How Did The Lion Actually Return? | Warhammer 40k Lore

Straight up, the Lion is the most morally good protagonist in the entire setting right now and his return lore proves it
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When the entity turned into Perty, the Lion said "you could atleast choose a brother I cared about". Great burn for Perty especially.

Fun fact, the Lion waking up in a forest is actually something somewhat spoiled for years before the reveal by a certain song that goes: "in the jungle, the mighty jungle, the Lion sleeps tonight."

Granted a forest isn't a jungle but this is a great piece of retroactive thinking nonetheless :)

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It would be interesting if the Forest Dimension is tangentially related to the Emperor’s failed Webway project.

I think it's interesting that every other psyker refers to the warp as an ocean or body of water, and it's represented in the forest as a river. It kind of implies that the Lion and Emperor are actually in some parallel space like the webway.

The Emperor's great work was modifying the webway to make it suitable for human travel, and when Magnus broke into the throne room, he did so through the webway. The Emperor sitting in the forest on the bank of the river (the warp), keeping the shadows in the water at bay almost perfectly fits with him sitting on the golden throne keeping the hole in the webway closed.

The webway reflects the mind and emotions of those who travel through it, so it would make sense that, to the Lion, it would appear as Caliban. It's also likely no coincidence that Vashtor re-built Caliban to act as a key to the webway. This is likely building up to a narrative around who controls the webway. All culminating in the return of a certain primarch who has been lost in the webway for 10,000 years.

One thing this book shows that I really like is that the lion still hasn’t fully gotten over sanguinius’ death.

The end of the book has one of my favourite interactions.
Kurze: "Atleast I knew which of my sons deserved to die."

Lion: "They all did!"

Kurze: "And I knew that."

The Lion book was my first ever 40K novel and I think Mike Brooks nailed it! I loved the pacing and how likeable the fallen angels were!

Its pretty great that GW addressed the whole "Killing the Emperor will revive him" theory. They're like "We know about it, it makes sense, but nah its not gonna happen".

I loved every interaction the Lion had with the Redeemed. He had to put in effort in gaining their loyalty. He was even going to leave them alone if they refused to join him in defending humanity. His lack of interest in ruling was a big part of why many of his lost sons joined his side. Because defending humanity is hardcoded into every Knight of Caliban.

The Lion using that shield to smash the shapeshifting boss is proof that he is a Smiter. Which explains why he´s so OP.

I kind of like it that the Lion is now a Grimdark variant of the Green Knight. Always showing up when needed and kicking Chaos Ass :D

I like how he’s old because it proves to everyone that he was legit just sitting there for 10,000 years brooding

In the new Siege of Terra book there's similar things happening. Garviel Loken travels miles in seconds and doesn't know how it happens...

The Watchers working directly with the Emperor is actually a pretty huge development. They're incredibly powerful little dudes who make chaos daemons flee just from their very presence. It's always been assumed that they were doing their own thing but if they protected the Lion and the DA in general on the Emperors orders that would drastically change their importance. Could even mean that since they didn't stop Vashtorr from getting the techulcha engine that it could be part of Big Es plan.

Great video as always! A video on how each of the primarchs would react to the modern imperium if they were in Guillimans place would be dope

I love the idea of a Primarch Boss Rush. I'm imagining Lorgar as the tutorial, Mortarion as the notorious damage sponge, and Sanguinius as Nightmare Mode.

Honestly the introduction of the dark angels in Descent of Angels would be the perfect way to soft introduce a prim arch and how planets came into the imperium fold in a tv adaptation. I wonder if that’s what Cavill will be doing…

So fun fact, the whole „asking the right question“ is a reference to an old tale thats part of the King Arthur Stories, called Parcifal.
In the story a boy meets an old dying king with his knights around him and the only thing that can heal him, the boy doesn’t ask him and carries on with his journey. Then after a long heroes journey he returns to this old dying king and asks him „was wehet dir oheim“ which means „whats hurting you uncle“. The king regains his strength and it is revealed that this king is king arthur.
Quite a nice read