Editing Lion El'Jonson (section)

====The Lion, <s>the Witch, and the Wardrobe</s> the King, and the Question====

Within the Arc of the ''Son of the Forest'', the visions the Lion enters while walking through the dreamscape of Caliban's forests raises questions about several new factors: '''The Lion''', his psychic potential and purpose; '''The Watchers''', their intentions and their connection to Caliban; and '''The Emperor''', his psychic influence and plans for the Lion.

When it comes to the forests of Caliban and the Watchers within, it can be speculated that these forest dreamscapes the Lion wanders through are in fact a form of pocket dimension or passage, like a mini-Webway that the Watchers can access, allowing them to mysteriously appear and disappear in impossible places. More specifically, it manifests as a forest due to the Watchers' connection to Caliban and their cryptic purpose that bound them to it. 

It was always speculated that each of the Primarchs, even those that outright denied it, all had some form of psychic potential within them given their Warp-infused nature when the Emperor created them. Perhaps when the Watchers snatched the Lion away after Luther dealt him his psychic attack, they brought him into this pocket reality, and through the millennia as he healed, the Lion became psychically attuned to using this space, with the Watchers seemingly teaching and guiding him through such passages in the beginning of the book.

Tangentially related is the literal question that the Lion has to ask the King. This requires a bit of basic background in the tales of King Arthur (that the Dark Angels draw heavy inspiration from). In many of the Arthurian romances, beginning with the unfinished Parzival, there is a character known as the Fisher King. The Fisher King is the last guardian of the Holy Grail, who has been badly wounded in the thigh, groin, stomach, or genitals, and who must be asked the “healing question” to recover and restore his lands.

Sound familiar?

Within the first chapters of the book the Lion comes across the aforementioned King. In a boat. Bleeding. He has the opportunity to ask a handful of questions to the King (who is clearly the Emperor) throughout the book, but the Watchers tell him he is asking the wrong question. This is another strange link between the xenos Watchers and the Emperor. It begs the question, are the Watchers and the Emperor aware of each others presence, and if so, is the Emperor in this Fisher King shard/manifestation actually working with the Watchers? Far from impossible. After all, both The Watchers and Big-E are known for being enigmatic, transcendent psykers, who disdain and are anathema to Chaos. If we are to assume that they are indeed allies, the question with regards to the Lion, is to what aim? Perhaps to guide and test the Lion in preparation for something (like what we see in his later mental trial)? This could possibly explain how the Watchers and the Lion were able to obtain his sword Fealty and the Emperor's Shield throughout these visions.

Furthermore, later in the book, the Lion finds the King, accompanied by three relics: a candelabra, a chalice, and a bloody lance (in Arthurian legend, a lance wound is often the origin of the Fisher King’s injury).

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