Board Thread:Warhammer 40k Novels/@comment-8881468-20161212151338

Hi there, as I recently had a short sort of discussion with an BL Author about the exact point of our beloved warmaster actually giving in to the urges of chaos.

To quote his post:---

The point is that up until Molech, Horus believed he could replace the Emperor and be a better ruler of Mankind than his creator, who he had been convinced had betrayed them. Up until that point, he may have been an unwitting pawn, but was not a consci ous or willing servant of the chaos gods. It's only as he stood on the Vengeful Spirit and looked down on Terra below and said those famous four words that he truly became the champion of the chaos gods we think of him as. It's a common error (I'm not saying you're making it!) to assume Horus was turned to Chaos at Davin - this isn't the case. He was turned against the Emperor at Davin, but that's not the same thing.

So far as 'retconing 'stuff, the word 'retcon' means 'retrospective continuity', i.e., adding information to make sense of, change perception of, explain or put a new spin on something previously published which may or may not have been correct or consistent. So in this case, anything published in FW's HH7 or new BL novels may be retconning, but it's not rewriting.

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I have several problems with that:

1. he was already using warp sorcery when f.e. communicating with Sanguinius at the onset of Fear to Tread

2. He willingly sacrificed his mistress of Astropaths in (I think, Galaxy in Flames)

3. He was using the Ruinstorm (allowed the Word Bearers to pull that off:

4. Let posessed Fulgrim be posessed

5. ordered Russ to go for Magnus, thus bringing Magnus over to Tzeentch

6. Tried to get Sanguinius to become a champion of Khorne.

7. He already knows of the Gods in the Warp (as per the 1st novel and his talk with Loken in the Whisperheads, so he knows who he is bargaining with.)

What do you guys think of this?  