The Biggles Syndicate wrote:The Imperial Reach wrote:Lion, probably. He's the only one still hanging around. Fuck knows what those other slackers are doing. At least Lion has an excuse; he's in a coma, like Robbie Grillman was. The others are all off raging like 12 year olds in Call of Duty, except Corax whose off moping around in self-imposed exile because he's a fucking dramatic, and then there's fucking Vulkan playing treasure hunt with his legion.
Dorn's probably joined the ranks of Sanguinius and Manus, let's be honest. Better than being drama queens and embarrassments.
OneMindSyndicate did bring up a pretty good point about why GMan came back first:
He had a known location.Basically, it was easy for GW to write the characters into traveling to his resting place to revive him. I mean, he was like the friggen Lincoln Memorial of his universe. Pretty much
everyone knew where he was.
Lion might be the next loyalist primarch for the same reason: he has a written down, specific known location like Rowboat. While he isn't as well known, it would be easier to write either somebody finding or revealing him than writing another loyalist to come back from the unknown.
Well, I mean, that's
part of the reason. The more important part is that Guilliesuit is simply the most important post-Heresy Primarch of them all due to his role as effective Supreme Commander of the Imperium's armed forces and Regent for the comatose Emperor. He was doing a good job, too, until Little Miss Perfect and his Rape Marines ruined all that.
It wasn't much of a choice on who to bring back; it had to be Guillotine first. He's the only one who could restore order and pave the way for the rest to come back. Let's be honest here, most of the Primarchs would be even more disgusted by what the Imperium's become. That's why Gman is needed - a rational mind amid a sea of irrationality. You think Russ has the tact to be able to walk back to the Imperium, see what an utter shitshow it's become, and not lose his cool? He'd be wanted by the Inquisition within minutes.
Gamblin' man is an administrator, a commander, and a voice of reason - all things the Imperium needs right now. It's a no-brainer that if you wanted to bring back the Primarchs that Bobby G would have to be the first. From a writing perspective it's the only logical choice, and I'm glad they made it instead of just going with Primarchs based on popularity. It was the much wiser move. The Imperium needed a leader and Guile Mango was the only real statesman out of all the Primarchs, Loyalist and Traitor.
Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2019 2:21 pm
