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UndeadPrivateer · 31-35, M
TeresaRudolph71 · 51-55, F
@UndeadPrivateer I'm afraid I don't know who that is. 🤔
UndeadPrivateer · 31-35, M
@TeresaRudolph71 There's probably like 5 people on this entire site that do. :P Here, fun sci-fi villain from Warhammer 40,000. (Which takes place 40,000 years in the future, as one may guess) The Horus Heresy this speaks of took place in the year 30,000.
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[quote]Horus Lupercal was one of the twenty Primarchs created by the God-Emperor in the earliest days of the Imperium, just after the end of the Age of Strife. Like the other Primarchs, Horus was sucked from Terra by the Gods of Chaos and was placed on a far-away world in an attempt to prevent the coming of the Age of the Imperium.
Horus was the first Primarch to be rediscovered, fighting alongside his father in the Great Crusade. Becoming the favored son of the Emperor and beloved by most of his brother Primarchs, Horus eventually rose to become Warmaster of the Great Crusade(a galaxy-wide war to found the human-controlled Galactic Imperium) and was seen as second only to the Emperor himself in power and prestige. But in spite of all of this, he was eventually corrupted by the powers of Chaos and initiated the Horus Heresy against the very Imperium he helped create.
Horus cut a bloody swathe across the Imperium and lay siege to Terra itself in an attempt to slay the Emperor. Fully half of the Legions, and their Primarchs, turned to the forces of Chaos with Horus and joined in his Heresy. Multiple Primarchs fell in the vicious civil war and in its final moments the Emperor teleported onto the bridge of Horus' command barge and engaged him in a fateful duel. Weakened slightly after battle to the death with Sanguinius, the Emperor's most favored Primarch after Horus and who had remained loyal, Horus ultimately is slain by the Emperor after mortally wounding him.
The Emperor returns to Terra, now mortally wounded, and only has enough time to begin the transference of government to subordinates before he must be permanently interred into a life support system known as the Golden Throne. Here the Emperor has lain for 10,000 years, his psychic power housed within his dying shell on the edge of oblivion serving as the Astronomicon, a guiding beacon all of humanity uses to navigate the stars.[/quote]
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[quote]Horus Lupercal was one of the twenty Primarchs created by the God-Emperor in the earliest days of the Imperium, just after the end of the Age of Strife. Like the other Primarchs, Horus was sucked from Terra by the Gods of Chaos and was placed on a far-away world in an attempt to prevent the coming of the Age of the Imperium.
Horus was the first Primarch to be rediscovered, fighting alongside his father in the Great Crusade. Becoming the favored son of the Emperor and beloved by most of his brother Primarchs, Horus eventually rose to become Warmaster of the Great Crusade(a galaxy-wide war to found the human-controlled Galactic Imperium) and was seen as second only to the Emperor himself in power and prestige. But in spite of all of this, he was eventually corrupted by the powers of Chaos and initiated the Horus Heresy against the very Imperium he helped create.
Horus cut a bloody swathe across the Imperium and lay siege to Terra itself in an attempt to slay the Emperor. Fully half of the Legions, and their Primarchs, turned to the forces of Chaos with Horus and joined in his Heresy. Multiple Primarchs fell in the vicious civil war and in its final moments the Emperor teleported onto the bridge of Horus' command barge and engaged him in a fateful duel. Weakened slightly after battle to the death with Sanguinius, the Emperor's most favored Primarch after Horus and who had remained loyal, Horus ultimately is slain by the Emperor after mortally wounding him.
The Emperor returns to Terra, now mortally wounded, and only has enough time to begin the transference of government to subordinates before he must be permanently interred into a life support system known as the Golden Throne. Here the Emperor has lain for 10,000 years, his psychic power housed within his dying shell on the edge of oblivion serving as the Astronomicon, a guiding beacon all of humanity uses to navigate the stars.[/quote]
TeresaRudolph71 · 51-55, F
@UndeadPrivateer Oh wow, that's quite a story! Thanks so much for sharing that. So was Horus on the right side, when he fought against the Imperium, or was this just something that was inevitable? Either way, it's an interesting story.
UndeadPrivateer · 31-35, M
@TeresaRudolph71 He was an unwitting pawn for the "Dark Gods" of the setting, but had good intentions. He turned because he was stabbed by a corrupted sword, kind of like Frodo in Lord of the Rings except he wasn't saved by any fancy elf magic. The Chaos Gods, as they're more formally known, manipulated him into causing a galactic civil war in the Imperium to further empower themselves.
The Chaos Gods themselves are the result of collective beliefs and perceptions of every sentient being in the galaxy being reflected in a parallel reality called the Warp. These warp structures over time become so complex that their warp reflections themselves gain sentience, forming something of a super-organism which then has intentions of its own. They break down into 4 major powers. Khorne, who is a manifestation of all feelings of violence whether justified or not. Nurgle, who is a manifestation of decay and rebirth. Tzeentch, who is deception and change. And finally and youngest of them all is Slaanesh, who is a manifestation of raw excess.
The Chaos Gods are the result of psychic intensity, so their goals ultimately just boil down to what their names suggest. Spread as much chaos as possible in as many places as possible and feed off the experiences of everything going through it to further empower themselves to then spread more chaos. They can splinter off shards of themselves to manifest into "daemons" which are semi-individual entities that can physically manifest into realspace. People who manage to do enough for the gods and gain enough of their attention, however, have a chance at daemonic ascension and true immortality as any time they "die" they are simply banished to the warp and can re-manifest.
The Chaos Gods themselves are the result of collective beliefs and perceptions of every sentient being in the galaxy being reflected in a parallel reality called the Warp. These warp structures over time become so complex that their warp reflections themselves gain sentience, forming something of a super-organism which then has intentions of its own. They break down into 4 major powers. Khorne, who is a manifestation of all feelings of violence whether justified or not. Nurgle, who is a manifestation of decay and rebirth. Tzeentch, who is deception and change. And finally and youngest of them all is Slaanesh, who is a manifestation of raw excess.
The Chaos Gods are the result of psychic intensity, so their goals ultimately just boil down to what their names suggest. Spread as much chaos as possible in as many places as possible and feed off the experiences of everything going through it to further empower themselves to then spread more chaos. They can splinter off shards of themselves to manifest into "daemons" which are semi-individual entities that can physically manifest into realspace. People who manage to do enough for the gods and gain enough of their attention, however, have a chance at daemonic ascension and true immortality as any time they "die" they are simply banished to the warp and can re-manifest.
TeresaRudolph71 · 51-55, F
@UndeadPrivateer I see. Wow, that's really fascinating. That sounds like a metaphor for all the toxic or disordered energy that people put out there. Some people somehow seem to manage to use that energy to empower themselves, but I think most people have to try to fend off that energy, as much as possible, to survive.
UndeadPrivateer · 31-35, M
@TeresaRudolph71 Absolutely. There's a lot of metaphor going on there.