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

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What Fulgrim perceived as Ferrus’ prideful boasts and rash actions had been deeds of courage that he spitefully dismissed as the influence of Chaos began to claim the Phoenician's soul.

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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.

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. 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. When Fulgrim emerged from Ferrus' inner sanctum, he gave a signal to his elite Phoenix Guard, who instantly beheaded all of the Iron Hands Morlocks Terminators who served as Ferrus' own elite bodyguard with their Power Halberds. His veteran troops—comprising the majority of the X th Legion's Terminators and Dreadnoughts -- followed.

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Did you know that, like another of his overachieving black-clad brothers , Ferrus Manus harboured the ambition to be declared Warmaster himself? His veteran troops -- comprising the majority of the X th Legion's Terminators and Dreadnoughts -- followed.The Legion believed that any weakness in humanity should be stamped out, which resulted in many culls of newly-discovered populations who were unwilling to accept the Emperor's rule and the teachings of the Imperial Truth. When Manus' hands were coated with a silvery metal that melted from the Silver Wyrm's body, that material was absorbed into his skin and became a part of his body rather than injuring him. The expedition led by Fulgrim began to be unwittingly corrupted by the temple's potent and malign influence. 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. They had refused to see the manifest destiny that guided Mankind through the stars and had made it abundantly clear that they held the Imperium in nothing but contempt.

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Overwhelmed with rage, the headstrong Ferrus Manus disregarded the counsel of his brothers Corvus Corax and Vulkan and hurled himself against the fleeing rebels, seeking to bring Fulgrim to personal combat.