User blog comment:Vivaporius/AT Idea: Imperial Civil War/@comment-3341288-20120410231117/@comment-4051689-20120411170413

Lorgar?, sits on his ass and does jack all? often leaving Erebus and Pheron to do all the work? THAT Lorgar? I can imagine him becoming the new warmaster of chaos, especially when it becomes apparent when he was first chosen by the gods and therefor sat comfortable in 2nd place as the gods favoured next to horus so regardless, favoured wise, he should have been the succesor in the first place but, I don't know he just doesn't seem....right in a way. However, as Legion has pointed out, the new warmaster must be dedicated to all four gods, ergo thining the options available. Now since I've been away I cannot actually have a say in this as I need to lull this over a bit in order to understand but I was thinking of having someone who isn't...well, a primarch.

I'm not a real word bearers fanatic, buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut, rather than Lorgar I think Erebus would make a good substitute. He's often called the Architech of the Heresy since it was he who was responsible for a vast majority of the legions downfall, for example: the corruption of Horus, The Turning of Typhus which led to the death guard being stuck in the warp and hell I wouldn't be suprised that in a future horus heresy novel that Erebus gave Horus The hammer that Perturabo uses that horus presented as a gift which might have led to the Iron warriors downfall. As such, playing as large as a contribution as he did I don't blame him for wanting to be the new warmaster rather than Abaddon (as of which a place he has been desiring for a long time) and it would make logical sense if he were to leap at the first chance he got to becoming the new warmaster.

That and another thing, The demonic primarchs can only sustain themselves within the physical universe for a period of time depending on the means of which he was summoned and I really can't see one of the demonic primarchs being sustained long enough to do such things on a dramatically large scale (except Angron of course). Indeed, if such a thing were to come to fruititon them the sustainabilite would require a continous source of such magnitude that it would probably go outside the imperial bounderies. For Example: Angron led a crusade in real-space with an army of berserkers for a long period of time, this was acheived because the slaughtering of sectors of which sustained him untill he was banished by the Wardian knights (100 grey knight went against him and his bodyguard of bloodthirsters and only 10 died? OH F&^%k YOU WARD!). Magnus was summoned through ritualistic means of which had be referenced to have taken months, even years and even then, without a continous form of sustainabilite he eventually faded before the day was over (yeah, yeah, stop your wolf howling). As such, A mortal; and this was the advantage with abaddon, can command armies through real-space wthout worrying about such things and sustainabilitie.