===
Lugft Huron is the textbook example of what happens when you let [[High Lords of Terra|damned bureaucrats]] [[derp|run things into the ground]]. When he became Chapter Master of the Astral Claws, he was an arrogant douchebag that had one job: defend the perimeter of the [[Maelstrom]] Warp storm and make sure nothing comes out of it to rape the shit out of the Imperium. But boy, did he ever do his job and did he do it well. After his predecessor got killed by an [[Ork]] [[Warboss]], he led his whole Chapter on a merry dance of purging worlds close to the Maëlstrom and generally stabilizing both the region and the situation. Everyone in the general vicinity lauded him as a man of daring action and there was much rejoicing.

Then civilian unrest broke out on his Chapter's homeworld for the umpteenth time. Huron was really tired of that shit, so he decided to take control and put his Marines in charge of things. Thus, the Astral Claws became the ''de jure'' rulers of the [[Badab]] Sector, with Huron himself as the Tyrant of Badab. This worked out decently well, and [[grimdark|while not always fair and just]] his methods made the Badab sector prosper under his rule. Spurred on by his success, he sent [[High Lords of Terra|aforementioned fuck-ups]] a nice petition requesting more troops to decisively take care of the Maelstrom and getting rid of that thorn in the side of the Imperium for good... [[Fail|It was dismissed without even being read!]]

And that's where everything went wrong forever. When his requests to the [[High Lords of Terra]] for increased resources to consolidate his gains were denied, he [[butthurt|decided]] that in the absence of help from the [[Imperium]] he would run things his own way. He refused to hand his [[gene-seed]] tithes to the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]], and when the Imperium came calling he blocked trade to and from his Sector in order to keep the gathered resources for his military. Eventually, he attracted the attention of the [[Inquisition]] and when Huron blew them off, they decided that they needed to remind him who answered to whom [[Exterminatus|in the subtlest, softest way possible]]. Thus, the [[Badab War]] was launched.

In the end, Huron's rebellion was crushed by the forces of the [[Imperium]], as something like a dozen [[Space Marine]] Chapters responded. Of course, Huron wasn't just a rebel, he turned out to be a [[heretic]] too (although when exactly he turned to Chaos isn't entirely clear). In the final battle on Badab Primaris, Huron was horribly injured by a melta-blast from a dying Zhrukal Androcles (9th Captain of the [[Star Phantoms]]) while trying to escape his palace. Losing heart, the Astral Claws fled with their fallen Chapter Master. Lord Apothecary Garreon, Apothecary Secundus Variel, and Master of the Forge Armanneus Valthex (guys who had earned the charming nicknames of "the Corpse Master", "the Flayer", and "the Alchemancer", respectively) set to work trying to save the life of Huron and succeeded, after making him, functionally, Chaos' answer to [[Colonel "Iron Hand" Straken|this motherfucker]]. However, they had a little help. While comatose, Huron was visited by the [[Chaos Gods]], who offered him the power he craved and vengeance against the Imperium which rejected him. Huron agreed, and with his remaining forces fled to the [[Maelstrom]].

=== Chaos Lord ===
He is now known as '''Huron Blackheart''', and those forces remaining under his command are called the [[Red Corsairs]]. After several years as a powerful space pirate, Huron would go on to gain control of a significant portion of the [[Maelstrom]] (the older, but smaller brother of the [[Eye of Terror]]) with his vast pirate fleet, made up of space marines who turned traitor, many other human reavers and some Xenos mercenaries.

One of his greatest achievements as a pirate lord was the capture of the ''Wolf of Fenris''; a Strike Cruiser, where according [[RAGE|to some sources]] ''(the [[Gav Thorpe|very skubtastic]] 4th edition Chaos Codex)'', some of the defenders turned on their brethren and surrendered to the Red Corsairs.

By the end of M41, Huron is the second most powerful [[Chaos Lord]] in the galaxy after [[Abaddon]] himself; a fact that annoys Abby to no end, not least because Huron has not been subtle in hiding his ambition to take Abaddon's place as Warmaster. Not only this but Huron did it FAST, as in, in the space of several decades, since the Badab War only ended in 912.M41 so he's a relative newcomer in the grand scheme of things, but he's accumulated more power faster than many more well established warlords.

He's also powerful enough that he can just give away warriors as well by hosting the '''Skull Harvest''' in the Maelstrom, he awarded over 17,000 warriors to [[Honsou|a sick fuck]].

One thing fans tend to miss, while those that are new to the setting get right away is that Huron, being ''space pirate captain'' has cybernetics equivalents of a peg leg, hook, eye patch and even captain's parrot in a form of his daemon familiar.

Huron once lost to Typhus, who allowed him to live. In-universe, Typhus reasoned that the humiliation and resentment from such humbling might just open Huron's soul to [[Nurgle|Grandaddy]]'s influence more. (And out-of-universe, it's evidently because named characters can't permakill one another, except rare circumstances.)

The Red Corsairs possess the second last remaining Blackstone Fortress given to them by Abaddon (why? He's openly planning to replace the guy, that doesn't exactly scream 'give me superweapons' it's surprisingly good tactics from Abby for once, post-Cadia having a Blackstone Fortress puts a target on Huron's back elevating him from pirate lord to potential conqueror of systems meaning the Imperium will divert resources to dealing with Huron that could have been used against Abby). The other one was discovered in M42 and was not in any records until then.

Supposedly he now has the power to be at two places at once.

== Tabletop ==
There are two versions of Huron; ''before'' and ''after''. One of which represents him as Chapter Master of the Astral Claws whilst the other is the Chaos Lord form.

Bizarrely, the two versions share virtually nothing in common.
As Chapter Master; he has an extra wound & attack and terminator armour with a heavy flamer equipped. He also has the ability to get back up once per game if defeated, lets the entire army use his Leadership 10 and the normal Chapter Master bombardment ability becomes Ordnance 2, because it was Huron himself who said [[Awesome|"Big Guns Never Tire"]]. His relic is a pretty amazing AP2 lightning claw that forces re-rolls on invulnerable saves. So non-Chaos Huron is a bit of a monster and with an ''"as much as a Land Raider"'' price tag to go with it, not quite as good as some of the [[Marneus Calgar|other]] [[Darnath Lysander|big]] [[Asterion Moloc|heavy]] [[Logan Grimnar|characters]], but by no means useless.

After he got hit by [[Star Phantoms|Androcles]] melta-blast and rebuilt he took a bit of a dive in power, losing that wound and attack, as well as his Terminator Armour. His claw got replaced with an S+2, AP3, Armourbane one, but the Heavy Flamer ended up getting built into it. He takes an Axe for his AP2 needs, but unfortunately he's nowhere near as good in melee as before. All of his army-buff and "living legend" abilities also got lost so he doesn't add as much to his army ''(but then again, few Chaos special characters do these days)'', but he gets the '''Hamadrya''' which grants him a random psychic power every turn. (Bit of Trivia -Hamadryas is a genus of several butterflies and babboons. The name Hanadrya comes from Greek [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamadryad | Hamadryad] -a kind of wood nymph. It literally means "Together Tree". If the tree died, it would die. This is probably a reference to the fact that the Hamadryas familiar was spawned from the Maelstrom and Lugft couldn't venture far from the area without the creature weakening. Later he trapped the soul of a powerful sorcerer in a vessel to nourish the Hamadrya)

For all of the nerfs, his price tag was also reduced considerably, so he makes for a pretty decent, cost effective, unmarked Chaos Lord who can pull a few tricks out of the bag.

There is an argument that the later chaos version really should have been better, especially since [[Ortan Cassius|other characters]] [[Colonel "Iron Hand" Straken|who have received]] a cybernetic rebuild ended up with improved stat-lines, so why didn't Huron?
One could wonder why his rules don't really transition from one to the other with similar expectations; ''(Other than the fact that the Chaos version came first)'' Probably due to the internal balance of the codex... and increase in stats could end up too much like [[Typhus]] who is meant to be the resilient one with psychic powers. Or if they just took the Chapter Master version and "added Chaos" he could end up too similar to [[Abaddon]] who is meant to be the top-dog. So essentially the rules differences allowed Huron to be played distinctly from the other character options available.

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Omnissiah

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2603:8001:6901:2586:4135:77C6:E673:B9DE: /* Theory One: God-Emperor of Mankind */

{{topquote|Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.|Arthur M. Schlesinger}}

In [[Warhammer 40,000]], things are so [[grimdark]] that people have forgotten all of the science that was once known; the only remaining knowledge is encoded in religious ceremonies followed by the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]]. The deity central to mechanicus dogma is '''the Machine God''', who is also known as the '''Omnissiah'''. In practice though, the Omnissiah is more like Machine Jesus to the Machine God, and most believe the Omnissiah is in fact the [[Emperor]]. Others believe, and there is a fair case to be made, that the Omnissiah is the [[Void Dragon|Void Drag-]]{{BLAM}}

==Attributes==
The machine god is a god of logic, and reason; and any form of chaos and disorder is abhorrent to him (although the Dark Mechanicum that still believe in him would argue otherwise). He works through and manifests in machines, which are seen by his worshipers as the ultimate expression of his order. His sacred language is binary, which pretty much every single fucking [[techpriest]] is fluent in (and which the Inquisition has spent thousands of years trying to crack but hasn't even come close yet; you'd think they'd just ask a Techmarine for a proverbial Rosetta Stone, but that's 40K for you).

==Worship of the machine==
To venerate the machine god is to worship your coffee grinder, your showers, your collection of electronic dildos, your own computer you use to access this website, etc. It all involves long, complicated, and frankly needless praying and rituals to activate anything. Even turning on a light, you have to make a prayer first, probably do something with sanctified oil, speak a prayer of thanks that the electricity decided to satisfy your request, and thank the Omnissiah for bringing it all together.

Science is now an arcane art which is treated with danger and care. Literally, technosorcery. A techpriest really is a priest, learning more about hymns than how to properly weld something together. Essentially, this is one of the most blatant cases of literal irony. Because of that and the desire to dunk every piece of technology in oil, the sacred knowledge they guard so jealously has, over time, degraded along with their skills and ability to comprehend common sense.

Speaking of hoarding secrets, they have a habit of keeping information for the sake of it and not sharing unless forced to. It is because they believe the Omnissiah only wishes his chosen to know his knowledge. [[Pretend|It is generosity like this that will save the human race from all the terrors that assault it.]]

The Adeptus Mechanicus has sixteen universal laws of the machine god, divided into eight mysteries and eight warnings as given below with helpful observations.

The Mysteries of the Cult Mechanicus:
* Life is directed motion.
* The spirit is the spark of life. (Ah, very ''Transformers'' there.)
* Sentience is the ability to learn the value of knowledge. (Pity they don't take this lesson to heart...)
* Intellect is the understanding of knowledge.
* Sentience is the basest form of Intellect. (Does that apply to Orks too?)
* Understanding is the True Path to Comprehension.
* Comprehension is the key to all things.
* The Omnissiah knows all, comprehends all. (Unlike his servants.)

The Warnings of the Cult Mechanicus
* The alien mechanism is a perversion of the True Path (<s>Which doesn't stop them when they want a look at all those Tau and Necron goodies.</s> the "how" of those technologies is heretical, the science behind them is holy.)
* The soul is the conscience of sentience.
* A soul can be bestowed only by the Omnissiah.
* The Soulless sentience (i.e. AIs) is the enemy of all (But since machine-spirits and servitors are derived from a mixture of organic and technological components, they're given a pass.)
* The knowledge of the ancients stands beyond question. (This is true. Pity that knowledge is in the hands of idiots)
* The Machine Spirit guards the knowledge of the Ancients.
* Flesh is fallible, but ritual honors the Machine Spirit
* To break with ritual is to break with faith. (Which doesn't stop them doing so when they are being shot at by chaos freaks)

==History of the Machine==
The rise of the machine cult is all but lost to history, although it is known that when the Emperor of Mankind began his [[Great Crusade]], Mars was the first stop, and by then they had all been gay for the Omnissiah for so long that only a few of them got a hard on from seeing the emprah. And only then, because they believed he was the Omnissiah. Mars was a great power, with unrivaled technology and secrets, and the Emperor knew that if he was going to launch his Great Crusade, he would need Mars's support. However, this put him in a bind (because of his Imperial Truth, which said [[Cake|no gods or spirits or anything supernatural truly existed]]). This of course ruled out the Omnissiah as well, but the Emperor, like any good politician, decided to quietly brush it under the carpet and declared the techpriests were a one-off exception, since the alternative was having a potentially hostile force with a lot of valuable tech right on Terra's doorstep. Likewise, to humor their population, the techpriests for the most part declared the Emperor was an aspect of their God, which you can imagine he didn't like very much but was like "eh, fuck em" and let them get on with it.

==Current times==
Today the cult of the Omnissiah is one of the state religions of the Imperium, no matter how much the Ecclesiarchy fumes about it. The techpriests get the Ecclesiarchy to buzz off by saying that the Emperor and the Machine God are the same deity, so two religions, one faith, or something. But when it comes to blows (as it has on a few occasions) the ecclesiarchs have cathedrals while the AdMech have [[Titan_(Warhammer_40,000)|cathedral sized killbots]], so generally the Ecclesiarchy has to get over it.

The forge worlds are the centres of worship for the Machine God, although each regular Imperial citizen at least knows a little about him and at least generally respects him for the secrets of technology he has bestowed upon mankind.

==Theories of true identity==
While this may seem straight forward, the actual identity of Omnissiah has become the greatest game of 'Guess Who?' in 40k, as several theories of his true form have now come forward, which are covered below.

===Theory One: God-Emperor of Mankind===
The majority of tech-priests and other Adeptus Mechanicus personnel within all echelons and stratas of rank believe that the [[God-Emperor of Mankind]] is the Omnissiah, or at least a form of him. While there are always outliers and different schools of thought, especially in such a populous faction as the AdMec, it's worth remembering that the belief in Big-E as Omnissiah is by far in a way the predominant consensus of the organization as a whole; as in, probably north of 90% hold this view. These include the tech-priests who remained loyal to the [[Imperium of Man]] during the [[Horus Heresy]], as well as their modern day contemporaries, all the way up to [[Belisarius Cawl]] himself. The Adeptus Mechanicus officially holds this view, and it is used to pacify the more zealous members of the [[Ecclesiarchy]] and [[Inquisition]] who doubt the Mechanicus' loyalty, though there are individuals [[Heresy|who believe they are separate.]] This logically leads to conflict between the two bodies and it is something that will never truly be satisfied by either side. The novel ''Titanicus'' described documents from the Heresy era that purported to prove that the Emps and the Omnissiah are not the same. However, these documents were tampered with to an unknown degree by Tolemy, master of the archives, to facilitate his bid for power. It is unknown how much of the documents were factual. The novel ''Titandeath'' may provide some support for this theory as well; the short version is that near the end of the novel, with the death of the protagonist, her soul is passing on into the warp, only to be beset by its hostile denizens who begin to circle her. Right before the predators can strike her though, they are dispatched by a blinding golden presence bearing the emblem of the Machine God, which dispels the darkness and destroys those that reside within it, and because she had remained loyal even unto death, the protagonist's soul is welcomed into its domain (and by extension, it's protection). Draw your own conclusions. It is obviously not definitive proof in and of itself, but it does at the very least provide some interesting food for thought. But to be fair, let's be honest: it's usually a safe bet that, for all intents and purposes, gold + warp = Big-E. The blinding aura, protection of loyal humans, and anti-warpfuckery just kinda adds further credence to the theory.

For those wondering, this theory was NOT pulled out of someone's ass to shut the Inquisition up (even though it obviously does smooth things over on that front). For one thing, the There is a common school of thought in the Mechanicus that organics are technically machines (human brains are used in place of computers, after all), just really inefficient ones. There are many "cyborgs" in the Mechanicus that don't have a scrap of metal in their bodies, just transplanted organs. The Emperor, being the perfect human, is the logical conclusion of this claptrap. It helps that the Mechanicus does indeed view humans as superior to all other life and divine every bit as much as the Ecclesiarchy. So, a human who is not a cyborg but is still a perfect machine would be, to them, the greatest epitome of man and machine as concepts coming together as one.

Furthermore, as mentioned above, the likes of [[Belisarius Cawl]] himself are among the most adamant of true believers in the Emperor as the Omnissiah. Though one's mileage [[skub|may vary on the opinion]] of the man himself, especially amongst those of us here on [[/tg/]], you can't really make the claim in good faith that Cawl's assessment on this matter doesn't carry a lot of weight. Arkhan Land and Zagreus Kane are two other easy examples to make of venerable individuals at the highest levels of authority within the AdMec who wholeheartedly consider Big-E to be the Omnissiah.

===Theory Two: Void Dragon===
Other tech-priests equate the Omnissiah with the [[Void Dragon]], one of the [[C'tan|Star Gods]] of the [[Necrons]]. These tech-priests also tend to venerate the Necrons as the Omnissiah's angels. They then tend to do stupid things like poking around in Necron tombs, trying to probe them for secrets as part of their "Quest For Knowledge." They tend not to live very long, as Necrons don't care what any life-forms think of them; they are equal-opportunity destroyers.
In the recent Horus Heresy fluff, it was shown the Emperor sealed a silver dragon under Mars in the distant past so humanity could have control over machines (wut? (The void dragon controls machines. So sealing him means we can use machines without fearing some eldritch skynet taking control of the toasters and microwaves and using them to control us or murder us in our sleep.)). Somehow he was able to make it so humans could take some of the dragon's power then for their own although in hindsight putting a super powerful creature in the same solar system as the capital of the Imperium might come back to bite them in the ass...

Hey, wait a minute. The C'tan are vulnerable to the Warp, right? The Mechanicus worships the Machine God, right? So, if the Mechanicus became aware of the Void Dragon and believed it to be the Machine God, would the effect in the Warp from that belief kill the Void Dragon via Warp? Or even subvert it into becoming basically enslaved to humanity due to the Machine Cult's belief that the Machine God is very much on humanity's side. Perhaps this is why the Emperor is implied to have created the Machine Cult. Sealing the Void Dragon on Mars may have been just the first step in a long road.

===Theory three: Both theories one and two===
Some versions of the myth tend to separate them in two, with the Void Dragon being the Machine God, and the Emperor being the Omnissiah who "tamed" him. It's unclear, really. A surviving [[Men_of_Iron#The_Present|Man of Iron]] also posited that they are two beings but the Emperor is not the Omnissiah.

===Theory four: Chaos Undivided===
The [[Dark Mechanicus]], those tech-priests who sided with the [[Chaos Space Marines]] during the Horus Heresy or turned later, believe that the Omnissiah is a combined aspect of [[Chaos Undivided]], worshiping Chaos as a form of progress and knowledge. Said tech-priests tend to take the mechanical augmentations a ''little'' further than one would like in a tech-priest. They also use bio-mechanics, which is ''very'' explicitly forbidden.

===Theory five: Individual warp entity===
It could be over time that like any other strong collective desire and belief the tech-priests have created their own God in the warp, which would be a Machine God of logic, machines and arcane processes. While he may have started off as one of the other theories, such belief just doesn't do anything and proof of previous miracles caused by strong belief in the god and his servants the machine spirits have been seen.

===Theory six: Other===
Presumably, any sufficiently-advanced machine will be taken for the Machine God by at least some tech-priests, like a functional Man of Iron, or other Dark Age technology. They could for example worship a rediscovered ipod as a significant avatar of his machineness.

In fact, the trilogy of ''Priests of Mars'' hints that there may be a kind of entity which goes far beyond the material and warp realm, with the most advanced pieces of technology created by mankind such as the Ark Mechanicus (yes, like that one that one-shot an Eldar capital ship) being sort of avatars of this transcendental being. The fact this entity was neither Chaos nor C'tan aligned and yet could interfere both with the Warp and the Star Gods' powers in their own respective fields. Furthermore, it confirms the existence of the below-mentioned Akashic Records, and points out indirectly how Horus was allowed to access knowledge which should not have been available even for a Primarch (something which happened in the Vengeful Spirit novel). Interestingly, this entity, or entities, seems to be actively hindering the destruction of the physical universe and the complete disruption of the Immaterium, and it is pointed out that it was already old at the time mankind started inventing the basics of mechanics (the lever, for instance). McNeill never clarifies the ultimate nature of this being, yet for all intents and purposes, and given the amount of shenanigans used by the Mechanicus in the novel, it may be the Machine God. It's worth noting that what we call ''Deus Mechanicus'' is what limited human capabilities can grasp of an eternally self-evolving singularity.

Given it's power, the fact the Machine Cult is pretty much techno-pseudo-Christianity, it could be that A) The Machine Cult is actually the primary sect of a future Christianity (based on the idea that God used science to create all things and therefore science is holy and knowledge is sacred or even divine, which is actually real life Christian belief and the Church has a scientific branch for exactly that reason) and B) that the Machine God is literally God and that the Mechanicus might eventually be able to access God's power or at least turn that power to humanity's advantage. Also, the Machine God seems to be on humanity's side or at the very least sympathetic to humanity's plight.

===Theory seven: Akashic records ===
The novel ''Mechanicum'' presents the view that the Omnissiah may be the sum of all knowledge in the universe. Koriel Zeth, the tech-priest that was researching the Akashic records, did not actually take this view and thought that the Omnissiah just did not exist. Koriel Zeth sought to regain the level of technology that humanity had at its height, and though dangerously close to understanding the concept of science as we know it, that would be too sane for the Mechanicum and she decided not to rebuild that knowledge from redoing all that scientific research, but by [[What|connecting to the Akashic records in the Warp]] (the way, in her mind, that ancient humanity must have learned things). To Zeth, Dalia Cythera, a naturally innovative girl (read: a technopathic psyker) could do what she did not because of skill and heretical research (that she did do), but because she was connected to these records. Though being Warhammer 40K, Zeth was probably correct. Then this theory blurs all of the other theories together. Using the Astronomican and the Emperor's power, Zeth infuses a psyker with all the knowledge in the Warp. This psyker, now dying and omniscient, thought that the most important thing he could say with his new-found knowledge was to direct Dalia to re-imprison the Void Dragon, who she was destined to watch over and had a connection to. So, where does all knowledge come from? The Dark Mechanicus interrupted things, so the issue is never clarified. Worst of all, this being 40K, Zeth might have been right about how humanity developed its technology after all and no one realized it until she puzzled things out. After all, most truly useful and great inventions are created either by geniuses or by people who just had a one-off burst of brilliance. It is kind of...suspicious. This would also mean that killing weak psykers might actually be helping to prevent humanity from recovering its technological power, as many of them might be connected to the Akashic Records and so no more geniuses and spontaneous moments of techno-brilliance will be forthcoming among anyone of any reasonable level of authority in the Imperium as anyone with more than zip connection to the Warp (other than the human norm) but not strong enough to bother collecting on the Black Ships is [[Grimdark|killed]].

===Theory Eight: No God but the Emperor===
Unlike the rest of the deities, the Machine God has no particular representation in the form of miracles or divine figures, and doesn't appear to be any entity within the Warp. On the one hand, this would imply that tying their theology to the Emperor fulfills the need for a machine god, or that the Mechanicus are hilariously inept theologians. On the other hand, the metaphysics of 40k almost demand that there should be a Machine God for all of Z eir faith, but, as the Warp feeds on emotions rather than prayers, the AdMech's disdain for frivolous aspects like "sentiments" and "humanity" make them just about unable to make a god for themselves. First of all, the Warp ''definitely'' feeds on prayers, probably more so than emotions. For evidence, prayers to the Emperor weaken the Chaos Gods, because the Emperor has a Warp signature that is "anathema" to that of the Chaos Gods. So yes, the AdMech should definitely have manifested some kind of Warp entity for the Machine God. The lore has made it perfectly clear that worship has no effect on the Dark Gods, only emotion and various aspects of reality empowers them. People worship them because people always worship any existence perceived as above themselves. That in no way indicates that Chaos gives a damn about their worship. The argument otherwise also completely ignores the nature of the Warp and the effect faith has on it. There is no evidence that worship matters to Chaos, other than some old lore suggesting they gain sentience from it which cannot be true since they gained sentience before anyone even knew they existed, and overwhelming proof that faith affects the Warp. Perhaps by imposing order on it in the form of what is believed.

Though the emotions thing does bring up a strange debate. Magos who've had their brains sufficiently computerized are said to devote small numbers of cycles to emotion equations and engines whenever they see fit to feel an emotion. Jury's still out on whether this kind of emotion is represented in the Warp or not, because if it ''doesn't'' then it MIGHT explain why the Machine God is taking so long to form. Or maybe it is already formed, or nascent, for the same reason the Sisters of Battles can use Acts of Faith, the Canticles of the Omnissiah may just as well be "miracles" from the Warp.

Or simply believing something strongly enough in a clap your hands if you believe universe is enough to have an effect on the materium. Like Ork WAAAGH!!! but less intense due to a lack of innate psychic ability, but a noticeable force due to sheer amount of believers in the same doctrine in a far more stable way than Orks. Especially given humans have a very close spiritual connection to the Warp.

(bruh, the machine god has done "miracles" in books before)(prayer is an expression of belief fucking neckbeards, technically "prayer" just means asking and isn't restricted to religion, but in this case yes)

===Theory Nine: Taking Things at Face Value===
The Omnissiah is a combination of the two words Omni and Messiah. Literally the All Messiah. Humanity, realizing how utterly screwed they are (like having the Void Dragon on Mars, yikes) in the greater scheme of things (at least for those that have 1/10th of a clue, so basically not too many, everyone else is basically brain washed into following the plot through the Imperial Creed) has clandestinely (through the Emprah's machinations, the Ecclesiarchy, the Adeptus Mechanicus, the High Lords of Terra, basically) set about the task of attempting to create their own Warp God (or I guess another, if you consider the Emperor to be a Warp God in his own right). It is meant to be the All Savior of Man Kind, thus the Omni Messiah, which has some pretty grim portents for everyone else in the galaxy considering how Xenophobic the Imperium is. Not that any players care since nearly all of the other species very much deserve to be wiped out. Besides, the Imperium has carefully cultivated a hatred of xenos with specific vile traits (like treachery and bloodlust). So, any Omnissiah god thing would likely pass over peaceful species due to not fitting what the Imperium views xenos as being. The Eldar, being aware of this fact and masters of just pooting out any old god they like (within reason) are aware of humanity's efforts and using the powers of the Farseers to meddle in Human affairs (ie. just destroying entire Imperial Worlds for apparently zero reasons given) to affect a favorable outcome of the possible eventual Awakening of the Omnissiah or perhaps prevent it all together (though likely the former due to Eldrad's prophecy regarding Humanity and Eldar sharing fates and possibly to use the mega nuke to fuck over Slaanesh as a side effect, plus the Eldar are quite willing to die out to get revenge on Slaanesh given their beliefs of how they will end, so they'd probably be fine with getting killed by a human Warp god if the thing will also destroy Chaos, that and they're unable to kill enough humans to matter anyway especially without making themselves easy prey to everything else). Where other races line up in their awareness of just what the Imperium is up to is unknown, but one could surmise Chaos also has a clue since their gods would be aware, and then likely also the Orks assuming Gork and Mork are real and Orks really do understand ALL technology.

This doesn't sound so crazy when you remember the prophecy that eventually the Machine Cult and Imperial Cult would join and become one and the same. If true, their gradual merging could be the final stage of the plan by uniting humanity's perception of the Emperor and the Omnissiah into one being. It already is for the Mechanicus (unless you want to be ripped part for heresy), but the extreme majority of humans don't even particularly think of the Omnissiah in the first place. So, getting them to conflate Emperor with Omnissiah would be critical to guide the psychic energy of their faith.

Long story short, the entire thing with the Emperor taking the guise of the Omnissiah and after his death being worshiped as a God, as well as the Mechanum's worship of the Machine God, is all just a plot to bring some sort of Apocalyptic Warp Deity about that somehow saves all of mankind from well, everything, while possibly wiping out THE ENTIRE REST OF THE GALAXY that isn't a faithful servant of the Imperium, like Slaanesh-ing everyone else and walking away scot-free. Essentially they're attempting to cook up a giant Warp Nuke that all at once BTFOs everything that isn't them (and possibly minor pacifist Xenos and the Eldar who would certainly be aware of such a major psychic plot and appropriately be able to latch on to their benefit) while simultaneously saving them from the utter technological stalemate they've developed that's leading to Humanity's slow decline via complete lack of innovation with one giant {{Blam}}. However, the fact they're attempting to bring about a God that achieves so much means that it could take a very long time, and the Powers that be in the Imperium may have no idea how close or far away they are.

Furthermore, it may be working, although ever so slowly, as the Warp has started to essentially resonate back on their myriad prayers. In fact the Omnissiah may already exist in some form, it just happens to be in it's infancy, much like the notion Slaanesh is still but just a child that may not have even fully awakened yet.

It may be possible not even most members of the Mechanicum are aware of the exact implications of this, as they worship the Emperor as the Omnissiah and he basically saved them from nothing, as far as technology is concerned, as well as the fact they were worshiping the Omnissiah before the Emperor ever appeared to them. If the truth of the reality ever came to light it likely means the Tech-Priests of the galaxy would undergo a MASSIVE schism, so large it could likely tear the Imperium apart in a way not seen since the Horus Heresy. On the other hand, the Horus Heresy novels included an implication that the Emperor had purposely engineered the creation of both the Mechanicum and the Machine Cult more than ten thousand years before the Great Crusade, even before the Iron Rebellion (Iron War, which also sounds way more awesome and...''metal'') and the Age of Strife... [[Just as Planned]].

==Trivia==
* The Omnissiah's favourite colour is red. Hence all techpriests on Mars wear red robes. It's a rule.
**Some forgeworlds, however, have white or black as a dominant colors of their robes, though red strips are there too.
**<span style='color:green;font-size:115%'>DATZ WOY ITZ FASTAH!!! {{BLAM}} {{BLAM}} {{BLAM}} {{BLAM|No Orks allowed.}}
* The Omnissiah's holy waffle iron makes the best waffles. It is the holy bread of his church.
* Don't let Tzeentch mess with his computer again; he hates that.
* The Omnissiah is the God of Wikis and their contributors, for their ordering, editing and adding to knowledge pleases him.
* The first avatar of the Omnissiah was an ancient Terran known to the Techpriests as Bill of the Gates, named they believe for opening the gates of knowledge. {{BLAM}} {{BLAM|HERESY! While one of the avatars of the Omnissiah, Bill of the Gates was certainly not the first.}} We all know that the true avatar was Linus of the Torvalds.
** The REAL first avatar of the Omnissiah was known by the denomer of Charles Babbage, theories abound as to why he was called that.
*** False. Babbage was the last of the prophets, who brought forth the physical form of the mind in the machine, the original host in gleaming brass. The first avatar is she Ada, who netted in the spirit of the machine in a lace of love. For is not the gathering and interpretation of information in indexed form and inorferly means and ways, "programming"?
* The first [[Heretek]] was a man named Richard Matthew Stallman, who glorified heretical research ("hacking"), which is one of the basic activities of the [[Dark Mechanicus]].
* The oldest tech relic on Mars, hidden deep inside the catacombs of Olympus Mons, is a strange disc titled 'Friends season three, disc two, episodes six to ten'. Obviously this precious creation is a gift of divine importance, and is thus guarded fiercely by a crack legion of Skitarii, with only the Fabricator-General of Mars allowed regular access!
* It is believed the first sect of the Mechanicus was known as DARPA, to them the Machine God gave the inspiration to build INTERNET, the first material reflect of the Akashic Records and basis to all databanks to come, hence ensuring mankind will never lose the Gift of Wisdom (which it then did).
* Little known fact, but the Omnissiah in ancient Humanity's past once held sway over much of Slaanesh's domains. In those olden days, the Omnissiah was used as a shepherd for various debaucherous materials, his dataslates and cogitators of those early eras were used by young humans from across Terra to masturbate to cartoon women procreating with tentacled chaos spawASAHKAGHDKAGHAKOHFUCKITHURTSAAAAAAAAAAAHHGHDEAK! {{BLAM}} {{BLAM|NO CYKA ALLOWED.}}

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Omnissiah

2022-11-27T11:47:25Z

2603:8001:6901:2586:4135:77C6:E673:B9DE: /* Theory One: God-Emperor of Mankind */

{{topquote|Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.|Arthur M. Schlesinger}}

In [[Warhammer 40,000]], things are so [[grimdark]] that people have forgotten all of the science that was once known; the only remaining knowledge is encoded in religious ceremonies followed by the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]]. The deity central to mechanicus dogma is '''the Machine God''', who is also known as the '''Omnissiah'''. In practice though, the Omnissiah is more like Machine Jesus to the Machine God, and most believe the Omnissiah is in fact the [[Emperor]]. Others believe, and there is a fair case to be made, that the Omnissiah is the [[Void Dragon|Void Drag-]]{{BLAM}}

==Attributes==
The machine god is a god of logic, and reason; and any form of chaos and disorder is abhorrent to him (although the Dark Mechanicum that still believe in him would argue otherwise). He works through and manifests in machines, which are seen by his worshipers as the ultimate expression of his order. His sacred language is binary, which pretty much every single fucking [[techpriest]] is fluent in (and which the Inquisition has spent thousands of years trying to crack but hasn't even come close yet; you'd think they'd just ask a Techmarine for a proverbial Rosetta Stone, but that's 40K for you).

==Worship of the machine==
To venerate the machine god is to worship your coffee grinder, your showers, your collection of electronic dildos, your own computer you use to access this website, etc. It all involves long, complicated, and frankly needless praying and rituals to activate anything. Even turning on a light, you have to make a prayer first, probably do something with sanctified oil, speak a prayer of thanks that the electricity decided to satisfy your request, and thank the Omnissiah for bringing it all together.

Science is now an arcane art which is treated with danger and care. Literally, technosorcery. A techpriest really is a priest, learning more about hymns than how to properly weld something together. Essentially, this is one of the most blatant cases of literal irony. Because of that and the desire to dunk every piece of technology in oil, the sacred knowledge they guard so jealously has, over time, degraded along with their skills and ability to comprehend common sense.

Speaking of hoarding secrets, they have a habit of keeping information for the sake of it and not sharing unless forced to. It is because they believe the Omnissiah only wishes his chosen to know his knowledge. [[Pretend|It is generosity like this that will save the human race from all the terrors that assault it.]]

The Adeptus Mechanicus has sixteen universal laws of the machine god, divided into eight mysteries and eight warnings as given below with helpful observations.

The Mysteries of the Cult Mechanicus:
* Life is directed motion.
* The spirit is the spark of life. (Ah, very ''Transformers'' there.)
* Sentience is the ability to learn the value of knowledge. (Pity they don't take this lesson to heart...)
* Intellect is the understanding of knowledge.
* Sentience is the basest form of Intellect. (Does that apply to Orks too?)
* Understanding is the True Path to Comprehension.
* Comprehension is the key to all things.
* The Omnissiah knows all, comprehends all. (Unlike his servants.)

The Warnings of the Cult Mechanicus
* The alien mechanism is a perversion of the True Path (<s>Which doesn't stop them when they want a look at all those Tau and Necron goodies.</s> the "how" of those technologies is heretical, the science behind them is holy.)
* The soul is the conscience of sentience.
* A soul can be bestowed only by the Omnissiah.
* The Soulless sentience (i.e. AIs) is the enemy of all (But since machine-spirits and servitors are derived from a mixture of organic and technological components, they're given a pass.)
* The knowledge of the ancients stands beyond question. (This is true. Pity that knowledge is in the hands of idiots)
* The Machine Spirit guards the knowledge of the Ancients.
* Flesh is fallible, but ritual honors the Machine Spirit
* To break with ritual is to break with faith. (Which doesn't stop them doing so when they are being shot at by chaos freaks)

==History of the Machine==
The rise of the machine cult is all but lost to history, although it is known that when the Emperor of Mankind began his [[Great Crusade]], Mars was the first stop, and by then they had all been gay for the Omnissiah for so long that only a few of them got a hard on from seeing the emprah. And only then, because they believed he was the Omnissiah. Mars was a great power, with unrivaled technology and secrets, and the Emperor knew that if he was going to launch his Great Crusade, he would need Mars's support. However, this put him in a bind (because of his Imperial Truth, which said [[Cake|no gods or spirits or anything supernatural truly existed]]). This of course ruled out the Omnissiah as well, but the Emperor, like any good politician, decided to quietly brush it under the carpet and declared the techpriests were a one-off exception, since the alternative was having a potentially hostile force with a lot of valuable tech right on Terra's doorstep. Likewise, to humor their population, the techpriests for the most part declared the Emperor was an aspect of their God, which you can imagine he didn't like very much but was like "eh, fuck em" and let them get on with it.

==Current times==
Today the cult of the Omnissiah is one of the state religions of the Imperium, no matter how much the Ecclesiarchy fumes about it. The techpriests get the Ecclesiarchy to buzz off by saying that the Emperor and the Machine God are the same deity, so two religions, one faith, or something. But when it comes to blows (as it has on a few occasions) the ecclesiarchs have cathedrals while the AdMech have [[Titan_(Warhammer_40,000)|cathedral sized killbots]], so generally the Ecclesiarchy has to get over it.

The forge worlds are the centres of worship for the Machine God, although each regular Imperial citizen at least knows a little about him and at least generally respects him for the secrets of technology he has bestowed upon mankind.

==Theories of true identity==
While this may seem straight forward, the actual identity of Omnissiah has become the greatest game of 'Guess Who?' in 40k, as several theories of his true form have now come forward, which are covered below.

===Theory One: God-Emperor of Mankind===
The majority of tech-priests and other Adeptus Mechanicus personnel within all echelons and stratas of rank believe that the [[God-Emperor of Mankind]] is the Omnissiah, or at least a form of him. While there are always outliers and different schools of thought, especially in such a populous faction as the AdMec, it's worth remembering that the belief in Big-E as Omnissiah is by far in a way the predominant consensus of the organization as a whole; as in, probably north of 90% hold this view. These include the tech-priests who remained loyal to the [[Imperium of Man]] during the [[Horus Heresy]], as well as their modern day contemporaries, all the way up to [[Belisarius Cawl]] himself. The Adeptus Mechanicus officially holds this view, and it is used to pacify the more zealous members of the [[Ecclesiarchy]] and [[Inquisition]] who doubt the Mechanicus' loyalty, though there are individuals [[Heresy|who believe they are separate.]] This logically leads to conflict between the two bodies and it is something that will never truly be satisfied by either side. The novel ''Titanicus'' described documents from the Heresy era that purported to prove that the Emps and the Omnissiah are not the same. However, these documents were tampered with to an unknown degree by Tolemy, master of the archives, to facilitate his bid for power. It is unknown how much of the documents were factual. The novel ''Titandeath'' may provide some support for this theory as well; the short version is that near the end of the novel, with the death of the protagonist, her soul is passing on into the warp, only to be beset by its predators who begin to circle her. Right before the predators can strike her though, they are dispatched by a golden presence bearing the emblem of the Machine God, which dispels the darkness and those that reside within it, and because she had remained loyal even unto death, the protagonist's soul is welcomed into its domain (and by extension, it's protection). Draw your own conclusions. It is obviously not definitive proof, in and of itself, but it does at the very least provide some interesting food for thought. But to be fair, let's be honest: it's usually a safe bet that, for all intents and purposes, gold + warp + humanity = Big-E.

For those wondering, this theory was NOT pulled out of someone's ass to shut the Inquisition up (even though it obviously does smooth things over on that front). For one thing, the There is a common school of thought in the Mechanicus that organics are technically machines (human brains are used in place of computers, after all), just really inefficient ones. There are many "cyborgs" in the Mechanicus that don't have a scrap of metal in their bodies, just transplanted organs. The Emperor, being the perfect human, is the logical conclusion of this claptrap. It helps that the Mechanicus does indeed view humans as superior to all other life and divine every bit as much as the Ecclesiarchy. So, a human who is not a cyborg but is still a perfect machine would be, to them, the greatest epitome of man and machine as concepts coming together as one.

Furthermore, as mentioned above, the likes of [[Belisarius Cawl]] himself are among the most adamant of true believers in the Emperor as the Omnissiah. Though one's mileage [[skub|may vary on the opinion]] of the man himself, especially amongst those of us here on [[/tg/]], you can't really make the claim in good faith that Cawl's assessment on this matter doesn't carry a lot of weight. Arkhan Land and Zagreus Kane are two other easy examples to make of venerable individuals at the highest levels of authority within the AdMec who wholeheartedly consider Big-E to be the Omnissiah.

===Theory Two: Void Dragon===
Other tech-priests equate the Omnissiah with the [[Void Dragon]], one of the [[C'tan|Star Gods]] of the [[Necrons]]. These tech-priests also tend to venerate the Necrons as the Omnissiah's angels. They then tend to do stupid things like poking around in Necron tombs, trying to probe them for secrets as part of their "Quest For Knowledge." They tend not to live very long, as Necrons don't care what any life-forms think of them; they are equal-opportunity destroyers.
In the recent Horus Heresy fluff, it was shown the Emperor sealed a silver dragon under Mars in the distant past so humanity could have control over machines (wut? (The void dragon controls machines. So sealing him means we can use machines without fearing some eldritch skynet taking control of the toasters and microwaves and using them to control us or murder us in our sleep.)). Somehow he was able to make it so humans could take some of the dragon's power then for their own although in hindsight putting a super powerful creature in the same solar system as the capital of the Imperium might come back to bite them in the ass...

Hey, wait a minute. The C'tan are vulnerable to the Warp, right? The Mechanicus worships the Machine God, right? So, if the Mechanicus became aware of the Void Dragon and believed it to be the Machine God, would the effect in the Warp from that belief kill the Void Dragon via Warp? Or even subvert it into becoming basically enslaved to humanity due to the Machine Cult's belief that the Machine God is very much on humanity's side. Perhaps this is why the Emperor is implied to have created the Machine Cult. Sealing the Void Dragon on Mars may have been just the first step in a long road.

===Theory three: Both theories one and two===
Some versions of the myth tend to separate them in two, with the Void Dragon being the Machine God, and the Emperor being the Omnissiah who "tamed" him. It's unclear, really. A surviving [[Men_of_Iron#The_Present|Man of Iron]] also posited that they are two beings but the Emperor is not the Omnissiah.

===Theory four: Chaos Undivided===
The [[Dark Mechanicus]], those tech-priests who sided with the [[Chaos Space Marines]] during the Horus Heresy or turned later, believe that the Omnissiah is a combined aspect of [[Chaos Undivided]], worshiping Chaos as a form of progress and knowledge. Said tech-priests tend to take the mechanical augmentations a ''little'' further than one would like in a tech-priest. They also use bio-mechanics, which is ''very'' explicitly forbidden.

===Theory five: Individual warp entity===
It could be over time that like any other strong collective desire and belief the tech-priests have created their own God in the warp, which would be a Machine God of logic, machines and arcane processes. While he may have started off as one of the other theories, such belief just doesn't do anything and proof of previous miracles caused by strong belief in the god and his servants the machine spirits have been seen.

===Theory six: Other===
Presumably, any sufficiently-advanced machine will be taken for the Machine God by at least some tech-priests, like a functional Man of Iron, or other Dark Age technology. They could for example worship a rediscovered ipod as a significant avatar of his machineness.

In fact, the trilogy of ''Priests of Mars'' hints that there may be a kind of entity which goes far beyond the material and warp realm, with the most advanced pieces of technology created by mankind such as the Ark Mechanicus (yes, like that one that one-shot an Eldar capital ship) being sort of avatars of this transcendental being. The fact this entity was neither Chaos nor C'tan aligned and yet could interfere both with the Warp and the Star Gods' powers in their own respective fields. Furthermore, it confirms the existence of the below-mentioned Akashic Records, and points out indirectly how Horus was allowed to access knowledge which should not have been available even for a Primarch (something which happened in the Vengeful Spirit novel). Interestingly, this entity, or entities, seems to be actively hindering the destruction of the physical universe and the complete disruption of the Immaterium, and it is pointed out that it was already old at the time mankind started inventing the basics of mechanics (the lever, for instance). McNeill never clarifies the ultimate nature of this being, yet for all intents and purposes, and given the amount of shenanigans used by the Mechanicus in the novel, it may be the Machine God. It's worth noting that what we call ''Deus Mechanicus'' is what limited human capabilities can grasp of an eternally self-evolving singularity.

Given it's power, the fact the Machine Cult is pretty much techno-pseudo-Christianity, it could be that A) The Machine Cult is actually the primary sect of a future Christianity (based on the idea that God used science to create all things and therefore science is holy and knowledge is sacred or even divine, which is actually real life Christian belief and the Church has a scientific branch for exactly that reason) and B) that the Machine God is literally God and that the Mechanicus might eventually be able to access God's power or at least turn that power to humanity's advantage. Also, the Machine God seems to be on humanity's side or at the very least sympathetic to humanity's plight.

===Theory seven: Akashic records ===
The novel ''Mechanicum'' presents the view that the Omnissiah may be the sum of all knowledge in the universe. Koriel Zeth, the tech-priest that was researching the Akashic records, did not actually take this view and thought that the Omnissiah just did not exist. Koriel Zeth sought to regain the level of technology that humanity had at its height, and though dangerously close to understanding the concept of science as we know it, that would be too sane for the Mechanicum and she decided not to rebuild that knowledge from redoing all that scientific research, but by [[What|connecting to the Akashic records in the Warp]] (the way, in her mind, that ancient humanity must have learned things). To Zeth, Dalia Cythera, a naturally innovative girl (read: a technopathic psyker) could do what she did not because of skill and heretical research (that she did do), but because she was connected to these records. Though being Warhammer 40K, Zeth was probably correct. Then this theory blurs all of the other theories together. Using the Astronomican and the Emperor's power, Zeth infuses a psyker with all the knowledge in the Warp. This psyker, now dying and omniscient, thought that the most important thing he could say with his new-found knowledge was to direct Dalia to re-imprison the Void Dragon, who she was destined to watch over and had a connection to. So, where does all knowledge come from? The Dark Mechanicus interrupted things, so the issue is never clarified. Worst of all, this being 40K, Zeth might have been right about how humanity developed its technology after all and no one realized it until she puzzled things out. After all, most truly useful and great inventions are created either by geniuses or by people who just had a one-off burst of brilliance. It is kind of...suspicious. This would also mean that killing weak psykers might actually be helping to prevent humanity from recovering its technological power, as many of them might be connected to the Akashic Records and so no more geniuses and spontaneous moments of techno-brilliance will be forthcoming among anyone of any reasonable level of authority in the Imperium as anyone with more than zip connection to the Warp (other than the human norm) but not strong enough to bother collecting on the Black Ships is [[Grimdark|killed]].

===Theory Eight: No God but the Emperor===
Unlike the rest of the deities, the Machine God has no particular representation in the form of miracles or divine figures, and doesn't appear to be any entity within the Warp. On the one hand, this would imply that tying their theology to the Emperor fulfills the need for a machine god, or that the Mechanicus are hilariously inept theologians. On the other hand, the metaphysics of 40k almost demand that there should be a Machine God for all of Z eir faith, but, as the Warp feeds on emotions rather than prayers, the AdMech's disdain for frivolous aspects like "sentiments" and "humanity" make them just about unable to make a god for themselves. First of all, the Warp ''definitely'' feeds on prayers, probably more so than emotions. For evidence, prayers to the Emperor weaken the Chaos Gods, because the Emperor has a Warp signature that is "anathema" to that of the Chaos Gods. So yes, the AdMech should definitely have manifested some kind of Warp entity for the Machine God. The lore has made it perfectly clear that worship has no effect on the Dark Gods, only emotion and various aspects of reality empowers them. People worship them because people always worship any existence perceived as above themselves. That in no way indicates that Chaos gives a damn about their worship. The argument otherwise also completely ignores the nature of the Warp and the effect faith has on it. There is no evidence that worship matters to Chaos, other than some old lore suggesting they gain sentience from it which cannot be true since they gained sentience before anyone even knew they existed, and overwhelming proof that faith affects the Warp. Perhaps by imposing order on it in the form of what is believed.

Though the emotions thing does bring up a strange debate. Magos who've had their brains sufficiently computerized are said to devote small numbers of cycles to emotion equations and engines whenever they see fit to feel an emotion. Jury's still out on whether this kind of emotion is represented in the Warp or not, because if it ''doesn't'' then it MIGHT explain why the Machine God is taking so long to form. Or maybe it is already formed, or nascent, for the same reason the Sisters of Battles can use Acts of Faith, the Canticles of the Omnissiah may just as well be "miracles" from the Warp.

Or simply believing something strongly enough in a clap your hands if you believe universe is enough to have an effect on the materium. Like Ork WAAAGH!!! but less intense due to a lack of innate psychic ability, but a noticeable force due to sheer amount of believers in the same doctrine in a far more stable way than Orks. Especially given humans have a very close spiritual connection to the Warp.

(bruh, the machine god has done "miracles" in books before)(prayer is an expression of belief fucking neckbeards, technically "prayer" just means asking and isn't restricted to religion, but in this case yes)

===Theory Nine: Taking Things at Face Value===
The Omnissiah is a combination of the two words Omni and Messiah. Literally the All Messiah. Humanity, realizing how utterly screwed they are (like having the Void Dragon on Mars, yikes) in the greater scheme of things (at least for those that have 1/10th of a clue, so basically not too many, everyone else is basically brain washed into following the plot through the Imperial Creed) has clandestinely (through the Emprah's machinations, the Ecclesiarchy, the Adeptus Mechanicus, the High Lords of Terra, basically) set about the task of attempting to create their own Warp God (or I guess another, if you consider the Emperor to be a Warp God in his own right). It is meant to be the All Savior of Man Kind, thus the Omni Messiah, which has some pretty grim portents for everyone else in the galaxy considering how Xenophobic the Imperium is. Not that any players care since nearly all of the other species very much deserve to be wiped out. Besides, the Imperium has carefully cultivated a hatred of xenos with specific vile traits (like treachery and bloodlust). So, any Omnissiah god thing would likely pass over peaceful species due to not fitting what the Imperium views xenos as being. The Eldar, being aware of this fact and masters of just pooting out any old god they like (within reason) are aware of humanity's efforts and using the powers of the Farseers to meddle in Human affairs (ie. just destroying entire Imperial Worlds for apparently zero reasons given) to affect a favorable outcome of the possible eventual Awakening of the Omnissiah or perhaps prevent it all together (though likely the former due to Eldrad's prophecy regarding Humanity and Eldar sharing fates and possibly to use the mega nuke to fuck over Slaanesh as a side effect, plus the Eldar are quite willing to die out to get revenge on Slaanesh given their beliefs of how they will end, so they'd probably be fine with getting killed by a human Warp god if the thing will also destroy Chaos, that and they're unable to kill enough humans to matter anyway especially without making themselves easy prey to everything else). Where other races line up in their awareness of just what the Imperium is up to is unknown, but one could surmise Chaos also has a clue since their gods would be aware, and then likely also the Orks assuming Gork and Mork are real and Orks really do understand ALL technology.

This doesn't sound so crazy when you remember the prophecy that eventually the Machine Cult and Imperial Cult would join and become one and the same. If true, their gradual merging could be the final stage of the plan by uniting humanity's perception of the Emperor and the Omnissiah into one being. It already is for the Mechanicus (unless you want to be ripped part for heresy), but the extreme majority of humans don't even particularly think of the Omnissiah in the first place. So, getting them to conflate Emperor with Omnissiah would be critical to guide the psychic energy of their faith.

Long story short, the entire thing with the Emperor taking the guise of the Omnissiah and after his death being worshiped as a God, as well as the Mechanum's worship of the Machine God, is all just a plot to bring some sort of Apocalyptic Warp Deity about that somehow saves all of mankind from well, everything, while possibly wiping out THE ENTIRE REST OF THE GALAXY that isn't a faithful servant of the Imperium, like Slaanesh-ing everyone else and walking away scot-free. Essentially they're attempting to cook up a giant Warp Nuke that all at once BTFOs everything that isn't them (and possibly minor pacifist Xenos and the Eldar who would certainly be aware of such a major psychic plot and appropriately be able to latch on to their benefit) while simultaneously saving them from the utter technological stalemate they've developed that's leading to Humanity's slow decline via complete lack of innovation with one giant {{Blam}}. However, the fact they're attempting to bring about a God that achieves so much means that it could take a very long time, and the Powers that be in the Imperium may have no idea how close or far away they are.

Furthermore, it may be working, although ever so slowly, as the Warp has started to essentially resonate back on their myriad prayers. In fact the Omnissiah may already exist in some form, it just happens to be in it's infancy, much like the notion Slaanesh is still but just a child that may not have even fully awakened yet.

It may be possible not even most members of the Mechanicum are aware of the exact implications of this, as they worship the Emperor as the Omnissiah and he basically saved them from nothing, as far as technology is concerned, as well as the fact they were worshiping the Omnissiah before the Emperor ever appeared to them. If the truth of the reality ever came to light it likely means the Tech-Priests of the galaxy would undergo a MASSIVE schism, so large it could likely tear the Imperium apart in a way not seen since the Horus Heresy. On the other hand, the Horus Heresy novels included an implication that the Emperor had purposely engineered the creation of both the Mechanicum and the Machine Cult more than ten thousand years before the Great Crusade, even before the Iron Rebellion (Iron War, which also sounds way more awesome and...''metal'') and the Age of Strife... [[Just as Planned]].

==Trivia==
* The Omnissiah's favourite colour is red. Hence all techpriests on Mars wear red robes. It's a rule.
**Some forgeworlds, however, have white or black as a dominant colors of their robes, though red strips are there too.
**<span style='color:green;font-size:115%'>DATZ WOY ITZ FASTAH!!! {{BLAM}} {{BLAM}} {{BLAM}} {{BLAM|No Orks allowed.}}
* The Omnissiah's holy waffle iron makes the best waffles. It is the holy bread of his church.
* Don't let Tzeentch mess with his computer again; he hates that.
* The Omnissiah is the God of Wikis and their contributors, for their ordering, editing and adding to knowledge pleases him.
* The first avatar of the Omnissiah was an ancient Terran known to the Techpriests as Bill of the Gates, named they believe for opening the gates of knowledge. {{BLAM}} {{BLAM|HERESY! While one of the avatars of the Omnissiah, Bill of the Gates was certainly not the first.}} We all know that the true avatar was Linus of the Torvalds.
** The REAL first avatar of the Omnissiah was known by the denomer of Charles Babbage, theories abound as to why he was called that.
*** False. Babbage was the last of the prophets, who brought forth the physical form of the mind in the machine, the original host in gleaming brass. The first avatar is she Ada, who netted in the spirit of the machine in a lace of love. For is not the gathering and interpretation of information in indexed form and inorferly means and ways, "programming"?
* The first [[Heretek]] was a man named Richard Matthew Stallman, who glorified heretical research ("hacking"), which is one of the basic activities of the [[Dark Mechanicus]].
* The oldest tech relic on Mars, hidden deep inside the catacombs of Olympus Mons, is a strange disc titled 'Friends season three, disc two, episodes six to ten'. Obviously this precious creation is a gift of divine importance, and is thus guarded fiercely by a crack legion of Skitarii, with only the Fabricator-General of Mars allowed regular access!
* It is believed the first sect of the Mechanicus was known as DARPA, to them the Machine God gave the inspiration to build INTERNET, the first material reflect of the Akashic Records and basis to all databanks to come, hence ensuring mankind will never lose the Gift of Wisdom (which it then did).
* Little known fact, but the Omnissiah in ancient Humanity's past once held sway over much of Slaanesh's domains. In those olden days, the Omnissiah was used as a shepherd for various debaucherous materials, his dataslates and cogitators of those early eras were used by young humans from across Terra to masturbate to cartoon women procreating with tentacled chaos spawASAHKAGHDKAGHAKOHFUCKITHURTSAAAAAAAAAAAHHGHDEAK! {{BLAM}} {{BLAM|NO CYKA ALLOWED.}}

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Celestial Lions

2022-11-13T12:53:30Z

2603:8001:6901:2586:4135:77C6:E673:B9DE: /* Ultimate Fate */

{{Infobox Spess Mahreen Chapter
|Name = Celestial Lions
|Heraldry = [[File:Celestial_Lions_Livery.png|150px]]
|Battle Cry = "We are the Emperor's pride. [[A Song of Ice and Fire|Hear us roar!]]"
|Number =
|Founding = Sometime in the 38th Millennium
|Successors of = [[Imperial Fists]]
|Successor Chapters =
|Chapter Master = Unknown (Previously Ekene Dubaku [[Officio Assassinorum|who got shanked]] by [[Inquisition|pure salt]])
|Primarch = Rogal Dorn
|Homeworld = Elysium IX (destroyed, no thanks to the [[Rage|FUCKING INQUISITION]]
|Specialty = Messing with the [[Inquisition]], flanking tactics, being an actual Space African chapter unlike the [[Salamanders (Chapter)#Peculiarities|Salamanders]]
|Strength = After Armageddon, [[Grimdark|less than 95]]. Now [[Noblebright|rebuilding]], numbers unknown.
|Allegiance = [[Imperium]]
|Colours = [[Stormcast Eternals|Gold, with blue helmet and pauldrons]].
}}
{{topquote|Whoever corrects a mocker invites insults, whoever rebukes the wicked incurs [[Blam|abuse]].|The Bible, Proverbs 9:7 (New International Version)}}

The '''Celestial Lions''' (calling them "Celestial ''Loins''" would be a joke in poor taste, given their tremendous losses of late) are a chapter of [[Space Marines]] in the [[Warhammer 40,000]] universe. They are an object lesson of what happens to people who try and mess with the [[Inquisition]] without serious backup (like being a [[First Founding]] chapter and/or [[Space Wolves|staying at legion strength]]). It is unknown if the Inquisition is going to survive the return object lesson of what happens to those who fuck with the Space Marines. Especially Space Marines who are now best-buds with the Black Templars. With Guilliman's return, who has an express zero tolerance for stupid waste, especially with that [[Great Rift|big new jelly stain covering the galactic map]], that return object lesson is now pretty much assured.

== Chapter Culture==
The Celestial Lions are a very brotherly, compassionate chapter, whose fraternal nature comes from the fact that they only recruit from the warrior tribes of the world Elysium IX. As they all come from a culture that values community, legacy, and courage, all the Lions hold those values as paramount. More than most other chapters, their world's culture holds sway in their conduct. The Lions are very informal to those within their own ranks, with even basic battle brothers talking to their superiors as brothers and equals, though they are disciplined on the battlefield and they show great respect to the officers of other forces, particularly the other [[Black Templars|sons]] [[Imperial fists|of]] [[Crimson Fists|Dorn]]. Another quirk of their chapter culture is the [[Space Wolves|value they place on storytelling and the great respect they give to talented storytellers]]. Within their chapter it is common for a squad to gather and tell stories of their heroes and their own exploits before an engagement. If an outsider is present in one of their ships or bases the visitor is expected to pay for their "food and fire" by telling a story from their own people's legends or that individuals exploits and as such they love serving alongside Guardsmen for the [[Ollanius Pius|stories]] [[Ciaphas Cain|they]] [[Commissar Yarrick|tell]]. Though they are very different from their [[imperial fists|typical]] [[Black Templars|grim]] cousin chapters, they are proud sons of [[Rogal Dorn|Dorn]] through and through. Most of this can be inferred from the short story in the Helsreach book.

==Clash with the Inquisition==
The Celestial Lions came into conflict with the [[Inquisition]] during the pacification of the world Khattar. Khattar was a [[Ecclesiarchy|Shrine World]] with a large, faithful population. When the upper echelons of the priesthood fell into worship of the [[Chaos|Ruinous Powers]], an Inquisitor Lord by the name of Apollyon (which is the Greek equivalent of "Destroyer", i.e. [[Abaddon]]) called for an Imperial Navy blockade of the world in addition to Astartes support, a call that the Celestial Lions answered. After months of brutal fighting, the Celestial Lions managed to cut the head off the local heretic priests, and with that, the world's population lost the will to fight and surrendered to the Astartes. As the Lions were withdrawing, Inquisitor Apollyon decided that [[wat|since the priesthood had been corrupt, the surrendering and repentant civilian population must also be corrupt]], so he ordered Exterminatus on the planet. The Lions [[RAGE|were not fucking amused]]. After Apollyon refused to be held accountable for the senseless massacre, saying it was necessary, the Lions sent a Strike Cruiser with a delegation of Deathspeakers and Warleaders (Chaplains and Captains, respectively) to [[Terra|Holy Terra]] with the intention of entreating the High Lords of Terra to call the Inquisition to task over what they'd done. The ship was discovered two years later in Ork-controlled space, with nobody left alive in it, nowhere even close to its intended destination. This is a little deeper than it looks, too, as Exterminatus is reserved for planets that are too far lost to be ever recovered by the Imperium. Seeing as that was clearly not the case here, their story is perhaps meant to demonstrate how dangerous a rogue Inquisitor is.

If anything, their stubbornness proves they are true sons of Rogal Dorn.

==Third War for Armageddon==
[[File:Celestial Lions Astartes.png|thumb|right|200px|They're as badass as they look]]
Fast-forward to the Third War for [[Armageddon]]. The entire chapter was deployed to a single hive, and thanks to spectacularly bad intelligence they ended up outnumbered, unsupported, and taking heavy losses at every battle, culminating in a mission in which the supposedly inactive Gargants they were sent to destroy proved to have been lying in wait for them along with several [[Ork]] warbands backing them up- all of which had apparently been warned of the Lions' planned attack some time beforehand. Matters came to a head when "[[Vindicare Assassin|Ork snipers]]" managed to take out most of the survivors (especially the Apothecaries), and their last [[Apothecary]] was found dead next to the Chapter's last [[Land Raider]] (having been shot through the head with a [[lasgun]] at point blank range and the gene-seed he was carrying stolen), leaving them without any means to recover the [[gene-seed]] from their fallen. The remaining 95 Lions realized that they had been marked for death and decided that they would fight off all the Orks on Armageddon or die trying, and contacted [[Grimaldus|Chaplain Grimaldus]] of the [[Black Templars]] to administer their last rites, but he insisted that the remainder of the Chapter could still restore its honour (and thus be allowed to leave) by slaying the warlord leading the Ork forces in the area. To support his weakened cousins Grimaldus used his influence as the 'Hero of Helsreach' to get support from several regiments of [[Imperial Guard]]. While much of the remaining forces of the Celestial Lions were wiped out in the attack, they were successful in redeeming themselves when Ekene Dubaku killed the Orkish Warlord with Grimaldus's help. The Inquisition abandoned their campaign against the remaining Lions as <s>the lesson had been thoroughly learnt and</s> the Black Templars were now aware of their traitorous activity. Ekene, the Lions only surviving Pride Leader (i.e. Squad Sergeant) was then named the new Chapter Master and given a couple of parting gifts by High Marshal Helbrecht himself: a suit of relic Imperial Fists power armor dating back to the [[Great Crusade]] along with a matching Relic Blade and the Strike Cruiser ''Blade of the Seventh Son''.

==Ultimate Fate==
The Lions are now working to rebuild with the help of a temporary detachment of Black Templar specialists, including some apothecaries and techmarines. Though it'll be hard considering there's less than ninety-five of them left and their homeworld is nuked, another Imperial Fists successor chapter recovered from near-extinction in less than a century after being reduced to 12 Marines in total. Plus, while the Inquisition may get away with bullying later-founded chapters, it would be tantamount to suicide for anyone to mess with the [[Black Templars|largest space marine <strike>legion</strike> chapter]] excluding the <strike>[[Dark Angels]]</strike>.

You would think with the Indomitus Crusade going on, It's more than likely Guilliman sent some Primaris Marines to rebuild the Lions, right? RIGHT?!. NOPE, TURNS OUT, this is not the case, the inquisitions saltyness was so severe that [[derp|they ended up never actually getting the information to CREATE PRIMARIS MARINES]] and had to get the information from their brother chapter the [[Emperor's Spears]].

The salt continues by the Inquisition when in the novel Spear of the Emperor states that Ekene Dubaku was beheaded by a [[Callidus]] posing as Thrall servant of Amadeus Kaias Incarius from the [[Mentors]]. Nobody expects the Inquisition indeed. Of course, this means the Inquisition, Officio Assassinorum, and the Mentors have dishonored and therefore majorly pissed off yet another Chapter ''and'' the Black Templars. And if the Mentors were ignorant, then those other institutions have now pissed off three Chapters and all of their friends. <s>Although, it's also possible that the purge of the Celestial Lions is justified. This ''is'' Warhammer 40,000.
</s> {{BLAM|'''*BLAM!* Justifying the murder of an innocent chapter during the Imperium's biggest Ork invasion is retarded, dickish, and heretical.'''}}

</s> {{BLAM|'''>SILENCED BLAM!< Casting doubts on the righteousness of the Inquisition is EXTRA-heretical and extremely stupid. Stupidity is an insult to the Holy Human Form.'''}}

In addition, the fact that it's 40K more than likely means the purge WASN'T justified. Barring a full takeover by the enemy, the Inquisition's acts of genocide are meant to show them as murder-happy assholes.

Out of universe this further proves that ADB is a hack for killing off cool characters to shill his OCs (debatable inasmuch Ekene Dubaku is also his OC). In universe on the other hand: "Ork snipers" could have been accepted for a time, grots are on the level of the human with the same ballistic skill after all. But now the Assassinorum has openly revealed itself in what most definitely qualifies as treason. Receiving Inquisitorial permission or orders to kill a Chapter for enforcing the Emperor's law is... complicated to say the least. On the face of it this is ''not'' an acceptable excuse for carrying out those blatantly treasonous orders, and the excuse of 'just following orders' has not flown since 945.M2. <s>On the other hand, this is the Imperium of Man and the Inquisition basically IS the law.</s> Treason is ''not'' something the Inquisiton is allowed to do. Except that working to murder a loyalist Chapter on orders of the Inquisition is not something a loyal Imperial citizen would do, it just means that whoever gave the order '''is obviously a traitor''' and that whoever follows the blatantly treasonous order instead of tattling on the Inquisitor to his conclave is also a traitor. <s>To put another way: if [[Kryptman]] could have a whole moat of planets blown up to slow down a hive fleet, then basically this would not even be a drop in the grim dark bucket.</s> (nice strawman attempt, killing planets to stop Tyranids, and evacuating them by the way, is totally different from killing vital assets for no reason, or is Horus innocent because of his authority?) Except that Kryptman didn't say "Blow up thousands of worlds" he sent orders to have each world evacuated and destroyed. The people fulfilling his orders probably didn't know that any other worlds were being wrecked which is probably also why the High Lords at first didn't realize he had done this. Not to mention that killing off a loyalist Chapter for what is apparently no reason is without precedent. There have been reasons of suspicious Warp occurrences, worshiping an inhuman appearance of the Emperor, cannibalism, etc., but never flat-out no reason until now. All the Inquisition could have said is 'we have evidence he's a heretic, take care of them' <s>and the Assassinorum would not even have the authority to question that order,</s> except they would because deploying an assassin requires a vote by the High Lords and an assassin who just assumes an Inquisitor is telling the truth about an Astartes Chapter instead of considering if the Inquisitor is a traitor would be too stupid to have passed the trials to become an assassin. Besides, blowing up planets to stop a hive fleet is one thing, exterminating a Chapter of Space Marines for apparently no reason is something else entirely and wouldn't be tolerated. Of course, with the player's knowledge we know there are so many sects in the Inquisition that it is likely one or more are conspiring to make this happen. It won't save the Inquisition from the rest of the Astartes getting pissed about it. The moment the Inquisition starts offing Chapters for getting in the way of pointless massacres and generally Space Marines doing their jobs is the moment the Astartes see the Inquisition as an obstacle to their duty. No obstacle to the Space Marines has ever survived their...removal. Especially not an organization completely reliant on its intelligence to survive and fight compared to the Astartes's superhuman intelligence. And, y'know, the Raven Guard. Bet the Alpha Legion would love helping get rid of the Inquisition, too...or they're the ones behind all of this.

Regardless, when this gets back to Guilliman, some heretics are gonna ''die'' and the Inquisition itself could take a major hit. Claiming to speak for the Emperor is going to sound a wee bit like a flat platitude when its spoken to one of his sons.

==Trivia==
* "[[Ork Snipers]]" has since become slang for [[Vindicare]] assassins, or more generally for any implausible cover story for an [[Inquisition]] action.
**Although given the fact the new kill team box set features [[Ork Kommando#Snipa_Boy|Ork Snipers]] they might have to change the meme to something else.
* You know who else have golden armour, blue details and star patterns? [[Stormcast Eternals|Hammers of Sigmar]]. Funny, huh?
*Blue glitter paint, or clear glitter over blue, is much easier than painting individual stars.
* Also, "Ekene Dubaku" (Emperor rest his soul) is a badass as fuck name.
*They love catnip
*[[Space Wolves|They do not use]] [[Thunderwolf Cavalry|actual lions]]. Celestial or otherwise.

==Daily Routines==
05:00 - The Don't Wake-Up on time: The Celestial Lions awaken... later than they'd like, thanks to the Inquisition dicking around with their alarm clocks forcing some to oversleep or not get any sleep, not go off, or just spontaneously combust, or at random times hear a loud "BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP!" After waking they immediately recite a Litany of Hatred upon the Inquisition. During the night the Inquisition will have planted hundreds of Astartes-sized mouse traps around the beds of many groggy brothers, who walk into them.

05:15 - Morning Grooming - The Celestial Lions will attempt to ritually cleanse themselves only to find the Inquisition has replaced their Astartes-sized talcum powder with itching powder and put Bouillon cubes in their shower heads, such Inquisitorial chicanery will not go un-avenged.

05:30 - Morning Prayer: The Celestial Lions pray to tell amazing stories, as well as troll the Inquisition. Any brother caught praying for mercy from the Inquisition is sent to the Deathwatch.

06:00 - Morning Firing Rites: The Celestial Lions tell stories to each other, and laugh heartily amongst themselves. Their targets are painted to look like Inquisitors, though some of the targets look '''VERY''' life-like.

07:00 - Morning Battle Practice: The Celestial Lions reenact battles they have been in to entertain the neophytes and children of the Imperium. Sometimes, a human dressed as an Inquisitor will be the victim of a plethora of slapstick jokes.

08:00 - Morning Feast: A great feast is prepared by the Chapter Serfs. The Serfs are invited to join the Battle Brothers at the table as they tell stories and tales of heroic deeds. Any serf who has the best story about being a troll is immediately inducted into the scout company. Any Battle Brother doing the same gets to hold the Chapter Standard for the rest of the day.

09:00 - Tactical Indoctrination: The Celestial Lions gather to make fun of the Inquisition. All the Ordos, as well as the Deathwatch and Grey Knights are talked copious amounts of shit. However, any Battle Brother who sullies the name of the Sororitas is immediately appointed as the chapter's Inquisitorial Liaison for his heresy.

10:00 - Daily Check-up: The Celestial Lions report to the Apothecarion for their checkups, known as Lifebinders. unfortunately thanks to a bad case of "shot in the face" by "Ork snipers" and that one time a titan legion "accidentally" stepped on the entire Medicae team on Armageddon they only have one apothecary, this results in much waiting in line for the Space Marine Apothecaries and reading of Astartes sized magazines while they wait.

11:00 - Midday Battle Practice: The Celestial Lions will disperse to whatever field the captains deem necessary, to cull captured Orks or traitors at this point in the day the Inquisition will usually try to pick off few more Celestial Lions, with schemes ranging from Vindicare snipers to Eversors strapped to oversized fireworks and Mechanicus issued rocket skates.

12:00 - Afternoon Feast: The Chapter gathers to laugh and tell more stories of great deeds. Serfs are encouraged to participate, encouraging them to criticize and throw the best insult at the inquisition whenever possible.

13:00 - Mail and Postage: For the next hour the Chapter Master see to matters such as answering letters from a grateful Imperium, requests for aid and sending away box tops to Mars for a new Repulsor tank etc., at this point the Inqusition will try to send some dynamite disguised as cigars to the chapters High Command, only for their scheme to literally blow up in their faces as they put their fortresses as the return address.

14:00 - Afternoon Firing Rites: Inquisitorial agents, soldiers, and assassins sent after them are placed in a field for target practice. Many times, the Chapter Serfs are allowed to take a few shots as well.

15:00 - Chaplain Motivational Speech: For the next hour the Chaplains known as Deathspeakers will extol the virtues of courage and honor while the Inquisition looks to eliminate these paragons of virtue, by dropping an inquisitorially sanctioned anvil on their heads from a Mechanicus issued weather balloon.

16:00 - Afternoon Battle Practice: The Celestial Lions meet with their Black Templar pals to practice melee and mechanized combat.

17:00 - Mechanized Field Maneuvers: The Celestial Lions will conduct armored field maneuvers involving rhinos, predators, and land raiders which unfortunately thanks to Inquisitorial meddling suffer many malfunctions such as brake-lines being cut, transports exploding, and the occasional potato shoved in the tailpipe.

18:00 - Evening Feast: The Celestial Lions, Black Templars, and Chapter Serfs all enjoy a nice meal. Everyone shares stories and tell of their feats, from killing Tau commanders and Ork Warbosses, to trolling [[Chris-chan|Zis-chan]].

19:00 - End of Day Announcements and Promotions: At the end of day the chapter High Command will bring up any declarations for the chapter or announce any promotions in the chapter, usually caused by a vacancy (of the Exitus Rifle kind), and will usually be filled by the one guy who the Inquisition failed to kill that day.

20:00 - Free time: The Celestial Lions tell each other more stories as their Templar friends depart. Whenever they find the Inquisitorial spy hiding in the air ducts, they drag him out and force him to watch video clips of Tau beating humans in melee. The sheer rage and disgust that appears on his face entertains the entire chapter. New Battle Brothers that were recruited after the nuking of Elysium IX will try various antics to try to fit in with their darker skinned brethren, such as using polymorphine [[Blood Ravens|"loaned"]] from captured [[Callidus Assassin|Callidus Assassins]] to alter their skin tone. Well intentioned brothers will be given a crash course in the lost tribal cultures of Elysium IX, pranksters who bandied about breaded and deep-fried poultry will be force-fed Bean and Okra Stew so that they may appreciate real cuisine.

21:00 - Chaplain Edict: the celestial lions will listen to their chaplain speak about courage and honor, only to find the Inquisition has replaced their sacred incense with window lean, swapped out parts of the sermon for chicken soup recipes and [[Dance Steps For GWs Space Hulk Game| dance routines]] topped off with dosing the Chaplain with a near lethal amount of helium. The end result is a squeeky skeleton man shouting about the Emperor and how he and Rogal Dorn busted a move on the Agri-world of Minced Garlic.

22:00 - Early Bedtime: Sleepy, the tired Celestial Lions will pounce into bed, only to find the Inquisition has replaced all their beds with all kinds of goofy shit, again. The resulting amounts of extreme lethargy and suicidal thoughts cause the spawning and immediate keeling over of a Great Unclean One in the realm of Nurgle.

24:00 - Real Bedtime: The Celestial Lions, after removing every last Squig from their rooms turn in for the night. Before they do so, the Chapter Master tells them all a bedtime story.

==Gallery==
<Gallery>
File:Black Library Armageddon by ukitakumuki.jpg|Black Templars [[Grimaldus]] and Pride Leader Ekene Dubaku kickin' Ork asses. Note how Grimaldus is far too much of a badass to look where he’s shooting.
File:Black Library Blood and Fire by ukitakumuki.jpg|Ekene Dubaku rocking the Bolt Carbine... Totally awesome. In other news, Grimaldus still isn’t looking where he’s shooting.
File:Ork Snipers.jpg|So True.
File:Celestial Lions.jpeg|We present to you, the Celestial Lions!
File:Celestial lions apothecary by rhoadesd20-d5941zd.jpg|A Celestial Lion Apothecary falling victim to an "Ork Sniper"
File:Celestial Lion from Space Marine Adventures.jpg|GW hasn't forgotten about Celestial Lions! A Lion in the Space Marine Adventures expansion set.
</Gallery>

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Gork

2022-11-09T08:30:50Z

2603:8001:6901:2586:4135:77C6:E673:B9DE: /* Gork Himself */

[[File:Mork.png|500px|right|thumb|Gork looking like he just ate a bowl full of ghost chili peppers.]]
<span style='color:olive;font-size:100%'>'''''GORK IS BEZT AT KRUMMPIN'ND BASHIN WAAAAAAAAGH!!!<br>- The Words of Gork summing up Ork Kulture '''''</span><br>

==Introduction==
'''Gork''' or '''A Literal Mushroom''' is one of the two [[Ork]] gods, the god of brutal cunning. He is the more brutal but cunning out of the twins, while [[Mork]] is the more cunning but brutal. The core "difference" between them is that Mork will hit you when you aren't looking, while Gork will hit you harder when you ''are''.

Prior to 7th edition, Orks had no idea which god was Gork and which god was Mork (and debates were just another excuse to fight each other). This was eventually dropped because it was super awkward to write. Most likely, [[Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka|the Prophet of Gork and Mork]] laid down his [[Weirdboy|head]]-canon, and the other Orks figured he was big enough to close the matter.

==Gork Himself==
Gork, as noted, is the Ork god for sheer might and power. There's a pretty strong argument that the ork gods hold more power than even the [[Chaos Gods]], ESPECIALLY when talking about cunningness or power, but there is no way of knowing for sure. As the Warp's nature is ever-changing and spontaneous, the might of a certain god is never set in place. Although, there is a fact that each race's feelings are represented by an entity in the Warp and as the ork population and crusades grow in number, so does the might of Gork and Mork. In the long run, in a sense, he could arguably be one of the most powerful entities in the warp along with his twin Mork and the Chaos Gods. Unlike his twin, Gork favors (and in turn is often favored by) the likes of Warbosses and Nobz as well as countless other Orks due to his manifestation of the Ork's prime brutality and CQC fighting. Due to this, Gork may be more physically powerful than Mork but is less intellectually competent and cunning as a result, creating a balance of power between the twins.

==History==
[[File:83fc1d4e8629e3b34a78b2f69e5783b5.jpg|right|300px|thumb|What Gork and Mork do in their free time, harassing the [[Emperor|Emprah.]]]]
From what can be determined, given what little (if any) history is available on the Orks, both Gork and Mork came into existence upon the Orks' creation when they inadvertently started channeling their essence (and wanton violence) into their gestalt field, similar to that of the Eldar; however the Orks' gods often like to get a bit more 'personal' with their subjects i.e. will offer cosmic aid to whoever is chanting their names long enough and if they decide they are worthy enough of their aid; if they are considered worthy, then woe to any forces opposing the tsunami of green people.]] Although they are both idolized upon, [[derp|the Orks often have no idea who they are directly praying to resulting in much]] [[lulz]] if a Weirdboy praying for Gork's space foot to crush the enemy [[FAIL|summons Mork instead]], who makes his head explode for mistaking their identities (not that they care THAT much).

The only distinction that can be made between the two is that Gork is the more favored of the two gods for the more common greenskins, as he is the manifestation of power and might for the Orks, while Mork is more favored towards Orks that possess a sheer level of intellect and cunning such as BigMeks, Gretchins, Flashgitz and other Oddboyz. Whatever is the case, both are rumored to be more powerful than Khorne, due to the sheer psychic might of the Orks, and may actually have the power to snap Khorne like some sissy daemonette.

Mirroring the Orks as a faction themselves, Gork and Mork united could probably overpower any other god. Also much like the Ork race, they fight each between themselves as much as external threats, much to the galaxy's relief. Fundamentally, this is the reason for the Orks to venerate twin gods. Though mild distinctions can be drawn, in practice Gork and Mork are identical. The reason there must be two is that Orks prize the glory of combat above all things. Why have two gods where one would suffice? So they can ''fight''.

Although no one has the faintest idea on what these twin gods may truly look like, they can at least be interpreted through the various designs of the BigMek's [[Stompa]]s and [[Gargant]]s, which are noted to be effigies of the two gods.

==On the Tabletop==
A classic magic spell for the Orcs in WFB is the Foot of Gork, where the Orcs use their magic to manifest Gork's massive foot whereupon he uses his mighty size to stomp whatever unlucky git is in the way flat into the mud. It is rendered in all its awesome glory in Total War: Warhammer. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_stKsrVaccs Though one has to wonder about Gork's podiatric health from its use sometimes...]

The Foot of Gork also has an on-again-off-again relationship with 40k. Sometimes it's a normal Weirdboy spell sometimes it's rendered [[Apocalypse]] only, sometimes the writers think their army bright red Mad Max rovers with flamethrower guitars filled with fungus football hooligans is too serious for the magic spell about stomping on people. Luckily that last phase doesn't last long. In 8th edition the Foot of Gork has been renamed to Da Krunch, but the fluff paragraph confirms that it's still our beloved god of cunning brutality taking his time out of his day to stomp da runty gitz.

==In Warhammer==
In [[WHFB]], Mork and Gork are the deities of the greenskin faction, Gork is mainly worshipped by the more brutal orcs while Mork is worshipped by goblins.

In [[Age of Sigmar]], Mork and Gork have fused into a single god, [[Gorkamorka (Deity)|Gorkamorka]].

{{Orks-Gods}}
{{AoS-Gods}}
{{Destruction-Gods}}

Digganobz

2022-11-09T07:20:22Z

2603:8001:6901:2586:4135:77C6:E673:B9DE:

[[File:Digganob.jpg|right|300px]]

{{Topquote|[[TTS|DIGGA NOBZ!!!]]|[[Grey Knights|Grand Master Covan]]}}

{{Topquote|Uh- No, I'm fairly certain those are [[Wulfen|Wulfe-]][[Blam|*CLANG*]] |[[Grey Knight]]}}

{{Topquote|FAHCK YOU!! DIGGANOBZ. |[[Grey Knights|Grand Master Covan]]}}

'''Digganobz''' were originally a group of [[Human]]s in the [[Specialist_Game|specialist game]] [[Gorkamorka]], who had forgotten their [[Imperial]] lineage and were now influenced by the [[Orks]], to the point where they cosplayed as Orks. The term has now come to refer to any non-Orks who for whatever reason have [[Furry|Species Dysphoria]], and either want to be Orks or believe themselves to be Orks.

Reflecting that Orks in 40k were historically [[Ghazghkull_Mag_Uruk_Thraka|boldfaced references to British politics]], the word digger is British slang for Australian soldiers, [[Team_Yankee#ANZAC|who have their own reputation for cunning brutality.]]

== History ==

When the Orks crashed on Angelis there was a Human ship, implied to be an [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] [[Adeptus_Mechanicus_Maintenance_Ship|exploration and research vessel]], in orbit at the time, having already landed a mission on the planet. The cataclysm of the [[Space Hulk]]'s impact separated the Humans into two factions, based on where they were at the time. Diggas're descended from those Humans who were exploring the pyramids and the caverns below; taking shelter under the planet's surface, they survived the holocaust above, but descended into primitivism.

Diggas have forgotten all about their ancestral connections to the Imperium and have come to revere Orks as the most awesome and impressive creatures they've ever seen. Therefore they try to emulate the Ork lifestyle as much as possible. Orks tolerate this with almost paternalistic disdain; it is, ultimately, much simpler than trying to wipe the Diggas out, especially since they've got the protection of [[Necron|"dem fings under da pyramids"]]. The home of the Diggas is referred to as "Morgarg-Durlurk-Gulskar-Dregsnikslag", which translates as "Fortress of ancient, terrifying power. Land of waiting death, pain and destruction". This shows just how much dread the Orks have of the place. Besides, the Diggas happily trade technological gear dug out from under the pyramids and scrap they have gathered for good Orky stuff, and it's funny to watch them try and be Orks, so it's not so bad.

=== Elsewhere ===

Throughout the galaxy, Orks have conquered and enslaved entire Imperial [[Hive World]]s, and put their considerable populations to work manufacturing arms and armour for the hordes. Subjected to [[Grimdark|arguably]] even worse conditions than before, it's common for some to break, and begin seeing their Ork masters as an [[Weeaboo|inherently superior race]], potentially producing entire regiments of Diggas. Whilst many Orks don't have the time of day for them, Blood Axes appreciate the ability of Diggas to act as double-agents, infiltrating Imperial institutions to gain access to shipping timetables and sabotage vital infrastructure like their own version of [[Genestealer Cult]]s.

== Gorkamorka Mechanics ==
As noted on the main [[Gorkamorka]] page, Digganobz can be summed up as "Hard Mode Orks". They're the simplest of the three Oddmobs introduced in the Digganobz splatbook to use, but the extra rules that they ''do'' have means they are harder to play than the regular Ork mob.

For starters, Digganobz have the following maximum stat profile, and unlike orks, they're also subject to the Pinning rules:
::Movement: 4
::Weapon Skill: 6
::Ballistic Skill: 6
::Strength: 4
::Toughness: 4
::Wounds: 3
::Initiative: 6
::Attacks: 3
::Leadership: 9

When advancing, Digganobz use this Advance Table:
::On a 2 or a 12, the Digga can randomly generate a skill from ''any'' of the Skill tables.
::On a 3, 4, 10 or 11, the Digga can randomly generate a skill from their specific Skill tables.
::On a 5 through a 9, the Digga gets an "'Arder" result and gains a random stat boost, depending on both the initial advance roll and then a D2 roll (roll a d6; treat a 1-3 as a "One", and a 4-6 as a "Two"). A roll of a 5 gets you Strength or Attack, a 6 or an 8 gets you Weapon Skill or Ballistic Skill, a 7 gets you Initiative or Leadership, and a 9 gets you Wound or Toughness.

Diggamobs have the following special rules:
* '''Don't Got Da Know-Wots:''' Diggaz are even more technologically backwards than orks. They can't fit Gubbins on their vehicles, and you need to roll a d6 for each vehicle in a Diggamob after a battle; on a 1, that vehicle breaks down partially, and you have to roll on the Vehicle Permanent Damage chart, rerolling results of "Destroyed", "Badly Mangled", "Captured" or "Improved".
* '''Somewot Edjikated:''' A Digga with the Tinkerer skill cannot knock up free Gubbins in between battle, but ''can'' fit Gubbins to their vehicles themselves, so the mob doesn't need to go through the hassle of Dealing Wiv Da Meks.
* '''Prove Yer Worth:''' A Diggamob cannot Go To Mektown between battles until it's either won a single battle or survived two battles; the orks regard them with too much contempt to let them through until they're proved they can be proper 'ard. Additionally, a Diggamob suffers a -1 penalty to Da Big Day (Mekshop) and Dealing Wiv Da Meks rolls (see below) until their Mob Rating reaches 200; by that point, they're known to be proper orky, and so the orks actually kind of respect them (sort of).
* '''Dealing Wiv Da Meks:''' As stated above, Diggaz can't fit Gubbins to their vehicles unless they have a digga with the Tinkerer skill, so if you want to add Gubbins to your vehicle, you gotta Go To Mektown to do it. And then you gotta roll a d6 to see how the Mek takes the request.
::1: ''Swindled!'' You pay the price and lose the full amount of teef, but the Mek doesn't fit the gubbin to your vehicle.
::2-3: ''Digga Tax!'' The mek charges you an extra D3 teef for being a digga and taking up his time; if you can't pay, he keeps the vehicle until you can.
::4-6: ''Lucky!'' You get the gubbin fitted at the normal price.
* '''Squishy Oomans:''' If you're brave (or dumb) enough to vist the Dok's Serjery, then you need to make a Toughness test for the warrior who went there. If you roll less than the warrior's Toughness, they survived intact. If you roll equal or higher, then something went horribly wrong.
::1: ''Didn't Survive:'' Your Digga is dead. What did you expect letting a [[Painboy]] tinker with his innards?
::2-3: ''Botch-Job:'' Your Digga has been left notably maimed (roll on the Permanent Injury Table, re-rolling Full Recovery, Dead, Captured and Bitter Enmity results) and the bionik bit failed to integrate, so you don't get your bioniks.
::4-6: ''Ling'rin' Komplikashuns:'' You get your bioniks, but your Digga was also maimed in the process; roll on the Permanent Injury Table, re-rolling Full Recovery, Dead, Captured and Bitter Enmity results.
* '''Tunnel Rats:''' A Diggamob generates Income by scouring the tunnels for ancient scrap, producing d3 Teef for each Warrior or Yoof sent to scavenge. However, if you roll 3 or more 6s, then one of the scavengers meets a grisly fate in the darkness and is killed.
* '''Ancient Tek:''' If you have at least four Diggas searching for income, there's a chance that you'll unearth a random bit of ancient technology. Roll a d6; you find ancient tek on a 6+ for 4 searchers, a 5+ for 6 searchers, a 4+ for nine searchers, and a 3+ for 12 or more searchers. If you turn up a relic, roll a d6 to see what kind of relic it is; a gun on a 1-2, a hand-to-hand weapon on a 3-4, armor on a 5, and a gizmo on a 6. BUT! You don't know exactly what your relic ''does'' until you try and use it in battle. A "figuring out" roll is made the first time you use a weapon, the first time you get hit for armor, or whenever you start your turn and declare you're going to try and make it work for a gizmo. This requires a d6 roll that determines how (un)successfully your digga does at triggering the relic, which in turn leads to its own series of random dice rolls. Once you've figured it out, and presuming you don't destroy the relic in the process, it remains functional throughout the campaign.

A Diggamob ''must'' contain a Digganob for 10 teef, can have 0-1 Digga Shaman for 8 teef, can take any number of Digga-Boyz at 4 teef apiece, and any number of Digga-Yoofs at 2 teef apiece - but you can't have more than half as many Yoofs as you have Boyz, just like with an ork warband. The Digganob can take Ferocity, Driving, Cunning and Dakka skills, the Shaman can take Cunning, Dakka, Odd and Shaman skills, Digga-Boyz can take Ferocity, Cunning and Dakka skills, and Digga-Yoofs can take Ferocity and Cunning skills.

Digga Shamans have the "Oracle" rule; if not taken out of action, Digga Shamans can attempt a Leadership test during the "generate income" phase and if they succeed, they grant the diggamob +2d6 teef. Additionally, if your Digga Shaman wasn't taken out of action during the fight, they also lower the dice roll result needed to find Ancient Tek by -1 - for example, if normally you need a 6+ to find it, then the presence of a Shaman drops it down to a 5+. They wield a Shaman's Findin' Rod (two-handed melee weapon, strikes with User+1 Strength, can block hits like a shield) by default, but can take any HtH Weapon, Gun, Armor or Stikkbomb you feel like giving them. The Shaman's unique skill table grants them these skills:
::1: '''Troofsayer:''' Add +1 when rolling to see if your mob goes first, and +1 when rolling for reinforcements.
::2: '''Scrap Master:''' Add +1 Scrap Counter when randomly generating how many Scrap Counters are present in a scenario.
::3: '''Tek Master:''' When searching for income, if the Shaman passes a Leadership test, add +d3 searchers to the number sent out, but '''only''' for the purpose of seeing if you find any Ancient Tek.
::4: '''Precog:''' A vehicle with the Shaman riding it adds +1 to dice rolls to avoid being rammed. All models on foot within 6" of the Shaman get a +1 to Initiative checks made to avoid being run over by a vehicle, as does the Shaman himself.
::5: '''Duck:''' Enemies suffer a -1 penalty when shooting the Shaman, and don't get the normal +1 to melee attacks for charging if they charge the Shaman.
::6: '''Pinpoint Accuracy:''' The Shaman ignores the normal -1 penalty suffered for shooting at moving targets.

== On the Tabletop ==

Diggas never got a representation in the [[Warhammer_40,000|main game]], but many players have used them as [[Counts As]] [[Catachan]] [[Imperial Guard]] allies, though obviously as of [[Warhammer_40,000_8th_Edition|8th Edition]] this is now only viable in Narrative and Open Play, as they don't share a Faction Keyword that'd let them join each other in Matched.

Another method would be to use human models as stand in for grots, they even have similar ballistic skill so it's not that farfetched as far as proxies go.

== Famous Diggas ==

*'''[[Blue]]''' - A [[T'au]] woman who was mistaken for a [[Gretchin]] as a child, and adopted by the [[Scraplootas]] Warband.
*'''[[Deffwotch#Da_Krew|Clarence]]''' - A Human krewmember aboard Da Looted Krooza in the [[Deffwotch]] [[Rogue Trader (RPG)]] campaign.

== See Also ==

*'''[[Herman von Strab]]''' - Another Human that ended up working for the Orks.
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y29aGTbg62A "The Grey Knights discover the Wulfen"] - In case you were looking for a more thorough explanation about the exchange at the top of this page, here is the humorous video of the similarities between the [[Wulfen]] and Digganobz from [[TTS]] from which it comes from.

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Omnissiah

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2603:8001:6901:2586:4135:77C6:E673:B9DE: /* Theories of true identity */

{{topquote|Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.|Arthur M. Schlesinger}}

In [[Warhammer 40,000]], things are so [[grimdark]] that people have forgotten all of the science that was once known; the only remaining knowledge is encoded in religious ceremonies followed by the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]]. The deity central to mechanicus dogma is '''the Machine God''', who is also known as the '''Omnissiah'''. In practice though, the Omnissiah is more like Machine Jesus to the Machine God, and most believe the Omnissiah is in fact the [[Emperor]]. Others believe, and there is a fair case to be made, that the Omnissiah is the [[Void Dragon|Void Drag-]]{{BLAM}}

==Attributes==
The machine god is a god of logic, and reason; and any form of chaos and disorder is abhorrent to him (although the Dark Mechanicum that still believe in him would argue otherwise). He works through and manifests in machines, which are seen by his worshipers as the ultimate expression of his order. His sacred language is binary, which pretty much every single fucking [[techpriest]] is fluent in (and which the Inquisition has spent thousands of years trying to crack but hasn't even come close yet; you'd think they'd just ask a Techmarine for a proverbial Rosetta Stone, but that's 40K for you).

==Worship of the machine==
To venerate the machine god is to worship your coffee grinder, your showers, your collection of electronic dildos, your own computer you use to access this website, etc. It all involves long, complicated, and frankly needless praying and rituals to activate anything. Even turning on a light, you have to make a prayer first, probably do something with sanctified oil, speak a prayer of thanks that the electricity decided to satisfy your request, and thank the Omnissiah for bringing it all together.

Science is now an arcane art which is treated with danger and care. Literally, technosorcery. A techpriest really is a priest, learning more about hymns than how to properly weld something together. Essentially, this is one of the most blatant cases of literal irony. Because of that and the desire to dunk every piece of technology in oil, the sacred knowledge they guard so jealously has, over time, degraded along with their skills and ability to comprehend common sense.

Speaking of hoarding secrets, they have a habit of keeping information for the sake of it and not sharing unless forced to. It is because they believe the Omnissiah only wishes his chosen to know his knowledge. [[Pretend|It is generosity like this that will save the human race from all the terrors that assault it.]]

The Adeptus Mechanicus has sixteen universal laws of the machine god, divided into eight mysteries and eight warnings as given below with helpful observations.

The Mysteries of the Cult Mechanicus:
* Life is directed motion.
* The spirit is the spark of life. (Ah, very ''Transformers'' there.)
* Sentience is the ability to learn the value of knowledge. (Pity they don't take this lesson to heart...)
* Intellect is the understanding of knowledge.
* Sentience is the basest form of Intellect. (Does that apply to Orks too?)
* Understanding is the True Path to Comprehension.
* Comprehension is the key to all things.
* The Omnissiah knows all, comprehends all. (Unlike his servants.)

The Warnings of the Cult Mechanicus
* The alien mechanism is a perversion of the True Path (<s>Which doesn't stop them when they want a look at all those Tau and Necron goodies.</s> the "how" of those technologies is heretical, the science behind them is holy.)
* The soul is the conscience of sentience.
* A soul can be bestowed only by the Omnissiah.
* The Soulless sentience (i.e. AIs) is the enemy of all (But since machine-spirits and servitors are derived from a mixture of organic and technological components, they're given a pass.)
* The knowledge of the ancients stands beyond question. (This is true. Pity that knowledge is in the hands of idiots)
* The Machine Spirit guards the knowledge of the Ancients.
* Flesh is fallible, but ritual honors the Machine Spirit
* To break with ritual is to break with faith. (Which doesn't stop them doing so when they are being shot at by chaos freaks)

==History of the Machine==
The rise of the machine cult is all but lost to history, although it is known that when the Emperor of Mankind began his [[Great Crusade]], Mars was the first stop, and by then they had all been gay for the Omnissiah for so long that only a few of them got a hard on from seeing the emprah. And only then, because they believed he was the Omnissiah. Mars was a great power, with unrivaled technology and secrets, and the Emperor knew that if he was going to launch his Great Crusade, he would need Mars's support. However, this put him in a bind (because of his Imperial Truth, which said [[Cake|no gods or spirits or anything supernatural truly existed]]). This of course ruled out the Omnissiah as well, but the Emperor, like any good politician, decided to quietly brush it under the carpet and declared the techpriests were a one-off exception, since the alternative was having a potentially hostile force with a lot of valuable tech right on Terra's doorstep. Likewise, to humor their population, the techpriests for the most part declared the Emperor was an aspect of their God, which you can imagine he didn't like very much but was like "eh, fuck em" and let them get on with it.

==Current times==
Today the cult of the Omnissiah is one of the state religions of the Imperium, no matter how much the Ecclesiarchy fumes about it. The techpriests get the Ecclesiarchy to buzz off by saying that the Emperor and the Machine God are the same deity, so two religions, one faith, or something. But when it comes to blows (as it has on a few occasions) the ecclesiarchs have cathedrals while the AdMech have [[Titan_(Warhammer_40,000)|cathedral sized killbots]], so generally the Ecclesiarchy has to get over it.

The forge worlds are the centres of worship for the Machine God, although each regular Imperial citizen at least knows a little about him and at least generally respects him for the secrets of technology he has bestowed upon mankind.

==Theories of true identity==
While this may seem straight forward, the actual identity of Omnissiah has become the greatest game of 'Guess Who?' in 40k, as several theories of his true form have now come forward, which are covered below.

===Theory One: God-Emperor of Mankind===
The majority of tech-priests and other Adeptus Mechanicus personnel within all echelons and stratas of rank believe that the [[God-Emperor of Mankind]] is the Omnissiah, or at least a form of him. While there are always outliers and different schools of thought, especially in such a populous faction as the AdMec, it's worth remembering that the belief in Big-E as Omnissiah is by far in a way the predominant consensus of the organization as a whole; as in, probably north of 90% hold this view. These include the tech-priests who remained loyal to the [[Imperium of Man]] during the [[Horus Heresy]], as well as their modern day contemporaries, all the way up to [[Belisarius Cawl]] himself. The Adeptus Mechanicus officially holds this view, and it is used to pacify the more zealous members of the [[Ecclesiarchy]] and [[Inquisition]] who doubt the Mechanicus' loyalty, though there are individuals [[Heresy|who believe they are separate.]] This logically leads to conflict between the two bodies and it is something that will never truly be satisfied by either side. The novel ''Titanicus'' described documents from the Heresy era that purported to prove that the Emps and the Omnissiah are not the same. However, these documents were tampered with to an unknown degree by Tolemy, master of the archives, to facilitate his bid for power. It is unknown how much of the documents were factual. The novel ''Titandeath'' may provide some support for this theory as well; the short version is that near the end of the novel, with the death of the protagonist, her soul is passing on into the warp, only to be beset by its predators who begin to circle her. Right before the predators can strike her though, they are dispatched by a golden presence bearing the emblem of the Machine God, which dispels the darkness and those that reside within it, and because she had remained loyal even unto death, the protagonist's soul is welcomed into its domain (and by extension, it's protection). Draw your own conclusions. It is obviously not definitive proof, in and of itself, but it does at the very least provide some interesting food for thought. But to be fair, let's be honest: it's usually a safe bet that, for all intents and purposes, gold + warp + humanity = Big-E.

For those wondering, this theory was NOT pulled out of someone's ass to shut the Inquisition up (even though it obviously does smooth things over on that front). For one thing, the There is a common school of thought in the Mechanicus that organics are technically machines (human brains are used in place of computers, after all), just really inefficient ones. There are many "cyborgs" in the Mechanicus that don't have a scrap of metal in their bodies, just transplanted organs. The Emperor, being the perfect human, is the logical conclusion of this claptrap. It helps that the Mechanicus does indeed view humans as superior to all other life and divine every bit as much as the Ecclesiarchy. So, a human who is not a cyborg but is still a perfect machine would be, to them, the greatest epitome of man and machine as concepts coming together as one.

Furthermore, as mentioned above, the likes of [[Belisarius Cawl]] himself are among the most adamant of true believers in the Emperor as the Omnissiah. Though one's mileage [[skub|may vary on the opinion]] of the man himself, especially amongst those of us here on [[/tg/]], you can't really make the claim in good faith that Cawl's assessment on this matter doesn't carry a lot of weight.

===Theory Two: Void Dragon===
Other tech-priests equate the Omnissiah with the [[Void Dragon]], one of the [[C'tan|Star Gods]] of the [[Necrons]]. These tech-priests also tend to venerate the Necrons as the Omnissiah's angels. They then tend to do stupid things like poking around in Necron tombs, trying to probe them for secrets as part of their "Quest For Knowledge." They tend not to live very long, as Necrons don't care what any life-forms think of them; they are equal-opportunity destroyers.
In the recent Horus Heresy fluff, it was shown the Emperor sealed a silver dragon under Mars in the distant past so humanity could have control over machines (wut? (The void dragon controls machines. So sealing him means we can use machines without fearing some eldritch skynet taking control of the toasters and microwaves and using them to control us or murder us in our sleep.)). Somehow he was able to make it so humans could take some of the dragon's power then for their own although in hindsight putting a super powerful creature in the same solar system as the capital of the Imperium might come back to bite them in the ass...

Hey, wait a minute. The C'tan are vulnerable to the Warp, right? The Mechanicus worships the Machine God, right? So, if the Mechanicus became aware of the Void Dragon and believed it to be the Machine God, would the effect in the Warp from that belief kill the Void Dragon via Warp? Or even subvert it into becoming basically enslaved to humanity due to the Machine Cult's belief that the Machine God is very much on humanity's side. Perhaps this is why the Emperor is implied to have created the Machine Cult. Sealing the Void Dragon on Mars may have been just the first step in a long road.

===Theory three: Both theories one and two===
Some versions of the myth tend to separate them in two, with the Void Dragon being the Machine God, and the Emperor being the Omnissiah who "tamed" him. It's unclear, really. A surviving [[Men_of_Iron#The_Present|Man of Iron]] also posited that they are two beings but the Emperor is not the Omnissiah.

===Theory four: Chaos Undivided===
The [[Dark Mechanicus]], those tech-priests who sided with the [[Chaos Space Marines]] during the Horus Heresy or turned later, believe that the Omnissiah is a combined aspect of [[Chaos Undivided]], worshiping Chaos as a form of progress and knowledge. Said tech-priests tend to take the mechanical augmentations a ''little'' further than one would like in a tech-priest. They also use bio-mechanics, which is ''very'' explicitly forbidden.

===Theory five: Individual warp entity===
It could be over time that like any other strong collective desire and belief the tech-priests have created their own God in the warp, which would be a Machine God of logic, machines and arcane processes. While he may have started off as one of the other theories, such belief just doesn't do anything and proof of previous miracles caused by strong belief in the god and his servants the machine spirits have been seen.

===Theory six: Other===
Presumably, any sufficiently-advanced machine will be taken for the Machine God by at least some tech-priests, like a functional Man of Iron, or other Dark Age technology. They could for example worship a rediscovered ipod as a significant avatar of his machineness.

In fact, the trilogy of ''Priests of Mars'' hints that there may be a kind of entity which goes far beyond the material and warp realm, with the most advanced pieces of technology created by mankind such as the Ark Mechanicus (yes, like that one that one-shot an Eldar capital ship) being sort of avatars of this transcendental being. The fact this entity was neither Chaos nor C'tan aligned and yet could interfere both with the Warp and the Star Gods' powers in their own respective fields. Furthermore, it confirms the existence of the below-mentioned Akashic Records, and points out indirectly how Horus was allowed to access knowledge which should not have been available even for a Primarch (something which happened in the Vengeful Spirit novel). Interestingly, this entity, or entities, seems to be actively hindering the destruction of the physical universe and the complete disruption of the Immaterium, and it is pointed out that it was already old at the time mankind started inventing the basics of mechanics (the lever, for instance). McNeill never clarifies the ultimate nature of this being, yet for all intents and purposes, and given the amount of shenanigans used by the Mechanicus in the novel, it may be the Machine God. It's worth noting that what we call ''Deus Mechanicus'' is what limited human capabilities can grasp of an eternally self-evolving singularity.

Given it's power, the fact the Machine Cult is pretty much techno-pseudo-Christianity, it could be that A) The Machine Cult is actually the primary sect of a future Christianity (based on the idea that God used science to create all things and therefore science is holy and knowledge is sacred or even divine, which is actually real life Christian belief and the Church has a scientific branch for exactly that reason) and B) that the Machine God is literally God and that the Mechanicus might eventually be able to access God's power or at least turn that power to humanity's advantage. Also, the Machine God seems to be on humanity's side or at the very least sympathetic to humanity's plight.

===Theory seven: Akashic records ===
The novel ''Mechanicum'' presents the view that the Omnissiah may be the sum of all knowledge in the universe. Koriel Zeth, the tech-priest that was researching the Akashic records, did not actually take this view and thought that the Omnissiah just did not exist. Koriel Zeth sought to regain the level of technology that humanity had at its height, and though dangerously close to understanding the concept of science as we know it, that would be too sane for the Mechanicum and she decided not to rebuild that knowledge from redoing all that scientific research, but by [[What|connecting to the Akashic records in the Warp]] (the way, in her mind, that ancient humanity must have learned things). To Zeth, Dalia Cythera, a naturally innovative girl (read: a technopathic psyker) could do what she did not because of skill and heretical research (that she did do), but because she was connected to these records. Though being Warhammer 40K, Zeth was probably correct. Then this theory blurs all of the other theories together. Using the Astronomican and the Emperor's power, Zeth infuses a psyker with all the knowledge in the Warp. This psyker, now dying and omniscient, thought that the most important thing he could say with his new-found knowledge was to direct Dalia to re-imprison the Void Dragon, who she was destined to watch over and had a connection to. So, where does all knowledge come from? The Dark Mechanicus interrupted things, so the issue is never clarified. Worst of all, this being 40K, Zeth might have been right about how humanity developed its technology after all and no one realized it until she puzzled things out. After all, most truly useful and great inventions are created either by geniuses or by people who just had a one-off burst of brilliance. It is kind of...suspicious. This would also mean that killing weak psykers might actually be helping to prevent humanity from recovering its technological power, as many of them might be connected to the Akashic Records and so no more geniuses and spontaneous moments of techno-brilliance will be forthcoming among anyone of any reasonable level of authority in the Imperium as anyone with more than zip connection to the Warp (other than the human norm) but not strong enough to bother collecting on the Black Ships is [[Grimdark|killed]].

===Theory Eight: No God but the Emperor===
Unlike the rest of the deities, the Machine God has no particular representation in the form of miracles or divine figures, and doesn't appear to be any entity within the Warp. On the one hand, this would imply that tying their theology to the Emperor fulfills the need for a machine god, or that the Mechanicus are hilariously inept theologians. On the other hand, the metaphysics of 40k almost demand that there should be a Machine God for all of Z eir faith, but, as the Warp feeds on emotions rather than prayers, the AdMech's disdain for frivolous aspects like "sentiments" and "humanity" make them just about unable to make a god for themselves. First of all, the Warp ''definitely'' feeds on prayers, probably more so than emotions. For evidence, prayers to the Emperor weaken the Chaos Gods, because the Emperor has a Warp signature that is "anathema" to that of the Chaos Gods. So yes, the AdMech should definitely have manifested some kind of Warp entity for the Machine God. The lore has made it perfectly clear that worship has no effect on the Dark Gods, only emotion and various aspects of reality empowers them. People worship them because people always worship any existence perceived as above themselves. That in no way indicates that Chaos gives a damn about their worship. The argument otherwise also completely ignores the nature of the Warp and the effect faith has on it. There is no evidence that worship matters to Chaos, other than some old lore suggesting they gain sentience from it which cannot be true since they gained sentience before anyone even knew they existed, and overwhelming proof that faith affects the Warp. Perhaps by imposing order on it in the form of what is believed.

Though the emotions thing does bring up a strange debate. Magos who've had their brains sufficiently computerized are said to devote small numbers of cycles to emotion equations and engines whenever they see fit to feel an emotion. Jury's still out on whether this kind of emotion is represented in the Warp or not, because if it ''doesn't'' then it MIGHT explain why the Machine God is taking so long to form. Or maybe it is already formed, or nascent, for the same reason the Sisters of Battles can use Acts of Faith, the Canticles of the Omnissiah may just as well be "miracles" from the Warp.

Or simply believing something strongly enough in a clap your hands if you believe universe is enough to have an effect on the materium. Like Ork WAAAGH!!! but less intense due to a lack of innate psychic ability, but a noticeable force due to sheer amount of believers in the same doctrine in a far more stable way than Orks. Especially given humans have a very close spiritual connection to the Warp.

(bruh, the machine god has done "miracles" in books before)(prayer is an expression of belief fucking neckbeards, technically "prayer" just means asking and isn't restricted to religion, but in this case yes)

===Theory Nine: Taking Things at Face Value===
The Omnissiah is a combination of the two words Omni and Messiah. Literally the All Messiah. Humanity, realizing how utterly screwed they are (like having the Void Dragon on Mars, yikes) in the greater scheme of things (at least for those that have 1/10th of a clue, so basically not too many, everyone else is basically brain washed into following the plot through the Imperial Creed) has clandestinely (through the Emprah's machinations, the Ecclesiarchy, the Adeptus Mechanicus, the High Lords of Terra, basically) set about the task of attempting to create their own Warp God (or I guess another, if you consider the Emperor to be a Warp God in his own right). It is meant to be the All Savior of Man Kind, thus the Omni Messiah, which has some pretty grim portents for everyone else in the galaxy considering how Xenophobic the Imperium is. Not that any players care since nearly all of the other species very much deserve to be wiped out. Besides, the Imperium has carefully cultivated a hatred of xenos with specific vile traits (like treachery and bloodlust). So, any Omnissiah god thing would likely pass over peaceful species due to not fitting what the Imperium views xenos as being. The Eldar, being aware of this fact and masters of just pooting out any old god they like (within reason) are aware of humanity's efforts and using the powers of the Farseers to meddle in Human affairs (ie. just destroying entire Imperial Worlds for apparently zero reasons given) to affect a favorable outcome of the possible eventual Awakening of the Omnissiah or perhaps prevent it all together (though likely the former due to Eldrad's prophecy regarding Humanity and Eldar sharing fates and possibly to use the mega nuke to fuck over Slaanesh as a side effect, plus the Eldar are quite willing to die out to get revenge on Slaanesh given their beliefs of how they will end, so they'd probably be fine with getting killed by a human Warp god if the thing will also destroy Chaos, that and they're unable to kill enough humans to matter anyway especially without making themselves easy prey to everything else). Where other races line up in their awareness of just what the Imperium is up to is unknown, but one could surmise Chaos also has a clue since their gods would be aware, and then likely also the Orks assuming Gork and Mork are real and Orks really do understand ALL technology.

This doesn't sound so crazy when you remember the prophecy that eventually the Machine Cult and Imperial Cult would join and become one and the same. If true, their gradual merging could be the final stage of the plan by uniting humanity's perception of the Emperor and the Omnissiah into one being. It already is for the Mechanicus (unless you want to be ripped part for heresy), but the extreme majority of humans don't even particularly think of the Omnissiah in the first place. So, getting them to conflate Emperor with Omnissiah would be critical to guide the psychic energy of their faith.

Long story short, the entire thing with the Emperor taking the guise of the Omnissiah and after his death being worshiped as a God, as well as the Mechanum's worship of the Machine God, is all just a plot to bring some sort of Apocalyptic Warp Deity about that somehow saves all of mankind from well, everything, while possibly wiping out THE ENTIRE REST OF THE GALAXY that isn't a faithful servant of the Imperium, like Slaanesh-ing everyone else and walking away scot-free. Essentially they're attempting to cook up a giant Warp Nuke that all at once BTFOs everything that isn't them (and possibly minor pacifist Xenos and the Eldar who would certainly be aware of such a major psychic plot and appropriately be able to latch on to their benefit) while simultaneously saving them from the utter technological stalemate they've developed that's leading to Humanity's slow decline via complete lack of innovation with one giant {{Blam}}. However, the fact they're attempting to bring about a God that achieves so much means that it could take a very long time, and the Powers that be in the Imperium may have no idea how close or far away they are.

Furthermore, it may be working, although ever so slowly, as the Warp has started to essentially resonate back on their myriad prayers. In fact the Omnissiah may already exist in some form, it just happens to be in it's infancy, much like the notion Slaanesh is still but just a child that may not have even fully awakened yet.

It may be possible not even most members of the Mechanicum are aware of the exact implications of this, as they worship the Emperor as the Omnissiah and he basically saved them from nothing, as far as technology is concerned, as well as the fact they were worshiping the Omnissiah before the Emperor ever appeared to them. If the truth of the reality ever came to light it likely means the Tech-Priests of the galaxy would undergo a MASSIVE schism, so large it could likely tear the Imperium apart in a way not seen since the Horus Heresy. On the other hand, the Horus Heresy novels included an implication that the Emperor had purposely engineered the creation of both the Mechanicum and the Machine Cult more than ten thousand years before the Great Crusade, even before the Iron Rebellion (Iron War, which also sounds way more awesome and...''metal'') and the Age of Strife... [[Just as Planned]].

==Trivia==
* The Omnissiah's favourite colour is red. Hence all techpriests on Mars wear red robes. It's a rule.
**Some forgeworlds, however, have white or black as a dominant colors of their robes, though red strips are there too.
**<span style='color:green;font-size:115%'>DATZ WOY ITZ FASTAH!!! {{BLAM}} {{BLAM}} {{BLAM}} {{BLAM|No Orks allowed.}}
* The Omnissiah's holy waffle iron makes the best waffles. It is the holy bread of his church.
* Don't let Tzeentch mess with his computer again; he hates that.
* The Omnissiah is the God of Wikis and their contributors, for their ordering, editing and adding to knowledge pleases him.
* The first avatar of the Omnissiah was an ancient Terran known to the Techpriests as Bill of the Gates, named they believe for opening the gates of knowledge. {{BLAM}} {{BLAM|HERESY! While one of the avatars of the Omnissiah, Bill of the Gates was certainly not the first.}} We all know that the true avatar was Linus of the Torvalds.
** The REAL first avatar of the Omnissiah was known by the denomer of Charles Babbage, theories abound as to why he was called that.
*** False. Babbage was the last of the prophets, who brought forth the physical form of the mind in the machine, the original host in gleaming brass. The first avatar is she Ada, who netted in the spirit of the machine in a lace of love. For is not the gathering and interpretation of information in indexed form and inorferly means and ways, "programming"?
* The first [[Heretek]] was a man named Richard Matthew Stallman, who glorified heretical research ("hacking"), which is one of the basic activities of the [[Dark Mechanicus]].
* The oldest tech relic on Mars, hidden deep inside the catacombs of Olympus Mons, is a strange disc titled 'Friends season three, disc two, episodes six to ten'. Obviously this precious creation is a gift of divine importance, and is thus guarded fiercely by a crack legion of Skitarii, with only the Fabricator-General of Mars allowed regular access!
* It is believed the first sect of the Mechanicus was known as DARPA, to them the Machine God gave the inspiration to build INTERNET, the first material reflect of the Akashic Records and basis to all databanks to come, hence ensuring mankind will never lose the Gift of Wisdom (which it then did).
* Little known fact, but the Omnissiah in ancient Humanity's past once held sway over much of Slaanesh's domains. In those olden days, the Omnissiah was used as a shepherd for various debaucherous materials, his dataslates and cogitators of those early eras were used by young humans from across Terra to masturbate to cartoon women procreating with tentacled chaos spawASAHKAGHDKAGHAKOHFUCKITHURTSAAAAAAAAAAAHHGHDEAK! {{BLAM}} {{BLAM|NO CYKA ALLOWED.}}

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Omnissiah

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2603:8001:6901:2586:4135:77C6:E673:B9DE: /* Theory One: God-Emperor of Mankind */

{{topquote|Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.|Arthur M. Schlesinger}}

In [[Warhammer 40,000]], things are so [[grimdark]] that people have forgotten all of the science that was once known; the only remaining knowledge is encoded in religious ceremonies followed by the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]]. The deity central to mechanicus dogma is '''the Machine God''', who is also known as the '''Omnissiah'''. In practice though, the Omnissiah is more like Machine Jesus to the Machine God, and most believe the Omnissiah is in fact the [[Emperor]]. Others believe, and there is a fair case to be made, that the Omnissiah is the [[Void Dragon|Void Drag-]]{{BLAM}}

==Attributes==
The machine god is a god of logic, and reason; and any form of chaos and disorder is abhorrent to him (although the Dark Mechanicum that still believe in him would argue otherwise). He works through and manifests in machines, which are seen by his worshipers as the ultimate expression of his order. His sacred language is binary, which pretty much every single fucking [[techpriest]] is fluent in (and which the Inquisition has spent thousands of years trying to crack but hasn't even come close yet; you'd think they'd just ask a Techmarine for a proverbial Rosetta Stone, but that's 40K for you).

==Worship of the machine==
To venerate the machine god is to worship your coffee grinder, your showers, your collection of electronic dildos, your own computer you use to access this website, etc. It all involves long, complicated, and frankly needless praying and rituals to activate anything. Even turning on a light, you have to make a prayer first, probably do something with sanctified oil, speak a prayer of thanks that the electricity decided to satisfy your request, and thank the Omnissiah for bringing it all together.

Science is now an arcane art which is treated with danger and care. Literally, technosorcery. A techpriest really is a priest, learning more about hymns than how to properly weld something together. Essentially, this is one of the most blatant cases of literal irony. Because of that and the desire to dunk every piece of technology in oil, the sacred knowledge they guard so jealously has, over time, degraded along with their skills and ability to comprehend common sense.

Speaking of hoarding secrets, they have a habit of keeping information for the sake of it and not sharing unless forced to. It is because they believe the Omnissiah only wishes his chosen to know his knowledge. [[Pretend|It is generosity like this that will save the human race from all the terrors that assault it.]]

The Adeptus Mechanicus has sixteen universal laws of the machine god, divided into eight mysteries and eight warnings as given below with helpful observations.

The Mysteries of the Cult Mechanicus:
* Life is directed motion.
* The spirit is the spark of life. (Ah, very ''Transformers'' there.)
* Sentience is the ability to learn the value of knowledge. (Pity they don't take this lesson to heart...)
* Intellect is the understanding of knowledge.
* Sentience is the basest form of Intellect. (Does that apply to Orks too?)
* Understanding is the True Path to Comprehension.
* Comprehension is the key to all things.
* The Omnissiah knows all, comprehends all. (Unlike his servants.)

The Warnings of the Cult Mechanicus
* The alien mechanism is a perversion of the True Path (<s>Which doesn't stop them when they want a look at all those Tau and Necron goodies.</s> the "how" of those technologies is heretical, the science behind them is holy.)
* The soul is the conscience of sentience.
* A soul can be bestowed only by the Omnissiah.
* The Soulless sentience (i.e. AIs) is the enemy of all (But since machine-spirits and servitors are derived from a mixture of organic and technological components, they're given a pass.)
* The knowledge of the ancients stands beyond question. (This is true. Pity that knowledge is in the hands of idiots)
* The Machine Spirit guards the knowledge of the Ancients.
* Flesh is fallible, but ritual honors the Machine Spirit
* To break with ritual is to break with faith. (Which doesn't stop them doing so when they are being shot at by chaos freaks)

==History of the Machine==
The rise of the machine cult is all but lost to history, although it is known that when the Emperor of Mankind began his [[Great Crusade]], Mars was the first stop, and by then they had all been gay for the Omnissiah for so long that only a few of them got a hard on from seeing the emprah. And only then, because they believed he was the Omnissiah. Mars was a great power, with unrivaled technology and secrets, and the Emperor knew that if he was going to launch his Great Crusade, he would need Mars's support. However, this put him in a bind (because of his Imperial Truth, which said [[Cake|no gods or spirits or anything supernatural truly existed]]). This of course ruled out the Omnissiah as well, but the Emperor, like any good politician, decided to quietly brush it under the carpet and declared the techpriests were a one-off exception, since the alternative was having a potentially hostile force with a lot of valuable tech right on Terra's doorstep. Likewise, to humor their population, the techpriests for the most part declared the Emperor was an aspect of their God, which you can imagine he didn't like very much but was like "eh, fuck em" and let them get on with it.

==Current times==
Today the cult of the Omnissiah is one of the state religions of the Imperium, no matter how much the Ecclesiarchy fumes about it. The techpriests get the Ecclesiarchy to buzz off by saying that the Emperor and the Machine God are the same deity, so two religions, one faith, or something. But when it comes to blows (as it has on a few occasions) the ecclesiarchs have cathedrals while the AdMech have [[Titan_(Warhammer_40,000)|cathedral sized killbots]], so generally the Ecclesiarchy has to get over it.

The forge worlds are the centres of worship for the Machine God, although each regular Imperial citizen at least knows a little about him and at least generally respects him for the secrets of technology he has bestowed upon mankind.

==Theories of true identity==
While this may seem straight forward, the actual identity of Omnissiah has become the greatest game of 'Guess Who?' in 40k, as several theories of his true form have now come forward, which are covered below.

===Theory One: God-Emperor of Mankind===
The majority of tech-priests and other Adeptus Mechanicus personnel within all echelons and stratas of rank believe that the [[God-Emperor of Mankind]] is the Omnissiah, or at least a form of him. While there are always outliers and different schools of thought, especially in such a populous faction as the AdMec, it's worth remembering that the belief in Big-E as Omnissiah is by far in a way the predominant consensus of the organization as a whole; as in, probably north of 90% hold this view. These include the tech-priests who remained loyal to the [[Imperium of Man]] during the [[Horus Heresy]], as well as their modern day contemporaries, all the way up to [[Belasarius Cawl]] himself. The Adeptus Mechanicus officially holds this view, and it is used to pacify the more zealous members of the [[Ecclesiarchy]] and [[Inquisition]] who doubt the Mechanicus' loyalty, though there are individuals [[Heresy|who believe they are separate.]] This logically leads to conflict between the two bodies and it is something that will never truly be satisfied by either side. The novel ''Titanicus'' described documents from the Heresy era that purported to prove that the Emps and the Omnissiah are not the same. However, these documents were tampered with to an unknown degree by Tolemy, master of the archives, to facilitate his bid for power. It is unknown how much of the documents were factual. The novel ''Titandeath'' may provide some support for this theory as well; the short version is that near the end of the novel, with the death of the protagonist, her soul is passing on into the warp, only to be beset by its predators who begin to circle her. Right before the predators can strike her though, they are dispatched by a golden presence bearing the emblem of the Machine God, which dispels the darkness and those that reside within it, and because she had remained loyal even unto death, the protagonist's soul is welcomed into its domain (and by extension, it's protection). Draw your own conclusions. It is obviously not definitive proof, in and of itself, but it does at the very least provide some interesting food for thought. But to be fair, let's be honest: it's usually a safe bet that, for all intents and purposes, gold + warp + humanity = Big-E.

For those wondering, this theory was NOT pulled out of someone's ass to shut the Inquisition up (even though it obviously does smooth things over on that front). For one thing, the There is a common school of thought in the Mechanicus that organics are technically machines (human brains are used in place of computers, after all), just really inefficient ones. There are many "cyborgs" in the Mechanicus that don't have a scrap of metal in their bodies, just transplanted organs. The Emperor, being the perfect human, is the logical conclusion of this claptrap. It helps that the Mechanicus does indeed view humans as superior to all other life and divine every bit as much as the Ecclesiarchy. So, a human who is not a cyborg but is still a perfect machine would be, to them, the greatest epitome of man and machine as concepts coming together as one.

Furthermore, as mentioned above, the likes of [[Belasarius Cawl]] himself are among the most adamant of true believers in the Emperor as the Omnissiah. Though one's mileage [[skub|may vary on the opinion]] of the man himself, especially amongst those of us here on [[/tg/]], you can't really make the claim in good faith that Cawl's assessment on this matter doesn't carry a lot of weight.

===Theory Two: Void Dragon===
Other tech-priests equate the Omnissiah with the [[Void Dragon]], one of the [[C'tan|Star Gods]] of the [[Necrons]]. These tech-priests also tend to venerate the Necrons as the Omnissiah's angels. They then tend to do stupid things like poking around in Necron tombs, trying to probe them for secrets as part of their "Quest For Knowledge." They tend not to live very long, as Necrons don't care what any life-forms think of them; they are equal-opportunity destroyers.
In the recent Horus Heresy fluff, it was shown the Emperor sealed a silver dragon under Mars in the distant past so humanity could have control over machines (wut? (The void dragon controls machines. So sealing him means we can use machines without fearing some eldritch skynet taking control of the toasters and microwaves and using them to control us or murder us in our sleep.)). Somehow he was able to make it so humans could take some of the dragon's power then for their own although in hindsight putting a super powerful creature in the same solar system as the capital of the Imperium might come back to bite them in the ass...

Hey, wait a minute. The C'tan are vulnerable to the Warp, right? The Mechanicus worships the Machine God, right? So, if the Mechanicus became aware of the Void Dragon and believed it to be the Machine God, would the effect in the Warp from that belief kill the Void Dragon via Warp? Or even subvert it into becoming basically enslaved to humanity due to the Machine Cult's belief that the Machine God is very much on humanity's side. Perhaps this is why the Emperor is implied to have created the Machine Cult. Sealing the Void Dragon on Mars may have been just the first step in a long road.

===Theory three: Both theories one and two===
Some versions of the myth tend to separate them in two, with the Void Dragon being the Machine God, and the Emperor being the Omnissiah who "tamed" him. It's unclear, really. A surviving [[Men_of_Iron#The_Present|Man of Iron]] also posited that they are two beings but the Emperor is not the Omnissiah.

===Theory four: Chaos Undivided===
The [[Dark Mechanicus]], those tech-priests who sided with the [[Chaos Space Marines]] during the Horus Heresy or turned later, believe that the Omnissiah is a combined aspect of [[Chaos Undivided]], worshiping Chaos as a form of progress and knowledge. Said tech-priests tend to take the mechanical augmentations a ''little'' further than one would like in a tech-priest. They also use bio-mechanics, which is ''very'' explicitly forbidden.

===Theory five: Individual warp entity===
It could be over time that like any other strong collective desire and belief the tech-priests have created their own God in the warp, which would be a Machine God of logic, machines and arcane processes. While he may have started off as one of the other theories, such belief just doesn't do anything and proof of previous miracles caused by strong belief in the god and his servants the machine spirits have been seen.

===Theory six: Other===
Presumably, any sufficiently-advanced machine will be taken for the Machine God by at least some tech-priests, like a functional Man of Iron, or other Dark Age technology. They could for example worship a rediscovered ipod as a significant avatar of his machineness.

In fact, the trilogy of ''Priests of Mars'' hints that there may be a kind of entity which goes far beyond the material and warp realm, with the most advanced pieces of technology created by mankind such as the Ark Mechanicus (yes, like that one that one-shot an Eldar capital ship) being sort of avatars of this transcendental being. The fact this entity was neither Chaos nor C'tan aligned and yet could interfere both with the Warp and the Star Gods' powers in their own respective fields. Furthermore, it confirms the existence of the below-mentioned Akashic Records, and points out indirectly how Horus was allowed to access knowledge which should not have been available even for a Primarch (something which happened in the Vengeful Spirit novel). Interestingly, this entity, or entities, seems to be actively hindering the destruction of the physical universe and the complete disruption of the Immaterium, and it is pointed out that it was already old at the time mankind started inventing the basics of mechanics (the lever, for instance). McNeill never clarifies the ultimate nature of this being, yet for all intents and purposes, and given the amount of shenanigans used by the Mechanicus in the novel, it may be the Machine God. It's worth noting that what we call ''Deus Mechanicus'' is what limited human capabilities can grasp of an eternally self-evolving singularity.

Given it's power, the fact the Machine Cult is pretty much techno-pseudo-Christianity, it could be that A) The Machine Cult is actually the primary sect of a future Christianity (based on the idea that God used science to create all things and therefore science is holy and knowledge is sacred or even divine, which is actually real life Christian belief and the Church has a scientific branch for exactly that reason) and B) that the Machine God is literally God and that the Mechanicus might eventually be able to access God's power or at least turn that power to humanity's advantage. Also, the Machine God seems to be on humanity's side or at the very least sympathetic to humanity's plight.

===Theory seven: Akashic records ===
The novel ''Mechanicum'' presents the view that the Omnissiah may be the sum of all knowledge in the universe. Koriel Zeth, the tech-priest that was researching the Akashic records, did not actually take this view and thought that the Omnissiah just did not exist. Koriel Zeth sought to regain the level of technology that humanity had at its height, and though dangerously close to understanding the concept of science as we know it, that would be too sane for the Mechanicum and she decided not to rebuild that knowledge from redoing all that scientific research, but by [[What|connecting to the Akashic records in the Warp]] (the way, in her mind, that ancient humanity must have learned things). To Zeth, Dalia Cythera, a naturally innovative girl (read: a technopathic psyker) could do what she did not because of skill and heretical research (that she did do), but because she was connected to these records. Though being Warhammer 40K, Zeth was probably correct. Then this theory blurs all of the other theories together. Using the Astronomican and the Emperor's power, Zeth infuses a psyker with all the knowledge in the Warp. This psyker, now dying and omniscient, thought that the most important thing he could say with his new-found knowledge was to direct Dalia to re-imprison the Void Dragon, who she was destined to watch over and had a connection to. So, where does all knowledge come from? The Dark Mechanicus interrupted things, so the issue is never clarified. Worst of all, this being 40K, Zeth might have been right about how humanity developed its technology after all and no one realized it until she puzzled things out. After all, most truly useful and great inventions are created either by geniuses or by people who just had a one-off burst of brilliance. It is kind of...suspicious. This would also mean that killing weak psykers might actually be helping to prevent humanity from recovering its technological power, as many of them might be connected to the Akashic Records and so no more geniuses and spontaneous moments of techno-brilliance will be forthcoming among anyone of any reasonable level of authority in the Imperium as anyone with more than zip connection to the Warp (other than the human norm) but not strong enough to bother collecting on the Black Ships is [[Grimdark|killed]].

===Theory Eight: No God but the Emperor===
Unlike the rest of the deities, the Machine God has no particular representation in the form of miracles or divine figures, and doesn't appear to be any entity within the Warp. On the one hand, this would imply that tying their theology to the Emperor fulfills the need for a machine god, or that the Mechanicus are hilariously inept theologians. On the other hand, the metaphysics of 40k almost demand that there should be a Machine God for all of Z eir faith, but, as the Warp feeds on emotions rather than prayers, the AdMech's disdain for frivolous aspects like "sentiments" and "humanity" make them just about unable to make a god for themselves. First of all, the Warp ''definitely'' feeds on prayers, probably more so than emotions. For evidence, prayers to the Emperor weaken the Chaos Gods, because the Emperor has a Warp signature that is "anathema" to that of the Chaos Gods. So yes, the AdMech should definitely have manifested some kind of Warp entity for the Machine God. The lore has made it perfectly clear that worship has no effect on the Dark Gods, only emotion and various aspects of reality empowers them. People worship them because people always worship any existence perceived as above themselves. That in no way indicates that Chaos gives a damn about their worship. The argument otherwise also completely ignores the nature of the Warp and the effect faith has on it. There is no evidence that worship matters to Chaos, other than some old lore suggesting they gain sentience from it which cannot be true since they gained sentience before anyone even knew they existed, and overwhelming proof that faith affects the Warp. Perhaps by imposing order on it in the form of what is believed.

Though the emotions thing does bring up a strange debate. Magos who've had their brains sufficiently computerized are said to devote small numbers of cycles to emotion equations and engines whenever they see fit to feel an emotion. Jury's still out on whether this kind of emotion is represented in the Warp or not, because if it ''doesn't'' then it MIGHT explain why the Machine God is taking so long to form. Or maybe it is already formed, or nascent, for the same reason the Sisters of Battles can use Acts of Faith, the Canticles of the Omnissiah may just as well be "miracles" from the Warp.

Or simply believing something strongly enough in a clap your hands if you believe universe is enough to have an effect on the materium. Like Ork WAAAGH!!! but less intense due to a lack of innate psychic ability, but a noticeable force due to sheer amount of believers in the same doctrine in a far more stable way than Orks. Especially given humans have a very close spiritual connection to the Warp.

(bruh, the machine god has done "miracles" in books before)(prayer is an expression of belief fucking neckbeards, technically "prayer" just means asking and isn't restricted to religion, but in this case yes)

===Theory Nine: Taking Things at Face Value===
The Omnissiah is a combination of the two words Omni and Messiah. Literally the All Messiah. Humanity, realizing how utterly screwed they are (like having the Void Dragon on Mars, yikes) in the greater scheme of things (at least for those that have 1/10th of a clue, so basically not too many, everyone else is basically brain washed into following the plot through the Imperial Creed) has clandestinely (through the Emprah's machinations, the Ecclesiarchy, the Adeptus Mechanicus, the High Lords of Terra, basically) set about the task of attempting to create their own Warp God (or I guess another, if you consider the Emperor to be a Warp God in his own right). It is meant to be the All Savior of Man Kind, thus the Omni Messiah, which has some pretty grim portents for everyone else in the galaxy considering how Xenophobic the Imperium is. Not that any players care since nearly all of the other species very much deserve to be wiped out. Besides, the Imperium has carefully cultivated a hatred of xenos with specific vile traits (like treachery and bloodlust). So, any Omnissiah god thing would likely pass over peaceful species due to not fitting what the Imperium views xenos as being. The Eldar, being aware of this fact and masters of just pooting out any old god they like (within reason) are aware of humanity's efforts and using the powers of the Farseers to meddle in Human affairs (ie. just destroying entire Imperial Worlds for apparently zero reasons given) to affect a favorable outcome of the possible eventual Awakening of the Omnissiah or perhaps prevent it all together (though likely the former due to Eldrad's prophecy regarding Humanity and Eldar sharing fates and possibly to use the mega nuke to fuck over Slaanesh as a side effect, plus the Eldar are quite willing to die out to get revenge on Slaanesh given their beliefs of how they will end, so they'd probably be fine with getting killed by a human Warp god if the thing will also destroy Chaos, that and they're unable to kill enough humans to matter anyway especially without making themselves easy prey to everything else). Where other races line up in their awareness of just what the Imperium is up to is unknown, but one could surmise Chaos also has a clue since their gods would be aware, and then likely also the Orks assuming Gork and Mork are real and Orks really do understand ALL technology.

This doesn't sound so crazy when you remember the prophecy that eventually the Machine Cult and Imperial Cult would join and become one and the same. If true, their gradual merging could be the final stage of the plan by uniting humanity's perception of the Emperor and the Omnissiah into one being. It already is for the Mechanicus (unless you want to be ripped part for heresy), but the extreme majority of humans don't even particularly think of the Omnissiah in the first place. So, getting them to conflate Emperor with Omnissiah would be critical to guide the psychic energy of their faith.

Long story short, the entire thing with the Emperor taking the guise of the Omnissiah and after his death being worshiped as a God, as well as the Mechanum's worship of the Machine God, is all just a plot to bring some sort of Apocalyptic Warp Deity about that somehow saves all of mankind from well, everything, while possibly wiping out THE ENTIRE REST OF THE GALAXY that isn't a faithful servant of the Imperium, like Slaanesh-ing everyone else and walking away scot-free. Essentially they're attempting to cook up a giant Warp Nuke that all at once BTFOs everything that isn't them (and possibly minor pacifist Xenos and the Eldar who would certainly be aware of such a major psychic plot and appropriately be able to latch on to their benefit) while simultaneously saving them from the utter technological stalemate they've developed that's leading to Humanity's slow decline via complete lack of innovation with one giant {{Blam}}. However, the fact they're attempting to bring about a God that achieves so much means that it could take a very long time, and the Powers that be in the Imperium may have no idea how close or far away they are.

Furthermore, it may be working, although ever so slowly, as the Warp has started to essentially resonate back on their myriad prayers. In fact the Omnissiah may already exist in some form, it just happens to be in it's infancy, much like the notion Slaanesh is still but just a child that may not have even fully awakened yet.

It may be possible not even most members of the Mechanicum are aware of the exact implications of this, as they worship the Emperor as the Omnissiah and he basically saved them from nothing, as far as technology is concerned, as well as the fact they were worshiping the Omnissiah before the Emperor ever appeared to them. If the truth of the reality ever came to light it likely means the Tech-Priests of the galaxy would undergo a MASSIVE schism, so large it could likely tear the Imperium apart in a way not seen since the Horus Heresy. On the other hand, the Horus Heresy novels included an implication that the Emperor had purposely engineered the creation of both the Mechanicum and the Machine Cult more than ten thousand years before the Great Crusade, even before the Iron Rebellion (Iron War, which also sounds way more awesome and...''metal'') and the Age of Strife... [[Just as Planned]].

==Trivia==
* The Omnissiah's favourite colour is red. Hence all techpriests on Mars wear red robes. It's a rule.
**Some forgeworlds, however, have white or black as a dominant colors of their robes, though red strips are there too.
**<span style='color:green;font-size:115%'>DATZ WOY ITZ FASTAH!!! {{BLAM}} {{BLAM}} {{BLAM}} {{BLAM|No Orks allowed.}}
* The Omnissiah's holy waffle iron makes the best waffles. It is the holy bread of his church.
* Don't let Tzeentch mess with his computer again; he hates that.
* The Omnissiah is the God of Wikis and their contributors, for their ordering, editing and adding to knowledge pleases him.
* The first avatar of the Omnissiah was an ancient Terran known to the Techpriests as Bill of the Gates, named they believe for opening the gates of knowledge. {{BLAM}} {{BLAM|HERESY! While one of the avatars of the Omnissiah, Bill of the Gates was certainly not the first.}} We all know that the true avatar was Linus of the Torvalds.
** The REAL first avatar of the Omnissiah was known by the denomer of Charles Babbage, theories abound as to why he was called that.
*** False. Babbage was the last of the prophets, who brought forth the physical form of the mind in the machine, the original host in gleaming brass. The first avatar is she Ada, who netted in the spirit of the machine in a lace of love. For is not the gathering and interpretation of information in indexed form and inorferly means and ways, "programming"?
* The first [[Heretek]] was a man named Richard Matthew Stallman, who glorified heretical research ("hacking"), which is one of the basic activities of the [[Dark Mechanicus]].
* The oldest tech relic on Mars, hidden deep inside the catacombs of Olympus Mons, is a strange disc titled 'Friends season three, disc two, episodes six to ten'. Obviously this precious creation is a gift of divine importance, and is thus guarded fiercely by a crack legion of Skitarii, with only the Fabricator-General of Mars allowed regular access!
* It is believed the first sect of the Mechanicus was known as DARPA, to them the Machine God gave the inspiration to build INTERNET, the first material reflect of the Akashic Records and basis to all databanks to come, hence ensuring mankind will never lose the Gift of Wisdom (which it then did).
* Little known fact, but the Omnissiah in ancient Humanity's past once held sway over much of Slaanesh's domains. In those olden days, the Omnissiah was used as a shepherd for various debaucherous materials, his dataslates and cogitators of those early eras were used by young humans from across Terra to masturbate to cartoon women procreating with tentacled chaos spawASAHKAGHDKAGHAKOHFUCKITHURTSAAAAAAAAAAAHHGHDEAK! {{BLAM}} {{BLAM|NO CYKA ALLOWED.}}

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Angron

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[[File:AngronArtPortrait.jpg|400px|right|thumb|Rare portrait of Angron. Strangely looking like he is holding in a giant fart.]]
{{Topquote|I-I am going to be a storm-a flame-<br>I need to fight whole armies alone;<br>I have ten hearts; I have a hundred arms;<br>I feel too strong to war with mortals-<br>[[Rip and tear|BRING ME GIANTS]]!|Edmond Rostand, ''Cyrano de Bergerac''}}
{{Topquote|I think... when one has been angry for a very long time one gets used to it. And it becomes comfortable, like... like old leather. And finally... it becomes so familiar that one can't ever remember feeling any other way.|[[Star Trek|Captain Jean-Luc Picard]], on a man who hated because he would not let himself grieve}}
{{Topquote|If the world hates you; keep in mind that it hated me first|John 15:18}}

His name is Angron (A.K.A. '''The Red Angel''', '''The Slave of Nuceria''', '''Lord of the Red Sands''', '''The Eater of Worlds''', '''The Gladiator King''', '''The Prince of Blood''', '''Broken One''' if you're Argel Tal, '''Angry Ron''', '''40Kratos''', '''Shithead''' if you're sergeant Gharte, '''the walking abortion''' [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLYiL_jYPPw if you are Majorkill] '''That Goddamn Retard''' if you're [[Leman Russ]]). Cmon, do we really have to spell it out? While his name <s>may be</s> is clearly a play on the word "Anger", it is possible that his name is based on the Greek word ''Agrion'' which means "Wild" or even ''Agron'', the Gallic word for "slaughter" (which all pretty much suits him considering he's the angriest, wildest, slaughteringiest mother-fucking mother fucker in a long and extensive history of bipedal mother fuckers). Also, if you spell his name backwards it's Norgna, which has to count for something. Apparently the inspiration for his name was a corruption of the nickname a bouncer in Nottingham has: Angry Ron.
What we're trying to say is, Angron just might be the angriest and the most talented in manly face-to-face fighting son of a bitch in the galaxy. In fact, one time he was so angry about being angry all the time, that the part of him that made him angry exploded in his head, rendering him permanently angry (and also sexually impotent, but don't let him know that). And then there was that time he was kidnapped by the [[God-Emperor of Mankind|Emprah]], which didn't help his temper much, and gave him an excuse to fucking RAGE at his dad by joining up with [[Khorne]], Warhammer's God of Battle, War and [[Rage|RAAAAAAAAAAGE]]! Angron just so happens to be [[Primarch]] of the [[World eaters|World Eaters]] and [[Kharn|that swell guy]].

His revered exploits include slaughtering the entire population of a planet within a night; killing an entire contingent of Eldar warriors led by a Farseer when he was only a child; and leading a gladiator rebellion against their slavers and slaughtering 25 other armies sent against them, non-stop, until a huge one made up of seven armies came and fucked their shit up against a dirty rock <del>proving that a seven nation army could hold him back</del>. The Emperor saved him from dying there (but left all his buddies to die), which was a tremendous blow to his martial pride and among other things, eventually led him to [[Rage|RAAAAAAAAAAGE]] furiously against the Emperor, believing him a coward devoid of honor. Angron went on to become one of the first Primarchs to side with Horus during the heresy, and was turned into a monstrous, frothing demon-prince by his brother Lorgar. Eventually, Angron joined up with KHORNE, the aforementioned God of War, Murder, Killing, Bloodshed, Weeping Buttholes, Battle and [[Rage|RAAAAAAAAAAGE]].

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNkRBowsAmI Here is the theme song of this glorious bastard.]

==History==
===Early Life===
[[File:Past-Angron-art.jpg|300px|right|thumb|You'd be pissed off too if your dad didn't let you avenge your dog.]]
{{Topquote|I was born in blood, raised in darkness and I shall die free!|Angron, to the Nucerian High Riders and their armies}}
Angron has good reason to be ever-so-slightly miffed: his early life was one big bowl of shit after another. First he crash-landed on his new home [[Nuceria|world]] (because Khorne didn't give him a soft landing) and had a good chunk of his head torn off in the crash, after which he got jumped by the aforementioned Eldar, then (tired from the killing and the massive brain trauma --keep in mind he was like 6 hours old) got captured and sold into slavery by people with near-Imperial level technology before making him fight as a gladiator for their entertainment. He also appears to have been either the least intelligent of his brothers, or else that head injury he took while crashing did a number on his intellect. For Angron attempted to escape from his captors numerous times even before his implantation with the Nails but somehow was recaptured each time. Remember, these guys were just baseline humans with no outstanding tech aside from a few odds and ends like the Nails. Also keep in mind that more than a few of these attempts occurred when he was fully mature, and thus should have been leagues beyond what even a Custodes would be capable of in terms of physical and mental prowess. The fact that he somehow managed to ''fail'' in repeatedly attempting to escape from a bunch of normal humans is actually far more unbelievable than if he had succeeded.

A later retcon revealed he was a decent guy who loved his fellow gladiators, but after an incident where he refused to kill his adoptive father in the arenas, his masters proceeded to replace part of his brain with ARCHAEOTECH SHIT (originally this happened before he fully grew up) that drove him so mad that he murdered his dad regardless, cueing a massive bout of despair. The stuff they stuck in his head would later be called ''"The Butcher's Nails"'', and, though never fully understood (even after the Emprah's best techs took a look), they constantly applied pain to his brain and made it so the only time he could feel anything resembling happiness was while murdering shit. It should also be noted that they go from excruciating to normal, and ''do not'' [[Slaanesh|deal with the pleasure centers of the brain.]] In other words, this pertains to actual negative reinforcement in classical conditioning.

After years of being a slave, fighting through the gladiator pits and becoming the best of them, Angron eventually set up and led a rebellion, fighting to free his brother and sister gladiators. This would make him 40k's answer to Spartacus, the same way Curze is 40k Batman. He and the gladiators terrorized the planet's population for a while, burning down cities and generally making a mess of things. However, due undoubtedly in no small part to the Nails (and the high probability that Angron was a bit of an idiot anyway), he didn't attack the Nucerian ruling classes with anything approaching a coherent strategy. There was seemingly no plan, only wanton destruction. As a result, the rulers of the various parts of the planet sent their militaries to gang up on Angron's comparatively ragtag group of about 2000 and after a few years, Angron's force had been reduced to half and was surrounded by at least seven full scale armies. So he and his buddies were completely screwed, making Angron the only Primarch who failed to conquer his home planet, something that his Legion would end up being more than a little embarrassed by.

Around that time, the Emperor showed up, and hashed out a deal with the local planetary government in order to expedite Angron's capture and win over the planet without any further bloodshed, because there was no point in the Emperor helping his son win a (totally justified) war against a population that had already submitted to compliance. Of course, this deal required the Emperor to take Angron away from the only people who weren't shitty to him and leaving them all to die; but Big E didn't give a rat's ass about those fuckers (and they were all summarily executed, as you would expect in a slave rebellion). Naturally, he didn't tell Angron any of this, because <s>he couldn't give less of a shit</s> [[Aaron Dembski-Bowden]] wanted to make the Emperor look like an ass again. Daddy issues don't make for bad writing by themselves, but said good writing is harder to write without nuance and depth. Of course, the Emperor could have saved them all or simply kill the local slavers who were, despite compliance, flying in the face of the law of the Great Crusade, give Angron the planet as a recruiting world and take the slaves to his ship to be made into a loyal ass-wrecking rapetrain of AWESOME alongside all the Terran legionnaires. Buuuut we need our dose of our [[Edgy]] [[Grimdark]] here, right?

So long story short, the Emperor told Angron he was coming along on the Great Crusade, Angron told him that he would rather die alongside his fellow gladiators, and the Emperor beamed him up onto his ship and left all the other gladiators to die. On the ship, Angron completely lost his shit and started attacking everything around him, managing to kill one of the Custodes before Big E force gripped him into submission and basically told him to get over himself(AD-B, seriously fuck you). After this, Angron was apparently taken back to Terra to be examined by the Emperor and his best tech adepts in the hope of finding a way to fix Angron's mutilated brain.

Back on [[Terra]], the Big E summoned [[Arkhan Land]] to his labs and showed Angron spread out with his skull hacked open & brain exposed on a surgery table, taking a good look at Angron's fucked-up skull and decided that he was a waste of time and effort, and arrived at the conclusion that even trying to remove them would likely kill him (reference "Betrayer"). The Mechanicus estimated that he wouldn't live long enough to see the end of the Great Crusade.

It is during this procedure that it is revealed just how completely the Nails destroyed Angron, and how thoroughly tortured he would be for the rest of his existence. According to the Emperor in conversation with Arkhan;

<blockquote>''"With the alterations made to the limbic lobe and insular cortex, the surgeons have impaired the Twelfth’s ability to regulate any emotion at all. Furthermore, they have rethreaded its capacity to take pleasure in anything but the sensation of anger. They are the only chemicals and electrical signals that flow freely through, and from, its brain. All else is either dulled to nothingness or rewired to inspire a supreme degree of agony. It is a testament to the durability of my primarch project that the Twelfth has managed to survive this long.

''"His own emotions cause him pain?"''

''"No, Arkhan. Everything. Everything causes it pain. Thinking. Feeling. Breathing. The only respite it has is in the rewired neurological pleasure it receives from the chemicals of anger and aggression."''</blockquote>

Aaand it gets worse. The Emperor then reveals a few moments later that Angron's limbic and insular lobes had been straight up removed and replaced with parts of the Nails. This essentially meant that Angron would not have been capable of feeling empathy or compassion, and it would have completely restructured his ability to link behaviors to outcomes (ie this behavior makes me feel good vs this behavior makes me feel bad). Even his sense of self awareness and IQ would have been affected, which would go far in explaining quite a lot of straight up retarded crap he would go on to do. So essentially the slave masters of Nuceria took away his compassion, his empathy, his emotional control, his intelligence, and his ability to learn or feel anything pleasant outside of aggression. Oh, and left him in constant agony whenever he wasn't angry. Scratch the Emperor being a dick for not removing the Nails, He was more of a dick for not just putting Angron down then and there (though the fact He refers to Angron only as "Twelfth" and "it" is shown the Emprah is not too hot on compassion, at least as far as Angron seems to be concerned). The most tragic part of it all was that apparently Angron was quite the bro-tier Primarch before the Nails were implanted. He even had the ability to empathically soothe the pain of others by taking it upon himself (almost certainly some latent psychic ability), and he very often did just that for his fellow slaves. So on top of everything else, the Nails completely destroyed Angron's personality, taking him from a potentially Vulkan level nice guy and lowering him to Perturabo levels of barbarity. To top it all off, the Nails had been designed for use on baseline humans. As a Primarch, Angron's brain was not only far more complex than that of an ordinary human, but had the capacity for wholescale regeneration. This would only cause him more problems however, as the damaged or missing parts of his brain attempted to regenerate around the Nails. It was believed that this process would eventually cause him to lose all ability to control himself, and that he would become little more than a rabid animal as some of his legionaries would later demonstrate. At that point, is was almost certain that he would manage to get himself killed in one way or another.

Considering that later during the Horus Heresy, '''Menes Kalliston''' of the [[Thousand Sons]] was fairly certain that their [[psyker]]-medics could figure out how to remove them from [[Khârn|a certain swell guy]], it is possible that the Emperor - being the most intelligent person in the [[Imperium]] and the most powerful psyker ever - ''<u>could</u>'' have achieved it if He put some resources into it (especially since at least one AdMech replaced everything, including his brain with machine parts); or it's equally likely the Thousand Son space marine was just stalling because he had an insane psycho-killer moments away from killing him breathing down his neck. It is however, far more likely that the Nails implanted into the World Eaters were not so difficult to remove as Angron's would have been. Entire vital parts of Angron's brain had been removed and replaced with the crude cybernetics of the Nails, whereas the World Eaters' Nails were knockoffs which were simply added on to their existing brain tissue. Because of Angron's brain being a half-cybernetic mess, both the Emperor and Arkhan believed that the Nails were, ironically, the only reason Angron was still alive. If they were removed, Angron's brain would likely have simply ceased to function. Additionally, attempting to replace parts of a Primarch is almost certainly a borderline-impossible task, particularly if that part is a brain. The Primarchs were not just flesh and blood, but creatures of the warp incarnated by the Emperor's genecraft. Whatever the Emperor did to create them, He clearly could not just do it on a whim as He could with Custodes or Astartes. There were only ever 20 ([[Omegon|21]]) of them and even when two were erased from history mid-Crusade, they were not replaced. The Emperor also never seemed to consider the possibility of making more of them after the initial scattering when they were presumed dead, despite the massive blow that killing all 20 Primarchs would have dealt to his plans.

Regardless however, Arkhan described the Emperor as being "inhumanly toneless" when speaking of Angron, and as being "passionlessly interested" in the surgical nightmare that Angron had become. Whether this is due to Him genuinely not caring or simply being too far beyond Arkhan for His attitude to be understood properly is up for debate. Rather strangely, the Emperor appeared to have been unusually callous when it came to Angron in particular, as even Primarchs like Konrad Curze, Perturabo and Mortarion were shown at least ''some'' level of love and interest from Him. However Angron, for whatever reason, was disregarded almost entirely. Regarding this anomaly, it is worth noting that Angron was the only Primarch who did not end up ruling his native planet. The other Primarchs either conquered theirs or used their charisma and intelligence to work their way up the hierarchy of whatever planet they landed on (or both). Angron failed to do either, and was on the verge of being slaughtered along with his army when the Emperor came for him. Perhaps this failure is why the Emperor seemed so uniquely disinterested in him.

As it is, the Emperor was told that Angron would likely not see the the end of the crusade, and thus took the dumbest option available to Him: do nothing to mitigate the effects, do nothing to change how much Angron hated him, and throw him into warzones after giving him a massive force and assume that it would never come back to haunt him. Could He have saved Angron? Perhaps, should he have the occasion to put his entire undivided attention to it. But with Him busy with the demands of the Imperium, powering the [[Astronomican]] and trying to get the Human Webway online the Emperor seemingly did not want to sink the extra time and resources into saving one of His Primarchs.

===Great Crusade===
[[File:Preheresy-world-eaters.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Angron back when the Great Crusade was still a thing. Along with [[Kharn|that swell guy]] on his right and [[Lotara Sarrin|the angriest, most heterosexual woman in existence]] on his left.]]
{{Topquote|You kept that mule Kor Phaeron. Russ kept his kin-friends. The Lion kept Luther. Humans - brothers and foster fathers - saved and raised into Legion ranks. But not me. Not Angron, no. Did the Emperor teleport his gold-wrapped Custodians down to help me and my army? No. Did he free the War Hounds and order them to battle, fight alongside me? No. Did he save my brothers and sisters the way he spared the Lion’s closest kin? No, no, and no. No mercy for Angron. Angron the Oathbreaker. Angron the Betrayer.| Angron explains his anger towards the Emperor to Lorgar, during one of his more calm moments.}}

Either way, when Angron was introduced to his legion he was inconsolable. He ended up hacking apart the legion captains until Khârn (who was actually much further down the list of command, having risen up the ladder thanks to several of his superiors' untimely ends) managed to talk some sense into his father. Though bearing in mind the Emperor had already let [[Perturabo]] dispassionately decimate 10% of an ''entire legion'', Angron killing some captains in an emotional meltdown is small potatoes.

Anyway, [[Kharn]] successfully talks some sense into him, and Angron renamed his legion ''World Eaters'', a name you might recognize translates to ''fucking savage'' in the common tongue. Angron's old army of gladiators whom he'd led to freedom and been denied death alongside them was known as "the eaters of cities" on [[Nuceria]]. So, as Dreagher, a Terran-born War Hounds legionary who served as Captain of the Legion's 9th Company, described it: ''from then on, they would no longer be the War Hounds, but Angron's "eaters of worlds"''.

Angron then replicated the Butcher's Nails technology on his legionaries, despite the Empy's warnings and how much he hated the source of the Nails, his old masters - <s> which adds a little hypocritical spice to his complaints about how the Nails ruined his life, given that he did the same thing to other people for no fucking reason when given the chance. Perhaps Angron wanted his sons to feel the same pain he experienced since he would never be able to remove the goddamn thing from his brain and it pissed him off that his own flesh and blood did not suffer as he did.</s> More likely he was desperately trying to emulate his blood brothers and sisters in the pits since they were the only ones to give a shit (plus Lorgar). Even in spite of being the first legionary to GIT SOME, [[Kharn|that swell guy]] became Angron's 'cool headed' equerry. Ironic.

The Nails also negatively interacted with psykers, killing Librarians who tried to get them installed (blowing holes in spaceships and taking down entire squads of space marines in the process as their altered brain chemistry made it impossible for them to control their abilities anymore). Also merely being near a psyker made other Legionaries feel... ''uncomfortable'' (described as ''ticking'' by Kharn). Angron personally took this to eleven, hating psykers for the additional pain they brought - with the strange exception of Lorgar & the Emperor, who seemed not to trigger that effect. Still, the whole Butcher's Nails thing is actually quite tragic (could the fact that even being psykers caused pain to everyone implanted with the nails indicate that they were not just archeotech, but technology corrupted by Khorne who hates psykers? And even the daemon primarch still has them implanted...all the implications). In "Betrayer" Argel Tal asks Kharn why the World Eaters allowed themselves to be mutilated so, to which Kharn replies that they thought it would bring them closer to their father. Argel Tal continues asking if it worked, and Kharn sadly mutters to himself "no, it didn't". So, before Erebus made sure that Kharn would become the RAAAAAAGE train we know in 40k by killing Argel Tal (in the same novel), because - as Erebus put it - his damned humanity would have spared Kharn this fate (because becoming a berzerk psychopathic killer is so much more awesome than staying sane) he appears to be regretting this decision - at least at this point.
[[File:World Eaters.jpg|400px|thumb|right|Angron and his World Eaters, pre-heresy and pre-[[daemon prince]] in a rare state of tranquility standing on top of [[grimdark|a pile made of snow and dead bodies]]. It's hard to calm down when there's nails in your brain.]]

During the Great Crusade, the World Eaters were known as the Imperium's butcher force. Their arrival or even just the threat of their arrival in a system was enough to make non-compliant Imperial worlds surrender, lest they be completely and utterly be butchered by the Red Angel and his sons - which only made it easier for the World Eaters to butcher them. They were typically unleashed in situations where the Imperium really didn't care about collateral damage. For where the Space Wolves and Dark Angels, the other two extermination legions of the Imperium, could be controlled, the World Eaters simply could not be. Angron ordered his sons to complete every single conquest and compliance action in thirty-one hours, since he and his gladiator army had once destroyed an entire city on Nuceria in the same span of time. When and if they failed, he mocked them for being inadequate and ordered them to [[Perturabo|decimate themselves]], it apparently not having occurred to him that it's a little harder to take down an entire planet than it is one city, even if you are a Space Marine legion (remember, not the brightest of his brothers). Things were getting so bad that some of the World Eaters' senior officers were considering going to the Emperor for help, at least until the Nails became a thing and they stopped caring about anything beyond RIP AND TEAR. One of them even talked back to Angron on the subject, which caused him to RAEG the fuck out and start killing his own sons again until some of the Librarians knocked him out.

He also had a run in with [[Leman Russ]] at some point, just after the XII Legion started getting their brains Nailed. Russ came to Angron after having heard reports that the World Eaters were increasingly just bathing in blood, instead of bringing worlds to compliance. Angron wasn't as brain-damaged as he would be later, so he asked if Russ had come on order of the Emperor. Russ grudgingly had to admit he wasn't; this wasn't an execution ordered by the Emperor (yet) and he privately didn't want it to become one in the future. So he went on saying that implanting Angron's legionaries with the Nails had to stop and that they'd be brought to Terra so a way of removing them could be devised (so he basically told Angron to sort his shit out and stop mutilating his sons). But we all know how good Russ is with people and generally <s>just liked throwing his weight around</s>. In more seriousness, this is one of the cases where Russ really, genuinely wanted to help one of his brothers, having had his own bouts with [[rage|irresistible murderous intent]] to deal with. Additionally, it is heavily implied that the two missing Primarchs met their end at Russ's hands on orders from the Emperor. Russ was not a fan of his role as being the Emperor's personal Judge Dredd as would later be demonstrated by the fact that he pleaded Lorgar's case (of all people) to the Emperor when He was considering 86ing the Word Bearers. Russ's approach sadly [[fail|wasn't well thought out]]. Though to be fair Angron wasn't exactly diplomatic either, telling Russ that the Nails were the only thing that kept him going, that the EMPRA was just another slaver (and that bringing "compliance" to worlds was just a way of candycoating enslaving worlds which merely had wished to be left alone), and that without the Nails he might go to Big.E and chop "the slaving bastard's" head off. Ironically enough Angron had a solid point with the former argument, but the very suggestion of turning against Emps basically made Russ [[rage|lose what remained of his cool on the spot]] with the result one would expect.
[[File:Angron, lord of the locker room.jpg|thumb|right|A Remembrancer's sketch of the duel between Angron and Leman Russ.]]

There was a brief skirmish between the two Legions (an event which would come to be known as the "Night of the Wolf") where Angron fought Leman Russ in personal combat. [[Rape|He made him his personal bitch]] until he was outmaneuvered by the Space Wolves troops and surrounded, isolated from his World Eaters who were just like their father putting up one hell of a fight and hurt on the Wolves but being slowly separated and isolated from each other. Russ then tried to make his point a second time; that Angron's berserker rage made him and his Legion lose sight of the larger tactical and strategic objectives and that Russ had deliberately lured him into a position where he could be gunned down with a snap of Russ fingers. Angron refused to acknowledge his losing position since he was the one holding the weapon at his brother's throat and that killing EVERYONE should be the only objective anyway. Russ might be very well holding the proverbial gun to his temple, but it was only worth anything if he was willing to pull the trigger. Which at that point Russ wasn't, so Angron completely ignored him. Yet, surprisingly, Angron did not press his attack either and both Primarchs separated and went their own way. But, as time would show, the nails had a degrading effect on Angron's ability to hold back and remain coherent, so maybe that's your answer right there.

Angron was certain of his victory that day and didn't give the incident any more thought, the Nails stayed with him and his Legion. In the end, though, Leman Russ was right: Angron's failure to learn and control his murderous rage would be amply demonstrated and only become worse with time. At the tail end of the Great Crusade when he butchered a whole city which had just surrendered, on Isstvan III when he sabotaged Horus' clean [[Exterminatus]] by going down to rip the loyalists apart personally, and on Nuceria where he ordered every living being killed. But what’s truly sad is that Lorgar actually did seemingly succeed where Russ had failed in teaching the lesson of the Night of the Wolf years later. Weirdly, he did this by simply telling Angron in no uncertain terms that Russ had won and why, and for whatever reason Angron's previous retardation dawned on him this time. In the case of Lorgar's explanation, not being in the middle of a fight to the death (at least as far as Agron was concerned) probably helped with regard to Angron's perceptiveness (fewer MURDERMURDERKILLKILL impulses from the Nails). Additionally, on their way to Nuceria during Angron’s last weeks as a human, he actually seemed to be trying to open himself up a little more to his legion by joining them in watching pit fights and hanging out with them during feasts, all of which was rendered too little too late by what went down when they reached their destination.

===Horus Heresy===
[[File:Daemon-Angron HHST.png|400px|thumb|right|Angron during the [[Siege of Terra]], about to give the defenders a very bad day]]
When Horus decided to rebel, Angron was one of the initial Primarchs to join him, along with Fulgrim and Mortarion. Why is not particularly hard to guess; he already hated the Emperor's guts like practically no other Primarch (with the possible exception of Curze, though even he managed to come to terms before his death with his father), and considered the Crusade to be little better than a galaxy-spanning slavery endeavor. How this concern jives with him being one of the Crusade's most prominent butchers is somewhat strange but his brain probably resembled a scrambled egg more than anything else at this point. A little cognitive dissonance was the absolute least of his problems.

On that note, Angron kicked off his contribution to the Heresy in a characteristically retarded fashion. When the firestorm on Isstvan died down, it became apparent that large numbers of Loyalists had survived. Said survivors immediately hit the vox-casters and began demanding answers/hurling insults up at the orbiting fleet, outraged and grief stricken that they had been betrayed by their own Primarchs. Horus disregarded this and prepared to initiate a second virus bombing. Angron however, was not quite so thick skinned. Hearing the howled insults of his own Loyalist World Eaters (which more than likely included some cutting one-liners and yo-dead-gladiator-crew jokes), Angron flew into a rage and deployed onto the planet his legion. When he learned of this, Horus was so furious that he seriously considered proceeding with the virus bombing regardless of Angron's presence planetside. However the Warmaster then took a few moments to collect himself and attempted to salvage what was supposed to have been a simple Exterminatus. In an adorable attempt to give the situation a silver lining, he reasoned that if he backed Angron's ground assault, his troops would get some experience fighting other Astartes. He also hoped that by giving Angron's landing his blessing, Angron would see that Horus was willing to give him freedoms that the Emperor had not. Finally, the World Eater's fleet elements were still present in orbit and manned, and killing their Primarch probably wouldn't have gone over too well with most of them. With about a third of each of the Traitor legions' Astartes having already remained loyal, Horus was in no position to have the remaining two thirds of the World Eaters turn against him. Sadly for Horus, Angron's decision ended up being one of the biggest mistakes of the heresy. Due to a number of unforced errors on the part of several Traitor commanders, and a mindblowing amount of grit on the part of the Loyalists, the Traitors ended up losing over half of their attacking force over a period of 3 months. To add insult to injury, Horus eventually decided that he was losing too many assets trying to break the Loyalists on the ground. Though the Loyalist commanders had mostly been killed by that point in the campaign, Horus had quite [[Dropsite Massacre|a number of other things that he needed to be getting on with]]. So he had Angron physically wrestled back up into orbit (as Angron wouldn't leave any other way), and used his fleet to glass the entire planet's surface.

Angron was much more handy on Isstvan V, wreaking all sorts of carnage in the Dropsite Massacre. Ironically his presence there hardly mattered considering how thoroughly boned the Loyalists had been to begin with, but Horus surely appreciated having such a supremely capable beat-stick to hit his foes with. When Horus and the other Traitor Primarchs departed, Angron stayed behind to hunt down the surviving Raven Guard who'd escaped with Corax. Despite the Raven Guard's supreme sneakiness, they eventually ran out of places to run and hide, and Angron was only hours away from finding and butchering the lot of them. Fortunately for the beleaguered [[meme|birbs]], a group of Raven Guard reserves rocked up from Deliverance due to warp phuckery and managed to rescue Corax and most of his men, leaving Angron even more beside himself with fury than usual.

Lorgar then roped Angron into his Shadow Crusade, systematically butchering worlds across Ultramar to invoke the Ruinstorm. Initially, this was a campaign with mixed success: the two Legions nearly fought in the void before an Eldar fleet tried to destroy Angron, and the World Eaters wiped out several worlds which Lorgar had wanted to skip. The Word Bearers were nearly driven to despair by the World Eaters' degradation, and Lorgar began to worry that Angron couldn't see how he was degenerating - and there was only one way that could end. Still, Lorgar wanted to save Angron, although in his case "save" meant "transfigure into a daemon Primarch without asking". Angron was, according to Horus and Lorgar, the only Primarch besides Horus himself that could potentially be able to successfully take on Sanguinius in full rage mode (though Russ and The Lion would probably give them a run for their money if fighting to kill and judging from recent lore, Sanguinius would wipe the floor with him), which at that point was basically the only use Horus had for him. To do that, Lorgar led Angron back to his shitty home planet [[Nuceria]]. There, Angron returned to the site of his followers' final battle, now little more than an open-air graveyard filled with the bones of his compatriots. This caused Angron to fall into a deep depression, which only lasted until he had the misfortune to be told he had fled that final battle. Needless to say, hearing this caused him to go completely berserk, and he ordered his legion to slaughter every fucking thing on the planet faster than an [[Exterminatus|inquisitorial cyclonic torpedo bombardment]].

The arrival of Guilliman's forces delayed its inevitable doom for a little while, and Angron had an epic showdown with [[Roboute Guilliman]] when he helped [[Lorgar]] in fighting big boy blue. Guilliman called Angron out to which the Red Angel replied as follows:

<blockquote>''"What would you know of struggle, Perfect Son? When have you fought against the mutilation of your mind? When have you had to do anything more than tally compliances and polish your armour?" [...] "The people of your world named you Great One. The people of mine called me Slave. Which one of us landed on a paradise of civilization to be raised by a foster father, Roboute? Which one of us was given armies to lead after training in the halls of the Macraggian high-riders? Which one of us inherited a strong, cultured kingdom? And which one of us had to rise up against a kingdom with nothing but a horde of starving slaves? Which one of us was a child enslaved on a world of monsters, with his brain cut up by carving knives? Listen to your blue-clad wretches yelling of courage and honour, courage and honour, courage and honour. Do you even know the meaning of those words? Courage is fighting the kingdom which enslaves you, no matter that their armies outnumber yours by ten-thousand to one. You know nothing of courage. Honour is resisting a tyrant when all others suckle and grow fat on the hypocrisy he feeds them. You know nothing of honour."''</blockquote>

Guilliman ended up getting beaten so badly he had to crawl away on hands and knees (though to be fair to him he put up one hell of a fight, especially considering that half his face was missing), but not before throwing back a pretty scathing retort of his own:

<blockquote>''"You’re still a slave, Angron. Enslaved by your past, blind to the future. Too hateful to learn. Too spiteful to prosper."''</blockquote>

The irony is Angron was right all along about Emperor being a dick, as Roboute realized on Terra ten thousand years later. But in all seriousness, both of them had a point. True, Guilliman had it comparatively easy and could have turned out massively different had his life not been so cushy. But Angron's rage over ''his'' admittedly-shitty life, worsened by his unwillingness to move on from the loss of his old comrades or accept his Legion as being his new family and compounded further still by not even trying to rise above his upbringing, had consumed his soul and didn't exactly let him off the hook for turning his entire legion into murder machines despite constantly blaming the Butcher's Nails for ruining his life.

Additionally, Angron of all people attempting to lecture anyone about the concept of honor is hypocrisy of the highest form. Even Konrad Curze, arguably the most terrifyingly barbaric Primarch, had a logical reason behind his brutality before he completely lost his mind. Angron never had a reason for killing, and he never needed one. He spilt blood just for the sake of it, annihilating entire planetary systems simply for the lulz. Whatever honor Angron once might have had, he had tossed it aside long ago in the name of satiating his hatred. At the time of his confrontation with Guilliman, he was little more than a rabid dog; his brains in the final stages of degradation via the Nails. He was essentially already a Khorne devotee in all but name and aspect; the sick daemon form he would soon receive was just an aesthetic cherry on top.

What made it worse was that the Nails themselves, as it turned out, could actually be overcome. As demonstrated by Arrian Zorzi, a renegade WE Apothecary who threw his lot in with [[Fabius Bile]] and eventually became his 2nd in command of [[The Consortium (Warhammer 40,000)|The Consortium]], and who likes (evil) gardening: a highly disciplined mind could control the aggression of the Nails. Which meant that, in yet another tragic twist of irony, Angron might have been able to save himself if he had simply not given over so completely to despair and spite. On the other hand, the cruder copy implanted in World Eaters legionnaires might be easier to overcome than the genuine article, and Zorzi is (so far) a unique case.

Furthermore, during their duel Guilliman shattered one of the skulls of Angron's rebel followers that he had carried with him (and whom he had promised to die alongside with... until the EMPRA abducted him. Angron himself said to Lorgar in "Betrayer" that he died on Nuceria), which obviously drove Angron to an entire new level of despair, allowing for Lorgar to capitalize on that emotion to fuel Angron's ascension into a daemon primarch. There were even 19 World Eater librarians, that had tried to prevent their primarch's ascension forming a gestalt warhound, pulling Angron's soul from one end, while Lorgar as well as some daemons pulled at it from the other, like children fighting over a doll. In the end, Lorgar - being the more powerful psyker - defeated the Librarians, and turned Angron into the Daemon Primarch we all know and love; his first act upon ascension was to immediately slaughter the Librarians. Guilliman ended up suffering a grievous wound, but escaped the planet, which was rendered devoid of all life by the World Eaters, and had its records erased by the Imperium of Man.

It should also be noted that one or two battles beforehand a Warhound Scout Titan tried to step on Lorgar after the Aurelian had taken two discharges of the the titan's main plasma weapon and was badly hurt (to the point of almost being mortally wounded) in the process. Angron stepped in to save his brother, catching the titan's foot and setting a new world record in squat weightlifting, keeping the titans weight suspended above himself through his sheer strength and RAGE, enabling Lorgar - who was almost dead at this point - to escape (meanwhile Ferrus Manus could punch THROUGH REAVERS and doubtless would have found this adorable). And this was after digging his way up through 200+ feet of solid debris, after being warned by WE Librarians he had been digging 'downwards', and with Lorgar teleporting from orbit to help excavating the XIIth Primarch (while Lorgar simultaneously destroyed several Ultramarine Thunderhawks with telekinetically hurled building debris which Angron had been buried under). Of course, after this the relationship between the two primarchs became pretty remarkable, and Lorgar ended up repaying the favor by arranging for Angron's ascension to daemonhood during their fight with Guilliman. At first Lorgar thought that Guilliman was ruining the "song" and finally understood that Guilliman had never hated or looked down on him until the Heresy (and the destruction of Calth) - actually distracting Lorgar for a moment as he realized that he had misunderstood his brother all along - At the end though, when Guilliman was about to gain the upper hand Angron emerged and engaged the XIII Primarch. At this very moment (topped off by Guilliman stepping on one of the aforementioned skulls) the "song" fell back in tune, and Lorgar could finish the incantation.

After this, the World Eaters ''somehow'' managed to get Angron back aboard his flagship, but were at a bit of a loss as to what to do with him afterwards. Obviously having a blood crazed Daemon Primarch living in one's basement was not exactly ideal even for the World Eaters. So initially they attempted to restrain Angron, but there was literally nothing they could do to keep him contained. Any cell block or restraining device they used on him he simply turned to scrap the instant it started annoying him. And yet, Angron never once actually attempted to leave the part of the ship in which he'd made his lair. He had developed crippling bipolar tendencies, and where his manic phase embodied the champion of raw murder we all know and love, his depressive phase was so utterly ''dead inside'' it makes [[Isha]] look cheery in comparison. He spent most of his free time cowering in a corner, calling out for the Emperor or just crying himself to sleep. This only made the World Eaters ''more'' terrified of him, as he could rampage through the ship at a moment's notice and they wouldn't be able to stop him. Only Kharn was able (or willing) to talk to Angron, and even Kharn knew he was risking death each time he did so; it would literally only depend on whether or not he caught Angron in a bad mood.

Kharn's conversations with Angron revealed yet another sad development for the Primarch, which was that becoming a daemon had caused him to develop a sort of dementia. He had to be verbally prodded by Kharn to remember certain places, people, and events, and Kharn was not always successful in doing so. Even his past as a gladiator or his adoptive father were hit-or-miss in terms of whether or not he could recall them. His entire sense of self had become lost to Khorne, and he swung from sapient being to bloodthirsty beast with seemingly no control over who he was as any given moment. He also became completely dependent on bloodshed to maintain his link to the mortal realm, and could only last a few weeks without planetary scale butchery to keep him tethered. As such, the World Eaters were forced to divert into any populated system they could find as they travelled towards Terra just to keep Angron in the material plane. He was also the only Daemon Primarch who, in yet another grim irony, never got any say in becoming a daemon- even [[Magnus the Red]] did not ascend before first rejecting the Emperor's offer of forgiveness. So he went from being a slave to the Nucerians, to being a slave to the Emperor, to being a slave to Khorne, forced to fight for all three without ever having any choice and now he could not even rebel. He's basically 40k's Butt-Monkey at this point. Angron's transformation into a Daemon also caused the World Eaters to develop an unmatched hatred for the Word Bearers for so thoroughly destroying their gene-father. Kharn in particular was furious about this in his comparatively lucid moments, as being the only person who Angron wouldn't immediately kill gave him front row seat to witness the completely broken, miserable monster Angron had ultimately become.

Shortly thereafter, Horus sent Perturabo to go collect Angron and his now completely degenerated legion for use at the Siege of Terra. As stated previously, the World Eaters had needed to stop every time they found a populated system in order to shed the blood necessary to keep Angron in the material realm. But they were getting too sidetracked in doing so, and Horus hadn't been able to talk them into hurrying up. Upon confronting the World Eaters, the Iron Warriors absolutely wrecked their maniacal brothers, ironically by doing the same sort of thing that the Space Wolves had so many years ago during the Night of the Wolf. Instead of allowing the World Eaters to engage them in close combat, the Iron Warriors initially shot only the daemons amongst the World Eaters, and then largely attempted to trap or disable the World Eaters where possible. The point was both to deny them combat, and thus power, and obviously to round them up for the Siege. Angron himself confronted Perturabo, who willingly met his brother's charge. After getting blasted into pasta sauce by a group of Iron Warriors, Angron jumped into melee with Perturabo and heavily damaged his armor. Perturabo got in a decent counter-hit or two but he'd always been one of the brainy rather than brawny Primarchs. He was simply no match for Angron in melee combat even with Forgebreaker in hand, though his armor's durability was something to behold.

However, it would turn out that being an evil version of Guilliman would come in quite handy for Perturabo. For you see, Perturabo gave absolutely zero fucks about fighting fair. For instance, during the Drop Site Massacre when Vulkan had been screaming for Perturabo to face him in melee combat, Pert had chuckled a bit and then dropped a nuke on him. Perturabo had come to do a job, and as per usual, he was going to get it done. As such, he repeatedly insulted Angron as being a weak, pitiful slave who had sold his strength out of despair, and had become ''weaker'' as a result. Of course, Angron hadn't actually chosen to become a daemon at all, but Perturabo clearly either didn't know or didn't care. Perturabo then summoned up reinforcements in the form of the Iron Circle, which Angron started lashing out against. Their gigantic melee shields held strong even in the face of Angron's onslaught, and he succeeded only in tiring himself out. The lack of slaughter and rather bloodless combat (and possibly the insults) ultimately drained Angron of much of his power, and Perturabo and the Iron Circle started mercilessly blasting chunks out of him with what were heavily implied to be anti-Daemon rounds. The very first [[Obliterator]], Volk, then added a fusillade of his own to the mix. The assault of Perturabo, Volk, and the Iron Circle, combined with the Iron Warriors having denied the World Eaters their tithe of blood, weakened Angron to the point where he could no longer fight. Perturabo took the opportunity to mock Angron a bit more, and then waltzed over to him and unceremoniously knocked him out with a single blow from Forgebreaker. After this, he collected his recalcitrant brother and his legion and packed them up to head for Terra. (The fact Perturabo accomplished all this while sustaining minimal casualties shows how impressive his track-record during the Great Crusade could've been if he actually gave a damn.)

During the Siege of Terra, he also had a pretty bitchin fight with Sanguinius which continued his losing streak. To be fair to him though, Sanguinius is Sanguinius, and Angron put up a very worthy fight. Most of the beginning consisted of Angron simply trying to catch Sanguinus, who had recently come off of fighting [[Ka'bandha]] and was already wounded and tired. Angron, who was not used to flying and was cumbersomely bulky (seriously his model's wings have biceps bigger than his arms do, and that's saying something), found he was not fast or maneuverable enough to land a hit on Sanguinius in the air. After a time, Sanguinius managed to land a hit and run slash upon Angron's head which destroyed his eyes and a significant portion of his face. Sadly for Sanguinius, Angron regenerated his injuries almost immediately, as the absurd amount of bloodshed occuring on Terra at the time provided a constant pool of energy to empower Angron. The two of them ended up crashing into the interior of a Warlord Titan's cockpit, and began a brawl in which Angron started slamming Sanguinius's head onto the floor. However, Sanguinius retaliated using his Infernus pistol, an incredibly silly one shot melta weapon which only exists as such because its in-game rules say it can only fire once. However stupid, the shot vaporized one of Angron's arms and drove him away from Sanguinius. Angron then had a flashback of Nuceria and his gladiator brothers and sisters, ruminating momentarily on how peaceful the night before the Emperor kidnapped him had been in spite of the Nails. This distraction allowed Sanguinius to impale Angron through the heart. To Sanguinius's surprise, Angron regenerated again and attempted to grab him. Sanguinius was too fast however, and withdrew his blade before Angron could get ahold of him. The two took to the air again but Angron was still not able to keep up with Sanguinius. After a short aerial chase, Sanguinius darted back into melee range and stabbed the Spear of Telesto through Angron's mouth and out the back of his head. With his brainstem pulped, Angron was momentarily unable to move and he crashed to the ground. He managed to regenerate enough to pull the Spear out, then completely healed right before Sanguinius engaged him on the ground. Unable to quickly overwhelm Angron in melee combat, Sanguinius took off again and as he did, Angron threw the Spear at him.

However, Sanguinius caught the Spear out of the air, [[meme|barrel rolled]] with it, and used the roll in conjunction with the Spear's momentum to throw it back at Angron. Despite Angron believing that he could catch the Spear in turn, it impaled him through the chest and pinned him to the ground. As Sanguinius flew off, Angron managed to get the Spear out once more but the wound healed more slowly than his previous injuries. Angron came to the realization at that point that fighting Sanguinius in the air was simply not working, and decided to change tack. As fate would have it, Sanguinius and Angron had landed for their melee bout in the midst of a group of battling Blood Angels and World Eaters, and Angron started slaughtering these Blood Angels in the hope of luring Sanguinius back. It quickly worked, and the two engaged on the ground once again. Initially they were evenly matched, but after a relatively short time, the already exhausted Sanguinius began to give ground. With Sanguinius essentially on his last legs and Angron only growing in power, both combatants realized that Sanguinius could not afford to let the fight drag on. Shortly thereafter, Angron decided to let Sanguinius stab him in order to get in close and grab his brother's throat. In the same motion, he also impaled Sanguinius through the gut with the Black Blade. Believing he had won, Angron mocked Sanguinius as he attempted to crush his adversary's throat. Unfortunately for Angron, Sanguinius had seemingly had the same idea of taking a wound to get in close, and the Angel grabbed the cables of the Butcher's Nails that were [[what|STILL]] somehow stuck in Angron's head, and even still functioning the same way they previously had. Angron tried everything he could to loosen Sanguinius's grip, but Sanguinius, fully Hulked out from the Red Thirst, started tearing the cables out of Angron's head. [[Not as Planned|The Nails being ripped out caused Angron so much pain that he actually begged Sanguinius to stop]], but Sanguinius's pity well was well and truly bone dry at that point in the duel. The Angel proceeded to rip both the Nails and the brain in which they were embedded out of Angron's skull. This had the effect of killing Angron's physical incarnation and sending his soul back to the Warp. Khorne, as his champion died, laughed at the bloodshed from inside of Angron's own skull, caring as per usual not from whence the blood flowed so long as it did. By contrast, Angron's sons were a lot less philosophical than their patron, and so far from finding the matter amusing, went berserker(er) and started team-killing, which really just further ruined Horus' sublimely shitty day.

===41st Millennium===
[[Image:Angrondemon.jpg|300px|thumb|Even in daemonhood, they ''still'' can't get the Nails out. Fucking Archeotech was built to ''last''!]]
Angron has done far more shit than all the other Daemon Primarchs put together. Instead of sitting around [[Fulgrim|being a painting on some Chaos God's wall]], sitting around [[Mortarion|being a rotting fatass and feeling sorry for themselves]], sitting around [[Magnus the Red|yelling just as planned anytime anything happens]], sitting around [[Lorgar|preaching constantly]], [[Horus|being]] [[Alpharius|(Maybe)]] [[Konrad Curze|dead]], or [[Primarch#Two Missing Primarchs|being missing]]; Angron actually gets shit done and boy howdy when he [[rage]]s his way out of the eye of terror he makes sure that everyone knows about it...by tearing ''everything'' that gets in his way a new one until he finally gets thrown back into the warp by drowning in a quadrillion metric fucktons of [[Imperial Guard|Imperial Guardsmen]], [[Planetary Defense Force | Planetary Defense Force soldiers]], [[Space Marines|Spehss Mehreens]], [[Witch Hunters]], [[Sisters of Battle|Bolter Bitches]], [[Titan|Titans]], [[Stormtrooper|Inquisitorial Stormtroopers]], [[Daemonhunters]], and [[Grey Knights]], but to be fair, everyone kind of does that when the Imperium <strike>finishes the paperwork needed to</strike> retaliates.

This was of course before The Gathering Storm, whereupon Magnus personally attacked [[Fenris]] and laid waste to much of the planet and destroyed a lot of gene-seed, proving that [[Tzeentch]] can get shit done too. Then in 8th edition Mortarion waged [[Plague Wars]] against [[Ultramar]] and established the [[Scourge Stars]] systems in M42. Also it should be noted that Fulgrim has been free of that painting for a while now, but otherwise he still fits in the above category.

He also slaughtered his way throughout Imperial Space for over a century with 50,000 World Eater [[Khorne Berzerkers|Berzerker]]s and destroyed/maimed/killed/burned/broke the backs of/split open/fucked 70 sectors. However, in a subsequent Imperial offensive, Angron was banished to the warp and his men routed. This strike force comprised 2 Titan Legions, ''only'' 4 full Spess Mehreen chapters and over 30 Imperial Guard regiments to do that, so it's suffice to say that the counterattack put up quite a fight against the superior force. But to be fair, Angron's force was only comprised of close combat heavy infantry without ranged support or artillery.

Later on, he showed up with an even bigger force to attack Armageddon. The Imperium responded in kind, sending in one hundred [[Grey Knights|Grey Knight Terminators]], and all but ten of them died fighting Angron and his Bloodthirster posse(and only because their prodigy Librarian Hyperion managed to shatter his sword, and he STILL managed to murder their leader with just his bare fists). He is armed with a really huge fucking chainaxe that's taller than him with chainswords for the chainteeth of the chainaxe. He's also got a storm bolter, but we wouldn't be surprised if that fired chainswords as well. Fittingly enough, it was called 'Godtearer'.

Strangely, as seen in the picture above, he also still has the Butchers Nails stuck in his head. This should be completely impossible as Angron technically speaking doesn't have a body anymore (he's 100% warp energy now), and the Nails are technological in nature. He's also been blasted into paste on numerous occasions and forcibly dematerialized into the warp on a number of others, which means that the Nails seemingly regenerate along with the rest of him. The most likely explanation is that, as a daemon, he is at least partially shaped by the mortal perception of him, and the Nails are a big part of his story to anyone with high enough clearance to know his name. If that is true, then he actually is finally free of the Nails and the wires and bits poking out of his skull are just his way of making sure no one confuses him with [[Doombreed]] or something. Nope, turns out they are still present and still functional in the exact same way they were when Angron was flesh and blood. In fact, Sanguinius found out that these cables were a very viable weak point on the daemon primarch, as ripping them out caused such indescribable agony that might well have killed him were he still mortal. Agony so severe that it led him to ''beg'' the person he was trying to kill to stop.

He also wrote something called the '''Clotted Scrolls''' somewhere along the line, though precisely what wisdom he wrote (probably in blood) in there is unknown (maybe methods on how to [[rip and tear]] more effectively?).

==In video games==

Unfortunately, he has appeared in only one of the official games, which greatly displeases [[Khorne]]. However, in the Ultimate Apocalypse mod for [[Dawn of War]], he takes the place of the Chaos Daemons' "game-ending win button" unit - and he's a walking rapetrain that can [[Awesome|obliterate buildings with a single hit, take out Titans in three, make himself invincible, and summon a retinue of Bloodthirsters]]. He can also be almost unkillable by exploiting a bug which lets him instantly refill his morale, which gives him disturbingly fast health regeneration. Too bad you'll almost never use him. He costs so many relic points in an army that consumes them like candy that, if you can spare the points and time to conjure him, chances are you're already winning so badly you don't actually need him. Seriously, for the same number of points it takes to conjure Angron you could just build 5-6 Helldrakes or an equal amount of Bloodthirsters, and keep in mind Chaos Daemons need the same resource for anything greater than lesser Daemons. If you're not spending them on other units you need ''right now'' then you can just overwhelm them with what you already have. Essentially the definition of "awesome but impractical", but sweet jesus is it truly awesome to watch.

Angron shows up in the Horus Heresy:Legions card game, being one of the best warlords, and in keeping with his character he has to attack every turn.

==On the tabletop==

===Horus Heresy===
====1E====
{| class=wikitable
! || Pts || WS || BS || S || T || W || I || A || Ld || Sv
|-
| '''Angron:''' || 400 || 9 || 5 || 7 || 6 || 5 || 7 || 6 || 10 || 3+/4++
|}
[[File:Angaron.jpg|300px|right|thumb|WHY IS HE BEATING UP HIS OWN LEGION said everyone on Istvaan III. Proof that Angron was actually a Loyalist Primarch. Don't believe the Chaos lies!]]
Obviously one of the strongest Primarchs in the game when it comes to close combat, aside from his stats Angron has a 3+ armor (weak for a demigod), 4+ invulnerable, FNP (the full rule since the 02/11/2019 errata) the Primarch rule and Hatred, so he gets to re-roll to-hit rolls on the first turn of any combat, while also having Armourbane and dealing Instant Death on to wound roll of 6, in case S8-9 doesn't instagib anything right away. Thanks to the Butcher's Nails he will gain 1 bonus attack (up to 10) for every Independent Character or Infantry unit he kills/destroys in close combat (But he must be the one to give the fatal blow/remove the last model to pick up this bonus) and he can also challenge as many times as there are Independent Characters and units in combat with him thanks to the Red Sands rule, assuring he will at least pick up some extra attacks during the course of the game.

The obvious downsides are that, aside from butchering things in melee, Angron cannot do anything: he doesn't buff his army in any way aside 12" aura of Fearless, while other Primarchs bestow significant buffs to their armies, and of course he is one of the (if not THE) most fragile of the Primarchs, having only 5 wounds and 3+/4++. Having FNP 5+ doesn't fully compensate against mass fire but makes him actually more resilient than most of his brothers against AP2 attacks. So all in all he's much like Kharn on steroids: you reach melee - you're king, you get your transport blown up and then get kited across the table - you're fucked. The other problem he shares with Kharn is that he tends to annihilate anything he charges in one phase either through sweeping advance or just by killing everyone outright, which leaves him vulnerable to enemy fire afterwards.

Honestly, he's not worth it. Between his fragility, low mobility, and lack of army bonuses, he's a tricky Primarch to use. Unfortunate considering his badass fluff.

====2E====
{| class=wikitable
! || Pts || M || WS || BS || S || T || W || I || A || Ld || Sv
|-
| '''Angron:''' || 450 || 8 || 8 || 5 || 6 || 6 || 6 || 6 || 6 || 10 || 2+/4++
|}

While he's taken a few hits statwise, Angron remains just as indescribably angry in the new HH, especially now that he has a proper 2+/4++ save like the other primarchs. on top of everything the Primarch rule provides, he also gets Hatred (Everything), Rampage (2) and Furious Charge (2) so his charges can be even more devastating. With both Gorefather and Gorechild being AP2 with Shred, Armorbane and Murderous Strike (3+), he can reduce plenty into paste. The Butcher's Nails rule got changed to now provide extra attacks on EVERY turn now, meaning that every turn he's on the field he becomes even more dangerous, especially when he's into all these challenges thanks to the Red Sands rule.

But as before, killing is all he can do. His Warlord Trait gives everyone Feel No Pain (6+), which is only okay, and Adamantium Mind (3+), which will only see limited use considering how few psykers are on the field. The most helpful part of this is the free reaction you can take at any phase each turn. He also has rather limited defense, as despite his 2+/4++ save, he will always be hit in melee as if he has a WS of 3, which is particularly devastating when against a praetor with a power axe.

===40k===
====Older Editions====
{| class=wikitable
! || Pts || WS || BS || S || T || W || I || A || Ld || Sv
|-
| '''Angron:''' || 500 || 10 || 6 || 7 || 6 || 5 || 6 || 6 || 10 || 3+/4++
|}

He had stats from an old issue of [[White Dwarf]], and though they might seem disappointing, especially in comparison to his Primarch form (it's barely an upgrade), his stats alone don't tell you everything.

For starters, he has additional rules such as Furious Charge (to make him S8), he has Iron Hide (keeping his power armour save), the Roar of Hate rule to reduce the Leadership of enemies by 1, and his Daemon rule made his Invuln as strong as when he relied on armour. The real boost to him however is the fact that he's a Flying Monstrous Creature now (although in the edition he came out it just gave him 12" movement instead), effectively keeping his Armourbane and AP2, and it fixes his movement issue.

The real boost to his old self is his weapon, Angron's Black Blade, and with it in hand it's no wonder Gorefather and Gorechild became hand-me-downs. This is a Master-crafted weapon that gives all of his attacks the Instant Death rule. All this combined he makes [[Abaddon]] the Despoiler and [[Mephiston]] look like total pussies, but you have to get him a bodyguard of at least 2-12 [[Bloodthirster|bloodthirsters]], which effectively racks up his point cost to over 1300 at the least, but there's nothing in the game that survive a charge from him and his bodyguards.

====9th Edition====
[[File:AngronDaemonPrimarch.jpg|300px|right|thumb|WHAT THE WARP DO YOU MEAN GUILLIMAN'S ALIVE?!]]

It's happening people: the galaxy's angriest man is at long last getting a proper model of his Daemon Primarch form and rules in the upcoming World Eaters codex, and he hasn't skipped wing day once since the 31st Millennia. BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD, BOYS AND GIRLS!

==Angron VS other Primarchs:==
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Primarch fighting, while fun to see, isn't a very competitive thing to do as it'll usually tie up both Primarchs for the entire game without either of them dying (But with Angron this is less likely as you're going to die or kill fast!), with that in mind this section is about how Angron fares against other Primarchs Mathhammer wise. Please note that all the various abilities are taken into accounts when possible and the match-ups assume the Primarchs are the only ones involved in the fighting, so various abilities like Angron's "The Butcher's Nails" and Rampage do not provide any bonuses. The fights are supposed to be in a vacuum for simplicity (So no Furious Charge for our hero...), but notes are added to make things clearer in particular instances. Also all of the Primarchs use their most powerful weapons (because why have a contest if you don't do your best?)
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* Angron VS Horus
**Horus turn 1 & 2: hits 3 times, wounds 2.667 times, 0.888 after saves and FNP, and IWND will take that down to 0.555 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Horus (with Angron wounded twice): hits 3.999 times, wounds 3.555 times, causes 1.185 wounds after saves & FNP, taken to 0.851 with IWND at the start of the next turn.
**Angron Round 1: hits 5.333 times, wounds 4.444 times, 1.48 after saves, and IWND take it down to 1.148.
**Angron Wounded: hits 3 times, wounds 1.999 times, 0.666 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.333 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Despite a good showing in the first round; when factoring in Disabling Strike the whole thing becomes academic; Horus overtakes Angron in damage capacity after one wound (<2 turns) and quickly beats Angron to a pulp as Angron continues to flail feebly.

* Angron vs Fulgrim
**Fulgrim hits 3.5 times, wounds 2.333 times (2.722 times if his warlord trait is Child of Terra), 1.166 (1.361) times after saves, 0.971 (1.134) after Feel No Pain (remember that half of the attacks that wound cause Instant Death) and IWND will take that down to 0.638 (0.801) wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Angron Round 1: hits 5.333 times, wounds 4.444 times, 1.48 after saves, and IWND take it down to 1.148.
**Angron Round 2 and thereafter: hits 4 times, wounds 3.333 times, 1.111 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.778 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**A really close fight: Angron does marginally more damage if Fulgrim doesn't chose Child of Terra as his Warlord Trait. With Child of Terra it becomes a battle of attrition that Angron will eventually lose. If Angron gets blinded at any point due to Fulgrim's Gilded Panoply it puts him at a disadvantage he likely wont recover from.

* Angron VS Ferrus
**Ferrus hits 2.5 times, wounds 2.083 times, 0.694 times after saves and FNP, and IWND will take that down to 0.361 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Angron Round 1: hits 5.333 times, wounds 3.555 times, 1.185 after saves, and IWND take it down to 0.852.
**Angron Round 2: hits 4 times, wounds 2.666 times, 0.889 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.556 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Thanks to his upgraded Feel No Pain, Angron can tank more than Ferrus can, resulting in a win.

* Angron VS Konrad Curze
**Curze hits 3 times, wounds 2.25 times, 0.750 wounds after saves and FNP, and IWND will take that down to 0.417 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Angron Round 1: hits 5.333 times, wounds 4.444 times, 2.222 after saves, and IWND take it down to 1.889.
**Angron Round 2 and thereafter: hits 4 times, wounds 3.333 times, 1.667 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 1.333 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Angron easily wins, doing a lot more damage and receiving less in turn.
**Note: Curze can Hit & Run, but by doing so he would only gain one more attack, while allowing Angron to reset his Hatred, thus actually making himself die even faster. However he would be a much better fight: Konrad on the Charge would do 2.625 wounds (0.875 with ID) which become 1.168, plus 0.1389 for HoW and 0,359 for the Widowmakers, for a total of 1,666 wounds, or 1.333 after IWND. This, thanks to the -1 wound of Angron, actually means that they would kill each other on the fifth assault, at the same initiative step. Provided that Konrad always succeed in his escape, that is.

* Angron VS Vulkan
**Vulkan hits 2 times, wounds 1.666 times, 0.833 wounds after saves (ID Negates FNP) and IWND will take that down to 0.5 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Angron Round 1: hits 5.333 times, wounds 3.555 times, 1.185 after saves, and IWND take it down to 0.63.
**Angron Round 2: hits 4 times, wounds 2.666 times, 0.889 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.333 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Vulkan wins. If Angron has the first turn of combat, Vulkan's legendary endurance nearly fails him by the 8th combat, possibly resulting in an Angron win (5.741). However Vulkan is as likely to kill him in the 7th combat (4.833), and if not has a 83.3% chance of Concussing to swing first for 5.333 wounds in the 8th combat.

* Angron vs Mortarion
**Mortarion hits 2.5 times, wounds 1.666 times, 0.833 times after saves (no FNP due to Instant Death) and IWND will take that down to 0.5 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Angron Round 1: hits 5.333 times, wounds 3.555 times, 1.777 after saves, and IWND take it down to 1.222.
**Angron Round 2: hits 4 times, wounds 2.666 times, 1.333 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.778 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Mortarion loses. Despite having the same reroll on IWND and doing the same damage per turn as Vulkan; even with one extra wound Mortarion's poorer save allows Angron to take him down more quickly.

* Angron VS Lorgar
**Lorgar hits 2.5 times, wounds 2.083 times, 0.694 after saves and FNP, and IWND will take that to 0.361 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Angron Round 1: hits 4 times, wounds 3.111 times, 1.555 after saves, and IWND take it down to 1.222.
**Angron Round 2 and thereafter: hits 4 times, wounds 3.333 times, 1.667 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 1.333 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Angron wins pretty easily.
**Note: against Lorgar Transfigured with Precognition Lorgar wins (Not as easily as the old version, but is still a monster).

*Angron VS Perturabo
**Perturabo hits 2 times, wounds 1.667 times, 0.555 wounds after saves and FNP, then IWND will take that down to 0.222 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Angron Round 1: hits 5.333 times, wounds 4.444 times, 1.48 after saves, and IWND take it down to 1.148.
**Angron Round 2 and thereafter: hits 4 times, wounds 3.333 times, 1.111 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.778 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Angron wins.
**Note: in the turn after Perturabo actually wounds Angron (69% per round) he will most probably be blinded and then hammered to death. So if he can't kill him before that he is actually dead meat.

* Angron VS Alpharius
**Alpharius hits 2.917 times, wounds 1.7 times, 0.85 wounds after saves and IWND will take that down to 0.517 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Angron Round 1: hits 5.333 times, wounds 4.444 times, 2.222 after saves, and IWND take it down to 1.889.
**Angron Round 2 and thereafter: hits 4 times, wounds 3.333 times, 1.667 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 1.333 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**As with Vulkan, Angron can't use FNP in this fight due to the Pale Spear's Instant Death, but he still easily takes the win.

* Angron VS Rogal Dorn
**Dorn hits 2 times, wounds 1.5 times, 0.499 wounds after saves and FNP, and IWND will take that down to 0.167 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Dorn (Sundering Blow) hits once, wounds 0.972 times, 0.486 wounds after saves (No FNP due to Instant Death), taken to 0.152 at the start of the next turn.
**Angron Round 1: hits 5.333 times, wounds 3.555 times, 1.777 after saves, and IWND take it down to 1.444.
**Angron Round 2 and thereafter: hits 4 times, wounds 2.667 times, 1.333 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 1 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**This is probably Angron's easiest fight.
**Note: Sundering Blow cancels out Feel No Pain so it was worth calculating. Turns out it makes no difference here; Dorn has too few attacks to make a difference either way.

* Angron VS Corvus Corax
**Corvus hits 4 times (Scourge)/3 times (Shadow-walk), wounds 3 times (Scourge)/2.25 times (Shadow-walk), 0.999 wounds (Scourge)/0.750 wounds (Shadow-walk) after saves and FNP and IWND will take that down to 0.666/0.417 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Angron Round 1: hits 5.333/4.5 times, wounds 4.444/3.75 times, 2.963/2.5 after saves, and IWND take it down to 2.63/2.167.
**Angron Round 2 and thereafter: hits 4/3 times, wounds 3.333/2.5 times, 2.222/1.667 times after saves and IWND will take that down to 1.889/1.333 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Angron wins really easily as Corax is simply too frail for him.
**Note: differently from Curze, Corax would actually have the edge on the charge thanks to his Sire of the Raven Guard rule and his Hammer of Wrath/dual Archeotech Pistols. Also in a turn in which blind goes off he could have the advantage of Shadow-walk and scourge at the same times (plus more, 'cause he would hit on 3s). A tough fight, but more on his style and it could make him win in extremis.

* Angron VS Roboute Guilliman
**Angron Round 1: Angron has Hatred, so on the first turn he will hits 5.333 times, wounds 4.444 times, 2.222 after saves, 1.972 after Armour of Reason re-roll and IWND take it down to 1.639.
**Angron Round 2: Angron hits 4 times, wounds 3.333 times, 1.667 times after saves, 1.417 after re-roll and IWND will take that down to 1.084 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Angron Round 3 and thereafter: Angron hits 3 times, wounds 2.5 times, 1.25 after saves and 1 after re-roll. Then IWND take it down to 0.667.
**Guilliman Round 1/2/3: hits 2.5 times, wounds 2.222 times, 0.741 times after saves and FNP, and IWND will take that down to 0.407 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Guilliman Round 4 and thereafter: hits 3.333 times, wounds 2.963 times, 0.987 times after saves and FNP, and IWND will take that down to 0.654 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Unsurprisingly, Guilliman loses this fight.

*Angron vs Magnus
**Angron first round: hits 4.5 times, wounds 3.75 times and 1.875 after saves which IWND will take down to 1.542 at the start of next turn
**Angron second round: hits 3 times, wounds 2.5 times and 1.25 after saves which IWND will take down to 0.917 at the start of next turn
**Magnus: hits twice, wounds 1.667 times, reducing to 0.557 after saves & FNP. Then IWND will take down to 0.222 at the start of next turn
**Magnus (using Force): hits twice, wounds 1.667, reduces to 0.834 after saves. IWND brings this to 0.5 at the start of the next turn.
**Psychic powers normally don't get included in the PvP breakdowns, but Magnus is the only one with a Force Weapon so it was worth mentioning. Either way you look at it, Magnus loses this one pretty badly. Things would obviously be different if other powers were included.
**As with psychic powers in general in 30k, this fight is really swingy based on what powers Magnus takes. If he can roll Iron arm and Warp speed with a power left to generate then he could take Prescience to actually gain a decent chance of winning. At the same time he could also have a tough time in power generation and get squished.

*Angron VS Leman Russ
**Angron Round 1: Angron has Hatred and is hitting on a 5+, so he hits 3.333 times, wounds 2.778 times, invul save brings it down to 1.389 and IWND brings it to 1.056 wounds.
**Angron Round 2 and on: Angron is hitting on 5s, so hits 2 times, wounds 1.666 times, saves brings it down to .833 and IWND brings it 0.5
**Leman hits Angron 3.214 times, wounds 2.678 times, save brings it down to 1.339, FNP brings it 0.892 and IWND brings it down 0.559
**As expected Angron loses this fight. Angron puts up a reasonable fight but the wolf king is just much for him.
**TLDR: Without the Sword of Balelight, the fight is very close. Sword of Balelight is pretty busted.

* Angron VS Jaghatai
**Jaghatai (on Bike) hits 4 times, wounds 2 times, 1 wounds after saves and FNP will take that down to 0.666 and IWND will take that down to 0.333
**Angron Round 1: hits 5.333 times, wounds 3.555 times, 1.185 wounds after saves, and IWND take it down to 0.852 at the start of the next turn.
**Angron Round 2: hits 4 times, wounds 2.666 times, 0.888 wounds after saves, IWND will take that down to 0.556 wounds at the start of the next turn.
**Angrons wins, and if Jaghatai uses hit-and-run he'll get destroyed even faster.

* Angron vs Sanguinius
**Sanguinius charging: hits 4 times (3.5 times with Blade Encarmine), wounds 3.999 times (double wounds taken into account) (3.111 with Encarmine), becomes 1.999 (1.037 with Encarmine & FNP) after saves
***Sanguinius Hammer of Wrath: 1 autohit, wounds 0.833 times, becomes 0.277 after saves and FNP.
***Total combined damage on charge 2.276 (1.314), taken to 1.944 (0.981) next turn with IWND
**Sanguinius thereafter: hits 3.5 times (3 times with Blade Encarmine), wounds 2.333 times (double wounds taken into account)(2.666 with Encarmine), taken to 1.166 after saves (0.888 with Encarmine + FNP), taken to 0.8333 (0.555) next turn with IWND
**Angron Round 1: hits 4.5 times, wounds 3.75 times, becomes 1.875 after saves (0.938 if Sanguinius charged). IWND takes it to 1.54 (0.604) next turn
**Angron thereafter: hits 3 times, wounds 2.5 times, becomes 1.25 after saves and IWND takes it to 0.917 next turn
***There is a lot going on with this fight depending on what Sanguinius is doing. With the Spear of Telesto, from a standing start or if Angron charges there is a mutual kill by about the fifth bout of combat. If Sanguinius can get the charge he wins.
***With the Blade Encarmine there is a close mutual kill if Sanguinius charges, but Angron wins from a standing start or if he charges. Feel No Pain really makes the difference.

* TLDR version: Despite being mocked for ''only'' having 3+/4++ in saves and fewer wounds than everyone but Lorgar (or Corax on a bad day), Angron is surprisingly resilient thanks to his FNP(5+). He will outpace most opponents thanks to his high number of attacks and good WS, so those who can't match his output turn-for-turn can only hope to outlast him. Angron is pretty vulnerable to Strikedown, Concussive, Blind, and basically any rule which reduces his ability to hit things ''(eg: Horus & Russ)'', all of which will severely cripple his overall damage potential. Keep in mind, as mentioned above, this is without any benefits from his The Butcher's Nails rule. With his attacks maxed out he can destroy almost any other Primarch (even Lorgar with Precognition, though it is damn close) with the exception of a few like Russ and...yeah, you guessed it right: Horus! Although he will surely put a dent even in the Warmaster.

In case you're wondering, Angron's mortal form defeats his Daemon form, mainly because his Daemon form was made before IWND became a thing.
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==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Past-Angron.jpg| Doomguy called he wants his training uniform back, and he wants your head with it.
File:Angron.jpg|Can [[Anime|Vegeta]] say what his power level is?
File:Angron Butchers Nails.jpg|Angron before Daemonhood. The only real difference is a lack of wings.
File:Aerion's Angron.jpg|Angron portrayed in his natural state: PISSED THE FUCK OFF ABOUT EVERYTHING!
File:Angron by alexboca-d7930i6.jpg|Angron just generally being a boss (and looking absolutely goddamn awesome while doing so). And you call the epic ness that he wears "3+" greatly displeases khorne and teh emprah
File:angron_is_for_angry_by_sunradio-d6oferw.jpg|Daemon Primarch Angron at the final battle of the First war of Armageddon.
File:Happy angron.jpg|Angron can be happy too...
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==See Also==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKPVNaKvODw&t=0s| They hit him with a truck!]

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[[category:Chaos]]

Nuceria

2022-11-04T07:06:15Z

2603:8001:6901:2586:4135:77C6:E673:B9DE: /* History: Why Nuceria was such a Shithole (Vol. I) */

{{Topquote|Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent|Isaac Asimov}}

'''Nuceria''' WAS a planet in the [[Segmentum|Ultima Segmentum]] and the original homeworld of [[Angron]]. Had he landed absolutely ''anywhere'' else, the [[World Eaters]] may not have fallen to [[Chaos]]. Imagine [[Awesome|World Eaters being recruited from Catachan]]. If only.
==History: Why Nuceria was such a Shithole (Vol. I)==
Nuceria was politically divided into multiple petty city-states and alliances, which constantly contested against each other for dominance. Within the city-states, various noble houses would constantly contest against each other for dominance. As you can imagine, this resulted in a poorly administered little crap hole, even by the relatively low standards of the [[Age of Strife]]. To keep the populace from revolting, the noble families used archaeotech known as the Butcher's Nails on slaves. The Nails dulled all other sensations in life and rewarded acts of aggression, turning the slaves into psychotic gladiators who would kill each other without a second thought. This in turn kept the populace distracted from how crappy their planet was.

Onto this shithole of a planet Angron was flung by the [[Chaos Gods]], thanks to [[Erda|the world's worst shittiest mother/plot point]]. After killing some [[Eldar]] trying to stop his ascension, Angron was captured by the city-state of Desh'ea and made a gladiator-slave. Now, Angron, being a Primarch and all, didn't take that shit meekly and managed to rally the gladiators into a rebel army that laid waste to every city they came across. Unfortunately, they were simply not numerous enough to prevail (because Angron wasn't big on conquest and recruiting instead of killing everyone) and were eventually driven into a mountain range when the petty nobles realized they'd need to act like grown-ups for a moment and pool their resources to put a stop to the rebellion. Angron didn't care too much, he and his men were ready to die and awaited the Desh'eans to come and kill them (instead of using guerilla tactics to literally rip apart the enemy armies). It was then that the [[God-Emperor of Mankind|Emperor of Mankind]] came to Nuceria and found his lost son, offering him the command of the XII Legion Astartes, the War Hounds. Angron... told him to screw off, saying he would die with his brother and sister rebels. He went as far as killing one of the [[Adeptus Custodes]] accompanying the Emperor when he insisted, forcing him to retreat. Soon, the Desh'eans came, and Angron lead the charge... only to be teleported onto the ''Adamant Resolve'', flagship of the XII Legion. The Desh'eans thanked the Emperor for putting down the Gladiator-King's Rebellion, wiped out the rebels, and promptly became compliant. However, instead of making Nuceria the War Hounds homeworld, the planet was essentially forgotten as a backwater. As long as it paid the [[Imperial Tithe]], the [[Imperium of Man]] essentially ignored Nuceria.

Well, a century or two later, Angron returned to Nuceria. His brother [[Lorgar]], Primarch of the [[Word Bearers]], was forming a massive [[Warp]]storm to cut off [[Ultramar]] from the Imperium as part of the [[Horus Heresy]]. Angron wasn't too thrilled about going back to Nuceria, as he had felt cheated of the death he felt he had earned, but [[Lorgar]] soothed him with the chance of learning more about the Butcher's Nails and maybe find a way to neutralize them. This lasted for the ten seconds it was needed for Angron to learn that the Desh'eans claimed he fled from the final battle that resulted in the defeat of his rebellion. Angron was understandably [[rage|vexed]] and ordered the World Eaters and the Word Bearers to [[exterminatus|wipe out every living thing on the planet with extreme prejudice]]. By the eighth day, the [[Ultramarines]], fresh from the battle of Calth, came calling. While [[Roboute Guilliman]] fought Lorgar, Angron intervened. But when Guilliman shattered the skull of one of Angron's fallen comrades, Angron went into a rage, and Lorgar used that rage, along with the suffering they had caused Ultramar, to turn Angron into a [[Daemon Prince]] of [[Khorne]]. Angron then proceeded to kill the last of the World Eaters [[Librarian]]s, who had tried to kill Lorgar in a final attempt to keep their Primarch from falling, and forced the Ultramarines to retreat. Nuceria was left a dead world, as forgotten in death as it had been in life, until it was later completely destroyed during the Lion's campaign of blowing up traitor home worlds.

All in all, Nuceria holds the honor of being the one primarch homeworld that no one had even the slightest good thing to say about. Even total shitholes like Barbarus and Nostramo at least held some sentimental value to some of the legionnaires who grew up there, but there WERE no Astartes from Nuceria. Only Angron, and his experience there was so spectacularly awful and played such a large part in ruining him that even the World Eaters regarded Nuceria as "worthless".

{{40k-Planets}}

[[Category:Imperial]][[Category:Space Marines]]

Nuceria

2022-11-04T07:02:28Z

2603:8001:6901:2586:4135:77C6:E673:B9DE:

{{Topquote|Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent|Isaac Asimov}}

'''Nuceria''' WAS a planet in the [[Segmentum|Ultima Segmentum]] and the original homeworld of [[Angron]]. Had he landed absolutely ''anywhere'' else, the [[World Eaters]] may not have fallen to [[Chaos]]. Imagine [[Awesome|World Eaters being recruited from Catachan]]. If only.
==History: Why Nuceria was such a Shithole (Vol. I)==
Nuceria was politically divided into multiple petty city-states and alliances, which constantly contested against each other for dominance. Within the city-states, various noble houses would constantly contest against each other for dominance. As you can imagine, this resulted in a poorly administered little crap hole, even by the relatively low standards of the [[Age of Strife]]. To keep the populace from revolting, the noble families used archaeotech known as the Butcher's Nails on slaves. The Nails dulled all other sensations in life and rewarded acts of aggression, turning the slaves into psychotic gladiators who would kill each other without a second thought. This in turn kept the populace distracted from how crappy their planet was.

Onto this shithole of a planet Angron was flung by the [[Chaos Gods]], thanks to [[Erda|the world's worst shittiest mother/plot point]]. After killing some [[Eldar]] trying to stop his ascension, Angron was captured by the city-state of Desh'ea and made a gladiator-slave. Now, Angron, being a Primarch and all, didn't take that shit meekly and managed to rally the gladiators into a rebel army that laid waste to every city they came across. Unfortunately, they were simply not numerous enough to prevail (because Angron wasn't big on conquest and recruiting instead of killing everyone) and were eventually driven into a mountain range when the petty nobles realized they'd need to act like grown-ups for a moment and pool their resources to put a stop to the rebellion. Angron didn't care too much, he and his men were ready to die and awaited the Desh'eans to come and kill them (instead of using guerilla tactics to literally rip apart the enemy armies). It was then that the [[God-Emperor of Mankind|Emperor of Mankind]] came to Nuceria and found his lost son, offering him the command of the XII Legion Astartes, the War Hounds. Angron... told him to screw off, saying he would die with his brother and sister rebels. He went as far as killing one of the [[Adeptus Custodes]] accompanying the Emperor when he insisted, forcing him to retreat. Soon, the Desh'eans came, and Angron lead the charge... only to be teleported onto the ''Adamant Resolve'', flagship of the XII Legion. The Desh'eans thanked the Emperor for putting down the Gladiator-King's Rebellion, wiped out the rebels, and promptly became compliant. However, instead of making Nuceria the War Hounds homeworld, the planet was essentially forgotten as a backwater. As long as it paid the [[Imperial Tithe]], the [[Imperium of Man]] essentially ignored Nuceria.

Well, a century later, Angron returned to Nuceria. His brother [[Lorgar]], Primarch of the [[Word Bearers]], was forming a massive [[Warp]]storm to cut off [[Ultramar]] from the Imperium as part of the [[Horus Heresy]]. Angron wasn't too thrilled about going back to Nuceria, as he had felt cheated of the death he felt he had earned, but [[Lorgar]] soothed him with the chance of learning more about the Butcher's Nails and maybe find a way to neutralize them. This lasted for the ten seconds it was needed for Angron to learn that the Desh'eans claimed he fled from the final battle that resulted in the defeat of his rebellion. Angron was understandably [[rage|vexed]] and ordered the World Eaters and the Word Bearers to [[exterminatus|wipe out every living thing on the planet with extreme prejudice]]. By the eighth day, the [[Ultramarines]], fresh from the battle of Calth, came calling. While [[Roboute Guilliman]] fought Lorgar, Angron intervened. But when Guilliman shattered the skull of one of Angron's fallen comrades, Angron went into a rage, and Lorgar used that rage, along with the suffering they had caused Ultramar, to turn Angron into a [[Daemon Prince]] of [[Khorne]]. Angron then proceeded to kill the last of the World Eaters [[Librarian]]s, who had tried to kill Lorgar in a final attempt to keep their Primarch from falling, and forced the Ultramarines to retreat. Nuceria was left a dead world, as forgotten in death as it had been in life, until it was later completely destroyed during the Lion's campaign of blowing up traitor home worlds.

All in all, Nuceria holds the honor of being the one primarch homeworld that no one had even the slightest good thing to say about. Even total shitholes like Barbarus and Nostramo at least held some sentimental value to some of the legionnaires who grew up there, but there WERE no Astartes from Nuceria. Only Angron, and his experience there was so spectacularly awful and played such a large part in ruining him that even the World Eaters regarded Nuceria as "worthless".

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