Ferrus Manus: The Gorgon of Medusa (Volume 7) (The Horus Heresy: Primarchs) [Hardcover] Guymer, David

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Renowned for their pride, cold-hearted brutality and remorselessness in battle, the Iron Hands were among the most powerful and famed Space Marine Legions… caught up in the machinations of the Warmaster’s treachery, they were undone by their own hubris and the blade of the traitor both.” Rest? We were not made to rest; we go on, unflinching, unstoppable, unending in our strength. The Emperor did not make us for such mortal concerns as hearth and home, vanity or contemplation; we are his engines of war, his hammers, beating out the fabric of existence into a vessel fit for Mankind to inhabit." At the outset of the Heresy, most of the Iron Hands Legion were – by coincidence or design – serving under Ferrus Manus and his flagship, the Fist of Iron , in the 52nd Expeditionary Fleet. But the big stuff is saved for last… Squads of 10 men or fewer who can take a Rhino (i.e. most basic units) can take a Land Raider Proteus or Phobos instead – massively boosting the potential for heavy armour saturation. On top of that, all Tanks gain Outflank! This is crazy, as you can Outflank everything from Land Raiders to Rhinos – truly encircling your opponent and getting side shots on their vehicles. You are here: Home / 31st Millennium / Primarch Pilgrimage / Primarch Pilgrimage: Ferrus Manus – Gorgon of Medusa by David Guymer Primarch Pilgrimage: Ferrus Manus – Gorgon of Medusa by David Guymer

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A pair of linked short stories – The Blessing of Iron by Anthony Reynolds and The Memory of Flesh by Matthew Farrer – also delved into the relationship between the Chapter and Mars, as treachery on a forge world threatened both. Fulgrim intended to kill his unconscious brother with the weapon he had forged for him, the warhammer Forgebreaker, but proved unable to kill his oldest friend despite the promptings of the Slaaneshi Daemon that now corrupted his soul. Instead he took the wonderous weapon that he had once crafted in brotherhood for Ferrus as a reminder of their former friendship, and left behind Fireblade, which Ferrus had forged for him. Neither Primarch had yet met the other, but each had felt the shared bonds of alchemy and science that had gone into their making. Both were like gods unto the terrified artisans, who prostrated themselves before these two mighty warriors as though fearing a terrible battle might ensue between them. Ferrus Manus later told the tale to the Astartes of the X th Legion claiming that Fulgrim had declared that he had come to forge the most perfect weapon ever created, and that he would bear it in the coming Great Crusade. Of course the Primarch of the Iron Hands could not let such a boast go unanswered, and he had laughed in Fulgrim’s face, declaring that such pasty hands could never be the equal of his own living metal appendages. Fulgrim accepted the challenge with regal grace, and both Primarchs had stripped to the waist, working without pause for weeks on end, the forge ringing with the deafening pounding of hammers, the hiss of cooling metal, and the good-natured insults of the two demigods as they sought to outdo one another. Once Fulgrim had claimed the blade as his own, the daemon within it began whispering in his mind and corrupting his soul towards the service of Slaanesh. He began to wield the daemonblade more often than his prior weapon, the great sword Fireblade that had been forged for him on Terra by his fellow Primarch and most favoured brother, Ferrus Manus. Thinking the whispers in his mind was only his own subconscious speaking to him, Fulgrim began listening to what it offered. Eventually, he discovered these were actually the whispers of the daemon that existed within the blade. After a lot of persuasion from his brother Horus, himself already corrupted by the Ruinous Powers after his injury on the moon of Davin, Fulgrim gave himself over to Chaos, and found his particular patron in the Prince of Pleasure, who offered the Primarch a route to the ultimate perfection he so craved for himself and his Astartes, free of all morality and dependent upon the pursuit of ultimate self-obsession. Stand and Fight is a debuff, but one which won’t cause too many problems – Leadership is generally quite good for Space Marines. Legion Special EquipmentStill here? You’ve got a good head on your shoulders, and it’s earned you a rare privilege – getting cosy with the galaxy’s most indomitable warriors in the latest entry of our neutral and even-handed coverage of the Legiones Astartes. Let’s hope you can keep up – there are no medals for second place.* All models with the special rule legiones astartes ( Iron Hands ) in an army containing Ferrus Manus gain the Feel no Pain ( 6+ ) special rule (unless they already possess a superior version of this rule ). if using him in the campaign , he no longer has Forgebreaker , since Fulgrim stole it , if so his points cost is reduced to [REDACTED] ) When the Gorgon, as he had become known, strode forth from the forbidden realms of sundered Medusa to batter the disparate clans of his world into submission to his overlordship, he was already thought of as a living god by its natives. But while he did not require of the Medusans worship and did nothing to encourage it, he demanded obedience to his will, and bloodily broke any who would contest his word. Nor did he quell conflict or bring peace upon the planet, but instead he gave the Iron Fathers -- the half Tech-priests, half-shamans who ministered to the clans' spiritual and technological needs -- the fruits of his own intervention in exchange for the technological secrets they had kept down the generations. Through the Gorgon's teachings the Medusan clans then forged better weapons and stronger machines with which to fight to prove their worth to survive. Anyone who looked upon the mighty warhammer could feel the power radiating from within it and know instinctively that more than just skill had gone into its forging. Love and honour, loyalty and friendship, death and vengeance...all were embodied within its majestic form, and the thought that the Iron Hands primarch's sworn honour brother and fellow primarch had created this weapon made it truly legendary.

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They are not my hands. This fact is forgotten by my brothers -- inexplicably, it has always seemed to me. The hands are strong, to be sure, and have created great things for us all, but they are not mine. And that counts for something. They forget that the silver on my arms comes from a beast that I vanquished. It is the mark of a great evil that I ended, and yet it persists within me...I would struggle to remove it now...I will not remove the silver from my flesh because I have learned to depend on it. The fault is with my mind. I rely on the augmentation given to me by my metal gauntlets, so much so that the flesh beneath them is now little more than a distant memory...A day will come when I will strip it from me, lest I lose the power to master myself forever. Already my Legion's warriors replace their shield hands with metal in my honour, and so they too are learning to doubt the natural strength of their bodies. They must be weaned off this practice before it becomes a mania for them. Hatred of what is natural, of what is human, is the first and greatest of the corruptions. So I record it here: when the time comes, I will strip my hands of their unnatural silver. I will instruct my Legion to recant their distrust of the flesh. I will turn them away from the gifts of the machine and bid them relearn the mysteries of flesh, bone and blood. When my father's Crusade is over, this shall be my sacred task. When the fighting is done, I shall cure my Legion and myself. For if fighting is all there is, if we may never pause to reflect on what such devotion to strength is doing to us, then our compulsion will only grow."The primarch of the Iron Hands has decided that the best way to get the Emperor’s attention is to show Him he can do things better than his brothers. A wonderful opportunity opens up on the non-compliant system of the Gardinaal. A few companies of the Thousand Sons and Ultramarines are having great difficulty in bringing this civilization to heel, and they’ve called upon the Iron Hands to help them out before Roboute Guilliman arrives. Guilliman is several weeks away, whereas Ferrus is only days out. He’s supposed to hold things together for the Ultramarines while they wait for their primarch, but Ferrus has other ideas. He’s going to bring this system under compliance before Roboute arrives. I’ve heard Ferrus called many things, including “boring,”“the primarch no one cares about,” and “the primarch only known for dying first.” None of it paints an interesting picture of him, but Fulgrim turned around my thinking. How fascinating is it that the most pompous and prissy primarch can be best friends with someone known as boring? Sure, you can argue that Fulgrim could never be besties with someone as glamorous as he is. Otherwise, Sanguinius or Lion El’Jonson would certainly be his BFF. However, the end of Fulgrim showed me something completely different about him.

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The C'tan Phase Weapons used by the Imperium's Callidus Assassins are also made of necrodermis. These weapons were adapted from the remains of Necron technology discovered to lie buried dormant under Mars by the Adeptus Mechanicus many millennia ago. HQ – Praetor with Cataphractii Armour, Digital Lasers, Grenade Harness, Master-Crafted Paragon Blade, Cyber Familiar A few authors have also taken a look at how the Iron Hands relate to their fellow Space Marines from other Chapters in various short stories. Phil Kelly’s Iron Soul sees a Space Wolf discovering how far the sons of Medusa will go in search of machine perfection, while Justin D Hill’s Deadhenge is a Deathwatch tale that shows how revenge is a strong motivator, even for an alien-hunting battle-brother of the Iron Hands.Ferrus Manus’ story starts, much like the rest of the Primarchs, with him being stolen away from his Emperor dad as an infant. His pod crash landed on the harsh, tectonically unstable world of Medusa, toppling an enormous mountain called Karaashi, Ice Pinnacle (was it named after the sound it made when he hit it?) and setting off earthquakes all across the planet. He admires you, you know,’ said Fulgrim, with the near-telepathy that only the closest of brothers could share. ‘Greatly. I’ve heard him say that he counts you and Dorn as the greatest among us.’ Gorgons are elite warriors of the Iron Tenth, representing experimental armour developed by Ferrus Manus before the outbreak of the Heresy. They are intruiging from an aesthetic perspective, being one of the few (if not only) examples of Indomitus pattern armour in the Heresy setting – the armour that later becomes the standard in the 41st Millenium. In a bleak twist here, Gorgons cannot take their armour off – and Ferrus unfortunately perished at the hands of his brother before the armour could be developed further, leaving Gorgon Terminators sealed forever inside their battlesuits. A tragic figure with the dubious honour of being the first Primarch to die during the Horus Heresy, Ferrus Manus also has a reputation for brute strength and a keen tactical acumen.