Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-174.29.167.53-20140528015653/@comment-25177957-20150422062638

Callummacdonald79 wrote: as for what the orks knew him as during the crusade, i'd imagine it was something like 'oh crap' :)  although isn't it mentioned somewhere that horus hauled an ork off emps which was throttling him? makes you think, how freakin' huge was that ork :P  so maybe they knew emps as 'awesome scrap' :) If you check out the Adeptus Custodes article on here, there is mention of some point in the Great Crusade (possibly early) where the Emperor faced another huge Ork waaagh, this time however, Mortarion, Dorn, and Horus were nearly on the verge of defeat until the Emperor led a strike from a Custodes battle barge. Supposedly the Emperor killed the Ork Warlord with ease and hundreds of thousands of xenos died in seconds! In other cases, the Emperor had a more difficult time (as with that massive Ork). But regardless, all Orks probably attributed to him a name out of fear something such as "Shiny killa boy".