the Chad Rylanor defeats chaos with facts and logic

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song by stringstorm: • Rylanor's Last Stand -...
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[@harmonicajay91]

I remember an Iron Hand remembering about how he used chat with Rylanor back in the day and wondered if he had turned as well. It’s a shame that he never found out that Rylanor stayed faithful until the end.

[@jerzyksudak945]

what book title ?

[@zimzim6066]

I think every one know that raylanor was loyalist he lead the emperor children on the assault of istvaan 3 and was one of the last survivor with garvio loken and was his wish to stay on istvaan to take his revenge

[@ljuti_domar_stipe6815]

​@@jerzyksudak945it's from angel exterminatus

[@klortikterra4423]

also reminds you that iron warriors still have some humanity. they reject chaos corruption and position, they just use daemons for daemon engines.

[@Wittemn]

@@klortikterra4423 He's talking about an Iron Hand, not an Iron Warrior, different legion.

[@Jotunn96]

Nothing will ever hit harder than Rylanor proudly proclaiming to Fulgrim of all people his title as one of the emperor's children, shit must've caused Fulgrim enough psychic damage to give him a brain haemorrhage

[@sirbaconbuster]

I mean, it did permanent damage to his pride. And since he's a deamon and that's all he has, it's the only thing that has been able to do actual lasting damage to any of the daemon primarchs.

[@treznorify]

@@sirbaconbuster isn't that why Fulgrim has been hiding away all this time?

[@sirbaconbuster]

@@treznorify correct. At least in part. But his altercation with Rylanor was a very big part of that.

[@nowanimportant8887]

​@@sirbaconbusterDamn. A burn so bad it wounded his soul and nerfed him permanently.

[@cincau3243]

​@@sirbaconbusterI mean Rylanor never betrayed Fulgrim, it's Fulgrim who betrayed himself

[@SnakeRoadComicsOfficial3677]

A true defender of humanity. A hero to the very end.

[@Double_D__]

Rylanor was more of Primarch than Fulrgirm ever was, and he actually lived up to the name of Emperor's Children.

[@chocolatesquirrel2002]

​@@Double_D__ theres more stories about Rhlanir besides this one ?

[@KoteDarasuum]

​@@chocolatesquirrel2002 IIRC Rylanors story before this is basically footnote in another loyalist Emperor Children Marines story, that being Saul Tarviz. But its been while since i have read Horus Heresy stuff.

[@KoteDarasuum]

@@Double_D__ I wouldnt say that since Fulgrim was great person before he picked the Laer blade, but Rylanor was more of a Primarch than fallen Fulgrim was. He and Saul Tarviz were perfect embodyments of Pre-Heresy Emperors Children and Fulgrims values.

[@niteshade5783]

Rylanor deserves better than us all.

[@ruthlessasmr6662]

"I am one of the emperors' children!" A denial of his primarch, in favor of his lord, his imperium, and his duty. *Godspeed*

[@Motofanable]

How can I, who am one of his children, betray him?

[@UncleAsmos2005]

A True *EMPERORS'* Children

[@janehrahan5116]

Not just that, its how hes able to resist the will of his primarch. He has never betrayed the teachings of fulgrim, only fulgrim himself has.

[@rakisuzuki-burke4148]

More than that, he is basically saying that all of the marines who turned traitor (as in almost the /entire/ legion) are not worthy of the name. And he is right.

[@BeijingCornDealer]

Godspeed? Dont you mean emperorspeed?

[@yellowdinosaur4514]

Oh stop it, you're gonna make me listen to Rylanor's Last Stand again!

[@captainpanic3616]

DO IT

[@dr.michaelmarx3085]

I already am

[@jamon9507]

I see this as an absolute win

[@johnmicheal7086]

Too bad you already are even though you didn't want to

[@fiddlesticks7245]

Ngl that song highlights everything cringe inducing about Rylanor

[@Its_Cannon]

I hope the Emperor witnessed Rylanor’s final moments, and brought him back in the legion of the dammed. But if his soul is somewhere in the warp, you better believe Khorne is giving him a high five, or at least wants to. Rylanors probably killing everything in sight, like Casper the violent ghost.

[@jackh4843]

Ssshhit time to run to grab a Rylanor model for my Legion of the Damned

[@VestedUTuber]

@@jackh4843 You'll want a 30k Emperor's Children Contemptor Dreadnought for that.

[@memeboi2096]

I like to think hes one of the leaders of the legion of the damned.

[@anzaca1]

It's explained that the liquids inside Rylanor's casket were complete poison to him by that point. He simply should've died long before they found him. The Emperor kep him alive so Rylanor could have his vengeance.

[@redeye4516]

Hope some of those Thousand Sons come with him.

[@MangoDragn]

'Is this it?' he said. 'You sought to draw me here to kill me?' Rylanor triggered his assault cannon, but - fast as quicksilver - Fulgrim caught it and crushed it before it could fire. 'No, I don't think so,' said the primarch, effortlessly ripping the arm from the Dreadnought's body. Sparks flew from the ruptured limb and Fulgrim gave the weapon a dismissive glance before tossing it aside. 'You betrayed us,' bellowed Rylanor. 'Your sons! You led us here to die. There is no forgiveness for that. None! You must die by my hand! The Emperor's justice will fall upon you. Not even Fulgrim the Illuminator can escape the Life Eater.' 'You wish me dead?' he said, scathing pity dripping from every syllable. 'Why? Because you think I betrayed you? The Legion? Oh, Rylanor, your thoughts are so narrow. If you could only see us now, how beautiful we have become. We shine so brightly, each of us a brilliant sun.' Fulgrim reached down, sliding his bare hand inside a rent torn in the Dreadnought's armour. He smiled, closing his eyes and letting his tongue slip across his lips as he pushed deeper inside. 'Ah, there you are!' said Fulgrim, as Rylanor's vox-caster grated in fury. 'Wet and wriggling. I can feel your panic. It's delicious!' Rylanor's power fist swung around, bathed in fire. It struck Fulgrim on the shoulder, but Akhtar's psychic force was not simply confined to the Life Eater's detonation. Fulgrim laughed off the sluggish attack and one of his lower arms drew a glittering sword of alien origin. The blade a sliced in a cruelly precise arc, cutting through the fibre-bundle motivators and servos. Rylanor's arm fell limp at his side. Vistario watched the viral fire spread over the Dreadnought's carapace, slipping inside his buckled plates of armour. Rylanor did not care whether he lived or died, only that Fulgrim went with him. 'Do. Not. Do. This!' barked the Dreadnought. 'Why not? I am your master - I can do whatever I like. I can crush you or I can raise you up. Return to the Legion. Accept the gifts of the Dark Prince, and you will walk at my side, clad once again in flesh. You can be anything, old friend! I will sculpt you into something beautiful - a god to these mortals!' 'Never! All we have left between us is that we will die together!' roared the Dreadnought, the upper portion of his carapace burning with blue flames. 'I am Rylanor of the Emperor's Children, Ancient of Rites, Venerable of the Palatine Host, and proud servant of the Emperor of Mankind, Beloved by all! I reject you now and always!' Fulgrim laughed and said, 'I'm sorry, did it sound like I was offering you a choice?' The primarch wrenched his hand from Rylanor's sarcophagus, dragging a sopping mass of fluid and matter with him. Glutinous ropes dripped from his fingers; he was like a midwife holding a mewling newborn. Ruptured cables spilled amniotic fluid so stagnant it must surely have been poisoning Rylanor with every passing second. 'I will remake you, brother,' said Fulgrim. 'You will be my crowning achievement.' Though his body was little more than rags of wet meat, Vistario sensed Rylanor's horror at the last violation. An inescapable destiny where he would become what he hated most. +What do we do?+ The question was Murshid's and the connection between the Thousand Sons was so strong that Athanaean's perception for emotion spread to all three of them. Vistario felt Fulgrim's infinite malice, his cruel enjoyment of Rylanor's anguish and the helplessness of the Thousand Sons. The primarch of the Emperor's Children revelled in his overwhelming pride, a trait Magnus had more than once told Vistario had been present long before his fall. But more than anything, stronger even than Fulgrim's spite, Vistario felt Rylanor's pride and honour, the unbending core of greatness that had set him against his brothers and had seen him descend into obsessive madness beneath the surface of a dead world. Vistario took the measure of Fulgrim, seeing nothing worthy in him. His warriors felt the moment his decision was made. +Primarch Fulgrim!+ sent Vistario. +Rylanor deserves better than you.+ The primarch looked up, his once bright eyes now black and filled with the darkest poison. +He deserves better than all of us.+ He raised his bolter and fired a mass-reactive into the back of Akhtar's skull. The Raptora's head exploded and with his death, the psychic force holding back the warhead's detonation ended. Vistario saw fire. And once more, all life burned.

[@MidoriOfTheShuinsen]

Rylanor's hatred and honour burned so brightly that it made two Thousand Sons sorcerers turn away from Chaos

[@durinV]

@@MidoriOfTheShuinsen His fire purified them, even if it was for a few moments, those weren't missed and they sent Rylanor's and theirs answer to Fulgrim in full

[@Obscure_Charcoal]

Well hello @MangoDragn, funny place to find you lol

[@carsoncasmirri3874]

Rylanor was so based he made the Thousand Sons sorcerers say “yeah fuck chaos and fuck you fulgrim.”

[@malcontender6319]

Thought that was awesome too, his honor and determination swayed them instantly and utterly.

[@redeye4516]

"Wait a second, we were tricked into serving Tzeentch" "Oh yeah, fuck Chaos then"

[@rokkraljkolesa9317]

less "fuck chaos" more "fuck you Fulgrim"

[@miregojitohotookmyhandle]

This is why I love the thousand sons. They all have this shard of humanity left. It reminds you they didn't join chaos willingly and still remember the work and struggle they put to stop the flesh change. They knew psykers were the future of humanity, the emperor knew.

[@hell1942]

​@@miregojitohotookmyhandledidn't they turn over in pursuit of knowledge, any and all Knowledge?

[@Timber_LXG_5]

Rylanor deserves better than all of us

[@DeadBattleBrother15]

Rylanor deserves better than his Primarch

[@Timber_LXG_5]

@@DeadBattleBrother15 that's a pretty low bar to be honest

[@clarkycat9173]

Fulgrim deserved better too

[@averagetachyonlanceenjoyer1129]

@@clarkycat9173 I dont think taking d*ck-shaped sword from race of rape-snakes was a mature and logical move. OR implanting genes of that rape-snake race into gene-seed of Emperor Children. He just fell to chaos because of his own stupidity, being too weak-minded to resist daemon in blade he shouldn't have taken in first place.

[@hadibendakji3858]

@@clarkycat9173 He did, but sadly he couldn't help but fondle a serpentine dick sword.

[@raeldri5867]

A great example of a son surpassing his father, a true emperor children

[@charlottewalnut3118]

Except the part where he failed miserably, and didn’t even manage to actually scuff Fulgrim where Fulgrim put Gulliman into a coma for ten thousand years

[@JestersWrath]

@@charlottewalnut3118The point is that he deeply hurt Fulgrim’s pride, which is kinda embarrassing for a daemon primarch.

[@themanwhocantbemovedbyatru1988]

​@@charlottewalnut3118 he scarred Fulgrim's pride (his source of power) and because of that, Fulgrim can never reach his so called "Perfect Form" because Rylanor's words kept echoing in his mind.

[@majorgeneralconstatinvaldo173]

@@charlottewalnut3118Fulgrim is a daemon prince of pride and Rylanor manages to damaged the pride of the living manifestation of pride

[@reynanlamsen2007]

​@@JestersWrathBro is a Fulgrim apologist 💀

[@AparajitaStormhoof]

I would love to see Rylanor and Vistario return in the Legion of the Damned, just to give Fulgrim a bad time. Ferrus Manus leads the Legion of the Damned? That would be so, absolutely dope, make the Legion of the Damned essentially the Emperor's Daemons.

[@sirbaconbuster]

I've long had plans that if I ever do a space marine army, I'm kitbashing the whole thing to be the Legion of the Damned. And you can bet your left butt cheek there'll be a contemptor with an autocannon and fist.

[@Aljhaqu]

Honestly I would love that... And would be even better if they returned with a modicum of their original personalities... The biggest middle finger to Chaos.

[@emperorchampionthor]

By far one of the greatest Warhammer 40k song bravo

[@1-800-PlsAdoptMe]

I prefer their sororitas song

[@TheOnlyReefShark]

​@@1-800-PlsAdoptMe Titanicus

[@idiotlasagna6154]

@@TheOnlyReefShark black rage!

[@A-literal-insect]

@@idiotlasagna6154 Lamenters

[@The_Emperor_of_Mankind_M42]

What about Cadian XXth, the song not the Arma group lead by Rimmy Downunder.

[@Jotunn96]

Imagine being such a fucking badass that you're able to wound the pride of *pride incarnate* badly enough to cause him physical injury

[@badpressure]

-Absolutely Merciless, Justified, Technicallyand Fctually correct, Vicious Mockery: Take 15 permanent CHA damage. Take 3d6 More CHA damage per turn Ad Infinitum, in perpetuity. There is no breaking this curse, or healing of this mental wound. Upon reaching inverse CHA points of starting stat, Begin Death saves. Successful save, makes the next 3d6 higher to beat.

[@Sweetness71775]

@badpressure I understood all of that and I fucking love it. Here. You dropped this. 👑

[@galomir833]

EMOTIONAL DAMAGE that pretty much what heppen

[@javierguardiola7122]

But slaanesh being slaanesh, fulgrim enjoyed it to the maxxx

[@galomir833]

@@javierguardiola7122 slaanesh must have enjoyed it herself, fulgrim, i dont think so

[@-cogito_ergo_sum-]

I'm always awed when he says he has waited for a million nights, it almost poetic and amplifies Rylanor figure to be godlike. Which he is.

[@janehrahan5116]

Especially since its actually underselling it, 10000 years is 3.65 million nights.

[@skullyboi1215]

@@janehrahan5116 wasnt it just a 1000 years since it was a millenia

[@danylonazarov]

​@@skullyboi1215we know that Rylanor's last stand was somewhere in 41st millenium, so 10k years

[@IronTalon013]

​@@skullyboi1215, he's been chilling there since around the end of Istvaan III.

[@skullyboi1215]

@@IronTalon013 yes thank you for the information that 5 other people provided

[@aaronsouthard8366]

All he wanted was to see the skies of Chemos one... Last.... Time.....

[@iamablacksabbathsong9765]

If he were to see chemos , he will just slaaneshy "clouds" he would be glad Chemos was obliterated as it is better to be dead but remember foundly than live and wished to be forgotten

[@martinosborne4703]

I know it's a reference, but Rylanor was recruited on Terra as an original Emperor's Children.

[@FQP-7024]

He was born of Terra, one of the very first to join amongst the emperors Adeptus Astartes. He would have wished to see terra one last time, but what he saw instead was a traitors death and redemption of foes thought beyond salvation.

[@randorookie8587]

I like to imagine there’s a loyalist emperor’s children group lost in the warp battling chaos who heard of what Rylanor did and decided that “The Ancient Awaits” would be their battle cry and should I create a space marine army this will be what I do with them either that or Lamenters because I really like the Lamenters

[@Oliver-is4dl]

That's the fun thing you can do with miniatures is do both! Paint the loyalist Emperor's children and the Lamenters

[@diobrandocinematicuniverse4450]

Yes

[@shootingstar0312]

Cawl probably has some Emperor's children in the fridge, or I like to imagine that a few returned and are now primaris, I just need a good paint for purple

[@johnnyanderson2-roblox185]

Holy God emperor! Another Lamenters lover?! We are a rare people, just like the Lamenters.

[@takkovacs986]

In that moment Fulgrim realized what true perfection was; loyalty, commitment, honor, will and courage. Something that he will never have, what broke his ego was realizing that an "inferior" human was stronger than him in spirit and soul.

[@flaviomonteiro1414]

In the end, I think Rylanor achieved perfection. He embodied all the virtues and teachings

[@astronaut3248]

"I need not glory nor for words to speak, when I have held... ...A Virus Bomb!"

[@joshuahill1934]

Nooooo!

[@thearsonism7886]

Chad.

[@kirgan1000]

You can read "Garro: Legion of One" He is the last loyal marin of the Death Guard.

[@SnakeRoadComicsOfficial3677]

*Hero

[@TemplarBlonic]

The fact that this permanently weakened Fulgrim will probably open up his final death in the far future. Seriously: Fulgrim was so charismatic and charming that he even charmed the _Emperor_ to give his legion the name “the Emperor’s Children.” Then combine his absolute charisma with Slaanesh enhanced people skills and seduction capabilities just from being around him… Rylanor saw both of those things and just let his hatred burn any feeling he got from that. He wasn’t blinded- he simply didn’t care about anything other than punching his prick genefather in the face. Fulgrim knowing that even in his ultimate form of “perfection” with seduction and charisma being his strong suits that he failed in turning one of his own sons- a broken, pained, dying man who is literally genetically programmed to be loyal to his gene father- and not only that; but turning 3 traitor marines back into loyalists from sheer disgust and the tenacity of Rylanor… it weakens him because he is literally a creature made up of pride made manifest. And _that_ was the ultimate and permanent blow to his pride.

[@jamescawl6904]

The reason why the 3rd legion is given the name Emperor's Children is because early in the crusade Fulgrim and His legion managed to stop an assasination attempt on the Emperor in a newly conquered planet. The Emeperor was about to be blown into dust by a hidden nuclear bomb while on parade. Thus the grateful Emperor renamed the 3rd legion and allowed them to wear the Imperial aquilla. The first space marine legion to do so.

[@AmericanZergling]

@@jamescawl6904 iirc, Fulgrim wasn't even discovered yet when his legion gained the name and the aquila. Fulgrim himself was very prideful of his sons for this, but also seemed bothered in the back of his mind that the most honorable thing his legion had done was without him.

[@TheGreatThicc]

​@@jamescawl6904Didn't the 3rd Legion basically form a wall of guns to shield the Custodians from the hordes of attacking locals as they pulled the Emperor out of there?

[@jamescawl6904]

@@TheGreatThicc Pre-Heresy Emperor's children was the best Legion in the Imperium even better than the blood angels. How the mighty have fallen.

[@TheGreatThicc]

@@jamescawl6904 honest I'm torn between them and the Salamanders. Especially after learning Fulgrim gave a speech to one of his captains I think it was about how it should be them bowing to the civilians after seeing the guy disrespecting a woman something fierce. I think that was it. Been a while

[@wolfluva24]

I think the saddest part about rylanor isn’t the betrayal or his inevitable end to try and kill his gene father….I think it’s the fact he has been on that planet alone with not but the ashes of comrades and enemies as his only companions for millennia…

[@ryanlorenzo5003]

The only thing that would make this sweeter is in a fantasised face-off between Clone-Fulgrim and Daemon Primarch, the Legion of the Damned arrives and standing side-by-side the uncorrupted Fulgrim would be the ghostly forms of Ferrus with a burning metal skull of a head and Rylanor with as much of his dreadnought chassis restored to its original greatness.

[@sovi8762]

i'd kill for this i can imagine it now just ferrus with his hammer, skull blazing with warp fire and his brother standing by him with a look of contempt and disgust for what his legion had become, out strides Rylanors dreadnought seething with roaring flames next to his restored primarch and all Ferrus does is raise his hammer and points it at Daemon fulgrim then all hell breaks loose, hundreds of damned astartes and dreadnoughts charging into fulgrims forces their primarch and his brother taking the front to finally end a tragic story that seemed to have no end.

[@neurohexis2819]

@@sovi8762 If only gw wasn't afraid of drastic change, we could even actually get this

[@rokkraljkolesa9317]

@@sovi8762 the Emperor's Daemons, as another commenter put it

[@wartorngaming1037]

@@neurohexis2819 GW are not afraid of drastic change (fall of cadia/ the grate rift) NUT they have shit poor qualety control for there books

[@nathanrandomized3593]

Inspired by the things I've heard, I raise my voice and shout clearly and out of turn "Rylanor deserves better than you, oh primarch! Rylanor deserves better than all of us"

[@Boom__6678]

With but a single shot the reporter is relieved of duty and released of his task.

[@TheGreatThicc]

​@@Boom__6678that has to be the funniest auto correct I've seen in a long time. The sorcerer just executes a news reporter by mistake.

[@Boom__6678]

@@TheGreatThicc dang, and I spent time making sure I spelled the proper word correctly

[@PikachuLittle]

@@tristanjeffords2225”although this body of mine’s still intact I kinda feel bad for that reporter who got shot”

[@insert_name_here6487]

@@PikachuLittle a part of my pride i fear will never come back

[@alricmalicorne321]

Based and viralbomb-pilled.

[@cinders5305]

Rylanor-I die with but one regret Fulgrim- *And what might that be, my child?* Rylanor-That i only get to kill you once.

[@rory8182]

oh trust me, Rylanor is living rent free in Fulgrim's head forever

[@gabrielaubry1334]

Loyalist Emperor's Children. A.K.A. THE BROTHERS OF RYLANOR

[@ThrillzTheGreatest]

All of my brain becoming depraved My final brain cell:

[@rogeryoung7562]

Rylanor turns chaosists into loyalists again.What a chad!

[@Spencer_Thatcher]

This is honestly a lot better and more powerful than Rylanors actual diss in the book. He rejects fulgrim but it seems more like a panic then a power flex. This is a more fitting rejection stating he remembers what made the Emporers children great, their history and honors, not just that he was a member of it.

[@Kamen-Rider-Nexus]

...Did you know that when Rylanor says that he waited 'a million nights' to flip off Fulgrim, he's actually UNDER-exaggerating? Rylanor waited 10,000 YEARS for Fulgrim, and 'a million nights' is only 2,739 years, 265 days?

[@deauthorsadeptus6920]

Its hard to feel time, being traped on a dead world, all alone... Its even worse for dreadnought, since it mess up with marine mind.

[@pyropete206]

Galaxy brain, make the line "four million nights"

[@aidancallahan4217]

He waited almost 3,690,000 nights; the pinacle of the 3rd legion.

[@septimusheikler8104]

He waited a grand total of 3650000 days

[@rory8182]

@@septimusheikler8104 3655000 earth standard due to leap years

[@ladywaffle2210]

Upon that day, a wound was dealt more terrible than any boltor, more devastating than any Titan, more destructive than any warhead. A wound was dealt to the very soul of a turncoat, for Excess, hungering Excess, faced the one thing that it cannot, will not, can never comprehend: *Sacrifice.* For in the immortal words of a forgotten man: *"Rylanor deserves better than you, o Primarch! Rylanor deserves better than all of us!"* These words will never be known to anyone, save exactly one person: the depraved Primarch itself. No Imperial scholar will write tales of Rylanor or Vistario. But Fulgrim? He will remember. He, in his darkest, most private moments, will never forget the son that rejected him. That wound will never close or heal; it will fester and rot until Fulgrim succumbs to it. Let that be enough.

[@patrickdees5256]

What's even worse, should anyone utter the same statement to Fulgrim, "I reject you now and for always," he'll be reminded again of his failings

[@ritikshaw5868]

And since Fulgrim is now a Daemon Primarch... Deamons being the amalgamation of emotions reflected in the warp... He's actually wounded by this attack on his ego As his own image is broken by the rejection.

[@Zhentarim]

now imagine if his clone is released and Magnus gives the memory of what happened, and he will confront the original

[@patrickdees5256]

@@Zhentarim I believe Clonegrim knows all about his original's fall to chaos, if I'm correct. And he hated when had become. Even better, he could take ferrus manus's place on the loyalist side, since GW clearly doesn't care that much. And maybe we could get a bit more insight on him, through Clonegrim's memories. Make it sort of a symbolic representation of Ferrus coming back to the world.

[@Zhentarim]

@@patrickdees5256 I was more thinking about him pretending to be nice and setting a trap, and what information he would get is more of an insight into Rylanor.

[@Become-Eggplant]

Sometimes I wish the imperium found Rylanor and salvage his Geneseed. Creating a new legion/chapter of loyalist Emperor's children.

[@davidt1d]

Sons of the Phoenix?

[@akshatmandody5484]

​@davidt1d that's actually a really good name

[@Dadvinder]

​@@akshatmandody5484sons of the Pheonix are a real chapter

[@JustALittleGhostOfHallownest]

@@akshatmandody5484they are a real chapter. Sons of ful- *inquisitorial gunshot.* I mean Rogal Dorn.

[@akshatmandody5484]

@JustALittleGhostOfHallownest I see the sons of the great royal dorn already have the name so we shall need another

[@drewpowell409]

Even the sound marines were banging out to this solo.

[@ethanmitchell7479]

Isn’t this the same guy who looked at his entire legion and father primarch becoming obscene demons and went “Fuck all of you but especially you” And flipped fulgrim off while detonating a bomb to warn the loyalists?

[@randomcenturion7264]

Yes this is him.

[@KestalDoern]

This song is peak narrative and fuel for emotions in WH40k. Nothing tops that.

[@patrickdees5256]

Emperor's Children got worse when they fell to Slaneesh. Change my mind

[@sethkrueger5472]

The band of hawk of 40k

[@patrickdees5256]

@@sethkrueger5472 Fulgrim is the Griffith of 40k

[@silverbloodborne9495]

Nights well no they where always this insane

[@Mondy667]

​@silverbloodborne9495 Nah, they are very cultured, love arts, beauty, poetry and are fine with normal people

[@PikachuLittle]

@@Mondy667while Fulgrim was always a pompous, preening, self important dick, he was also a genuinely nice guy who would always respect those who put in the effort to better themselves. He was also one of the best Primarchs to have roll up to your planet during the Great Crusade because he would actually try diplomacy, and the guy was so charismatic that you’d usually be convinced to join the Imperium without having to fight at all.

[@ryanowens9460]

ive always loved this part of the song, because before it, its a back and forth between Rylanor and Fulgrim, you can even hear where normally Fulgrim would come back in with a retort after "I remember the lessons passed onto the Sons" but when Rylanor just keeps going it makes it feel like, even if only for a moment, he had the pushed the Primarch back, which is badass

[@janehrahan5116]

what makes it even better is that while fulgrims plan from the start was to convert him, and he had likely been preparing responses to everything he could concive, rylanor had no plans to speak at all, the bomb was already supposed to have gone off. Rylanors off the cuff speech is stronger than the primarchs prepared one.

[@j_x5058]

It’s my head cannon that as Rylanor passes into the warp, the Emperor took him in an embrace while saying: I’m proud to call you one of my children, you have endured more than anything I could have ever expected from you, rest now my child.

[@wanderhillen2435]

Then straight back into the fray as one of the Legion of the Damned, no? Maybe even with with the two Thousand Sons sorcerers as his aides or something like that. They would kick unlimited ass together.

[@miguelaugusto4240]

El dreadnouth que mantuvo sus nobles ideales pese a que su entorno ardía en el caos, realmente un gigachad

[@publiocornelioescipion8803]

es facil ser virtuoso cuando vives rodeados de valores, en cambio un entorno corrompido demostrara el verdadero caracter de los hombres

[@miguelaugusto4240]

@@publiocornelioescipion8803 la pura verdad

[@luminenwalker]

"For fuck's sake Rylanor, shut up with your goddamn theme song, and turn to chaos alre-" *virus bomb goes off*

[@AYEcorolla]

The weight of Rylanors massive testicles threw Istvaan III out of orbit.

[@AparajitaStormhoof]

Inspired by the things I've heard, I raise my voice and shout clearly and out of turn...

[@jairoconsolascio5226]

"Rylanor deserves better than you, oh Primarch! Rylanor deserves better than all of us!"

[@lolbots686]

Fulgrim:what...? Clonegrim:here i stand. Here i remain. You are not me. You are no prince. You are but a monster who talks and moves in my corrupted flesh. Wither and decay,for this destiny ends here. I am fulgrim, primarch of the emporors children,son of the emporor beloved by all. For all my cursed blood that died upon isstvan. For the millions i let burn. And for the man who gave me balance...THE. ANCIENT. AWAITS.

[@cyrolocker1229]

Rylanor took one look at the chaos emperors children’s music and thought it was so bad he killed himself and everyone around him

[@vaiyt]

"Cringe. You are all cringe. Your music is cringe. "

[@mr.ashenfire2624]

There was a World Eater loyalist who would go on to become a Grey Knight. Despite the Nails in his own head, he had clarity that the others didnt. Forget his name but he was one of Malcador's picks when Big E had him go find loyal people.

[@rokkraljkolesa9317]

not quite Macer Varren was recruited into the Knights Errant, which was the precursor to the GKs

[@ethanmitchell7479]

Think everyone forgets that Rylanor was such a giga-chad that fellow traitors looked at his decaying broken body compared to Fulgrims and instead saw his righteous fury and indomitable will compared to Fulgrims tainted festering soul and they decided they would rather burn with him than serve alongside filth like Fulgrim…….

[@brovusmarillian3303]

I was just expecting some cool chad talk. Stead I am greeted with a Very Catchy tune that earned it's right for Rylanor's sake.

[@xzenitramx666]

I like to believe than in another timeline a not corrupted fulgrim its getting pull out the battle for the sons of magnus in tears because his son already in a Dreadnought its about to detoned a virus bomb to stop the nyds, fulgrim hates himself for losing a son once again for the second time.

[@Shadow-876]

INSPIRED BY THE THINGS I'VE HEARD, I RAISE MY VOICE AND SHOUT CLEARLY AND OUT OF TURN "RYLANOR DESERVES BETTER THAN YOU, OH PRIMARCH! RYLANOR DESERVES BETTER THAN ALL OF US!" WITH BUT A SINGLE SHOT MY RAPTORAE IS RELIEVED OF DUTY AND RELEASED OF HIS TASK. I FEEL THE VIRUS REND ME APART WITH MY HONOR INTACT AS I'M ENVOLOPED BY THE ENCROACHING FLASH

[@MidoriOfTheShuinsen]

Although this body of mine is still intact, A piece of my pride I fear will never come back

[@synergy8879]

all fun and games till tzeentch goes “hey, i really liked that guy. LETS RESURRECT HIM.”

[@trajanrts7735]

He shall not touch the most loyal and true of the Emperor's children

[@the_gruesom4999]

This part will always be my favorite

[@NobodyAtAll56]

The final words of the last of the emperor’s children

[@Peptuck]

Rylanor was such a chad that not only did he redeem a Chaos Marine, he redeemed him so hard that said Chaos Marine committed suicide to save Rylanor from being corrupted by Chaos.

[@alexwest2514]

INSPIRED BY THE THINGS IVE HEARD I RAISE MY VOICE AND SHOUT CLEARLY AND OUT OF TURN RYLANOR DESERVES BTTER THAN YOU OH PRIMARCH RYLANOR DESERVES BETTER THAN ALL OF US!

[@GerberDad138]

Chills. Goddamn chills. Everytime I hear this part of the song

[@totalnerd5674]

How to defeat Fulgrim in the 41st Millennium: Get any Contemptor Dreadnaught and paint it purple

[@roberine7241]

instant psychic damage

[@totalnerd5674]

@@roberine7241 Post Rylanor Stress Disorder

[@GarkKahn]

Me when my cousin was offering me drugs:

[@sethkrueger5472]

The only man I can see as guts (berserk) in 40k and deserved to never be in the series he never deserved any of the horrible things that'd happened to him, only man to make a necron and eldar cry, Rylanor killed me I have brothers and friends that'd mean the world to me and I'd still deal the hell of living in a painful existence if that meant seeing my brothers and their smiles only for everything in your world turned disappear, betrayal, rage, sadness blind hubres, Just seeing your legion decline into degrengates and the man you once call farther a monster to far gone for anything and your baby brothers all them turned into monsters all for you to watch for 10,000 years

[@beefyblom]

you mean there are eldar that aren't constantly crying?

[@sethkrueger5472]

@@beefyblom they'd stop and realize they have nothing to cry for when seeing rylanor

[@TaxFraudEnthusiast]

​@@beefyblom Trazyn is just vibing out there, if there is one necron not permanently seething it's that guy

[@beefyblom]

@@TaxFraudEnthusiast I said Eldar, not Necrons.

[@athingwhichexists]

Fulgrim did achieve perfection in the end. In his arrogance he thought this perfection he knew he created to be himself, but it never could have been. The perfection he unwittingly created was instead in his legion, his geneson, Rylanor, who demonstrated every virtue of humanity, every great thing of his legion, and who's perfect hatred burned so intensely that Istvaan would once more be scorched in flames. Only after it had all happened did Fulgrim realize the true perfection he had created. Then he slinked away, his pride and arrogance damaged forevermore.

[@kavkaz8000]

Let's face it. What Rylanor *tried* to do was admirable, but he got his shit pushed in and would have to endure much worse fate if Vistario hadn't grown a conscience all of a sudden.

[@BelugaChonky]

That's why the T son's are chads and my favourite legion

[@arminakuma2828]

Nathaniel garro to the deathguard and to dorne calling him a traitor

[@the_emperor_of_mankind]

Drums banging like it's Fall of FUCKING MARS

[@ДЕДДЕСАНТНИК]

Yes Brother, keep it up. THE COURSE GOES STRAIGHT TO THE WARP. FOR THE EMPEROR AND ALL MANKIND. AVE EMPEROR

[@vdate]

What kind of WH40K-flavoured heavy-metal-opera-finale fever dream did I just walk into?!

[@Evil_Florida]

Fulgrim literally never recovered

[@jekobonni]

For me, the Emperor's Children died on Istvaan 3, and Rylanor, who sacrificed his life for revenge. Every so-called Emperor's Children who joined to Chaos just Fulgrim OnlyFans' subscribers.

[@vvalchrid]

i'm a thousand sons player and this just made me Loyalist again!

[@navidvarzeghani2789]

He should’ve been primarch not fulgrim, just imagine the glory

[@mremu4358]

It's ok, he's now the Primarch of the Legion of the Damned

[@navidvarzeghani2789]

@@mremu4358 that’s more than deserved (almost owed), long live Rylanor of the emperors children!!

[@ZackeTheBrute]

That sounds cool but is actually just stupid. You can’t become primarch, you cannot be chosen to be primarch, the primarchs where tailor made by emps. They are what they are for better or worse.

[@navidvarzeghani2789]

@@ZackeTheBrute i think you don’t think before you speak, i meant he always should’ve been the emperors children primarch and not becoming it

[@ZackeTheBrute]

@@navidvarzeghani2789 I just explained why that’s retarded. Sure if you said he should have become the chapter master but there is no “should have been primarch”. Either you are or you are not.

[@darthmemewalker2807]

Rylanor is one of the biggest gigachads in sci-fi

[@KingLich451]

my heart spooling up like a twin turbo

[@ProcyonDei]

If the uncorrupted Fulgrim escapes from Trazyn's museum and rallies the Sons of the Phoenix against the demon Fulgrim's forces while shouting " For Rylanor!" That would be quite a comeback...

[@isaacpotter3454]

Honestly if we never get a living saint rylenor something is truly wrong

[@trajanrts7735]

I know what to 3D pring now >:)

[@FerreusVir]

"So I reject you for now and for always!" Easily the best part of the entire song.

[@Mecceldorf]

These lyrics have the vibes of a frat bro singing with the utmost drunken passion of a 3 AM New Years party, *and it's beautiful.*

[@JammesJack-td6gv]

Thats oddly specific and also not fitting

[@Brigtzen]

it actually is very fitting@@JammesJack-td6gv

[@FrostSoul-qs6kq]

Simply put shortly ... LEARN YOUR PLACE XENOMO

[@demilung]

Yes, singing does count as facts and logic in the 3rd legion.

[@quarantinezone2844]

*The worst he can say is no.*

[@Kira_Novik]

Я не буду спрашивать, почему Фульгрим решил побриться налысо. Но вижу, что он оплакивает потерю волос.

[@saintricardo8746]

The masculine urge to die beside Rylanor just to stick it to Fulgrim

[@mpcrauzer]

We need a Rylanor on this planet

[@trajanrts7735]

Become THE Rylanor

[@wigligigly3375]

As someone who mainly listens to Deathcore and other heavy metal genres, the sheer emotion and virtue expressed through his singing is awe inspiring

[@breadman441]

It's very powerful

[@frossassin213]

good lore.

[@Sukuna_935]

I do indeed remember this moment well

[@mugenokami2201]

Can we be told it to spread it?

[@Sukuna_935]

​@@mugenokami2201 it's goes exactly as the song goes

[@BurnByMoonlight]

There’s a reason GW retired the venerable line of dreadnoughts in 10. Because they know they’d all bitch slap Fulgrim when they release him later in the edition.

[@zaarkeru3391]

What I want from GW. Release Fulgrim amd all that jazz. But, do also release the codex for the legion of the damned and at the same time release the Venerable chassis for dreadnoughts. A man can dream about LotD Rylanor dunking on Fulgrim

[@ananonymousnerd.2179]

"Rylanor deserves better than you, oh Primarch! Rylanor deserves better than all of us!"

[@Leglessolas]

This is like the perfect hero narrative

[@ხალიბა]

Fulgrim: we are evils join. Rylaron:i am too evil and brok to join parfetic like you

[@theoink636]

I think Rylanor would even have given Logar a moment of pause.

[@brendancoulter5761]

If only the Emperor of man kind was in any way worthy of the loyalty of his greatest soldiers.

[@fewglow5076]

If only the Chaos God were worthy of all the sympathy chaos fanboys give them.

[@captc0ck5lap60]

Looked it up, a million nights would be just over 2739 years.

[@firelord699]

Something I've only just considered; it takes a lot of iron will just to defy your own Primarch, considering that you're pretty much biologically programmed to support them. Imagine being so faithful to the Imperium, and so vengeful and disgusted towards your own progenitor that you rewrite this and play a 10,000 year waiting game just to nuke his ass.

[@RainbowGod666]

Rylanor, the Based Dreadnought of the emperors children

[@cosuinofdeath]

Saul thought of you in his last moments ancient rylanor

[@jaskapenttila7644]

"They'll remember this..."

[@drkRoss89]

I would laugh my arse off if Rylanor was ever re-born to serve as one of the Emperor's Children. That would give Fulgrim a proper kick in the teeth.

[@VarangianGuard13]

We had Master Rylanor, Ancient of Rites.. We have Bjorn, the Fel-Handed.. What that we have kept and lost, both far too high the cost..

[@user-ro2sg6jb6u]

Emperor does not deserve such people as Rilanor.

[@CybrosPrime]

So hear me out, what if Rylanor was a Primarch instead of Fulgrim in an alternate timeline?

[@ДЕДДЕСАНТНИК]

It's legendary. It's VERY STRONG

[@themasterchief0117]

Imagine being so badass,so masculine that you're mere dying words makes the enemy go "damn......our boss is a pussy"