Melchior

Horus demanded nephilim leave and release their slaves, promising not to kill them (later reveals that Sang’s ships made no such promise). Dark shadow on his face when they describe communion between divine and mortal.

Into battle Sanguinius wears a silk tabard, platinum chain mail, extraordinarily ornate plate armored gold trinkets, jade and ruby teardrops. Lands hard enough to cause a crater.

Horus favors shock and awe attacks. Sang and him argue over this with. Causal air to their discussion. Horus moves on from human cost much easier.

No pity for willing nephilim converts from Sang. Does try to free the slaves

Sang misses spending more time with Horus, who’d like to play regicide with him till the next crusade

Baal has Low Mesa clans apparently

Kills a son who fell the red thirst (alotros) after trying to bring him back. Horus is appalled when he finds them, having followed out of concern when S rushed out. Sang. Ends up telling the truth. Russ would judge, Dorn wouldn’t listen, but Horus there is no pretense with. He is the only one sang tells, hiding it to avoid annihilation. Think the red thirst is his fault. Cites Alpharius and Lorgar as potential threats if the red thirst goes public.

Fulgrim has a perfection is not a state of being but of striving mindset

Chapter 1

Alpharius doesn’t say shit even when he’s running a campaign with someone, leading Sang to break with the plan

Chapter 2

Sang's duty armor is gold and white platinum with a bronze mail cloak over his folded wings

Some rumors about primarch powers include: Mortarion being unable to feel pain, that Corax can magically cloud minds, the Khan can talk to storms, that Sang has the sight. Raldaron hold this as true; Sang mentions his dreams, and occasionally does weird interventions as if he could see the future. Occasionally gives someone a glimpse of their future

Horus has a good sense of timing

Horus lures Sang into a trap with the potential of a red thirst cure

Chapter 4

Sang's armor has etching along brassarts, shoulder guards, breastplate. A heavy ornamental roundel, heart-shaped on a mount of gold flames, made of Megladari rubies, has four more ruby discs to represent the world the legion recruited form. Wears a pelt from a carnodon, like a snow leapard, was his first kill on Teghar Pentarus, his first fight after joining dad.

Good at inspiring speeches

Horus considers Sang both unimpeachably loyal and not stupid. One wonders what he thought of the Imperium Secundus fiasco.

Chapter 5

Sang's never fallen in all his centuries of life. Has this nightmare. Finds his wings suddenly ripped off. Has a vision of a version of himself fallen to Chaos/the Red Thirst (ironclad, covered in blood, gross light from the cracks, skeletal wings of a vulture from the back, blood dripping away, called the Red Angel... This is NOT Angron)

has a meditation and inner reflection regiment

Chapter 6

His command throne is in his private sanctum in the Red Tear's dorsal tower, but has no formal seat on the bridge of his flagship, doesn't want to usurp the captain

Blond. hair falls in his face

Ullanor

Morty: cowled, Fulgrim: in gold and platinum, Magnus: public doesn't know much of his personality, Lorgar: quiet brooding zealot says little stays watching, Angron is gladiator-lord, son o f grief, always fuirious, Dorn is stalwart always read and focused, Khan waers fur trimmed robes and armor detailed with his legion's narravives

Eye of Terra: platinum chain, sappphire cut into eye of terra

Angron was upset about Horus being picked, Lorgar, Fulgrim, and Sang cheered, Rogal was too stiff to do so but did shake Horus's hand. Horus is sort of down about the whole thing, Sang tries to cheer him up.

Sang is firmly against the idea of him being warmaster

H calls S his consciense

Never anticipated becoming warmaster

Chapter 7

Usually smiling

Chapter 9

Sang is known for checking for survivors on devastated planets, enough that enemies can build plans around it

Horus refers to Lorgar holding on to his secrets

Chapter 10

H has no issue changing Erebus's carefully laid plans at the last minute

Chapter 12

Sang's sword is two hnaded, long as an astartes is tall, red metal, golden ruby studded guard, is a power sword

Insists on going in after the demon even tho its to the enemy's plan, basically because we've come this far we cannot let it live

Chapter 13

Sang looks grieved discovering dead crew-serfs, to the surprise of his sons. He seems above such things

Interested in preservation of lives

Communes with the Red Tear as it crashes, asking it to hold itself together

Chapter 14

keeps Amit around because he's got no fliter

Khornate demon calls them brothers

Feels every death of his sons keenly. Wonders if the others feel it as strong. Can kinda feel the emotions coming off his impending sons

The psychic shock of their deaths puts him in a coma

Nikea

Sang rebukes Amit for his words, says Big E's Nikea decision isn't arbitrary, as he makes no arbitrary choices

Chapter 16

When a librarian goes into Sang's dream to resuscitate him, he finds Sang with red eyes, sharp fangs. S immediately drinks his blood

Chapter 17

Bloodthirster seems convinced that whilst Chaos wants Sang, Horus does not, doesn't want to stand in Sang's shadow again

Visions rush thru the librarian's mind, sees visions of the future including Big E and Horus fighitng, Sang killing Horus inside the palace, Blood Angels swearing loyallty to the dark gods, Horus killing Sang inside the VS, Sang as emperor of all mankind, Raldoron weeping over Sang's corpse

Chapter 18

immediately after waking up, Sang throws himself back into the battle

Absolutely furious while fighting the bloodthirster, possibly the psychic pull, possibly the idea of chaos claiming his legion pisses hiim off that much

Chapter 19

Sang is cursed with endless ragefire, menfestation of the darkness within, the gene flaw. Part of the Red Thirst and Black Rage maybe?

Wings came from the Ruinous Powers, according to Kyriss the demon. Says his core is wrath. Offers the deal--Sang goes traitor and embraces the ragefire, the legion will never know the flaw. Sang is quite sad about it, seems willing to do it, but an apothecary intervenes and takes the ragefire before he can. (RIP Meros, you were the MVP) . Sang is very upset that Meros wants to die in his stead.

Chapter 20

Able to hide pain very well

Swears to kill Horus for his treason after getting an answer

Got a black teardrop tattooed on his face

Swears the librarian from earlier to secrecy about the visions

Epilogue

Horus has Erebus's face peeled off after he has a control freak freakout, does not want Dark Gods getting the idea they're in charge and not him

Chapter One

-Malcador can sort of see the colors of people’s emotions

-known to be second most powerful human psyker

- collecting fallen-between-the-cracks astartes to do dirty work for him, including Garro and Garviel

-openly reads minds

Chapter Three

- Magnus is viewed as at fault for the anti-psyker policies by some psykers outside his legion

- Garro theorizes that Horus was not xorruptedx but that some simple jealousy or other flaw was the reason

Chapter Six

- generally quiet and cold, Malcador does react when hearing about the death of a custodes, possibly because he’s going to have to explain this to the Big E

- calls the mass death of civilians ‘regrettable’, says basically that’s the world kiddo when called on it and moves on

- does accept a surprise loyalist World Eater addition

Chapter Seven

-people assume Horus will be coming, because he could never claim victory over his father while his house still stood

-Rogal Dorn locked up his librarians in a sealed chamber after Nikea, isolating them from their legion

-doesn’t immediately kill Garro and co. when he finds the breaking into the librarian area on behalf of Malcador

-fills the room with his aura

-immediately guesses Malcador sent Garro

-tells the librarians to go back to sleep. Does not tell them about the heresy but alludes to it, sad when they say they’re ready to serve

-his Sanctorum (which is in the tallest tower in the Lhalanx) is filled with neat piles of documents, had a great view; wide oval spade, azure floor

-rebukes Garro for infiltrating his area, considers it apparent defiance of the emperor, absolutely furious that Garro did this even tho he owes Dorn his life

-refuses to let his librarian use his powers in even the smallest defiance of the emperor to drag the truth out of Garro

-Malcador can go rifling through others dreams apparently despite not necessarily being near them

-Dorn and Malcador continue to conflict over methods, RD thinks they will drag Garro and others to ruin. Says Malcador serves the imperium, but the emperor?

- snitches on Malcador keeping secrets about the rest of the loyalist Death Guard

Chapter Eight

- gave Garro thorough info, kept an eye on everything

Chapter Fourteen

-Malcador has an old but ageless face

-black iron staff with a narrow steel basket of fire on top holding a golden eagle with inscribed chains in its talons. Does not believe in too much

-everywhere and nowhere sorta deal. Furious to be compared to Horus

- first instinct is to have the accountant who sniffed out his Titan moon plans killed, rather than use her. Garro is able to talk him into keeping her as a worker tho. Principally concerned about chaos, not just Horus, and that’s why he’s doing his Titan dealio

-able to lift heavier object than he should be

Chapter Fifteen

-finds Garro killing animals local to an area distasteful, but moves past it upon explanation

-Garro’s not sure if he’s ever seen Malcador in the flesh, it might’ve been psychic production

-doesn’t know everything, to his displeasure, including where Keeler is

-gives Garro a leave of absence to sort out whatever is on his lind. Concerned with malleable loyalty—the thing you’re loyal to can drift out from under you. Doesn’t have the growing cult stamped out because he doesn’t have the time. gives Garro a vacation to sort himself out, much to Garro’s surprise

Chapter Twenty-One

- surprised and amused that there’s now a part of Garro he can’t see—apparently from cult powers? He has trouble seeing them in general it seems

Brotherhood of the Storm

Khan: "laugh when you are killing"

Horus turned back the orks at Ullanor

Jaghatai never shared his plans or thoughts on after the Great Crusade

Famously elusive like a berkut

Extremely hard to get ahold of for the munitions people, they don't know where he's fighting or which khan he is

Magnus is known to hold the stormseers in esteem

Khan doesn't hold many audiences, because very few people ask

his confidant Yesugei says he's not elusive, more the center

Not character notes but: Chogoris wasn't aware of other worlds prior to Big E rocking up. They call their mounts aduu.

Big E appeared alongside the Four to Yesugei when he was becoming a stormseer. His face can't be seen, scares the four, bright but not warm, seems to be disappointed that Yesugei drank at all.

Jaghatai and Yesugei met for the first time when Yesugei was running for his life, I believe from the Khan's soldiers. Yesugei had a psyker meltdown, JK shrugged off the attacks, Y mistakes him for Big E, and then JK uses the authoritative primarch aura to calm him down. ears a spiked helm, elaborate bone panel armor with gold and red beading. Long scar running down his left cheeks, like the Talskar. Notably, this contradicts his scars as described in the novel Scars. Deep-set and intense eyes.

While he never showed psyker powers himself, he was able to calm psyker freakouts. Brings Yesugei into the fold, sort of as a slave? The term they use is sadyin arga. Renames him as Targutai Yesugei (child who ran and an who fought), and declares his attempt to conquer all the khans and empires, and bringing in a new style of war and leadership: move quick, remain in motion, no center. Then has Yesugei marked with a scar like a Talskar.

White Scars don't call Jaghatai Khan, but it is the proper address for outsiders. Can induce bad shock in people when first meeting them. Ilya initially can't even see him, just has this impression of light.

'rich' voice, makes usual human ones seem thin, cultured drawl, perfect gothic

his chambers are paneled with dark wood like mahogany, thick coarse rug depicting arid plains and spear-wiedling ridrs, antique bookcase with leather books, weapons hung all over (like Lion in this respect). Smells like buckskin and burnishing oil

leather-brown skin, lean + proud + noble + intelligent face, bare scalp except for a long black topknot held by gold rings, aquiline nose, moustache, deep-set eyes

annoyed that the administrative elements came and bothered him. Not cooperating because the administration's methods are incompatible with his doctrine of war

Horus: bursts in with no annoucement, wearing a wolf-pelt, white gold armor edged with bronze and the garnet eye, swaggering. Ilya is terrified of him. He and JK hug. Of similar build, JK is slightly taller.

H likes JK's company (or at least says he does), wants him around more often

invites Ilya along

quite sneaky

glittering eyes (mentioned repeatedly), red cloak lined with mottle fur, carries dao and two flintlocks, pauldrons engraved with korchin characters + lightning strike sigil

promised to always heed Horus's call

Hunter's Moon

Alpharius may have greeted the Space Wolves sent to keep an eye on him. Definitely ordered them killed. Said to be not much bigger than his sons, less of an aura than his brothers

Riven

Fulgrim wrote something called Lament for the Pheonix in 831.M30, mused that being left behind when someone dies is worse than being the dead person because you still have to do things and sort out the aftermath

Ferrus wasn't cozy with sons when he met them, more like who are you, yup that one's mine

doesn't jive with his whole machine above all; the flesh still needs to operate those machines. Can't remove too much or its not you anymore

Gulliman gifted Horus three ships, very nice ships, named Spear Strike, Wolf of Chthonia, and Dawnstar

Butcher's Nails

Angron has a variety of symptoms: bleeding nose, involuntary noises when he talks. Symptoms are worse when his 'blood ran hot' but his head is never not hurting

Does not like the idea of backing down. Had not prior to this point been following orders. Hadn't expected Lorgar to stand up to him. Very informal in how his legions are

Scarred lips

Can still talk articulately, aware of his reputation, makes battle plans. Kharn's view of what sounds like him and what the general public thinks sounds like him are separate

Calls Lotara 'girl'

Lorgar is quite diplomatic, still uses lofty ideals

Nauseated by the smell of an eldar vehicle, finds it sensorily strange. Similarly disgusted by eldar

Considers rage the highest state of a human mind

When killing achieves a certain serenity, a feeling of righteousness. Put the nails in the heads of the WE because it's all he knows

Hates being called sire or lord. Mind wanders, almost disassociative when in his rages

Not concerned with staying alive in battle

Invites Lorgar with him to kill eldar. Lorgar agrees. This is the first time they fight as a pair--quite rare for any primarch duo

"cares not from whence the blood flows" foreshadowing is a literary device--

Lorgar suggests Angron paint his armor red. Angron laughs and compliments him on killin

Lorgar is disgusted by the corpse pits on the main drukhari deck, compares it to Curze's bedroom, which he somehow has. Angron has never been on the Nightfall

Lorgar was concerned about Angron's implants killling him, but takes this back once he hears that he might be a prince of khorne. Angron can tell something's up

Warmaster

Horus monologues at length on his plans to Ferrus Maus's skull, who he thinks would've disapproved of the deceit (who he blames Lorgar and Alpharius for)

Almost everyone he wanted is against him, and the screwups are the ones backing him.

Thief of Revelations

Post-Prospero, Magnus spends his days lurking in the Obsidian Tower alone

Super sad. No longer surprised or joyful. Still in the outfit he wore to fight Leman

Refuses to help Ahriman work to reverse the flesh change. Enough damage has been done. Bans him from the project entirely, says greater importance dwells on his mind. Has been watching all the shennanigans his brothers are getting up to. Currently mulling which side to pick, is not wanting to be reckless or assume he knows more than anyone else. Hints at potentially interfering

The Eightfold Path

post-demon-acension angron has changed. Pits have gotten more violent, too many deaths. His bodyguards are now his jailers. They got him bound and chained below deck. His roar drives Kharn into a frenzy

Heart of Conqueror

Emperor chose Angron's navigator in specific. This gains her her loyalty, to the point of suicide

Angron and Aurelian are apparently respectful when they speak with her

Lorgar tries to talk this navigator into using the gods' to navigate, to speed up the ship, after the demon siutation

Censure

Lorgar did leave some to die on Calth, apparently for following Erebus. Going to guess this makes more sense after reading about Calth. Some of them believe they were left behind for a secret divine mission

Prologue: From Scorched Earth…

Horus speaks to Vulkan after his capture. Vulkan knows H's voice like his own

V saw Ferrus die even tho he wasn't present, some kind of psychic bond? More than fraternal blood. Vulkan's pretty scarred by both his death and the death of his sons. Was too angry to think thru a good chunk of Isstvan. Grieved by the death of Numetor. KC is the one who shows and nabs him, smiling all the while. V asks why he's done this thing (meaning treason), KC says because he's the one that's there (meaning the kidnapping and impending fratricide). Was smiling, V thinks its because he likes irony like that, the best designed men turning into the worst

Turns out it's not H, V has been halllucinating the whole time (also hallucinates Gulliman iirc), KC is the only brother present

Chapter Two

When Seriph (our doomed remembrancer rep for this book) pops into his smith, it turns out to be hot, very dark, not lit from anything but the coal pit, cell of obsidian and black metal. Normal human special gear to not quickly die from pollution and heatstroke. She finds it hard to believe he came from such humble origins as being raised by a blacksmiter (NOT a blacksmith he's quite specific).

Muses that he could've been things other than a warrior or a leader. he would've instead been a farmer. not poetic. Rumors fly that he's different from his brothers, he warns her not to believe everything she hears.

Agrees to speak with Seriph again because she lasted longer than other interviewers before passing out. Catches her when she does.

Blazing red eyes, onyx skin, muscled hard body, marked with brands for remembrance everywhere. Remembers each mark, the act is part of the Promethean creed. Firedrak hide mantle, oceanic green scaled armor, adorned with rare quartz.

Asks after the remembrancer, which surprises the Pyre guard he asks.

Tries to minimize total casualties, not necessarily casualties on his side. Wants to come as a liberator, not a conqueror. Takes strategic input from the Pyre Guard.

KC sets his legion on the civilians before Vulkan can go in without telling him, wiping out an entire city so the rest fall into line. V is ticked, msotly for the slaughter but also maybe a little for the disobedience. KC is like "you're not the boss of me" and then shows up to bother him in person.

KC is chalk white, thin black oval eyes, lank blank hair hanging in his face, ragged crison cloak, midnight blue armor with death motifs.

KC says its a gift, gave him a quicker less bloody compliance. Doesn't believe anyone's an innocent--not even children (point of contention with V). V tells him to stop acting like Nostramon swine, that Big E raised him up. KC disagrees that they were raised up, says they're all killers, none of them noble.

Unsettled, recalls Ibsen.

Seriph tries to talk to V right after this conversation, V snaps at her for disturbing his silence.

When V wakes up/resurrects (doesn't know he's perpetual yet so we're not sure), he's in excruciating pain. Hallucinates (? Could also be having a vision given this family but doesn't seem like it) Ferrus Manus's corpse talking to him. Pale, close cropped black hair, glassy eyes.

KC's breath smells like death, maybe rotting meat? or his teeth given later descriptions. Has been torturing Vulkan for a while it seems.

Chapter Four

N'bel (V's adoptive dad) found him alone on the plains in a glass crater, totally unharmed but lonely. N'bel is broad-shouldered, calloused, tanned, wears smiting ear, scarred tanned arms. V misses him greatly. Has wanted to return to Nocturne for a while; sick of destroying wants to build and make permanent things, like the seven cities he'd built on Nocturne. (Note: with coming of Imperium, the forges were replaced by factories and mining engines, hab domes replaced the old houses).

This comes up in a dream V is having of visitng Nocturne. Sees KC in the vision, in a sackcloth smock with a knife. Big E is part of the vision, tells V not to kill KC, who promptly spears V.

Hallucination Ferrus is there when he wakes up, is generally bitter and cajoling. V deems it beneath Ferrus, says he was a good and honest man (which raises questions about what he calls good). Blames V for his death. Real Ferrus was never that talkative. V immediately gets cracking on trying to escape. Kills non-warriors aboard the ship, quickly and because they'd interfere with his escape, but feels bad about it. Finally realizes he's on KC's ship--not Isstvan.

Chapter Six

In his dreams of Isstvan, V is beyond furious, wants his traitor brothers' heads. Wakes/resurrects with fractured memory. Feels ill. Gets his first scar that he can't really remember, and that scares him, on his back.

KC tells V that all his legion is dead. V denies it. KC admits it. Making fun of V.

KC can't even get through Horus's explanation of the fall without cracking up, later says he follows no one. Basically says it's because some people are just evil, says the whole family is like that right up to Big E. Muses on what their sins are. V says KC's envy. KC denies it, says his is being cursed to see the future and change none of it.

V says he loved Horus, met him twice before the fall. Forged a hammer to give to him after Ullanor, but something in their second meeting creeped him out so he never handed it over.

KC tells V no one will be coming for him. Likes chatting, expert in using words to scare and twist people's minds against them.

Perturabo built the torture labyrinth and chamber for KC, made it very pretty but also very creepy. KC isn't inclined to building.

KC says he's comfy with what he is, but that V isn't

V says he doesn't enjoy war. KC calls him merciless, V turns around the accusation and adds the charge of cowardice saying he didn't realize KC was a sadist before their joint compliance. Says he pities him, that KC has been wallowing so long he wouldn't know what light is like. KC thinks V should get off that high horse, then turns on the furnace so V burns alive.

Chapter Ten

Comes back without a sleep this time. From dust to being a person again. Possibly didn't die this time? Is exhausted and sleeps.

Flashback time! V was pleased and annoyed that KC's plan worked and the compliance was otherwise bloodless. V says KC has a malady, and that he didn't know how deep it went--was that what primarchs were saying amongst themselves about KC?

Wants to redress things with Seriph

After KC starts a riot, Vulkan full on stops a tank. Goes not for the escaped eldar, but to protect Seriph. Has flamethrowers built into his gauntlets. Kills the eldar. The final one, a young one they call a witchling, surrenders. V sees that Seriph has died in the chaos and kills the kid. Denies that he's anything like KC.

Chapter Eleven

Dreams of an eldar (Ulthwe seer dude, Eldrad I think). Tells V he needs to live, to be the gatekeeper.

KC tested Bo's work before using it on V.

KC's set a trap where if V can't keep pulling on his chains, a rock falls and crushes the baselines (soldiers and at least one child). Strains so hard to keep it up he doesn't even realize when they all die.

Chapter Thirteen

Salamanders use a precise form of Promethean ritual as adapted by Vulkan from the tribal kings of Nocturne.

Chapter Fourteen

V was frightened by H's betrayal, because if he could turn, who else would?

Before Isstvan V met with his brothers. Summons Numeon to speak with him. Was self-reflecting beforehand. Has his sons meet him eye-to-eye. Was concerned Ferrus was too mad to be smart. Corvus had the same worry but kept his mouth shut. Shows the hammer he planned to give to Horus--Dawnbringer--to Numeon. Clarifies that H and he spoke twice after Ullanor. Earlier statement may be editing error. V sought out H and RD to discuss KC's behavior the first time, and the second time was to give the hammer to H. Even across the holocall H seemed off. Seems to be planning to capture H not kill on Isstvan

Chapter Fifteen

KC leaves V to despair for a while, then starts drowning and electrocuting him

KC sets him starving and bound before a rotting feast with a bunch of starving people who arent' bound, but have utensils where their hands used to be that are too long to eat, who can't hear or see. Over I think a period of the days the people die.

V tells K to kill or fight him and end this

KC snaps when V calls them equals. Says he himself has never fallen, just that V has been dragged down to his level. Says he's not jealous, just has fun screwing with V. KC finally reveals to V the problem of his immortality

Chapter Seventeen

John Grammaticus and Vulkan met once, lifetimes ago

Chapter Eighteen

V and Numeon land, totally oblivious to the treason of the WB, IW, AL, and NL.

Call and response war cry. Eye-to-eye! Tooth-to-tooth!

Chapter Nineteen

Ferrus respects the Death Guard in battle, after the joint compliance with them and the Salamanders

Elects to keep ground already won then go chasing after Ferrus

V is implied to have some truly messed up weapons in his back pocket, including chemical

Chapter Twenty

Big E met John Grammaticus and invited him to talk at the Triumph of Pash

Chapter Twenty-One

KC knows what's coming for him, thinks he can't escape, so throws himself into it

V despairs to know he's immortal, that he'll never escape Curze

This time Curze straps Vulkan into a robot that makes him kill people. Vulkan sees one of his sons (who turns out later to be dead all along), kills himself in a brief moment of control rather than slay him

V hallucinates Gulliman briefly, but it resolves into Curze. Hallucination Ferrus seems to be decaying throughout the novel

KC considers V's immorality a torment to himself, but refuses to let him go because killing him is fun

bummed that he gets the visions rather than immortality. Melancholy. Afraid. Says he is Night Haunter, that Konrad Curze is dead. He fears and is fear. V tries to be helpful, KC shoves him away, doesn't like being the project, feels condescended that V thinks he can improve him, that V thinks that he's better.

Chapter Twenty-Two

Apparently Erebus tried to change Sanguinius? haven't read that novel yet, shall report back whenever I get to it

Chapter Twenty-Three

V is painfully aware his mind is breaking. Not sure if KC was vulnerable to lull him into a false sense of security, or if he slipped.

CoCo shows up! (Not really, KC is inducing a dream with psykers from Davin, but there's still fun character bits here)

Avian black power armor, two taloned gauntlets, beaked helmet, utterly silent armor, even his generator for the swings is near-silent, detected only by primarch hearing. Slightly aquiline face, long black hair, greyish pallor common to inhabitants of Kiavahr (Deliverance, I believe), raven feathers around the waste, a trophy skill above his pelvis.

V is really happy to see him, wants to hug him, but unlike Ferrus CoCo is not a hugger.

'CoCo' guides him thru the ship, V enjoys killing Night lords as revenge

they end up in a galdiator arena, their 'sons' as hostages. Curze makes V fight CC or else he'll kill him. Has doubts about killing that eldar child. Refuses to kill CoCo even in the dream. This failure upsets Curze irl. When Vulkan wakes, Curze kills the psykers for failing.

Chapter Twenty-Four

V introduced the Promethean Creed straightaway to the Terran Salamanders

Angron usually isn't close to his honor guard, but on Isstvan he is. First language ain't gothic. Calls Vulkan a 'high rider'. Oversized muscles, veins popping out, scarred beaten up face, cybernetic scalp locks

Ferrus and V exchanged gifts once, V got a pistol

CC and V try to talk down Ferrus, he doesn't yield. CC is sure it'll get him killed.

Chapter Twenty-Six

V begs his father for help

Perturabo apparently has built a gate depicting Isstvan V as part of the Vulkan torture labyrinth. KC thinks he'd be offended that V mistook his hard work for a hallucination.

they're at the end labyrinth. KC tells V the hammer is at the center of the labyrinth, as well as some of his sons. KC wants to know what V is seeing when he's disassociating. V taunts him

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Flashback to post-eldar-child-murder incident. Vulkan is standing by Seriph's casket. Curze asks why she was so special, baffled by V putting himself in harm's way for this lady. At this moment it comes out thru the vox that Curze's had all the rebelling population killed. Curze admits this doesn't really serve a purpose beside bloodthirst, but says Vulkan did the same and didn't even kill them quickly.

KC pulls the we're not so different line. Violence ensues

Curze has pale lips

V wonders what KC did to get Perturabo to agree to building this. Thinks Bo hated all of them. Has a vision of his dad being encouraging. Locks in, lucid. Taunt KC some more, the atrocities having eaten through the pity.

Chapter Thirty

Vulkan's hammer icon (a gemstone at the crosscenter) is imporant but not even Numeon gets what Vulkan was trying to do

Chapter Thirty-One

The sons that KC has been tormenting Vulkan with have been dead the whole time

V ragebaits KC into lunging out, physical fight. V is once again mentioned to be the physically strongest. KC loses this fight, reveals the dead brutalized corpses of hundred of people beneath them. Violence immediately resumes (you know the line). KC begs V to kill him. V almost does it, but sees Ferrus again, big brother looking at him, and relents. KC hates him more for it. V teleports out

Epilogue: Falling From Grace…

Chapter 1

Gulliman ordered that all mysterious phemomena are to be reported. Calls Euten mam. Can't speak of Calth

Temporarily overthrows Nikea edict for purposes of not all dying, temporarily becomes regent, to the great unease of all

wears a senator/consul's robes, dark and heavy

Konor read Hamlet to him as a child, so recommends it to one of his Ultramarines

Uses Konor's room wit all his old tech. Apparently Big E said that the primarchs were scattered by the ruinous powers (despite not having admitted demons existed at this point? Timeline BS). Gulliman thinks this suggests Big E is an idiot, and thus it couldn't have been the truth, and thinks he intentionally scattered them to test and temper them

Thinks Big E made them as his heirs

As tall as Konor at twelve years old, needed special accommodations by thirteen.

Didn't know about the Heresy until Lorgar backstabbed him at Calth

very sensible and mission-focused thru most of his conversations

Chapter 2

Amazed by the working Pharos technology (later revealed in Silent King to be Necron technology). Had set Dantioch the task of figuring it out to overcome the Ruinstorm. Even Dantioch is concerned that Gulliman's backup plan might be heresy

Gulliman took on the task of reuniting the Five Hundred Worlds from Konor, and was in the process of retaking them when Big E showed up and met him

Gulliman hadn't the foggiest what the Pharos was for before Dantioch figured it out. Doesn't like having to use alien tech but is pragmatic, needs to restore communication

Chapter 3

Once a day Gulliman greets representatives from the ships now making it to Macragge. Discovers Calth hasn't fried his emotional centers. He can still be further hurt, as he is by the horrible reports coming in. Carries no personal weapons to these, but does wear the ceremonial version of his armor and mantle on top of that

Fiddles with strategic plans almost like a fidget toy, it's busywork for the hands while his mind works on the emotional thing

Vents to Euten

Curses a little, but mildly--uses term 'bastard'

Chapter 4

Insists people don't bow or kneel in the audiences, to seem more welcoming

Honestly, defined by his pragmatism

Curses again, calls Perturabo a 'thrice-damned bastard' (emphasis not mine)

Recoils at the slightest suggestion of him usurping Big E

Moves beyond calling Horus's betrayal treachery to heresy because of the warped belief system aspect

Most intrigued by the Space Wolf pack that shows up. Not angered by the Wolves openly saying they're there to kill him if he steps out of line. Not worried either, because he says he hasx nothing to hide. Keeps them close. Euten calls him reckless.

Gulliman is trying to get rid of the regent title ASAP, doesn't want to look like Horus

Chapter 5

G wonders if Horus's downfall was that he loved war for war's sake. Also wonders about how previous consuls and Battle Kings managed things. Very tied into Macragge's legacy and culture

Sends Thiel in right away, doesn't immediately clock that something fishy is going on when they turn out to be Alpha Legion assassins. Shoves away emotions and goes into not getting shot mode

Chapter 6

Thinks so fast it's like time is slow. Time for extensive, coherent internal monologue. Can tell exactly where assassins are and where they're moving from the sounds

Manages to kill all five space marine assassins, but is tired and injured enough that he drops to his knees after. The guards have to saw their way into the room

Never respected Alpharius's tactics

Chapter 7

Ignored Euten's advice on who to appoint as Master of First Chapter. Comes to regret it, since he angrily selected a warrior to lead towards vengeance, and ended up needing a politician

Gets out of bed despite being heavily injured to yell at bickering subordinates in the other room

Always focused on the big picture, prepared for peace, raising up Ultramarines to be politicians. Wonders what brothers like Russ would think of peace, whether they're afraid of long-term sanction.

Chapter 8

Lion has spent sixteen weeks since Prince of Crows in the depths of his ship, hunting Konrad Curze. Thinks of Konrad not as a sentient person deserving of respect/mercy, but as a rabid animal to be euthanized, should've been killed ages ago. Beyond angry that he hasn't caught him yet.

Konrad caught, killed, and mutilated the DA sent after him

Lion: a noble soul, but looks like a monster. Never tells anyone shit. Is hunting Konrad so no one else had to die.

Lion has his hair tied back. Blonde

Hunts Konrad by smell

Manages to sneak up on Konrad, only to get a call and be discovered

Polux fully expects Dorn to have totally ruined Terra turning it into a fortress. Doesn't seem as bothered about this as Dorn is

Gulliman, when he leaves the hospital, is still bandaged, limping, and has a screwed up face. Slower healing capabilities than most primarchs, perhaps?

Is making slight, unfunny jests throughout the novel

G is sorta devastated going thru the ruins of Konor's office after the attack, almost cries in front of the space wolves

Doesn't want to declare Imperium Secundus because that'd mean accepting the rest of the Imperium might be gone

Says he would be happy to have literally any of his brothers there to hand over the regency to. Names Sang and Rogal, says he'd even take Dorn.

Vulkan, who has been quite dead up until now from burns, wakes up in his casket still banged up

Konrad is thrilled he might have new victims soon

Lion is very short with everyone, and sends Robu the briefest message ever

Chapter 9

G got tipsy with the wolves

Annoyed Lion is the one who showed up. Admires but doesn't trust him, thinks he's feral

Chapter 10

Gulliman gets in full wargear for Lion's arrival. So jealous of Lion, that his people are excited to see him. is showing off himself, but also super annoyed that Lion is showing off, makes a fair number of snide remarks. Euten is both surprised and amused. Lion is considered the 'big brother' here

Kisses his dataslates to authenticate ID

Lion hugs Gulliman, then immediately does the little duel thing with the Space Wolves. It's almost like a chore to him, just something he's got to do

Chapter 11

L + G agree something has turned their brothers

Chapter 12

Gulliman's assessment is that Lion's suspicious and paranoid and not quite friendly to him as usual. Worried Lion's already made up his mind

G can't initially recognize Vulkan, horrified by his state, demands to be let in. When Vulkan sees him, he launches himself at him, bashes himself bloody trying to hurt G. Considered insane

Konrad's been having visions constantly as long as he can remember. Has been driven mad by them. When he arrives, they're calmer, cleaner visions that he can actually use. Very clear sense of purpose to himself, to make everyone pay and scream. Calls Lion blood-brother, blood-enemy. Detests Gulliman the same way he detests Dorn and Vulkan: daddy's boys who think the world they're building will be good. Wants them to understand the 'truth'. Waiting for his end, wants to die, but doesn't seem to have as solid a vision of it yet or wants to subvert it in some fashion--welcomes the idea of getting one of his brothers to kill him rather than the Kallidus assassin

KC has false visions, apparently can usually tell when they're not true

Sneaky, then kill-em-all strategy

G doesn't tell L about Vulkan

G has built a family dinner table for Big E and the other primarchs. There are twenty-one seats. There are spots for the lost primarchs but not Malcador. Lion is moved by his optimism

Lion finds the Khan's loyalty suspect, calls him mercurial. Expresses his suspicion of G. G's like, why should I trust you?

Chapter 13

G says he trusts Lion, but won't make him regent yet because Lion doesn't trust him and G doesn't want to do something he can't fix. Gets a Librarian to go read Lion's mind

K has a 'dark' tongue, either a mutation or a serious infection and with his dental health you really can't tell, slowly licks to prove ID. Apparently primarchs are closely related enough that one of their genetic samples can be swapped in for another's when it comes to security, which holy cow what a hole in security systems

Lion had DA ready to launch and invade. When K launches them at the city, L swears he didn't do it and asks G to lower the shields so they're not fried. G lowers them

K has a weird, energetic, malicious feeling mind

Vulkan somehow senses KC, highly alarmed and tries to bash his way out

KC is implied to have wings? Could be metaphorical language, but its kind of confusing

Chapter 14

Lion calls both Horus and Gulliman honest. Their similarities unsettle him

L initially tries to lie about Konrad being there, but G calls him on it with proof of fishiness and threatens him into telling the truth

Konrad's living it up terrorizing the citizenry

G about throws Lion into the wall when L tells the truth

L didn't say anything initially because he was embarrassed he couldn't catch K (*insert gif of me smacking my forehead*)

Vulkan starts to chant Konrad's name then busts out of there like the Kool-Aid man

Chapter 15

Librarian glimpses Konrad's mind, calls it "inimical malice"

K is acting like a gosh-darn horror movie monster throughout this; jumpscares, knocking out the lights, booby-trapping bodies...

Bone white skin, black sun eyes, blackened teeth, blue gums, unnaturally wide smile, long ragged black hair (one wonders how much of his behavior is the result of a tooth abscess going septic and cooking his brain), also has claws!

Apparently slower than Gulliman; Dantioch is able to yell out his moves and this is enough for Polux to keep up

Pulls at his lip, teenage girl-eque

Chapter 16

KC jokes about 'Vulkan lives', doesn't know he's actually still kicking

Such a theatre kid. Dramatically promises to introduce his brothers to his good friend death, then claps his hands and blows the whole place up

Chapter 17

KC's main weapons: 'hatred and fear'

Styles himself a hunter, more of a spreader of terror to an outside eye. Distracts everyone then goes after the Residency, where Euten is. Scares the hell out of her with writing in blood, replacing her drink with blood, tells her Roboute is dead. Considers Euten a 'rare and obscene thing' by being mother to a primarch. Only person to explicitly call Euten such

Vulkan busts in like the Kool-Aid Man (ain't big on doors in this book), dressed in armor and weapons he grabbed from G's wall, and tackles K out the window

Chapter 18

KC genuinely thinks he's killed G and K. Infuriated V is alive. Vexed that V is immortal and the other primarchs aren't

V is furious, wants to kill KC in revenge for the torture

Decently even match, KC keeps killing V but V keeps bouncing back

L gets on G's case about the Pharos, even tho it just saved his life

Chapter 19

KC, despite theoretically winning, flees. Hadn't seen Vulkan in the visions

V still doesn't respond to people, goes right back to hunting down KC

Chapter 20

Curze repeatedly is described as being able to vanish his mind. Unbearable when you can read it, but you can't tell he's there a lot of the time. Madness makes V's mind hard to read

Chapter 21

G really enjoys the vacation he gets on Sotho, thinks he would be contented doing physical work but knows that's not his destiny. This seems to be partially warping from the Pharos, which amps up his wish to be done with duty. It's kind of like how some Roman generals would retire to countryside estates in between wars.

G's more easily able to teleport with Pharos than Lion, he says it's because he's more open about what he wants and thus easier to read. G physically yoinks him through.

Chapter 22

V: afraid of shadows, not making coherent words, crying, just generally not well. Goes and digs up Dawnbringer from his crash site. Immediately tries to off John Grammaticus (I get it, dude), able to use the teleport hammer

His resurrections are speeding up

KC shows up

Chapter 23

V tanked gunfire from an Eldar weapon, KC sidesteps them

KC gets yanked out of the story by teleporting demon

Chapter 24

Sanguinius shows up finally. Golden armor, spotted carnodon fur, noble features (IF ONE MORE AUTHOR USES THOSE WORDS WITHOUT ELABORATING I AM TURNING INTO POSSUM), big wings, tear marked beneath his eye

Sang hugs G and L. Evil blonde solidarity

V's corpse has been stuck in a preservation capsule by G in hopes that V will resurrect. Lion makes sure to point out G was also keeping secrets

Sang is said to have inherited some of Big E's 'looks different to everyone' vibes

Sang is troubled but open to being the regent

Clearly's been through something

Accepts regency

G's cleared out all the remembrancers in case they're screwing up by making Imperium Secundus

Chapter 25