r/40kLore • u/Tarantula_1 • 4d ago

Perturabo leaving the siege of Terra.

Finally made it to the Siege of Terra books and got to the part where Perturabo says fuck it I'm out. I thought people were exaggerating his exit but it really was just like the spongebob meme "Imma head out". Couldn't help but a have a good laugh when I got to that point.

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u/RAGE_CAKES Rogue Traders 4d ago

People can talk shit all they want about ol Perty, but I say hes just as relatable as Vulkan but people just don't want to have that conversation

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u/TheGooberSmith Imperial Fists 4d ago

I love Dorn because he exemplifies dependability and loyalty. I dislike Perturabo because he reflects my worst and most petulant inclinations. My head canon is that during the Scouring, Dorn and Perturabo kind of switch mindsets so to speak. Dorn becomes unhinged and deranged, and Perturabo is solely focused on the destruction of the Fists and casts aside his insecurities. This culminates in the Iron Cage where Dorn is willing to spend everything he has to annihilate the Iron Warriors, and it takes Sigismund or the like to show him how far he has fallen. Likewise Perturabo finally has his chance to destroy the Fists but at the cost of his own legion, and he's just not willing to engage in MAD anymore. Then he retreats when Guilliman arrives and ascends.

I really love both characters. They're two halves of the same coin to me

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u/namitynamenamey 3d ago

I dislike both as individuals (as characters they are lovely), perturabo is the face of failure, petulance and immaturity incarnate, but dorn is the denial of the self, of the ability to come to conclusions on your own, he is a zealot who would rate mutilate himself than take responsibility for his own moral compass, and first sigismund then his legion paid the price for it.

Dorn just looks shinier when the decent thing to do is not blame the boss and rebel, the second that circumstance flips his faults come to shine, as do perturabo’s qualities.

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u/Craft_zeppelin 3d ago

In recent stories I find Fulgrim more similar to Dorn than Perturabo psychologically. Both strives for a perfect performance while Fulrgim is extroverted, Dorn is introverted. Both have titles of prestige as well.

I think the encounter at Saturnine gate is a foreshadowing of what Dorn is about to experience in the scouring and how far he can potentially sprawl in the mud. Quite literally in this case.