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Hey brothers.

 

I was reading The Primarchs and whilst reading Feat of Iron and when Ferrus is walking through the cavern or what ever it is, i'm not to sure, it says about a statue that has no head and is pointing at Ferrus and accusing. Ferrus then says to the statue 'It was not me that cut your head, Brother'. It says nothing of any other statues of that I can see. Later on he walks into a room where there were more statues with their fingers laced in the sign of the aquila. There was one that ' had a scalp of thrashing serpents like the gorgon of ancient Mykenaean myth'. This could be Ferrus himself.

 

'Another had the skeletal aspect of death itself, hooded and gripping a scythe that cut into its boney brow' - Mortarion.

 

'The visage o a third was split in half like Janus of old Romanii legend. Two masks not one gazed at the primarch. But it was a mistake to think of Janus as only having two faces, for he had many'. - Alpharius and Omegon?

 

'Ferrus saw an effigy of a bestial and snarling hound, and felt his anger rise as he walked past it' - Russ or Angron?

 

'Behind it was a stoic drake, it's crest a living flame' - Vulkan

 

'Leathern wings unfolded from the back of one statue. It's chiropteran mask was hard to discern from it's human face, suggesting a singular lack of humanity'- Sanguinius'

 

'There were others: a horse with a wild flowing mane (Khan), a bird of prey (Corax), a noble human countenance crowned by a laurel wreath (Horus or Guilliman), a lion beneath a monks cowl (Lion El'Jonson).'

 

'One, the last, stood across the stairway and glared down at him, and he looked up to regard it. Unlike the others, this one had its arms outstretched as if in invitation to embrace him. It wore robes, but they were finer, more ostentatious in the mason's design. His mask was beautifull, almost perfect if not for the angular eye slits and the scalloping of the faux cheek bones' - The book states that this is Fulgrim

 

The processional was compromised of twenty statues in all but there were two he did not recognise their masks scratched and near obliterated.

 

Now I know I have rambled on for a while but do you think that the statue he saw first was the II or XI primarch and the two in the bigger 'room' were the II and XI. This suggests that one of the lost primarchs was beheaded from one of the other primarchs - possibly Russ - and that he may no have known the lost primarchs and they were expunged before he was found. Or that the faces were too damaged to tell.

 

What do you guys think. And again sorry for rambling.

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I always thought that the beheaded statue was a forboding of the events to come in the Gorgan's life.

 

EDIT:

 

I think they missed a chance here. They could have made several/many/all of the statues true identiy obscure and give details of all twenty, That would of had us guessing for months.

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I felt that the first statue was a glimpse at Ferrus future, kind of saying "That is what will happen to you if you don't listen to our warning"

 

Oh I get what you are saying here. Much better then what I thought.

 

'Leathern wings unfolded from the back of one statue. It's chiropteran mask was hard to discern from it's human face, suggesting a singular lack of humanity'- Sanguinius'

 

Chiropteran means relating to Bats. This one is the Night Haunter.

 

Oh ok. My mistake. Sorry

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The OP left out two statues.

 

''A heraldric Knight stood along side its much darker twin, one with a shield, the other a mace''

 

Who the hell are they ment to be? Dorn and Perturabo? The rest where rather dissapointly obvious bar these two and through the process of elimination these must be obvious too.

At first I had thought one might have been The Lion but reading futher thats not the case. So ya, like Supoosed said, would of been nice if they all required a bit of decoding.

 

What I really want to know is, who is the Eldar Diviner refering to at the very end?

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Before we look at the last two statues, we can start by eliminating the primarchs already mentioned

Mortation

Alpharius & Omegon

Vulkan

Ferrus

Cruze

Khan

Corax

Lion

Fulgim

Russ/Angron?

Horus/Guilliman?

 

That leaves

Perturabo

Dorn

Sanguinius

Magnus

Lorgar

And two i am not sure about

Russ/Angron?

Horus/Guilliman?

 

And as the quote says

"A heraldric Knight stood along side its much darker twin, one with a shield, the other a mace''

I think we can eliminate Magnus(not a knight) and Sanguinius(No wings on statue)

Of the ones left

Perturabo

Dorn

Lorgar

Russ/Angron?

Horus/Guilliman?

Only Dorn and Perturabo would i say could symbolize the two knights

The Loyal (Light) Defender (Shield) and the Betrayer (Dark) attacker (Mace)

That is who i believe that the symbolize.

My only problem is that Perturabo "signature" weapon is a hammer (Forgebreaker)

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Any one consider Alpharius and Omegron?

Makes sense, one with the Shield protecting their Legion from Chaos, the other with the Mace wanting to use it.

 

 

Also, I want to know what the Xeno meant by "there is another who will listen, one who is lost".

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The Janus statue is Alpharius/Omegon, and the two knights are Dorn and Perturabo, Perturabo's signature weapon wasn't Forgebreaker until after Manus was killed.

 

Snake head - Manus

Death - Mortarion

Janus - Alpharius/Omegon

Snarling hound - Angron

Drake - Vulkan

Good knight - Dorn

Dark knight - Perturabo

Leather wings - Night Haunter

Horse - Khan

Bird of prey - Corax

Noble human - RG

Lion - Lion

Beautiful statue - Fulgrim

Scratched faces 1+2 - Primarch II and XI

 

So they left out precise descriptions of Horus, Russ, Lorgar, Magnus and Sanguinius, but it does say there were more statues that weren't described.

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'Leathern wings unfolded from the back of one statue. It's chiropteran mask was hard to discern from it's human face, suggesting a singular lack of humanity'- Sanguinius'

 

Chiropteran means relating to Bats. This one is the Night Haunter.

there's also the leather wings and lack of humanity.

 

My only problem is that Perturabo "signature" weapon is a hammer (Forgebreaker)

 

Not until after Ferrus Manus dies, at least the forgebreaker part

 

the two knights would be dorn (builds the walls) & Perturabo (breaks them down) as student of dorn mentioned above

 

Janus can only describe the twins.

 

 

the Hound would be Angron, for it being a hound not a wolf (the world eaters used to be called the war hounds) and making Ferrus angry

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Any one consider Alpharius and Omegron?

Makes sense, one with the Shield protecting their Legion from Chaos, the other with the Mace wanting to use it.

 

 

Also, I want to know what the Xeno meant by "there is another who will listen, one who is lost".

 

Want to bet that Luther?

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Also, I want to know what the Xeno meant by "there is another who will listen, one who is lost".

 

Isn't this story set before Legion? Therefore "one who was lost" will be Alpharius/Omegon, seeing as they are one soul in two bodies and the last Primarchs to be found.

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Also, I want to know what the Xeno meant by "there is another who will listen, one who is lost".

 

Although, this might make people upset that what I will be saying is off or just insane. My guess would probably be Magnus that the Xeno was talking about. To me this kind of makes sense, 1) He did listen to the big E at the meeting of the council of Nikea to kind of abolish or stop the use of psykers. So that could refer to the quote of "There is another who will listen" part 2) he was 'lost' as to what to do locking himself up in his room.

 

These are not very great example to help justified the quote but I hope it helps.

 

however, this is one heck of a tricky quote to see who is the primarch of this but at the same time it could be one of their most trusted advisor. For example: if it refers to that of the Thousand Sons, the 'one who will listen' could refer to Magnus the Red while the 'one who is lost' could refer to Ahriman, since he... Okay, Nevermind, I have no clue as to who this quote is referring to. :yes:

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