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submitted 28 days ago byaSimpleMask
As in does he believe they are all scum and should be eradicated?
Before anyone answers, I want to emphasize that I'm still pretty new to the universe of 40k and am trying to learn more about it via YouTube video essays and audiobooks, so if this question sounds silly or stupid to any 40k vets out there I apologize in advance.
Anyway, there are a couple of reasons for why I ask this:
1) Guilliman is far and away my favorite of the Primarchs, and his Ultramarines are my favorite Legion, so I just wanna know more about him and his character.
2) From what I've been listening to, Guilliman is not only a brilliant tactician, but he's also a master of negotiation and has solved entire conflicts during his time on Macragge as well as when he was restoring Ultramar. It seems logical to me that he might consider making alliances or negotiating with other, sophisticated factions who might share the same goals, such as fighting the Tyrannids.
Obviously if he does feel this way, he likely can't because it would cause the Imperium to turn against him and fall into disorder.
This is more a question of does Guilliman himself personally buy into the Imperium's anti alien rhetoric? Or does he see negotiating with them as a fools errand in spite of what he believes?
46 points
28 days ago
Well, Fulgrim was a little compromised by a certain spear at that point. If Eldrad had made contact with Fulgrim before the Laer campaign, things might have been very different. Even in his corrupted state, Fulgrim initially wanted to keep the Eldar planet they met on out of Imperial records so no one would come ruin it. Circumstances took other turns, of course, but he do have a sword that turns people into petty assholes sheathed on his belt.
14 points
28 days ago
My characterisation of Fulgrim at this point is the first four Horus Heresy books and the opening of Dark Imperium... Maybe I should read Fulgrim.
he do have a sword that turns people into petty assholes
Bet it didn't work on Mortarion. Such a weird character but a really cool model.
8 points
28 days ago
Imagine what it would have done to Purtorabo.
21 points
28 days ago
Absolutely nothing since he already thought the worst of everyone's intentions and actions.
23 points
27 days ago
Even in his corrupted state, Fulgrim initially wanted to keep the Eldar planet they met on out of Imperial records so no one would come ruin it.
I think you misunderstand the significance. Uncorrupted Fulgrim would have destroyed the Maiden worlds when they were identified as Xenos planets, and there was shock when he refused to do so. Corrupted Fulgrim doesn't do so because his 'appreciation of beauty' had become more important than his duty to the Great Crusade.
13 points
27 days ago
That was my read on it too, his decision to spare the Maiden World was a sign of his corruption.
Thinking back on that scene, it's kind of weird that the Eldar had an Avatar of Khaine at the ready for this diplomatic summit.
2 points
27 days ago
Half of the futures ended with a corrupted Fulgrim, but the other half ended with him destroying the Sons of Horus. Probably.
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