A qoute from someone involved with the HH series (wether it was a GW or BL honcho, I don't know) was that we only thought that we knew what happened at the climax of the HH. This suggests that many things could change, or maybe only a few, but very important, things.
We know that Emperor will kill Horus. Maybe, however, they'll take the fluff back to an earlier version an re-instate Olianus Pius, the Guardsman who died by Horus' hand who was replaced, in later fluff, by a nameless Custodes.
I don't doubt there will be a load of complaining at any change/percieved change in the fluff, but I'm excited to see what is going to happen that we don't know about! One thing I do like though, is that the last person Horus kills, the act the clears the Emperor's mind, is nameless. It shows that, in the end, Horus is acting for himself, whereas, whatever his methods may seem to show, the Emperor really is thinking about the vast billions of people out there in the galaxy; why else would he be so incensed by the death of someone so anonymous when his son, Sanguinius is lying dead by Horus' hand?
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We know that Emperor will kill Horus. Maybe, however, they'll take the fluff back to an earlier version an re-instate Olianus Pius, the Guardsman who died by Horus' hand who was replaced, in later fluff, by a nameless Custodes.
I don't doubt there will be a load of complaining at any change/percieved change in the fluff, but I'm excited to see what is going to happen that we don't know about! One thing I do like though, is that the last person Horus kills, the act the clears the Emperor's mind, is nameless. It shows that, in the end, Horus is acting for himself, whereas, whatever his methods may seem to show, the Emperor really is thinking about the vast billions of people out there in the galaxy; why else would he be so incensed by the death of someone so anonymous when his son, Sanguinius is lying dead by Horus' hand?
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