For someone so devout to the Imperial Creed, that he would be elected as Ecclesiarch,
isn't it strange i mean he's more rabidly >!balls to the wall!< loyal to the Emperor than his "sons" that supposedly were programed to be loyal, That would make even Lion El'Johnson blush.
I mean Horus trew a temper tantrum for a random vision done by four random warpspawn that he had never seen before, Not to mention the whole >!Fucking !<Erebus before that...
So Pope Shafthat XXIII had his whole life and existence deconstructed by few typed words by the Emperor even Uriah had few minutes of conversation,
The difference being that while Uriah has the chance to adjust while
for Decius the truth must have been like a sledgehammer...
I mean can you imagine someone you've looked on to, praised, one day comes and tells you that your life was for naught, and the worst part is with The Emperor saying it, Decius know that it is true.
Any lesser man would have died from heart attack, or suicided himself in despair, but nope against all odds Decius is shaken but not rebelling, taking the Emperor's words to full value...
and despite that Decius, unlike Lorgar didn't turn to hatred,
or unlike Magnus didn't continue down the same part
[yes Decius stopped using the G-word for the Emperor or at least they are actively trying to],
or Uriah who was in straight up denial.
Nope against all sanity he breaks the news to the rest of the Ecclesiarchy, managing to drag them on imperial track, knowing the risks to himself.
[Only Sanguinius turning the Revenant Legion into the Blood Angels is more impressive.]
I mean how many people have the mental fortitude and will to do 180 just because they were told to, not even ordered.
If Kitten is the Father that the Emperor never was,
then Decius is the Loyal Son that The Emperor never had.
>Josephus –a Jew operating under the aegis of the Flavian dynasty, protected in its turn by the Isiac deities –chose two episodes involving the moral depravity of Jewish and Isiac priests and devotees during the reign of Tiberius, around 19 CE. The probable setting of the story is the Iseum Campense in the Campus Martius, built in 43 BCE and in all likelihood dedicated just before the Augustan decrees of 28 and 21 BCE (which excluded the Isiac cults from the area of the pomerium). It was here that Vespasian and Titus spent the night before their triumph in June 71 CE, thus invoking the protection of Isis and Serapis for the new dynasty. The conclusion of the story of Decius Mundus, by contrast, features Tiberius, the Julio-Claudian, declaring Isis a public enemy and throwing her statue into the Tiber.
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>In Josephus’ version [Antiquities of the Jews 18.65 –80], the story draws heavily on literary (comic and satirical) topoi (the cunning freedman, the devious old man, the credulous woman, the faithless wife). The story also shows knowledge of the requirements of sexual abstinence and marital fidelity demanded by the Isiac cults, and of deep-rooted Roman beliefs and anxieties about Egyptian religious practices.
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>We can dismiss out of hand the idea that priests wearing an Anubis mask had sexual intercourse with women inside Isiac temples. The plausibility of the story derives rather from the familiarity at Rome of Anubis and the anubophori, which acted as an ambivalent indexical sign both of Isiac identity and of the deviant ‘otherness’ represented by the trope of ‘demented Egypt’. It is probably no coincidence that the story is set in 19 CE, when Germanicus was visiting Egypt but failed to ask permission beforehand, thus arousing Tiberius’ suspicions (Tacitus Annals. 2.59).
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>Both of Josephus’ stories, of Paulina and of Fulvia [Antiquites. 18.81–84]^(a), were generated in the force-field between the moral programme of the early Principate on the one hand and the forced dichotomy between ‘foreign’ and ‘Roman’ religion on the other. Foreign priests exploit helpless Roman women ...
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>>^(a) There was a wicked [Jewish] man in Rome who “professed to instruct men in the wisdom of the laws of Moses”, the same laws that he had himself previously transgressed in Judaea, as a result of which he had been banished. With the complicity of a couple of friends of like character, he persuaded Fulvia (
I'm running a Northstar against bosses, and get hit multiple times per round. Each time, i see Decius' Honor guard fire off, adding 6% to my NS damage. So how does this happen?
R1: NS 31841 DMG, Honor Guard procs 6X.
R2: NS 32340 DMG (not 33751 at a minimum) , 6X more Honor Guards...
R3: NS 39146 DMG, a 21% increase..., 6X more HG
R4: NS 39649 DMG...
You get the idea. After SIX HGs, I should already be at 43304 DMG in round 2. With Decius, I used to basically double damage by the 6th round. Now, it doesn't go up in any way that makes sense, and sometimes will drop.
R6: Same fight, NS does 43541 DMG. R7, it DROPS to 41609! How does that happen?
