Which Traitor Primarch do you think regretted it the most?

[Emperor's Furor]

Which traitor Primarch do you think regretted following Horus the most after the Heresy failed? I'd personally say...(spoilers for Scars)

Mortarion, by the time he's facing the Khan he already seems to be having second thoughts and Khan even says he thinks Mortarion has come for Khan because he's all alone now and he wants someone by his side because the other guys are idiots (not strictly the right wording )

[KJB]

Yeah, agreed. Mortarion most probably regrets it the most

 

To be honest, he probably regretted it the most when good old Nurgle came a calling...

[Noctus Cornix]

My bet would be Mortarion or Magnus.

[GrandMagnus]

Mortarion or Fulgrim. After all Fulgrim was possesed by a demon of Slaanesh and after killing Ferrus he just wished to disappear, to die, he truly felt regret.

[DuskRaider]

I'd have to agree, but after reading the spoilers from "Spirit of Vengeance", I feel either the author didn't read the previous arc he was in or he's starting to accept his role in this... which to me is too bad. Mortarion's seeming hesitance and unwillingness added a whole new depth to the character and would have made his fall to Nurgle much more tragic. I guess we'll see how the story progresses, but thus far I think it's between Mortarion and Alpharius / Omegon (one of them). 

[Wade Garrett]

I'm going say Horus ("Father, flay my soul into nothingness! I beg you!") or Konrad Curze ("Soon, the assassin will come for my head. And she, too, does the work of justice.")

[Castrmen Orth]

Gonna go with magnus. Seemed to be the only one who didn't willingly throw his lot in with the traitors.

 

Plus it lead to the rubric etc

[helterskelter]

I think its easier to say angron and lorgar appeared very much NOT to regret it, as I don't think its so easy to quantify the regret in the others. I dont count Alpaharius omegan sigma (;)) because of all the for the emperor business.

on the flip I'm thinking there may be something with lion el jonson a bit later on, ad he seems very self serving (dealings with pert and so on)

[infyrana]

Mortarion.  When I first read the Index Astartes posted in the old WD magazines as my interest started in Death Guard, I felt then that there was more to him under the skin that the turning to traitor suggested.  I can't tell you now what it was, I would have to sit and read it again to quote.

 

Someone a while back mentioned his daddy issues, plus his closeness to Horus and what Typhon did, pushed him to make the choice he did, along with his desire to save the crew all did not help to keep him loyal, true.  But if you removed much of it, I think he would have stayed loyal just as easily.

 

I have yet to read past the fifth HH novel, so I still go by what I read a fair few years back.

[Crimson Hawk]

Magnus. He was the only one who didn't turn voluntarily, and seems pretty upset about it centuries after. Close second would have to be Kurze- he became everything he fought against, and ultimately let himself be killed by an assassin. And got to agree with helterskelter, Angron and Lorgar both seem pretty content with their choice...

[Wade Garrett]

Actually, the latest by Graham McNeil has Magnus and Ahriman going on a vision quest in the Eye of Terror, and after viewing the fighting at Calth, Thramas, and Phall they make the reasoned decision to join Team Red.

 

So old One-Eye can take all his "Wahhh! The meanie pants Wolves made me do it! Wahhhh! A-bloo-bloo!" and cram it up his Crystal Cavern.

[deathspectersgt7]

Magnus & Morti

[Emperor's Furor]

Yeah Magnus still had the choice I to stay loyal imo, despite what the wolves did.

[Excessus]

Magnus had nothing to regret. He made the decision after scrying into the future and after he had already been attacked by the Space Wolves. His bridges were burned, his decision was made for him, he had nothing to regret in that sense. After the battle for Prospero he was a warp-being anyway, he had no corporeal form, his body was killed by russ...

 

Mortarion on the other hand...he is most likely the one that regrets the decision the most...

[Wade Garrett]

Okay, I think I may have gone a bit overboard ranting about Magnus...chalk it up to watching all the good work Graham did in A Thousand Sons , where you could feel the XV's desperation as their back was put against the wall, be blown out of the water by an epilogue that goes:

 

"You wanna join Horus?"

 

"I dunno. You wanna join Horus?"

 

"Eh, why not?"

 

"Cool. Let's go join Horus, I guess."

[Emperor's Furor]

I really hope we get to read the thoughts and ideas of every primarch after horus falls, I hope it doesn't end abruptly with the Emperor killing him, and then being put in the throne and then nothing.

[Wade Garrett]

Ferrus Manus reacts to Horus's death:

 

"................................"

[deathspectersgt7]

By Ouija Board.

[Emperor's Furor]

Every surviving Primarch of course ;)

[Komrk]

Mortation, Fulgrim, Kurze, (Alpharius I guess but he did it to save the galaxy and "For the Emperor!")

[GhostMalone]

Lorgar, he didn't want this for mankind he wished for symbiosis and truth.

 

That's why for 10000years he has stayed apart from the galaxy

[Conn Eremon]

Ferrus Manus reacts to Horus's death:

 

"................................"

For a second there, I thought you typed:

 

*________________________________*

 

Either is rather apt, I suppose

 

Edit: Morty has a lot of reason to regret, considering his everything he hated, that led to his betrayal, was most evident, to an extreme degree, on the side he joined. It's like spending your nights getting pass-out drunk at a bar with a bunch of alcoholics because you just hate alcoholism with a passion.

 

But it also means I have no sympathy whatsoever, because damn. That's just special.

[[TA]Typher]

Hands down.. it's

 

 

Horus

 

 

In the old fluff, as the Emperor was mortally wounded he saw that Horus was beyond saving. In that moment he summoned all his psychic might and focused it in an unstoppable beam. Before it hit Horus, the Chaos powers retreated from him, removing the blinders and influence they had had over him. In that second he realized what he had done, and excepted his utter destruction.

 

 

It's one thing to lose your planet.. or your legion. It's a completely other thing to realize that you are responsible for the death of your brothers and the genocide of thousands of worlds.

 

Mortatian and Magnus are tragic, but Horus trumps them easily.

[Noserenda]

Definitely Mortarion!

[Perrin]

Morty in Scars is at the top of the list for me as well.

 

Horus at the end probably regrets it the most as well, the second before he's obliterated.

 

I don't think Fulgrim, Lorgar or Angron regret it in the slightest.

 

Magnus waited to pick a side until he knew (he thought) who would win. I think he may be regretting that decision a little.

 

Alpharius is Alpharius, or maybe Sigmar? Who knows if he regrets it or not. Who knows what he's even doing?

 

I think Perturabo might regret it a little, especially when he gets back from his laws-of-physics-defying blackhole adventure and realises Horus really doesn't care that Fulgrim tried to eat his soul. Basically traded one tyrant for another, eviler one. I may be remembering wrong but doesn't he start to have some doubts during Angel Exterminatus?