Swaying of the primarchs

Now that we kind of have a feel on why Horus was the way he was we can now move on to more of what he did. It was no small feat for him to sway his brothers to join him. While he was a perswasive being to begin with it takes more than that. It takes ruthless abandon and a belief that what ur doing is right no matter what any body says. He turned his back from the emperors perfect truth, the secular perfection of his design. Where no one not even the emperor was above the one truth and that is that there are no gods there are no spirits or an after life, there is only today to live for. only the future to strive for, and no man not even the emperor was above that. But the day Horus turned his back on that one truth, all was lost. He accepted power from those beings that didnt exist in the emperors secular society. He became the harbinger of death to the universe, and he only took the brothers he knew he could sway with the power of his word and the temptation of all that which lied beyond in the relm of the immaterium. His brothers such as Angron and Mortarion, but the one i couldnt belive was Fulgrim. i am just now reading the novel fulgrim and it has given me great insite into why he came to horus's side. Really though it seemed hard for me to believe that a being that strove so hard to be perfect like the emperor in every way could be swayed to go against him. but in what iv learned so far it was that perfection that he was trying to emulate that was his inevitable downfall. He just couldnt stand not being perfet. though he might not have been swayed had it not been for the deamon artifact he found on the Laer's home world. ill elaborate more on this in later posts

Horus

What i find most interesting about Horus from the warhammer series, is how beneath all of the power, mental stabability, and resolve put into a primarch is that he is still so human. Under all his glitz and glamour, strength and stamina, he was really just a man seeking acceptance from his father. The huge burden placed upon his sholders would have broken even the most mentaly stable man just by the shear weight of all the responsibility. Horus gave his all to try and follow in his fathers footsteps, "which were extreamly large seeing as though he basicaly retook the entire galaxy", but in the end was unable due to the weight of responsibility and the lack of guidence from the emperor. While im sure the emperor always had the utmost confidence in his sons abilities, the fact that he was so far away and unable to lend advice to his over worked under appreciated son, that horus finaly just broke. Slowly things started to unravle around Horus. And it didnt help that the forces of the warp were working against him, i feel that if the emperor would have been just a bit more helpfull to his son that the universe would not have been thrown to the wayside. He could have watched over him a little more, made sure that the beings of the warp stayed off his sons back, and to be a listening ear through the early years of his sons initiation to the rank of warmaster. The emperor did little more than say goodbye and put him in the drivers seat of a formula one dragster travaling at two hundred miles an hour and not so much as tell him how to control it.

Even in the face of all this diversity Horus put up a good fight and lasted around 200 years as warmaster. Conquring and or destroying alien filth, reuniting man kinds long lost family members, and occasionaly forcing compliance on some of the more wayward civilizations of humans who would not embrace the emperors secular beleifs. Horus should be given mor credit for the things he did because not only was it a hugely difficult and daunting task put in front of him but he did so well at it for so long....... to tired to think anymore i'll write more later.

My history with warhammer 40k

For the past couple years i have really been getting into the Warhammer 40k universe. My first book I read from the Warhammer 40k novels was on Commisar Ciaphas Cain. The Hero of the imperium according to those who thought they knew him, but really he was just a lucky lucky guy, but anyway. From there i read a few random Space marine novels, blood angel omnibus, storm of iron, and many others and i really enjoyed them even though i had no real understanding of the backround. Then i descoverd the Horus Heresy series, which compleatly changed my view on the subject, i went from a most base understanding of the w40k universe to really getting why things were the way the were. My favorite part of the books was learning about the infamous Horus. Everything i had learned so far was that horus was the epitemy of evil and the reason the whole imperium fell apart, but after reading them i discoverd that that was only partaly true. i will be going furthur into this in later posts, and i am excited to get peoples feedback on my oppinions about Horus and the warhammer 40k univers :)

First Post!

Hey this is my first blog ever so hopefully i dont mess it up to much lol! Most of my post are going to be based on warhammer 40k stuff. Glad to be part of blogger hope to have some good posts up soon!