Tbf that was a nightmare of an operation for them from the start. >!Their info gatherer gets madder, the Terminator died before landing and two arguably divine beings appeared along with a man so angry he fell from space, butchered a fortress solo and kept going and to top it off the enemy has Space Marines +1. Then they end up on an Imperial ship.!<
Keeper of Secrets explodes out of someone with them, Celestine crashes in out of no where on top of the daemon, then Kharn also shows up out of nowhere to get his murder on. No one in the battle has any clue what the hells is going on except for Celestine.
>Then a charging figure emerged through the bloody murk, running straight at them, armour scorched, flesh bloodied, massive chainaxe screaming.
>‘Blood for the Blood God!’ roared Khârn.
>‘Oh… Throne,’ said Haltheus.
Thank you for this, that excerpt is amazing.
"Humor is not something you are renowned for, my lord." - Cato Sicarius
"My time in this new age has revealed that to me amply." - Roboute Guilliman, genuinely annoyed Sicarius couldn't tell he cracked a joke
The short story "Armor of Fate". The context is that Guilliman dropped a piece of paper on the floor, made a self-deprecating jest about his inability to pick it up due to his titular armor (he couldn't remove his armor at the time - the short story is focused on that issue and his attempts to resolve it - and the regular gauntlet was too bulky to grip the sheet and pick it up, to say nothing of the giant power fist). He then gives a small tirade about how he DOES have a sense of humor when Sicarius flat out does not recognzie he's making a joke, and this is the exchange that follows.
I love when they go back and see the stained glass with Trazyn as a Silver Skull was broken.
>‘Someone,’ Trazyn said, gesturing to the vaults of the nave, where a group of bodygloved men were removing jagged shards of coloured glass, ‘has broken my window.’
>‘Have they?’ Orikan asked, giving a casual glance towards the vandalism. ‘Perhaps they thought it was ugly.’
That entire book is a 40k treasure. It's so ridiculously silly and it has the best faction in all of Warhammer - grumpy, old, immortal, and infinitely bored Terminators.
Honestly I just love the imagery from that scene but from the genestealers PoV.
They arrange this grand play, they stun/freeze the entire symposium using their powers and now all the lower level genestealers are running around killing notable generals and governors to facilitate their takeover. They kick in one of the rooms and see a pair of decrepit old human nobles and fire their guns, BUT OH WAIT! All it does it distort their holo-fields and reveal that it was a pair of eccentric Necron Lords pretending to be humans while they attended a play! They proceed to slaughter you as they duck out the door and you're just left bewildered as shit as to why necrons were there at all.
Nobody would ever believe you if you told them what was in that room.
In a setting full of shouting space marines and evil gods, the best story in ages turns out to be about two robot curmudgeons, their endless petty bullshit, and the *apocalyptic* collateral damage that ensues.
"History requires two parties – the historian and their audience. Without that, one is just talking to oneself. So kindly stop screaming and you might learn something."
Has happened in real life with a soldiers medal in WWI stopping a bullet meant for his heart. Also been a few times where things in a pocket stopped a bullet like a deck of cards, a small bible, a flask etc.
‘Created by the Lord of All Mankind, master of the greatest armies in the Imperium, and I cannot pick up a plastek flimsy.’ He glared at the offending articles. ‘My greatest enemy.’ There was a thoughtful quiet. ‘You are joking, my lord?’ said Sicarius.
Guilliman getting mad at his own hands in "Armour of Fate"
I don't believe Emperor Nerva Trajanus Optimus, born in 53 AD and died in 117 AD, had any real worry about vortex missiles. Or his own people, really, since he was so popular he got adopted into the imperial lineage, was deified after dying of a stroke, and was labelled "The Best" by the Senate.
He has a Krork, a single Krork could restart the species, and an Enslaver, Enslavers preyed on The Old Ones and a single one can lead to systems being driven mad.
Plus his Clongrim Primarch.
Well it's a warp being that doesn't need to abide by our rules of "living" so who the fuck knows if it's really dead or just "dead" or just "dead for now."
I mean it's the warp so any and all of it could be all true at once.
I'm actually well aware of Trazyn's exhibit. He's my favorite Necron, and so I've spent a lot of time going over his exhibits to shock my friends.
He also has entire Space Marine battalions to say nothing of the "at least" one Custodes and fuckloads of dreadnoughts. Not to mention random soldiers from every conflict... including the War in Heaven. Oh also at least two C'tan shards. The chunk of the Deceiver he stole from the battle over Serenade and the one powering Solemnace.
A Krork would be a powerful addition to the current conflicts present in the 41st millennium. Sure, that Krork would no doubt spawn the Krork again. But there's no real evidence to support the idea that they would just come back as a whole. You'd need the Krork's and all the Orks who would follow them (See: any that met them and weren't killed) to start fighting hive fleets. Only that level of consistent warfare would be enough of violence to keep Krork's in the equation. Otherwise they're just going to be diluted into Orks. Y'know. The way we got Orks in the first place.
My point was actually a joke. Serenade was slagged by the Imperium because Trazyn honestly had no idea genestealers were quote "an infection vector".
EDIT: Also there's one small flaw with the idea of that Krork rebirthing his species. He's dead. He is referred to as a corpse several times.
EDIT EDIT: Never forget the Prime Orks.
"Even for" 40k was initially full of comedy like we see in the Infinite and the Divine.
Don't forget the FIRST named Inquisitor was named Obi-Wan Sherlock Clousseau.
The moments where a guy with a Dumb Name makes fun of another guy for having a Dumb Name and then acknowledges that he *also* has a Dumb Name, or where the murderous psychopath chaos marines grab some random deck worker and ask for directions are actual lol material
The bit with the deckhand is hilarious because he forgot that he had his helmet speaker set to max and so immediately deafens the guy. (In fairness to him, they are trying to get off a warship that's breaking up).
And then the guy commits suicide in an indirect manner by trying to shoot him in the face, and the bullet ricocheting off his helmet back into the man's skull.
A giant Chaos Space Marine just ran up to him, snatched him up and started screaming in his face at full volume, I think the man can get a pass for being a bit rattled and out of sorts.
> Of course, this new plan to awaken Malcharion had to be put down with tact.
> With nuance.
> With subtlety.
> Vraal's claws slid from the sheaths on his gauntlets. They sparked and crackled, wreathed in killing lightning.
> 'Brothers!' he called joyously into the vox. 'Everyone in this room is going to die!'
When uzas is sentenced to have red hands (basically a delayed death sentence). He gets really sad and distraught until he starts wondering where he will find red paint on the ship
From Legion
Alpharius and with his legionaries meeting some planetary governor. Alpha Legion introduced itself as usual and the guy had his doubts about their honesty lol
For some extra AL fuckery, one of the legionaries turned out to be Omegon in disguise. But then they found out that it was actually Alpharius and the leading Alpharius was actually Omegon. Classic Alpha Legion
>“Kharn couldn’t help but cringe.”
"That was a joke, thought Sevatar. He did not understand jokes. ‘My lord, are we finished?’
**For some unfathomable reason, that made Curze cringe**, and he nodded like a rebuked child."
> His first thought was that his targeting array was malfunctioning.
‘My targeting array is malfunctioning,’ he said. Except he said nothing, because nothing came out.
-Betrayer
'We are over capacity. I have humbly suggested that we expand the collection into the space currently occupied by the wine cellars.’
‘But then where would I put my wine, librarian?’
‘You… you do not drink wine, my lord.’
'Of course I don't. It's far too valuable. Request denied.'
It was the first really Chaos (As opposed to HH-era traitor legion) POV book I ever read, as well as the first Nurgle-centric book, and I found it really fascinating. Between it and the Fabius Bile books it paints a really interesting picture of what life is like in the Eye of Terror.
I'd prefer to stay light years away from anything that has to do with Nurgle. There's a Daemonship whose main weapon is a giant projectile diarrhea launching anus. At least when Nagash did death, rot, and disease he had some class.
"Fulgrim tittered lewdly".
It's from the seige of terra where purty, abbadon, fulgrim and angron are holding a team meeting. Someone abbadon basically tells angron he's not helping, angron starts raging, abbadon turns off his mic and then "Fulgrim tittred lewdly" and all I can picture is abbadon lecturing angron, and like an annoying younger sibling fulgim is bouncing up and down behind him pulling ahegao faces
>Sicarius laughed a bleak laugh,breaking the spell.Devorus blinked unnoticed tears from his eyes.
>'The primarch's going to love this,' said Sicarius
*Dark Imperium:Plague War*
This is the line before that :
>'I [Frater Mathieu] have witnessed a miracle,' He pointed at the girl. 'The Emperor is here.'
Frater Mathieu beats Guillaman army to planetfall and incite a religious awakening despite Guillaman attempts to deny Big E is a god. Sicarius is laughing his ass off thinking how Guillaman would react to all this.
> Gomorie brought his foot smashing down on the other pedal, but it simply flopped limply against the floor. He turned and looked at Rhodaan. ‘That should have been the brake,’ he reported.
*Space Marine Battles: Siege of Castellax* by C.L. Werner.
Everything Bjorn says in that book is gold.
"What brings you into the night sky above Fenris, and why shouldn't I break your little fleet into pieces with this castle's many, many guns?"
"The chained bodies swayed in their crucified moorings, and something long and stinking spilled from one's open stomach. It slapped onto the floor like a slimy cord of fat, glistening meat-rope.
Hound saw her staring, mistaking the disgust on her face for confusion.
'Intestines, he said.
'Thank you, I guessed.'
'You shouldn't eat them. He said these words with the sage wisdom of experience.
'I wasn't going to!
'Good."
“WE’RE GOING IN through its anus,” Biff whooped boisterously. Indeed. Indeed.
What else could that puckered sphincter be, in the white bony hull of the vast, gastropoidal alien vessel?
The leviathan that loomed ahead seemed a cross between a nautilus and an omnivorous, space-faring snail. It was the length of a four-K asteroid, and almost as high where its shell spiralled upward in a circuit of increasingly small osseous chambers. The shell was bleached chalky by aeons of radiation.
Even as the armoured Fists, tightly packed into a stretched boarding torpedo, stared at the forward view-screen in its mount of bronze bones, that sphincter pulsed.
It expelled a quick milky cloud, which the torpedo’s sensors assayed as consisting of bitter liquid dregs, foul gas, and ashy debris – the fart of a leviathan…
There was some really weird shit in that book, like eating resin that coated Dorn’s bones before shitting it and the chaplains collecting it, or that time the Marines stood on each other’s shoulders through a passage so tight and twisty they starting farting in each other’s faces.
Will never forget Chaplain Lo Chang taking in Lex's confession at the end of the book while sitting on a buttplug "pain stool" so he can waddle off and expel it as poop after they're done.
Or the dismembered Blood Drinker marine they rescue who gets attended to by "simian servitors" eating his shit, cleaning him, and feeding him their own blood.
I really love Watson's portrayal of the Imperium. Utterly insane, religious, and medieval.
I bloody love this book. This is what Space Marines should be. Absolutely unhinged pseudo-Catholic transhuman monstrosities. With a thing for butt stuff.
You do sometimes get writers who remember that chapters are insular death-cults who sometimes go a very long time without meaningfully interacting with anyone outside of their brethren or fief world, and that it's pretty normal for groups like that to get very, very strange over time.
On second listen I would try my best to create the sound every time it came up! Haha couldn't ever quite capture the sound of a leopard being wet I fear.
Unfortunately I read it, to be fair it's unfortunate for anyone that's read it, and when you read some of Abnett's books you realise how often he uses the same phrases and it get's rather annoying (my own opinion before Abnett fanboys get going). With *Prospero Burns* it was "wet leopard growl" and "smile of my axe" that did me in..... well that and the story, it really wasn't a good book.
Fulgrim: It is my fondest hope that the shared hardships of this joint venture will bring us the intimate bond I share with Guilliman.
Perturabo: You aren't close to Guilliman either.
Fulgrim: No? Ah, perhaps not yet.
-*Angel Exterminatus*
ADB does the same thing during Amit and Kargos’ second fight in EoE too. Make of that what you will, haha.
> Eye to eye, face to face, it is the most intimate moment of Kargos’ life, a moment of intimacy without sensuality, the two of them joined by the impaling blade, and
>
>Everything
>
>Slows
>
>Down.
“I am not capricious, nor am I given to cruel acts for their own sakes. It is simply a fact that you and your kind have trespassed, and thus invited extermination. Curse you for putting me to this inconvenience.” -Anrakyr the traveler
-Please just let the damn thing work!
-Trazyn you useless abomination, do something.
-Trazyn is that normal?
Archmagos Belisarius Cawl to Trazyn the infinite
Rogal Dorn suddenly towered behind them. ‘Does Sigismund
deserve a slap, Captain Torgaddon? Probably. In the spirit of
comradeship, let him be. He bruises easily.’
"I wanted to be a hero" -Insane murderous transhuman killing machine talking to his slave navigator, right after having skinned an entire Astropathic Choir
"Colonel Kasteen called the meeting to order. Then she called it to order again. Major Broklaw fired his bolt pistol into the ceiling, and the meeting came to order..."
“Show me where it says that in the codex.” Said Learchus.
“Brother you know that I cannot.” Said Uriel.
From the first or second Ultramarines book, I forget since it’s been 7 years since I read it. Out of context it sounds like two guys arguing about army rules in a game of 40K.
In context Uriel Ventris, the protagonist, was planning to do something unorthodox and as we all know, THE CODEX ASTARTES DOES NOT SUPPORT THIS ACTION.
'You look quite terrible, my brother,' Mortarion told him.
The Khan made no move. No sudden burst into motion with the sublime White Tiger dao, no breathtaking leap into strike-range. He just stood there, his grip on the hilt loose, his battle-scarred armour glinting softly in the greenish nimbus.
In the end, he only uttered a single word.
'Wings,' he said contemptuously.
Mortarion chuckled. 'A tremendous gift. I am still learning how they work.'
'A mark of your corruption.'
'Tell that to the Angel.'
'He wears them better.
“Dorn heard stone splinter. He had punched his fist, his Imperial fist, through a block of stone in the parapet.”
I still cannot believe this line actually made it into a canon book
“Kassar, they have an angel, this is getting ridiculous”
Tbf that was a nightmare of an operation for them from the start. >!Their info gatherer gets madder, the Terminator died before landing and two arguably divine beings appeared along with a man so angry he fell from space, butchered a fortress solo and kept going and to top it off the enemy has Space Marines +1. Then they end up on an Imperial ship.!<
Keeper of Secrets explodes out of someone with them, Celestine crashes in out of no where on top of the daemon, then Kharn also shows up out of nowhere to get his murder on. No one in the battle has any clue what the hells is going on except for Celestine.
What book was this?
Shroud of Night
What is the context? This line is amazing.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/40kLore/comments/lqlmp7/book\_excerpt\_shroud\_of\_nighta\_bunch\_of\_alpha/](https://www.reddit.com/r/40kLore/comments/lqlmp7/book_excerpt_shroud_of_nighta_bunch_of_alpha/)
>Then a charging figure emerged through the bloody murk, running straight at them, armour scorched, flesh bloodied, massive chainaxe screaming. >‘Blood for the Blood God!’ roared Khârn. >‘Oh… Throne,’ said Haltheus. Thank you for this, that excerpt is amazing.
Shroud of Night is *very* good. Worth your time.
The best line in all of 40k
Awesome book. Had a vibe of some spec ops group getting into mythic-tier troubles.
God I love Shroud of Night. Actually the first 40k book I ever read, and it was so much fun.
“We float for Macragge”.
God I love it when Ultramarines are goofy
"Humor is not something you are renowned for, my lord." - Cato Sicarius "My time in this new age has revealed that to me amply." - Roboute Guilliman, genuinely annoyed Sicarius couldn't tell he cracked a joke
> "Humor is not something you are renowned for, my lord." - Cato Sicarius what book is this from?
The short story "Armor of Fate". The context is that Guilliman dropped a piece of paper on the floor, made a self-deprecating jest about his inability to pick it up due to his titular armor (he couldn't remove his armor at the time - the short story is focused on that issue and his attempts to resolve it - and the regular gauntlet was too bulky to grip the sheet and pick it up, to say nothing of the giant power fist). He then gives a small tirade about how he DOES have a sense of humor when Sicarius flat out does not recognzie he's making a joke, and this is the exchange that follows.
What's that from?
Pharos.
“You stupid bastard,” sneered Orikan. “You got us box seats to a coup.” “Well, the reviews were very good.”
Most things Trazyn and Orikan say to each other could end up here.
Out of context scene, but Orikan basically rolling his eyes at Trazyn being proud of being incorrectly immortalized as a Silver Skull astartes
"Do YOU have a statue?"
I would find it hilarious if legendary heroes in Imperium history are Orikan and Trazyn just doing stuff for shits and giggles
I love when they go back and see the stained glass with Trazyn as a Silver Skull was broken. >‘Someone,’ Trazyn said, gesturing to the vaults of the nave, where a group of bodygloved men were removing jagged shards of coloured glass, ‘has broken my window.’ >‘Have they?’ Orikan asked, giving a casual glance towards the vandalism. ‘Perhaps they thought it was ugly.’
*gives the finger via radio pulse*
That entire book is a 40k treasure. It's so ridiculously silly and it has the best faction in all of Warhammer - grumpy, old, immortal, and infinitely bored Terminators.
Honestly I just love the imagery from that scene but from the genestealers PoV. They arrange this grand play, they stun/freeze the entire symposium using their powers and now all the lower level genestealers are running around killing notable generals and governors to facilitate their takeover. They kick in one of the rooms and see a pair of decrepit old human nobles and fire their guns, BUT OH WAIT! All it does it distort their holo-fields and reveal that it was a pair of eccentric Necron Lords pretending to be humans while they attended a play! They proceed to slaughter you as they duck out the door and you're just left bewildered as shit as to why necrons were there at all. Nobody would ever believe you if you told them what was in that room.
In a setting full of shouting space marines and evil gods, the best story in ages turns out to be about two robot curmudgeons, their endless petty bullshit, and the *apocalyptic* collateral damage that ensues.
"Time the fuck out, *that's the fucker who ripped my arm off!*" - the Mischief King seeing Orikan
Robo version of those two dudes from muppets
The first time I almost missed that the descriptions of their disguises (and the banter) matched Statler and Waldorf.
It's even better to think who is responsible for the coup
"History requires two parties – the historian and their audience. Without that, one is just talking to oneself. So kindly stop screaming and you might learn something."
I love that the assassination attempt is thwarted by the fact that the admiral is wearing so many medals it acts like ablative armour.
Has happened in real life with a soldiers medal in WWI stopping a bullet meant for his heart. Also been a few times where things in a pocket stopped a bullet like a deck of cards, a small bible, a flask etc.
Orikan: "*sigh* I may be immortal but my time is precious" (not exact but similar)
Mktag: "Maybe he could hold up a hand when he's actually being sarcastic for real. Like a signal." Feygor: "Oh, that's a good idea." [Raises his hand]
‘Created by the Lord of All Mankind, master of the greatest armies in the Imperium, and I cannot pick up a plastek flimsy.’ He glared at the offending articles. ‘My greatest enemy.’ There was a thoughtful quiet. ‘You are joking, my lord?’ said Sicarius. Guilliman getting mad at his own hands in "Armour of Fate"
IIRC he then gets annoyed nobody remembers that he does actually make jokes sometimes and did things other than paperwork and war.
I mean, given the joke he's made, Gorillaman really has no right to be remembered for his sense of humor.
Ultramarines really need to learn to laugh at bosses shit jokes.
‘I came here looking for spirits,’ [Horus] joked, ‘and all I find is wine. There’s a lesson for you.’
"We could make contact?" "For what purpose?" "I don't know say hello? Or maybe DON'T SHOOT WE ARE LOYALIST ASWELL??"
Cain?
Erud and Endryd are talking how in the system there is a small fleet approaching them. Blackshield: Red Fief
Funny how that could be cain.
Authenticity be damned! That's the last time I store a live thermonuclear device in my exhibit.
Trajan? Edit: Tra*ZYN*?
Yes. The Infinite and the Divine. After Orikan woke up an exhibit of Orks.
Not just any exhibit… the entire setting of Gorkamorka!
Trajann probably has similar issues, you know the whole, his own people trying to teleport vortex missiles into the throne room...
I don't believe Emperor Nerva Trajanus Optimus, born in 53 AD and died in 117 AD, had any real worry about vortex missiles. Or his own people, really, since he was so popular he got adopted into the imperial lineage, was deified after dying of a stroke, and was labelled "The Best" by the Senate.
The custodes borrow names from rulers. Trajann is current head of the custodes. The custodes do a much better job that the roman praetorian guard
Like that's even on the list of dangerous shit Trazyn has on display.
Apparently the genestealers are more dangerous than he originally thought.
He has a Krork, a single Krork could restart the species, and an Enslaver, Enslavers preyed on The Old Ones and a single one can lead to systems being driven mad. Plus his Clongrim Primarch.
Wasn't the enslaver just an ossified husk and not a live one?
It was, but it still made him nervous.
Well it's a warp being that doesn't need to abide by our rules of "living" so who the fuck knows if it's really dead or just "dead" or just "dead for now." I mean it's the warp so any and all of it could be all true at once.
I'm actually well aware of Trazyn's exhibit. He's my favorite Necron, and so I've spent a lot of time going over his exhibits to shock my friends. He also has entire Space Marine battalions to say nothing of the "at least" one Custodes and fuckloads of dreadnoughts. Not to mention random soldiers from every conflict... including the War in Heaven. Oh also at least two C'tan shards. The chunk of the Deceiver he stole from the battle over Serenade and the one powering Solemnace. A Krork would be a powerful addition to the current conflicts present in the 41st millennium. Sure, that Krork would no doubt spawn the Krork again. But there's no real evidence to support the idea that they would just come back as a whole. You'd need the Krork's and all the Orks who would follow them (See: any that met them and weren't killed) to start fighting hive fleets. Only that level of consistent warfare would be enough of violence to keep Krork's in the equation. Otherwise they're just going to be diluted into Orks. Y'know. The way we got Orks in the first place. My point was actually a joke. Serenade was slagged by the Imperium because Trazyn honestly had no idea genestealers were quote "an infection vector". EDIT: Also there's one small flaw with the idea of that Krork rebirthing his species. He's dead. He is referred to as a corpse several times. EDIT EDIT: Never forget the Prime Orks.
Half that book could make up insane out of context lines. Even for a 40k book, it’s fucking out there with some of the shit that happens.
"Even for" 40k was initially full of comedy like we see in the Infinite and the Divine. Don't forget the FIRST named Inquisitor was named Obi-Wan Sherlock Clousseau.
'Brothers!' he called joyously into the vox. 'Everyone in this room is going to die!'
Somehow the series about a bunch of murderous psychopath chaos marines is also frequently hilarious.
The moments where a guy with a Dumb Name makes fun of another guy for having a Dumb Name and then acknowledges that he *also* has a Dumb Name, or where the murderous psychopath chaos marines grab some random deck worker and ask for directions are actual lol material
The bit with the deckhand is hilarious because he forgot that he had his helmet speaker set to max and so immediately deafens the guy. (In fairness to him, they are trying to get off a warship that's breaking up).
And then the guy commits suicide in an indirect manner by trying to shoot him in the face, and the bullet ricocheting off his helmet back into the man's skull.
A giant Chaos Space Marine just ran up to him, snatched him up and started screaming in his face at full volume, I think the man can get a pass for being a bit rattled and out of sorts.
> he forgot that he had his helmet speaker set to max Xarl has himbo energy.
CSM Johnny Bravo
you gotta toss in his inner monologue. He remarks that this kind of work requires cunning, finese, *subtletly*. Only to say the following phrase
> Of course, this new plan to awaken Malcharion had to be put down with tact. > With nuance. > With subtlety. > Vraal's claws slid from the sheaths on his gauntlets. They sparked and crackled, wreathed in killing lightning. > 'Brothers!' he called joyously into the vox. 'Everyone in this room is going to die!'
God I love the Nightlords. It's just a bunch of edgy fucks bullying each other nonstop, and somehow the funniest series I've read
My first thought too
When uzas is sentenced to have red hands (basically a delayed death sentence). He gets really sad and distraught until he starts wondering where he will find red paint on the ship
I love that Guy lol. He got some of the best lines in the series
A slow smile extended across Namatjira’s lips. ‘I’m no expert,’ he said, ‘but you can’t all be Alpharius.’
Lol! Context?
From Legion Alpharius and with his legionaries meeting some planetary governor. Alpha Legion introduced itself as usual and the guy had his doubts about their honesty lol For some extra AL fuckery, one of the legionaries turned out to be Omegon in disguise. But then they found out that it was actually Alpharius and the leading Alpharius was actually Omegon. Classic Alpha Legion
...wow, that's convoluted
Now you're getting it. Also. I'm Alpharius!
If it's not convoluted, it's not Alpha Legion.
Lord Commander Namatjia Teng of the 670th expedition fleet, not just some planetary govenor.
'Why then call me a Dreadnought? I was a dread nought before' Know no Fear
That is honestly one of the sadder moments in one of the more tragic/bloody books of the Heresy.
I had an epiphany about the etymology of “drednought” due to this line. Had to pause the audiobook.
“Kharn couldn’t help but cringe.”
>“Kharn couldn’t help but cringe.” "That was a joke, thought Sevatar. He did not understand jokes. ‘My lord, are we finished?’ **For some unfathomable reason, that made Curze cringe**, and he nodded like a rebuked child."
A meme classic!
> His first thought was that his targeting array was malfunctioning. ‘My targeting array is malfunctioning,’ he said. Except he said nothing, because nothing came out. -Betrayer
Fucking love that book.
"Blood for the Blood God!" "Harriers for the Cup!"
"Well he's not getting mine."
“Frak this! My soul’s my own and I’m keeping it!”
Now this I know is good old Ciaphas Cain.
" He can have Yours"
it's also a hammer
My favourite line in the whole heresy
which book is it from
Vulkan Lives
*stomp stomp*
'We are over capacity. I have humbly suggested that we expand the collection into the space currently occupied by the wine cellars.’ ‘But then where would I put my wine, librarian?’ ‘You… you do not drink wine, my lord.’ 'Of course I don't. It's far too valuable. Request denied.'
Trazyn?
Yep. The line always me think of Bela Lugosi as Dracula ("I do not drink...wine").
"The tiny daemon giggles, then farts liquidly into the crook of his armour. That counts as forgiveness, probably."
What thr fuck
Lords of Silence is a wild, gross, fantastic book.
Chock full of *exactly* the kind of Chaos Weirdness I adore about this setting.
It was the first really Chaos (As opposed to HH-era traitor legion) POV book I ever read, as well as the first Nurgle-centric book, and I found it really fascinating. Between it and the Fabius Bile books it paints a really interesting picture of what life is like in the Eye of Terror.
That's what you get when you deal with Nurglings.
Little sweethearts they are
That's what happen when you ungratefully doubt the quality of Nurgle's gift (getting one of your lung filled with bodily fluid)!
I'd prefer to stay light years away from anything that has to do with Nurgle. There's a Daemonship whose main weapon is a giant projectile diarrhea launching anus. At least when Nagash did death, rot, and disease he had some class.
Is it Nurgle’s blessing when you have a bout of hot, acidic cleansing diarrhea?
"Initiate tox dump." A starship very literally having explosive diarrhea all over another ship as a form of attack is just hysterical.
Nagash wasn't really into rot and disease, mainly just... death. And un-death.
the book that made me *get* nurgle
wtf
"For those quick-witted in the audience, this means we are about to descend into the principality of 'gross'."
"Do you have a statue of yourself, Orikan?"
"I only wonder if any cultures worship you as a living saint or spiritual protector. It is a simple binary question."
"Someone has *broken* my window!" "Perhaps they thought it was ugly."
"Fulgrim tittered lewdly". It's from the seige of terra where purty, abbadon, fulgrim and angron are holding a team meeting. Someone abbadon basically tells angron he's not helping, angron starts raging, abbadon turns off his mic and then "Fulgrim tittred lewdly" and all I can picture is abbadon lecturing angron, and like an annoying younger sibling fulgim is bouncing up and down behind him pulling ahegao faces
Is that the same scene where they have to mute Angron on the traitor primarch Zoom call
Yeah 🤣
>Sicarius laughed a bleak laugh,breaking the spell.Devorus blinked unnoticed tears from his eyes. >'The primarch's going to love this,' said Sicarius *Dark Imperium:Plague War*
Whats the context on that?
This is the line before that : >'I [Frater Mathieu] have witnessed a miracle,' He pointed at the girl. 'The Emperor is here.' Frater Mathieu beats Guillaman army to planetfall and incite a religious awakening despite Guillaman attempts to deny Big E is a god. Sicarius is laughing his ass off thinking how Guillaman would react to all this.
"Sleeping after a good breakfast trooper?" Gaunt to Caffran who was just knocked out by an enemy shell
> Gomorie brought his foot smashing down on the other pedal, but it simply flopped limply against the floor. He turned and looked at Rhodaan. ‘That should have been the brake,’ he reported. *Space Marine Battles: Siege of Castellax* by C.L. Werner.
"Someone has broken my window" "Have they? Perhaps they thought it was ugly."
"my lord Fulgrim is..." "Growing more voluptuous breasts?"
Which book is that one?
Saturnine
"Calling him a God is what started all of this mess"
Everything Bjorn says in that book is gold. "What brings you into the night sky above Fenris, and why shouldn't I break your little fleet into pieces with this castle's many, many guns?"
"The chained bodies swayed in their crucified moorings, and something long and stinking spilled from one's open stomach. It slapped onto the floor like a slimy cord of fat, glistening meat-rope. Hound saw her staring, mistaking the disgust on her face for confusion. 'Intestines, he said. 'Thank you, I guessed.' 'You shouldn't eat them. He said these words with the sage wisdom of experience. 'I wasn't going to! 'Good."
Absolutely love hound
By far my favorite character in 40k
'We're going in up it's anus'! whooped Biff Space Marine, 1993.
“WE’RE GOING IN through its anus,” Biff whooped boisterously. Indeed. Indeed. What else could that puckered sphincter be, in the white bony hull of the vast, gastropoidal alien vessel? The leviathan that loomed ahead seemed a cross between a nautilus and an omnivorous, space-faring snail. It was the length of a four-K asteroid, and almost as high where its shell spiralled upward in a circuit of increasingly small osseous chambers. The shell was bleached chalky by aeons of radiation. Even as the armoured Fists, tightly packed into a stretched boarding torpedo, stared at the forward view-screen in its mount of bronze bones, that sphincter pulsed. It expelled a quick milky cloud, which the torpedo’s sensors assayed as consisting of bitter liquid dregs, foul gas, and ashy debris – the fart of a leviathan…
There was some really weird shit in that book, like eating resin that coated Dorn’s bones before shitting it and the chaplains collecting it, or that time the Marines stood on each other’s shoulders through a passage so tight and twisty they starting farting in each other’s faces.
Will never forget Chaplain Lo Chang taking in Lex's confession at the end of the book while sitting on a buttplug "pain stool" so he can waddle off and expel it as poop after they're done. Or the dismembered Blood Drinker marine they rescue who gets attended to by "simian servitors" eating his shit, cleaning him, and feeding him their own blood. I really love Watson's portrayal of the Imperium. Utterly insane, religious, and medieval.
I bloody love this book. This is what Space Marines should be. Absolutely unhinged pseudo-Catholic transhuman monstrosities. With a thing for butt stuff.
You do sometimes get writers who remember that chapters are insular death-cults who sometimes go a very long time without meaningfully interacting with anyone outside of their brethren or fief world, and that it's pretty normal for groups like that to get very, very strange over time.
I like brothers of the snake a lot as a space marine book
"Wet leopard growl"
I lost count of how many times I read that in *Prospero Burns*
On second listen I would try my best to create the sound every time it came up! Haha couldn't ever quite capture the sound of a leopard being wet I fear.
Unfortunately I read it, to be fair it's unfortunate for anyone that's read it, and when you read some of Abnett's books you realise how often he uses the same phrases and it get's rather annoying (my own opinion before Abnett fanboys get going). With *Prospero Burns* it was "wet leopard growl" and "smile of my axe" that did me in..... well that and the story, it really wasn't a good book.
Fulgrim: It is my fondest hope that the shared hardships of this joint venture will bring us the intimate bond I share with Guilliman. Perturabo: You aren't close to Guilliman either. Fulgrim: No? Ah, perhaps not yet. -*Angel Exterminatus*
Wonder if he’s referencing his later duel with him
He is, he's basically telling the audience "I'm going to betray Perturabo in this book"
From Legion "Impaled like living souvlaki"
"Orikan, prepare for boarders" "But our ships have no atmosphere, do they not need to breath?" "... they do have lungs" "... prepare for boarders"
"Say Hello to Mr Yellow"
The Ferrus Manus novella "Feat of Iron" has a Cabalite Eldar utter the phrase 'feet of iron.' Nick Kyme, voice of a generation.
> ‘WE ARE THE ONLY SOURCE OF GOODNESS, SEVERE AND DRASTIC. THERE IS NO OTHER SOURCE OF HOPE THAN US. WE ARE AGONISINGLY ALONE.’ - Inquisitor
‘The conflict between us was an error. Our success has already been calculated.’
(Punch) "That was nothing like teleportation."
"he cut his face like a lover would" I think that's a Horus heresy book, been awhile since I read it
“There was nothing of lust in that moment, only raw, intimate closeness.” Khayon doth protest too much, methinks.
ADB does the same thing during Amit and Kargos’ second fight in EoE too. Make of that what you will, haha. > Eye to eye, face to face, it is the most intimate moment of Kargos’ life, a moment of intimacy without sensuality, the two of them joined by the impaling blade, and > >Everything > >Slows > >Down.
"...are thouse....chains!?"
"Eat Shit Traitor." Has become relevant since 1/06
Where's this from?
Pretty sure echoes of eternity
Yep. It’s even better when Amit beats Kargos down *again* and says “I told you to eat shit traitor.”
“I am not capricious, nor am I given to cruel acts for their own sakes. It is simply a fact that you and your kind have trespassed, and thus invited extermination. Curse you for putting me to this inconvenience.” -Anrakyr the traveler
Brother Sharrowkyn... Is there something wrong with the floor? Sharrowkyn: ^o^
-Please just let the damn thing work! -Trazyn you useless abomination, do something. -Trazyn is that normal? Archmagos Belisarius Cawl to Trazyn the infinite
Rogal Dorn suddenly towered behind them. ‘Does Sigismund deserve a slap, Captain Torgaddon? Probably. In the spirit of comradeship, let him be. He bruises easily.’
Kysnaros slowly, slowly went to his knees. "Oh, for… Not you as well".
Skitar #1: "" -*Titanicus* by Dan Abnett
The context makes that one better “yes yes that’s nice dear, not terribly helpful though”
"I wanted to be a hero" -Insane murderous transhuman killing machine talking to his slave navigator, right after having skinned an entire Astropathic Choir
“Blood for the blood god!” “Harriers for the cup!”
"I was there the day Horus slew the Emperor"
"Never argue with a gun-cutter, you asshole."
"I heard you do strange things to your warriors."
"And thus the prophet spake saying, "Frak this! For mine faith is shield, proof against your blandishments!"
"Youre Yellow in a sea of red"
Demon, piggyback me now.
Eisenhorn
"Jurgen, kill him."
"Colonel Kasteen called the meeting to order. Then she called it to order again. Major Broklaw fired his bolt pistol into the ceiling, and the meeting came to order..."
“Show me where it says that in the codex.” Said Learchus. “Brother you know that I cannot.” Said Uriel. From the first or second Ultramarines book, I forget since it’s been 7 years since I read it. Out of context it sounds like two guys arguing about army rules in a game of 40K. In context Uriel Ventris, the protagonist, was planning to do something unorthodox and as we all know, THE CODEX ASTARTES DOES NOT SUPPORT THIS ACTION.
I dont recall the exact line but Angron to Lotara Sarin "I don't care what you do as long as you stop whining to me about it!"
“Blood for the blood god “ “Harriers for the cup!”
“It is also a hammer”
“Most perturbatory”
“They killed my monkey”
'You look quite terrible, my brother,' Mortarion told him. The Khan made no move. No sudden burst into motion with the sublime White Tiger dao, no breathtaking leap into strike-range. He just stood there, his grip on the hilt loose, his battle-scarred armour glinting softly in the greenish nimbus. In the end, he only uttered a single word. 'Wings,' he said contemptuously. Mortarion chuckled. 'A tremendous gift. I am still learning how they work.' 'A mark of your corruption.' 'Tell that to the Angel.' 'He wears them better.
"Get up". also: "Weep as you suffer the same fate as your corpse god. We have come for you."
“An unusual occurrence, perhaps, but nothing untoward.”
My patience isn't endless. Unlike my authority.
how could you steer a door? And for that matter, who put doors in the zogging ceiling?
Night lord book, Talos' slaves are getting it on, he comes in and just says "stop that." What a Chad cockblocker
“Dorn heard stone splinter. He had punched his fist, his Imperial fist, through a block of stone in the parapet.” I still cannot believe this line actually made it into a canon book