The Sister’s Library

The problem with Primarchs…

From Corax: Lord of Shadows. One Admiral Fenc is nervous and convinced he keeps making an ass of himself around Corax.

“‘The problem with primarchs,’ his predecessor had said upon handing over command, ‘is that they are primarchs.’ … ‘They are better treated like the old gods, not like men. Each one is different, no one rule applies to all. What flatters one will insult another. They must be propitiated in the correct way, individual to the deity, in order for worship to be a success.’

At the time, he had thought this a blasphemy against the Emperor’s secular creed, but over time he had learned how right the old man was.”

This Fenc fellow is also the same guy who had requested *checks notes* Konrad Curze to help with the compliance. And got Corax instead. And was worried about upsetting him. The good news is, I doubt Curze would have cared about breaches of decorum at dinner.

Oh Curze’s trial is so much fun. For Curze anyway. 🤣 It covers several chapters so it’s hard to pick the best parts. I’m posting probably too many pages, but it’s all just too good.

The trial is a Macragge-wide spectacle. They had to give out tickets to the public to keep the numbers to code. Guilliman refused to live-stream it though. That would be undignified.

The crimes include murder, murder, lots more murder, and also tearing Azkaellon’s arm off and throwing him out a window. He’s okay though. But Curze taunts him about it. The Lion asks how Curze pleads and Curze basically says “oh I did all that stuff, but it’s not crimes. Not unless what you all do all the time is also crimes, then we’re just all war criminals together. Especially the psycho from Caliban.”

Guilliman and Sanguinius: Lion, what did you do? We said no orbital bombardments I’m sure you didn’t do that right? Curze says: hmm funny how a bunch of proscribed weapons just fall out of the sky like that? Lion: oh no I used drop pods as bombers so it wasn’t technically orbital…. Guilliman/Sanguinius: what the actual- Curze: *laughs his ass off*

They sentence Curze to death and banish the Lion who teleports out, but since there are Rules about No Swords in the Courtroom, nobody has a sword to execute him with. Sanguinius says, not a problem I’ll kill him with my bare hands, and is about to when the Lion teleports back in having just had an Important Thought.

I love this damn story arc so much.