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This blog will feature quotes from multiple warhammer books that I have found memorable for one reason or another. triggering or questionable material may be found here, proceed with caution if you have certain sensitivities. There will also be spoilers, nessecarily. Want to submit? I am just one person and the warhammer bibliography is vast. read something interesting lately? feel free to leave your favourite snippets from it in the ask or submission box, I will tidy it up and add it to the queue. I only ask that you let me know where it's from! you can also submit annonymously by DMing me :) Tags and blogkeeper information under the cut

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Blight grenades—which induce horrendous effects on their victims—have no impact on the Death Guard, who gladly use the devices in extreme close quarters with the enemy. From: Blight Grenade, MtG trading card

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Wicked of intent and strange of form, Exalted Sorcerers have an encyclopedaeic knowledge of spells and are able to bend reality.

From: signage at Warhammer World

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‘What is your name?’ asked Larreth.

He didn’t answer her. She wished she could see his expression or glare into his eyes. What manner of being, she wondered, must a world so tainted as his breed? And who could survive upon that world, without becoming tainted too? ‘The rest of us have introduced ourselves,’ she prompted. ‘What is your name?’

The Krieg colonel cocked his head a little. He looked as if he didn’t understand the question.

from: Krieg, Steve Lyons

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‘I have learned a great deal of this world, but I have yet to fathom all its secrets,’ said Magnus. Lorgar halted, shocked at his brother’s words. ‘I don’t think I have ever heard you say that.’ ‘Say what?’ ‘That there is something you don’t know.’ Magnus smiled ruefully and continued walking. ‘Times have changed, brother. I have changed.’ From: The Crimson King, Graham McNeill

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His flesh was as necessary to him as an overcoat, nothing more than that. He kept it mainly for sentimental reasons. (...) By any definition of human, Cawl was a monstrosity

From: The Great Work, Guy Haley

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Magnus sat back, his hands coming together into an anjali mudra. It was a brief note, a single, silent character of applause, before he steepled his fingers and set them across his lips. The Magisters Templi had become phantoms in the high seating. Even Amon had become a dim shade beside the primarch’s coronal grandeur. Stare too long into the light and even the eye of a Thousand Sons legionary could be blinded. Magnus the Red was such a light. From: The Sixth cult of the Denied, David Guymer (in Blood of the Emperor)

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‘So your dislike of Lord Guilliman plays no part at all?’ the first questioner asks, with a hint of mocking laughter in their voice.

‘I neither resent nor hate Roboute,’ the primarch replies. ‘I pity him. Whether the change happens gradually or suddenly, one day he and his genius will be obsolete, and all his plans will be nothing but memories. I fear he lacks the flexibility to cope with that. I will not make that mistake. I will evolve. I will always do whatever is necessary, and so will my Legion.’

from: Council of Truth, Mike Brooks (in blood of the emperor)

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Though he is unbearably weary after centuries of war, Dante knows that he is a symbol of hope to the warriors of the Imperium and cannot allow himself to die. He seldom removes his golden death mask, cast in the image of the blood angels' murdered primarch Sanguinius, lest the sight of his aged features dismay the warriors he inspires with his actions. From: Warhammer 40000 Character Encyclopedia, Wade Pryce

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Opticon-22: "Prolonged communication with laypeople of high social standing causes this unit //vexation//desire for forceful cessation of vital functions//, //grief//decline in motivation//, //righteous fury//willingness to initiate purity protocol//. Remaining in an area of repair and maintenance of sacred machines is beneficial to this unit's cognitive functions." From: Rogue Trader, Video Game

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"It will be dangerous" admitted Magnus, "but if there's anyone who can do it...." "it is you" finished ahriman. Magnus smiled and said, "watch over me, my son?" "always" said Ahriman

from: A Thousand Sons, Graham Mcneill

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Maulerfiends thunder towards the foe like giant attack beasts loosed from the leash, eyes glowing with balefire

from: signage at Warhammer World

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He drew closer to Morarg, towering over him, shedding new and fouler stenches with every movement. ‘I am become what I hated. I am become without end, without beginning. I am become unnatural. I cannot cross His boundary. I offend against His sense of… hygiene.’

The next word came to Morarg’s lips too easily, as if summoned by a spell. ‘Daemon.’

‘It brings gifts with it,’ Mortarion agreed. ‘I see where His mind walks, now. I see His nature, burning like a flame in the void. I even understand some of the things He did.’ A hoarse laugh. ‘Too late, now, of course.’

‘And yet… is it?’ Morarg’s voice was edged with desperation. ‘You could take us back, could you not? If you willed it?’

The primarch didn’t seem to hear the question. Or perhaps it did not deserve an answer.

‘I spent my life looking for the ends of things,’ he said, softly, speaking to himself. ‘I wished for an end to suffering. I wished for an end to the desires that plagued me. Then I wished for an end to this rotten empire, and thought that was my last challenge. Whenever I got what I wished for, I saw another end ahead of me, something else to accomplish. But then, on Calas’ damned ship, I made the final choice, and erased the very idea. There is the paradox – I spoke the word, and from that moment, I had always done it. I had always been like this. I have memories from a time before I was born. I have memories from events that have yet to take place. I see the world of the senses like a rumpled cloak spread out before me, and I struggle to hold on to its hem.’

And then Morarg understood. There was no going back. It was not just impossible – it made no sense now. There was no back. From: Terminus, Chris Wraight (in blood of the emperor)

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Hiatus, again

hello dear followers, I am having to move house and it's difficult for me to get reading in in the meantime, and even more difficult to take the time to cue items for the blog. Warhammersnippets will be going quiet for about a week while I sort my matters. Thank you for standing by. -blogkeeper

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"The Thaliakron" said Magnus. "You've begun to work on it?" "not yet" said Perturabo. "Soon. When the Crusade is done and we have heroic tales aplenty to fill it with song, then I'll build it. On the mountain across from Father's palace" "I will be there to see it unveiled" promised Magnus, and his enthusiasm for his brother's work was genuine and contagious.

From: Magnus the Red, Master of Prospero, graham mcneill

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‘Our enemies have shown courage and martial prowess,’ the primarch continued. ‘They have displayed, also, a lamentable lack of wisdom. The former characteristics can be harnessed to humanity’s benefit, but only if their foolishness can first be remedied.’

He sounds truly furious, thought Yonnad. He had heard only the tiniest tremor in Dorn’s voice, a miniscule fault line running through the word ‘foolishness’. For one as stonily reserved as the primarch of the Imperial Fists, however, such a small tell meant much. Lord Dorn believed in the Great Crusade and the reunification of humanity – believed in it more completely perhaps than any of his brothers, or so it was said.

That belief makes him the greatest of our species’ champions, save the Emperor Himself, thought Yonnad with fierce pride.

from: Will of the Legion, Andy Clark (In Blood of the Emperor)

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‘They swept across no-man’s-land,’ he continued, ‘killing any xenos stragglers they found, gaining roughly one point seven miles of ground.’ ‘And then?’ ‘And then they dug more trenches.’

From: Krieg, Steve Lyons