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Was Malcador a Primarch?


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it is also possible that he might have been related to he emperor, if you belive the old sensi fluff

 

 

He was indeed a distant relative of the EMP hence his psykic (sp) powers.. this is from the collected visions artbooks.

 

However he was nowhere near a primarch. The custodes or anybody else for that matter were no made using his genetic make up.

 

Yes he gathered the people for the emp that would perhaps form the Inquisition.

 

As for Angron, no he was not a mindless beserker. It does not say that he was. His tactic for charging headlessy into the enemy was still a tactic that won him battles. He was not stupid. his plans worked. Ok alot of his guys died but hell its a war

If you can get a hold of the limited edition 2-story novella from GDUK (I think it was called Lightning Tower or some such), the story that shows Dorn preparing the palace for the seige gives more detail about Malcador. A decent bit of background on him is given, including showing his chambers where he has "ancient" Mk.1 Thunder Armour from the Unification Wars and such.

ok in the third art book on the page with the titlke "malcador despair II" . . .it say " . . although he shared a mysterious psychic bond with his master that no other coulkd rival or understan he was still denied access to the master of mankind."

 

From the first book page 11. "blessed with unnaturally long life there are many rumours around him. soem say he is a powerful pysker, the first to have undergone the soul binding ritual. other Rumours say that he is distantly related to the EMP"

 

Hope that helps.

So those two quotes give you the right to say emphatically, with no shadow of a doubt, that Malcador is a distant relative of the Emperor? The very quotes you base that on not only say that what you stated as fact is only rumour, but also lean towards the other explanation: that he is soul-bound to the Emperor (a rather more likely story).

 

I remembered those quotes, I just thought you had something rather more substantial than that, that I had missed...

I don't know where i read it :) but still were gettin a bit off topic. In one answer Malcodor was not a Primarch but was a extremely powerful psyker who was the closest human to get any where near the power of a primarch. Also read in false gods that angron favourite tactic was to charge mindlessly at the enemy. World eaters only go insane in combat.

 

 

Kind of like how the space wolves fight, CHARGE. Not saying it's a bad thing, but the World Eaters are your traitor counterparts.

 

 

IIRC, in one of the Horus Heresy novels, doesn't Malcador wear the armor of an Adeptus Custodes? He IS the regent of Terra.

Also read in false gods that angron favourite tactic was to charge mindlessly at the enemy. World eaters only go insane in combat.

No, your overlooking the facts. the World Eaters BEFORE Khorne took hold, had the policy of just going further any other legion. They did this because sometimes the situation called for extreme violence, but CONTROLLED. It is when Khorne took hold they became psychopaths/sociopaths. They were a grim and violent Legion, but were'nt they all during the crusades?

Anyway, back on topic, its very interesting reading some of the fluff that gestures in the direction that Malcador was fighting with the big E before the crusades and that he maybe a distant relative....

IIRC, in one of the Horus Heresy novels, doesn't Malcador wear the armor of an Adeptus Custodes? He IS the regent of Terra.

 

We haven't encountered him in any of the main novels so far, though in one of the short stories sold at Games Day, abnett describes his room and there is a complete suit of MkI Thunder Armor in there. Whether it is an ornament or he actually used it is unspecified...

So those two quotes give you the right to say emphatically, with no shadow of a doubt, that Malcador is a distant relative of the Emperor? The very quotes you base that on not only say that what you stated as fact is only rumour, but also lean towards the other explanation: that he is soul-bound to the Emperor (a rather more likely story).

 

I remembered those quotes, I just thought you had something rather more substantial than that, that I had missed...

 

 

Man i was slighlty off as I read the books ages ago. Atleast I got back to you. Hell I am still waiting for somebody to show me where it says Russ beet Horus in training>

I'm pretty sure I read about Malcador somewhere, I think it was flight of the eisenstein where he meets with Garro and Qruze. It says he wears golden armor and blah blah blah, at first, I thought it was the Emperor himself, then it said, Malcador, the Sigillite, Regent of Terra. I'm not sure if it was flight of the eisenstein tho. I know I read that though.
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Malcador was clearly a powerful psyker whether this and his long life were through being related to the Emperor somehow or whether he had some sort of gene enhancement is so far unclear, but im not surprised he had a suit of Thunder armour stowed away after all its not uncommon for a battlefields leaders advisors to wear protection in the field even if they played no role in the combat itself.

As for the subject of the thread: No, i would seriously doubt that Malcador was a Primarch since he was with the Emperor far before the Primarch experiment took place

True, John Grammaticus was a high function psyker of no small talent but he was repeadtedly outclassed even by Shere. I would imagine that Psyker powers couldnt be created artificially by gene enhancement but could potentially be boosted by it and if Malcador underwent the Soul Binding as well then its viable that it would push his powers far higher than that of any human other than the Emperor.

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