WARHAMMER 40K LORE: INDEX ASTARTES IRON HANDS

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WARHAMMER 40K LORE: INDEX ASTARTES IRON HANDS History of the Iron Hands, Medusa and Primarch Ferrus Manus Thanks! Emperor Protects!

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  8. ‘May the Omnissiah watch over this instrument of holy war.’ – Artisan Adept Sabeq Rawl

    "Typical of the Iron Hands. They did not trust flesh. They did not trust their greater-than-human bodies, nor even entirely the gene-seed legacy of their own primarch.
    They did not trust themselves." – Chaplain Ortan Cassius of the Ultramarines Chapter

    ‘Pain is of the flesh. From this day onward, I am iron.’ – Brother Sergeant Kardan Stronos of the Clan Company Garrsak

    "A Space Marine, even one unaltered from the Emperor’s base design, was built to withstand the worst excesses of a hostile galaxy. Improved upon by a tradition of replacement and repair, an Iron Hands Space Marine was functionally indestructible…"

    ‘A bolt-round to the back of the head will end a fight as surely as a power sword to the front. Outcome is all. Consideration of anything more is pride, and pride is weakness.’ – Veteran-Sergeant Maarvuk

    "They are not my hands. This fact is forgotten by my brothers – inexplicably, it has always seemed to me. The hands are strong, to be sure, and have created great things for us all, but they are not mine. And that counts for something. They forget that the silver on my arms comes from a beast that I vanquished. It is the mark of a great evil that I ended, and yet it persists within me. It is alien, artificial; an uneasy corollary to the superlative physical frame given to me by my father. I would struggle to remove it now. The problem is not one of surgery, for I have no doubt my father’s chirurgeons could remake me entirely if he gave them the command. No, I will not remove the silver from my flesh because I have learned to depend on it. The fault is with my mind. I rely on the augmentation given to me by my metal gauntlets, so much so that the flesh beneath them is now little more than a memory. It is a crutch, this silver. A day will come when I will strip it from me, lest I lose the power to master myself forever. Already my Legion’s warriors replace their shield hands with metal in my honour, and so they too are learning to doubt the natural strength of their bodies. They must be weaned off this practice before it becomes a mania for them. Hatred of what is natural, of what is human, is the first and greatest of the corruptions. So I record it here: when the time comes, I will strip my hands of their unnatural silver. I will instruct my Legion to recant their distrust of the flesh. I will turn them away from the gifts of the machine and bid them relearn the mysteries of flesh, bone and blood. When my father’s Crusade is over, this shall be my sacred task. When the fighting is done, I shall cure my Legion, and myself. For if fighting is all there is, if we may never pause to reflect on what such devotion to strength is doing to us, then our compulsion will only grow. Already I see the madness that path leads to, and so I shall excise the silver from my hands. In doing so I shall weaken myself and my sons, but nonetheless it must be done. The hands are strong, and have created great things, but they are not mine." – The Neimerel Scrolls attributed to the Primarch Ferrus Manus

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  22. "The Iron Hands hate weakness.",
    Their primarch is the first to die in the heresy by the hands of some fruit. Then, some how, appears to his people just to cry about his dead dad.

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  27. So…Ferrus was the Emperor's equal, but was killed by Fulgrim in combat…
    Edit: So was his head chopped off if this was written before the battle with Fulgrim? No? Lol

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  28. Why does every loyalist primarch killed during the heresy have a corny legend about mysteriously surviving and/or returning, eg, "during the wolf time"? It seems like they decided to kill off a bunch of characters, then left "prophecies" so they could write the dead primarchs into short stories here and there. The quality of writing greatly increased post-heresy, became more "grimdark". The primarchs were childish cartoon-like characters in hindsight.

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