Editing The War of The Beast (section)

== Major revelations ==

'''Here come some major spoilers!'''

The series has revealed many events which have previously only been hinted at or not really touched on at all:
*The [[Imperial Fists]] were completely wiped out during the war; it took the combined effort of the successor chapters to bring them back. If one wants to be a purist for direct lines of decent then the 'real' OG Imperial Fists Chapter ended there. This however is directly contradicted in book 6 with Slaughter remarking that the frozen Imperial Fists gene-stocks still remained, making the whole 'I.F.s wiped out' point only valid in the strictest sense. While the gene-seed does remain, the loss of all those veterans from the Crusade and Heresy is still a serious blow to the Imperium.
**This was partially retconned by [[GW]] when they later revealed that before he disappeared, Dorn had sent aspirants to [[Cawl]]'s vaults to become the first Imperial Fists [[Primaris Marines]] (see Lieutenant Calder), who then later re-joined the chapter during the [[Indomitus Crusade]]. Furthermore, Thane was later changed from a Successor Captain to a 7th Legion Horus Heresy veteran. Thus, a living Legion veteran refounded the Fists and there were Imperial Fists Primaris sleeping on Cawl's ship the entire time. The Fists today are legit as ever, [[Derp|making this a narrative cul-de-sac because GeeDubs can't keep its fluff straight]].
*It was Captain Koorland who came up with the idea of creating the [[Deathwatch]] from the marines who have survived the first months of the war.
*Drakan Vangorich was actually quite a cool guy, and it was only a century after The Beheading that he went mad and had to be removed.
*The novel series gives an excellent idea of the state of the human colonies during the [[Age of Strife]] when there wasn't an Imperium to defend mankind from the alien threat and why surrendering to [[xenos]] <strike> was </strike> IS a very bad idea.
*That inquisitor named Veritus? None other than Kyril Sindermann, formerly the [[Luna Wolves]]' [[Iterator]] and one of the founders of both the [[Imperial Creed]] and the Inquisition. This explains how he knew so much about, well, everything, and he came with the idea of the [[Ordo Malleus]] and the [[Ordo Xenos]] as separate defined branches, making him the grand-daddy of the modern Inquisition.
*Grand Master Janus from the [[Grey Knights]] makes a cameo.
*Vulkan was still alive (and of course will still be due being a perpetual), but it was good to have him back for a while. Also, he hints that Rogal Dorn may be still alive too.
*After the defeat of the Beast, the Mechanicus faked destroying the planet of Ullanor by teleporting it to another solar system. It has become well known in the 41st millennium by the name of [[Armageddon]]. Yes, THAT Armageddon.
*All the remaining Sisters of Silence (from that specific convent, at least) were killed during the final battle against the Beast, the last one sacrificing herself to destroy the Ork-Prime. However, it seems they too were later formally re-established (if not as well-supported and numerous) by M41, as they arrived on Luna to stop Magnus from mopping the floor with Guilliman.
*[[Eldrad]] had a hand helping the Imperium to stop the Orks and during the final passages of the last book it was revealed to him that Mankind and [[Eldar]] fates are irrevocably intertwined.
*Throughout the siege of [[Terra]], the Orks taunted the defenders with transmissions from orbit across all vox-channels in their own tongue: the name of their commander, a phrase roughly translating as "Beast", "I am Slaughter", or "Lord Who Brings Great Slaughter". It is revealed in the final passages of the last book that, in Orkish, this phrase is "Mag Uruk Thraka". Granted, [[Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka]] has ''nothing'' on the Beast... at least, not yet.
**It's worth considering that the Orks believe that dead Orks go back to [[Gork]] and [[Mork]] to be belched into another body. And when ten zillion Orks believe a thing...
*Orks can be eradicated en masse through the use of the [[Blank|Pariah Gene]] and [[Weirdboy|Weirdboyz]], but only if the [[WAAAGH]] energies reach a certain critical mass first. Unfortunately, since this is when they are also at their strongest, Pariahs with enough power to pull it off are a rarity in themselves, and it requires the Pariah's death.
*The war only lasted something like two, years, apparently, which has heavy implications for how fast the Imperium's Warp travel actually is. Or at least how quick it was in this time period.