Captain Ferren Areios

[Brother Paint]

I’ll get him to add to his buddy Messinius and Centos and the rest of the gang, it’s interesting while his armour trims do look more gold than copper ( orange) I’m wondering if the same is applicable to him as to the issue of the sword brethren having gold trims ( when multiple companies working together or seconded they take the colour of the leading or larger force, I think it was either mentioned in 8th ed Ultramarines codex or 9th space marine codex) ( mind you I paint all mine with gold trims, only caption heraldry on pad and sometimes cloaks different )

 

anycase I ramble, do we have an educated guess on release date of the book and plastic 

[Lord Nord in Gravis Armour]

On 8/28/2025 at 4:20 AM, roryokane said:

There was a vacancy and they didn’t want to do a reshuffle? :p

 

There WASN'T a vacancy. The story killing off Epathus was clearly written right around the same time as Solemnity and the entire point of killing Epathus within that story was to give Areios a void to fill. From a real-world perspective, promoting Areios wasn't the solution to an existing problem.

 

It's not like this was any kind of long-term plan. In Areios' most recent appearance, he'd been promoted to Captain in the Unnumbered Sons. But that wasn't high-profile enough. So in order to get him into the Ultramarines as a Trojan horse who could be fast-tracked to captain in the poster boy faction, they had to pretend that never happened and he was still a lieutenant.

 

Yes, instead of going from Lieutenant to Captain within the first five years of the Indomitus Crusade, he had now gone from Lieutenant to... Lieutenant in twice that time. But they still made a point of telling us how amazing he was before they shipped him off to the Ultramarines.

 

Edited 6 hours ago by Lord Nord in Gravis Armour

[Morovir]

I always just assumed that he got demoted from Captain after the events of Throne of Light, after he essentially had the  beaten out of him by a Dark Apostle and was left to die.

Edited 6 hours ago by Morovir

[Lord Nord in Gravis Armour]

15 minutes ago, Morovir said:

I always just assumed that he got demoted from Captain after the events of Throne of Light, after he essentially had the  beaten out of him by a Dark Apostle and was left to die.

 

There is no mention of a demotion, only the "greatness" that Guilliman sees in him, to the point that he personally requested Areios' assignment to the Ultramarines.

[jaxom]

It’s all part of Guilliman’s plan to “correct” 9000 years of drift from his original vision for post-Heresy marines by putting his choices in positions related to history and teaching.