Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-2113806-20131221211104/@comment-2113806-20131222142225

(a) Thanks! I'm glad someone agrees: I think the articles will be really interesting, and with potential for deep and rewarding sub-articles. Rereading Brotherhood of the Storm and Scars makes me think how interesting the Legion cultural sub-pages might be. The same with using details from the Forge World Heresy books.

Anyway, shall we start doing this?

(b) The Abaddon books aren't released yet, and I think the BL is a special case - I think the plot has it that the Sons of Horus shattered after the death of Horus, and that Abaddon himself was awol. A cabal of Legionnaires, not limited to the Sons of Horus, but also Thousand Sons, and other legion commanders, seek out Abaddon to have him take the mantle (and in subsequent books contend with the Horus clones). Since it's not published yet, it isn't canonical. But once it is published, I guess people can argue over the articles then ;)

What I would suggests to clean up and differentiate the Traitor pages is perhaps having a page for up-to-Heresy (when the old Legion essentially survives) and a page for the developments during or after the Heresy which fundamentally changed each Legion. For some, there is no concise, unitary Legion anymore - no 'Death Guard' legion, nor a 'Night Lords' legion, nor certainly a 'World Eaters' legion.. For others who do seem to preserve some kind of structure - the Thousand Sons, the Word Bearers - they are still irrevocably changed from each's Legion state - they are ontologically and teleologically different.