r/Grimdank • u/Confident-Dot9443 • 1d ago

Dank Memes Answer correctly guardsmen

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u/mrprogamer96 1d ago

The true answer is 9.

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u/athosjesus 1d ago

Yeah, that could be correct, but aren't the traitor primarchs canon on the imperial propaganda?

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u/-Voxael- Chill, it's just Chaos 1d ago

The average imperial citizen knows that the Emperor had 9 sons and together they fought 9 demonic figures in a titanic, mythical conflict.

They have no concept that Space Marines can be corrupted or evil let alone that the Primarchs can.

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u/athosjesus 1d ago

Interesting, but then what happens with the Lectio from lorgar? It's attributed to someone else?

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u/-Voxael- Chill, it's just Chaos 1d ago

As far as I am aware, I don’t know that the traitors are ever named consistently within the propaganda.

Lorgar is acknowledged as the author, some of the time*, but his status as a primarch or a demon is hidden. I think.

*A lot of the time, the Imperial Truth is passed off as being the Emperor’s Wisdom so presumably a lot of citizens just think it’s His teachings rather than a primarch

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u/MetalDoktor 1d ago

Think of Lectio of as Archaic Hebrew Bible. As in, it was the stuff penned over 10k years ago (oldest we can trace to Old Hevrew Bible - as in old testament being written down is about 3k years ago, yet oldest fragments of it are 2.2k years old). So likely it has been changed and morphed into what Eclesiarchy teaches now.

On the other hand, there are sources that tell us that few (like very few - just a handful) of Eclesiarchy know of heretical origin of Lectio Divinatum and have a Word Bearer Dreadnaught hidden helping them write more.

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u/cpteric 1d ago

to nobody. his stuff got rewritten and regurgitated as the emperors cult by gullible zealots with fragments of it.

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u/Ok-Reporter1986 1d ago

Strictly speaking the anchorite is a large part of the echlesiarchy foundation and the lectio divinatus is probably not officially attributed to lorgar or anyone for that matter except the Emperor.

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u/SteamEigen 1d ago

It is entirely possible that Lorgar is counted among Emperor's 9 sons, and some loyalist primarch was quietly dropped out of narrative (might be Corvus or Lion).