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Tarik Torgaddon


Kol Saresk

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Now before everyone flips out, yes I know he died on Istvaan III. I also know that on

page 346 of Know No Fear, there is mention of a daemon named as "Tarik reborn, he-who-is-now-Tormageddon."

Is there anything else that supports a connection between the two? Because that seems like one heck of a coincidence to me.

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It can be explained by this:

The geneseed of the fallen marines on Isstvan III and V was collected and taken to Calth to perform the ritual.

That demon was brought into the material world using the progenoid glands taken from Tarik.

It was a way to further despoil the loyalists

as instead of their geneseed being taken to create new marines it gets used to create more enemies, like how betraying friends is more powerful than betraying those who are allies but not friends.

 

It can be explained by this:

The geneseed of the fallen marines on Isstvan III and V was collected and taken to Calth to perform the ritual.

That demon was brought into the material world using the progenoid glands taken from Tarik.

It was a way to further despoil the loyalists

as instead of their geneseed being taken to create new marines it gets used to create more enemies, like how betraying friends is more powerful than betraying those who are allies but not friends.

 

 

Thats what I took from Know No Fear, I did notice the name pop up and I did wonder, but with the speeches earlier in the book especially when

luciel is killed by Tchure (I think thats his name)

, he makes a big speech abouth the greater the depth of betrayal, the greater the power etc.

I only just now reached 00.00.00 Calth Mark, so I have yet to reach him actually being reborn, but I knew it was going to happen in this book the moment Erebus stroked the jar containing Torgaddon's bits.

 

I knew Torgaddon was going to be resurrected as a Chaos Marine since before they even published the book in which he died.

"Chieftain Torgaddon" appears on pg 192 of "The Horus Heresy:Collected Visions"

"Torgaddon Horus's Bodyguard" appears on pg 366 of "The Horus Heresy:Collected Visions"

 

He is VERY clearly a Chaos Marine, so his loyalist death was destined to be temporary.

 

 

I keep tellin' people, "The Horus Heresy:Collected Visions" is the template for how the Horus Heresy series is going, and it even contains the final chapter, but hardly anyone ever seems to listen...

I keep tellin' people, "The Horus Heresy:Collected Visions" is the template for how the Horus Heresy series is going, and it even contains the final chapter, but hardly anyone ever seems to listen...

 

It does provide the basis but character names found in the Visions books have been used in different manners in the novels. Vairosein, for example, is the name of an Emperor's Children Veteran squad in Visions, yet the name of a single character in the novels. The same goes for Kaesoron, if I'm not mistaken, and there are other examples.

 

 

Just to clear my doubts, though, is Tormageddon a daemon or a chaos marine? And if he's a daemon, does he simply look like Torgaddon's evil twin?

 

I keep tellin' people, "The Horus Heresy:Collected Visions" is the template for how the Horus Heresy series is going, and it even contains the final chapter, but hardly anyone ever seems to listen...

 

It does provide the basis but character names found in the Visions books have been used in different manners in the novels. Vairosein, for example, is the name of an Emperor's Children Veteran squad in Visions, yet the name of a single character in the novels. The same goes for Kaesoron, if I'm not mistaken, and there are other examples.

 

 

Just to clear my doubts, though, is Tormageddon a daemon or a chaos marine? And if he's a daemon, does he simply look like Torgaddon's evil twin?

 

 

Well, it does seem to be common practice to name a squad after their leader amongst the Astartes.

Just to clear my doubts, though, is Tormageddon a daemon or a chaos marine? And if he's a daemon, does he simply look like Torgaddon's evil twin?

 

If it is him, he is a daemon now because there was this list of daemons Erebus was just throwing out there and there just happened to be one that was listed exactly as "Tarik reborn, he-who-is-now-Tormageddon." And frankly it just seemed like one heck of a coincidence for his gene-seed to get used and there be a daemon who has a name exactly like that. They even had Samus make a return and he was a daemonfrom Horus Rising who was killed by Loken.

 

Tarik is dead, he was killed on Isstvan III. Progenoid glands more properly represent the genetic legacy of the Primarch than the marine it comes from.

Loken however, he should have stayed dead. He was the best character at the start of the series and him "dying" really gave punch to the betrayal. Having him survive lessens things. I might believe Helveticus survived, but not Loken.

Tarik reborn is not Tarik, the name is a joke, it's a deliberate insult to the real Tarik and all the loyalists.

 

 

I didn't read "Know no Fear" yet, but... If that is true,

and Tarik Torgaddon will apear in future as deamon or CSM

, then I will be very pissed of. Srsly, why loyalist fans have to receive such punch in the face? If he is dead - live him dead, for Gods sake. I hope that this is only a "curio". But if not... Then I want Horus Aximand back as loyalist.

 

Sorry for my bad english and regards.

I get the feeling that Tarik as a deamon, is due to the Oath he and the Mournival took when they joined. When lil Horus killed him, it violated a couple of the parts of the Oath. He might have been cursed. That same Oath is why i think Lil Horus is hearing Loken breathing in his head. Loken lived, and i think he is haunting ( in life), Lil Horus from across the galaxy. Maybe it has to do with the fact he joined the lodge. I don't see how Erebus got a hold of Tarik's Gene seed. I thought Loken was guarding his body...

Maybe they will turn it into something like the Newborn except it's a daemon who has taken his identity as part of the progenoids they took. And Lil' Horus lost his chane at loyalty when he reconciled with Loken haunting him. I actually thought that was a nice bit until I found out he was alive. He used to be one of my favorite characters but somehow resurrecting him lessened my view o him. Don't really know why. And naming a daemon after Tarik isn't much of an insult to the Loyalists. The only Loyalists who knew he was loyal are either dead or Grey Knights. None of them were at Calth. Now of they pull this "he was loyal until he died where he exchanged oaths of loyalty for survival" nonsense then I would have really big problem.

 

Of course it could just be something to miss with the readers. :)

Without knowing the daemon's appearance, and whether it occupies or consumes Tarik's remains, it's kind of hard, but since it seems there's no more Tarik in there, either solution is fine with me.

 

As Kol Saresk says, I'll get worried once they make him a late-minute traitor.

What's so wrong about a daemon being summoned from Torgaddon's bits?

 

It makes little-to-no sense.

 

Good. If it made sense, chaos would be boring. Insanity and disbelief makes the Warp what it is, and such a lethal threat to the entire galaxy.

What's so wrong about a daemon being summoned from Torgaddon's bits?

 

It makes little-to-no sense.

 

Well, that's 40k. It quite often doesn't make sense. :D

 

But in the context of things we know about the way stuff operates in 30/40k - gods that was bloody vague - it makes even less sense!

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