I couldn’t help but applaud the brilliance of Alpharius and how he recruited people, who he recruited, and how he used those he was never going to recruit. If there was ever a Legion that believed that the end justifies the means, it’s the Alpha Legion. Most of the time, the others simply say they’re Alpharius, but in a crowd, Omegon will step up as Alpharius proper. Not to mention, Alpharius has an identical twin, Omegon, who often pretends to be the real Alpharius. All of them altered their appearances to look like the real Alpharius, which confounds things even further. However, Grammaticus was not prepared for a Legion to be as clandestine and sneaky sneaky as the Alpha Legion.įor starters, they all claim to be Alpharius, the primarch.

It is not going well, which made it rather easy for Grammaticus to slip in as an employed spy. Grammaticus has infiltrated the planet Nurth where the Alpha Legion and a few factions of the Imperial Guard are trying to force the Nurthene into compliance. I can think of several things to stop it, like, oh, GOING TO TELL THE EMPEROR, but as I’m not a perpetual, WTF do I know, AMIRITE?

Now why they didn’t do other things to prevent it is beyond me. One of their human members, John Grammaticus, is to recruit the Alpha Legion to their side in regards to the upcoming Heresy. Legion introduces HH readers to the infamous Cabal, a shadowy organization of perpetuals that can see into the future and try to guide the galaxy to its best course of action. But are they really, though? I am Alpharius That would suggest they are indeed a Traitor Legion. Who are these guys, and whose side are they really on? In Fulgrim , the Alpha Legion showed up with the Word Bearers, Night Lords, and the Iron Warriors and turned against the Iron Hands, Salamanders, and Ravenguard as Ferrus charged Fulgrim. The fact that the Alpha Legion was casually mentioned in Plague War only increases my intrigue. I’m eager to see what happens next after the Flight of the Eisenstein for sure, but I’m enjoying learning more about these secretive chapters. I was rather stoked to have another book take a break from the actual Heresy to focus on the history behind the Alpha Legion. Then there’s something about an identical twin named Omegon that only the Alpha Legion knows about, and the jokes that they’re both a loyalist and a traitor Legion. You know, they’re that Legion where everyone claims to be the primarch, Alpharius. So, up until I read Legion by Dan Abnett, the Alpha Legion was mostly meme fodder. Most knowledge about this mysterious Legion only comes from the HH series, the codices, and memes. They’re rarely mentioned in non- Horus Heresy novels to begin with. Everything I knew about the Alpha Legion I learned from memes.

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