The first wave of units all follow the transhumanist identity of the faction, replacing human parts with electromechanical, covering that with giant robes to hide how inhuman they have actually become. Electropriests don't really fit that at all. The second wave is just "we couldn't think of Calvary that aren't chicken walkers" and "what if we kept stealing more from David Lynch's Dune".
The models that are abortions are past the first wave which was your standard skitarri, priests, Cawl, etc.
He’s either an amazing Alpha legionnaire or Raven Guard, I can’t even see him ;^)
former death guard actually
I was just struggling to upload the file
I'm not entirely sure why Electro-Priests don't have as many obvious augmentations but here is an area where there are oddballs among Techpriests, especially among Magi Biologis aka "Genetors":
If memory serves, Perturabo had detailed knowledge of the life and works of Leonardo da Vinci (how is an interesting question because all of this was from Ancient Terra) and wanted to follow in his footsteps before being used as a weapon first by his adoptive father and then his real father so I wouldn't put it past the Mechanicus either. Cherubim have weird little wings too and as far as I know they don't even work.
Pert having Da Vinci’s stuff is both things he found and gifts from the Emperor, who obviously would’ve saved the important stuff from the past, likley knew Da Vinci and might’ve even patterned Pert after him and giving him Da Vinci’s stuff is his way of saying “this is where the idea of you began”, no different than Roboute and the Khan being born from history’s greatest and fiercest.
He had access to these records before meeting Big E. When he first awoke and left his pod on Olympia he had no possessions and was indeed butt-ass-naked and had to make crude clothing from the hides of animals he killed. I don't think he got what he knew from the Emperor.
I’m talking about the actual sketches and actual, physical artifacts he had, Pert found a cache on Terra but Emps spent time with each primarch after they were discovered and though Pert later hated him, there was still that awestruck period most of them outside Angron and Morty had.
I'm a fan of this particular proxy:
Isn't the palace basically a giant museum of Terran artifacts on the inside?
With an immense network of cells, vaults, bedrooms and man-caves underneath. He’s probably got even more than he shows off.
You're thinking of the sanctum imperialis(which is more like a "normal" palace). the palace itself is a gigantic city with a space port after they cut the top 10,000 feet or so off of mount everest and flattened the region. But yeah he does have a personal museum of ancient earth trinkets, ships in a bottle, paintings, and other random crap.
So there's a non-zero chance that he has an original Sonichu medallion sitting on a pedestal somewhere on Terra
Would definitely have to be in the dark cells. Or maybe he wore it one day and that's why everything went to shit with horus rebelling.
“Father, what is this? It’s crude, ugly and…… disconcerting, why do you have this next to the Statue of Liberty?”
what do you think the eye of Terra that Horus had, was?
You know, Horus during the Siege was pretty Chris-like in his horrifying delusions and he was causing a dimensional merge. Nigga spouted off demon names like they were his golf buddies.
