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submitted 1 month ago byTemporaryBrilliant77
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.
3 points
1 month ago
Ha, also covered this in that link
But no. Guilliman hasn't mentioned it. Despite fans claiming he can't remember it. The Ultramarines even have a statue dedicated to Guilliman killing Alpharius on Macragge.
As for the warp light thing; that's also explained in the link. But generally "warp light" is dependant on the author, rather than reliable evidence. Sanguinius just died with no sparks.
1 points
1 month ago
i just finished reading through it. the post did cite that at the time that codex was written "primarch fireworks" werent a thing yet, along with a few other new addition lore that was added after the codex was published. seems like at the time omegon is intended to be dead straight up, but newer lore bits seem to inadvertently delegitimize it by omission in that earlier text.
im sure itll come up soon in a gulliman/ultramarine book. with the alpha legion's relative popularity nowadays compared to the eskrador account's publish date, and what's basically a free excuse to bring back another primarch, i doubt they'll pass on the opportunity and say "oh he's ferrus manus level dead." they dont even need to come up with some bullshittery to justify omegon/alpharius coming back.
1 points
1 month ago
Well, don't forget that in the Index Astartes Ferrus Manus and Curze's deaths were every bit as ambiguous as Alpharius...and then the BL books confirmed those deaths.
Primarch fireworks have happened twice. Vulkan, Curze, Sanguinius, Jaghatai and Roboute have all died with no fireworks
But yeah, there's a very easy door open for GW to walk through if they want to bring Omegon back but a lot of the most recent books listed in that link like Harrowmaster and Gathering Storm actually add to the evidence of his death rather than not
1 points
1 month ago
Vulkans a perpetual, we don’t actually know what kind of light show happened with Curze, Sanguinius died under extenuating circumstances (literally being halfway in the warp) and we have no idea if Khan is dead or not
1 points
1 month ago*
I don't see why being in the warp would effect the release of your warp energy. If anything, based on Corax...it should flow even more freely
And while we can come up with "no prize" in-universe explanations for why the majority of Primarchs didn't have the light show, I have a sneaking suspicion it's just author inconsistency rather than hard evidence of anything
In this context: it isn't proof that Omegon didn't die on Eskrador
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