Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-8881468-20150204091114/@comment-25177957-20150209225638

With Draigo, there are many problems. New lore is added to the universe with each new codex, and the lore is forced to conform to it, many, even within Games workshop has dislike for Matt Ward's 5th edition. There's alot he did that 40k gamers and fans didn't like, seeing as it contradicted the lore in many cases. I've already explained how the introduction of Kaldor Dragion contradicted the lore, my main points being:

1. The loyalist primarchs were for unable to banish a single daemon primarch, muchless Mortarion. (Jaghatai Khan was presumably killed by Mortarion, if not captured in Commorragh.) Yet somehow, Draigo could kill Mortarion, regardless of the obvious growths in Nurgle's power over the millenium.

2. It is nearly impossible for a being to survive in warp space without some form of technological, or psychic protection, even if Draigo did have purity seals and as I have gathered from the daemon hunters 3rd edition codex, and the Inqusition background book, Purity seals, and runes are prone to being easily broken in warpspace, and are best for use in corrupted real-space. In that case, Kaldor Draigo's purity seals should have broken long ago, and not have been lasting for hundreds of years as they have according to Matt Ward's codex.

3. As a whole, Chaos has the majority of control of the warp, even though the Emperor is within the warp and still defending mankind spiritually, his majesty within the warp is a different matter than the Chaos Gods. Considering the fact that Draigo is constantly battling all manner of daemon within the warp, we can assume he is within the Realm of Chaos, adding further question to the reason he's alive, (seeing as the Emperor himself within the warp couldn't just waltz into the Realm of Chaos at will without major faith being but in him by his subjects). It can then be concluded that the Chaos Gods are keeping Draigo alive and unharmed only to make him into a new Chaos Lord at some point, and scar the reputation of the Grey Knights, does that not sound like Chaos' goal? And I'd like to see your source for saying daemons can betray the Chaos Gods, because last time I checked, no daemon, not even of Chaos Undivided were ever combatting the Chaos Gods, of course, if it were fully up to Matt Ward, the Imperium would have had a special course in the Schola Progenium for rogue daemons to be good guys!

4. Mortarion's strength hardly lies in sole physical strength, he has the raw mental, physical, and psychic strength of Nurgle, not to mention all of Nurgle's servants, his thousands of years of experience, and his own plague marines (who are not daemons). The task of the Grey Knights cannot be made into a simple rock< paper<scissors scenario, since the Grey Knights almost always take casualities when fighting daemons. In all honesty, I think the whole Kaldor Draigo ordeal really diminishes the Grey Knights (I think they are an awesome chapter), yet Kaldor Draigo simply makes the Grey Knights contemptible by 40k players and fans, thanks to his  overpowered character.