WH40k: Wolf's Duality

So, you spoke the truth of it. Now see the truth of it. What are you? Like this? I am you, as you named me. A version of you that could have been, were you not brought to the world of winter and wolves. I am you, shaped by another world and another father. A Terran Leman Russ. We both know that is not our name. You are as I should have been.

I did not say that. I appear to you as you supposed you should have been. Not necessarily as we had demanded. Has it never occurred to you that you are as you were intended to be? I was stolen away. I was taken from my father's laboratories along with my brothers. Were you? The Primarch executioner arriving here on this harsh world of wolves.

A being whose genetic gift meshes perfectly with the strain of mankind found here? This playground world of sagas and ancient stories made real? Welcoming a hero to rule it? Do you not think any of that is odd? Or dare I say it's convenient? It is a saga, Happenstance. All the tales of heroes are full of them. It is history, shaped to fit the needs of story. Our lives are no different.

Are we not the heroes of this age? My biographers will doubtless prune away the beds that do not fit. You are dangerously arrogant. So some have said. I think you mock me. If you do, you mock yourself. I do not mock you as I mock myself. I am a weapon made by the Emperor. No more, no less. I am no demigod, no hero from a tale. The later tales will remember you as such.

It is not my place to judge those who come after. A man lets his deeds speak for him. You cannot petition the myth-makers of the future to respect you, or acknowledge you existed at all. They will or they won't. Also, all this is a coincidence. This world, your name, your legion's habits, your manner. If you like. There are no such things as coincidences. Someone I knew used to say that a lot.

He came to a bad end. It is also said there are no wolves on Fenris. Neither of these things are true. Yet both of them are. Maybe. This does not confound you. I am a man, raised by wolves and warriors in a world of ice and fire. A civilized barbarian. The berserk thinker. The leashed hound who runs free. The terran Fenrisian. I am a Primarch. Duality is part of my nature.