‘That is where I came, to warn my Father. ‘We are on Terra,’ said the giant, lifting his chin.
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All that remain are… aspects.’Īrvida remembered something then – a warrior in gold and ivory, long ago, who had told him something similar, but it was so hard to remember, for the noises kept making the earth shake and he could hardly see and his head was full of the laughter of the things that were trying to burrow through the rock and get to him… The strain of Magnus' sorcerous warning to the Emperor about Horus' treachery had severely damaged Magnus, and a part of him never left Terra. He had seen himself as others saw him, a monstrous, fiery angel of blood bringing doom down upon those mortals unlucky enough to fall beneath his gaze. The moment of connection they had shared had been sublime and horrendous. Magnus rose to his full height, his body diminished from its former glory, as though a fundamental part of him had been left on Terra after his confrontation with his father. Everything was unravelling around him faster than he could weave it back together. The above quote also brings a key point to how and why Magnus broke apart during his apotheosis, a point initially raised in A Thousand Sons. ‘I care not for the means,’ said the Sigillite grimly. Do not try to prevent this – the rites have already been completed, the protections set. ‘The son of Magnus is here, brought to Terra by your hand. Just as ever.’ Malcador placed himself between the Khan and Arvida, defiant, both his clawed hands on his staff. He has become legion.’Īt that, the Khan drew back from Malcador, warily. It began when he breached the wards on Terra, and it was ended by the Wolf’s wrath. The Crimson King has been broken, shattered like a mirror thrown in anger. I think it's important here to show that Magnus didn't just break into several large shards, but in to thousands of smaller aspects of his personality, where the nobility shard that's the most talked about and known, is just one piece sheared off from the greater whole. So, fresh from his daemonic ascension, Magnus arose on the Planet of Sorceries a damned and broken soul. In that instant, Tizca and the Thousand Sons vanished from the face of Prospero. There he saw the salvation that had eluded him – he beheld sorcery incarnate, and with inextricable finality Magnus the Red forsook his Emperor and gave himself fully to the Dark God Tzeentch. But with a whispered word of power Magnus was spirited away before death could claim him and sent drifting through the warp. It was Russ that eventually prevailed, snapping Magnus’ back before raising his frost blade Mjalnar to deliver the finishing strike. The clash of Primarchs was more ferocious than all that had preceded it, with the cyclops battling the berserker right through the ruined heart of Tizca. Unable to bear the continued slaughter of his gene-children, he charged to meet Russ. “My sons,” said Magnus with weary resignation, “welcome to the Planet of the Sorcerers.”Īt last Magnus broke.
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Magnus had sacrificed the flesh that had contained his essence, and in so doing had ascended to a more evolved form, one free from the constraints of mortality and the limits of reality. This was a body of light that could exist beyond the confines of the Great Ocean. This was no corporeal shell of a subtle body as worn by the primarch when he had walked among them.
Magnus landed softly before his sons and they stared in amazement as his light illuminated the bleak darkness of the world. Brilliant wings of shimmering aetheric fire unfolded from the figure’s back, and the Thousand Sons fell to their knees as their father’s light spread over them. To begin with the Shards of Magnus storyline starts with Magnus' ascension at the end of A Thousand Sons with his final pledge to Tzeentch where he becomes the First Daemon Primarch.Ī bright shape descended from the mountaintop, a wavering and indistinct form wreathed in the light of stars and the power of infinite possibility. Therefore I decided to regather the essential quotes on Magnus and his shards, that will hopefully help people understand this storyline a little better.
Soon however, with the releases of the Fury of Magnus, we should be getting solid answers to the outcome of this arc like I wondered years ago here. The Shards of Magnus storyline is perhaps one of the least understood story-arcs in the Horus Heresy series. Contains heavy spoilers for A Thousand Sons, Last Son of Prospero, and The Crimson King.