Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-26056880-20150130004022/@comment-6078851-20150203151709

good point, as far as anyone knows, besides emps and the watchers, jonson's wounds were mortal.

'mortal wounds', while sounding dramatic and being definitely over-used, can be used in any tense though: he was mortally wounded, he is mortally wounded, he will be mortally wounded - a mortal wound is simply a wound that, though the person is still alive, can't be recovered from - technically speaking emps was mortally wounded by horus since he cannot recover and has been dying ever since.