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Black Legion

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Black Legion	comment	Black Legion is an ongoing Warhammer 40,000 book series by Aaron Dembski-Bowden detailing the backstory of the eponymous legion and their commander, Abaddon the Despoiler.Iskandar Khayon, one of the founding members of the Black Legion, has surrendered himself to the Inquisition. Imprisoned and bereft of sight, both physical and psychic, Khayon tells his story to a transcription servitor.The series consists of: The Talon of Horus (September 2014) Abbadon: Chosen of Chaos (December 2013) - Set after the events of The Talon of Horus (and The Black Legion) but published before as a sneak preview of sorts. The Black Legion (August 2017)
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Black Legion / int_1186fcb5	type	Supernatural Gold Eyes
Black Legion / int_1186fcb5	comment	Supernatural Gold Eyes: Abaddon's eyes are colored gold, which he claims is a result of staring into the light of the Astronomicon.
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Black Legion / int_1206d299	type	Can't Kill You, Still Need You
Black Legion / int_1206d299	comment	Fabius's own novel - Primogenitor refers to the events of the book a few times. It's noted as being the last time that Fabius took any authority role in the Emperor's Children and left them in disgust (whilst conspicuously not mentioning how he got out of Abaddon's custody after the battle with the clone of Horus.. The sequel - Clonelord - shows that Harmony is still around afterwards and that not every clone was destroyed in the battle, as well as indicating Fabius still holds a grudge against Abaddon for destroying his life's work and that despite destroying his facilities, the Black Legion are more than happy to take advantage of his services, though Abaddon is said to despise Fabius's "New Men" superhumans to the point of ordering them killed on sight, and plenty within the Black Legion are said to be urging Abaddon to eliminate Fabius for good. Fabius also notes that Abaddon's ascendancy is rapidly threatening the balance of power within the Eye and leaving Fabius few neutral places to practice his craft in peace.
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Black Legion / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Black Legion / int_17a606bd	comment	Master Swordsman: Telemachon is this, being capable of facing a powerful demon of Khorne alone. Bonus points for Dual Wielding swords, a difficult feat both in Real Life and in-universe. He's later Abbadon's personal champion and the undisputed best duelist in the Black Legion.
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Black Legion / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Black Legion / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Despite all his claims to be only telling the truth and revealing a huge amount of information to the Inquisition, it should be remembered that Khayon is a chaos marine and one of Abbadon's lieutenants.
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Black Legion / int_190badd4	type	Token Non-Human
Black Legion / int_190badd4	comment	Token Nonhuman: Nefertari is the only xeno among the main characters and Gyre is the only daemon.
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Black Legion / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
Black Legion / int_19d06ef7	comment	A Father to His Men: Played surprisingly straight by Abaddon. Gone is the bellicose gloryhound of the Horus Heresy novels and far distant is the megalomaniac Bad Boss of the 41st millennium. He's shown to be charismatic and empathic to the needs of his soldiers (whilst still asserting his will to achieve his goals). Khayon is especially impressed / disturbed that he knows the name and notable deeds of every single soldier he meets aboard the Tlaloc. He even manages to elicit a vague reaction from the usually unresponsive Rubricae.
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Black Legion / int_1aa76d29	type	Death by Origin Story
Black Legion / int_1aa76d29	comment	Death by Origin Story: Before he became an Astartes, Khayon lost his sister Itzara to a psychneuein attack. Although she survived, the larvae weren't removed before they consumed half her brain. He eventually gave her to the Mechanicum, who turned her into the Anamnesis.
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Black Legion / int_1b590025	type	Dead All Along
Black Legion / int_1b590025	comment	Dead All Along: Nefertari has been dead since a battle with Zarakynel, a Keeper of Secrets, and Khayon has been sustaining her existence with his psychic powers. Khayon believes if she learns about this she would die for real. Played with in The Black Legion. According to Thagus Daravek, Khayon himself died at Drol Kier, and is a secret manchurian agent. It turns out to not be true ultimately.
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Black Legion / int_1bb77fdb	type	Shadow Walker
Black Legion / int_1bb77fdb	comment	Shadow Walker: Gyre can use shadows to walk through walls and travel over short distances. Nagual also shares this trait, preferring to use the shadows of enemies to attack from.
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Black Legion / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
Black Legion / int_1fc8335e	comment	Ashur-Kai considers letting the Warp Ghosts take him as part of their bargain to let the Black Legion escape the Eye of Terror this.
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Black Legion / int_2059a430	type	The Hedonist
Black Legion / int_2059a430	comment	The Hedonist: Telemachon, like all Emperor's Children, is addicted to pleasure and sensation, to the point that he nearly breaks down when Nefertari teases him by refusing to touch him. He gets better after Khayon strips him of emotions and then gives them back to him.
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Black Legion / int_2588feac	type	Winged Humanoid
Black Legion / int_2588feac	comment	Winged Humanoid: Nefertari is a Dark Eldar Scourge, albeit one with the training and armory of an Incubi.
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Black Legion / int_25a6c734	type	Not in This for Your Revolution
Black Legion / int_25a6c734	comment	Not in This for Your Revolution: Invoked in Black Legion regarding the Horus Heresy; after Telemachon's hysterical laughing about the Word Bearers getting the last laugh by the Imperium worshipping the Emperor as a god, Amurael snaps that his legion (the Sons of Horus) did not rebel against the Emperor because of Lorgar's theology, while Khayon notes that his Legion only sided with Horus because the Emperor and the Space Wolves left the Thousand Sons no other choice.
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Black Legion / int_2cbaa888	type	Empty Shell
Black Legion / int_2cbaa888	comment	Empty Shell: The Rubrics are literally this, being dusted remains of non-psyker Thousand Sons sealed in their power armor. They're barely conscious and follow Khayon's every order. By the end, Mekhari manages to regain his sentience enough to sacrifice himself to save Khayon.
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Black Legion / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Black Legion / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Telemachon Lyras looks like just another Slaanesh-worshiping psychopath at first. However, it's revealed he does seek a purpose beyond hedonism and most prominently is the first character to get the Anamnesis to show human emotion by giving a surprisingly heartfelt account of Chemos's legends. Ugrivian shows this while fighting. He tries to approach the Butcher's Nails with a more intellectual degree, trying to see its effects and limits during practice.
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Black Legion / int_2fc4ac67	type	Black Knight
Black Legion / int_2fc4ac67	comment	Black Knight: Vortigern, a Fallen Angel who has become a senior member of the Legion.
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Black Legion / int_3036294e	type	Scary Black Man
Black Legion / int_3036294e	comment	Scary Black Man: Lheor. Being a heavy of the World Eaters with Butcher's Nails in one's brain can make a person pretty scary.
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Black Legion / int_30b6f084	type	Canis Major
Black Legion / int_30b6f084	comment	Canis Major: Gyre takes the form of a massive Fenrisian wolf during the Battle of Prospero.
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Black Legion / int_317629db	type	Embarrassing Nickname
Black Legion / int_317629db	comment	Lheor being called "Firefist" and telling people that he hates it. Becomes somewhat less funny once you learn where the nickname come from.
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Black Legion / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Black Legion / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Even the Chaos Space Marines consider cloning to be an abomination. And that includes some of the Emperor's Children. Abaddon also invokes this when asked why he disappeared after the end of the Horus Heresy: he states that Horus's death made the campaign to overthrow the Emperor and claim the Imperium (the only war that mattered in Abaddon's view) a failure, and he had no desire to embroil himself in the petty squabbling over territory and resources at the core of the Legion Wars.
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Black Legion / int_33b4e7f	type	Helmets Are Hardly Heroic
Black Legion / int_33b4e7f	comment	Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: Exploited by Khayon during the battle of Prospero, when he uses the fact that Space Wolves don't wear helmets to kill them.
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Black Legion / int_38326b11	type	Clone Degeneration
Black Legion / int_38326b11	comment	Clone Degeneration: We get to see Fabius Bile's failed attempts to clone Horus. Then we see that not only had he succeeded, but he had moved onto the other Traitor Primarchs. This is why Chaos Space Marines see cloning as a taboo: cloning an Astartes rarely works well.
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Black Legion / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Black Legion / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Abaddon reveals that he sent Sargon counting on Falkus summoning Khayne and Lheor to aid him and the three of them acting just like they did, unable to resist the prize that is the Vengeful Spirit.
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Black Legion / int_38f1a7ed	type	Defector from Decadence
Black Legion / int_38f1a7ed	comment	Defector from Decadence: Moriana, Abaddon's pet seeress is implied, by both her own admission and Khayon's insinuations to have been a member of the Ecclesiarchy, the Inquisition or both before she abandoned the Imperium and turned to Chaos. Moriana even admits that she still believes the Emperor is a god, albeit one no longer worthy of worship. Sargon declares himself to be one which Khayon views this as highly unusual, since even post-Heresy, very few Word Bearers have willingly abandoned their Primarch's teachings.
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Black Legion / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
Black Legion / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: Sigismund is implied to be the only Imperial commander who believed the Traitor Legions might have survived fleeing into the Eye of Terror, and when the High Lords of Terra dismissed his fears as groundless, believing it impossible for anything to survive within the Eye for so long after the Horus Heresy, Sigismund took it upon himself to stand vigil at the Eye's perimeter with a significant force of Black Templars in case they ever returned.
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Black Legion / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Black Legion / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: It has been explained by BL authors that the named characters often are portrayed different, Depending on the Writer being in full effect. Abaddon however clearly is different from the Horus Heresy series, this due to his voyages through the Warp since Horus defeat.
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Black Legion / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Black Legion / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: The reader knows that Abaddon will succeed in creating the Black Legion, as that's what the story's about, and that Khayon will survive those events, as the whole story is his flashback. Those who recall Dembski-Bowden's previous series, Night Lords, will also know that Falkus survives, as the characters in those books meet him, millennia later.
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Black Legion / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Black Legion / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Apparently something happened at Drol Kheir to make everyone think that Khayon died there. Apart from reassuring everyone that he's very much alive, Khayon doesn't say another word about it. It gets lampshaded as part of a rather disturbing plot point in The Black Legion. There's also Khayon's mention of how the surviving Traitor Primarchs came to accept Abaddon's place as Warmaster. Khayon only relates that some accepted it more willingly than others, that Magnus had to be forced to his knees before he would and Mortarion tried to kill them.
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Black Legion / int_3c7ccb69	type	No Body Left Behind
Black Legion / int_3c7ccb69	comment	No Body Left Behind: Khayon kills Eyarik Born-of-Fire, a Space Wolves champion, during the Battle of Prospero by dismantling his body at the genetic level.
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Black Legion / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Black Legion / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Lampshaded and deconstructed as part of Khayon's explanation of Chaos Legions to the Inquisition. Despite the enormous power given by sorcery, god-blessings, daemonic allies, experience, and corrupted technology, Chaos Astartes are... well, chaotic and this has huge disadvantages - they have no formal supply lines, no dedicated manufacturing ability save for Dark Mechanicus forge-worlds that tend to serve single patrons or themselves, and very little ability to build, repair, or rearm their fleets within the Eye. This is all before you take into account that practically all Chaos warbands in the Eye of Terror have longstanding grudges or feuds with each other, and are usually fighting and stealing from each other. Khayon emphasises this by saying that the Chaos Legions can't even feed their forces because they don't have any real agriculture or food production. Although Space Marines age more slowly and feel the effects of aging less than normal humans, Sigismund is nearly a thousand years old, is no longer in his physical prime and has already been in the thick of battle defending his flagship when Abaddon confronts him. Although he's able to hold his own for a time against Abaddon, without the latter's Chaos-enhanced physiology, Sigismund soon begins to tire and is ultimately forced into a last desperate gambit to try and kill Abaddon, knowing full well it will cost him his own life. Khayon also notes that this trope would have played out regardless of how the duel ended; either Abaddon would have slain Sigismund or the Black Legion forces in attendance would have gunned Sigismund down even had he managed to win.
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Black Legion / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Black Legion / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Sure, walking through the sorcerous gate is just like teleportation. It's not like you have to fight through scores of daemons and fight a tide on the way...
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Black Legion / int_4127eb1	type	Shut Up, Hannibal!
Black Legion / int_4127eb1	comment	Shut Up, Hannibal!: Sigismund does this to Abaddon after the latter tries to justify why the Traitor Legions turned on the Emperor.
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Black Legion / int_44e0a33a	type	The Oath-Breaker
Black Legion / int_44e0a33a	comment	The Oath-Breaker: Khayon realises this is why Sigismund will never be convinced not to fight Abaddon. To Sigismund, loyalty to the Emperor is inextricable as breathing, and the fact the Traitor Legions broke their oaths to the Emperor means Sigismund will never listen to their reasons why they sided with Horus, no matter how valid.
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Black Legion / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Black Legion / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Sigismund to Abaddon.
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Black Legion / int_4764ce3a	type	Military Moonshiner
Black Legion / int_4764ce3a	comment	Military Moonshiner: Abaddon distills the alchemical runoff of his failed experiments in artificial warp energy into liquor. The Ezekarion note that it tastes surprisingly good.
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Black Legion / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Black Legion / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: At one point, Khayon notes that the Inquisitors listening to him would like him to cut to the juicy parts of the story - the Drach'nyen, the kneeling of Traitor Primarchs and the Black Crusades - without a proper introduction to the tale. Replace "Inquisitors with "readers" and you get Dembski-Bowden's tongue-in-cheek commentary on fan's expectations.
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Black Legion / int_4ae690ca	type	Laughing Mad
Black Legion / int_4ae690ca	comment	Laughing Mad: After Moriana reveals to Khayon, Telemachon and Amurael that in their absence, the Imperium now worships the Emperor as a god, Telemachon bursts into hysterical laughter at the fact the Word Bearers have gotten the last laugh for Monarchia.
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Black Legion / int_4c095112	type	Call to Adventure
Black Legion / int_4c095112	comment	Call to Adventure: For Lheor and Khayon, Falkus' call for a meeting aboard His Chosen Son, when he outlines the plan to find the Vengeful Spirit.
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Black Legion / int_508d91a2	type	Pre-Mortem One-Liner
Black Legion / int_508d91a2	comment	Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Uttered by Abaddon right before He kills Horus' clone.
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Black Legion / int_50cc01e1	type	Do Not Call Me "Paul"
Black Legion / int_50cc01e1	comment	Do Not Call Me "Paul": Seems to be a Khayon family trait of a kind: Along with I Have Many Names and Not Me This Time below, Sekhandur resents being called people he isn't, such as Zaraphiston, who is an entirely different person (as well as a Seer, something Khayon despises on principle) and Ygethmor, which is a title given to several sorcerers (but which he never explicitly denies). The Anamnesis doesn't like being called by her birth name, Itzara, as she claims that she is now both much more and much less than Sekhandur's sister.
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Black Legion / int_50d71a78	type	Dual Wielding
Black Legion / int_50d71a78	comment	Dual Wielding: Telemachon fights with two swords, adding to his Master Swordsman repute. Khayon speculates that he decided on this style because of its inherent Rule of Cool, but it works for him nevertheless.
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Black Legion / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Black Legion / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Khayon is polite and civil to most people, including his captors and people he doesn't even especially like. In the case of the Inquisition, he is actually completely sanguine about being EXACTLY where he is and why..
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Black Legion / int_53b6ab6a	type	Jumped at the Call
Black Legion / int_53b6ab6a	comment	Jumped at the Call: Khayon becomes a wholehearted supporter of Falkus' plan from the moment he hears it and after Children's first attack, he becomes the driving force behind the search for Vengeful Spirit. After hearing about Vengeful Spirit from Sargon, Falkus is immediately willing to go find it, despite low chances of success.
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Black Legion / int_543a0278	type	Villain Respect
Black Legion / int_543a0278	comment	Villain Respect: The impending duel between Abaddon and Sigismund has Abaddon show this to Sigismund before they fight, Abaddon bowing to the first High Marshall of the Black Templars with nothing but respect. The Black Legion reveals this to be UTTERLY onesided - Abbadon even partly pleads with Sigismund to join him and to avoid having to kill him. Sigismund makes it very clear that he doesn't care what Abbadon thinks.
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Black Legion / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Black Legion / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: Some of the other Chaos Marines feel that Khayon's friendship with Nefertari is wrong. Nevertheless, they tolerate her and a few (such as Ugrivian) actually strike up a sort of friendship.
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Black Legion / int_5db59a03	type	Brown Note
Black Legion / int_5db59a03	comment	Brown Note: The Talon of Horus, to anyone with psychic senses, due to the fact it was used to kill Sanguinius and mortally wound the Emperor. Khayon also notes that in its presence, Space Marines of the Blood Angels and their Successors are driven into berserker madness by proximity to the weapon that killed their Primarch. Drachnyen is noted to be one for Khayon in The Black Legion. He tells his Inquisitorial captors that one advantage of being in their custody is that he's far, far away from it. In Chosen of Chaos Abaddon is now one of these due to carrying both the Talon and Drachnyen (as well as receiving a variety of blessing from the Chaos Gods). Khayon, a powerful warp sorcerer himself, finds it difficult and unpleasant to even look at him. Leaving the Eye of Terror has this effect on all the members of the Black Legion, regardless of gene type. The Astartes simply take time to adjust to corporeal newtonian physics reapplying themselves, partly because they have memories of what it was like before. The mutants and humans born in the Eye, however, have a full blown reaction to realspace because the very lack of the warp is utterly alien to them. Even Khayon, who normally wouldn't think twice about his slaves, feels a modicum of sympathy for them for this.
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Black Legion / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Black Legion / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: Few months pass as the Tlaloc makes its way towards Gallium, then another few when it travels to the edge of the Eye, and yet another two as the heroes fly to the Canticle City. It's pretty helpful in establishing just how huge the Eye is.
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Black Legion / int_6116ca8d	type	Hellhole Prison
Black Legion / int_6116ca8d	comment	Hellhole Prison: The Eye of Terror, naturally, albeit a more literal example than most. Discussed at length by Khayon, who even calls it a "convenient hell to throw your enemies into" for the Imperial perspective. It's an especially unsafe place for Nefertari, as the Eye is pretty much the most dangerous place an Eldar can go. The fact she is there ought to be a heavy indication of how desperate she is to hide away from her kin in Commoragh.
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Black Legion / int_61c3ca7b	type	Panthera Awesome
Black Legion / int_61c3ca7b	comment	Panthera Awesome: After losing Gyre, Khayon's next Daemon familiar, Nagual, takes the form of a Prosperine lynx, an extinct Smilodon-esque apex predator from Prospero the size of a horse, with canines the length of short swords capable of biting through Space Marine armour.
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Black Legion / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
Black Legion / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: The Talon of Horus ends with Khayon talking of the duel between Sigismund of the Black Templars and Abaddon in the First Black Crusade, the events of which are shown in "The Black Legion".
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Black Legion / int_6366f900	type	Old Soldier
Black Legion / int_6366f900	comment	Old Soldier: Sigismund. Whilst plenty of traitor marines are, technically, as old as him, Sigismund was verified as being close to 1000 in realspace verified years - not warp-dilated time. Abbadon struggles to beat him in spite of this.
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Black Legion / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Black Legion / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Mekhari remembers enough to stand in Horus' clone's way and protect his erstwhile friend from dying. Ashur-Kai considers letting the Warp Ghosts take him as part of their bargain to let the Black Legion escape the Eye of Terror this.
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Black Legion / int_6a6760fa	type	The Power of Hate
Black Legion / int_6a6760fa	comment	The Power of Hate: Khayon attributes this as the reason why Sigismund had lived for almost a thousand years after the end of the Horus Heresy: because he knew the Traitor Legions were still out there and he refused to die without confronting them again.
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Black Legion / int_6b983bf7	type	Unstoppable Rage
Black Legion / int_6b983bf7	comment	Unstoppable Rage: Khayon breaks into this while fighting Daravek's champion.
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Black Legion / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Black Legion / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Nefertari means "Beautiful companion" in Tizcan Prosperine. Khayon says that she called herself like that without his imput, but wonders what she meant by it. Khayon is actually a little relieved that Abaddon doesn't know her true name, as it means he isn't omniscient.
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Black Legion / int_6f7c8268	type	Waif Prophet
Black Legion / int_6f7c8268	comment	Waif Prophet: Relative to the other characters, who are all battle-worn, Sargon has the smooth, youthful appearance of a freshly-promoted neophyte, despite being a veteran of the Siege of Terra. Moriana takes over the same role in The Black Legion.
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Black Legion / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
Black Legion / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: On the cover of Talon of Horus Abaddon is portrayed in his signature topknot and with his cursed blade, Drach'nyen. In the book, he keeps his hair loose (Khayon notes it as one of the signs that he's changed), and is still centuries from acquiring the sword. Aaron Dembski Bowden lampshaded this himself, noting that because 40k Abbadon was one of the most distinctive characters of the entire setting, it would have to include him on it.
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Black Legion / int_738d1a0f	type	Because You Were Nice to Me
Black Legion / int_738d1a0f	comment	Because You Were Nice to Me: In a way, this is the reason the Governess gives for liking Khayon - he's one of the few people to treat her with respect.
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Black Legion / int_7426582d	type	Token Minority
Black Legion / int_7426582d	comment	Token Minority: Lheorvine is one of precious few black characters in Warhammer 40,000, and the only one in The Talon of Horus. Khayon himself is from an Egyptian Expy world.
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Black Legion / int_74c9cf33	type	Two Girls to a Team
Black Legion / int_74c9cf33	comment	Two Girls to a Team: The only female members of the Villain Protagonists ensemble are Gyre and Nefertari.
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Black Legion / int_76ebae85	type	Kidnapped by the Call
Black Legion / int_76ebae85	comment	Kidnapped by the Call: Telemachon is taken prisoner by Khayon and as Sekhandur jumps at the call, he's kind of pulled after him. He does embrace the call in the end, though.
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Black Legion / int_77e45bb5	type	Why Did You Make Me Hit You?
Black Legion / int_77e45bb5	comment	Why Did You Make Me Hit You?: A more tragic example than most: Abaddon laments that Sigismund's blind loyalty to the Emperor kept him from seeing the Traitor Legions' justification for the Horus Heresy, leaving Abaddon no choice but to kill a former brother-in-arms he truly respected.
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Black Legion / int_780a078e	type	Self-Made Orphan
Black Legion / int_780a078e	comment	Self-Made Orphan: By the end of the book, Abaddon is one, having killed the clone of his gene-father, Horus.
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Black Legion / int_79f9249	type	Horrifying the Horror
Black Legion / int_79f9249	comment	Horrifying the Horror: As the nascent Black Legion rampages through Fabius's flagship, they encounter horrors of all sorts. Being Chaos Space Marines, a Dark Eldar Scourge, and a Daemon, none of it fazes them until they see what is in Fabius's laboratory: Fabius hadn't just succeeded in cloning Horus, he was starting to clone the other Traitor Primarchs. A couple of the Marines are temporarily struck by instinctive fear and awe. Even Abaddon, who has been in control of his emotions the entire book and in control of most scenes he is in, is left speechless in shocked horror. Nefertari is the only one that isn't horrified by this (she saw worse in Commorragh). When coming across a pod:
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Black Legion / int_7aa989ea	type	Token Evil Teammate
Black Legion / int_7aa989ea	comment	Token Evil Teammate: The main characters all somewhat fall under this, given they're all Chaos Space Marines with a long list of atrocities and war crimes to their name, but top prize must go to Zaidu, a former Night Lord who serves as Telemachon's second in command, an unrepentant Jerkass who delights in baiting his compatriots, safe in the knowledge that if any try to challenge him to a duel, Telemachon will fight it in his place, if only because letting a member of a rival warband humiliate or kill Zaidu would be a stain on Telemachon. Telemachon also order Zaidu spared from Khayon's purge of any surviving witnesses to Sigismund and Abbadon's duel.
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Black Legion / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Black Legion / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Abaddon delivers one to Thagus Daravek when the latter demands a meeting after their failed attempt to escape the Eye of Terror. Since neither side wishes to fight a pitched battle that will leave the victor in no condition to face the Black Templars waiting for them outside the Eye, Daravek demands a humiliating list of concessions for his Legion Host to spare the Black Legion. Abaddon throws the offer back in Daravek's face and makes his thoughts clear...
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Black Legion / int_7f3e75b6	type	Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair
Black Legion / int_7f3e75b6	comment	Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair: Invoked; while attending a armistice with Daravek upon a destroyed craftworld at the edges of the Eye of Terror, Khayon takes a moment to admire the architecture. When Abaddon questions Khayon about his fascination with the Eldar, Khayon replies that he considers them a warning of what happens when a species doesn't exercise sufficient caution in dealing with the Chaos Gods.
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Black Legion / int_8344209e	type	BFG
Black Legion / int_8344209e	comment	BFG: Lheor takes a heavy bolter into pretty much every battle he fights.
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Black Legion / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
Black Legion / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: Telemachon. Beneath an exterior of your typical indulgent, contemptuous and self-righteous Emperor's Child, he's Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life and remembers times when his legion was much more.
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Black Legion / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
Black Legion / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Lheor and Khayon. Lheorvine is red - hot-tempered, always wanting to fight and outspoken - while Khayon is blue: more inquisitive, introspective and nostalgic. They even have appropriately-coloured armour.
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Black Legion / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
Black Legion / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: The Emperor's Children vs. the Black Legion conflict, with the Children being Black (live only for pleasure, willing to commit the sin of cloning a Primarch), and Legion, with their Even Evil Has Standards, being gray.
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Black Legion / int_88472ef3	type	Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life
Black Legion / int_88472ef3	comment	Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Most of the founding members of the Black Legion exhibit this mindset. Abaddon brings them together and gives them the Black Legion. Khayon is traveling from place to place, working with anyone for knowledge and weapons, and almost jumps at Falkus' call for aid. As Gyre puts it, "[he's] a warrior without a war". Telemachon strives for more than just raiding and the Emperor's Children's rampant indulgence, but hides it beneath a literal and figurative mask of contempt. Falkus, after Horus' body is stolen by the Emperor's Children and the Sons of Horus' stronghold is destroyed, is pretty much adrift with no identity, no purpose and nowhere else to go to. He calls Khayon to help with an almost suicidal revenge plan, since his former purpose of guarding Horus' body is now ended.
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Black Legion / int_8930448	type	Soldier vs. Warrior
Black Legion / int_8930448	comment	Soldier vs. Warrior: Discussed by Lheor and Iskandar. Lheor thinks that the Legion comes firmly under the former heading.
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Black Legion / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
Black Legion / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: This is the story of how one of the main villainous factions in Warhammer 40K earned the title, so it's kind of a given. Notably, Khayon, the narrator, doesn't shy away from feeding his slaves to his friend or mind raping in his rival, and Falkus, who, given the setting, is actually an idealist, eats people.
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Black Legion / int_8a4988bb	type	Mind Rape
Black Legion / int_8a4988bb	comment	Mind Rape: Khayon reaches into Telemachon's mind and rewrites it so he cannot feel pleasure without Khayon's permission. He reverses it after witnessing the swordsman's Hidden Depths.
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Black Legion / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Black Legion / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill like Overkill: Khayon recalls that he obliterated Eyarik Born-in-Fire by dismantling him at the molecular level. Mind you, he was in no condition to actually fight the VI Legion champion at the time. Later, there is the nascent Black Legion's method of attacking the Canticle City: they send the abandoned Taloc on a ballistic approach towards the planet, annihilating it completely.
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Black Legion / int_8bf8adfa	type	Just Before the End
Black Legion / int_8bf8adfa	comment	Just Before the End: Invoked in that the story is set at the very end of 999.M41, the most advanced stage in the story-line GW reached at the time of publication, The Time of Ending. The most recent edition of the game does advance the timeline by almost 200 years, showing that both Khayon and Abbadon's plans have not succeeded...yet... Khayon implies a more literal version of the trope when he tells his captors that not only do the Black Legion know the Golden Throne is failing, but that the Imperium is gradually losing wars on all fronts and whole fleets are going missing due to flickers in the Astronomican. The first book ends with him promising that the Imperium will not survive the imminent and impending Crimson Path.
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Black Legion / int_8c8bd091	type	Fetus Terrible
Black Legion / int_8c8bd091	comment	Fetus Terrible: The unborn Primarch clones aboard the Fleshmarket, especially those which didn't succeed.
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Black Legion / int_8e35ce90	type	FramingStory
Black Legion / int_8e35ce90	comment	Framing Story: Khayon is telling the story to an Inquisitorial transcription servitor and later to Inquisitors themselves.
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Black Legion / int_8ec0abf	type	The Voiceless
Black Legion / int_8ec0abf	comment	The Voiceless: Sargon is this initially, having lost the ability to speak due to a throat injury he sustained in the siege of Terra. By the time of Black Legion, his armour has mutated to compensate for this, his pauldrons forming into two daemonic faces that speak in unison for him.
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Black Legion / int_906365a2	type	Demonic Possession
Black Legion / int_906365a2	comment	Demonic Possession: After escaping the III Legion ambush, Kibre's surviving warband have become daemonhosts. Khayon later uses an incomplete version of this as one of his many, many ways of bringing down fortresses singlehanded. In Black Legion, a warband of "Secondborn", known as the Riven and headed by the former World Eater Delvarus guards the Vengeful Spirit. Khayon also notes that in future battles, he forced daemonic possession on captives from Loyalist chapters to quickly create fresh troops.
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Black Legion / int_91697559	type	Half the Man He Used to Be
Black Legion / int_91697559	comment	Half the Man He Used to Be: The killing blow Abaddon strikes him with the Talon of Horus all but rips Sigismund in two.
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Black Legion / int_93399c3c	type	Patricide
Black Legion / int_93399c3c	comment	Patricide: Abaddon kills the clone of Horus, who still has memories of the original, in the finale.
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Black Legion / int_95b875b1	type	Not Me This Time
Black Legion / int_95b875b1	comment	Not Me This Time: The Inquisition attempts to pin a load of aliases and crimes on Khayon whilst he is in their custody. It should be noted that he doesn't deny committing acts of mass genocide but that he mildly resents being accused of things he didn't do.
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Black Legion / int_9718a22a	type	You Remind Me of X
Black Legion / int_9718a22a	comment	You Remind Me of X: Khayon states that one of the reasons he despises Moriana is because she speaks with the same arrogant self-assurance the Primarchs used to.
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Black Legion / int_97fa0a10	type	Mass "Oh, Crap!"
Black Legion / int_97fa0a10	comment	Mass "Oh, Crap!": Every member of the nascent Black Legion when they realise that not only did Fabius successfully clone Horus, he's moved on to the other Primarchs.
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Black Legion / int_9bfb2f41	type	Dead Guy on Display
Black Legion / int_9bfb2f41	comment	Dead Guy on Display: The Black Legion are fond of doing this with the corpses of those who cross them. Averted with their treatment of Sigismund.
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Black Legion / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Black Legion / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Djedhor is the more responsive of the two Rubrics that accompany Khayon and Sekhandur hopes that there's still some humanity left in him. Subverted, as it's Mekhari, the less responsive Rubric, who regains his sentience just in time for a Heroic Sacrifice.
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Black Legion / int_9d90e013	type	Heelâ€“Face Brainwashing
Black Legion / int_9d90e013	comment	Heel–Face Brainwashing: Telemachon is Mind Raped by Khayon into obedience and so is pretty much swiped up into the budding Black Legion. Later, after Khayon fixes him back, he stays.
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Black Legion / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Black Legion / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: In ADB's previous series, Night Lords, First Claw meets Falkus Kibre and the remains of the Justaerin, noting that they reek of corruption and possession. In The Talon of Horus we find out how it happened. In John French's Ahriman novels, Khayon is mentioned obliquely as the leader of the anti-Rubric faction within the Thousand Sons. He elaborates a bit more on it in Talon of Horus. By the time they meet again, hundreds of years later, the enmity has cooled off slightly; Khayon is willing to tacitly help Ahriman achieve his goal of returning to Sortiarius. Fabius's own novel - Primogenitor refers to the events of the book a few times. It's noted as being the last time that Fabius took any authority role in the Emperor's Children and left them in disgust (whilst conspicuously not mentioning how he got out of Abaddon's custody after the battle with the clone of Horus.. The sequel - Clonelord - shows that Harmony is still around afterwards and that not every clone was destroyed in the battle, as well as indicating Fabius still holds a grudge against Abaddon for destroying his life's work and that despite destroying his facilities, the Black Legion are more than happy to take advantage of his services, though Abaddon is said to despise Fabius's "New Men" superhumans to the point of ordering them killed on sight, and plenty within the Black Legion are said to be urging Abaddon to eliminate Fabius for good. Fabius also notes that Abaddon's ascendancy is rapidly threatening the balance of power within the Eye and leaving Fabius few neutral places to practice his craft in peace.
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Black Legion / int_9eb11fac	type	Weak, but Skilled
Black Legion / int_9eb11fac	comment	Weak, but Skilled: Sargon's psychic powers compared to Khayon. Khayon has a massive edge in raw power and overall mastery, but Sargon is able to achieve incredibly subtle effects with a great degree of control.
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Black Legion / int_a116a489	type	Herald
Black Legion / int_a116a489	comment	Herald: Two, even. Falkus for Khayon and Lheor. It was him summoning the two and telling them about his plan to find Vengeful Spirit and raid Canticle City that started everyone on the path to Black Legion. Sargon to Falkus, as he surrendered to the Justaerin and told them about the Vengeful Spirit, ultimately leading them to Abaddon. Telemachon eventually serves as Abaddon's, going from warband to warband giving Abaddon's offer of alliance and threat of reprisal.
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Black Legion / int_a1e5faab	type	Doomed by Canon
Black Legion / int_a1e5faab	comment	Doomed by Canon: It's not explicit but Khayon mentions that the Black Legion invade Commoragh to wipe out a noble house there in vengeance for taking Nefertari from Khayon. Another subtle example of this is that during all his musings about the present Black Legion and it's warlords, Khayon never once wonders what Lheor is doing. He also briefly mentions a battle where "his blood was running into the Tuva River on the world of Mackan." It's later confirmed in The Black Legion but Khayon states it off hand in a "As I've Already Told You" kind of commnet". Khayon also makes mention that he and Telemachon become mortal enemies at some point, and their internecine conflict nearly causes a civil war within the Black Legion. The Talon of Horus ends with Sigismund confronting Abaddon. Seeing that Abaddon is alive and Sigismund is nowhere to be found as of the present day, it's easy to see what's going to happen. The sections of each part of The Black Legion are prefaced with rambling confessions from the Inquisitorial interrogation of Sargon, implying that he was captured and tortured to death in the future. A minor aversion with Khayon himself in relation to the post Gathering-Storm plotline. He was mentioned as still being alive several months just before the attack on Terra but his fate afterwards is not mentioned.
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Black Legion / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Black Legion / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Khayon's jailers remove his sight, both physical and psychic. During the Battle of Prospero, Khayon drove a thumb into a Space Wolf's eye to start tearing his head apart.
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Black Legion / int_a6275bef	type	Cool Sword
Black Legion / int_a6275bef	comment	Cool Sword: In The Black Legion Khayon has forged one from a shard of Sanguinius' broken sword.
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Black Legion / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
Black Legion / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: Although they use it to send their declaration of war to the High Lords of Terra, the Black Legion do not desecrate Sigismund's body for trophies as they usually do with their fallen enemies, instead according him the respect due to a Worthy Opponent and fellow veteran of the Great Crusade.
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Black Legion / int_a6bd0685	type	Died in Your Arms Tonight
Black Legion / int_a6bd0685	comment	Died in Your Arms Tonight: Abaddon holds the dying Sigismund as he succumbs to his wounds.
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Black Legion / int_a8896b94	type	Leave No Witnesses
Black Legion / int_a8896b94	comment	Leave No Witnesses: After the First Battle of Cadia, Khayon personally eliminates any surviving witnesses to Sigismund and Abbadon's duel, the Ezekarion having decided it was too dangerous letting anyone outside their ranks know how close Abbadon came to dying in that battle.
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Black Legion / int_a94eaaa4	type	Odd Friendship
Black Legion / int_a94eaaa4	comment	Odd Friendship: The Black Legion is the story of making brothers of the brotherless, and we get some strange friendships along the way. Lheor and Khayon, considering that Lheorvine is from the Legion of berserkers who traditionally hate psykers and sorcerers with a passion, and Khayon is from the Legion who has psykers and sorcery as their hat. Gyre, a daemon, and Nefertari, a Dark Eldar Scourge. One would think that they'd hate each other, but Gyre has been forbidden to slay Nefertari (and doesn't show any particular inclination to want to anyway), and as a daemon, Gyre offers no sustenance for Nefertari. A friendship formed around not being able to kill each other could only happen in 40k. Ugrivine and Nefertari, coming from races that hate each other fiercely, become sparring partners and later strike some kind of kinship.
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Black Legion / int_abd29ad8	type	No-Sell
Black Legion / int_abd29ad8	comment	No-Sell: What Daravek is able to do to Khayon's psychic powers, much to the latter's bewilderment. Abbadon simply assumes that Khayon is just psychically outmatched and cannot admit it due to pride. Khayon has to tell him that even if Daravek was stronger than him, their powers would still clash and they would fight. Being able to utterly ignore another psyker's power isn't normally possible unless you have a fragment of their soul.
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Black Legion / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Black Legion / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Lheorvine Ukris. He's like a blend of Cyrion's wit and Uzas's blunt attitude.
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Black Legion / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
Black Legion / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: When Khayon is in his psyker-coma, Telemachon spends long hours standing in his room with a sword and considering whether to kill the sorcerer for the Mind Rape. In the end, he doesn't, although Khayon believes it's more because Telemachon was afraid of Gyre and Nefertari ripping him to shreds if he tried something like this.
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Black Legion / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
Black Legion / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: Being handed over to Nefertari is considered to be this, presumably because as a Dark Eldar, she can and will make your death as slow and drawn out as possible. A more conventional example is used on the leaders of Traitor Legion factions who refused to join Abbadon. One notable example is crucified and then has their circulation system filtered through with the bodily waste of the Black Legion slaves. Their robust Astartes biology means that they stay alive in degrading agony for months.
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Black Legion / int_b2919411	type	Duels Decide Everything
Black Legion / int_b2919411	comment	Duels Decide Everything: Captains in the Black Legion use duels to settle disputes, presided over by Abaddon. Khayon notes that Abaddon does so for two reasons: firstly, it allows him to assert his authority over his subordinates in the Black Legion, and secondly, it stops his commanders taking matters into their own hands to solve grudges by murdering each other behind Abaddon's back.
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Black Legion / int_b36ae36a	type	Collector of the Strange
Black Legion / int_b36ae36a	comment	Collector of the Strange: Abaddon has a wide collection of trophies from his centuries-old pilgrimage, from the talon of Horus to the skull of a giant serpent creature.
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Black Legion / int_b3eecaae	type	Colony Drop
Black Legion / int_b3eecaae	comment	Colony Drop: Khayon lobs the Tlaloc at the Canticle City.
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Black Legion / int_b4d1f1e1	type	Sense Loss Sadness
Black Legion / int_b4d1f1e1	comment	Sense Loss Sadness: After Khayon's Mind Rape strips Telemachon of emotions, he mostly stands in one place and stares blankly at the walls when the sorcerer is not nearby, and compels him to be loyal to the man who allows him to feel again.
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Black Legion / int_b4dcdf5b	type	Antagonist in Mourning
Black Legion / int_b4dcdf5b	comment	Antagonist in Mourning: Abaddon seems genuinely remorseful about having to kill Sigismund, despite knowing their last meeting could have ended no other way.
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Black Legion / int_b99fce86	type	Dueling Scar
Black Legion / int_b99fce86	comment	Dueling Scar: Abaddon is left with one across his face following his battle with Sigismund. According to Khayon, he still keeps it as both a tribute to a Worthy Opponent and a memento to the moment "the Great Crusade truly came to an end".
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Black Legion / int_ba5bbda5	type	Mirror Character
Black Legion / int_ba5bbda5	comment	Mirror Character: Despite his hatred of Ahriman for destroying and enslaving his legion, Khayon acts in a similar way by binding Telemachon to him and removing all his ability to feel. Abbadon calls him out on this, and Khayon is self-aware enough to realize that not only would Ahriman point out the hypocrisy, but that the most galling thing is that Ahriman would be right. Khayon does reverse the process despite being aware Telemachon may try to murder him.
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Black Legion / int_bce728ca	type	Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal
Black Legion / int_bce728ca	comment	Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Abaddon's view on why the Traitor Legions turned on the Emperor, given that he would have done away with the Space Marines as he did the Thunder Warriors before them once they'd conquered the galaxy for him.
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Black Legion / int_bdf0640e	type	You're Not My Father
Black Legion / int_bdf0640e	comment	You're Not My Father: In the climax of The Talon of Horus, Abaddon kills clone-Horus while saying the reverse of this, as seen in Pre-Mortem One-Liner.
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Black Legion / int_bedd799b	type	Blunt "Yes"
Black Legion / int_bedd799b	comment	Blunt "Yes": When Abaddon asks why they're on the Vengeful Spirit, Lheorvine outright states that they're there to steal it.
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Black Legion / int_c3648b87	type	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork
Black Legion / int_c3648b87	comment	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Khayon and Telamachon, considering they hate each other. Telamachon is initially only going along with Khayon because being near him is the only way that he can feel any emotions. He later joins the Black Legion cause wholeheartedly, although Khayon mentions (in the Abbadon: Chosen of Chaos short story) that they have both subsequently tried to kill each other several times. Also to be expected when warbands dedicated to opposing gods fight under a single banner. In Black Legion, Telemachon and Lheor nearly wind up fighting a duel when their two respective forces (Telemachon's Slaaneshi warband, the Screaming Masquerade and Lheor's Khornate force, War God's Maw) start blaming each other for who screwed up more in a joint battle they fought against the Legion Host. Khayon also notes this is the dynamic between Abaddon and the Dark Gods: for his part, Abaddon acknowledges they're a integral part of the galaxy and is willing to court their favour to gain their power and influence to further his cause, but he steadfastly refuses to succumb to their manipulation, intent on avoiding becoming a thrall to them the way Horus did. The Chaos Gods, Khayon notes, despise Abaddon for refusing to give himself over to them fully, but they still support him because he's their best chance of conquering the Imperium and destroying the Emperor.
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Black Legion / int_c59cfa2e	type	Felony Misdemeanor
Black Legion / int_c59cfa2e	comment	Felony Misdemeanor: On approach to Gallium, both Khayon and Ashur-Kai (who are, it should be noted, warp sorcerers and traitor space marines) are personally revolted by the fact that one of the warships docked at the Halo is called The Skinner; which they find appallingly tacky.
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Black Legion / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Black Legion / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: It's uncertain whether it's deliberate, but Sargon is the name of one of the gods in The Eye of Argon.
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Black Legion / int_c7b5445c	type	Cool Starship
Black Legion / int_c7b5445c	comment	Cool Starship: Vengeful Spirit, especially after Anamnesis bonds with her, if one's willing to forget about tortured souls embedded in its hull. It's enormous, sturdy and mounts truly impressive firepower. Equalled by the Eternal Crusader, now revealed to be the Imperial Fists Gloriana class Battleship and counterpart to the Vengeful Spirit.
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Black Legion / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
Black Legion / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: Sigismund dies trying to do this; knowing that he is in no condition to defeat an Abaddon who (thanks to the Eye's influence) is still in his prime, Sigismund leaves a gap in his defences that he knows Abaddon won't fail to see, and when Abaddon goes for the killing blow, Sigismund retaliates with a final strike. Though Sigismund fails to kill him, Abaddon is seriously injured by the blow, requiring a long period of recuperation, as well as freely admitting Sigismund came the closest of any foe to killing him.
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Black Legion / int_cb63f039	type	Spaceship Girl
Black Legion / int_cb63f039	comment	Spaceship Girl: The main body of Anamnesis, Tlaloc's "mind", is Khayon's sister, Itzara, kept in suspended animation. She gets more lively when Anamnesis is connected to Vengeful Spirit and takes a new name, Ultio.
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Black Legion / int_cd7ef676	type	Seen It All
Black Legion / int_cd7ef676	comment	Seen It All: Lheor reminisces about the Siege of Terra, mentioning offhand that he's seen bigger battles since then. Seeing as the Siege of Terra was fought by over half the Astartes in the Imperium, the largest fleets ever assembled, teeming hordes of ancillary units, and utterly wrecked the Solar System, one can only imagine what he's seen since. Similarly, Khayon offhandedly mentions that after Legion Wars, there's little that may surprise a Chaos Astartes.
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Black Legion / int_ce75a983	type	Screw Destiny
Black Legion / int_ce75a983	comment	Screw Destiny: Khayon has a strong distaste for prophecy and clashes with his mentor, Ashur-Kai Qezremah, who dives deep into all forms of fortune-telling. Ten thousand years of living with Ashur-Kai, Sargon, Zaraphiston, and Moriana (who he despises more than the other three) have made his distaste even worse. His distaste started out with divination being more of an imprecise art than anything else, heavily dependent on subjective interpretation that Khayon finds pretty useless; his main reason has shifted because he's never met a seer who didn't try and steer things towards their own personal gain over collective goals. Khayon also claims that this is Abbadon's underlying purpose - to break the control the Chaos Gods have over the lives of mortals, so they can forge their own path. Given what his true purpose is though...
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Black Legion / int_ceb7336a	type	Wetware CPU
Black Legion / int_ceb7336a	comment	Wetware CPU: Itzara Khayon / the Anamnesis as the control core of the Tlaloc and later, the Vengeful Spirit.
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Black Legion / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
Black Legion / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: Khayon is a lot nicer than most other Chaos space marines and even loyalist Astartes. He's troubled by the memories of the Burning of Prospero and his goal is not as much domination as it is to find a cause - and brothers - worth fighting for.
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Black Legion / int_d028e0da	type	An Arm and a Leg
Black Legion / int_d028e0da	comment	An Arm and a Leg: Khayon loses his left arm at the elbow in a duel with an Iron Warriors champion loyal to Daravek. It is replaced with an augmetic prosthesis that gradually mutates into something more Chaotic by the time he is an Imperial prisoner.
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Black Legion / int_d038afba	type	Creating Life
Black Legion / int_d038afba	comment	Creating Life: Fabius Bile engineered the attack on Lupercalios so he could steal Horus's body. Given his career, the protagonists conclude he is planning to clone Horus and that must be stopped. Although the Horus Heresy novels show that he's actually been doing it for quite a while, with varying degrees of success. The eventual Horus clone is the first one that seems to be physically stable and as close to the original as possible. Mentally, it's a confused wreck due to Horus's soul being annihilated.
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Black Legion / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Black Legion / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: Khayon flat out admits that a large part of their plan to attack Harmony was essentially this. After all, who would've expected that less than two hundred warriors - 130 of which are Rubrics - would even consider taking the stronghold of a Space Marine Legion?
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Black Legion / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Black Legion / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Khayon considers the Emperor's Children this; when addressing a Third Legion commander trying to exterminate Falkus and the Sons of Horus with him, Khayon points out the Emperor's Children are in no position to take the moral high ground over the Sons for fleeing with Horus's body, when theThird Legion's main action in the siege of Terra was to abandon those fighting to capture the Imperial Palace so they could indulge themselves in massacring Terra's civilian population.
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Black Legion / int_d5d976dd	type	I Have Many Names
Black Legion / int_d5d976dd	comment	I Have Many Names: Iskandar Khayon is also known as Sekhandur Cain, Khayon the Black, and Kingbreaker, not to mention dozens of others the Inqusition has him filed under. Among the names attributed to him but that he doesn't personally acknowledge is Ygethmor (a name mentioned to be one of Abaddon's followers). As it turns out, Ygethmor isn't even a name, just a Cthonian title, which means "Threader of the Warp." Ashur-Kai is also known as the White Seer. The Solar Priest calls itself several ways apart from this - the Avatar, the Astronomican, the Imperious, the Voice and the Ghost among others.
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Black Legion / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Black Legion / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: While talking about the other ships at Gallium, Khayon offhandedly confirms the existence of the Fallen to the Inquisition (something the Dark Angels and their successors have spent ten thousand years trying to prevent) and moves on without a second mention of it. In The Black Legion he goes one further, revealing that a Fallen Angel was and possibly still is one of the Black Legion's commanders.
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Black Legion / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Black Legion / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: During the First Battle of Cadia, Khayon notes that, once the Legion Host follows the Black Legion out of the Eye of Terror, a large number of its forces decide they'd rather start settling their own scores with the Imperium than waste any more time on aiding Thagus Daravek in his personal vendetta against Abaddon and promptly abscond.
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Black Legion / int_dbe013f	type	TheSixthRanger
Black Legion / int_dbe013f	comment	The Sixth Ranger: Zaidu and especially Vortigern and Ilyaster. The latter two join the Ezekarion between books and early on in Black Legion, respectively.
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Black Legion / int_df582b0b	type	Continuity Snarl
Black Legion / int_df582b0b	comment	Continuity Snarl: Both Khayon, Ashur-Kai, and their Rubric Marines are described as wearing the blue armor associated with 40k era Thousand Sons. However, other material (including John French's Ahriman novels) indicate that only the Thousand Son's under Ahriman underwent this change whilst the rest of the legion kept their old red colour or chose their own. It's possible that it's just a coincidental repaint. The Abbadon: Chosen of Chaos short story takes an appreciable time after The Black Legion but Khayon asks Abbadon if he want's him to fetch the White Seer, which was Ashur-Kai's title, despite having long since been gone by that point.
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Black Legion / int_e16fb8ca	type	Hero Killer
Black Legion / int_e16fb8ca	comment	Hero Killer: Many of those who survived the entire book start dying when the clone of Horus shows up. As Khayon puts it:
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Black Legion / int_e5507f60	type	Truce Zone
Black Legion / int_e5507f60	comment	Truce Zone: Gallium maintains its neutrality in the face of the Legion War. Mistress Ceraxia and Valicar the Graven will repair, rearm, and refuel any ship in exchange for suitable payment.
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Black Legion / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
Black Legion / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: Throughout the book, Khayon insists that the Black Legion are not the same thing as the Sons of Horus. He has a lot to back up his claim. After the Emperor's Children took Horus's body as plunder, the Sons of Horus were informally disbanded, and Abbadon used what remained of them and elements from other Legions to form a coalition force called the Black Legion. In addition: they reject Horus as a failure; the Black Legion incorporates forces from other Legions, traitor chapters, and chaos warbands; and the Black Legion never fought in the Emperor's name. Hurting his claim are the facts that they use a number of former Sons of Horus assets, their symbol is the Eye of Horus, and their battle-cant is Cthonic. In a similar way, Khayon hates it when his psychic powers are referred to (usually by Lheor) as magic or sorcery, despite the fact that he knowingly summons demons, creates warp portals, and fully acknowledges the existence of the Chaos Gods.
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Black Legion / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Black Legion / int_e83f211c	comment	Sargon declares himself to be one which Khayon views this as highly unusual, since even post-Heresy, very few Word Bearers have willingly abandoned their Primarch's teachings.
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Black Legion / int_e8aa2b1d	type	Tactical Withdrawal
Black Legion / int_e8aa2b1d	comment	Tactical Withdrawal: During the First Battle of Cadia, with the Black Legion locked in battle with the Black Templars, Thagus Daravek's Legion Host emerging from the Eye of Terror behind them and Abaddon missing and feared injured or dead, Khayon takes command of the Black Legion fleet and orders them to scatter in all directions. He freely admits it was hardly the Black Legion's finest moment, but notes that it served its purpose; instead of being trapped between two armies, the Black Legion escapes, the Black Templars have to face a fresh army of Chaos Space Marines while Abaddon's forces escape into the wider Imperium, and Daravek has to waste time fighting the Black Templars, losing his chance to destroy the Black Legion in one fell swoop. After the battle, Abaddon commends Khayon's choice, admitting the situation is not ideal but affords more opportunities; the Black Legion, though scattered, is more or less intact, the Imperium will dismiss the inevitable attacks that come from Black Legion forces on worlds near the Eye as the work of pirates and raiders, not a cohesive army and thus its military response won't be as extensive as it might have been (freeing Abaddon to pursue his secondary goal of claiming the daemonsword Drach'nyen) and with Thagus Daravek killed in the battle, what's left of his armies will be more willing to consider joining the Black Legion.
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Black Legion / int_e993da98	type	Equal-Opportunity Evil
Black Legion / int_e993da98	comment	Equal-Opportunity Evil: The Black Legion accepts everyone, whether they're possessed, mutants, traitors to their home Legion, sorcerers or, in case of Nefertari, an alien. Contrast this with how the Imperium shoots on sight anyone who's not gene-pure, human and an Emperor-worshiper. It must be noted however that aliens are despised by the Black Legion still, and only Khayon really cares about Nefertari. Khayon even mentions that it's even worse in the Eye of Terror.
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Black Legion / int_eaae04eb	type	Museum of the Strange and Unusual
Black Legion / int_eaae04eb	comment	Museum of the Strange and Unusual: Abaddon's collection in the Hall of Titans aboard the Vengeful Spirit looks like this. He even gives Khayon and the others a tour around it. While the Talon of Horus and Abaddon's own terminator armour hold the places of honour, he's also got the skeleton of a whale-sized serpent that tried to kill him (apparently its jaws are big enough to swallow a Land Raider tank whole), Guardian Spears left by Adeptus Custodes who died aboard the Vengeful Spirit when the Emperor boarded it to confront Horus, and the remains of an aborted experiment trying to synthesize Warp energy. Khayon later calls it a "monument to madness".
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Black Legion / int_eff83d77	type	Mundane Utility
Black Legion / int_eff83d77	comment	Mundane Utility: A justified example in The Black Legion. Khayon is a very, very powerful warp sorcerer and psyker. He can command hundreds of Rubric Marines, use his powers to great effect on a battlefield, and is a sufficiently skilled ship captain. At one point, Khayon states that Ahriman (universally heralded as the most powerful psyker in the Chaos Legions) claimed that Khayon was only just below him in terms of strength. And what does Abbadon use him for? An Assassin. But as Khayon himself notes, an assassin is often far more useful than whole armies.
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Black Legion / int_f46eebb	type	Betrayal by Inaction
Black Legion / int_f46eebb	comment	Betrayal by Inaction: Why Khayon hates Telemachon initially: Telemachon's forces were supposed to reinforce Khayon's during the Siege of Terra, but instead they broke off to join the rest of the Emperor's Children in massacring Terra's civilian population, leaving the Thousand Sons under Khayon's command at the mercy of the Blood Angels. When Khayon confronts him about it, Telemachon is indifferent, even pointing out that at least the Thousand Sons who died because of his inaction died warriors' deaths fighting to besiege the Imperial Palace, rather than being reduced to undead automatons by the Rubric of Ahriman. In Black Legion, Lheor accuses Telemachon's lieutenant Zaidu of this, claiming Zaidu deliberately held off reinforcing Lheor and his men against Thagus Daravek's Death Guard.
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Black Legion / int_f65b8cf3	type	Flashback Within a Flashback
Black Legion / int_f65b8cf3	comment	Flashback Within a Flashback: While telling his story, Khayon includes flashbacks to the Battle of Prospero and an encounter with Zarakynel. He also drops hints about (from the perspective of the story he's currently telling) flash-forwards to events that happen after the first book but before the present day.
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Black Legion / int_f76b8969	comment	Anthropomorphic Personification: The Solar Priest is a personification of the Astronomican's light and appears to Tlaloc's crew as a spindly man in a golden mask. He mentions another aspect of the beacon, called the Warlord, but we don't get to see it.
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Black Legion / int_f786350a	type	Dying Curse
Black Legion / int_f786350a	comment	Dying Curse: Sigismund uses his last breath to spit one at Abaddon, remarking that his fate will be no different from Horus.
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Black Legion / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Black Legion / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: In the first parts of the book, various people tell Khayon "I heard you died at Drol Kheir" and varieties of it. He lampshades it by the third time. It becomes rather less of a gag in The Black Legion. Lheor being called "Firefist" and telling people that he hates it. Becomes somewhat less funny once you learn where the nickname come from. Lheor calling Khayon's psyker powers "magic" and Khayon getting annoyed by it.
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Black Legion / int_fd32c5a1	type	Don't Make Me Destroy You
Black Legion / int_fd32c5a1	comment	Don't Make Me Destroy You: Abaddon invokes this when confronting Sigismund aboard the Eternal Crusader, trying to talk Sigismund out of fighting because Abaddon respects him too much.
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Black Legion / int_fe64d5a1	comment	Evil Is Petty: Thagus Daravek executes one of his own champions purely to spite Khayon when the warrior was on the verge of accepting Khayon's invitation to join the Black Legion.
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Black Legion / int_fe6c146e	comment	The Corrupter: Khayon believes Moriana to be this, considering her, rather than Drach'nyen, the first bribe the Chaos Gods offered Abaddon to convince him to take the power they offer. He also vocally expresses his dislike for Moriana's growing influence over Abaddon.
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