Inquisitor Kravin Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 For a long time the 40k background presented a setting that was notionally within our real world's future but so far distant as to be essentially totally divorced from it. With the Horus Heresy we've started to see that some items from our world do still exist or are known at least in the Great Crusade era. I don't have the books to hand but here are the ones I know off the top of my head: The Lightning Tower - from the description of Malcador's apartments it is clear he has the Mona Lisa, Van Gogh's Sunflowers and another famous painting though I can't remember what it is. A Thousand Sons - Ahriman has a deck of Tarot cards dating from the second millenium. Also Magnus knows the ancient Egyptian legends of Horus and comes to believe that they are actually an ancient warning about the Heresy. Prospero Burns - There is a least one quote from the dramaturge Shakespire from the second millenium and it is mentioned that they now have full texts of all three of his plays. Geographically we have places like Merica and Nord Afrik that clearly reference present day parts of the world. Regicide (i.e. king killing) is obviously chess or a descendant of it. Can others help me expand this list? Also, what artefacts or terms would you like to see make a cameo? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/273420-real-worldpresent-day-items-in-the-horus-heresy/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pavel Araghast Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 Fulgrim and Ferrus meet each other at Ural mountains, Mount Narodnaya and Khârn comes from Siberia, that's cool to hear about Russia in Warhammer Books. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/273420-real-worldpresent-day-items-in-the-horus-heresy/#findComment-3338156 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iron Father Ferrum Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 There once was a giant thread where everyone collected all of the geographically references mentioned in the Heresy. A little search fu should pull it up, so we can avoid having to rehash all of that. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/273420-real-worldpresent-day-items-in-the-horus-heresy/#findComment-3338205 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inquisitor Kravin Posted March 29, 2013 Author Share Posted March 29, 2013 Okay. Scrap the place references part then. My interest was primarily in artefacts anyway. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/273420-real-worldpresent-day-items-in-the-horus-heresy/#findComment-3338243 Share on other sites More sharing options...
malika666 Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 Well, there is a thread here about ancient Terra, it has quite a lot of info in there already. Too bad the search function on this forum is so user-unfriendly... So I'll refer to discussions elsewhere with this info: Ancient Terra, Links to Ages Past Pre-Unity Terra, Transfer for the thread on the old board Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/273420-real-worldpresent-day-items-in-the-horus-heresy/#findComment-3338259 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legionator Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 In Fulgrim or Reflection Crack'd, Fulgrim talks about a story about an explorer lost in an invisible maze on Venus. This story belongs to H. P. Lovecraft. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/273420-real-worldpresent-day-items-in-the-horus-heresy/#findComment-3338377 Share on other sites More sharing options...
depthcharge12 Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 Wish I had a name like H.P. Lovecraft. Instead I got the most common Christian name. Oh well ;.( Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/273420-real-worldpresent-day-items-in-the-horus-heresy/#findComment-3338423 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChaosLord Leon Enaek Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 depthcharge12 is the most common Christian name? The world is changing so fast! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/273420-real-worldpresent-day-items-in-the-horus-heresy/#findComment-3338476 Share on other sites More sharing options...
depthcharge12 Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 Actually I'm *THE* twelfth depth charge. (11 before me) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/273420-real-worldpresent-day-items-in-the-horus-heresy/#findComment-3338735 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inquisitor Engel Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 Wish I had a name like H.P. Lovecraft. Instead I got the most common Christian name. Oh well ;.( To be fair, his name was just Howard Phillips Lovecraft. He got lucky with the last name, but initials ALWAYS made you sound cooler. ;) J.J. Harrop sounds like an author of fiction designed for airports, for instance. Perhaps "legal thrillers." Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/273420-real-worldpresent-day-items-in-the-horus-heresy/#findComment-3338749 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deathwatch/Grey knight Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 What about the map the emperor gifted to Horus that we hear mentioned a few times And I'm pretty sure I think I can't remember which book it was mentioned but there was a map found that had the old terra earth on it Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/273420-real-worldpresent-day-items-in-the-horus-heresy/#findComment-3338801 Share on other sites More sharing options...
b1soul Posted April 1, 2013 Share Posted April 1, 2013 I like how some artifacts have survived to 30 or 40K. Likely the Mona Lisa was kept in stasis during the DAoT and then perhaps preserved in the private collection of some Age of Strife tyrant? It is not altogether implausible that some 2nd millenium stuff managed to survive to the Heresy and beyond Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/273420-real-worldpresent-day-items-in-the-horus-heresy/#findComment-3340010 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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