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* BadassBoast: In ''Malodrax'', Lysander delivers this one to a daemon as he kills it:
--> “I told your kind I would return. When daemons have nightmares, I am what they see, and I always keep my word.”
--> “I told your kind I would return. When daemons have nightmares, I am what they see, and I always keep my word.”
* DecapitationPresentation: In ''Malodrax'', the final entry of Inquisitor Corvin’s journal reveals that [[spoiler:Kraegon Thul paid him a personal visit in his cell, just to drop off the decapitated and [[EyeScream eyeless]] head of Corvin’s pilot Maskelin.]]
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* DespairEventHorizon: The [[RedshirtArmy Damnos PDF]] is trying their damnedest not to get pulled behind it, but the Necrons aren't making it easy.
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** The [[RedshirtArmy Damnos PDF]] is trying their damnedest not to get pulled behind it, but the Necrons aren't making it easy.
** The [[RedshirtArmy Damnos PDF]] is trying their damnedest not to get pulled behind it, but the Necrons aren't making it easy.
** In ''Malodrax'', Brother Helaestus is revealed to have crossed it during his captivity. His anguished rant toward the end of the novel makes it clear that he’d welcome death at the Iron Warriors’ hands, that he feels taking revenge on them wouldn’t bring back everything he lost, and that he’s nothing without [[spoiler:his stolen gene-seed]]:
---> “I am not a Space Marine! I am not an Imperial Fist! I am not even a man!”
---> “I am not a Space Marine! I am not an Imperial Fist! I am not even a man!”
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* OrganTheft: In ''The Gildar Rift'', [[spoiler:the Corpsemaster steals Sergeant Porteus’s progenoid glands after the latter is captured by the Red Corsairs]]. A former Space Wolf turned Red Corsair implies that the same was done to both him and many other formerly loyal Space Marines pressganged into the Corsairs’ ranks.
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** In ''The Gildar Rift'', [[spoiler:the Corpsemaster steals Sergeant Porteus’s progenoid glands after the latter is captured by the Red Corsairs]]. A former Space Wolf turned Red Corsair implies that the same was done to both him and many other formerly loyal Space Marines pressganged into the Corsairs’ ranks.
** ** Toward the end of ''Malodrax'', [[spoiler:Brother Helaestus reveals that the Iron Warriors stole his gene-seed during his captivity]].
** In ''The Gildar Rift'', [[spoiler:the Corpsemaster steals Sergeant Porteus’s progenoid glands after the latter is captured by the Red Corsairs]]. A former Space Wolf turned Red Corsair implies that the same was done to both him and many other formerly loyal Space Marines pressganged into the Corsairs’ ranks.
** ** Toward the end of ''Malodrax'', [[spoiler:Brother Helaestus reveals that the Iron Warriors stole his gene-seed during his captivity]].
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*AggressiveNegotiations: In ''Malodrax'', Lysander gets to witness what passes for diplomacy between the Iron Warriors of Kraegon Thul and the Daemon Prince Shalhadar. The negotiations start out with Thul’s envoy effectively demanding Shalhadar’s complete surrender, and quickly descend into violence when those demands aren’t met. The dry reaction of Shalhadar’s own envoy suggests that this is a regular occurrence.
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* GenuineHumanHide: In ''Malodrax'', Kraegon Thul’s ambassador to Shalhadar sets himself up in a pavilion made of freshly flayed human skin—so fresh, in fact, that there is still blood and guts clinging to it and the pavilion’s interior stinks horribly. Even Lysander is grossed out by the smell.
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* EvilVersusEvil: Kraegon Thul and Shalhadar both want to rule Malodrax, but their mutual hostility keeps their ambitions in check.
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* TheHedonist: Shalhadar, as befitting a Daemon Prince of Slaanesh. His entire city is a garish tribute to himself, his citizens gladly live and die for the sole purpose of providing him fleeting moments of entertainment, and he spends much of his time directing, acting in, watching, financing, and critiquing stage plays (sometimes all at once).
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* DarkSecret: Lysander never tells the other Imperial Fists about all the deals and alliances he made with daemons during his time on Malodrax. When other Fists notice that the daemons they’re killing seem to know him, he lies through his teeth about ''how'' they know him.
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* ShoutOut: In ''Malodrax'', Inquisitor Corvin notes that his archivist was “most perturbed” by the impossibility of Shalhadar’s city. This is a reference to Literature/{{Eisenhorn}}’s own savant Uber Aemos, whose catchphrase was “most perturbatory”.
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* DogPileOfDoom: In ''Malodrax'', Lysander gets mobbed by a few hundred cultists the first time he enters Shalhadar’s city. Since he’s unarmed and unarmoured, he can’t fight them off effectively, and he’s nearly crushed to death under a pile of bodies until a third party calls the cultists off.
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* RiddlingSphinx: A daemonic sphinx guards the entrance to Shalhadar’s city in ''Malodrax''. Instead of asking a riddle, it will only let people pass if they can show it something it has never experienced before (and being a Slaaneshi daemon, there’s very little it hasn’t already experienced). Lysander is able to get in the first time by teaching it the concept of fear. The second time, he doesn’t bother with the sphinx’s games and just kills it.
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* RiddlingSphinx: A daemonic sphinx guards the entrance to Shalhadar’s city palace in ''Malodrax''. Instead of asking a riddle, it will only let people pass if they can show it something it has never experienced before (and being a Slaaneshi daemon, there’s very little it hasn’t already experienced). Lysander is able to get in the first time by teaching it the concept of fear. The second time, he doesn’t bother with the sphinx’s games and just kills it.
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* ZergRush: In ''Malodrax'', Lysander gets mobbed by a few hundred cultists the first time he enters Shalhadar’s city. Since he’s unarmed and unarmoured, he can’t fight them off effectively, and he’s nearly crushed to death under a pile of bodies until a third party calls the cultists off.
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* DueToTheDead: ''Malodrax'': The Imperial Fists have multiple ways of honouring their dead. When Skelpis is killed by the Red Widow, Chaplain Lycaon honours him by scrimshawing one of Skelpis’s knuckles. When three of them are killed in the attack on Shalhadar’s palace, the Fists eulogize them and then hold a series of short wrestling matches in their honour.
* LaughingMad: While infiltrating Shalhadar’s city in ''Malodrax'', Lysander happens upon a man who is giggling while being vivisected in some sort of cult ceremony. The victim laughs even harder when he notices Lysander, giving his presence away.
* PurpleProse: Inquisitor Golrukhan’s journal about Malodrax is written in this style. Lysander doesn’t care for it in-universe, preferring the BeigeProse of Rogal Dorn’s writing.
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* {{Seers}}: The Silver Skulls’ unique Prognosticators are hybrid Chaplain-Librarians trained to read the future with their psychic powers. The chapter places great stock in their divinations, to the point where they will not commit to a battle plan until a Prognosticator has read the portents and given it his approval. [[spoiler:However, the Prognosticators are not infallible, and many Silver Skulls begin to harbour doubts about them after they sanction the costly battle of the Gildar Rift.]]
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** The Silver Skulls’ unique Prognosticators are hybrid Chaplain-Librarians trained to read the future with their psychic powers. The chapter places great stock in their divinations, to the point where they will not commit to a battle plan until a Prognosticator has read the portents and given it his approval. [[spoiler:However, the Prognosticators are not infallible, and many Silver Skulls begin to harbour doubts about them after they sanction the costly battle of the Gildar Rift.]]]]
** The brood mother knows everything that happens on Malodrax, including snippets of what will happen in the future. She’s willing to share that information with anyone who seeks her out, for a price.
** The Silver Skulls’ unique Prognosticators are hybrid Chaplain-Librarians trained to read the future with their psychic powers. The chapter places great stock in their divinations, to the point where they will not commit to a battle plan until a Prognosticator has read the portents and given it his approval. [[spoiler:However, the Prognosticators are not infallible, and many Silver Skulls begin to harbour doubts about them after they sanction the costly battle of the Gildar Rift.
** The brood mother knows everything that happens on Malodrax, including snippets of what will happen in the future. She’s willing to share that information with anyone who seeks her out, for a price.
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* ArtInitiatesLife: When the Imperial Fists invade Shalhadar’s palace in ''Malodrax'', the many daemonic frescoes, tapestries, mosaics and sculptures within the palace come to life and attack them.
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* LightIsNotGood: Played with in ''Malodrax''. The daemon prince Shalhadar takes the form of a golden angelic statue when he confronts the Imperial Fists invading his palace, complete with wings made of light, a mace with a white flame burning inside its head, and stained glass windows worked into his body. However, this statue is merely a shell for Shalhadar’s true form, [[DarkIsEvil a shapeless mass of darkness]].
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* ProtectiveCharm: In ''Battle of the Fang'', the Space Wolves inscribe protective runes into their armour to ward off maleficarum, their term for the power of Chaos. The Fang itself has thousands of similar wards etched into its stone walls, and their presence helps to slow the advance of the Thousand Sons once they break into the fortress, most notably by [[spoiler:preventing Magnus the Red from physically manifesting within the Fang]] until the Sons destroy enough of the wards.
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* ProtectiveCharm: In ProtectiveCharm:
**In ''Battle of the Fang'', the Space Wolves inscribe protective runes into their armour to ward off maleficarum, their term for the power of Chaos. The Fang itself has thousands of similar wards etched into its stone walls, and their presence helps to slow the advance of the Thousand Sons once they break into the fortress, most notably by [[spoiler:preventing Magnus the Red from physically manifesting within the Fang]] until the Sons destroy enough of thewards.wards.
** ''Malodrax'' spends an entire paragraph describing the many, many ways that the ''Breaker of Darkness'' has been magically warded and blessed to keep out daemons. Upon entering Malodrax’s orbital reef, these various charms allow the ship to go unmolested by daemonic incursion… for ''thirty minutes''.
**In ''Battle of the Fang'', the Space Wolves inscribe protective runes into their armour to ward off maleficarum, their term for the power of Chaos. The Fang itself has thousands of similar wards etched into its stone walls, and their presence helps to slow the advance of the Thousand Sons once they break into the fortress, most notably by [[spoiler:preventing Magnus the Red from physically manifesting within the Fang]] until the Sons destroy enough of the
** ''Malodrax'' spends an entire paragraph describing the many, many ways that the ''Breaker of Darkness'' has been magically warded and blessed to keep out daemons. Upon entering Malodrax’s orbital reef, these various charms allow the ship to go unmolested by daemonic incursion… for ''thirty minutes''.
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* AlternateContinuity: ''Malodrax'' seems to take place in one. While the 40k canon has it that the Iron Warrior who kidnapped Lysander and rules Malodrax is named Shon’tu, the novel replaces him with a similar character named Kraegon Thul. [[spoiler:And while Shon’tu survives the battle of Malodrax, Kraegon Thul unambiguously dies during it.]]
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* ShockwaveStomp: The gargant in ''Rynn's World'' almost does this by accident, its footfall being nearly hard enough to collapse the tunnels the Crimson Fists are hiding in.
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* ShockwaveStomp: SchizoTech: The gargant in ''Rynn's World'' almost does this by accident, its footfall being nearly hard enough to collapse Imperium’s technology level has always been all over the tunnels the Crimson place, but ''Malodrax'' cranks it up a notch. The Imperial Fists strike cruiser ''Breaker of Darkness'' has bridge consoles that are hiding in.operated with punchcards and have ticker tape readouts instead of screens, and her crew has to use ''abacuses'' whenever they perform calculations.
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* DynamicEntry: In ''Battle of the Fang'', [[spoiler:Ironhelm enters the fight between Bjorn and Magnus with a flying tackle that knocks all three of them off a cliff]].
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* DynamicEntry: DyingRace: ''The Gildar Rift'' suggests that the Silver Skulls are slowly dying out, as several characters remark that their numbers are dwindling and that the influx of inexperienced new Space Marines can’t make up for their lost veterans. The events of the novel do nothing to reverse this trend, with [[spoiler:the Fourth Company losing a quarter of its strength, Captain Daerys Arrun dying at Huron Blackheart’s hands, and the senior Apothecary Ryarus being captured by the Red Corsairs]].
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** In ''Battle of the Fang'', [[spoiler:Ironhelm enters the fight between Bjorn and Magnus with a flying tackle that knocks all three of them off acliff]]. cliff]].
** In ''The Gildar Rift'', [[spoiler:an Assault Marine tries to save Daerys Arrun by knocking Huron Blackheart away from him with a rocket-powered tackle]]. See SenselessSacrifice for how well ''that'' turns out.
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** In ''Battle of the Fang'', [[spoiler:Ironhelm enters the fight between Bjorn and Magnus with a flying tackle that knocks all three of them off a
** In ''The Gildar Rift'', [[spoiler:an Assault Marine tries to save Daerys Arrun by knocking Huron Blackheart away from him with a rocket-powered tackle]]. See SenselessSacrifice for how well ''that'' turns out.
** In ''The Gildar Rift'', we have Lord Apothecary Gareon, of the Red Corsairs, a.k.a. “the Corpsemaster”.
** In ''The Gildar Rift'', the narrative points out that the Corpsemaster is not a necromancer: he just likes to dissect bodies ([[TortureTechnician living]] or dead) in order to better understand the biological process of death.
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* PyrrhicVictory: ''Death of Antagonis'' is just one in a long string of these for the Black Dragons.
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** ''Death of Antagonis'' is just one in a long string of these for the Black Dragons.
** ''Death of Antagonis'' is just one in a long string of these for the Black Dragons.
** The Silver Skulls succeed in driving the Red Corsairs out of the Gildar Rift, but Huron Blackheart gets away with most of his plunder and the Silver Skulls lose many experienced warriors[[spoiler:, including Captain Daerys Arrun and Apothecary Ryarus. The botched outcome of the battle also leads many of the Skulls to harbour doubts about the competence of their Prognosticators]]. The final chapter of the book is even titled “What Price Victory?” in a bit of LampshadeHanging.
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* SeriesContinuityError: The Necrons in ''The World Engine'' don't phase out when they're damaged beyond repair; they just crumple to the ground.
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* TimeBomb: The Silver Skulls discover that the Red Corsairs have rigged the promethium refinery to blow at the climax of ''The Gildar Rift'', forcing the Skulls to waste time defusing the explosives while the Corsairs escape with their plunder.
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* Killed Offscreen: In ''The Gildar Rift'', Sergeant Matteus is last seen standing his ground as Huron Blackheart bears down on him. The scene then cuts to Daerys Arrun demanding a status report from Matteus, only for Blackeart to answer the call and gloat about the sergeant’s demise.
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* Killed Offscreen: KilledOffscreen: In ''The Gildar Rift'', Sergeant Matteus is last seen standing his ground as Huron Blackheart bears down on him. The scene then cuts to Daerys Arrun demanding a status report from Matteus, only for Blackeart to answer the call and gloat about the sergeant’s demise.
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* BulletDodgesYou: In ''The Gildar Rift'', Sergeant Matteus quickly discovers that attempting to shoot Huron Blackheart is pointless, as his bolt rounds simply veer away from the Chaos Lord before they can hit him.
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* BadBoss: Many Chaos Lords tend to treat their warriors like shit. This passage from ''The Gildar Rift'' puts it best:
-->Blackheart did very little for his Red Corsairs other than provide them a staging ground for war. He never praised them or rewarded them but none of them questioned it; least of all the staunchly loyal Astral Claws. He expected them to die willingly at his whim, and they did. If they survived a campaign or a raid, so much the better; he could utilise their muscle again. Nobody ever spoke out against it and Blackheart never changed the ground rules. It was a perfect arrangement.
-->Blackheart did very little for his Red Corsairs other than provide them a staging ground for war. He never praised them or rewarded them but none of them questioned it; least of all the staunchly loyal Astral Claws. He expected them to die willingly at his whim, and they did. If they survived a campaign or a raid, so much the better; he could utilise their muscle again. Nobody ever spoke out against it and Blackheart never changed the ground rules. It was a perfect arrangement.
* CurbStompBattle:
** Mortarion's "fights" with the Grey Knights are pretty much this. His duel with Kaldor Draigo is very one side and clearly only last as long because Mortarion is JustToyingWithThem [[spoiler:until Draigo uses his [[IKnowYourTrueName secret weapon]]]].
** In ''The Gildar Rift'', [[spoiler:the final battle between Daerys Arrun and Huron Blackheart is decidedly one-sided. Blackheart spends the entire fight manhandling Arrun and ultimately kills him, while Arrun only manages to give Blackheart some superficial facial scars]].
** Mortarion's "fights" with the Grey Knights are pretty much this. His duel with Kaldor Draigo is very one side and clearly only last as long because Mortarion is JustToyingWithThem [[spoiler:until Draigo uses his [[IKnowYourTrueName secret weapon]]]].
** In ''The Gildar Rift'', [[spoiler:the final battle between Daerys Arrun and Huron Blackheart is decidedly one-sided. Blackheart spends the entire fight manhandling Arrun and ultimately kills him, while Arrun only manages to give Blackheart some superficial facial scars]].
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* CurbStompBattle: Mortarion's "fights" with the Grey Knights are pretty much this, his duel with Kaldor Draigo is very one side and clearly only last as long because Mortarion is JustToyingWithThem [[spoiler:until Draigo uses his [[IKnowYourTrueName secret weapon]]]].
** Daerys Arrun won’t be able to capture or kill Huron Blackheart in ''The Gildar Rift'', since one of them is an actual character in the tabletop game with a unique model, and the other is not. [[spoiler:Sure enough, Huron Blackheart kills him in a CurbStompBattle and gets away Scott-free.]]
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* TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed: Has shown up twice now:
** In ''Death of Antagonis'' the villains aren't threatening enough just attacking the planets Antagonis and Aighe Mortis, they also have to [[spoiler:revive an ancient alien planet-buster and take it to Holy Terra as well]].
** Likewise, ''The World Engine'' doesn't feel the stakes raised enough with just the Varv system in peril, the Necrons feel the need to try and teleport the titular Engine to [[spoiler:Mars, and probably shoot at Terra a few times for good measure]].
** In ''Death of Antagonis'' the villains aren't threatening enough just attacking the planets Antagonis and Aighe Mortis, they also have to [[spoiler:revive an ancient alien planet-buster and take it to Holy Terra as well]].
** Likewise, ''The World Engine'' doesn't feel the stakes raised enough with just the Varv system in peril, the Necrons feel the need to try and teleport the titular Engine to [[spoiler:Mars, and probably shoot at Terra a few times for good measure]].
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* TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed: Has shown up twice now:
** In ''Death of Antagonis'' the villains aren't threatening enough just attacking the planets Antagonis and Aighe Mortis, they also have to [[spoiler:revive an ancient alien planet-buster and take it to Holy Terra as well]].
** Likewise,HoistByHisOwnPetard: Attempted in ''The World Engine'' doesn't feel Gildar Rift''. While fighting Huron Blackheart, Daerys Arrun notices a nearby gas pocket and tries to lure Blackheart toward it so that the stakes raised enough Chaos Lord will ignite it with just a stray blast from his flamer and blow himself up. [[spoiler:The plan fails due to Blackheart catching up to him faster than he anticipated and hurling him away from the Varv system in peril, the Necrons feel the need to try and teleport the titular Engine to [[spoiler:Mars, and probably shoot at Terra a few times for good measure]].gas pocket.]]
** In ''Death of Antagonis'' the villains aren't threatening enough just attacking the planets Antagonis and Aighe Mortis, they also have to [[spoiler:revive an ancient alien planet-buster and take it to Holy Terra as well]].
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* InsistentTerminology: In ''The Gildar Rift'', Daerys Arrun insists on referring to Huron Blackheart by his original name of Lufgt Huron. Why he does so isn’t clear, and he doesn’t provide an answer when one of the chapter’s Prognosticators asks him.
* SapientShip: In ''The Gildar Rift'', the aim of the Silver Skulls’ Resurgent project is to create one of these by wiring Volker Straub into the ''Dread Argent’s'' systems, effectively turning him into a WetwareCPU and giving him absolute control over the ship. [[spoiler:They succeed, spectacularly so.]]
* SenselessSacrifice: In ''The Gildar Rift'', [[spoiler:a Silver Skulls Assault Marine tries to save the grievously injured Captain Arrun’s life by tackling Huron Blackheart away from him. He only manages to distract Huron Blackheart for a few seconds before getting killed, and while his sacrifice allows Arrun to regain some strength and continue fighting for a bit longer, it ultimately doesn’t change the outcome.]]
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* SpoilerTitle: Would you be surprised if we told you that in ''Fall of Damnos'', the Ultramarines do not succeed in defense of eponymous planet?
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* SpitefulSpit: Huron Blackheart spits on Daerus Arrun twice during their battle in ''The Gildar Rift''. The trope is actually weaponized, as Blackheart does it not only to show his contempt for the Imperium but also to hinder Arrun’s combat effectiveness as the acidic saliva eats into his armour.
* SpoilerTitle: Would you be surprised if we told you that in ''Fall of Damnos'', the Ultramarines do not succeed in their defense of the eponymous planet?
* SpoilerTitle: Would you be surprised if we told you that in ''Fall of Damnos'', the Ultramarines do not succeed in their defense of the eponymous planet?
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** In ''Death of Antagonis'' the villains aren't threatening enough just attacking the planets Antagonis and Aighe Mortis, they also have to [[spoiler:revive an ancient alien planet-buster and take it to Holy Terra as well]].
** Likewise, ''The World Engine'' doesn't feel the stakes raised enough with just the Varv system in peril, the Necrons feel the need to try and teleport the titular Engine to [[spoiler:Mars, and probably shoot at Terra a few times for good measure]].
* WorthyOpponent: In ''The Gildar Rift'', Daerys Arrun and Huron Blackheart develop a mutual if begrudging respect for one another as both warriors and strategists. Before their final confrontation, Blackheart even feels a sliver of regret at the knowledge that he can’t turn such a worthy foe to Chaos and will have to kill him.
** In ''Death of Antagonis'' the villains aren't threatening enough just attacking the planets Antagonis and Aighe Mortis, they also have to [[spoiler:revive an ancient alien planet-buster and take it to Holy Terra as well]].
** Likewise, ''The World Engine'' doesn't feel the stakes raised enough with just the Varv system in peril, the Necrons feel the need to try and teleport the titular Engine to [[spoiler:Mars, and probably shoot at Terra a few times for good measure]].
* WorthyOpponent: In ''The Gildar Rift'', Daerys Arrun and Huron Blackheart develop a mutual if begrudging respect for one another as both warriors and strategists. Before their final confrontation, Blackheart even feels a sliver of regret at the knowledge that he can’t turn such a worthy foe to Chaos and will have to kill him.
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* OrganTheft: In ''The Gildar Rift'', [[spoiler:the Corpsemaster steals Sergeant Porteus’s progenoid glands after the latter is captured by the Red Corsairs]]. A former Space Wolf turned Red Corsair implies that the same was done to both him and many other formerly loyal Space Marines pressganged into the Corsairs’ ranks.
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* SpoiledByTheFormat: The big twist in ''The Gildar Rift'' is supposed to be the fact that the promethium refinery where the Red Corsairs are hunkered down [[spoiler:is connected to a train network that isn’t on any of the outdated plans the Silver Skulls possess, giving Huron Blackheart a free avenue of escape]]. Unfortunately for the reader, this crucial detail is given away by the colourful maps in the middle of the book, fully one hundred pages before TheReveal takes place. The same book’s cover also gives away [[spoiler:Daerys Arrun dying at Huron Blackheart’s hands]].
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* AsteroidThicket: In ''The Gildar Rift'', the titular rift is a dense asteroid field that covers the entire Gildar system and makes traveling within the system very dangerous.
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* DerelictGraveyard: In ''The Gildar Rift'', the dangers of traversing the titular Rift are compounded by the countless wrecked starships which drift through the asteroid field. The sheer density of said asteroid field makes these wrecks almost impossible to salvage: any vessel that tries will inevitably be wrecked in turn.
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** In ''Battle of the Fang'', [[spoiler:Trom Rossek]] is one of the first Space Wolves to die at [[spoiler:Magnus]]’s hands, but he ''does'' manage to land a single hit on [[spoiler:Magnus]] with enough force to make [[spoiler:the daemon primarch]] pause for a second—before [[spoiler:Magnus]] promptly knocks him down and [GiantFootOfStomping crushes him underfoot]]. Later on, [[spoiler:Magnus]] reflects that the blow actually hurt.
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** In ''Battle of the Fang'', [[spoiler:Trom Rossek]] is one of the first Space Wolves to die at [[spoiler:Magnus]]’s hands, but he ''does'' manage to land a single hit on [[spoiler:Magnus]] with enough force to make [[spoiler:the daemon primarch]] pause for a second—before [[spoiler:Magnus]] promptly knocks him down and [GiantFootOfStomping [[GiantFootOfStomping crushes him underfoot]]. Later on, [[spoiler:Magnus]] reflects that the blow actually hurt.
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* AndShowItToYou: In ''Battle of the Fang'', [[spoiler:Magnus the Red kills Greyloc by ripping out both of his hearts]].
* CurbStompCushion:
** In ''Battle of the Fang'', [[spoiler:Trom Rossek]] is one of the first Space Wolves to die at [[spoiler:Magnus]]’s hands, but he ''does'' manage to land a single hit on [[spoiler:Magnus]] with enough force to make [[spoiler:the daemon primarch]] pause for a second—before [[spoiler:Magnus]] promptly knocks him down and [GiantFootOfStomping crushes him underfoot]]. Later on, [[spoiler:Magnus]] reflects that the blow actually hurt.
** In the same book, [[spoiler:Greyloc, Sturmhjart, Bjorn the Fell-Handed and two of Greyloc’s Terminators all confront Magnus at once. Bjorn gets trashed to the point where he’s taken out of the fight and the others all die, but they actually manage to put Magnus on the back foot for a while with the sheer ferocity of their assault, and the damage they inflict weakens Magnus enough for the newly-arrived Ironhelm to destroy his physical form and banish him back to the Warp, though he too dies in the process]].
** In ''Battle of the Fang'', [[spoiler:Trom Rossek]] is one of the first Space Wolves to die at [[spoiler:Magnus]]’s hands, but he ''does'' manage to land a single hit on [[spoiler:Magnus]] with enough force to make [[spoiler:the daemon primarch]] pause for a second—before [[spoiler:Magnus]] promptly knocks him down and [GiantFootOfStomping crushes him underfoot]]. Later on, [[spoiler:Magnus]] reflects that the blow actually hurt.
** In the same book, [[spoiler:Greyloc, Sturmhjart, Bjorn the Fell-Handed and two of Greyloc’s Terminators all confront Magnus at once. Bjorn gets trashed to the point where he’s taken out of the fight and the others all die, but they actually manage to put Magnus on the back foot for a while with the sheer ferocity of their assault, and the damage they inflict weakens Magnus enough for the newly-arrived Ironhelm to destroy his physical form and banish him back to the Warp, though he too dies in the process]].
* DynamicEntry: In ''Battle of the Fang'', [[spoiler:Ironhelm enters the fight between Bjorn and Magnus with a flying tackle that knocks all three of them off a cliff]].
** Several examples from ''Battle of the Fang'':
*** Helfist freezes up when he looks into the glowing eyes of a Rubric Marine and realizes how easily Space Marines can fall to corruption, forcing Brakk to step in and save him. When Brakk is then hacked to pieces moments later, Helfist flies into a berserker rage and nearly transforms into a Wulfen before Trom Rossek manages to talk him down.
*** When [[spoiler:Magnus the Red]] shows up in the Fangthane, Wyrmblade can only stand there staring in horror as [[spoiler:the daemon primarch]] tears through the Fangthane’s defenders like a hurricane. When his fellow Space Wolves start asking him for orders, he finds that his words have deserted him for the first time in his life.
*** Shortly after the above, Freija shuts down when she realizes that [[spoiler:her father has been killed by Magnus]].
*** Helfist freezes up when he looks into the glowing eyes of a Rubric Marine and realizes how easily Space Marines can fall to corruption, forcing Brakk to step in and save him. When Brakk is then hacked to pieces moments later, Helfist flies into a berserker rage and nearly transforms into a Wulfen before Trom Rossek manages to talk him down.
*** When [[spoiler:Magnus the Red]] shows up in the Fangthane, Wyrmblade can only stand there staring in horror as [[spoiler:the daemon primarch]] tears through the Fangthane’s defenders like a hurricane. When his fellow Space Wolves start asking him for orders, he finds that his words have deserted him for the first time in his life.
*** Shortly after the above, Freija shuts down when she realizes that [[spoiler:her father has been killed by Magnus]].
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* Jerkass: The Iron Warriors as a whole. In ''Siege of Castellax'' they routinely kill their slaves ''pour encourager les autres'' when the slaves have already spent their entire lives being in fear of their masters.
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* Jerkass: {{Jerkass}}: The Iron Warriors as a whole. In ''Siege of Castellax'' they routinely kill their slaves ''pour encourager les autres'' when the slaves have already spent their entire lives being in fear of their masters.
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* JustToyingWithThem: ''Battle of the Fang'': When Wyrmblade confronts [[spoiler:Magnus]] in the ruins of his laboratory, the narration makes it clear that [[spoiler:Magnus]] is just toying with him as they cross swords:
-->[[spoiler:Magnus]] parried him with an unconscious ease, moving just as smoothly, deploying his blade with all the remorseless skill of his heritage. It was almost as if he were allowing the Wolf Priest his last moment of perfection, gifting him a final flourish of martial sublimity before the end had to come.
-->[[spoiler:Magnus]] parried him with an unconscious ease, moving just as smoothly, deploying his blade with all the remorseless skill of his heritage. It was almost as if he were allowing the Wolf Priest his last moment of perfection, gifting him a final flourish of martial sublimity before the end had to come.
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* SizeShifter: In ''Battle of the Fang'', [[spoiler:Magnus the Red enlarges himself so that he can stand eye-to-eye with—and tear down—a Titan-sized statue of Leman Russ, then shrinks back down to his (still considerable) normal height once the deed is done. Later on, he shrinks to a mere three metres in order to duel Wyrmblade]].
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* KungFuWizard: In ''Battle of the Fang'', [[spoiler:Magnus the Red spends as much time beating Space Wolves to death with his bare hands as he does exploding them with his godlike psychic powers]].
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* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: In ''Battle of the Fang'', the Halls of the Revered Fallen—the caves where the Space Wolves keep their Dreadnoughts—are guarded by mysterious “beasts” that appear to be gigantic, semi-humanoid wolves with cybernetic augmentations. [[spoiler:In the same book, Helfist succumbs to his grief and battle-rage during the final days of the siege, transforming into a Wulfen.]]
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* BodyHorror: Aphael suffers from the flesh-change during ''Battle of the Fang'', which causes his body to undergo unpleasant mutations. His armour hides the full extent of the transformation, but at several points he notes that he can feel ''feathers'' growing out of his face and brushing against the inside of his helmet, and eventually his flesh becomes fused to the inside of the armour.
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* BrokenAce: Cato Sicarius, following the fall of Damnos, considers it his greatest failure, has troubles fighting and is plagued by BadDreams about the Undying.
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**Cato Sicarius, following the fall of Damnos, considers it his greatest failure, has troubles fighting and is plagued by BadDreams about theUndying.Undying.
** ''Battle of the Fang'' reveals Bjorn the Fell-Handed to be this. He’s the oldest and most sophisticated Dreadnought in the Imperium, is revered and respected by all the Space Wolves and is a killing machine like no other once roused, but on the inside he’s wracked with self-loathing and abandonment issues due to the unexplained departure of his primarch Leman Russ.
**Cato Sicarius, following the fall of Damnos, considers it his greatest failure, has troubles fighting and is plagued by BadDreams about the
** ''Battle of the Fang'' reveals Bjorn the Fell-Handed to be this. He’s the oldest and most sophisticated Dreadnought in the Imperium, is revered and respected by all the Space Wolves and is a killing machine like no other once roused, but on the inside he’s wracked with self-loathing and abandonment issues due to the unexplained departure of his primarch Leman Russ.
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* MechanicalMonster: The Thousand Sons deploy the last of their Cataphract robots against the Space Wolves in ''Battle of the Fang''. While few in number, the hulking war machines pose a serious threat to the Wolves, sporting plasma cannons siege drills that can fell even a Terminator with one blow, and enough durability to withstand anything short of a Dreadnought’s weapons.
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* ProtectiveCharm: In ''Battle of the Fang'', the Space Wolves inscribe protective runes into their armour to ward off maleficarum, their term for the power of Chaos. The Fang itself has thousands of similar wards etched into its stone walls, and their presence helps to slow the advance of the Thousand Sons once they break into the fortress, most notably by [[spoiler:preventing Magnus the Red from physically manifesting within the Fang]] until the Sons destroy enough of the wards.
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* ThanatosGambit: In ''Battle of the Fang'', [[spoiler:Magnus the Red’s plan requires the Space Wolves to kill [[FightingAShadow his frail old man avatar]] on Gangava so that he can manifest on Fenris in his full might and lay waste to the Fang]]. He even tells them what the plan entails, knowing that they won’t believe him.
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* VillainRespect: In ''Battle of the Fang'', Magnus the Red surprises one of his subordinates by admitting that he has grown to respect the Space Wolves since the Literature/HorusHeresy.
-->'''Magnus:''' I no longer think of them as animals, Ahmuz, though I once did. I now think of them as the purest of us all. Incorruptible. Single-minded. The perfection of my father’s vision.\\
'''Temekh:''' You admire them.\\
'''Magnus:''' Admire them? Of course I do. They are unique. And even in an infinite universe, that quality is rarer than you might suppose.
-->'''Magnus:''' I no longer think of them as animals, Ahmuz, though I once did. I now think of them as the purest of us all. Incorruptible. Single-minded. The perfection of my father’s vision.\\
'''Temekh:''' You admire them.\\
'''Magnus:''' Admire them? Of course I do. They are unique. And even in an infinite universe, that quality is rarer than you might suppose.
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* WouldHurtAChild: In ''Battle of the Fang'', Aphael comes across a group of scared, helpless children while destroying the Space Wolves’ magical wards and decides to kill some of them shits and giggles [[spoiler:, only to discover that they are neither scared nor helpless when one of them chucks a grenade at his face]].
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* CoDragons: Ahmuz Temekh and Herume Aphael in ''Battle of the Fang''. The two of them act as joint commanders of the Thousand Sons forces invading Fenris, with Aphael leading their troops on the ground while Temekh carries out the taxing ritual to summon their master, Magnus the Red, into the physical world.
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* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: ''Battle of the Fang:'' When Trom Rossek falls into a depressive funk after getting his entire squad killed by the Thousand Sons, Wyrmblade tries to snap him out of it by punching him in the face with enough force to knock him flat on his ass.
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* RiddlingSphinx: A daemonic sphinx guards the entrance to Shalhadar’s city in ''Malodrax''. Instead of asking a riddle, it will only let people pass if they can show it something it has never experienced before (and being a Slaaneshi daemon, there’s very little it hasn’t already experienced). Lysander is able to get in the first time by teaching it the concept of fear. The second time, he doesn’t bother with the sphinx’s games and just kills it.
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* ThereWasADoor: In ''Battle of the Fang'', Blackwing is combing the bowels of his ship for Thousand Sons infiltrators when a Rubric Marine suddenly bursts out of a wall, taking him and his men by surprise.
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* WaveMotionGun: The Thousand Sons seem fond of these in ''Battle of the Fang''. Their planet-scourer ships are basically giant plasma cannons built to raze a planet’s surface with continuous streams of plasma fire. Their gate-breaker daemon engines, similarly, are 200-metre long self-propelled gun barrels that they use to hammer the Fang’s gates with giant yellow beams of eldritch energy.
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* TheBadGuyWins The: Happens several times.
** [[spoiler:The Orks are the undisputed winners of ''Siege of Castellax'', while the Chaos Space Marines are scattered and their human slaves are slaughtered to a man]].
** [[spoiler: ''Fall of Damnos'' ends with the Necrons getting total control over the planet and Ultramarines performing tactical retreat while taking as many survivors with them as they can.]]
** [[spoiler: Subverted in ''Veil of Darkness'' - while Necron overrun the Temple of Hera and slaughter all Space Marines present, it turns out to be Sicarius' prophetic fever dream and he manages to stop it before the invasion starts.]]
** [[spoiler:The Orks are the undisputed winners of ''Siege of Castellax'', while the Chaos Space Marines are scattered and their human slaves are slaughtered to a man]].
** [[spoiler: ''Fall of Damnos'' ends with the Necrons getting total control over the planet and Ultramarines performing tactical retreat while taking as many survivors with them as they can.]]
** [[spoiler: Subverted in ''Veil of Darkness'' - while Necron overrun the Temple of Hera and slaughter all Space Marines present, it turns out to be Sicarius' prophetic fever dream and he manages to stop it before the invasion starts.]]
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* TheBadGuyWins The: Happens several times.
** [[spoiler:The Orks areAndIMustScream: In ''Battle of the undisputed winners of ''Siege of Castellax'', while Fang'', an unfortunate deckhand is captured by a Thousand Sons sorcerer, who promptly gouges out his eyes and psychically suppresses his will to turn him into an unwilling spy. His reaction says it all:
-->Reri kept screaming. He kept screaming as theChaos Space Marines are scattered and their human slaves are slaughtered torchlights were doused, he kept screaming as Master Fuerza went to a man]].
** [[spoiler: ''Fall of Damnos'' ends with the Necrons getting total control over the planet and Ultramarines performing tactical retreat while taking as many survivors with them as they can.]]
** [[spoiler: Subverted in ''Veil of Darkness'' - while Necron overrun the Temple of Hera and slaughter all Space Marines present, it turns out to be Sicarius' prophetic fever dreamwork, and he manages kept screaming until the Thousand Sons sorcerer-lord had finished. Indeed, though his features remained slack and emotionless, locked into surface equanimity by magicks more powerful than he’d ever be able to comprehend, there was a part of Reri Urfangborn that would never stop it before the invasion starts.]]screaming again.
** [[spoiler:The Orks are
-->Reri kept screaming. He kept screaming as the
** [[spoiler: ''Fall of Damnos'' ends with the Necrons getting total control over the planet and Ultramarines performing tactical retreat while taking as many survivors with them as they can.]]
** [[spoiler: Subverted in ''Veil of Darkness'' - while Necron overrun the Temple of Hera and slaughter all Space Marines present, it turns out to be Sicarius' prophetic fever dream
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** [[spoiler:The Orks are the undisputed winners of ''Siege of Castellax'', while the Chaos Space Marines are scattered and their human slaves are slaughtered to a man]].
** [[spoiler: ''Fall of Damnos'' ends with the Necrons getting total control over the planet and Ultramarines performing tactical retreat while taking as many survivors with them as they can.]]
** [[spoiler: Subverted in ''Veil of Darkness'' - while Necron overrun the Temple of Hera and slaughter all Space Marines present, it turns out to be Sicarius' prophetic fever dream and he manages to stop it before the invasion starts.]]
** [[spoiler:The Orks are the undisputed winners of ''Siege of Castellax'', while the Chaos Space Marines are scattered and their human slaves are slaughtered to a man]].
** [[spoiler: ''Fall of Damnos'' ends with the Necrons getting total control over the planet and Ultramarines performing tactical retreat while taking as many survivors with them as they can.]]
** [[spoiler: Subverted in ''Veil of Darkness'' - while Necron overrun the Temple of Hera and slaughter all Space Marines present, it turns out to be Sicarius' prophetic fever dream and he manages to stop it before the invasion starts.]]
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* EyeScream: In ''Battle of the Fang'', an unfortunate deckhand gets his eyes gouged out by a Thousand Sons sorcerer so that the sorcerer can implant magical eyes in their place and use him as a mind-controlled spy.
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* PerspectiveReversal: Morek Karekborn and his daughter Freija have opposing views of the Space Wolves in ''Battle of the Fang''. Morek looks up to the Space Wolves with respect and reverence, while Freija instead resents the Wolves for their arrogance and superior attitude. By the end of the novel, Morek’s faith in the Wolves has been shaken while Freija has gained a newfound respect and admiration for them.
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* ArchEnemy: The Space Wolves and Thousand Sons are each other’s arch-enemies in general, but Great Wolf Harek Ironhelm views the Thousand Sons’ primarch Magnus the Red as his personal nemesis in ''Battle of the Fang'', having spent decades chasing him across the galaxy while Magnus eggs him on with taunting psychic visions.
* BringHelpBack: In ''Battle of the Fang'', the Space Wolves scout Blackwing must race to the Gangava system to warn the rest of his chapter that their home planet Fenris is besieged by the Thousand Sons. His task is complicated by both the fact that his badly-damaged ship is falling apart around him, and by a team of Thousand Sons saboteurs that teleported onboard to expedite the process.
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* HonorBeforeReason: Sicarius goes to fight the Undying by himself, forbiding his men from comitting to the duel, because that's "the proper way". [[spoiler:Had he taken at least Agrippen with him, he might've succeeded in defending Damnos.]]
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** Sicarius goes to fight the Undying by himself, forbiding his men from comitting to the duel, because that's "the properway". way". [[spoiler:Had he taken at least Agrippen with him, he might've succeeded in defending Damnos.]]]]
** In ''Battle of the Fang'', Harek Ironhelm is so obsessed with defeating Magnus the Red and settling the Space Wolves’ ancient feud with the Thousand Sons that he’s willing to mobilize the entire chapter and leave Fenris unprotected when he thinks he’s got Magnus cornered on Gangava—just as Magnus planned.
** Sicarius goes to fight the Undying by himself, forbiding his men from comitting to the duel, because that's "the proper
** In ''Battle of the Fang'', Harek Ironhelm is so obsessed with defeating Magnus the Red and settling the Space Wolves’ ancient feud with the Thousand Sons that he’s willing to mobilize the entire chapter and leave Fenris unprotected when he thinks he’s got Magnus cornered on Gangava—just as Magnus planned.
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* MookHorrorShow: ''Wrath of Iron'' opens with a brief PerspectiveFlip, showing the Iron Hands [[ImplacableMan shrug off a volley of lasgun fire and smash apart a bunker with little effort]].
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** ''Wrath of Iron'' opens with a brief PerspectiveFlip, showing the Iron Hands [[ImplacableMan shrug off a volley of lasgun fire and smash apart a bunker with littleeffort]].effort]].
** ''Battle of the Fang'' has a scene told from the perspective of a Spireguard soldier sent in to establish a beachhead for the invading Thousand Sons. His initial confidence and professionalism—born of the belief that the Space Wolves are simply normal men like himself—quickly give way to panic and terror once the Wolves show up and start butchering his unit.
** ''Wrath of Iron'' opens with a brief PerspectiveFlip, showing the Iron Hands [[ImplacableMan shrug off a volley of lasgun fire and smash apart a bunker with little
** ''Battle of the Fang'' has a scene told from the perspective of a Spireguard soldier sent in to establish a beachhead for the invading Thousand Sons. His initial confidence and professionalism—born of the belief that the Space Wolves are simply normal men like himself—quickly give way to panic and terror once the Wolves show up and start butchering his unit.
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* BlatantLies: In ''Battle of the Fang'', the Thousand Sons tell the first wave of Spireguard soldiers being sent down to secure landing sites that the Space Wolves they’ll be fighting against are just ordinary men, like the Spireguard themselves. They quickly realize they were lied to once they encounter the Wolves and start getting slaughtered.
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* HeroicAlbino: ''Battle of the Fang'' gives us Jarl Vaer Greyloc of the Space Wolves. His pale skin, blue eyes, and white hair all set him apart from other Space Wolves, who call him the White Wolf as something of an insult.
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* OrbitalBombardment: In ''Battle of the Fang'', the Thousand Sons assault the titular fortress with a pair of “planet-scourers”—ships built for the sole purpose of housing [[WaveMotionGun enormous, downward-pointing plasma cannons powerful enough to raze a continent]]. The resulting bombardment isn’t strong enough to bring down the Fang’s shields, but it ''does'' prevent the Space Wolves from bringing the Fang’s anti-orbit weapons to bear and keeps them from sending out Thunderhawks to interfere with the Thousand Sons’ landing operations.
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* TeleFrag: ''Battle of the Fang'' has a Thousand Sons sorcerer experience this when he hastily teleports himself and a squad of Rubric Marines into an oncoming Space Wolves vessel. Only two of the Rubric Marines make it through, and only one of them does so intact; the other one materializes within a wall and effectively dies. The sorcerer himself suffers injuries to his hands, face, and internal organs.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: For a guy that uses psyker spells a lot, Mortarion does enjoy insulting the "[[GreyKnights little witches]]" for being pyskers.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: For a guy that uses psyker spells a lot, Mortarion does enjoy insulting the "[[GreyKnights "[[Literature/GreyKnights little witches]]" for being pyskers.
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** In ''Death of Antagonis'', Toharan early on rescues a small girl, who later dies [[spoiler:at the hands of Stheno, due to being a daemonhost]]. He had invested a lot in rescuing the girl, and the moment shakes him to the core.
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