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Magnus the Red

2016-12-20T11:08:45Z

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[[File:Magnus.jpg|right|thumb|''Magn''ificent bastard...]]

''"For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief."''

- Ecclesiastes 1:18

''"The fatal flaw in every plan is the assumption that you know more than your enemy."''

- Volrath

''"I DID IT! I am the mightiest psyker in the galaxy! I am the strongest! Suck it [[Leman Russ|Leman]] you '''furry fuck'''!"''

- Magnus, upon breaking the psychic barrier erected by the Emperor.

''"I never asked for this. They say they saved me, but I'm not sure "[[Rubric Marines|saved"]] is the right word."''

- Adam Jensen

Magnus the Red (a.k.a The Crimson King, the Sorcerer-King, Cyclopean Magnus or the Red Cyclops) is the primarch of the [[Thousand Sons]], and (is takeda shingen in space) rules over the Planet of the Sorcerers, and formerly Prospero. He is directly after the Emperor the mightiest Psyker/Sorcerer in the whole Warhammer 40k Universe. He is notable for having bright red skin and hair, and being physically the largest of the primarchs. Magnus took after the [[God-Emperor of Mankind|Emperor]] in that his physical appearance was constantly changing and everyone seemed to see him differently. Because of this there is debate over if he had a big ol' red eye in the middle of his forehead, or had normal eyes but one socket was empty. Either way he was a cyclops (The colour of his single eye is also described as constantly changing). He is also the Primarch of the [[Blood Ravens]] (supposedly but not officially confirmed), which would explain both their color scheme and high percentage of psykers. Of all the Primarchs, with the exception of [[Vulkan]], [[Sanguinius]] and [[Jaghatai Khan]], Magnus was one of the most open minded and compassionate to the discriminated, being a psyker and all.

He, along with old [[Mortarion|Morty]], are one of the few traitor Primarchs who actually hate/despise their respective Chaos Gods. Mortarion for his general disdain for all things psychic in nature, and Magnus for being humiliated and played like a puppet by [[Tzeentch]]. If anything, Magnus would buy the chance to be free from that little blue bird, as he saw even the slightest opportunity of the bird losing concentration on him, and most likely go rogue due to losing trust to both the Imperium and Chaos and maybe even try to form his own empire and stuff. Then again, this might be wishful thinking, as it may push the plot-line of 40k, which is a big [[Games Workshop|no no]].

==The Great Crusade==

Magnus landed on the planet of Prospero (A planet whose ancient civilization was composed predominantly of psykers, who had fled there because they were persecuted by humanity at large for being psykers.) As Magnus was himself such a being, he formed a kinship with the people of Prospero in short order. Taken in by Prospero's people, he absorbed knowledge like a sponge, and became crazy powerful, and in time far exceeded the power and control of all of his teachers. After a while, he became the single most powerful ''thing'' on the fucking planet, and he led a campaign to eradicate a race of predators on Prospero known as the ''Psychneuein'', which had overrun many of Prospero's early cities, and had an unhealthy fondness for laying their eggs in unsuspecting psykers' brains. Which was probably why the beasts had destroyed the entire population of Prospero, save for its capital city, Tizca. One by one, bit by bit, Magnus' forces retook the planet, putting the Psychneuein to the sword, and within a year, [[Awesome|Magnus had mostly reclaimed the entire world]] (except for the Desolation of Prospero, which was everything except for Tizca).

Once the campaign on the Psychneuein was complete, Magnus became the planetary leader by popular demand. Magnus decided to be fucking awesome, and rebuilt the cities (or mostly just Tizca). Like a somehow perfectly stable fortress lasting some 50 years in [[Dwarf Fortress]], Tizca became arguably the most beautiful city in Imperial space, with crystalline spires and pyramids, long marble roads, and psychically-resonant crystals in key locations; designed to calm the turbulent minds of younger psykers and help them control their burgeoning psionic potential. The city quickly became known as a shining jewel of humanity, and one that showed proudly how far its citizens had come from the brink of near-extinction. Prospero also had one of the most technically advanced defensive networks in the Imperium, all of which was hilariously wasted except for the shields when Magnus, in a fit of Primarch-scale angst over his "I screwed everything Dad was doing and failed my purpose entirely in the process" whoopsy-daisy, decided that the [[Space Wolves]] should get the rabbit punch.

All this time, Magnus continued to codify and systematize everything he could about the 'Great Ocean' - the name the Prosperans had given the [[Warp]]. Huge libraries filled with knowledge about psychic powers and the warp were established, and Magnus himself used his powers to peer into the Empyrean itself, claiming many of its secrets, though at terrible risk to himself. While this was exceptionally dangerous, much of what the Imperium's [[Inquisition]] currently knows about the Warp came directly from several of his manuscripts that survived.

With such a powerful mind heading into the warp, it was inevitable that the [[Emprah]] (who happened to be out and about the galaxy looking for his lost sons) would eventually take notice. So he eventually came to Prospero, and he and Magnus psychically brofisted before talking for several days. The Emperor taught him even more about psychic powers, but cautioned Magnus to be ''slow and purposeful'', since foul horrors lurked in the warp and liked nothing better than [[Anal Circumference|forcibly sodomizing an unprepared Psyker's soul]]. Magnus took much of this to heart - but what the Emperor did not know was why - Magnus' forays into the warp had already come at a price - his right eye, sacrificed ala Odin when he had consorted with warp-entities whose nature he did not understand until the Emperor explained shit.

Magnus was put in charge of the [[Thousand Sons]], but would not immediately embark on the Great Crusade - since many of his Legion were psykers, and there had been so many small mutations that a number of them couldn't survive the gene-seeding process. Even worse, during combat, psykers ran the risk of losing control of their powers and underwent "Flesh Change", where their body mutated rampantly out of control at all the Warp energy running through them (we call them something else, but won't speak its name as... wait, I didn't say it's [[Chaos Spawn|naSHHTLSUROHSONTOOLS!]])

Magnus was aware of the mutations his Astartes were suffering, and entered the Warp to seek a answers about the cause of this and if a cure existed, though he didn't know that he had consorted with [[Tzeentch]] by doing so, and the god of [[Just as planned]] saw a ''lot'' of potential in this one. In return for knowledge and a way to stop the flesh-change, Magnus lost his eye so hard that he '''never saw it coming''' (ah-ha-ha-ha!!).

In any case, because of the setbacks that had befallen the Thousand Sons, the selfless efforts of Magnus to save them, their shared psychic talents, and the continuing distrust and persecution of many Imperial agencies and other Space Marine Legions towards the Thousand Sons' use of psychic abilities and the rampant mutations present in their gene-seed, the Primarch and his Astartes developed an extremely close emotional and psychic bond. One of the strongest among all Primarchs and their Space Marine Legions, exceeding even the [[Black Legion|Luna Wolves]]' dedication to [[Horus]].

Finally, about midway into the Great Crusade (100 Terran years after it had begun), the now "stable" Thousand Sons Legion (although numbering only 10,000 soldiers), with Magnus leading them on the field, were permitted to take part in the campaign as part of the 28th Expeditionary Fleet. And it was ''glorious''. When they were deployed, the Sons were a sight to behold, flinging psychic storms to consume their enemies and striking bolts with precision and prescience, using their abilities to ascertain enemies' weak-points. Magnus was unique among the Primarchs in that he would always try diplomatic routes first, however - in this way, the Thousand Sons won many battles without so much as a shot fired. This did not sit well with [[Rogal Dorn]] or [[Roboute Guilliman|Girlyman]], who viewed this approach "unmanly". Likewise, Magnus drew constant distrust from [[Mortarion]] and [[Leman Russ]], who distrusted the Sons' sorcerous ways and were somewhat concerned of a trait the Sons had picked up: after conquering or annexing a world, they would take huge amounts of knowledge: books, scrolls about forgotten /forbidden lore, and ancient artifacts, back to Prospero for study, analysis and codification. ''And this doesn't sound like the Blood Ravens, you say? Nicking everything shiny that's not nailed down?'' Point is: nobody looted so prolifically as The Thousand Sons. The White Scars and Blood Angels aligned themselves with them to rig the Librarium. What that did was to actually impose some restraint on psykers, that made everyone a bit more accepting towards them. Their worries only intensified when it was discovered that the Sons had little warp critters (familiars) called "tutelaries" buzzing around them and acting as warp power-packs.

When diplomacy didn't work, The Sons ware known to fuck entire armies with lightning, fireballs, mass mind-control, precognition of enemy strikes and conter them with precision strikes, dealing so much devastation with only some few squads of Marines (the Iron Warriors would weep of jealousy if they ever saw how the Sons made battle during the Great Crusade). Magnus himself once fought Ork gargants by himself, and despite being able to zap, melt or transmute their hulls with just the power of his mind, he instead [[Awesome|scaled himself to the size of a Warlord-class Titan, and beat the shit out of them with his bare hands]].

A very important event called "Council of Nikaea" or "The Prosecution of Magnus the Red", took place about 50 years before the Horus Heresy, where Magnus was called by his brothers and the Emperor to answer for abusing his powers and to install some form of control of psykers used in battle across the galaxy. The fact that the Sons obsessed with preserving valuable knowledge (whatever the source), was another factor that pissed a bunch of Primarchs off. The Thousand Sons' political opponents among other Astartes Legions found hoarding xenos' artifacts useless and counter-productive to the goals of the Great Crusade (which actually more or less sought to eradicate all alien life in the galaxy). Arguments between Magnus and the other Primarchs became so pitched and violent that on one occasion, [[Leman Russ]] and Magnus got into a giant fucking brawl on the council floor itself, and it only didn't end in bloodshed because [[Lorgar]] managed to talk both of them down, causing Russ to grudgingly holster his weapon and Magnus to [[meme|stop chargin' his lazar]]. Finally, the Emperor stepped in, bitch-slapped everyone for acting like a [[Derp|fucking child]], and pointed out that whilst dangerous, psychic powers ware still necessary to the Imperium in large. So Chaplains were added to Space Marine Legions to ensure adherence to the Imperial Truth: psykers were now to abstain from using their powers in battle. The ever fabulous Jaghatai Khan facepalmed his high forehead, whilst groaning, that this is exactly what he'd warned Magnus about. Magnus was ticked off, but calmed down a bit a little later and continued the Crusade with the new restrictions in place (actually, they carried out their arcane ways in secret).

==Horus Heresy==
When Magnus learned that Horus intended to betray the Emperor and slaughter like half the galaxy, he resolved to using any method possible to warn the Emperor. With few other options, he made a deal with Tzeentch again, to combine their powers and smash the psychic seal The Emperor had installed to protect the Webway from the warp (Magnus simply did not bother to [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5ApYxkU-U| walk around the Wall]) and enter the Imperial Palace all the way from Prospero. Unfortunately, this deed majorily fucked up the Webway project the Emperor had been working on for over 9000 years, which would have made the dangerous warp-travel obsolete and would [[Heresy|unify the Imperium of Man using a human-engineered version of the Eldar Webway gate]]. Big E called Magnus out and banished him back for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jOqOlETcRU&t=0m30s| breaking the law] and using sorcery to get through the Webway. The dick didn't even listen to Magnus about Horus's betrayal and declared Magnus a [[Extra Heresy|DOUBLE HERETIC]]. Magnus realized that the Imperium is comprehensively fucked and that he needed to do all he could to protect it and Prospero. Emps should probably have told his super-psychic son about his psychically-sensitive all-important project THAT MAGNUS WAS DESTINED TO OPERATE, but that would make [[Grimdark|nobody happy]], wouldn't it?

[[File:DaemonMagnus.jpg|right|thumb|He doesn't get much press-time because of how bad he and his Legion got dicked by Tzeentch, but when he DOES, watch your fucking [[FATAL|ass]]!]]

When Horus learned of this, he was quietly amused. The Emperor ordered Horus to have Russ bring Magnus back to Terra to stand trial for what he had done, and Horus being a [[Eldrad|dick]], quietly altered Russ' orders to lay waste to Prospero instead and slaughter the Thousand Sons. As Magnus was already oficially a (slightly tolerated) heretic, Russ relished in this order and took to this like a [[Furry]] to [[Ironclaw]] (barring a last-ditch attempt to Skype Magnus through a psyker). Accompanying the Space Wolves were a full contingent of Adeptus Custodes, millions of Imperial Army troops and an elite anti-psyker unit: the Sisters of Silence (think a unit of [[Culexus|Culexus Assassin]]s and you get the general idea).

Magnus, sensing this and realizing that this had been [[Just as planned]] by Tzeentch and that it has done this to completely destroy both the Thousand Sons and the Space Wolves, decided to dick with the Lord of all Fate. He decided to accept the destruction of everything that he had worked for, so that Tzeentch's ultimate goal would only be half-fulfilled. Tzeentch was richly amused by this. As Prospero burned, Tzeentch and Magnus engaged in act after act of dickery and counter-dickery; with Magnus finally pushed into a towering rage and taking to the battlefield at his capital: crushing his enemies with volleys of MIND BULLETS, before he engaging Leman Russ himself in close-combat. The two fought fiercely and Magnus managed to Falcon pawnch Russ so hard, his breastplate shattered ''and one of his hearts punctured''. Russ got lucky and took out Magnus' second eye, and then performed a back-breaker on him that ended the fight. Tzeentch was greatly amused by all of this because it's rare for anyone, let alone a mortal, to predict and out-manipulate the plans of the Architect of Fate himself. He thus made Magnus an offer: Become Tzeentch's servant and preserve what was left of his Legion and homeworld or watch it all burn in a pool of his own blood...

...For Magnus though, it never really was a choice. The response of Magnus' new patron was immediate: for once, Tzeentch was true to his word. The City of Light was transported into the Eye of Terror onto a Daemon World. Prospero was destroyed that day, but Magnus and his Legion survived. It is unclear ''when'' they ended up on the Planet of the Sorcerers; before or after the Siege of Terra, but Magnus the Red had become a daemon prince and the most powerful of all Tzeentch's servants. [[Just as planned|Magnus had never served Tzeentch willingly, but now had no choice - exactly as Tzeentch HAD PLANNED from the very beginning (we might think), and now he was committed to the very cause he had tried to foil]].
JUST AS PLANNED! x9000+

Some head-scratching does arise at to why Magnus didn't: a) simply tell his Legion to lay down their weapons and try and talk Russ out of obliterating the entire world or b) take the hara-kiri option, which would have at least brought everything to an end a little earlier.

==Post-Heresy==
[[File:Cl9SiZhXIAADyip.jpg|left|thumb|300px|An exceptionally skilled drawfag's depiction of Magnus during the Horus Heresy.]]
Magnus was stuck in limbo and meditation for a while, until Jaghatai Khan rocked up to Prospero to find out what had happened and found a shade of his brother down in the caves. Magnus served up a nice big info-dump and in return Jaghatai banished him from Prospero. Magnus then travelled to the planet Tzeentch had set up for him (apparently Lorgar had kept trying to persuade him to join the Heresy during this period, though we don't know how when he couldn't reach his Legion).

And so, the Horus Heresy came and went. The Siege of Terra occurred, Horus had fought the Emperor and (SPOILER WARNING) failed, and the Traitor Legions were driven to the [[Eye of Terror]]. However, the Thousand Sons now had to deal with more immediate problems: with their serving of Tzeentch, the Flesh Change returned with a vengeance. Magnus made efforts to stop this, but being a servant of the God of Mutation has its drawbacks and before long Magnus seemed to have given up. Growing desperate, [[Ahzek Ahriman]], the Chief Librarian and First Captain, took matters into his own hands. Having lost his brother to the Flesh Change before they found Prospero, Ahriman gathered a cabal of other sorcerers, the Book of Magnus, and performed the Rubric of Ahriman in an attempt to stop the Flesh Change. The results were not what Ahriman expected: while it stopped the Flesh Change and further empowered all psychic Thousand Sons, all non-psyker Thousand Sons had their bodies turned to dust and sealed within their Power Armour, becoming little more than robots needing guidance from a Thousand Son sorcerer.

Magnus was furious. Confronting Ahriman, once his most favored son, Magnus was about to kill Ahriman when Tzeentch spoke to him: ''"Magnus, why do you seek to kill my pawn?"'' Once again, Magnus had been used. Broken, Magnus simply exiled Ahriman from the Planet of Sorcerers. For the last ten thousand years, Magnus has labored to restore his Sons bodies to their original forms, failing all the while.

Unknown to everyone, save perhaps Tzeentch itself, the failed rubric also had a side-effect: Magnus's conscience and psychic might fragmented into several alter-egos, each with different personality's and goals.

He later showed up on [[Fenris|FENRIS]] ITSELF and became the second Daemon Primarch after [[Angron]] to get shit done, rampaging through imperial lines and laying waste to everything in his path with MIND BULLETS and RAW PHYSICAL POWER until the Space Wolves responded and after a extremely hard fight <s>managed to banish him back</s> Magnus phased out himself and teleported all his marines out of the Fang, after reaching his goal, sabotaging an experimental Space Wolf geneseed mutation cure, and killing an entire Great Company HQ, Great Wolf (turns out wolfing a Wolf Lord's wolf means warping your hands inside him and ''ripping his hearts out'') and almost killing Bjorn the Fell-Handed himself as a nice bonus. To be fair, Space Wolves almost managed to actually banish him back to Warp, and Magnus was almost out of energy and barely able to sustain physical form at the end of battle because he had dementia from his time in warp (and because, daemon prince or not, that many wolves, Bjorn and an exploding tank of promethium will fuck you up). Khorne was so impressed by this badassery that he decided to give a little leeway to Khornate sorcerers.

Funny how two out of two Daemon Primarchs to have gotten shit done ended up being repelled by the actions of the Space Wolves. And the best thing? Unlike Draigo "beat Mortarion and the Death Guard silly singlehandedly" faggotry, this fluff is actually somewhat well written, with the Space Wolves being pushed to their very limits trying to repel the chosen of Tzeentch, and they only got off easy once he fucked off after his main objective was finished.

On another note, from all the Primarch Daemons featured so far seen in fluff he seems to be the most collected and coherent, as far as Chaos goes, in the trailer of Wrath of Magnus he actually sounded quite composed and at difference of Angron's "BLUDFUTEBLUDGUD!" or Mortharion's "IHAVESPESSASHMA" he told the Thousand Sons in a strong but civilized way to put their differences aside to focus on the goal of destroying the Space Puppies, also, he remarked how [[Awesome|all of them were his sons, even Ahriman or any other wayward sorceror who had gone his own way through the ages,]] [[Kharn|what a cool guy.]]

During the campaign, Magnus' goal was never to destroy Fenris (though it would have been a satisfying bonus), but instead to make the Wolves suffer as they did during the Burning of Prospero: Now that the Wulfen, and such their genetic flaw, have been revealed, they would then be regarded with suspicion and mistrust. And because the people of Fenris have seen first-hand the horrors of the warp, the inquisition have ordered a massive purge that sees most of the population of Fenris exterminated. Midgardia basically gets destroyed, Fenris becomes a partly irradiated wasteland, and Magnus pulls Sortiarius into the materium (as the whole invasion of Fenris also turned out to be a massive ritual of which the grey knights killing the populous helped alot, yes grey knights dun fucked up).

Oh yeah, and many Daemon Primarchs begin to show up, presumably for the 13th Black Crusade. Also, there is a teaser about some 30k force coming back.

==On table-top as Daemon Primarch==
[[File:Magnus-revealed.PNG|right|thumb|300px|Exactly as planned!]]

Rules-wise, he's a beast with 7s across the board barring strength (8) attacks (6) and ld (10). He rocks a 4++ and can re-roll ones (so yeah, throw in the grimoire of names to have a 2++ re-rollable and guy becomes unkillable when combined with the fact that he's a FMC and he's EW), as well as Daemon of Tzeentch, Deep Strike, VotLW, Fearless, Fleet, IWND, and the WT Lord of Flux (Enemy units within 12″ of your Warlord treat all terrain, even open ground, as difficult terrain. Additionally, any enemy units that run, turbo-boost, move flat out or charge within that radius must take dangerous terrain tests). He has what is by far the best psychic output in the game: Mastery level '''5''', AW (so he DTWs the witch on 3+ against everyone), manifests his WCs on a 2+, has LoS to all units on the table for the purposes of using his powers, and never suffers perils. He knows all spells in Tzeentch and Change lores. With the expansions brought in the new rulebook, this means Magnus can bring in to the table 2 D attacks (One of which is an 18" Beam?!) per psychic phase with relative ease, all while still being able to murderize anything that he comes across, and in melee he uses a sword that uses his strength, AP2, Soulblaze, Force, and Transmogrify (a 6 to wound causes Instant death and turns the slain model into a [[Chaos Spawn|you-know-what]]). He's 650pts, so use him wisely.

Model wise, he appears to take minor inspiration from his EPIC monkey form (which is a good thing.) He has multiple head options, including a cyclops head, which is incredibly fluffy as his face has been described as constantly changing. His armor appears to be to have changed from golden to silver (but it still has its nipple horns. Sexy, sexy nipple horns), and the motif of a bird skull appears everywhere. He has bird wings, and is posed on a Space Wolf Dreadnought arm. Ah, and he's so FUCKHUEG that he rivals an Imperial Knight. End Times confirmed.

==Trivia==
*If you translate his name into latin, you get Magnus Rubricatus, meaning "red is great". Also it has "rubric" in it. Sly GW strikes again!

==See Also==
*[https://youtu.be/bjBmT8y9PAU?t=6m56s A video chronicling Magnus' fall to Chaos. It is less conniving than originally imagined.]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUuyyVaCOzw Daddy (not the Emperor, Magnus) addressing his children for the visit to the pet shop.]

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Magnus the Red

2016-12-20T11:06:41Z

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[[File:Magnus.jpg|right|thumb|''Magn''ificent bastard...]]

''"For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief."''

- Ecclesiastes 1:18

''"The fatal flaw in every plan is the assumption that you know more than your enemy."''

- Volrath

''"I DID IT! I am the mightiest psyker in the galaxy! I am the strongest! Suck it [[Leman Russ|Leman]] you '''furry fuck'''!"''

- Magnus, upon breaking the psychic barrier erected by the Emperor.

''"I never asked for this. They say they saved me, but I'm not sure "[[Rubric Marines|saved"]] is the right word."''

- Adam Jensen

Magnus the Red (a.k.a The Crimson King, the Sorcerer-King, Cyclopean Magnus or the Red Cyclops) is the primarch of the [[Thousand Sons]], and (is takeda shingen in space) rules over the Planet of the Sorcerers, and formerly Prospero. He is directly after the Emperor the mightiest Psyker/Sorcerer in the whole Warhammer 40k Universe. He is notable for having bright red skin and hair, and being physically the largest of the primarchs. Magnus took after the [[God-Emperor of Mankind|Emperor]] in that his physical appearance was constantly changing and everyone seemed to see him differently. Because of this there is debate over if he had a big ol' red eye in the middle of his forehead, or had normal eyes but one socket was empty. Either way he was a cyclops (The colour of his single eye is also described as constantly changing). He is also the Primarch of the [[Blood Ravens]] (supposedly but not officially confirmed), which would explain both their color scheme and high percentage of psykers. Of all the Primarchs, with the exception of [[Vulkan]], [[Sanguinius]] and [[Jaghatai Khan]], Magnus was one of the most open minded and compassionate to the discriminated, being a psyker and all.

He, along with old [[Mortarion|Morty]], are one of the few traitor Primarchs who actually hate/despise their respective Chaos Gods. Mortarion for his general disdain for all things psychic in nature, and Magnus for being humiliated and played like a puppet by [[Tzeentch]]. If anything, Magnus would buy the chance to be free from that little blue bird, as he saw even the slightest opportunity of the bird losing concentration on him, and most likely go rogue due to losing trust to both the Imperium and Chaos and maybe even try to form his own empire and stuff. Then again, this might be wishful thinking, as it may push the plot-line of 40k, which is a big [[Games Workshop|no no]].

==The Great Crusade==

Magnus landed on the planet of Prospero (A planet whose ancient civilization was composed predominantly of psykers, who had fled there because they were persecuted by humanity at large for being psykers.) As Magnus was himself such a being, he formed a kinship with the people of Prospero in short order. Taken in by Prospero's people, he absorbed knowledge like a sponge, and became crazy powerful, and in time far exceeded the power and control of all of his teachers. After a while, he became the single most powerful ''thing'' on the fucking planet, and he led a campaign to eradicate a race of predators on Prospero known as the ''Psychneuein'', which had overrun many of Prospero's early cities, and had an unhealthy fondness for laying their eggs in unsuspecting psykers' brains. Which was probably why the beasts had destroyed the entire population of Prospero, save for its capital city, Tizca. One by one, bit by bit, Magnus' forces retook the planet, putting the Psychneuein to the sword, and within a year, [[Awesome|Magnus had mostly reclaimed the entire world]] (except for the Desolation of Prospero, which was everything except for Tizca).

Once the campaign on the Psychneuein was complete, Magnus became the planetary leader by popular demand. Magnus decided to be fucking awesome, and rebuilt the cities (or mostly just Tizca). Like a somehow perfectly stable fortress lasting some 50 years in [[Dwarf Fortress]], Tizca became arguably the most beautiful city in Imperial space, with crystalline spires and pyramids, long marble roads, and psychically-resonant crystals in key locations; designed to calm the turbulent minds of younger psykers and help them control their burgeoning psionic potential. The city quickly became known as a shining jewel of humanity, and one that showed proudly how far its citizens had come from the brink of near-extinction. Prospero also had one of the most technically advanced defensive networks in the Imperium, all of which was hilariously wasted except for the shields when Magnus, in a fit of Primarch-scale angst over his "I screwed everything Dad was doing and failed my purpose entirely in the process" whoopsy-daisy, decided that the [[Space Wolves]] should get the rabbit punch.

All this time, Magnus continued to codify and systematize everything he could about the 'Great Ocean' - the name the Prosperans had given the [[Warp]]. Huge libraries filled with knowledge about psychic powers and the warp were established, and Magnus himself used his powers to peer into the Empyrean itself, claiming many of its secrets, though at terrible risk to himself. While this was exceptionally dangerous, much of what the Imperium's [[Inquisition]] currently knows about the Warp came directly from several of his manuscripts that survived.

With such a powerful mind heading into the warp, it was inevitable that the [[Emprah]] (who happened to be out and about the galaxy looking for his lost sons) would eventually take notice. So he eventually came to Prospero, and he and Magnus psychically brofisted before talking for several days. The Emperor taught him even more about psychic powers, but cautioned Magnus to be ''slow and purposeful'', since foul horrors lurked in the warp and liked nothing better than [[Anal Circumference|forcibly sodomizing an unprepared Psyker's soul]]. Magnus took much of this to heart - but what the Emperor did not know was why - Magnus' forays into the warp had already come at a price - his right eye, sacrificed ala Odin when he had consorted with warp-entities whose nature he did not understand until the Emperor explained shit.

Magnus was put in charge of the [[Thousand Sons]], but would not immediately embark on the Great Crusade - since many of his Legion were psykers, and there had been so many small mutations that a number of them couldn't survive the gene-seeding process. Even worse, during combat, psykers ran the risk of losing control of their powers and underwent "Flesh Change", where their body mutated rampantly out of control at all the Warp energy running through them (we call them something else, but won't speak its name as... wait, I didn't say it's [[Chaos Spawn|naSHHTLSUROHSONTOOLS!]])

Magnus was aware of the mutations his Astartes were suffering, and entered the Warp to seek a answers about the cause of this and if a cure existed, though he didn't know that he had consorted with [[Tzeentch]] by doing so, and the god of [[Just as planned]] saw a ''lot'' of potential in this one. In return for knowledge and a way to stop the flesh-change, Magnus lost his eye so hard that he '''never saw it coming''' (ah-ha-ha-ha!!).

In any case, because of the setbacks that had befallen the Thousand Sons, the selfless efforts of Magnus to save them, their shared psychic talents, and the continuing distrust and persecution of many Imperial agencies and other Space Marine Legions towards the Thousand Sons' use of psychic abilities and the rampant mutations present in their gene-seed, the Primarch and his Astartes developed an extremely close emotional and psychic bond. One of the strongest among all Primarchs and their Space Marine Legions, exceeding even the [[Black Legion|Luna Wolves]]' dedication to [[Horus]].

Finally, about midway into the Great Crusade (100 Terran years after it had begun), the now "stable" Thousand Sons Legion (although numbering only 10,000 soldiers), with Magnus leading them on the field, were permitted to take part in the campaign as part of the 28th Expeditionary Fleet. And it was ''glorious''. When they were deployed, the Sons were a sight to behold, flinging psychic storms to consume their enemies and striking bolts with precision and prescience, using their abilities to ascertain enemies' weak-points. Magnus was unique among the Primarchs in that he would always try diplomatic routes first, however - in this way, the Thousand Sons won many battles without so much as a shot fired. This did not sit well with [[Rogal Dorn]] or [[Roboute Guilliman|Girlyman]], who viewed this approach "unmanly". Likewise, Magnus drew constant distrust from [[Mortarion]] and [[Leman Russ]], who distrusted the Sons' sorcerous ways and were somewhat concerned of a trait the Sons had picked up: after conquering or annexing a world, they would take huge amounts of knowledge: books, scrolls about forgotten /forbidden lore, and ancient artifacts, back to Prospero for study, analysis and codification. ''And this doesn't sound like the Blood Ravens, you say? Nicking everything shiny that's not nailed down?'' Point is: nobody looted so prolifically as The Thousand Sons. The White Scars and Blood Angels aligned themselves with them to rig the Librarium. What that did was to actually impose some restraint on psykers, that made everyone a bit more accepting towards them. Their worries only intensified when it was discovered that the Sons had little warp critters (familiars) called "tutelaries" buzzing around them and acting as warp power-packs.

When diplomacy didn't work, The Sons ware known to fuck entire armies with lightning, fireballs, mass mind-control, precognition of enemy strikes and conter them with precision strikes, dealing so much devastation with only some few squads of Marines (the Iron Warriors would weep of jealousy if they ever saw how the Sons made battle during the Great Crusade). Magnus himself once fought Ork gargants by himself, and despite being able to zap, melt or transmute their hulls with just the power of his mind, he instead [[Awesome|scaled himself to the size of a Warlord-class Titan, and beat the shit out of them with his bare hands]].

A very important event called "Council of Nikaea" or "The Prosecution of Magnus the Red", took place about 50 years before the Horus Heresy, where Magnus was called by his brothers and the Emperor to answer for abusing his powers and to install some form of control of psykers used in battle across the galaxy. The fact that the Sons obsessed with preserving valuable knowledge (whatever the source), was another factor that pissed a bunch of Primarchs off. The Thousand Sons' political opponents among other Astartes Legions found hoarding xenos' artifacts useless and counter-productive to the goals of the Great Crusade (which actually more or less sought to eradicate all alien life in the galaxy). Arguments between Magnus and the other Primarchs became so pitched and violent that on one occasion, [[Leman Russ]] and Magnus got into a giant fucking brawl on the council floor itself, and it only didn't end in bloodshed because [[Lorgar]] managed to talk both of them down, causing Russ to grudgingly holster his weapon and Magnus to [[meme|stop chargin' his lazar]]. Finally, the Emperor stepped in, bitch-slapped everyone for acting like a [[Derp|fucking child]], and pointed out that whilst dangerous, psychic powers ware still necessary to the Imperium in large. So Chaplains were added to Space Marine Legions to ensure adherence to the Imperial Truth: psykers were now to abstain from using their powers in battle. The ever fabulous Jaghatai Khan facepalmed his high forehead, whilst groaning, that this is exactly what he'd warned Magnus about. Magnus was ticked off, but calmed down a bit a little later and continued the Crusade with the new restrictions in place (actually, they carried out their arcane ways in secret).

==Horus Heresy==
When Magnus learned that Horus intended to betray the Emperor and slaughter like half the galaxy, he resolved to using any method possible to warn the Emperor. With few other options, he made a deal with Tzeentch again, to combine their powers and smash the psychic seal The Emperor had installed to protect the Webway from the warp (Magnus simply did not bother to [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5ApYxkU-U| walk around the Wall]) and enter the Imperial Palace all the way from Prospero. Unfortunately, this deed majorily fucked up the Webway project the Emperor had been working on for over 9000 years, which would have made the dangerous warp-travel obsolete and would [[Heresy|unify the Imperium of Man using a human-engineered version of the Eldar Webway gate]]. Big E called Magnus out and banished him back for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jOqOlETcRU&t=0m30s|breaking the law] and using sorcery to get through the Webway. The dick didn't even listen to Magnus about Horus's betrayal and declared Magnus a [[Extra Heresy|DOUBLE HERETIC]]. Magnus realized that the Imperium is comprehensively fucked and that he needed to do all he could to protect it and Prospero. Emps should probably have told his super-psychic son about his psychically-sensitive all-important project THAT MAGNUS WAS DESTINED TO OPERATE, but that would make [[Grimdark|nobody happy]], wouldn't it?

[[File:DaemonMagnus.jpg|right|thumb|He doesn't get much press-time because of how bad he and his Legion got dicked by Tzeentch, but when he DOES, watch your fucking [[FATAL|ass]]!]]

When Horus learned of this, he was quietly amused. The Emperor ordered Horus to have Russ bring Magnus back to Terra to stand trial for what he had done, and Horus being a [[Eldrad|dick]], quietly altered Russ' orders to lay waste to Prospero instead and slaughter the Thousand Sons. As Magnus was already oficially a (slightly tolerated) heretic, Russ relished in this order and took to this like a [[Furry]] to [[Ironclaw]] (barring a last-ditch attempt to Skype Magnus through a psyker). Accompanying the Space Wolves were a full contingent of Adeptus Custodes, millions of Imperial Army troops and an elite anti-psyker unit: the Sisters of Silence (think a unit of [[Culexus|Culexus Assassin]]s and you get the general idea).

Magnus, sensing this and realizing that this had been [[Just as planned]] by Tzeentch and that it has done this to completely destroy both the Thousand Sons and the Space Wolves, decided to dick with the Lord of all Fate. He decided to accept the destruction of everything that he had worked for, so that Tzeentch's ultimate goal would only be half-fulfilled. Tzeentch was richly amused by this. As Prospero burned, Tzeentch and Magnus engaged in act after act of dickery and counter-dickery; with Magnus finally pushed into a towering rage and taking to the battlefield at his capital: crushing his enemies with volleys of MIND BULLETS, before he engaging Leman Russ himself in close-combat. The two fought fiercely and Magnus managed to Falcon pawnch Russ so hard, his breastplate shattered ''and one of his hearts punctured''. Russ got lucky and took out Magnus' second eye, and then performed a back-breaker on him that ended the fight. Tzeentch was greatly amused by all of this because it's rare for anyone, let alone a mortal, to predict and out-manipulate the plans of the Architect of Fate himself. He thus made Magnus an offer: Become Tzeentch's servant and preserve what was left of his Legion and homeworld or watch it all burn in a pool of his own blood...

...For Magnus though, it never really was a choice. The response of Magnus' new patron was immediate: for once, Tzeentch was true to his word. The City of Light was transported into the Eye of Terror onto a Daemon World. Prospero was destroyed that day, but Magnus and his Legion survived. It is unclear ''when'' they ended up on the Planet of the Sorcerers; before or after the Siege of Terra, but Magnus the Red had become a daemon prince and the most powerful of all Tzeentch's servants. [[Just as planned|Magnus had never served Tzeentch willingly, but now had no choice - exactly as Tzeentch HAD PLANNED from the very beginning (we might think), and now he was committed to the very cause he had tried to foil]].
JUST AS PLANNED! x9000+

Some head-scratching does arise at to why Magnus didn't: a) simply tell his Legion to lay down their weapons and try and talk Russ out of obliterating the entire world or b) take the hara-kiri option, which would have at least brought everything to an end a little earlier.

==Post-Heresy==
[[File:Cl9SiZhXIAADyip.jpg|left|thumb|300px|An exceptionally skilled drawfag's depiction of Magnus during the Horus Heresy.]]
Magnus was stuck in limbo and meditation for a while, until Jaghatai Khan rocked up to Prospero to find out what had happened and found a shade of his brother down in the caves. Magnus served up a nice big info-dump and in return Jaghatai banished him from Prospero. Magnus then travelled to the planet Tzeentch had set up for him (apparently Lorgar had kept trying to persuade him to join the Heresy during this period, though we don't know how when he couldn't reach his Legion).

And so, the Horus Heresy came and went. The Siege of Terra occurred, Horus had fought the Emperor and (SPOILER WARNING) failed, and the Traitor Legions were driven to the [[Eye of Terror]]. However, the Thousand Sons now had to deal with more immediate problems: with their serving of Tzeentch, the Flesh Change returned with a vengeance. Magnus made efforts to stop this, but being a servant of the God of Mutation has its drawbacks and before long Magnus seemed to have given up. Growing desperate, [[Ahzek Ahriman]], the Chief Librarian and First Captain, took matters into his own hands. Having lost his brother to the Flesh Change before they found Prospero, Ahriman gathered a cabal of other sorcerers, the Book of Magnus, and performed the Rubric of Ahriman in an attempt to stop the Flesh Change. The results were not what Ahriman expected: while it stopped the Flesh Change and further empowered all psychic Thousand Sons, all non-psyker Thousand Sons had their bodies turned to dust and sealed within their Power Armour, becoming little more than robots needing guidance from a Thousand Son sorcerer.

Magnus was furious. Confronting Ahriman, once his most favored son, Magnus was about to kill Ahriman when Tzeentch spoke to him: ''"Magnus, why do you seek to kill my pawn?"'' Once again, Magnus had been used. Broken, Magnus simply exiled Ahriman from the Planet of Sorcerers. For the last ten thousand years, Magnus has labored to restore his Sons bodies to their original forms, failing all the while.

Unknown to everyone, save perhaps Tzeentch itself, the failed rubric also had a side-effect: Magnus's conscience and psychic might fragmented into several alter-egos, each with different personality's and goals.

He later showed up on [[Fenris|FENRIS]] ITSELF and became the second Daemon Primarch after [[Angron]] to get shit done, rampaging through imperial lines and laying waste to everything in his path with MIND BULLETS and RAW PHYSICAL POWER until the Space Wolves responded and after a extremely hard fight <s>managed to banish him back</s> Magnus phased out himself and teleported all his marines out of the Fang, after reaching his goal, sabotaging an experimental Space Wolf geneseed mutation cure, and killing an entire Great Company HQ, Great Wolf (turns out wolfing a Wolf Lord's wolf means warping your hands inside him and ''ripping his hearts out'') and almost killing Bjorn the Fell-Handed himself as a nice bonus. To be fair, Space Wolves almost managed to actually banish him back to Warp, and Magnus was almost out of energy and barely able to sustain physical form at the end of battle because he had dementia from his time in warp (and because, daemon prince or not, that many wolves, Bjorn and an exploding tank of promethium will fuck you up). Khorne was so impressed by this badassery that he decided to give a little leeway to Khornate sorcerers.

Funny how two out of two Daemon Primarchs to have gotten shit done ended up being repelled by the actions of the Space Wolves. And the best thing? Unlike Draigo "beat Mortarion and the Death Guard silly singlehandedly" faggotry, this fluff is actually somewhat well written, with the Space Wolves being pushed to their very limits trying to repel the chosen of Tzeentch, and they only got off easy once he fucked off after his main objective was finished.

On another note, from all the Primarch Daemons featured so far seen in fluff he seems to be the most collected and coherent, as far as Chaos goes, in the trailer of Wrath of Magnus he actually sounded quite composed and at difference of Angron's "BLUDFUTEBLUDGUD!" or Mortharion's "IHAVESPESSASHMA" he told the Thousand Sons in a strong but civilized way to put their differences aside to focus on the goal of destroying the Space Puppies, also, he remarked how [[Awesome|all of them were his sons, even Ahriman or any other wayward sorceror who had gone his own way through the ages,]] [[Kharn|what a cool guy.]]

During the campaign, Magnus' goal was never to destroy Fenris (though it would have been a satisfying bonus), but instead to make the Wolves suffer as they did during the Burning of Prospero: Now that the Wulfen, and such their genetic flaw, have been revealed, they would then be regarded with suspicion and mistrust. And because the people of Fenris have seen first-hand the horrors of the warp, the inquisition have ordered a massive purge that sees most of the population of Fenris exterminated. Midgardia basically gets destroyed, Fenris becomes a partly irradiated wasteland, and Magnus pulls Sortiarius into the materium (as the whole invasion of Fenris also turned out to be a massive ritual of which the grey knights killing the populous helped alot, yes grey knights dun fucked up).

Oh yeah, and many Daemon Primarchs begin to show up, presumably for the 13th Black Crusade. Also, there is a teaser about some 30k force coming back.

==On table-top as Daemon Primarch==
[[File:Magnus-revealed.PNG|right|thumb|300px|Exactly as planned!]]

Rules-wise, he's a beast with 7s across the board barring strength (8) attacks (6) and ld (10). He rocks a 4++ and can re-roll ones (so yeah, throw in the grimoire of names to have a 2++ re-rollable and guy becomes unkillable when combined with the fact that he's a FMC and he's EW), as well as Daemon of Tzeentch, Deep Strike, VotLW, Fearless, Fleet, IWND, and the WT Lord of Flux (Enemy units within 12″ of your Warlord treat all terrain, even open ground, as difficult terrain. Additionally, any enemy units that run, turbo-boost, move flat out or charge within that radius must take dangerous terrain tests). He has what is by far the best psychic output in the game: Mastery level '''5''', AW (so he DTWs the witch on 3+ against everyone), manifests his WCs on a 2+, has LoS to all units on the table for the purposes of using his powers, and never suffers perils. He knows all spells in Tzeentch and Change lores. With the expansions brought in the new rulebook, this means Magnus can bring in to the table 2 D attacks (One of which is an 18" Beam?!) per psychic phase with relative ease, all while still being able to murderize anything that he comes across, and in melee he uses a sword that uses his strength, AP2, Soulblaze, Force, and Transmogrify (a 6 to wound causes Instant death and turns the slain model into a [[Chaos Spawn|you-know-what]]). He's 650pts, so use him wisely.

Model wise, he appears to take minor inspiration from his EPIC monkey form (which is a good thing.) He has multiple head options, including a cyclops head, which is incredibly fluffy as his face has been described as constantly changing. His armor appears to be to have changed from golden to silver (but it still has its nipple horns. Sexy, sexy nipple horns), and the motif of a bird skull appears everywhere. He has bird wings, and is posed on a Space Wolf Dreadnought arm. Ah, and he's so FUCKHUEG that he rivals an Imperial Knight. End Times confirmed.

==Trivia==
*If you translate his name into latin, you get Magnus Rubricatus, meaning "red is great". Also it has "rubric" in it. Sly GW strikes again!

==See Also==
*[https://youtu.be/bjBmT8y9PAU?t=6m56s A video chronicling Magnus' fall to Chaos. It is less conniving than originally imagined.]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUuyyVaCOzw Daddy (not the Emperor, Magnus) addressing his children for the visit to the pet shop.]

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Gabriel Angelos

2016-12-20T11:04:01Z

2605:6001:E7D1:6C00:A5FA:9392:2FE1:9481: /* Old Gabe's return in DoW III */

:''"Had the Emperor not intended I suffer, then I would feel no pain."''
:-Gabriel Angelos in [[Dawn of War#Dawn of War|Dawn of War]].
[[Image:Gabriel_dow.JPG|300px|thumb|right|Gabriel Angelos is one of the few non-[[Space Wolves|Sphess Wolf]] space marines that actually has some hair, not to mention a huge mouth.]]
'''Gabriel Angelos''' AKA Gabriel Mangelos, is a commander of the [[Blood Ravens]] [[Space Marines]]. He first appears in ''[[Dawn of War]] 1'' as third company Captain, and as of ''DoW 2: Retribution'' he has succeded that scheming heretic Azariah Kyras as Chapter Master.

Contrary to other stubborn, hot-headed captains of other [[Space Marines|Spess Mehreen]] chapters, Gabe is cool and calm in most situations - like [[Vance Motherfucking Stubbs]]. Instead of first killing the enemies and then helping the population, Gabriel manages [[Just as planned|just as planned]] tactics that let him do both things at the same time. Apparently Gabriel had to call the [[Inquisition]] after a recruiting excursion to his home planet, Cyrene, when he discovered some heretical (no one really knows) shit going on. The Inquisition launched an [[Exterminatus]] to fix it, which resulted in Gabe turning into a mournful bastard and also the only mournful bastard left alive from Cyrene.

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8Q34IEdK-8 He also plays the grand piano], making him one of, if not the only non-[[Noise Marines]] known to play a musical instrument. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1zMF53jmbE He's not the only one...]. He also has a tendency to yell "Dick" while throwing dildos at peoples faces ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z1Nd_2zIrY&list=PL0D8C3E4B80598B78 especially if those are Chaos Space Marines or Traitors]).

Angelos is nearly universally liked by /tg/ and indeed the Warhammer community as a whole. He's strong, heroic, and noble, while compassionate, intelligent, and perhaps one of the few objectively good people in all of Warhammer while still being grimdark (in fact, he's basically [[A Song of Ice and Fire|Ser Davos Seaworth]] in 40k). And unlike [[Marneus Calgar|some]] [[Kaldor Draigo|others]] he manages to pull this off in a believable manner, is realistically flawed and generally was dragged through hell to accomplish his deeds. While not everyone thinks that Relic did the best job with Warhammer, few will say that Gabriel is a poorly done character. Problem, Ward?

==Gabe's role in Dawn of War I==
Gabe led the Blood Ravens 3rd Company sent to Tartarus to stop Warboss Orkamungus's Ork invasion. After wading through the Orks and assorted Eldar, it's eventually revealed that [[Bale]], a [[Chaos Lord]], was orchestrating everything and planning to recover an artifact called the "Maledictium," which imprisoned a great daemon of Khorne (It wasn't a Bloodthirster, but probably a daemon prince).

Gabriel's friend and one of the only other survivors from Cyrene was [[Isador Akios]], a Librarian who served in Gabriel's company. Bale's [[Chaos Sorcerer]] lieutenant, [[Sindri Myr]], telepathically subverted Isador against the Imperial forces, which led to him taking the Maledictum when it was unearthed. Isador blamed Gabe for the [[Exterminatus]] of Cyrene, but Gabe claimed that he did it for the good of humanity. Isador may have further argued the point, but Gabriel instead decided to cut the bullshit and to perform a time-honored Space Marine cleansing ritual to free Isador from the taint of the dark gods; the ritual itself closely resembled discharging a bolter round directly into Isador's head at point-blank range.

After the death of Isador, Gabe got his shit together and faced off against Sindri, now a daemon prince of Khorne (Much to Khorne's dismay, a psyker even offering tribute to him). He eventually succeeded in bashing Sindri's head into his spine and saving Tartarus from becoming a daemon world. His last act before leaving Tartarus was to smash the Maledictium with God-Splitter, [[Mordecai Toth|Inquisitor Mordecai Toth]]'s daemon hammer, even after the warnings of [[Macha]] that he'd doom everyone by doing it. In Just as Planned fashion, it did; rather than banishing the bound daemon, destroying the Maledictum freed it. Based on the daemon's endgame gloating monologue, all the "blood sacrifice" of wartime death (mostly Angelos's personal handiwork, including Orkamungus, Bale, and finally Sindri) had strengthened the daemon enough for it to escape the shattering intact. Gabriel then had to live with the fact that he was responsible for its freedom and would fight it if it should ever appear again.

==Gabe's role in DOWII==
In [[Dawn of War II]] Gabe is back, now a full-fledged hair-etic, with a bitchin' cape, his old Daemonhammer and several drop-pods of fuck you to share with the Tyranids. He's so awesome that his battle-cry makes everyone around him almost as awesome as he is, and so becomes invulnerable for a few seconds, and he can hit someone so hard that their motherfucking armour shatters. You only get to play him during the final mission in the original DoWII though.

==Gabe's role in Chaos Rising==
In the many battles that transpired during the Campaign of Chaos Rising, Gabriel Angelos stayed on the Litany of Fury and did very little apart from kill stealing in the final battle. His phoning it in this time made even more egregious since he wasn't stuck in the warp, lazy old codger that he is. This may be a clever ploy however to 'dispose' of a certain HAIRITIC, by sending him on suicide missions. He was also branded a traitorous heretic by Kyras (The Blood Raven' Schmuck Master and Chief Dick) through the Honor Guard leader Diomedes. However, depending on the Force Commander's actions, Diomedes can be persuaded to see that Kyras is a heretic or can simply be slain.

At the end of the game, Angelos made this speech;

"''Brothers, victory is ours! You have driven the Black Legion from the sector, and defeated the vile daemon who sought to consume us. But a more terrible battle yet remains, our chapter is in the hands of a madmen and a heretic, Kyras, he who should be the greatest of us, has bargained away his soul to the Powers of Chaos! While we, are branded as renegades and traitors, my brothers, this CANNOT, THIS -WILL NOT- STAND. (Insert Force Commander's fate here) LET NONE FIND US WANTING, BY CHAPTER AND EMPEROR."

The rest of the speech regarding the Force Commander and his men depends on how well you take care of not going to Chaos. Maintaining a high purity level leads you to becoming the Force of Retribution within the Chapter, partial Purity leads both you and Angelos to be declared Renegades by Kyras. Maintaining a neutral purity or slightly corrupted level means you are exiled to the Eye of Terror for at least a 100 years until you die or kill everyone. At half+ but not at full corruption, Angelos brutally kills you on the spot with his Thunder Hammer. At full corruption, Angelos swears to kill you for becoming a Chaos Lord. He can't do it there because you took your ship for a spin in the Eye of Terror.

==Gabe's role in DOWII Retribution==
[[Image:Rt sm gabriel 01.jpg|thumb|right|Gabriel in his most Awesome in Retribution]]
In Dawn of War II Retribution, Gabe gets his ass pwnd by Kyras the previous chapter master who turned to the dark gods during Chaos Rising. After getting said ass pwnd (literally) he got smashed by Kyras's demon fists of fisting). He gets saved by Diomedes (you) via spamming orbital bombardments on Kyrus's face.

And lastly Gabriel comes back at the end of the game as the Chapter Master of the motherfucking BLAHD REHVENS. So, let me make this perfectly clear to you: Thule gets cut up by a Warrior beast and has to be interred in a Dreadnaught. Angelos is crushed by the flaming fists of a Daemon Prince of Khorne. Chapter Master Angelos is now mostly bionics, which when combined with his profound dedication to the Emperor and Imperium as a whole makes him a kind of foil for [[Lugft Huron]]. Anyway, this maybe explained by the fact that the aforementioned flaming fists were just flaming fists (in other worlds sterile) while the aforementioned Warrior Beast had all sorts of shit on it's claws '''THAT COULD MELT POWER ARMOR AND FLESH LIKE SOME REALLY STRONG ACID OR SOMETHING''', either that or his fucking AWSOMENESS or raw Plot armor allowed him to live

<s>(Which begs the question how the fuck was he able to kill SIIINNDRIII the Daemon Prince back in DoWI and come back one piece.. wut)</s> (Sindri merely tapped a small portion of the Daemon of the Maledictum's power, which while making him significantly more powerful than an ordinary daemon prince, does not hold a candle to Kyras becoming ONE with the Daemon of the Maledictum AND gaining enough favour through mass slaughter to ascend normally, making him quite likely the most powerful new daemon prince since the Daemon Primarchs)

It is said that the retribution 'Epic end' is a combination of the Eldar, Imperial Guard and space marine endings, as well as parts of the Chaos Space Marine ending. Taldeer's soul stone is rescued, the Blood Ravens purify their chapter, Castor gets the head of Kyrus mounted in his already impressive trophy gallery, and Eliphas will regain his badassness and become a Daemon Prince.

He also has a sexy old man voice and several of the most broken (and awesome) abilities in the game. Though he is second to Eliphas in this regard, who with a fully upgraded Sweeping Doom can ROFLstomp an entire army with a single sweep.

==Old Gabe's return in DoW III==
[[Image:Gabriel-DoW3.jpg|thumb|600px|Angelos in DoW3 in his new shiny armor]]

For now we don't know much about Gabe's role in DoW III other than that [[Magnus the Red|he's lost his right eye]] and that he's confirmed as Chapter Master and he will be the commander of Space Marines and their Imperial Knights allies in the new story. It also appears he will be donning Tartaros (or Cataphractii...nobody knows) Terminator Armor (that allows him to jump around into enemy formations while dropping Godsplitter on them) but that may just be an option in unit customization, we can only speculate for now. [[Blam|He also has a new voice actor...again.]] Hold out hope, though - it may just be a placeholder, as the footage where we heard his voice was pre-alpha. Maybe Relic will listen.

==In books==
{{WTF}}
{{heresy}}
The [[C.S.Goto|Midget Goto]] wrote a series of DOW books (this pleased him) which were about Gabriel's adventures, but since this only provoked Nerd Rage from both fans and Redshirts alike, his stuff is not [[canon|CANON]]. Speaking of Novels, one apparently claims that Gabriel was an Imperial Guardsmen before becoming a Space Marine. This is bullshit of the highest order, as the biological implants of a Space Marine can only transplanted into candidates at a young age and many only join the ranks as full fledged battle brothers at something close to 18 (the only exception is the [[Angry Marines]]; their writefaggotry implies they can recruit from adults too, as well as, presumably, the Space Wolves because they only recruit from people who have already fought gloriously in battle and children don't really do very well with fighting). That means that Gabe must have been something between 8 - 13 when he became an infantryman in the Guard, which is impossible because the conscription age of the guard is usually 13 ([[Cadia]] notwithstanding), and they usually don't conscript unless they're under constant attack and are running out of trained guardsmen to throw at the enemy. Additionally, according to the Midget Goto, he's a 'symbol of hope to the Biel-Tan Eldar', despite the Biel-Tan being the most racist and xenocidal craftworld of all. He also had a thing with Macha which ended when she had to turn herself into some kind of green warpfire to stop the Necrons at Lorn V and disappeared from the story afterwards.

Dammit Goto! Just stick to putting multilazers on the multilazers on the multilazers. So that you can shoot multilazers while you shoot multilazers while you shoot multilazers. It might be retarded but it can be written off as an in-universe quirk of some idiot with a few spare multilazers lying around. [[Matt_Ward|Completely '''fucking up''' the fluff by re-writing the fundamental motivations and character of entire races]] can not be overlooked in the same way!

A more recent short story reveals what exactly happened on Cyrene- while there were no explicit signs of corruption present there at first glance, the planet was just about ready to launch a full rebellion against the Imperium; in light of the discovery that psykers were no longer being taken to the Black Ships and that trade with xenos was the norm, the Inquisition declared the situation to be grounds for Exterminatus. The one week of orbital bombardment was actually preceded by an all-out assault on the ground by the Blood Ravens and the Grey Knights, because apparently the Inquisition wanted to be absolutely sure nothing could possibly survive (that, or they were afraid killing too many psykers at once would cause bad things to happen). Gabe had hope he could save his father from the purge, but to his horror he learned that his father was one of the rebellion's leaders and had despised the Imperium ever since Gabriel had been chosen to become a Space Marine. With a heavy heart, Gabriel had no choice [[Grimdark|but to execute his own father]](Doesn't this mean that Gabe is pretty young for a Space Marine? I mean, his father is still alive). No wonder he refused to talk about what happened on Cyrene.

==Codex: Gabriel Angelos==
If you ever wanted to play a cheesy Captain/Chapter Master for fun, here's your statline.

{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" align="left"
! || Pts || WS || BS || S || T || W || I || A || Ld || Sv
|-
| '''Captain Gabriel Angelos:''' || 200 || 6 || 5 || 4 || 4 || 3 || 5 || 4 || 10 || 2+/4++
|-
| '''Chapter Master Gabriel Angelos:''' || 260 || 7 || 5 || 4 || 5 || 4 || 5 || 4 || 10 || 2+/4++
|}<br><br><br><br>

'''Chapter Master''': Chapter Master Gabriel Angelos possesses the rank of Chapter master, and as such, may be accompanied by an Honour Guard squad, in addition, he may call down a single orbital bombardment per game (see Codex: Space Marines).

'''Wargear''':
* '''Master Crafted Power Sword (Captain Only)''': Can be Swapped for Godsplitter for 10 pts.
* '''Godsplitter (Only weapon when as Chapter Master)''': Force Weapon that's Master crafted to be usable by those with Pi-Rho psyker levels
* '''Left Hand of Gabriel''': Is replaced when Gabriel chooses to take Godsplitter.
* '''Artificer Armour''': See Codex Space Marines.
* '''Reclamation of the Chapter (Chapter Master Only)'''
*'''Iron Halo'''
* '''Frag Grenades'''
* '''Krak Grenades'''

'''Special Rules''':
* '''Independent Character'''
* '''Eternal Warrior'''
* '''And They Shall Know No Fear'''
* '''Chapter Tactics (Blood Ravens)''': As per the rules for all Chapters who do not know their primogenitor Chapter, the Blood Ravens do not have a unique Chapter Tactic. Instead, the player can elect to "borrow" any existing Chapter Tactics from Codex: Space Marines and any Forge World supplements.
* '''Inspiring Presence''': Even before becoming Chapter Master, Gabriel was known for his uncommon leadership capabilities. All friendly units in a range of 18" can use Gabriel's Ld when testing for Morale, Pinning and Fear.
* '''My Foe Shall Fall!''': Gabriel has squared off in combat against some of the most terrifying and powerful foes the Blood Ravens have faced in recent centuries, including colossal Daemons and Tyranid Bio-terrors. Gabriel's close-combat attacks against Monstrous Creatures gain a +1 to I.
* '''My Faith is My Shield! (Chapter Master Only)''': Despite the heresy and treachery that has plagued the Blood Ravens in recent years, Gabriel has never wavered from his faith and maintained absolute loyalty to the Emperor. In combat Gabriel channels his purity through the hallowed wards inscribed into his blessed armour. Once per game, Gabriel may give himself a 2++ Invulnerable save for the duration of a single combat phase, regardless of whether it is yours or your opponent's.
* '''Cybernetic Enhancements (Chapter Master Only)''': After his battle with Kyras much of Gabriel's body had to be rebuilt with so much cybernetics that he would put [[Marneus Calgar]] to shame. As a result he is more resilient than before. This grants him +1 Toughness (already included in profile).
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* '''Godsplitter''': God-Splitter is a powerful Daemonhammer gifted to Gabriel Angelos of the Blood Ravens 3rd Company by Inquisitor Mordecai Toth on the planet Tartarus to combat the Daemon of the Maledictum. Just like every Daemonhammer, Godsplitter strikes with the speed of a lightning bolt. Unlike every Daemonhammer, this weapon strikes with an even greater and truly terrifying power.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Range !! Strength !! AP !! Type
|-
| '''Godsplitter''' || - || 10 || 1 || Melee, Two-Handed, Master Crafted, Concussive, Strikedown, Anathemic Presence
|}

** '''Anathemic Presence''': Attacks from this weapon force units with the Daemon USR to re-roll all successful saves granted by that rule.

* '''Left Hand of Gabriel''': Blood Ravens Captain Gabriel Angelos used this pistol to slay the traitor Isador Akios, once his closest friend. Angelos discarded the weapon in disgust at the Ruinous Powers and the taint they bring to Man. His battle brothers recovered the weapon and returned it to the chapter armory.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Range !! Strength !! AP !! Type
|-
| '''Left Hand of Gabriel''' || 12 || 4 || 3 || Pistol, Master Crafted, Precision Shots
|}

* '''Reclamation of the Chapter (Chapter Master Only)''': This suit of power armour was specially crafted for Angelos by the Chapter's Techmarines to honour his ascension to Chapter Master and is designed around his extensive bionics. It has also been inscribed and blessed by the Chapter's Chaplains to signify his victory over the forces of heresy. This is Artificer Armour that infers the 'My Faith is my Shield' special rule.

== External Links: ==
*[http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?t=246133 Gabriel Angelos can now be played online via mod]

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