The Lion Makes CHANGES to the Dark Angels and Leads them to War – New Codex Lore for Lion El'Jonson



Let’s talk about the new Codex Dark Angels lore for the Primarch of the Dark Angels and what it means for him and the chapter going forwards…

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0:00 Intro
1:17 The Established Lore
3:16 Return of The Lion
5:57 Arks of Omen
8:05 Codex Dark Angels
8:59 Luther Knew?
10:27 Commanding His Legion
12:54 The Hunt for the Fallen
14:51 Inner Circle Companions
16:07 Character Changes + Reactions to the Imperium
19:16 The Lion Battles Tyranids…
20:49 Closing Thoughts
22:25 Outro

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50 thoughts on “The Lion Makes CHANGES to the Dark Angels and Leads them to War – New Codex Lore for Lion El'Jonson”

  1. The already secretly unified nature of the Unforgiven certainly works in the Lion’s favor when it comes to simply treating the chapters as 30k style companies in his Legion, and he absolutely is in command of them as a legion.

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  2. I do like that he is just no stops fighting. Not listening to anyones crap don't got time for that saving humanity. Also he has reunited lost sons not every fallen but still that's awesome.

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  3. I had a feeling with the Lion returned, the hunt for the Fallen would still go on, but I like the idea of the Lion being the one to confront them and those found to have never been corrupted he'd bring into the ranks of the Redeemed.

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  4. I think you have misunderstood them, The Primarch is all to a chapter. If The Lion says that some are forgiven then thats it. All of the chapters ethos and beliefs would ride with that, Luther has told them that only The Lion can forgive them. He has come and some he has forgiven and his word is law to the Legion, not the Chapter, the Legion.

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  5. I kinda really hate the idea of the Risen. Or forgiven Fallen. The Imperium has a tendency to just wholesale condemn entire chapters of Space Marines on the flimsiest of reasons, and there is no forgiveness or remorse for those deemed traitors.

    Even if it's ultimately a mistake on the Imperium's part, someone condemned as a traitor is forever seen as a traitor. The Fallen shouldn't really be any different. Actual Chaos corruption or no, they're traitors.

    That and I'm also a huge chaos fan, and I don't want Fallen Angels to slip out from under the Chaos banner.

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  6. I'm still upset that they decided to make his awakening a "he shows up millions of lightyears from where he's been canonically for millenia" instead we could've had a very interesting moment of the Lion waking up, shocking the entire Chapter, probably cussing out quite a few people in his own way, and then going on to do whatever it is he wants to do while silently reforming his Legion to do his job. Also Caliban being remade just feels wrong. Hunt still makes sense for his character, and being in the shadows is kinda his thing sometimes, but come on it's the Lord of the First. I don't get the same feel I did from the Heresy era with him anymore and that makes me rather sad.

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  7. I kind of feel like GW is slowly working on redeeming the Imperium as a whole, changing it from something that is unending horror into an actual functioning society, and the current state of the Lion's lore seems to fit my hypothesis.

    As for the bit with Luther not "giving up" that Lion was still alive: my guess is that he did and his interrogators didn't believe him. And if the torture was being at all effective, Luther would have stopped insisting on that detail very quickly if they didn't want to hear it. Because it is very well known that torture isn't very good at finding out what the victim actually *knows*, it's just good at finding out what the victim thinks the torturer wants to hear.

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  8. Wait, so that's it? Zabriel, Lohoc, Kai and all the rest of the Risen Angels basically get folded into a nameless retinue under the 40k version of 'don't ask, don't tell'? The same guys he was depending on in the Lion Protectorate to serve as his generals, admirals, assassins and troubleshooters? That is some awfully disappointing writing that steps all over Mike Brook's excellent novel and all the fresh ideas he introduced in it.

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  9. Guilliman broke Lion's Hexagrammaton, the system which made the DA switch specializations within the battle seamlessly.
    Roboute meddled in what was not his own.
    The Lion was the Emperor's Exterminator, his arbiter, a role which exists outside the nominal system, to do what is needed when it is needed, when you cannot wait for how the system would handle it.
    Guilliman is the Emperor's Governor, his societal systems builder, a role to perfect the nominal systems of the Imperium.
    This was the Emperor's plan, one to create a system to align doing what is wanted with what is needed. And one to do what is needed when what is wanted isn't in alignment.

    Guilliman committed heresy in systematizing that which was supposed to be outside his purview by the Emperor's design. And while Lion and Roboute may be more lenient with each other's actions (Lion will probably set up a new Legion system), its the Imperium which may react to cause a civil war which neither primarch wants.

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  10. Plot armour is right. One primarch and a handful of marines against the never-ending swarm? Sure he is powerful, but Tyranids attack planet wide, and last I checked a single person is an awful lot smaller than a planet. Heck, he should have trouble defending a single town on his own. But what do I know, eh? The laws of the universe bend around the gravitational mass that is the GW writing team.

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  11. What happens to the vanished prisoners I bet is the innocent ones he walks them into the magical ghost forest and out to another planet somewhere- since the forest takes him to places his lost sons are he sends the loyal fallen, now turned risen, to go spread the word to their lost brothers that he's back and we're getting it together.

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  12. First I thank you for bringing thus all together, but the second part is could you add just a tiny of excitement or something to your droning on and on and on flying through the info with the most uninspired plain voice?

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  13. I like how so many people assume there'd be conflict with Roboute like he wouldn't immediately let the lion do whatever the hell he wanted purely to take the burden off himself. Life is suffering for girlyboatman right now.

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  14. Lion realises his mistake as too hot-head.
    And he knew he also the one who did grave mistake during the destruction of his homeworld.
    If he investigated throughly, instead on massive orbital bombardment.
    The situation migth be a little scratches rather suffer massive casulties.

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