I just read that big E left Corax on his planet to finish his quest/rebellion as only then could he lead his legion.
What the hell? Could the Emperor not do that with Angron or Mortarion? I think it's fair to say that him not allowing either of them to deliver the retribution they felt compelled to is a major point in favor of them turning traitors.
Mortarion was the 14th and Corvus the 19th to be found, pretty close all things considered. Did the Emperor just go like "Well maybe I should try another way for the third son who wants to finish his fight"?
I reading about the raven guard through the wiki ( also wow they really dont get alot of love like the other legions) and realized that they are supposed to be like freedom fighters but they are fighting for the most brutal regime in the galaxy.
Currently reading the first corax book of the horus heresy and corax really seems like a good leader and a pretty sympathetic guy for a Primarch, especially compared to how most of his brothers are portrait. He is nice to his legion, respectful to his brother Dorn, very respectful to the costodes and seems to have his moral compass pretty much in order. Is he generally a more liked primarch or am I up for a disappointment down the road of the Heresy?
So, it seems like I found a bug concerning Corvus Corax. Whenever you have an ability that lets you deal additional damage after attacking, for example Gorefather or Oath of Vengeance, you can get your stealth activated, without even using your ability.
To do that, you need to kill something with that damage, resulting in you getting stealthed. This surely needs to be addressed quickly, since Corvus is already in quite the comfortable spot without bugs.
His design and freedom fighters concept is badass, his story is compelling and the character himself is perhaps even more human than guiliman who was raised by nobility while corax lived, ate and grew up alongside regular folks like us...yet he always seems to pass under the radar (no pun intented) among the fandom
He was In the top 4 best duelist among his siblings he absolutly destroyed lorgar and had the upper hand against curze almost turning the tide of the battle In the loyalist favor
In 40k He is the Only loyalist alongside guilliman alive, currenly able and whooping ass Yet people focus more on a possible return of the lion,russ or rogal dorn
Actually in general how were the primarchs as dads
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We will have to go up to lvl 100 since he’s a
Primarch and they’re good at everything.
Goals:
Preternatural stealth, so much so that you’re pretty much invisible to everyone, and guerilla warfare tactics.
Arti crafted armour, jump pack and weapons
Brutal, uncompromising angst and fury in combat, + a shadow raven form to avenge your fallen sons.
Both he and his legion have a heavy raven theme, and the "sable brand" affliction, which (among other things) causes waking hallucinations of ravens...
...but why?
Corax grew up on a prison moon with, presumably, not a whole lot of ravens fucking around inside or outside the prison. Nobody he deals with in the lore I've read has a thing for ravens, all of his mentors were much more focused on [Insert Thing That Isn't A Raven Here]. And I know he wasn't on Kiavahr for very long before Emps showed up, so having some kind of bird-powered epiphany in the woods seems unlikely.
So where do the birds come from?
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In Godblight it was revealed Guilliman was addressed as "his lasy loyal son, his last tool and hope" etc...which just sounded odd, like we haven't heard of Khan, Omegon (assuming theories of him being "loyal" are true), or Russ. Regarding Lion, he's very likely residing somewhere in the Rock sleeping, so immobile, made sense big E didn't mention about him. However, Corvus Corax is in action for all these years, in the warp no less.
Now, we know for sure Corax is out there killing daemos, word bearers, and likely kicking the crap outta "Lorgarbage: Daemon Editon", so why didn't big E mentioned this to Guilliman?
Or, is there a possibility that besides not directly contributing much, Corax being a daemon/warp spawn has caused the Emperor to look down on him with disdain?
It is well known that the Raven Guard Primarch has the power to "erase himself from people's consciousness". How does this power work and does it have limitations?
Just wanted to post some badass quotes from one of the most underrated Primarchs.
- From Deliverance Lost (P:106):
’I am Lord Corvus Corax, Primarch of the Raven Guard, Saviour of Deliverance, Commander of the 27th and 376th Expeditions, acting Marshal of the Therion Cohort and lauded conqueror of a thousand worlds. Please come aboard and I will show you my other credentials.’
- From Corax: Nevermore (P:63):
Pale flesh burned through camouflage, revealing a ghost-white face, Corax’s eyes becoming orbs of utter darkness. He held up his claws: a mental command sent blue fronds of energy crackling along their length. 'Should I wish it, I could kill you all now and depart. From here I would leave with my foes none the wiser, to return with my Legion to raze this planet and eradicate any threat it presents. No world is beyond the jurisdiction of the Emperor and his agents. Seven Legions were sent to destroy me at Isstvan, yet I survived. Do not think for a moment that this world possesses the power to destroy me. Any that move against the Nineteenth, as sure as iron rusts and flesh fails, I will see them slain by my own hand.
EDIT: More badass moments from Corax:
- From The First Heretic:
The ground murmured with his landing. Claws slashed from their power-fist housings with silver flashes, and shimmering wings of dark metal reached up from his shoulders into the air above. Slowly, so painfully slowly, he raised his head to the traitors. Black eyes stared from a face whither than Imperial marble, and written across the pale features was the most consummate, complete anger Argel Tal had ever seen.
It was an emotion truer and deeper even than the rage that ruined the faces of the daemons within the Warp. And Argel Tal realised it was not anger, nor rage. It went beyond both. This was wrath, in physical form.
The primarch of the Raven Guard turned with an inhuman cry, letting the thrumming wing-blades affixed to his smoking jetpack slice out with their killing edges.Word Bearers tumbled away in droves, shredded into lumps of armoured flesh. The claws followed, rending through any of the grey warriors unlucky enough to be within range of the warlord’s landing. Once he was in motion, Corax never slowed. He was a blur of charcoal armour and black blades, carving, chopping, dismembering without effort, mutilating with the barest movement, butchering with an ease that belied his ferocity.
- *From Corax (Anthology) Weregeld:
Someone on here mentioned that Corvus Corax gave Lorgar quite a beating or something to that effect, so what injuries did our Word Bearers Primarch receive in the fight?
Tl;dr the Night Haunter is jealous.
Context: It's common knowledge that the Eighth and Nineteenth legions have a number of things in common. Konrad Curze himself admits as much in this excerpt, while also describing the key ways in which the two Legions and their primarchs differ. Moreover, he explains why, of all his brothers, Corvus Corax is the only one he ever truly hated.
This is such a good excerpt, and it really makes me wish that the Night Lords and Raven Guard had more of a personal, bitter blood feud going on, the way the Imperial Fists do with the Iron Warriors or the Word Bearers with the Ultramarines. I mean, sure, the Raven Guard won't pass up a chance to have a go at the Night Lords, or vice versa, but their antagonism, from what I've seen, is just the generic heretics vs. loyalists variety. It'd be so much cooler if they were absolute arch-enemies like some of the other First Founding legions.
>'I wonder often if Corax would have followed me into this same darkness, had the war not come. He and I were so similar, we could have been twins. Of them all, he and Sanguinius were the closest to me – not personally, none of them were my friends,’ Curze said sarcastically. ‘There were never any friends for me. But they were the most alike, though for different reasons. Corax and I, yes, both creatures of darkness, I the murderer, he the assassin, both preoccupied by justice, both raised around criminals.’
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>He shivered sensuously, and drew black fingernails over his luminous flesh.
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>‘We followed similar paths. We should have had so much in common, and yet Corax always hated me. He thought I was barbaric, cruel. Him! The noble freedom fighter who incinerated untold thousands in atomic fire to secure his great moral victory. He understood the value of atrocity well enough, even if he pretended not to.’ Curze shook his head and laughed. ‘You see, that’s what I don’t understand. Why did you breed such a clutch of hypocrites?’
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>He wrapped long, bony arms around his knees, and pressed his face into them. ‘I’ll tell you something else,’ said Curze. ‘I hated him too. You might think I hated all my brothers. I didn’t. They were the ones that hated me. I could not hate them back. Most of them I could tolerate, a few I respected. A couple I loved, though they never returned the affection. But I hated Corax.’ He looked aside in shame and spoke to the wall. ‘I hated him so much. ‘I didn’t hate him for being like me, no
So I watched Majorkills video on the powers of each primarch and he mentions how he apparently can sense chaos giving an example of him killing a wordbearer attached to his legion cause he sensed chaos within him if this is true wouldn’t he have sensed the alpha legionaries that was infiltrating his legion I know it’s the very point of the alpha legion to be able to agent 47 into space marine chapters but wouldn’t his supposed chaos detection alert him that those particular marines were chaos even if he believed them to be Raven guard was the YouTuber wrong about this ability? Or does the alpha legion have a way to avoid this power? Maybe it can go towards the alpha legion still being loyalists
Chapter Fleet
Culture
The Ashen Guard Chapter’s Astartes do not have the most developed social intelligence. This has led them to live like barbarians or tribesmen. Each of their ships called “nests” have slightly differing cultures, some being more aggressive to differing Xenos or having differing beliefs about the Emperor. While these arguments have gone violent more than once, anything bigger than a fight between two brothers is stopped by the “Raven Seers”.
These “Raven Seers” are the equivalents of Chaplains. They have the highest authority and every Raven Seer leads their ship-nest. They are the ones with the most social intelligence. Unlike their brothers, they look more human than a raven. However, under their Terminator armor, their bodies sometimes “move”. Their rib cages open up passing through their skin and muscle as if there was nothing in their way.
In all ship-nests, arts and crafts are encouraged. Most of the ship-nests are filled with wooden master crafts that come close to lower Imperial Fists standards. The Ash Nest’s inside can be confused with a wooden castle, most of its walls covered with hand-sculpted wooden walls.
Fortress-Monastery
The Ashen Guard have 2 Battle Barges and 10 Cruisers making up their fleet.
-Ash Nest Battle Barge, Rage Claw Battle Barge
-Strike Cruisers Blade, Talon, Pierce, Shadow, Break, Cut, Horror, Hunt
-Vanguard Light Cruisers Sense, Know
Chapter Recruitment
One might assume that no one would want to become some bird super-soldier and that the Ashen Guard kidnaps recruits. However, some feudal worlds on the borders of the Imperium see this as an honor. For them, what could be seen as a curse, the extra mutations are seen as further gifts of the Emperor. These recruits are sorted into ship-nests by the Raven Seers and trained by Astartes personally. The recruits learn to communicate with body language only by dueling with their soon-to-be brothers, they learn the ways of the shadow by living in levels of light below 0 created by psychic force. The recruits have to also kill a warrior from at least 2 other species from the enemies of men in hand-to-hand combat, to understand how their souls work, and how to take those souls.
Chapter Combat Doctrine
Ashen Guard is known for their bestial nature that would shame Khorne Daemons on a battlefield. They move unnaturally fast even for Astartes, seen as shadows jumping from corner to corner, only showing their full form when they hav
... keep reading on reddit ➡I haven't been able to find a single depiction of Corax that shows him wearing a helmet. This concurrently led me down the path of wondering does he even have one?
I originally started trying to find a helmed version of Corax because I'm listening to Raven's Flight and my guy is in the thick of battle just about the whole time. They talk about his power armor being damn near melted from the combination of bolter fire and las cannons, but there's no mention of a helmet. Are we just meant to assume that he is wearing one or is he really just a mad lad who wants to go into battle with his glorious hair on display? If it's the latter then this guy is almost as nuts as Kurze. (Not really though lol)
I'm aware that named characters don't need helmets because of the almighty plot armor that shields their heads, but does Corax really just never wear one?
Another question that just dawned on me is would bolter rounds even be able to penetrate a primarch's skin? I would assume so, but I mean I could also see them not because of how OP primarchs are and all.
