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hey that's hot

You are madness made manifest!!! You are Hell in my bloodstream!!!!?!????!?

i'm blasting rn

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my attempted very simplified visualization of Colchis' orbital turn/solar day as explained in Lorgar's primarch book, and interpreted by the ancient desert settlers

:3c for my personal notes but thought i would still share

very longgg passage excerpt below cut from Lorgar: Bearer of the Word containing more thorough details about this world's timekeeping

Translator's Note on Time

The world of Colchis is of a magnitude larger than Holy Terra, and consequently even approximations of time by the accepted nomenclature of 'Terran standard' are unsuccessful in conveying the very different diurnal and nocturnal cycle of its inhabitants. Before we begin, the reader should familiarize themselves with the following information.

The orbit of Colchis around its star takes nearly five years - four point eight to be more precise. Therefore if a Colchisian refers to being six years old, they are in fact twenty-eight or twenty-nine Terran years old.

A Colchisian solar day, that is, one complete planetary rotation, is seven point one terran days, or one hundred and seventy point four Terran hours. Clearly even humans, as adaptable as they are, cannot survive with a ninety-hour day/night cycle, and so Colchisian culture developed a system for intermediary sleep and waking periods.

These periods are often referred to as 'days' in many volumes but this can be confusing and portray an erroneous image of events. In this text I have endeavored to achieve a more literal translation of the Colchisian terminology, which is derived from the language of the ancient desert settlers.

'Day', in the following manuscript, refers to a complete orbital turn of the planet, from sunrise to sunrise. This day is further divided into the following times of approximately twenty-four hours each (the exact length depends further upon seasons and locality, and chronometry on Colchis is a dedicated and difficult scientific discipline in its own right): Dawnaway, Mornday, Long Noon, Post-noon, Duskeve, Coldfall, High Night.

These sub-days are then broken down into three further periods, two of wakefulness and one of sleep, approximating eight hours each. These three periods are called wake-rise, wake-main and rest-eve, with the last being the sleep period (although frequently inhabitants may sleep less than eight hours during Mornday, Long-Noon, and Post-Noon, and slightly longer during the darkness of the remaining time).

One might therefore refer to wake-rise of Dawnaway, being sometime in the first eight hours of the twenty-four-hour period of a new Colchisian day. Custom has it that the hottest time, wake-main of Long Noon, is also a rest period, for when the local star is at its zenith, it is exceptionally deleterious to health to be out of cover. Conversely, rest-eve of High Night is the coldest and darkest period of the Colchisian day.

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[[[head in my fucking handsss]]] Guilliman pleaseeee shut the fuck upppp Pleaseeee never speaaak

i was like "yeah g-boy is keeping quiet because he feels bad" but good fucking lord what is this shit. the audacity required to say that. (is there a book with his POV i'm so curious...) im cringing so hard this actually hurts.

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I'm thinking of the way Lorgar grieves and self-flagellates for all of the atrocities he's committed/manipulated while only ever in the privacy of his quarters, and usually only if he's alone... Hm.

One obvious known is he usually doesn't want people seeing him vulnerable or punishing himself (very understandable).

I also feel that he is so, "for the greater good" minded, and, "for the furthering of his (personal👀) agenda in pursuit of the Truth", he's willing to sacrifice anything and anyone and ultimately his own humanity for it (reminds me of Emps and also his brothers, but a lot of the Primarchs are similar in this regard, honestly. They're all tactician-brained in their own ways).

However he hates it at the same time and punishes himself for all of the carnage he leaves in his wake in whatever ways he knows how to, whatever that makes sense to him. I feel like Lorgar does this practice where he attempts to take the pain he causes and replicates/condenses this suffering by inflicting all of it unto himself physically, because I remember him remarking to Nairo (in Bearer of the Word) that when Kor Phaeron beat him as punishment it agonized his heart(s) the most.

This is why I think sometimes if the pain he knows isn't enough, he will keep marks instead of healing them as reminders for the tragedies he's committed (looking at the scar he kept from Corvus).

I also think that when he goes to grieve, he's not only grieving those he's had to kill and sacrifice, he's also grieving the loss of his humanity- which is something he willfully gives up more and more of as the heresy proceeds into the far future. It's something he may or may not have much of anymore since his ascension to daemonhood- but I haven't gotten that far yet at all. However! I can assume he is in a constant state of Everything dialed up to a million now.

Anyway, these are my thoughts on him at this timeee :)c

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i be tapping through a book on da tablet and then BOOM Garviel jumpscare

he Loken at me....

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reading the foreword to the NL Omnibus because gisa and shen inspired me to and Lo and Behold a huge Fucking Point that flies over everybody's head that i won't stop waving around addressed by ADB himself

the way i'm looking into an invisible camera rn

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okay pull out my heart won't you

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Erebus referring to Kor Phaeron as a jester in Child of Chaos is sending me. He gets it this evil guy really does get it because that's what KP is to me as well.