#thousands sons

Seth doodles again because he's one of my comfort zones 💙 And an extra dumb sketch of Camlin being... Camlin. When they first meet. He's been around children more often than an Astartes is supposed to. (ᵕ • ᴗ •)

My husband Perturabo

(Yes, this contains spoilers and yes, I have feelings and it's going to be super long so prepare yourself.)

I think I’ve realized that my favorite characters in the Horus Heresy are always the ones who question their primarchs. Every single time. And Ahriman? Oh, I love Ahriman. He’s such a fascinating character exactly because he dares to question. And yet, the tragedy is that he ends up following the same path as Magnus. That same tragic spiral of “I can fix this. I will fix this.” The guilt, the hunger for forbidden knowledge, the inability to let go ,he’s trying to do what his father couldn’t, but he’s falling into the same traps. And I still adore him.

This book is brilliant because it doesn’t just explore power ,it explores the limits of knowledge, and how easily ego and vanity creep into even the most well-meaning intentions. The fall isn’t immediate. It’s a slow, rationalized descent.

And Magnus… the moment he wants to accept his punishment but can’t ,because of his sons ,was heartbreaking. It says so much. About love. About pride. About being used as a pawn in a game so much bigger than yourself. We tell ourselves we’re acting out of duty or sacrifice, but really, we’re often just dancing to someone else’s tune, pretending it’s our own.

Also, yes, I love that moment when Ahriman confronts the Space Wolves’ Rune Priest — and just annihilates him, not only physically, but ideologically. The whole “the truth is my weapon” moment?. Beautiful. Deserved.

People love to say “Magnus did nothing wrong,” but the truth is so much more painful and so much more interesting. Magnus knows he was wrong. He admits it, again and again throughout the book. He knows he disobeyed. He knows he caused irreparable damage. He knows he betrayed the Emperor’s trust, whether or not that trust was ever fairly earned.

And … he tries to take responsibility. Not by fighting the Wolves directly. Not with vengeance. But by leaving. By trying to protect what little he still has: his sons. He knows the Imperium will never forgive him. He knows his brothers won’t forgive him. Maybe what he did is unforgivable. But he tries to make something out of the wreckage anyway.

We love clean narratives. Villains who do something wrong, get punished, and the story ends. But this — what do you do after you’ve done something truly unforgivable? What do you do when you’re the one who broke the world?

You try. You protect. You carry the guilt. You try to rebuild something out of the ashes, even when no one else believes in you anymore.

Termimator of the thousand sons.

Magnus' eye detail.