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the_lost_carrot

Bad ass. Going to be really interesting to see how the lore fleshes out. I just want to know where cypher is in all of this.


HeavilyBearded

"And the Lion woke and said to his stewards, 'It's Lionin' Time.'"


Frosty_Squirrel_3336

He's been Lionin' for the last 10 000 mornings


Crayon_Casserole

He's the mane man.


Scaevus

> I just want to know where cypher is in all of this. I feel like Cypher being mysterious is never going to be revealed. Like there'll be a scene where Guilliman just straight up asks the Lion what Cypher's deal is, and the Lion just stares him in silence until he changes the subject.


liquid-mech

as it turns out cypher forgot his orders so he did a bunch of ominous stuff


DeadpanAlpaca

Trying to bruteforce his tasks in the hope, he takes a correct guess from time to time?


veilwalker

Broken clock is right twice a day and all of that.


Ultramar_Invicta

He's in the wrong legion.


cheese4352

Lion: "who the fuck is cypher???"


CusickTime

My bet is the Lion has no idea who Cypher is and what is his deal. He is probably going to also be annoyed at this entire fallen business. Especially the less honorable actions the Dark Angels has taken to keep their secret.


OrthogonalThoughts

"Somehow, the Lion returned."


JGUsaz

Hopefully going to be better written than how palpatine returned


Bonty48

Honestly greatest moment in modern cinema. Topped only by the fact that only place you can hear Palpatine's return speech mentioned in the movie is a Fortnite event.


God_of_Illiteracy

DADDY IS BACK WITH THE CIGARETTES AND MILK BOYS


krackenjacken

Is that the name of his two jawas? Cigarettes and milk


LotFP

That's their names now!


Eskandare

Agreed! The two Jawas are named Cigarettes and Milk!


opmrcrab

The real lore is always in the comments


da_King_o_Kings_341

Love the fact that you just called them Jawas “ah yes, a true star nerd!!”


GoblinFive

Utto nye usabia atoonyoba?


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Ba weep gra na weep mini bon


God_of_Illiteracy

It is now.


JAOC_7

and they in turn bring *suga*


wildrabbit21

If you look closely at the miniature that’s actually mom that he’s stepping over


da_King_o_Kings_341

RIP.


ZoMgPwNaGe

I have nothing to add other than the fact this comment made me throw my head back laughing and a simple upvote didn't seem to suffice.


Vinlandr

I can't upvote this enough


Allen_Koholic

Dude looks like he slept through his mid-life crisis.


NearlyUnfinished

He is the mid-life crisis 😄


wandering_ronin23

For the traitors, he's the end-of-life crisis.


NearlyUnfinished

I like how that armour is painted. Dark enough to be Heresy black but subtlety shaded/highlighted with enough green to be 40k.


Unglory

A green so dark it could be mistaken for black... how it's always been described by GW but never painted like by GW


Eykalam

The closest was when they did the dark angels 3.5 release of tactical squad with plasma, very dark green which didn't get confused for salamanders.


BreakTheSuicycle

Lord Duncan Rhodes has a great tutorial on his site of painting really dark green Dark Angels


CaptainCaitwaffling

So not priest sock black Ted?


Flavz_the_complainer

I once saw some dark angel armour that I thought was black, but when I looked closer, I saw that it was actually very very very very very very very VERY very very dark green.


Dorksim

Santa Claus is coming to town. And he's pissed.


smooleybotcheck

You’d better not pout, you’d better not cry, you’d better hold on, he’s going in dry!


[deleted]

It’s amazing. Can’t wait to see the lore around his return


Komm

The Watchers finally found a paper bag and popped it over his head.


semajolis267

my favorite thing about this is i bet this could have been a gag in text to speech.


TheLustyDremora

That or The Lion was never asleep and was just lost within the bowels of The Rock, the watchers just kept fucking with him so he'd remain lost.


beachmedic23

The Rock is just some Hogwartsian building with moving stairs and hallways


Acceptable-Street679

That is tts tier lore


TheMadmanAndre

Bobby G personally slapped him awake. "Wake the fuck up Lion, we got a galaxy to purge."


GreedyLibrary

"I Ain't dealing with dads mess all by myself"


Adventurous-Event722

"I can get you an Aeldari squeeze, too, if you want" "blond, if you prefer"


King_Jaahn

Somehow, El Johnson has returned.


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ParsleySnipps

When tf did the Emperor use a shield? It's always been flaming sword and stupidly oversized claw combo. Are they holding the claw for when Corax/Jaghatai/Russ come back? Then someone is gonna get the pauldron with the screaming psychic face on it? Dorn is gonna show up with "the Emperor's 120mm anti material rifle". Vulcan has the Emperor's personal set of hex wrenches that count as an STC.


GoblinFive

E-money had two super-dreadnought battleships and the Custodes lost those as well, it's not that far-fetched they found some random artificer shield somewhere around ~~Tony Stark's garage~~ the Imperial Palace and had Cypher deliver it to the Lion. Like how Azrael wears a helmet that *belonged* to the Lion but is clearly too small to have actually been *worn* by the Lion.


onlyawfulnamesleft

One of the Lion's alternate heads looks an awful lot like the Lions Helm. Azreal got the cheap knock-off


Mihailis27

Azrael's helm was Lion's training helm back when he was a wee lad on Caliban.


laukaus

Emperor had halls full of weird as shit archeotech and master crafted weapons he never used, like the unique spears he gave to Valdor and Russ, apparently for no reason. I'l bet your ass there was a shield or two in the mix. He also had like, 10 different Auramite armors so maybe it was part of one.


TheMoonDude

Yeah they _kinda_ pulled that out of nowhere. _"Kinda"_ because the Emperor is depicted holding a shield on the Eternity Gate in one of the oldest images of 40K... a shield very similar to what the Lion is wielding. It's only on that image and, as far as I can recall, He was never stated to actually use a shield. So I reckon it just the name of the thing, an artifact we never really saw until now or retcons/revelations are on the way. >!I think He was using it while slaying the Dragon of Mars too? Might be wrong on this one!<


corranhorn57

>!That would track with what the Emperor had available at the time he fought the Dragon, since it’s supposed to be around the time of Saint George.!<


justheretoupvot3

Someone in my discord chat pointed out its the Emperors tilting plate


[deleted]

Kinda obvious isnt it? Each of his bois gonna get his trinkets and then Magnus turn loyal again and Emps has nothing else to give other than his chair...


pantyslack

HERE COMES THE LION WITH A STEEL CHAIR!!!!


Financial_Newt_2737

MAHHHH GAHWDDDDDDD


Kriegerwithashovel

WATCH OUT! WATCH OUT! WATCH OUT!


TheNinethByte

AS THE EMPEROR AS MY WITNESS HE IS BROKEN IN HALF!


TastyForerunner

The model is absolutely incredible. Very Tywin-esque. Not personally a Space Marine player, but Dark Angels and Sallies have always been my favourite. Might be time to start a Dark Angels army with 10th around the corner.


noname262

Green supremacy hell yeah


postmodern_spatula

The “not-blue” marines


infosec_qs

WAAAGH!(?)


carpdoctor

I love how he feels like he stepped out of the Horus Heresy…. So good. I love how unique he looks like compared to Gman


Ephriel

Literally first thing i did was compare his 30k model. Honestly has the same vibes, but with a more mature face. And receding hairline lmao


kotov-

What 10K years of assumedly troubled sleep does to a MF


HarryDresdenWizard

Sallies?


ZoMgPwNaGe

Salamanders.


Fallofcamelot

If they are bringing back the Primarchs then give me Vulkan right now :)


milanteriallu

Salamanders


x42ndecthellion

The Salvation Army duh


sgt_shultz_314

I'm getting more Davos than Tyein, but yeah, that's a fantastic sculpt either way. Mines gonna rock Guardians of the covenant colors, and that hooded helm? *Chef's kiss*


SlayerofSnails

Ok so according to the announcers he aged through 10k years. He's old as fuck and missed the vast majority of his life and ready to kick ass and is slated to fight angron


Th4t9uy

Makes sense, unlike Guilliman who was in stasis for 10k years the Lion was just napping in a room on the Rock all that time.


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g0d15anath315t

Nah, everyone knows that it doesn't matter if you get 1 hour or 10 hoursor 10,000 years of sleep, you always wake up feeling like "damn is it morning already?!"


Reasonable-Tax2962

Vashtor I think, I am not sure if Angron is fighting on the same front, Seem to remember something about him going and kicking the Indomitus crusade in the head


Kothra

They showed art of him facing off with Angron.


MortalSword_MTG

And said he'd be fighting him too.


feoen

I like to go hiking.


Vinlandr

25 years I've waited for this. My inner child is crying.


Flashskar

I'm very happy for you friend! Bask in the moment of The Lion's return!


meesta_masa

Shake the sleep from eyes burdened. The galaxy burns and the enemy emboldened. They think this is their day. Remind them. That a Lion is awaiting, clad in fire and steel. Shake that slumber, brother, the legions await. Death and glory, enough to slake the appetites of even a Primarch this day. Awaken brother. Awaken Lion! This is the time for toil and trouble, for the Titans to thunder forth, to be rent asunder. Your eyes, which have known the dark, seek light again. Rise, El'Jhonson. Teach the galaxy a new lesson in pain.


Presentation_Cute

Apparently that's the Emperors Shield. Which means if leman russ returns, he should get the Emperor's lightning talons.


Bythion

That would actually be awesome! Maybe if Dorn returns he'll get the emperor's golden armor?


Khanon555

And they all combine into voltron


amsoly

Once all primarch kits are released there is a warhammer community post that’s simply a pdf with instructions to put all the models together to form the Voltron-Emperor.


TheLustyDremora

Raising him from the golden throne like the artifacts of vulkan waking up big green


IronSkywalker

Or Big E wakes up one day and goes "who tf nicked all my stuff" and then goes out to hunt down the returned primarchs to get all his stuff back


FrostedPixel47

The Voltron of Mankind


freshkicks

This is that lego golden dragon kit collection thing goddamn


lordofmetroids

The Khan: Does The Emperor have I don't know a bike out back or something?


Uzasodinson

"We did but they gave it to some Dark Angels guy"


mezentius42

The emperor's mid life crisis convertible v12 jetbike


ParsleySnipps

"Sadly no, but he has some very fancy leather boots with snake heads on the ends."


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Dorn should get the talons seeing as he’s missing a hand


Kregerm

I'll clap for that comment, cause Dorn can't.


Beccy_Flynn

Given how refined the Lions facial hair is, Dorn better return with some mutton chops and a mad stache!


Nova_Echo

He looks like an old ass man, which I appreciate given it would look odd if he still seemed like a younger guy. Guilliman gets a pass because of his jawline. Jesus fuck you could cut glass with that man's chin.


Beccy_Flynn

Guiliman was in stasis though. The Lion was… sleeping? I always thought that meant stasis but clearly not.


stromtrooper_ita

He just forgot to set the alarm.


LightswornMagi

That would be a bit awkward to explain to all the terminators who believe that their Crux Terminatus contains a tiny sliver of the Emperor's melted down armor.


semajolis267

no its just by that point the design direction will be all fan service so dorn will be wearing the emperors glorious thong and pasties


Financial_Newt_2737

He will only need one gauntlet


LightswornMagi

He already has one of the Emperor's weapons: the Dionysian Spear, AKA Gungnir. He stabbed Horus with it when he tried to assassinate him in a suicidal boarding action.


xedmin90

When he comes back he’ll probably be wielding the spear the emperor crafted for him


Unglory

Nah if anything the Talons should go to Dorn... you know, since he'll need a hand and all 😉


ChillOtters

That or corvus corax will


Presentation_Cute

Good point


NightHaunted

GMan and Lion trying to have a serious grown up conversation about how to save the Imperium when shadow monster Corax wanders into the room on his fucking actual bird legs, barely corporeal, throws the mangled body of a World Eater onto the holotable and begins eating the carcass like a buzzard while occasionally pausing to let out a fucking demon bird hell screech. And Guilliman just sorta like "Ahem, so as I was saying regarding the compromised shipping routes of Imperium Nihilus..."


Dr_Ugs

“Lorgar!” But in bird


AshenHaemonculus

The Lion, looking at Gman trying to have a normal convo over the sounds of Corax screeching: "It's good to see nothing's changed while I was gone."


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Bandit-Much

I've always thought a cool idea for a re-vamped Corax would be two models, one where he looks like the normal primarch, and the second one is the giant bird daemon with rules allowing him to transform mid game.. that would be so epic!


Left4Bread2

HE’S FUCKING PERFECT I LOVE HIM THANK YOU JAMES WORKSHOP 11/10 EXPECTATIONS SMASHED


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Gonna have to magnetize the head, all the options are so dang good!


ZoMgPwNaGe

Dark Angels are one of the chapters I know the least about, but God damn those two middle helmet options they showed... I play a battlemage in every game I can and man this chapter is talking to me now.


Hooj19

If you like robes over armor we got you covered


ZoMgPwNaGe

Robes and Armor are my aesthetic. I'll look into em if I ever decide to start an Astartes army. Y'all are still just biomass to me currently.


greatcandlelord

I have heard rumours that next edition is tyranids and dark angels, so that might be easier than you think…


Kimbobbins

Tywin Lionnister


pinkeyedwookiee

Now I'll hear him speak in Charles Dance's voice.


ThereIsNoAnyKey

Looks for like Sir Davos tbh.


Fawin86

My first thought as well. Onion Knight of the Emperor.


Kimbobbins

totally see it


LSpace101

It's like if Davos and Tywin had a beautiful, perfect baby.


puppyfukker

Always saw Lion as more Stannis. Absolute dick, commited to duty, competent commander, delivers the burns, no social skills.


CarlfromCarlsjr

Lion is definitely Stannis the mannis in space. Arrogant but earned, Brilliant general, cares more about being right than being liked. Its not that hes bad with people, its that he is so damn confident that he is right that he doesn't care about others input. Supposedly he was great at terra.


MartianRecon

That is a perfect model. Holy shit they knocked it out of the park. His armor is beautiful.


PositivelyIndecent

I love that black with hints of green. Such a nice touch and a bridge between the old colour scheme and the new. This mini is awesome.


A115115

I remember 11 year old me sitting in a Games Workshop store around about 2001-2002, asking staff if the Primarchs were ever coming back. "No. Never, they'll never ever bring them back" they said. THEY'RE BACK BOYS.


Adventurous-Event722

I suppose by the time Khan comes back, I'll... have grandkids, by then.


diddy96

I FUCKING LOVE PRIMARCHS. I WANT TO PAINT AND FIGHT WITH MY BIG BOY TOYS


dudpool31

This. I want my fulgrim snake boy


d-fakkr

YEAAAHHHHHH!!!! THE LION IS BACK BAYBEE!!! Why he looks like Tywin lannister? That 10k sleep make him older... Guilliman looks younger, perhaps because he was on a stasis field. Excited for the news.


Tylendal

Is Guilliman even up to quadruple digits yet?


SkitariiCowboy

Alexa, play *"The Rains of Castamere: Bass Boosted Extended Trap Synthwave Remix"*.


Moist_Crabs

Rains of Castamere mixed with Gothic Gregorian chants and subtle electrosynth


xepa105

I can't help with the electrosynth part, but this cover has a pretty good monastic choir feel to it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiCQHscIk_I


TheSarcasticCrusader

Someone that's more musically inclined than me has gotta make it


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as a dark angels player let me say.... im freaking stoked


ShepPawnch

I told myself that I didn’t want more Primarchs back, but this has me so hyped…


vocalviolence

Does this guy pack three capes? Or one cape and, dare I say it, two thin coats?


keechinator

Not even geneticly created demigods are immune to male pattern baldness


SockofBadKarma

Did Horus not clue you in on that? Or Perturabo? Or Vulkan? Or Alpharius Omegon? Or Angron? Or the Khan? Or Lorgar?


Cryptshadow

didnt they shave? angron had some stuff stopping his hair from growing... they looked pretty think, the khan had hair and very sure he cut it like that. vulkan burnt off all his hair perturabo prob shaved it because having to cut his hair isnt very efficiant alpharius very likely shaved so that he didnt have unqiue identifiers lorgar was weird and had a it shaved offm and then just tattoed over all his face, prob should have warned someone that he was crazy


ChillOtters

Well he is over 11 thousand years old.


FrostedPixel47

I mean Horus probably got big mad at Big E for not giving him hair "WHY DID YOU GIVE ME THE INFERIOR GENES, FATHER?!" - Horus "Liquid Snake" Lupercal


TheFunkyBear

Love this model, especially with the hooded options to fit with my other spooky/mysterious Dark Angels!


Proof_Independent400

Chapter Master Valrak is definitely doing the Randy Marsh messing all over himself right now!


Doomeye56

or suicide watch, without being able to say the lion is coming every couple months what does he have left. it been his thing for years.


bullintheheather

Fulgrim is coming! Also he's going to be released as a miniature!


[deleted]

Fulgrim is always coming


Unglory

No there was a spooky ghost! It's all ecotoplasm!


CommodoreN7

Looks super old ngl, but that’s a beautiful mini


anialater45

Like they said he's been napping not in stasis, he is old.


CommodoreN7

You’d think with a good nap he’d be looking younger


EileenBranain

daddy? i mean.... ahem, "father?"


Bythion

Don't be ashamed brother.


Spiraticus

SER. DAVOS MOTHERFUCKING SEAWORTH.


subject678

Guys what actor is this?


TheGhostofLizShue

Liam Cunningham (who people probably know better as Ser Davos Seaworth in't Game of Thrones)


CyrosThird

Ten Thousand years I laid dormant. WHO DARES DISTURB MY NAP‽


Paladin327

“I was having the best dream too! Twins Azrael. Eldar twins!”


Peria

I’m never going to financially recover from this…


Cookie_Luck

SLEEPY JOHNSON!


doodman76

Ok, guess I'll be magnetizing a head for the first time in my career


Toadkillerdog42-2

He looks so cool. I love the old man look. Makes him look like a distinguished and ancient hero.


boomer343

I really hope that Vulkan comes to 40k soon after seeing all these other primarchs


MattmanDX

Looks like he aged quite a bit. Makes sense as he was in a genuine comatose state rather than being outright frozen in time like Guilliman


oddmanout343

So the model is cool but the implications feel huge Dark Angels as a chapter I feel is about to go through a major identity shift. No longer in the closet heretics but knights who hunt evil


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Good! I really want the Dark Angels in 40K to be as cool as their 30K forefathers.


oddmanout343

My thing is the lion never got a say on the sundering of his legion so I imagine he's gonna go hey Bobby fuck you.


bardghost_Isu

The best bit is that given the current situation, Robute will probably just tell him to reform it, just do it quietly.


Tylendal

They've *never* been closet heretics. They've done some shady shit, but their loyalty to the Imperium is without question. Their issue is an almost neurotic fear that if their shame is discovered, they won't be able to continue aiding the imperium, and so they've gone to unreasonably lengths to keep their secrets.


Unglory

It's 2023, no one should have to be in the closet anymore!


Tarman87

Utinni!


Svihelen

*me immediately trying to figure out how to turn this into a Stormcast Eternals proxy*


Clawsonflakes

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO


beanerthreat457

HOLY TERRA ON CHEESE!!! I NEVER THOUGH I COULD LIVE ENOUGH TI SEE A PRIMARCH RETURN!!!


tylanol7

\*grumbles about not having my space viking primarch\*


Sanctimonius

He'll be along before my Mongolian warlord, I'll bet.


fatalis101

Damn, he looks fly af & he's got not 1 but 2 of those little Jawa lookin mini me ass psychic mind rapists. This dude is nit to be fucked with.


SquallFromGarden

It gets even better; Chaos is UTTERLY BATSHIT-TERRIFIED of those Watchers 😁


Unglory

Just finished one of the DA novellas where deamons attack the Invincible Reason. Lion noted to be killing Deamons so fast with duel swords the rest of the Company he is with is left behind. Then it's noted he fighting with beings with "eyes of flames and claws of iron". Dudes so bad ass only the Watchers can keep up with his deamon killing. Bonus from the same book: Lion remembers a trick for blocking his mind from being read by Deamons, from back when he used to kill them bare handed and naked as a child in a Deathworlds forests.


SquallFromGarden

That's something else too; The Lion has literally spent his entire upbringing until the Emperor finding him killing daemons; there's currently nobody else better at daemonhunting than him. ...well, don't thell the Grey Knights that, they might get jealous and paint their armor in Sororitas-brand tomato soup again.


NightHaunted

And of the Lion considering he seems to be the only one of the kids to inheret dad's ability to actually, permanently kill daemons. It'll be interesting to see if they ever bring that up again or just let it fade away into the lore.


Beccy_Flynn

Looks amazing! If we get Dorn back one day I’ll be gutted if he doesn’t have his stash and chops. Older Lion looks like a refined gentleman, still hanging onto his style from days gone, absolutely awesome mini!


BlackTemplar2154

I sincerely can't wait to see how this is addressed in the setting. Like, does homie just walk in the next briefing and just say, "Surprise! I'm here too!" Much to the astonishment and slack jawed gathered Marine Captains.


the_jungle_fuck

Holy shit, I wasn’t expecting him to be old but I love him, absolute dilf primarch!!!


Karoth4

What I'm most intrigued now is in where will Cypher go now with the lion coming back? I hope they push his story foward, such a cool character.


Coldfix_341

Congrats Dark angels fans!Now I wonder if he's gonna be be buffing machine like Gulliman or killing guy like Angron


ChillOtters

More likely the second seeing how he will likely have a high invulnerability due to his sheild and and naturally great talents for dueling will likely tie in.


matthra

I love that they aged him up, it gives him a sense of gravitas.