Warhammer: In the Name of the Emperor

This article is a conventional explanation chapter. I have seen some problems recently and everyone's discussions have been very active, so I also want to post an article to explain my point of view. This article is about Helena and only represents my own point of view.

First, let’s make a basic qualitative assessment: is Helena a good person? Nonsense, of course not, she is a half-demon after all. How could there be an innocent girl in a place like subspace? But are you saying Helena is bad? I don’t think so, and here’s why.

Let's analyze what Helena did and take a look at the Badab War. If you calm down and watch it without emotion, you will find that the whole war was actually Huron's own arrogance and desire for power, as well as Star There is also discord among the Space Marines, caused by the usual greed and arrogance of the district government nobles.

What did Helena do? She only did one thing, to whisper in the ear of the regional governor and persuade Huron to become king. But imagine, even without Helena, wouldn't there be no one to do this? You know, around a powerful boss, the most indispensable thing is the "heroes" who flatter and persuade people to advance. Just look at the ancient history of our country and you will know that assisting the new king and persuading people to advance are the fastest ways for human beings to rise to the top since ancient times. There are The word "Conglong" means this.

So, yes, what Helena did was just something that someone would do regardless of whether she was there or not. Let’s look at the Macragge incident and the Plague of Tears incident in the plot. When you come to your senses, you will no longer have preconceptions about the big events. After shouting "Long Live the Emperor" and thinking about everything in the world, you will find that Helena did not do anything particularly outrageous.

First of all, the lethality of the Plague of Tears is very low. The book also says that the eyes can regain their vision after the plague disappears (I also explained the specific principle). Secondly, the purpose of her going to Macragge is to help Fulgrim. After dragging Guilliman away, he put the crown on Guilliman. The book also clearly mentions that Helena got Fulgrim involved and tampered with the crown, eventually turning it into the classic The famous "curse" scene.

Speaking of procrastination, without Helena, wouldn't Fulgrim find someone else to procrastinate? Of course it will, and the person who comes will not be so "gentle". In fact, the person responsible for doing this in the official history is Mortarion, and his methods of delaying Guilliman are much more cruel than Helena.

Besides, Vito burned the Gardens of Nurgle, thus triggering the Plague War? I want to say that the plague war will break out whether he burns it or not, because Mortarion will eventually come to confront Guilliman passionately (you brothers are really happy, the big blueberries all came to Guilliman as soon as they woke up) Say good morning and welcome to 40K)

Give the empire some blessings from a loving father, and the loving father himself will also throw plague into the empire. This does not mean that if Vito does not burn the garden, the plague war will not be fought. The laws of history are materialistic and inevitable, and cannot be done at will by one person. Influenced.

In the end, you will find that Helena has actually played everyone from the Empire to Vito to Fulgrim, and she doesn't have any inclination.

This results in Helena being both your ally and your enemy, remember what Vito said earlier? Deceive Helena to go and get the Titanium Lord. She will go for it. If she thinks that the Titanium Lord can bring her more fun, Helena will not mind helping the Empire and the Emperor.

She is a two-way sword. Vito did not kill Helena on the one hand because she was his daughter, and on the other hand because Helena could often help the empire. For example, Vito was going to deal with the Eldar or Greenskin, if he can convince Helena, this game is very interesting. If he can surprise Helena, Helena will happily help her old father kill the alien, and she may be more cruel than Vito. After all, she has superimposed Attributes of Slaanesh.

She is a typical fun-loving person, and everything she participates in is to have fun for herself. She is not much different from Trazin. If you want to ask, ah, are the lives of the people of the empire so cheap? I'll die if I want to have fun with you.

I can only say that, unfortunately, yes, the lives of ordinary people in the empire are not considered by people of this level, even in the empire. Otherwise, you can ask the high lords and governors if they know the suffering at the bottom. ? Why do you want to deal with a bunch of bullshit that is only for your own selfish interests and does no good at all?

So, let’s summarize Helena here. You said she did something outrageous. Is it because she caused the problem? No, everything Helena did was destined to happen. Or rather, most of the trouble-making demons in the empire were inserted later. The origin, fermentation, and outbreak were all in this dark galaxy. The human beings in it made it up themselves, so there is no point in simply blaming the devil.

(In fact, it is precisely because humans are used to blaming heretics and demons when something happens, so that they can answer to the Inquisition, so similar bad things keep happening.)

My point is, Helena is not a good person, and there is no such thing as a good person in this universe, well, except for Vulkan and Angel, but the good people in Warhammer are often the first to die, and the rest are somewhere between good and bad Among them, or in other words, normal people who prioritize their own interests. Helena is the same. This kind of normal people who truly make up the majority of the galaxy will not be the same as the selfless and heroic heroes you think. Everyone has selfish motives, from humans to Primarchs to the Emperor.

I asked the question for some readers, are you a thief trying to clear Helena’s name? Do you want to have some face?

Answer, no, Helena is a devil after all. It is outrageous to expect her to do good and good things. Of course, everyone will dislike her, and there is nothing wrong with that.

But I also want to remind readers that the "evil deeds" Helena was criticized for could be a hundred times more disgusting, outrageous and destructive than those of a high lord. When criticizing Helena, please remember, There are more disgusting people than her in this galaxy, and most of them are on the human side. Don't just blame the devil.

Then, let's go back to Vito. Some people say that Vito is a clown. All I can say about this issue is that if your presupposed conclusion at the beginning is that the protagonist must be a moral saint and a perfect person, then you will be guilty from the beginning. Made a ridiculous mistake and simply labeled people.

Of course, Vito is not a perfect person. He has quite a few shortcomings and flaws, just like all primarchs or humans. He misses old relationships, doesn't kill Helena, and hooks up with Lilith.

The answer to all this is actually very simple. If you are also an immortal who has lived for 40,000 years and all your friends and relatives are gone, you will also miss the old feelings and have a few conversations with you in this dark galaxy. In other words, old friends who were drinking together and bickering had some scruples. Of course, there was no bottom line. For example, Lilith persuaded Vito to rebel and become emperor several times, but Vito did not agree.

(Of course, whether it can be killed or not is another matter. A god of Lilith’s level is not so easy to kill.)

There are many similar things. Many things that happen in this world are irrational because humans, not machines, do not think about problems simply by using calculations.

Take Ryan, for example. He knew very early on that Luther might rebel, and even tried to blow himself up with a nuclear bomb, but what did Ryan choose in the end? Instead of killing Luther, he sent Luther and the veterans back to Caliban to train new recruits.

Of course he could be straightforward and kill Luther with a knife to solve all the problems, and there would be no Caliban fallen angel rebellion, but Ryan didn't. The reason is very simple. Luther is the adoptive father of the Lion King, who raised Ryan and taught him As a knight, no matter how cold and goal-oriented Ryan is, he will still miss his old feelings. He will not kill his "father", and the final result can be criticized, but this is the Lion King, or in other words, a human being.

Furthermore, Magic Pony, he penetrated the webway at that time, and Ruth came with the wolves to kill him all over. As a guilty sinner, the most rational thing for the pony to do was to sit down and let the wolves kill him. The Thousand Sons killed them all, burned Prospero, and then came to cut themselves down, silently accepting the order to die instead of joining the ranks to deceive mankind.

But he didn't, why? Because if you were in his position and looked at your children, who died without complaint to protect you, and advised you to take up arms instead of lying down and die, your home would be under attack by wolves. Destroyed once, what you choose in the end must be irrational, pick up weapons and do the damn thing.

Let’s talk about Leman Russ. When he joined a gang to ambush Horus, he had a chance to kill Horus with one spear and directly crush the core of the Great Rebellion. But at the last moment when Horus’ soul reappeared, he He still relented, and instead of killing him, he persuaded Horus to return to Terra together. The Wolf King, who had always been an executioner, was even willing to take the risk and plead with the Emperor for him.

The Wolf King, as the Emperor's executioner, also made an irrational choice that caused the Emperor to squat on the toilet and the galaxy to become a mess. Why? Because Horus was his brother and his comrade who had fought for two centuries, the Wolf King's humanity overcame his ideals as an executioner, choosing to save rather than execute.

Let’s talk about the Emperor again. Erda took away the four peddlers summoned by the Primarchs. Erda is an absolute death penalty. Ten thousand shots would be enough. However, the Emperor did not kill Erda. Instead, he sent her to Africa. He lived in seclusion and retired, and never looked for her again in his life, but he still kept her alive.

Therefore, the purpose of what I say is to explain to you that in this universe, in this world, no one is a saint, we are all human beings, and human beings will make mistakes, get entangled and stubborn because of their own feelings. But it is these emotions that allow us to burst out with infinite courage in order to protect those things we care about and love in adversity.

This is the source of the power of the Astra Militarum. The source of power that humans have resisted for hundreds of millions of years against all the dark enemies in this fucked universe. It is not an absolute ideal truth, and even those that have been repeatedly criticized by philosophers and scholars are very Rationality and emotion.

So I hope that everyone can think more about the problem as a person, instead of the so-called "rationality". In fact, it is not rationality, but a false proposition with a pre-set position.

The final summary is that the protagonist is not a perfect person, he is a human being. Helena is not an absolute bad person, and of course she is not a good person. She is just a microcosm of this galaxy.

Finally, a brief mention, some readers say that the protagonist has not changed many things, except for picking up girls. In fact, he has saved the Emperor many times. Not to mention the Victoria Tyran invasion at the beginning, he shook Cadia to Trazin, and later participated in The Battle of Macragge that brought Guilliman up, and now going to Terra and so on, not to mention the Beast Wars and the Macharius Expedition and so on.

These things all happened in the original version, but this book integrates the protagonist into it, allowing these things to happen through his hands, brewing and bringing about the subsequent stories.

In fact, I just integrated the protagonist's story, the way and results of participating in historical events, with the story of Warhammer itself, rationalized many things that GW did not explain clearly, and integrated the protagonist into it.

I didn’t use my imagination to make the protagonist do a lot of outrageous things, because it is difficult to predict the historical butterfly effect. Therefore, before the end of the main plot, my choice was to tell the protagonist’s story, that is, The story of the empire he saved is integrated with Warhammer's story to rationalize it.

I don’t know if you like this method, originality + rewriting the original plot, but if you don’t like it, no problem, because we are about to go to a place that has not been officially written before, and we are no longer tied to historical rationality and continuity. In the future, many of my original stories will come, and I hope that everyone will like them.

Finally, for the sake of the emperor, give your brothers a monthly pass, recommendation and subscription!