Black Book - Insurrection (PUBLISHED)

[bluntblade]

By the way, thinking of the Prosecution, I'm thinking of the Scions' role less as hypocrisy than seeking a compromise, as the Khan tries with the Librarius. Pionus and his officers come to fear the backlash that the hardliners will trigger, quite aside from their problems with how far the likes of Kozja are going. They succeed, but at the cost of their friendship with several Legions.

Been thinking about this a little more, pending Slips' two cents. Also, I feel the bit with Alexos needs a little fleshing out. Just something along the lines of their behaviour being seen as zealousness in trying to serve the Emperor, with a fleeting reference to some shameful event in their past.

[Sigismund229]

 

By the way, thinking of the Prosecution, I'm thinking of the Scions' role less as hypocrisy than seeking a compromise, as the Khan tries with the Librarius. Pionus and his officers come to fear the backlash that the hardliners will trigger, quite aside from their problems with how far the likes of Kozja are going. They succeed, but at the cost of their friendship with several Legions.

Been thinking about this a little more, pending Slips' two cents. Also, I feel the bit with Alexos needs a little fleshing out. Just something along the lines of their behaviour being seen as zealousness in trying to serve the Emperor, with a fleeting reference to some shameful event in their past.

 

I would agree with that for the Eagle Warriors legion as a whole, given their reasons for doing what they do and how finding out Alexos was their primarch was such a fall from grace for what was once the Emperor's chosen legion, but not Alexos himself. Part of the point of the character of Alexos is that he loathes the Emperor and is the "disgraced" primarch. 

[simison]

The Son of Storms

 

The pod carrying the first of the Emperor's son landed, as fate would have it, away from the sky cities and into one of the valleys of Madrigal. In that desolate place, Icarion grew away from the eyes of men, surviving among the rad-created horrors for years on end. Such a hostile environment would have felled many, but the timing of Icarion's arrival was less than fortunate. Less than two years after his arrival, the young Primarch would have the misfortune of enduring one of Madrigal's trips through a tendril of the Maelstrom. For a season, Icarion faced not only the genetic monsters of the rad-wastes but also insatiable Warp predators hounding him. 

 

It was only after the pass of the 'storm season' did Magus K4T0 organize an expedition onto the surface of Madrigal, searching for lost technology and resources. What the Magus found, to the shock of his entire party, was Icarion, alive and whole, waiting for him. Without waste, K4T0 escorted Icarion back to his home, the Principality of Fushi, named for the mountain the city was anchored to. It was here that Icarion was studied and in turn studied as both sides sought all they could learn from each other. When Icarion's purity was proven beyond any doubt, K4T0 inducted the gifted Primarch into the mystic colleges where Icarion excelled and soon mastered all. 

[bluntblade]

 

 

By the way, thinking of the Prosecution, I'm thinking of the Scions' role less as hypocrisy than seeking a compromise, as the Khan tries with the Librarius. Pionus and his officers come to fear the backlash that the hardliners will trigger, quite aside from their problems with how far the likes of Kozja are going. They succeed, but at the cost of their friendship with several Legions.

 

Been thinking about this a little more, pending Slips' two cents. Also, I feel the bit with Alexos needs a little fleshing out. Just something along the lines of their behaviour being seen as zealousness in trying to serve the Emperor, with a fleeting reference to some shameful event in their past.

I would agree with that for the Eagle Warriors legion as a whole, given their reasons for doing what they do and how finding out Alexos was their primarch was such a fall from grace for what was once the Emperor's chosen legion, but not Alexos himself. Part of the point of the character of Alexos is that he loathes the Emperor and is the "disgraced" primarch.

See, Alpharius and I talked it over (the result is in the EWs thread) and reckoned that loathing should initially be turned inward. For a long time Alexos buys into the idea that he was wrong - he really is broken, and under Icarion's guidance he tries to redeem himself. Until he discovers something of the truth of the Warp, and begins a covert campaign of expeditions to the outskirts of the Galaxy as he expands his Legion. So he has a bit more of an arc, but also so that Icarion has a better reason to heed him when it comes to turning against their father.

 

Sim, I'm really enjoying this stuff. I'm going to have write something set on Madrigal sometime.

[simison]

Thank you! Most of it was simply me cleaning up what Athrawes gave us, but starting with that last section, that's all original. Hopefully, Athrawes will approve.

[MikhalLeNoir]

 

 

 

By the way, thinking of the Prosecution, I'm thinking of the Scions' role less as hypocrisy than seeking a compromise, as the Khan tries with the Librarius. Pionus and his officers come to fear the backlash that the hardliners will trigger, quite aside from their problems with how far the likes of Kozja are going. They succeed, but at the cost of their friendship with several Legions.

Been thinking about this a little more, pending Slips' two cents. Also, I feel the bit with Alexos needs a little fleshing out. Just something along the lines of their behaviour being seen as zealousness in trying to serve the Emperor, with a fleeting reference to some shameful event in their past.

I would agree with that for the Eagle Warriors legion as a whole, given their reasons for doing what they do and how finding out Alexos was their primarch was such a fall from grace for what was once the Emperor's chosen legion, but not Alexos himself. Part of the point of the character of Alexos is that he loathes the Emperor and is the "disgraced" primarch.

See, Alpharius and I talked it over (the result is in the EWs thread) and reckoned that loathing should initially be turned inward. For a long time Alexos buys into the idea that he was wrong - he really is broken, and under Icarion's guidance he tries to redeem himself. Until he discovers something of the truth of the Warp, and begins a covert campaign of expeditions to the outskirts of the Galaxy as he expands his Legion. So he has a bit more of an arc, but also so that Icarion has a better reason to heed him when it comes to turning against their father.

Sim, I'm really enjoying this stuff. I'm going to have write something set on Madrigal sometime.

 

Could this are involve the finding of gwal? AO and myself jad it originally planned that Travier is in the group when they discover Gwal and as Gwal refuses to take his mask of, Travier is outraged by the disrespect and tears it from him with the consequence that he is in front of a pariah and looks him directly into the eyes losing his soul in the process. The emperor is able to redo the deed. Bit Travier had a glimpse of the things waiting in the shadows. Could ne a stsrting point for his expeditions ( an gwal would always have bad feelings about this)

[bluntblade]

Err, soul-loss and restoration just sounds a tiny bit over the top. I was thinking Alexos is on a planet where a Warp break occurs before Icarion can get there.

[Nomus Sardauk]

I was thinking Alexos is on a planet where a Warp break occurs before Icarion can get there.

 

Makes sense, it's a big-ass Galaxy and not even Icarion can be everywhere at once. 

[bluntblade]

The question is, exactly when does this event take place?

 

It occurs to me that the Abyssii will be indispensable to Alexos in concealing the true extent to which his Legion has been bolstered.

[MikhalLeNoir]

Uhm nut that was the plan all along and neither alexos nor I ditched it.

 

We built the whole relation and reoccuring images on that.

[AlphariusOmegon108]

Im sorry, but in the end you are both very wrong:

 

When Alexos falls on the planet of Mexicatii after the spreading of the Primarchs. Alexos meets a man named Sagitarrius who takes the young infant under his wings. He learns the young primarch how to fight, hunt, influence things and use his psychic abilities. But after some time (13 days before the arrival of big E) Sagittarius dissapears (as he felt the coming of the emperor). Alexos is shocked by the sudden dissapearance (wich was faked as a death) of his mentor, that he goes into a psychic rampage. He tears into the reality with psychic shrieks of loss, and so attracts a few deamons. Alexos kills over a million Meciatii people (don't forget, Mexicatii has every LARGE populance) wich attracts even more deamons.

The deamons fester on the pain, and start living of Alexos, at some point Alexos is able to completely fight them off, and so discovers there is more to the galaxy than what would be later told to him by the emperor.

In a dream, alexos finds his lost mentor again (3 days before the emperor arrives) and so hugs him like a son would hug a father. In the dream, Sagitarrus dissapears like dust on the wind in the arms of Alexos. Alexos wakes up with a weird feeling, he starts to hears voices, and has the feeling somthing feeds on him, his psychic power amplifies tenfolds after the dream.

 

After the arrival and the torture of the emperor (do not forget, the emperor tortured Alexos for over a thousand hours to make alexos forget, or give up his old believes of believing in gods, and almost succeeds.) This is one of the biggest reasons why alexos hates the emperor so much, and also why he disgusts having to be primarch as well (Also the reason why Takar does most of the jobs a primarch would normally do)

 

Alexos is influenced enormously by Sagitarrius (who lives of the soul of Alexos), and that's the reason why alexos starts the betrayal, because of constant whispers and unwanted influences. One last thing, Sagitarrius stays unnoticed by the emperor at all times, How? Well, the 4 tattoos on Alexos'face, they are a ward of deamonic invisibilty. Making Alexos invisble for other deamons (so there is no contest of control on alexos) and making sagitarrus able to fester within Alexos without too much trouble.

 

Alexos is mostly sagitarrus through the insurrection, but sometimes the real old alexos, wich at those times, could better be described as a bloodthirsty madman.

 

(sorry about spelling btw, its 1 AM and I am waaay too tired over here xD)

[bluntblade]

Oh boy, we have a lot to work out in the Eagle Warriors thread

[MikhalLeNoir]

Im sorry, but in the end you are both very wrong:

 

When Alexos falls on the planet of Mexicatii after the spreading of the Primarchs. Alexos meets a man named Sagitarrius who takes the young infant under his wings. He learns the young primarch how to fight, hunt, influence things and use his psychic abilities. But after some time (13 days before the arrival of big E) Sagittarius dissapears (as he felt the coming of the emperor). Alexos is shocked by the sudden dissapearance (wich was faked as a death) of his mentor, that he goes into a psychic rampage. He tears into the reality with psychic shrieks of loss, and so attracts a few deamons. Alexos kills over a million Meciatii people (don't forget, Mexicatii has every LARGE populance) wich attracts even more deamons.

The deamons fester on the pain, and start living of Alexos, at some point Alexos is able to completely fight them off, and so discovers there is more to the galaxy than what would be later told to him by the emperor.

In a dream, alexos finds his lost mentor again (3 days before the emperor arrives) and so hugs him like a son would hug a father. In the dream, Sagitarrus dissapears like dust on the wind in the arms of Alexos. Alexos wakes up with a weird feeling, he starts to hears voices, and has the feeling somthing feeds on him, his psychic power amplifies tenfolds after the dream.

 

After the arrival and the torture of the emperor (do not forget, the emperor tortured Alexos for over a thousand hours to make alexos forget, or give up his old believes of believing in gods, and almost succeeds.) This is one of the biggest reasons why alexos hates the emperor so much, and also why he disgusts having to be primarch as well (Also the reason why Takar does most of the jobs a primarch would normally do)

 

Alexos is influenced enormously by Sagitarrius (who lives of the soul of Alexos), and that's the reason why alexos starts the betrayal, because of constant whispers and unwanted influences. One last thing, Sagitarrius stays unnoticed by the emperor at all times, How? Well, the 4 tattoos on Alexos'face, they are a ward of deamonic invisibilty. Making Alexos invisble for other deamons (so there is no contest of control on alexos) and making sagitarrus able to fester within Alexos without too much trouble.

 

Alexos is mostly sagitarrus through the insurrection, but sometimes the real old alexos, wich at those times, could better be described as a bloodthirsty madman.

 

(sorry about spelling btw, its 1 AM and I am waaay too tired over here xD)

 

Uhm....uhmm.... We worked that out differently in the past. We should really head over to the eagle warriors thread amd clear things out

[simison]

[so, I was searching for info about the psyker colleges of Madrigal, when I came across this minor piece in Athrawes' main thread.]

 

~~~

 

Falling Star

 

Uniquely amongst the Primarchs, Icarion’s arrival upon madrigal had been anticipated. Instead of plowing into the harsh surface his incubation pod landed gracefully in a triumphal field; purpose-built at the exact location of the capsules predicted landing.

 

The High-Magisters of the Astral college had long foreseen the fateful arrival of Icarion, for in the years since their world’s first salvation, they had become master adepts in the training of precognitive psykers and of the navigators which guided Madrigals Mighty fleets through the warp-troubled sector.

 

~~~

 

Welp, time to re-write what I had.

[simison]

Fallen Star

 

Uniquely amongst the Primarchs, Icarion’s arrival upon Madrigal had been anticipated. Instead of plowing into the harsh surface his incubation pod landed gracefully in a triumphal field; purpose-built at the exact location of the capsules predicted landing. The High-Magisters of the Astral College had long foreseen the fateful arrival of Icarion, for in the years since their world’s first salvation, they had become master adepts in the training of precognitive psykers and of the navigators which guided Madrigal's mighty fleets through the Warp-troubled sector.

 

Thus, from 'birth', Icarion was safeguarded and well-provided by his chosen guardian, High-Magister K4T0, all the while Icarion was repeatedly told of his grand destiny. When the appointed time came, Icarion was enrolled into the Astral College to master his powers and to learn a healthy wariness of the Warp. The young Primarch was a prodigy and rapidly ascended to the title of High Magister himself. Although more than capable of mastering all of the psychic disciplines, Icarion chose to renounce the other schools of power to focus his entire attention on the mastery of divination. It was here, Icarion believed, that the power of the Warp could be safely harnessed and used for the betterment of humanity. Diligent and graceful, Icarion would embrace his role when he announced his intentions to unite Madrigal.  

[Hesh Kadesh]

What I love so much is that the Abyssii are this incredible faction, and despite the battering that they gave the Drowned, and their subsequent engagement with the Warriors of Light, that so much of the Abyssii were actually aiding the Insurrectionists unbeknownst to a; each of the individual insurrectionists, b; the Imperium, and c; Mortera herself.

 

I wonder if it's this simple hoodwinking which convinced her that she should side with the Omnissiah?

[bluntblade]

I need to look at their fluff again.

 

Do we need any more Legion fluff writing for Book 1?

[Hesh Kadesh]

Are the Drowned still in Book 1? I'm not sure if I've missed it, and I've not had much chance to get any prose written down for them myself.

[Slips]

Are the Drowned still in Book 1? I'm not sure if I've missed it, and I've not had much chance to get any prose written down for them myself.

Yup our soon-to-be not-bros are in Book 1 with most of the Kaiju and Daemon Shenanigans coming later down the line, iirc.

[bluntblade]

Last time I checked, yes. If you missed it, I did suggest this little tidbit:

 

Untaran Zone of 200 worlds, but that looks good.

Also, I don't know if we have names for the rest, but Morro sets several Drowned captains to the task of killing any members of the Déka aboard the station. Lockett hunts down Odyssalas and, while he vanishes in a violent decompression and is later found dead, apparently succeeds in his mission. Epinondas dies at the hands of Skerro, and two other Déka captains are also killed, with only Mytakis left to carry Pionus to safety.

[Sigismund229]

Are the Drowned still in Book 1? I'm not sure if I've missed it, and I've not had much chance to get any prose written down for them myself.

If you like I can write the prose for you(if you're too pressed for time). Just PM me amy details not in your legion thread

[Hesh Kadesh]

I have a weekend upcoming for free that I'd booked off to do some walking/photography, but the missus' camera's decided to go on the frizz, so had to order a new one (Fujifilm X-T1, if anyone's a camera geek) to enter the world of the mirrorless for a change; and it's not ready until the 19th. So, we're staying in, I can hopefully get some writing done then. I've redownloaded the pdf's of the books so that I can get a decent grasp of what's needed for a legion intro.

 

Is it more to do with the opening stages of the campaign, or just the material concerning the legions we're looking for at the moment?

 

@Sigi, that's extremely kind! I may take you up on that some time soon, but for now, I have barely nothing written either way. 

[Sigismund229]

It's a legion section like you'd find in a FW HH book. So Legion history pre and post primarch, their primarch's discovery and upbringing on his homeworld, organization and tactics and three exemplary battles.

[simison]

Many members and masters of the Astral College would swear vows to support Icarion, establishing the core of Icarion's new Madrigal empire. Although this granted Icarion rulership over many of Madrigal's sky city-states, the planet was not yet Icarion's. A reactionary faction of jealous and fearful members of the Astral College rejected Icarion, believing that Icarion represented a threat to the planet. Allying with them were renegade Magisters who had rejected the Astral College since it's inception. The Madrigal Civil War would prove instrumental in developing Icarion as a lord of war. Not since the time of the Thunder King had Madrigal since such widespread war, but the sons of Madrigal proved to be adept students. With every battle, Icarion learned and grew as a warrior and strategist. Several times the rebels would come close to claiming victory against the Stormborn, only for the Emperor's son to steal it from them at the last possible moment with his divination proving to be an undefeatable weapon. Desperation infected the rebels as they resorted to forbidden technologies and unleashing the beasts of the rad-wastes in an attempt to surprise and overwhelm the Primarch. It was all for naught. No weapon or stratagem could overcome Icarion. As he foresaw on the day he announced his intentions, Icarion united Madrigal eight weeks later, declaring his victory on the same spot where he said he would unite Madrigal. 

 

Few beings could claim to have achieved so much in so little time, but Icarion, as always, was seeing a step further than everyone else. Madrigal would be but the beginning of his empire as he turned his eyes to Akira and beyond. An academic challenge once bandied about between Imperial scholars was to determine on what day Icarion foresaw the Emperor's arrival. Some argue Icarion only discovered the Emperor's impeding arrival a day before the event given the few steps he took to prepare of the Emperor's coming. Others wrote tracts, identifying subtle decisions and small details, saying Icarion knew weeks, even months beforehand. A rare few went even further, suggesting that Icarion knew as far back as the day he decided to unite Madrigal. Regardless of the day Icarion saw the Emperor in his visions, the Emperor would enter the Madrigal system to find his first son awaiting him.

[simison]

The First Son

As the High-Magisters had expected and welcomed Icarion, so too did Icarion treat the Emperor's arrival as an event worthy of celebration. The Emperor's reunion with Icarion was a day marked throughout the nascent Imperium. For Icarion was the first of the lost Primarchs to be found and opened entire new possibilities now that it was possible for the Primarchs to have survived their unexpected kidnapping. As the unintentional first representative of his brothers, Icarion provided the Imperium with a model warrior of great power, even as the space marine legions became alight with fervor to find their own missing gene-sires. 

 

With every move scrutinized by curious eyes, Icarion took command of the Lightning Bearers with casual grace as the Lightning Bearers eagerly accepted him as their leader.