Son of Rawl Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 Hey all, not sure if this has been posted but here is the brief run down on Butchers Nails. The primarch Angron: gladiator-king and Horus’s lunatic attack dog. Never having hidden his resentment for his brothers, he now carves a bloody swathe through the galaxy in the Warmaster’s name, with the Heresy providing a convenient excuse to indulge his love of brutal warfare. When they are tasked with a secretive mission alongside the Word Bearers Legion, the World Eaters’ violent tendencies soon attract the attention of xenos raiders, troubled by the portents surrounding the primarch’s berserk fury and his ultimate destiny as ‘the Blood God’s son’... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/248115-butchers-nails/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olis Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 Hmm. Certainly raises some questions. Consider my interest piqued (well, I was already interested, tbh, so an update is appreciated). :lol: Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/248115-butchers-nails/#findComment-3005268 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greyall Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 Angron was found at his crash site surrounded by Eldar corpses. They're back, apparently. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/248115-butchers-nails/#findComment-3005285 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Lorne Walkier Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 Angron was found at his crash site surrounded by Eldar corpses. They're back, apparently. The Eldar tried to kill him in his crib. I blame Eldrad. To bad they failed. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/248115-butchers-nails/#findComment-3006824 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MordentHex Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 Honestly if they failed so bad and he was just a baby at the time, i don't see how they expect better results with him now a grown killing machine. Silly Eldar Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/248115-butchers-nails/#findComment-3006907 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billuriye Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 I'm not seeing how a primarch baby killed all those Eldar. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/248115-butchers-nails/#findComment-3006924 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother-Sergeant Bohemond Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 I'm not seeing how a primarch baby killed all those Eldar. Because he is a Primarch of course :) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/248115-butchers-nails/#findComment-3006930 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olis Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 As far as I'm aware the Primarchs didn't emerge from their capsules as babies, but rather as children. Those guys grew fast and given that they were presumably still babies/foetuses at the point where they were removed from Terra it stands to reason they were children when they took their first steps on their respective worlds. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/248115-butchers-nails/#findComment-3006938 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord_Caerolion Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 As far as I'm aware the Primarchs didn't emerge from their capsules as babies, but rather as children. Those guys grew fast and given that they were presumably still babies/foetuses at the point where they were removed from Terra it stands to reason they were children when they took their first steps on their respective worlds. Yep, they came out as small children. Corax was capable of speech when he arrived, and seemed to be the same age as the approximately 6 or 7-year old girl who was there. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/248115-butchers-nails/#findComment-3006958 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Tezdal Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 Angron was found at his crash site surrounded by Eldar corpses. They're back, apparently. The Eldar tried to kill him in his crib. I blame Eldrad. To bad they failed. Can't wait for this story to get Warded, then we find out he was surrounded by the corpses of Avatars. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/248115-butchers-nails/#findComment-3007075 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greyall Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 Oh man, you win the Internetz today, Tezdal. =) @Billuriye: But hey, just because the Heresy novels depicts events in a different, more rigorous way, doesn't mean this isn't still 40K, the Galaxy of Suspension of Disbelief. Of course a young Primarch can kill a few Eldar. As many as he wants, in fact. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/248115-butchers-nails/#findComment-3007086 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarl Kjaran Coldheart Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 if the Eldar came in peace like they tried with Fulgrim, i can see Angron killing them. WLK Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/248115-butchers-nails/#findComment-3007211 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greyall Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 Oh yeah, I'm sure they sent their best diplomats to parlay with a young boy. =) (/end sarcasm) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/248115-butchers-nails/#findComment-3007232 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarl Kjaran Coldheart Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 Oh yeah, I'm sure they sent their best diplomats to parlay with a young boy. =) (/end sarcasm) if the young boy happened to be a genetically built killing machine far more advanced than almost 99% of beings in the galaxy who happens to be fated to become a disciple of the Blood God, then yea, coming in peace might be the way to approach him. WLK Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/248115-butchers-nails/#findComment-3007264 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Ragnarok Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 Cease the snarky comments and no discussion of Ward. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/248115-butchers-nails/#findComment-3007268 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greyall Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 Sorry if it came out wrong, I was reinforcing Kieran's comment about the Eldar's approach to peace talks as being especially effective at causing conflict. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/248115-butchers-nails/#findComment-3007320 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lagbenektelse Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 amen ragnorok how about this...a psychic race that is highly sensitive to their environment has just been dropped within a dozen meters of the soon to be 'champion of khorne'...they butchered themselves. and wee baby angron gets to camp out in a pool of alien blood as his first sentient act. additionally the world angron landed on was already the type of place that enslaves oddities for the purpose of entertaining the crowd...the whole place was likely a psychic monument to Chaos Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/248115-butchers-nails/#findComment-3009419 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MordentHex Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Angron was found at his crash site surrounded by Eldar corpses. They're back, apparently. The Eldar tried to kill him in his crib. I blame Eldrad. To bad they failed. Can't wait for this story to get Warded, then we find out he was surrounded by the corpses of Avatars. LOL Baby Avatars Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/248115-butchers-nails/#findComment-3009421 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AGPO Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Who is to say Angron killed them himself? If he was capable of taking down warriors as advanced as the Eldar I'm not sure how an isolated human planet managed to enslave him and keep him captured for so long. Maybe the Blood God or even Tzeentch already had plans for Angron and sent minions to protect him? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/248115-butchers-nails/#findComment-3009756 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billuriye Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Tzeentch may pull something like that. It's more believable than a weaponless Primarchling destroying friggin Eldar by himself. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/248115-butchers-nails/#findComment-3009768 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greyall Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 A Primarchling as strong and fast as a Space Marine, or close enough. Who's to say the Eldar didn't get cocky? Isn't that a traditional custom for them? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/248115-butchers-nails/#findComment-3009790 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billuriye Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 We'll see i guess. If it's not handled right, people gonna see it as if HH series are not doing Eldar justice. And they'll be correct. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/248115-butchers-nails/#findComment-3009800 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Idaho Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Angron is a giant compared to his brothers. Think Juggernaught compared to Collosus (maybe a little less difference but close enough). It's entirely possible a child version of him was similarly massive and destructive. Why shouldn't he be able to kill Eldar with his bare hands? Eldar Aspect Warriors can be defeated by Space Marines, so why shouldn't an adolescent or child Primarch be able to? We have few details of it all right now, so let's be optimistic! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/248115-butchers-nails/#findComment-3009969 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malatox Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Angron is a giant compared to his brothers. Think Juggernaught compared to Collosus (maybe a little less difference but close enough). It's entirely possible a child version of him was similarly massive and destructive. Why shouldn't he be able to kill Eldar with his bare hands? Eldar Aspect Warriors can be defeated by Space Marines, so why shouldn't an adolescent or child Primarch be able to? We have few details of it all right now, so let's be optimistic! I always thought Angron was shorter than his brother, but made up for it in broadness and sheer muscularity (even by Primarch standards). Malatox Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/248115-butchers-nails/#findComment-3009982 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greyall Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 I thought the opposite, that he lacked shoulder width (probably because he wore less bulky armour, in concept art), but recent descriptions in novels state him to be massive. I might be mistaken, but I think there was something about him being as wide (in his armour, of course) as Horus in Terminator armour. Don't quote me on this though. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/248115-butchers-nails/#findComment-3009996 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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