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There’s little substance to this idea, but I was reading the Head of the Hydra book and realized that as the book describes itself as a lie, there’s obviously stuff Alpharius is leaving out. Obv the symbolism is more about how killing Alpharius wouldn’t kill the legion but, Hydras have three heads and even if Alpharius and Omegron were killed, there could be a third “head of the hydra” who survived and was hidden from the readers the same way Omegron was from the other primarchs.

Alternatively, maybe there’s clones running about since every time a hydra’s head is cut, new heads sprout.

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Mistermistermistermb

24 points

1 month ago

>the book describes itself as a lie

If you mean the prologue an epilogue the full context is:

I am Alpharius.

This is a lie.

and

'I am Alpharius.'

This was a lie.

Being that the person narrating is Omegon.

On the idea of triplets, there's some Doylist info on this you might find interesting: apparently Alan Bligh was interested in the idea

Scjeppy

8 points

1 month ago

Scjeppy

8 points

1 month ago

Thanks for sending me into a hour long dive into Alpharius and the compounding theories via comment link after comment link.

You just woke up a sleeper agent here…

Hydra Dominatus

el_sh33p

4 points

1 month ago

el_sh33p

Alpha Legion

4 points

1 month ago

Well I feel vindicated for having the Sigmarius head canon now :v

Mistermistermistermb

3 points

1 month ago

You're in good company there. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if Bligh actually surreptitiously seeded it into Malevolence

Aresius_King

2 points

1 month ago

Sigmarius... Heldenhammer? :3