Extra: Some Answers and Explanations About the Current Plot

This is a routine explanation chapter. I have seen some questions recently and everyone is discussing it very actively, so I also want to write an article to explain my point of view. This article discusses Helena and only represents my own point of view.

First of all, let's make a basic characterization. Is Helena a good person? Nonsense, of course not. She is a half-demon after all. How can there be an innocent girl in a place like the warp? But do you say Helena is bad? I don't think so. Here are the reasons.

Let's analyze what Helena has done. If you calm down and look at the Badab War without emotion, you will find that the whole war was originally caused by Huron's own arrogance and desire for power, as well as the greed and arrogance of the nobles of the star district government, and the discord between the space warriors.

What did Helena do? She only did one thing, whispering in the ear of the star district governor and persuading Huron to become king, but imagine, even if there was no Helena, would no one do this? You know, around a powerful boss, there is no shortage of "meritorious officials" who flatter and persuade him to ascend the throne. Just look at the ancient history of my country and you will know that assisting the new king and persuading him to ascend the throne is the fastest way for humans to rise to prominence since ancient times. There is a phrase called "follow the dragon" which means this.

So, yes, what Helena did was just something that someone would do regardless of whether she was there or not. Let's look at the Macragge incident and the Plague of Tears incident in the plot. When you calm down and stop thinking about everything in the world with the preconceived idea of ​​"Long live the emperor", you will find that Helena did not do anything particularly outrageous.

First of all, the lethality of the Plague of Tears is very low. It is also said in the book that the eyes can restore vision after the plague disappears (I have also explained the specific principle). Secondly, her purpose of going to Macragge is to help Fulgrim delay Guilliman and put the crown on Guilliman. The book also clearly mentions that Helena also tricked Fulgrim and tampered with the crown, which eventually turned into the classic "curse" scene.

Let's talk about the delay issue. If there is no Helena, wouldn't Fulgrim find someone else to delay? Of course, and the person who comes will not be so "gentle". In fact, the person who is responsible for doing this in the official history is Mortarion, and his means of delaying Guilliman are much more cruel than Helena.

Besides, Vitor burned the Garden of Nurgle, which triggered the Plague War? I want to say that whether he burns the garden or not, the Plague War will break out, because Mortarion will eventually come to fight Guilliman passionately (you brothers are so happy, Big Blueberry just woke up and all ran to say good morning to Guilliman, welcome to 40K)

Give the Empire some fatherly blessings, and the father himself will throw plagues to the Empire. It does not mean that Vito will not burn the garden, and the Plague War will not be fought. The law of history is materialistic and inevitable, and it cannot be influenced by one person at will.

In the end, you will find that Helena actually played everyone from the Empire to Vito, and then to Fulgrim, and she has no inclination.

This makes Helena both your ally and your enemy. Remember what Vito said before? Trick Helena into messing with Titanium King, she will go. If she thinks that Titanium King can bring her more fun, Helena doesn't mind helping the Empire and the Emperor.

She is a two-way sword. Vito didn't kill Helena because she was his daughter, and because Helena could help the Empire in many cases. For example, when Vito was going to deal with the Eldar or the Greenskins, if he could convince Helena that this game was interesting and could surprise Helena, Helena would happily help her old father kill the aliens, and she might be even more ruthless than Vito, after all, she also had the attributes of Slaanesh.

She is a typical fun person, and everything she participates in is just for fun. She is not much different from Trazyn. If you want to ask, ah, then are the lives of the common people in the Empire so cheap? I'll kill them for your fun.

I can only say that unfortunately, yes, the lives of ordinary people in the Empire are not within the consideration of this level of people, even in the Empire, otherwise you can ask the high lords and governors if they know the suffering of the lower class? Why do you have to do a bunch of things that are for your own selfish interests and have no benefits but only harm?

So, let's summarize Helena here. You said she did something outrageous. Is it her who caused the problem? No, everything Helena did was destined to happen, or rather, most of the bad things in the Empire were caused by the devil later. The origin, fermentation, and outbreak were all caused by the humans in this dark galaxy. It is meaningless to simply blame the devil.

(In fact, it is precisely because humans are used to blaming heretics and devils when something happens, so that they can explain to the Inquisition, so similar bad things keep happening.)

My point is that Helena is not a good person, and there is no such thing as a good person in this universe. Okay, except for Vulcan and the angels, but the good people in Warhammer are often the first to die. The rest are between good and bad, or normal people who prioritize their own interests. Helena is also the same. This kind of normal people who really make up the majority of the galaxy are not like the kind of great heroes who are selfless and heroic as you think. Everyone has selfishness, from humans to the Primarchs, and then to the Emperor.

I'm asking the question on behalf of some readers: Are you trying to whitewash Helena? Have some shame.

Answer: No, Helena is a demon after all. It is ridiculous to expect her to be a good person. Of course, everyone will dislike her, and there is nothing wrong with that.

But I also want to remind readers that the "evil deeds" that Helena was criticized for are a hundred times more disgusting and destructive than those of a high lord. When criticizing Helena, please remember that there are many people in this galaxy who are more disgusting than her, and most of them are on the human side. Don't just blame the demons.

Then, let's talk about Vito. Some people say that Vito is a clown. For this question, I can only say that if you presuppose that the protagonist must be a moral saint, a perfect person, then you have made an absurd mistake at the beginning and simply labeled people.

Of course, Vito is not a perfect person. He has quite a lot of shortcomings and flaws, just like all the original bodies or humans. He is sentimental and does not kill Helena and is still hooking up with Lilith.

The answer to all this is actually very simple. If you are also an immortal who has lived for 40,000 years and all your friends and relatives are gone, you will also miss the old times and have some concerns about those old friends who can still chat with you in this dark galaxy, drink together, and talk nonsense. Of course, it is not without bottom line. For example, Lilith persuaded Vito to rebel several times and kill the emperor to become emperor, but Vito did not agree.

(Of course, whether she can be killed or not is another matter. Gods of Lilith's level are not so easy to kill.)

There are many similar things. Many times what happens in this world is irrational, because humans are not machines, and they will not think about problems simply by calculating.

For example, Ryan knew that Luther might rebel a long time ago, and even tried to blow himself up with a nuclear bomb, but what did Ryan choose in the end? He did not kill Luther with a knife, but sent Luther and the veterans back to Caliban to train new soldiers.

Of course, he could have just cut Luther to solve all the problems, and there would have been no rebellion of the fallen angels of Caliban, but Lion didn't do that. The reason is very simple. Luther is the adopted father of the Lion King, the one who raised Lion and taught him to be a knight. No matter how cold and goal-oriented Lion is, he will still remember the old feelings. He will not kill his "father", and the final result can be criticized, but this is the Lion King, or people.

Moreover, the magic pony, he broke through the webway at that time, and Russ brought the wolf pack to kill his whole family. As a sinner who was wrong first, the most rational thing for the pony to do was to sit down, let the wolf pack kill all the Thousand Sons, burn Prospero, and then cut himself, silently accepting the order to die instead of joining the chaos to pit humans.

But he didn't, why? Because if you were in his position, watching your descendants and people die without complaint to protect you, urging you to take up arms instead of lying down and dying, and your home was destroyed by the wolf pack, your final choice would inevitably be irrational, taking up arms to kill him.

Let’s talk about Leman Rus. When he boarded and ambushed Horus, he had the opportunity to kill Horus with a spear and directly crush the core of the Great Heresy, but he softened his heart at the last moment when Horus’ soul reappeared. He did not kill him but persuaded Horus to go back to Terra together. Even the Wolf King, who has always been an executioner, was willing to take the risk to plead with the Emperor for him.

The Wolf King, as the Emperor’s executioner, also chose an irrational choice, which caused the Emperor to squat on the toilet and the Milky Way to become a mess. Why? Because Horus was his brother, and he was a comrade-in-arms who had fought with him for two centuries. The Wolf King’s humanity overwhelmed his ideals as an executioner and chose to save rather than execute.

Let's talk about the Emperor again. Erda swept away the four vendors summoned by the Primarchs. Erda should have been absolutely guilty of the death penalty. Shooting her 10,000 times would have been enough, but the Emperor did not kill Erda. Instead, he let her go to Africa to live in seclusion. He never looked for her again in his life, but he still let her live.

So, the purpose of saying so much is to explain to you that in this universe, in this world, no one is a saint. We are all human beings. Human beings will make mistakes, entangle and stubborn because of our emotions, but it is these emotions that make us burst out with infinite courage in adversity to protect those we care about and love.

This is the source of the power of the Star Army, the source of power that humans have fought against all the dark enemies in this fucking universe for billions of years. It is not an absolutely ideal truth, but even those irrational emotions that have been repeatedly criticized by philosophers and scholars.

So I hope that everyone can think about problems more as a person, rather than the so-called "rationality". In fact, that is not rationality, but a false proposition with a pre-set position.

In conclusion, the protagonist is not a perfect person, he is a human being, and Helena is not an absolute bad person, and of course not a good person, she is just a microcosm of this galaxy.

Finally, let me briefly mention that some readers say that the protagonist has not changed many things, except for picking up girls. In fact, he saved the Emperor many times, not to mention the Victoria Tyran invasion at the beginning, Cadia shook off Trazyn, and later participated in the Battle of Macragge that brought Guilliman up, and now went to Terra, etc., not to mention the Beast War and the Macharius Expedition, etc.

These things happened in the original version, but this book integrates the protagonist into it, so that these things happened through his hands, brewing and bringing about subsequent stories.

In fact, I just made a relatively appropriate fusion of the protagonist's story, the way and result of participating in historical events, and the story of Warhammer itself, and rationalized many things that GW did not explain clearly, and integrated the protagonist into it.

I did not open my mind and took it for granted that the protagonist would do a bunch of outrageous things, because such a historical butterfly effect is difficult to predict. Therefore, before the end of the main storyline, my choice is to integrate the protagonist's story, that is, the story of his saving the empire, with the existing story of Warhammer, and make a rational explanation.

I don't know if you like this method, the original + rewriting of the original plot, but if you don't like it, it's okay, because it's about to go to a place that the official has not written. After no longer being bound by historical rationality and coherence, many of my original stories will come, and I hope that the stories at that time will be liked by everyone.

Finally, for the sake of the emperor, monthly tickets, recommendations and subscriptions, please help your brothers!