Editing Thaddeus (section)

==Dawn of War II Story==
Thaddeus first appears in DOW II, joining your commander early on, although not in the first mission, as Avitus, Tarkus, and Cyrus do. He's notable for butting heads with Avitus over the latter's disdain for civilians and [[Imperial Guard| guardsmen]], and to some extent annoying Cyrus by ruining the scout sergeant's cynicism. Tarkus does his best to mentor him in the ways of being an Astartes.

Thaddeus remains much the same in [[Chaos Rising]], showing his love for the common man by gaining corruption if not deployed on a mission to save the hab-spires of Meridian. If he ends up betraying your squad, he reveals that he made a bargain with [[Ulkair]] to allow the Litany of Fury to triumph against the hive mind, and attempts to "save" you by jumping on top of your heads and inserting a chainsword into your orifices. The former portion of this is almost certainly bullshit, as [[Jonah Orion]], who fought directly against the hive mind, noted that he felt no daemonic presence and that it was entirely the work of a specially engineered bio-toxin that slayed it. Which means that Chaos duped him into thinking his bargain was what led you to victory and took advantage of how he was too naive to realize he had been tricked.

He does not reappear in [[Dawn of War II#Retribution|Retribution]]. The common assumption is that he was sent alongside Hairgel into exile, or on a crusade of penitence into the Eye of Terror. Alternatively, they may just be working with Angelos directly and thus out of sight.

If cannon, Thaddeus's betrayal shows just how devious the minions of Chaos are. [[Jonah Orion|They did not brute force their way into his mind]], [[Avitus|nor did they shatter his understanding of the galaxy]] or [[Cyrus|reinforce a cynical worldview]], and they brought no [[Tarkus|seductive trinkets]]. Instead, they weaponized all Thaddeus cared for: his brothers, his family, the chapter and all he had been raised to value as a Space Marine were threatened and in a moment of weakness, he saw the opportunity to save them all and took it.

When confronted with the reality of his actions, he was hit with the truth his sacrifices meant nothing, that his brothers were stronger than he thought. Thaddeus reacted with absolute unflinching denial, desperately clinging onto the idea that his damning actions held some merit to the chapter at large. Thaddeus did not die as a Space Marine, but as his brothers would see him in his weakest moments. Exactly as Chaos saw him on Typhon. Nothing more than a reckless child, too attached to emotional and inconsequential abstracts, too in love with his humanity to ever have true focus on his duties. Thaddeus died loving his brothers above everything else. Even above sanity.