There are no wolves on Fenris

[Battybattybats]

 

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There are no wolves on Fenris.

 

Jonson waited to see who would win the heresy.

 

The Ultramarines absorbed the missing Legions.

 

Space Marines are functionally immortal.

 

Sanguinius should have been warmaster.

 

The Space Wolves are the most ruthless and brutal of all the Legions.

 

The Alpha Legion are really totally working for humanity.

 

 

 

I think we should call these things "heresy-isms" or something like that. Wonderous new truths that are revealed to us by the Horus Heresy series, which should be taken with a mine worth of salt.

 

 

Abnett, Thorpe, A D-B, Abnett, McNeill, Abnett, Abnett.

 

Methinks Legs isn't a DanFan.

 

All of those really aren't equal. Some are literally one character, unreliable or otherwise, in a scene where even other characters don't agree with him. You can't help it if people choose to believe an unreliable character like, say, Astelan. If people take a possibility as The Only Truth, then that's their call. 

 

Others are the author literally saying it in-person, or a book's worth of characters taking it as truth.

 

I mean, guys, there are tiers of this stuff. Shades of grey and all that.

 

I really dug H.G. Wells unreliable narrator bits especially in First Men In The Moon and we should be quite suss about a couple of key scenes in War of the Worlds.

 

When it comes to the Heresy books there's a few possibly-unreliable narrators, there's some very clearly unreliable ones and then there's Prospero Burns where the narrator is clearly a story-teller telling exactly the kind of story that during the tale we are directly told Wolves like to hear, a story teller who outright tells you and shows you that he in unreliable even to and with himself! From the title to the main characters name (with all it's reference) NOTHING in that book can be trusted to fit it's surface meaning, it's a rat-king of riddles trapped by it's Gordian Knot of tails/tales in the heart of a burrow of lies and deception.

 

Reading that book is like decoding the Voynich Manuscript.

[*Furyou Miko]

"There are no Wolves on Fenris" was Magnus just being a smartass - techically, either they're native fauna that's a bit wolf-shaped, or they're degenerated colonists - either way, they're not Terran Canis Lupus.

[Ozeryk_Sleipnijr]

I personaly think its really cool when an author puts something into the fluff. I love the idea of the Dark age of Technology. The possible mutation or change of some of the early Fenris colonists after some biologis tried to genetically toughen them up is a cool story setting.

[mactire]

The reason I wont build TWC.