Istvaan 3 moment

song- Snowfall (sped up)

audio exeprt is from galaxy in flames

[crazylegz]

I grew up being a huge Star Wars fan and felt like it was the only fictional universe that really made me feel something. I was aware of 40k because of Dawn of War but I didn’t really understand it and thought it was a silly over the top universe. 5 years ago YouTube recommended me a luetin09 video about the worst jobs in the imperium and I was shocked to learn how in depth the lore was and also the pit of dread it put in my stomach. Then I read those first 3 Horus Heresy books… I thought order 66 was heartbreaking

[bluedog]

Never forget that there were more Loyalist World Eaters on the fields of Istvaan III than any other Legion.

[EOmega]

"Did we hurt them, captain? Did this mean anything?"
Perhaps one of the most human desires imaginable: Willingness to sacrifice one's life but needing it to mean something.

[bubla]

The World Eater line gets me sad, it’s like a bunch of lost children in a situation they should never be in

[erynkc]

“Lost looking world eaters” hurts me more then it should’ve.

[hansstrudel]

The loyalists from the traitor legions are some of the biggest badasses in the 40k universe. They didn’t blindly follow their daddy around like their brothers and cousins in both the loyalist and traitor legions, they followed what they believed to be true and honorable in the face of certain death.

[asonofhoruslegionary]

The Loyalist of Istvaan 3 were the greatest Astartes to ever live.

[AlphaOmegon]

It is said that when Guilliman learned about Istvan 3 he was on the verge of tears, a primarch.

[guerney]

He's right, they hurt Traitors there. They tied their forces there for three months, hurt their numbers and gave Eisenstein chance to get to Terra. Istvaan III was a Loyalist victory.

[darkninja]

And Rylanor will wait for another 10, 000 years

[Ierzerker]

‘Part of me wishes I could, sir, ’ said Loken. ‘Believe me, I want the warmth that being part of something greater brings. I want to belong. I had that with the Legion, but you took that away from me when you stabbed us all in the back.’

‘No, ’ said Horus. ‘Garviel, no. That’s not–’

But Loken wasn’t about to stop now. ‘Turning my back on everything I knew, being cut off from the Legion that made me who I am? That was the worst moment of my life. It drove me insane. More than Tarik’s death or being buried alive on Isstvan, it was the heartbreak and yawning emptiness that finally broke me.’

‘Then come back to me, Garviel, ’ said Horus. ‘Feel that warmth again, don’t you want to be part of the greatest endeavour the galaxy has ever seen?’

‘I already was, ’ said Loken, turning his back on Horus. ‘It was called the Great Crusade.’

Garviel Loken - Luna Wolf and loyal servant of the Emperor.

[Bread-nxfo]

"The World Eaters did not fight with the perfection of the Emperor’s Children. They fought with anger and hatred, with brutality and the lust for destruction.And they fought with more hatred than ever before against their own, against the battle-brothers they had warred alongside for years.Tarvitz scrambled back from the carnage. World Eaters shouldered past him as they charged at Angron, but the butchered bodies lying around showed what fate awaited them. "

[nosephios]

I am still unreasonably hurt by "we'll go together then, shall we?"

[trixus]

"Lost looking World Eaters."
That did it for me. World Eaters were lost from that cursed day, when they were united with Angron.

[CyberController-]

"Yes, I will die, and you will be the ones to kill me, that is simply the way of things. But I will not die silently and I will not die alone, for The Emperor remains at my side, and shall 'til my body is ash in the wind"

[mitchellgraber]

Ive always loved Isvaan III ever Istvaan V and thought it was much more tragic and emotional

[OutspokenSeeker]

Remember that on Istvaan V, the Raven guard, Salamanders and Iron hands blindly charged the enemy without considering that other legions might have turned. And some still managed to escape. But on Istvaan III, it was the treacherous members of four Legions culling the best and bravest and most loyal amongst them, and the loyalists still bled them all for a long, long time.

[Stormy_Boi]

Honestly the line that the world eater's captain tells Saul when they're hunkered in the bunker is also really sad too.

"It wasn't the istvaans that did this was it?"

And Saul just silent

[CaioVale]

Travitz, Rylanor, Garro, Loken and Huron Fal, loyal to the end.

[Corporalis]

the most heart breaking moment was when Cpt Temeter and Huron Fal kept the bunker gates open when the dreadnought tried to convince his Cpt to enter the bunker too, as he as a dreadnought is invulnerabel to the live eater virus. When Temeter refused and closed the bunker as late as possible to safe as many as he could and noticed the dreadnought lied to him, as his armor was damaged and the virus would get into his sarcofagus and kill him.
The moment the dreadnought overloaded his core and they both died to their own conditions was the saddest story i've heard, yet filled with pride and honor...