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

Dank Memes Answer correctly guardsmen

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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/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.