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Thousand Sons

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Thousand Sons	comment	The Thousand Sons are a Legion of Chaos Space Marines in Warhammer 40,000, which have a trilogy of books written by John French, centering on their most famous member, Azhek Ahriman. The first book, Ahriman: Exile, features the eponymous Ahriman having been exiled from his Legion after casting the infamous Rubric of Ahriman. Meeting up with a group of Space Marines whose Chapter was declared renegade, he takes them into his service when the Brotherhood of Dust, a Warband composed of several of his former battle-brothers, begin hunting him. The second book is Ahriman: Sorcerer, and features Ahriman, now a powerful warlord of the Prodigal Sons, seeking to undo the damage the Rubric had done by seeking the Athanaeum of Kalimakus, which holds the words of his Primarch, Magnus the Red. The third book, Ahriman: Unchanged, sees Ahriman and his warband trying to return to the Planet of the Sorcerers to cast the second Rubric. Another sequel, Ahriman: Eternal sees the Progidal Sons attempting to correct their past mistakes with Necron technology.The story was collected in Ahriman: The Omnibus in 2017, along with the short stories "All is Dust", "Hand of Dust", "King of Ashes" and the novella The Tale of Ctesias.
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Thousand Sons / int_12c65d9b	type	Abnormal Ammo
Thousand Sons / int_12c65d9b	comment	Abnormal Ammo: Inquisitor Iobel shoots Ahriman with a bolt shell made from consecrated silver. Ahriman survives, but some of its shards become too deeply buried in his body to extract surgically, and they're psychically warded against sorcery so he can't use his power to extract them. He notes them moving closer to his hearts throughout the story and they reach his hearts at the climax of the second Rubric, but end up being eliminated as a consequence of the Rubric's power. Ctesias carries a bolt pistol whose rounds contain vials of daemon â€œbloodâ€� instead of an explosive charge. When fired, the vial shatters and the daemon it contained is unleashed.
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Thousand Sons / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Thousand Sons / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: At the end of Ahriman: Unchanged, Ahriman slips into a depressed, unresponsive funk for weeks after realizing that the second Rubric failed and the Rubric Marines are still undead automatons. It isnâ€™t until the Prodigal Sons discover that one of the Rubric Marines was restored to his prior human state that Ahriman starts to recover.
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Thousand Sons / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Thousand Sons / int_17a606bd	comment	Master Swordsman: Sanakht was regarded as the Legion's best swordsman during the Horus Heresy, and is still this even after the loss of so much of his psychic potential.
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Thousand Sons / int_18bf4326	type	Anti-Magic
Thousand Sons / int_18bf4326	comment	Anti-Magic: Seraphs are blank arco-flagellants, deadly combat cyborgs whose mere presence disrupts sorcery and psychic powers. The Inquisition uses them as bodyguards. A group of more conventional blanks guards the Athenaeum of Kallimakus in Sorcerer.
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Thousand Sons / int_18dd6739	type	Dressing as the Enemy
Thousand Sons / int_18dd6739	comment	Dressing as the Enemy: Deconstructed. Astraeos disguises himself as one of Amonâ€™s lieutenants in order to infiltrate the Sycorax and rescue Ahriman. Heâ€™s able to board the ship without incident since they were expecting his return, but his deception falls apart the instant that he steps out of the shuttle since the Thousand Sons wear individualized and highly distinctive suits of armourâ€”and the badly damaged armour heâ€™s wearing belongs to a sorcerer who is well known for having a twin brother who never leaves his side. When the maintenance crew sees the â€œtwinâ€� step out of the shuttle alone, they immediately realize that something is wrong and sound the alarm.
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Thousand Sons / int_1b8c7503	type	The Exile
Thousand Sons / int_1b8c7503	comment	The Exile: Ahriman himself, having been exiled from the Thousand Sons for unwittingly condemning most of the legion to an eternity of mindless, undead servitude.
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Thousand Sons / int_1e80b641	type	Fingore
Thousand Sons / int_1e80b641	comment	Fin Gore: Sylvanus accidentally bites off three of his fingers while guiding Ahrimanâ€™s fleet through a particularly rough Warp storm in Ahriman: Unchanged. Heâ€™s quite disturbed when he realizes this, and even more disturbed that the fingers grew back before he even noticed they were gone.
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Thousand Sons / int_1eed8e76	type	The Juggernaut
Thousand Sons / int_1eed8e76	comment	Ctesias is physically weaker than his brothers, but can still fight for days without tiring, and in return has gained a large collection of powerful daemons at his beck and call, including such juggernauts as Doombreed.
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Thousand Sons / int_1f75bca8	type	Wizard Duel
Thousand Sons / int_1f75bca8	comment	Wizard Duel: A common occurrence in the series, since Ahriman and many of his allies and enemies are all powerful sorcerers. The fights often involve the combatants blasting each other with telekinesis and elemental powers, deflecting attacks with telekinetic shields, invading one anotherâ€™s minds, and having their souls leave their bodies to do direct battle with each other, and more.
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Thousand Sons / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Thousand Sons / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Maroth shows off his newly-made daemonhost to Ahriman early on in the first book, made using a simplistic spirit of hunger and carnage. Ahriman assumes that Maroth plans to use it in a bid to take over the Harrowing, but after Ahrimanâ€™s past catches up to him and Maroth is reduced to a gibbering wreck, the daemonhost is left to languish in its cell. Later, the daemon is revealed to be not only sapient, but intelligent enough to be plotting and using Maroth as a cat's paw. Much later on, Astraeos binds this daemon to himself as part of a desperate plan to rescue Ahriman from Amonâ€™s clutches.
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Thousand Sons / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Thousand Sons / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: The way Magnus' appearance keeps changing depending on who's looking at him is a nod to how the original miniature of him from the tabletop game looks almost nothing like his current depiction.
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Thousand Sons / int_270c1778	type	Blood Magic
Thousand Sons / int_270c1778	comment	Blood Magic: The Oathtaker uses the blood of sixty-four slaves to magically project its consciousness across time and space in order to confront Ahriman on Prospero.
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Thousand Sons / int_2bc8bdeb	type	Speak of the Devil
Thousand Sons / int_2bc8bdeb	comment	Speak of the Devil: No one ever refers to the Chaos Gods by name, presumably for fear of drawing their attention. Any character that has to talk about them will instead use epithets like the Lord of Skulls (Khorne), the Changer of Ways (Tzeentch), or the Plague Father (Nurgle).
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Thousand Sons / int_314c56b9	type	Time Stands Still
Thousand Sons / int_314c56b9	comment	Time Stands Still: The daemon bound to Astraeos stops time while Ahriman is in the middle of a ritual in order to have a one-sided chat with him. Ahriman remains conscious and aware of his surroundings while time is stopped, but cannot move or speak.
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Thousand Sons / int_348c1707	type	Sword Beam
Thousand Sons / int_348c1707	comment	Sword Beam: Sarâ€™iq can shoot bolts of black lightning from the tip of his sword.
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Thousand Sons / int_362bdb30	type	Out-Gambitted
Thousand Sons / int_362bdb30	comment	Out-Gambitted: Ahriman: Exile: At one point, Ahriman travels to a desolate space station and summons a powerful daemon in order to learn more about Amonâ€™s plans. Amon predicted that Ahriman would summon that specific daemon, however, and pre-emptively bound it into his service: when Ahriman summons the daemon, it easily breaks free of his control and unleashes a horde of lesser daemons upon the station, forcing Ahriman and his allies to flee for their lives. In Ahriman: Sorcerer, Sanakht and Ignis begin conspiring to overthrow Ahriman and take control of his warband. While Ignis sets about recruiting people to their cause, Sanakht brainwashes Hemellion into becoming a Manchurian Agent. When the time is right Hemellion will assassinate Carmenta, and the forces loyal to Sanakht will destroy those loyal to Ahriman and blow up his flagship, the Sycorax. At the same time, Sanakht will accompany Ahriman down to the surface of Apollonia to retrieve the Athenaeum of Kallimakus; since Sanakht knows that the Athenaeum is guarded by blanks, Ahriman wonâ€™t be able to defend himself with his psychic powers and thus Sanakhtâ€”being the superior swordsmanâ€”will have a chance to kill him. Unfortunately for Sanakht, Ignis is actually loyal to Ahriman, and is using this opportunity to identify the disloyal elements of the Prodigal Sons so that they can be purged later. Ahriman and Ignisâ€™s plan also requires Carmenta to die and the Sycorax to be destroyed, as their sacrifice will tear open a Warp rift and allow the Prodigal Sons to escape from the Inquisitorial fleet that is pursuing them. Finally, Ahriman brought Sanakht with him to go get the Athenaeum because it can only be removed by allowing it to possess someone, and by offering up Sanakht heâ€™s killing two birds with one stone.
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Thousand Sons / int_370aad9	type	Split Personality
Thousand Sons / int_370aad9	comment	Split Personality: Iobel accuses Ahriman of having a mind that's spent so much time steeped in sorcery and dealing with the denizens of the Warp that there are parts of it that are no longer his. She becomes an aspect of his mind after her death.
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Thousand Sons / int_37690091	type	Stable Time Loop
Thousand Sons / int_37690091	comment	Stable Time Loop: Astraeos and his brothers are the last surviving members of a Space Marine chapter that the Inquisition destroyed for no apparent reason. They seek refuge in the Eye of Terror and eventually become renegades in service to Ahriman. Years later, Astraeos is captured and interrogated by the Inquisition, but thanks to the Timey-Wimey Ball nature of the Warp, his interrogation is actually happening before his chapter was destroyed, and his corruption is the reason why the Inquisition destroyed it. Astraeos realizes this during his escape, and does not take it well.
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Thousand Sons / int_38047858	type	Squishy Wizard
Thousand Sons / int_38047858	comment	Squishy Wizard: Averted by most of the Thousand Sons, but played straight with Ctesias. An incredibly long lifetime spent binding thousands of daemons has left him frail and emaciated, and he canâ€™t hold a candle to other Space Marines in close combat ability.
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Thousand Sons / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Thousand Sons / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: When the Inquisition detects that Ahriman has broken through a blockade of the ruined planet of Prospero, former homeworld of the Thousand Sons, they fear that he's planning some sort of ritual there and order a preemptive Exterminatus. Ahriman is planning a ritual there—a ritual that would allow him to return to the new homeworld of the Thousand Sons in the Eye of Terror, the Planet of Sorcerers. To do so, he needed to recreate the fires that burned Prospero and a key part of the ceremony. So he made sure to be detected on his way in so that the Inquisition would destroy the planet again in an attempt to stop him.
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Thousand Sons / int_3b0479f2	type	You Shall Not Pass!
Thousand Sons / int_3b0479f2	comment	You Shall Not Pass!: In Ahriman: Exile, Thidias holds off an endless tide of daemons just long enough for Astraeos and Ahriman to reach their shuttle and escape, and he kills quite a few of them before finally being overwhelmed and disemboweled.
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Thousand Sons / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Thousand Sons / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: The trilogy is set millennia before the â€œpresent dayâ€� of Warhammer 40,000, where Ahriman is still alive and still trying to free the Rubric Marines from their curse. Ahriman wonâ€™t die, but his plans wonâ€™t succeed either.
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Thousand Sons / int_3fe2b13f	type	Ungrateful Bastard
Thousand Sons / int_3fe2b13f	comment	Ungrateful Bastard: Many of the warlords who followed Ahriman were genuinely loyal even if it was just out of fear for his power. Ignis summoned many of the warlords and offered them a chance to turn against Ahriman. This was a ploy by Ahriman to sacrifice the lot of them in a ritual later down the line. Any who refused to betray Ahriman were killed to "hide their betrayal". In fact, expect Ahriman to sacrifice any non-Thousand Son who follows him and even a few of the Thousand Sons to boot.
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Thousand Sons / int_3ff156fa	type	Nay-Theist
Thousand Sons / int_3ff156fa	comment	Nay-Theist: Ctesias acknowledges that the Chaos Gods exists, but refuses to worship them on the grounds that they donâ€™t need or deserve it, and he views other Chaos Space Marines that do worship the Dark Gods with contempt. This is one of the few things that he and Ahriman can agree on.
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Thousand Sons / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Thousand Sons / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Ahriman: Unchanged: The second Rubric succeeds in putting Magnus back together with the wrath aspect under control and averts the War that was prophesied to consume the galaxy, but fails to reverse the damage of the first Rubric, while a dying Astraeos walks off on the surface of the Planet of the Sorcerers, content that Ahriman has failed. However, several days after the second Rubric was cast, it's discovered that one of the Rubricae, Helio Isidorus, was returned to life, initially remembering nothing before the Rubric was cast, but eventually remembering his name. Turned into a Happy Ending Override in Eternal; The second Rubric didn't end up restoring Helio Isidorus at all ; it created a complex backlash called the Pyrodomon, which randomly turns non-rubric Thousand Sons into Rubricae. The being that appelates to Helio Isidorus is merely an avatar of the collective memory of the Rubricae.
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Thousand Sons / int_41ec06f	type	Occult Blue Eyes
Thousand Sons / int_41ec06f	comment	Occult Blue Eyes: Ahriman is an extremely powerful sorcerer, and he has piercing blue eyes that other characters often find intimidating.
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Thousand Sons / int_420081bf	type	Alien Sky
Thousand Sons / int_420081bf	comment	Alien Sky: The Planet of the Sorcerers has nine suns, which is one of its least bizarre aspects.
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Thousand Sons / int_434a6d40	type	Evil Sorcerer
Thousand Sons / int_434a6d40	comment	Evil Sorcerer: The Thousand Sons have this as their hat. All the ones that are still alive are powerful sorcerers.
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Thousand Sons / int_43f03c2b	type	Power Gives You Wings
Thousand Sons / int_43f03c2b	comment	Power Gives You Wings: Sarâ€™iq grows a pair of feathery wings using Biomanipulation at one point.
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Thousand Sons / int_446adf5f	type	Summoning Ritual
Thousand Sons / int_446adf5f	comment	Summoning Ritual: In Ahriman: Exile, Ahriman and Astraeos summon a daemon through an elaborate ritualâ€”involving ninety-nine mirrors floating in zero gravity, complex spirals carved into the floor, and a personal blood sacrifice on Ahrimanâ€™s partâ€”in order to interrogate it about Amonâ€™s plans. Unfortunately for them, Amon anticipated that they would summon this exact daemon and had already bound it into his service; the daemon pretends to be under Ahrimanâ€™s control, then attacks him when he lets his guard down.
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Thousand Sons / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Thousand Sons / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Ahriman gains a grudging respect for Inquisitor Iobel after she inflicts significant damage to his memory palace during their Battle in the Center of the Mind. The respect is not mutual on her part.
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Thousand Sons / int_48212bac	type	Weather Manipulation
Thousand Sons / int_48212bac	comment	Weather Manipulation: In Sorcerer, Ahriman and his Circle kick off their attack on the Inquisitorial conclave at Vohal by summoning a blizzard which engulfs the entire planet.
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Thousand Sons / int_4cccd2a9	type	Mad Oracle
Thousand Sons / int_4cccd2a9	comment	Mad Oracle: Menkaura used to be one of the Thousand Sonsâ€™s greatest Seers, until he got sucked into the Labyrinth of Tzeentch and saw things in its crystal walls that drove him to claw his eyes out. In the centuries since then he has become a daemon known as the Oracle of Many Eyes, offering prophecies to those who seek him out.
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Thousand Sons / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Thousand Sons / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: In Unchanged, the daemon bound to Astraeos introduces itself to Ahriman with a line that reveals its true nature as a Shard of Magnus the Red:
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Thousand Sons / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Thousand Sons / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Along with the many scenes of horrifying body mutation that happen as a result of Warp taint, the Space Wolves that have been chasing Ahriman have been in the Eye of Terror for so long that they are beginning to mutate as well, taking on feral Wulfen-like traits.
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Thousand Sons / int_50d71a78	type	Dual Wielding
Thousand Sons / int_50d71a78	comment	Dual Wielding: Sanakht wields a matching pair of swords (one a power sword, the other a force sword) as his weapons of choice.
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Thousand Sons / int_53c5f30e	type	Happy Ending Override
Thousand Sons / int_53c5f30e	comment	Turned into a Happy Ending Override in Eternal; The second Rubric didn't end up restoring Helio Isidorus at all ; it created a complex backlash called the Pyrodomon, which randomly turns non-rubric Thousand Sons into Rubricae. The being that appelates to Helio Isidorus is merely an avatar of the collective memory of the Rubricae.
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Thousand Sons / int_53de87e5	type	Willing Channeler
Thousand Sons / int_53de87e5	comment	Willing Channeler: Astraeos binds Marothâ€™s daemonhost to himself toward the end of Ahriman: Exile. This amplifies his sorcerous powers and allows him to control the monster in battle. After crossing the Despair Event Horizon near the end of Ahriman: Sorcerer, he allows the daemon to possess him directly, drastically enhancing his powers at the cost of Body Horror and eventual burnout.
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Thousand Sons / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Thousand Sons / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Sanakht is publicly this to Ahriman, while Ignis is this to Sanakht. Except Ignis is Ahriman's real Dragon.
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Thousand Sons / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
Thousand Sons / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Unreveal: In Unchanged, the Changeling shows its true face to Ahriman after Tzeentch commands it to spare him. Ahriman is shocked by what he sees, but the Changeling erases his memory of the encounter and disappears before its face can be described.
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Thousand Sons / int_5b057eae	type	Animalistic Abomination
Thousand Sons / int_5b057eae	comment	Animalistic Abomination: In King of Ashes, a young Magnus ventures into the Warp for the first time and encounters animalistic avatars of the Chaos Gods. Khorne appears as a scarred wolf with blood-matted fur, Nurgle as an undead moth with the eyes of a fish, and Slaanesh as a multicolored cobra with a human face. Tzeentch, meanwhile, appears as a hunched figure with the heads of three different birds stacked one atop the other.
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Thousand Sons / int_5c613245	type	Thrown Out the Airlock
Thousand Sons / int_5c613245	comment	Thrown Out the Airlock: Carmenta vents most of the Harrowing into space after she regains control of the Titan Child.
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Thousand Sons / int_5e2f5ad2	type	You Kill It, You Bought It
Thousand Sons / int_5e2f5ad2	comment	You Kill It, You Bought It: Ahriman inherits leadership of Amonâ€™s warband after killing him at the end of Ahriman: Exile. Ahriman cements the change in leadership by using his powers to strip the red paint from their armour and repaint them blue to match his own.
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Thousand Sons / int_61c683d2	type	We Have Reserves
Thousand Sons / int_61c683d2	comment	We Have Reserves: The trilogy plays up this aspect of the Inquisition. In Exile, Iobel and her fellow Inquisitors are returning to Cadia from a long and dangerous scouting mission in the Eye of Terror. Itâ€™s mentioned that their shipâ€™s entire crew will be executed upon arrival, just in case they were corrupted by Warp exposure. In Unchanged, Inquistor Malkira has assembled a task force of Space Marine and Imperial Navy ships to attack Prospero. She reflects that no one can be allowed to remember the mission, and while the Space Marines and most indispensable crewmembers will just be mind-wiped, everyone else will be put to death.
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Thousand Sons / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
Thousand Sons / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: Maroth goes insane after being Mind Raped by Ahriman and having his eyes gouged out by Astraeos, and the formerly proud sorcerer is reduced to little more than a gibbering, feral wreck. The epilogue reveals this to be a case of Obfuscating Insanity, as he acts far more lucid when no one else is around. Connecting to the Sycorax takes a heavy toll on Carmenta, and her mental faculties suffer as a result. Ahriman's allowing of Sanakht to Mind Rape Hemellion into killing her is partly implied to be a Mercy Kill on Ahriman's part. Happens more and more to Astraeos as the series go on.
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Thousand Sons / int_628d08d4	type	Silver Bullet
Thousand Sons / int_628d08d4	comment	Inquisitor Iobel shoots Ahriman with a bolt shell made from consecrated silver. Ahriman survives, but some of its shards become too deeply buried in his body to extract surgically, and they're psychically warded against sorcery so he can't use his power to extract them. He notes them moving closer to his hearts throughout the story and they reach his hearts at the climax of the second Rubric, but end up being eliminated as a consequence of the Rubric's power.
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Thousand Sons / int_64c8eea8	type	Wolverine Claws
Thousand Sons / int_64c8eea8	comment	Wolverine Claws: Ignisâ€™s weapons of choice are a pair of lightning claws.
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Thousand Sons / int_65163c3a	type	Evil Tower of Ominousness
Thousand Sons / int_65163c3a	comment	Evil Tower of Ominousness: The city of Tizca on the Planet of the Sorcerers is filled with these, with the largest by far being the Tower of Magnus. Its base is as wide as an entire mountain range, and it has no doors. The only way to get to the top is by walking up its side (which is only possible because Magnus controls the planet's gravity), and the ascent may take an eternity or no time at all.
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Thousand Sons / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
Thousand Sons / int_65acf9db	comment	In Unchanged, Inquistor Malkira has assembled a task force of Space Marine and Imperial Navy ships to attack Prospero. She reflects that no one can be allowed to remember the mission, and while the Space Marines and most indispensable crewmembers will just be mind-wiped, everyone else will be put to death.
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Thousand Sons / int_67a7cd88	type	Battle in the Center of the Mind
Thousand Sons / int_67a7cd88	comment	Battle in the Center of the Mind: A brief one ensues between Ahriman and Inquisitor Iobel toward the end of the formerâ€™s Mind Probe of the latter, with the foreign mind trying to cause as much damage as possible to the native mind before being brought down. Ahriman is actually impressed by the damage Iobel does to his memory palace.
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Thousand Sons / int_67f56a51	type	Thrown from the Zeppelin
Thousand Sons / int_67f56a51	comment	Thrown from the Zeppelin: In Ahriman: Sorcerer, Ignis meets with a group of Chaos Lords to persuade them to take part in Sanakhtâ€™s scheme to overthrow Ahriman and take control of the Prodigal Sons. One of the Lords refuses the offer and, realizing that Ignis will kill him to keep word of the plot from getting out, tries to kill Ignis first—only to get his head torn off by Credence.
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Thousand Sons / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Thousand Sons / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: In Ahriman: Unchanged, the daemon that Maroth summoned back in the first book and that Astraeos bound to himself in Ahriman: Sorcerer is revealed to be a Shard of Magnus the Red, embodying his wrath and vengeful nature.
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Thousand Sons / int_6ee10e0	type	My Greatest Failure
Thousand Sons / int_6ee10e0	comment	My Greatest Failure: Ahriman feels a lot of guilt for accidentally transforming most of the Thousand Sons into suits of Animated Armor when he first cast the Rubric, and wants to correct the spellâ€™s flaws so that he can cast it a second time and restore their humanity. Unchanged reveals that heâ€™s repressing an even deeper sense of guilt for failing to save his brother Ohrmuzd from dying of the flesh-change.
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Thousand Sons / int_715c463e	type	Literal Split Personality
Thousand Sons / int_715c463e	comment	Literal Split Personality: In Ahriman: Unchanged, it's revealed that Magnus's soul was shattered into separate pieces, but Ahriman somehow put his back together. However, one piece, representing Magnus's wrath, remained free, and if the second Rubric were to succeed, would reincorporate it into the greater whole of Magnus, but allow it control. That would be a bad thing.
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Thousand Sons / int_72856b70	type	Godzilla Threshold
Thousand Sons / int_72856b70	comment	Godzilla Threshold: Astraeos, in an effort to rescue Ahriman from Amonâ€™s clutches, decides to make use of every weapon at his disposal and binds Marothâ€™s daemonhost to himself, an act which has far-reaching consequences. Ctesias is forced to summon all of his bound daemons at once on two separate occasions: first to fend off the millions of Slaaneshi daemons that would have massacred Ahrimanâ€™s fleet, and later as part of Ahrimanâ€™s attack on the Planet of Sorcerers. Both times, the act of summoning so many thousands of daemons at once nearly kills him.
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Thousand Sons / int_72cdfc33	type	Big Bad Ensemble
Thousand Sons / int_72cdfc33	comment	Big Bad Ensemble: Over the course of the three books: The Big Bad of Exile is Amon, the lord of the Brotherhood of Dust, seeking out Ahriman to use him in his plan to bring salvation to the Legion by destroying the Thousand Sons. Ahriman uses the knowledge of the Rubric to unmake Amon, take his armor, and take leadership of his warband, which becomes the Prodigal Sons. The Big Bad of Sorcerer is Sanakht, who believes Ahriman's plan to save the Legion is ultimately doomed to failure and resolves to kill him, plotting with Ignis to kill Ahriman at a moment of weakness. However, Sanakht is merely an Unwitting Pawn of Ahriman, who knew of his treachery, and used the non-Thousand Sons that turned against Ahriman as part of a mass sacrifice to fuel a warp portal allowing the Prodigal Sons to escape from Apollonia. Ahriman is the real Big Bad of Sorcerer. The Big Bad of Unchanged is the daemon bound to Astraeos, which is actually a piece of Magnus representing his wrath. The second Rubric would have put Magnus back together with the wrath aspect in control of the greater whole, but it was ultimately defeated by Knekku sacrificing himself for Magnus. The Big Bad of Eternal is the Necron Phaeron masquerading as a mere cryptek, Setekh, and the Harelquins, who contrive to cause as much chaos as possible.
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Thousand Sons / int_733e007a	type	Unwitting Pawn
Thousand Sons / int_733e007a	comment	The Big Bad of Sorcerer is Sanakht, who believes Ahriman's plan to save the Legion is ultimately doomed to failure and resolves to kill him, plotting with Ignis to kill Ahriman at a moment of weakness. However, Sanakht is merely an Unwitting Pawn of Ahriman, who knew of his treachery, and used the non-Thousand Sons that turned against Ahriman as part of a mass sacrifice to fuel a warp portal allowing the Prodigal Sons to escape from Apollonia. Ahriman is the real Big Bad of Sorcerer.
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Thousand Sons / int_74ef476c	type	Kneel Before Zod
Thousand Sons / int_74ef476c	comment	Kneel Before Zod: In Ahriman: Unchanged, Inquisitor Malkira asserts her authority over a gathering of Space Marines and naval officers by commanding the Space Marines to bend their knees.
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Thousand Sons / int_7b144404	type	Mental World
Thousand Sons / int_7b144404	comment	Mental World: Ahrimanâ€™s mind contains an elaborateâ€”and literalâ€”memory palace where each of his memories is stored in its own room. He can use his powers to bring other people into this memory palace for the purpose of showing them his memories. Inquisitor Iobel ends up razing the palace to its foundations as part of her Batte In The Center Of The Mind with Ahriman, forcing him to construct a replacement. She also becomes a permanent resident of the palace after turning into a Living Memory.
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Thousand Sons / int_7c48b272	type	Summon Bigger Fish
Thousand Sons / int_7c48b272	comment	Summon Bigger Fish: In Ahriman: Unchanged, Ctesias comes face-to-face with Czetherrtihor, a Chaos Titan infused with the powers of nine greater daemons of Tzeentch. He responds by summoning Doombreed, the mightiest Daemon Prince of Khorne, who makes short work of the Titan.
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Thousand Sons / int_7e577db	type	Slashed Throat
Thousand Sons / int_7e577db	comment	Slashed Throat: In Sorcerer, Hemellion slices Carmentaâ€™s throat with a shiv.
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Thousand Sons / int_8288929a	type	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves
Thousand Sons / int_8288929a	comment	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Carmenta, fearing that her precious Titan Child will be destroyed if she continues to follow Ahriman on his foolhardy quest to stop Amon, betrays him by contacting Amon, welcoming his men onto the ship, and luring Ahriman into a trap on the bridge. Once Ahriman has been subdued and captured, Amon thanks her for her assistance by frying her with a psychic attack and ordering his men to destroy the Titan Child, though ultimately they fail and she survives.
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Thousand Sons / int_8437cb10	type	Made a Slave
Thousand Sons / int_8437cb10	comment	Made a Slave: In Exile, Ahriman kidnaps the navigator Sylvanus in order to replace the Titan Childâ€™s deceased previous navigator. In Sorcerer, Ahrimanâ€™s Prodigal Sons enslave Hemellion, king of the planet Vohal, after destroying his world and exterminating his people. Hemellion despises Sylvanus for meekly resigning himself to their situation, and vows to take revenge on their captors. Sylvanus survives the trilogy, while Hemellion doesn't.
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Thousand Sons / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Thousand Sons / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Sanakht was once Ahrimanâ€™s most loyal lieutenant, to the point of Taking the Bullet on Ahrimanâ€™s behalf long before the trilogy starts. When he learns that Ahriman plans to cast the Rubric a second time, however, Sanakht concludes that Ahrimanâ€™s obsession with correcting his past mistakes will be the death of them all, loses faith in him, and turns against him.
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Thousand Sons / int_86a00a8e	type	If My Calculations Are Correct
Thousand Sons / int_86a00a8e	comment	If My Calculations Are Correct: Ignis, former Master of the Order of Ruin, which used the "sacred numerology of destruction" to plan the XV Legion's campaigns. In short, the Thousand Sons kill you with Psychic Powers, Ignis kills you with math.
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Thousand Sons / int_8871bbd8	type	Eye Beams
Thousand Sons / int_8871bbd8	comment	Eye Beams: Powerful sorcerers like Ahriman and Amon can emit white-hot beams of supernatural fire from their eyes.
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Thousand Sons / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
Thousand Sons / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: You may find yourself rooting for Ahriman to succeed, but make no mistake, he is not a nice person.
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Thousand Sons / int_8a4988bb	type	Mind Rape
Thousand Sons / int_8a4988bb	comment	Connecting to the Sycorax takes a heavy toll on Carmenta, and her mental faculties suffer as a result. Ahriman's allowing of Sanakht to Mind Rape Hemellion into killing her is partly implied to be a Mercy Kill on Ahriman's part.
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Thousand Sons / int_8a9ecd0b	type	Bloody Murder
Thousand Sons / int_8a9ecd0b	comment	Bloody Murder: Of the Boiling Blood variant. Ahriman kills Gzrel by destroying the chemical bonds that hold his blood cells together, making his face bloat and then melt off.
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Thousand Sons / int_8d23f3a7	type	Timey-Wimey Ball
Thousand Sons / int_8d23f3a7	comment	Timey-Wimey Ball: The series really plays up this aspect of the Warp and the Eye of Terror. For the destruction of Vohal they actually travel back in time several centuries to ensure an Inquisitorial conclave will occur to Iobel, a person Ahriman has already met. The biggest, however, is where Astraeos's capture by the Inquisition in Ahriman's service is what convinces the Inquisition to wipe out his Chapter.
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Thousand Sons / int_90984c54	type	Glamour Failure
Thousand Sons / int_90984c54	comment	Glamour Failure: When the Changeling steals someoneâ€™s identity, the impersonation is normally flawless to the point that people who have known and worked with the person all their lives canâ€™t tell the difference. When it impersonates Ignis, however, the robot Credence sees through the disguise immediately and tries to attack it.
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Thousand Sons / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
Thousand Sons / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: The Prodigal Sons inflict what is at least a Class 5 on Vohal by unleashing a defoliant that kills all plant life on the planet within twenty-seven hours, removing its ability to support life and condemning its population to a slow and horrible death by starvation or asphyxiation. By the time the Inquisition arrives to set up a conclave there, Vohal has been a dead world for centuries. Prospero gets a Class 6 via bombardment by cyclonic torpedoes, leaving its surface utterly obliterated.
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Thousand Sons / int_95dfff97	type	Animated Armor
Thousand Sons / int_95dfff97	comment	Animated Armor: The Rubricae are this because of the aforementioned Rubric, with their physical bodies being turned to dust. The trilogy focuses on Ahriman trying to reverse the condition.
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Thousand Sons / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Thousand Sons / int_970c790a	comment	The Big Bad of Exile is Amon, the lord of the Brotherhood of Dust, seeking out Ahriman to use him in his plan to bring salvation to the Legion by destroying the Thousand Sons. Ahriman uses the knowledge of the Rubric to unmake Amon, take his armor, and take leadership of his warband, which becomes the Prodigal Sons.
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Thousand Sons / int_9bee1a7f	type	Eldritch Location
Thousand Sons / int_9bee1a7f	comment	Eldritch Location: The trilogy is set within the Eye of Terror and various other Warp-tainted regions of space, so Ahriman visits bizarre locations and planetoids on a regular basis. For specific examples: Several locations are connected to the Crystal Labyrinth of Tzeentch, where stray thoughts and telepathic messages echo off the walls as audible sound, and where travelers can wander the endless corridors for long stretches of time before suddenly finding themselves in cavernous chambers with no visible entrances or exits. Unchanged shows that another part of the Labyrinth is a misty void full of floating stairways that veer off randomly and change directions when not observed, or in response to a personâ€™s thoughts. Exile: Menkaura lives within the hollow core of a perfectly spherical moon made of a single piece of black crystal. Its interior is implied to be part of the Labyrinth, and The Tale of Ctesias reveals that the moon is a "fane of oracles" which compels any daemon that takes up residence there to answer any question asked of it truthfully. Sorcerer: Apollonia appears to be a normal moon on the surface, but its interior is riddled with perfectly circular tunnels that were formed by the stray thoughts of Magnus the Red. The place has been so heavily eroded by the Warp that the Athenaeum of Kallimakus (a psychic conduit into Magnusâ€™s mind) is the only thing holding it together, and Apollonia implodes once Ahriman takes the Athenaeum for himself. Unchanged: The Planet of the Sorcerers exists in a state of constant change. The buildings and streets of the capital city shift around on a daily basis, the streets echo with whispers and conversations that happened centuries ago, and the only semi-fixed landmark is the Tower of the Cyclops, which only appears when Magnus chooses to manifest on the planet. Magnus himself has complete control over the planetâ€™s weather and geography, and he can grant this power to anyone he chooses. Prospero isnâ€™t just a dead world with a corrosive atmosphere and frequent acid rainstorms. The planet is surrounded by a Warp storm born from the pain and terror felt by its long-dead inhabitants, and several characters describe Prospero as a bleeding scar in the Warp. Anyone who enters the storm or sets foot on Prosperoâ€™s surface will be plagued by the whispers of the dead and vivid hallucinations of marauding Space Wolves.
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Thousand Sons / int_9ce6492a	type	Taking the Bullet
Thousand Sons / int_9ce6492a	comment	Taking the Bullet: Sanakht took a psychic attack from Iskandar Khayon on Ahrimanâ€™s behalf at some point in the backstory. He survived, but the attack burnt out much of Sanakhtâ€™s psychic potential, and now he struggles to perform the most basic psychic feats like Telepathy.
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Thousand Sons / int_9e9e8623	type	It Is Beyond Saving
Thousand Sons / int_9e9e8623	comment	It Is Beyond Saving: Amon feels this way about the Thousand Sons. He feels that the Legion is hopelessly corrupted and that there is no way to free most of his brothers from the living death the Rubric of Ahriman condemned them to, and so he believes that the only way to save the Thousand Sons is to destroy them. Ahriman, whose dark deeds were motivated by a desire to save and preserve the Legion, is horrified when he learns this.
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Thousand Sons / int_a195310a	type	Red Is Heroic
Thousand Sons / int_a195310a	comment	Red Is Heroic: In Ahriman: Exile, the Brotherhood of Dust have a red color scheme, the color of the Thousand Sons when they were loyal to the Emperor. This is part of Amon's desire to find redemption in the eyes of the Emperor by annihilating the Legion.
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Thousand Sons / int_a21d8982	type	Assassination Attempt
Thousand Sons / int_a21d8982	comment	Assassination Attempt: In Ahriman: Unchanged, Tzeentch tasks the Changeling with killing Ahriman in his moment of triumph, and the daemon spends the bulk of the novel maneuvering itself into a position to do so. It comes within a hairâ€™s breadth of killing him, only for Tzeentch to change its mind and call off the hit. Ahriman never realizes the danger he was in.
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Thousand Sons / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Thousand Sons / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Maroth plucks out one eye from each of the captured renegade Space Marines on the Titan Child, and later confides to Ahriman that he ate the eyes. Ahriman allows Astraeos to return the favour by tearing out both of Marothâ€™s eyes later on, and Maroth spends the rest of the novel wandering blindly while the flesh around his empty eye sockets rots away.
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Thousand Sons / int_a300ab6f	type	Living Memory
Thousand Sons / int_a300ab6f	comment	Living Memory: Inquisitor Iobel dies as a result of Ahriman probing her mind for the location of the Athenaeum of Kallimakus, but for some reason her personality continues to exist as an autonomous entity within Ahrimanâ€™s mindscape, effectively becoming his Enemy Within.
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Thousand Sons / int_a31b47ae	type	Rapid-Fire "No!"
Thousand Sons / int_a31b47ae	comment	Rapid-Fire "No!": In Ahriman: Sorcerer, Ignis lets out a string of these when a Grey Knights strike cruiser suddenly shows up during the Prodigal Sonsâ€™ attack on Apollonia, throwing a wrench into his carefully-orchestrated designs.
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Thousand Sons / int_a5bf8f66	type	Reduced to Dust
Thousand Sons / int_a5bf8f66	comment	Reduced to Dust: Ahriman kills Amon by unleashing the power of the Rubric on him, reducing him to dust.
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Thousand Sons / int_a7b324e	type	Handicapped Badass
Thousand Sons / int_a7b324e	comment	Handicapped Badass Kadin loses all four of his limbs at different lengths and has to be fitted with low-quality, ill-fitting prosthetics. Being a Space Marine, this does not stop Kadin from kicking copious amounts of ass with a bolter or chainsword. Sanakht took the psychic attack by Khayon intend for Ahriman, taking most of his psychic strength, but he still remains the best swordsman in the Thousand Sons in general and the Prodigal Sons in particular. Ctesias is physically weaker than his brothers, but can still fight for days without tiring, and in return has gained a large collection of powerful daemons at his beck and call, including such juggernauts as Doombreed.
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Thousand Sons / int_a81bdfc8	type	Horns of Villainy
Thousand Sons / int_a81bdfc8	comment	Horns of Villainy: This is the story that explains how Ahriman picked up his signature helmet.
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Thousand Sons / int_aaece264	type	Rousing Speech
Thousand Sons / int_aaece264	comment	Rousing Speech: Ahriman gives one to his Prodigal Sons near the start of Ahriman: Unchanged:
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Thousand Sons / int_b0740635	type	Master of Your Domain
Thousand Sons / int_b0740635	comment	Master of Your Domain: Ahriman can petrify his own flesh and organs, which he uses to trap a Warp-Talonâ€™s arm within his body before killing it, and later to keep the slivers of Inquisitor Iobelâ€™s silver bullet from reaching his hearts and killing him. Heâ€™s also able to regenerate his hand after Sanakht cuts it off. In Unchanged, Sar'iq grows a pair of wings this way.
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Thousand Sons / int_b26cc887	type	Just Between You and Me
Thousand Sons / int_b26cc887	comment	Just Between You and Me: In Unchanged, Ahriman telepathically contacts the chief sensor operator of a soon-to-be-destroyed Imperial warship to gloat that the sons of Prospero are coming home. Later, agents of the Inquisition discover and revive the operatorâ€™s corpse, learn what Ahriman told him, and head to Prospero to try and stop whatever Ahriman is doingâ€“which is exactly what Ahriman wanted them to do.
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Thousand Sons / int_b3bdf232	type	Alien Geometries
Thousand Sons / int_b3bdf232	comment	Alien Geometries: When Knekku first enters the Labyrinth of Tzeentch, he finds himself standing on a flight of stairs floating in a misty void. The stairway has no visible beginning or end, other staircases branch off from it at random, all of them twist in impossible ways so that a person on one section would appear to be upside down from the perspective of someone on another section, and the stairs can change direction or vanish altogether when not being observed. When Knekku starts making progress, he suddenly finds himself in a crystal tunnel that stretches off to infinity, and the stairs are nowhere to be seen when he looks back the way he came.
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Thousand Sons / int_b4d6aa7d	type	Dungeon Bypass
Thousand Sons / int_b4d6aa7d	comment	Dungeon Bypass: In Ahriman: Unchanged, Magnusâ€™s Thousand Sons know that Ahriman is returning to the Planet of the Sorcerers and start preparing their defenses for his arrival. They send out daemons to watch for incoming fleets, their own fleet is ready to repel Ahrimanâ€™s, and they even reconfigure the planetâ€™s geography to make a land invasion of the City of Towers impossible. Ahriman circumvents these defenses by using a ritual to teleport his entire force right into the heart of the City from halfway across the galaxy, and their cataclysmic arrival throws the defenders into disarray.
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Thousand Sons / int_b4fce1ab	type	Obfuscating Insanity
Thousand Sons / int_b4fce1ab	comment	Obfuscating Insanity: The epilogue of Ahriman: Exile reveals that Maroth, who has been a gibbering and almost feral wreck ever since getting Mind Raped by Ahriman, is far more coherent and lucid when no one else is around.
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Thousand Sons / int_b75b35ac	type	Forgiveness
Thousand Sons / int_b75b35ac	comment	Forgiveness: At the end of Exile, Ahriman forgives Carmenta for betraying him to Amon. When she asks him why, he simply gives a tired smile and says, â€œWe must all hope that betrayal can be forgiven.â€�
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Thousand Sons / int_b9085a47	type	Summon Magic
Thousand Sons / int_b9085a47	comment	Summon Magic: Ctesias specializes in the summoning and binding of daemons. He has tens of thousands of them at his beck and call, and on two occasions he's had to cross the Godzilla Threshold by summoning all of them at once.
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Thousand Sons / int_ba12ccff	type	Thought-Aversion Failure
Thousand Sons / int_ba12ccff	comment	Thought-Aversion Failure: Hemellion knows that the Thousand Sons can read minds. He tries not to think about how much he hates them for enslaving him and destroying his world, only for Sanakht to inform him that heâ€™s effectively broadcasting his hatred for all to see.
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Thousand Sons / int_bb0f336e	type	Mad Mathematician
Thousand Sons / int_bb0f336e	comment	Mad Mathematician: Ignis. Heâ€™s obsessed with â€œthe numerology of destructionâ€� and sees mathematical formulas in everything, from a personâ€™s posture to the synchronized firing of a warshipâ€™s guns. These formulas blend into a constantly changing pattern which allows him to not only predict the outcomes of events with a high (but not perfect) degree of accuracy, but also to influence the tides of the Warp in various ways. The other Thousand Sons find him strange and difficult to get along with, while Ignis himself seems to prefer the company of robots to his brothers.
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Thousand Sons / int_bb5e187b	type	Captured Super-Entity
Thousand Sons / int_bb5e187b	comment	Captured Super-Entity: The Athenaeum of Kallimakus is a psychic conduit into the mind of Magnus the Red. The Inquisition keeps it locked away in their secret fortress on Apollonia, where it is guarded by blanks and bound in crippled human hosts, in order to use Magnusâ€™ knowledge against the Thousand Sons. Ahriman steals the Athenaeum to further his goals. In Eternal Helio Isodorus, or the entity he presents as, is the avatar of the Pyrodomon, the collective memory of all the Thousand Sons AND the second Rubric. If it regained it's memories of what it was, it could legimately destroy all the Thousand Sons, regardless of where they are.
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Thousand Sons / int_bda3d68a	type	Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?
Thousand Sons / int_bda3d68a	comment	Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: In Ahriman: Unchanged, Inquisitor Iobel inadvertently enters the Labyrinth of Tzeentch and encounters Magnus the Red, who commands her to do his bidding. Sheâ€™s initially cowed by him, but after realizing that Magnus canâ€™t harm her because sheâ€™s already dead, she spits at him and starts insulting him.
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Thousand Sons / int_bed31639	type	Mind Probe
Thousand Sons / int_bed31639	comment	Mind Probe: After capturing Inquisitor Iobel, Ahriman starts telepathically probing her mind for the location of the Athenaeum of Kallimakus. Or at least, thatâ€™s what she assumes is happening. In reality Ahriman has pulled her mind into his own in a sort of hostile Mental Fusion so that he can sift through her memories in the guise of her companions. Once she realizes this, a Battle in the Center of the Mind ensues as she starts to fight back.
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Thousand Sons / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
Thousand Sons / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: Fitting for a series based around Tzeentch's favored Legion, keeping track of all the schemes, order of events, and what may or may not be real can be quite difficult at times to wrap your head around.
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Thousand Sons / int_c41d362e	type	Living on Borrowed Time
Thousand Sons / int_c41d362e	comment	Living on Borrowed Time: Ahriman gets shot with a silver bullet in the first book. The resulting shrapnel canâ€™t be removed and will kill him once it reaches his hearts, forcing him to constantly harden and heal the flesh around the shrapnel in an effort to slow it down. The shrapnel finally reaches his hearts in Ahriman: Unchanged, but is destroyed by the reality-warping magic of the second Rubric before it can kill him.
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Thousand Sons / int_c5ccf60f	type	Internal Reveal
Thousand Sons / int_c5ccf60f	comment	Internal Reveal: In Ahriman: Unchanged, the daemon bound to Astraeos telepathically confronts Ahriman in the middle of his ritual on Prospero. It drops several bombshells on him all at once, including the fact that Astraeos (whom Ahriman assumed had died at the hands of the Inquisition in the previous book) is still alive and now hates Ahrimanâ€™s guts. The reader already knows thisnote as the narrative never tried to keep Astraeos's survival a secret, but this revelation shocks Ahriman to his core.
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Thousand Sons / int_c6d11745	type	Telepathy
Thousand Sons / int_c6d11745	comment	Telepathy: The Thousand Sons spend more time communicating with each other telepathically than they do with their actual voices. They can also use their telepathy to invade other peopleâ€™s minds and brainwash them, as Sanakht does with Hemellion.
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Thousand Sons / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Thousand Sons / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Menkaura's poetic description of time in the Warp as a stormy sea as opposed to a river is taken almost verbatim from Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.
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Thousand Sons / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
Thousand Sons / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: When Ahriman defeats Tolbek and starts probing his mind for information on who sent him, Tolbek immolates himself, body and mind, in an attempt to kill Ahriman while also denying him the information he seeks.
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Thousand Sons / int_cda1a3db	type	Pieces of God
Thousand Sons / int_cda1a3db	comment	Pieces of God: The Shards of Magnus. Each one is an autonomous fragment of a fallen demigod, each one embodies a different aspect of his character, and each one believes itself to be the real Magnus. Ahriman spent most of the Horus Heresy chasing them down in order to put Magnus back together, but missed a few. Now the Shard bound to Astraeos, representing Magnusâ€™s wrath, wants to finish the job and make itself the dominant aspect.
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Thousand Sons / int_ce75a983	type	Screw Destiny
Thousand Sons / int_ce75a983	comment	Screw Destiny: Ahriman describes himself as a warrior fighting a war against fate itself on several occasions, and his overall goal in the trilogy is to save his brother Thousand Sons from the fate which he had inadvertently damned them to when he cast the Rubric. His efforts donâ€™t pan out this time, but the end of the trilogy implies (and the wider Warhammer 40,000 franchise shows) that he will never stop trying.
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Thousand Sons / int_ceb7336a	type	Wetware CPU
Thousand Sons / int_ceb7336a	comment	Wetware CPU: Carmenta can plug herself directly into the Titan Child, letting her control the shipâ€™s systems with her mind and run it with a skeleton crew of servitors. This takes a toll on her mind, however, and she occasionally has trouble remembering where Titan Child ends and she begins.
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Thousand Sons / int_cf168867	type	The Corruption
Thousand Sons / int_cf168867	comment	The Corruption: The Space Wolves have spent so much time hunting Ahriman through the Eye of Terror that they are slowly being corrupted in body and mind, turning into feral, werewolf-like monsters. The Wolves recognize what is happening to them, and hope to kill Ahriman before they fully succumb to the Warpâ€™s corruption.
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Thousand Sons / int_cf48c17	type	Nightmare Face
Thousand Sons / int_cf48c17	comment	Nightmare Face: Ichneumon is so heavily mutated by the powers of Chaos that his face no longer resembles anything even remotely human. One half of his face is covered with clusters of eyes, and the other half is dotted with lamprey-like mouths.
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Thousand Sons / int_d028e0da	type	An Arm and a Leg
Thousand Sons / int_d028e0da	comment	An Arm and a Leg: Kadin loses all four of his limbs during the mission to the astropathic relay station. Ahriman assumes that they were torn off by daemons, but in reality they were shot off by the Thunderhawkâ€™s gun batteries when Kadin was daemonically possessed. He gets all four of his limbs replaced with crude prosthetics.
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Thousand Sons / int_d23a9bb8	type	Possession Burnout
Thousand Sons / int_d23a9bb8	comment	Possession Burnout: The Athenaeum literally burns through its hosts. The Inquisition keeps spare bodies in an adjacent room, ready to be brought in and possessed the moment the current host starts sizzling. Ahriman correctly gambles that a Space Marine could better withstand the possession than a normal human and chucks Sanakht into the Athenaeum.
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Thousand Sons / int_d3b02ffb	type	I Know Your True Name
Thousand Sons / int_d3b02ffb	comment	I Know Your True Name: Ctesias specializes in binding daemons by learning their true names and breaking them down into their component syllables (which he holds in psychic traps within his mind). As he puts it:
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Thousand Sons / int_d4dd2bb5	type	Shapeshifter Guilt Trip
Thousand Sons / int_d4dd2bb5	comment	Shapeshifter Guilt Trip: When Ahriman summons a daemon in order to interrogate it about Amonâ€™s plans, the daemon attempts to break Ahrimanâ€™s concentration (and thus escape from its bindings) by taking on the form of his dead brother Ohrmuzd. Ahriman, being no stranger to the ways of daemons, is unfazed.
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Thousand Sons / int_d75a1703	type	Year Outside, Hour Inside
Thousand Sons / int_d75a1703	comment	Year Outside, Hour Inside: After they devastate Vohal, the Prodigal Sons retreat to the Warp and wait for the Inquisition to set up a base on the dead planet. From their perspective, two years pass; from the Inquisitionâ€™s perspective, Vohal has been a dead world for hundreds if not thousands of years by the time they arrive.
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Thousand Sons / int_de9047ac	type	Gambit Pileup
Thousand Sons / int_de9047ac	comment	Gambit Pileup: The first two books had enough of this as is, but in Ahriman: Unchanged, Ahriman juggles at least six conflicting agendas. Some plans going against each other are made by the same person.
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Thousand Sons / int_debf324f	type	Immune to Fate
Thousand Sons / int_debf324f	comment	Immune to Fate: Ahriman asks Menkaura to read his future in the epilogue of Unchanged, only for Menkaura to discoverâ€”quite painfullyâ€”that the paths of Ahrimanâ€™s potential futures are now hidden by thorns and shadows, making it impossible to predict his actions. Itâ€™s implied that Ahriman gained this ability when Tzeentch decided to spare his life.
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Thousand Sons / int_e070ebe6	type	Manchurian Agent
Thousand Sons / int_e070ebe6	comment	In Ahriman: Sorcerer, Sanakht and Ignis begin conspiring to overthrow Ahriman and take control of his warband. While Ignis sets about recruiting people to their cause, Sanakht brainwashes Hemellion into becoming a Manchurian Agent. When the time is right Hemellion will assassinate Carmenta, and the forces loyal to Sanakht will destroy those loyal to Ahriman and blow up his flagship, the Sycorax. At the same time, Sanakht will accompany Ahriman down to the surface of Apollonia to retrieve the Athenaeum of Kallimakus; since Sanakht knows that the Athenaeum is guarded by blanks, Ahriman wonâ€™t be able to defend himself with his psychic powers and thus Sanakhtâ€”being the superior swordsmanâ€”will have a chance to kill him. Unfortunately for Sanakht, Ignis is actually loyal to Ahriman, and is using this opportunity to identify the disloyal elements of the Prodigal Sons so that they can be purged later. Ahriman and Ignisâ€™s plan also requires Carmenta to die and the Sycorax to be destroyed, as their sacrifice will tear open a Warp rift and allow the Prodigal Sons to escape from the Inquisitorial fleet that is pursuing them. Finally, Ahriman brought Sanakht with him to go get the Athenaeum because it can only be removed by allowing it to possess someone, and by offering up Sanakht heâ€™s killing two birds with one stone.
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Thousand Sons / int_e5e07b2d	type	You Cannot Grasp the True Form
Thousand Sons / int_e5e07b2d	comment	You Cannot Grasp the True Form: Magnus the Red. Any two people who look upon his physical form will see two very different things, and neither of those will be an accurate representation of the Humanoid Abomination that he has become.
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Thousand Sons / int_e8e56799	type	Blue-and-Orange Morality
Thousand Sons / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue-and-Orange Morality: In Ahriman: Unchanged, Tzeentch is so pleased with Ahrimanâ€™s attempts to defy fate that it decides to grant him â€œthe reward he deserves but does not craveâ€�â€”oblivionâ€”and tasks the Changeling with carrying it out. Both Tzeentch and the Changeling sincerely believe that theyâ€™ll be doing Ahriman a favor by ending his life, as obliterating his soul will grant him peace and freedom from the hell that awaits most servants of the Changer of Ways.
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Thousand Sons / int_e913fe74	type	Epic Flail
Thousand Sons / int_e913fe74	comment	Epic Flail: Gaumata wields a morning star on a chain. Itâ€™s a force weapon, which lets him channel his psychic powers through it and set whatever it strikes on fire.
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Thousand Sons / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Thousand Sons / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Ahriman, after threatening to pluck out an unnerved Marothâ€™s eyes if he doesnâ€™t cooperate, promises Maroth that he wonâ€™t take his eyes and that he will live. He then gives Maroth over to Astraeos so the latter can take revenge on the former, prompting this exchange:
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Thousand Sons / int_ece27800	type	Kill and Replace
Thousand Sons / int_ece27800	comment	Kill and Replace: In Unchanged, the Changeling kills and impersonates a number of people in its quest to kill Ahriman, from a lowly deckhand to a Space Marine Captain. The one exception is Ignis, whom it impersonates but doesnâ€™t kill because theyâ€™re destined to die elsewhere.
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Thousand Sons / int_eedee4d	type	The Starscream
Thousand Sons / int_eedee4d	comment	The Starscream: In Ahriman: Sorcerer, the previously loyal Sanakht begins to fear that Ahrimanâ€™s obsession with casting the Rubric a second time will lead the Thousand Sons to ruin, and starts plotting against him. Ahriman knew of Sanakhtâ€™s treachery from the start, however, and Out Gambits Sanakht in spectacular fashion.
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Thousand Sons / int_f16da697	type	Undying Loyalty
Thousand Sons / int_f16da697	comment	Undying Loyalty: Ultimately subverted with Sanakht to Ahriman. While he didn't believe in the first Rubric, he did believe in Ahriman. However, when he learns that Ahriman is planning to cast another Rubric using the Athanaeum of Kalimakus, he begins plotting to kill Ahriman, believing that Ahriman would only end up making things worse.
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Thousand Sons / int_f6ca5b54	type	The Archmage
Thousand Sons / int_f6ca5b54	comment	The Archmage: Ahriman himself. During the Horus Heresy he was the First Captain and Chief Librarian of a Space Marine Legion full of powerful psykers, and his powers have only grown greater since then. Even while rusty and out of practice at the start of the first book, Ahriman is still powerful enough to take on four other sorcerers, a Chaos Lord and his Champions all at once, killing all but one of them in the span of five heartbeats. When he magically teleports himself onto an Inquisitorial ship in order to kidnap its Navigator, his mere arrival destroys every protective ward and psychic disperser on the vessel. At the climax of the book he takes control of hundreds of Amonâ€™s Rubric Marines, and thirty-six other sorcerers working in concert cannot break his hold over them.
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Thousand Sons / int_f8f3711c	type	Shapeshifting
Thousand Sons / int_f8f3711c	comment	Shapeshifting: The Changeling has a role in the third novel at the command of Tzeentch himself.
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