The Lion: Son Of The Forest (Warhammer 40,000)

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The writer really swings it out of the park when he writes about the changes to the Lion: both his body and mind. That’s perhaps the boldest and most remarkable decision by Games Workshop...aging the Lion. It seems to soften the sharp edges of his character to a near paternal one. It also opens up the question of what the other surviving primarchs might look like after ten thousand years. Guilliman was in a stasis field, so minor changes there. Vulkan is a perpetual so, yeah, no aging (at least in the body) but what about Russ? If he’s still alive, what will ten thousand years in the warp make him look like? Will he still be recognizable or will he be some 10 foot raving furry? Then there's Corax, who we know has been Lorgar's private stalker for ten millennia and inferred that he's deeply...changed . Finally how has ten thousand years in the Webway treated the Khan? I’m guessing out of them all, the Lion is the only one who’s aged naturally; and it seems to have mellowed him out. That focused, obsessive, and blinkered nature of his that allowed him to carry a Viagra steel hate boners when the need arose (excuse the pun) against his foes has been softened (no excuses here) with age and reflection. He’s even described almost as a grandfatherly figure to the local humans on Klamath. So he might be the only primarch where age has been an overall improvement. The Lion just so happens to acquire his new plasma pistol, Arma Luminis (fits perfectly in his hands), from a world he just so happened to Forest Walk on.

You stare at the slag of metal that was once your beloved car as tears begin to roll down your cheeks. Meanwhile, Mike has had just enough time to climb off of the roof so that he can stand over the husk and urinate all over the flattened car. He then proceeds to do a monkey dance, sound effects and all. Why a monkey dance? I have no idea and lets be honest, its quite insensitive to monkeys. If you never encountered a masculine man in your whole life and were tasked to write one... well... you would have Lion El'Johnson from this particular book. He is written like a self-hating man that oozes his, what leftists would call, "toxic masculinity". But, we see him start to tone police himself and other Space Marines in the novel like some sort of dude with mommy issues.

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Spell My Name with a "The": When not referred to as "Lord Lion" or "Lion El'Jonson", he's always called the Lion by the narration, regardless of the point of view character.

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Though the Lion does speculate on it, the exact nature of the forest, and its connection to Caliban, remain a mystery.