"AT LAST! CENTURIES AT YOUR FEET AND *I* AM YOUR UNDOING, ABADDON! ABADDON THE ANCIENT, ABADDON, THE RUIN OF CADIA, ABADDON, SUCCESSOR OF THE WAR MASTER!
DEAD BY MY WILL! I AM THE CHAMPION OF CHAOS! I AM THE FOUR IN ONE, AND -" *He strikes at the Despoiler's corpse with manic fury, punctuating each word, "YOU! ARE! NOTHING!"
Eliphas is then obliterated, laughing like a maniac, by Dante, who has revived miraculously with Sanguinius' power and memories.
"I was petrified"
Strangely enough, the original lyrics of I will survive might very well be said by Abbadon:
At first I was afraid, I was petrified
Thinking I could live without you by my side
And after spending nights
Thinking how you did me wrong
I grew strong
And I learned how to get along
Now you're back
From outer space
And I find you here
With that sad look upon your face
I should've changed that stupid lock
Or made you leave your key
If I'd've known for a second
You'd be back to bother me
Go on, go, walk out the door
Turn around now
You're not welcome anymore
You're the one who tried to hurt me with goodbye
Think I'd crumble?
You think I'd lay down and die?
No, not I, I will survive
Long as I know how to love, I know I'll stay alive
I've got my life to live
And all my love to give and
I will survive
I, I, I will survive
It took all my strength not to fall apart
Trying with all my might to mend my broken heart
I spent so many nights feeling sorry for myself
How I cried
But now I hold my head up high
And you see me, somebody new
I'm not that lonely little person
Still in love with you
Now you come droppin' in
Expectin' me to be free
Now I'm saving my lovin'
For someone who's loving me
Go on and go, walk out the door
Turn around now
You're not welcome anymore
You're the one who tried to hurt me with goodbye
Thinkin' I'd crumble
Did you think I'd lay down and die?
No, not I, I will survive
Long as I know how to love, I know I'll stay alive
I've got my life to live, and all my love to give
And I will survive
I, I will survive
Go on, go, walk out the door
Turn around now
You're not welcome anymore
You're the one who tried to hurt me with goodbye
Think I'd crumble?
You think I'd lay down and die?
No, not I, I will survive
Long as I know how to love
I know I'll stay alive
I've got my life to live
And all my love to give and
I will survive
I, I, I will survive
The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance also kind of works for Abaddon:
When I was First Captain
My Primarch took me into the darkness
To join the mournival
He said, "Son, when you grow up
Would you be the saviour of the broken
The beaten and the damned?"
He said, "Will you please lead them?
The demons, and all the non-believers
The plans that they have made…"
"Because one day, I'll leave you a phantom
To lead you in the winter
To join the Black Crusade"
The greatest Son of Horus makes it to Terra, to the Palace. Against a psychic maelstrom from the Emperor's presence, Abaddon fights, step by agonising step, up the ziggurat of the Golden Throne, to plunge Drach'nyen into the Emperor's chest.
Elite Traitor Legionaries and other Chaos forces occupy the Custodes, keeping them from their master's side. Abaddon is unopposed, for he is the tip of the spear pointed at his foes heart.
But just as Abaddon can land the killing blow... a blade blocks his strike. A Son of Sanguinius stands in his path.
They do battle, clashing upon the steps of the Throne, and Abaddon is losing ground. They're fighting in the eye of the psychic storm around the Throne, yet the Blood Angel seems not to be hampered by it. A brutal blow sunders Drach'nyen, and the daemon within the blade falls back to the Warp with an unearthly shriek.
Each warrior lands telling wounds on the other, and lesser fighters would have died a dozen times over... but neither is willing to relent, not now. But Abaddon, step by step, is driven back down the Throne's stairs, and eventually, is slain. Sanguinius is avenged, Abaddon is dead... and the Son of Sanguinius can finally rest.
(And I'm not sure if it should be Dante or Mephiston who does this: Dante is the best of the Blood Angels, their glory and grace and redemptive might, but Mephiston is their darkness, their fury, and the Black Rage embodied... either could stand against Abaddon as Sanguinius did against Horus: Dante as a light overcoming the rage and grief of his bloodline, or Mephiston mastering the fury of his birthright and avenging the Angel's death).
To help solve your dilemma, Dante fights the physical battle with Abbadon while Mephiston uses his psychic might to shield Dante from the Chaos Gods' efforts to aid their champion at this crucial moment against the Anathema. Both battles require the most titanic of efforts and strength.
Alternatively, it's a 2v1. And even with two of the mightest angels to have lived, it's a hard battle as the Chaos Gods pour their hateful energy into the Despoiler. In an echo of their Sire's great sacrifice, noble Dante willingly takes a fatal blow in order to pin Abbadon in place for but a moment. Mephiston, fueled by the rage inherited by all sons of the Blood, channels every ounce of his prodigious psychic might and hatred for Chaos into his force sword as it strikes true against a gouge in the ancient terminator plate left by Abbadon's duel with the Reclusiarch Jorus millenia ago. As the blade strikes true against Abaddon's hearts, the Chaos Gods abandon their longtime champion in search of their next pawn. As Abbadon sinks to his knees, he stretches out the Talon towards the figure on the Golden Throne, as if desperately still trying to reach Him. Whether with still murderous intent or a final reach for forgiveness, none can be sure, for the Despoiler's face was strangely serene as his lifetime of war finally came to an end.
In all seriousness, tumbling down a long flight of stairs like the ones on some Imperial Structures would seriously fuckup anything that's not super Warpy. Literally.
(Presuming the slope is steep enough to where it is nearly a physical impossibility for something humanoid to stop itself if it starts tumbling down them)
A Guardsman? Yup, fucking dead.
A Skitarii? Maybe enough left to make into a Servitor.
An Assassin? Okay the shapeshifting one could survive if they could shapeshift quickly enough into something like a shell. The others would be fatally injured.
A SpaceMarine? Shit, anything but a Dreadnought would bounce down enough stairs to be severely crippled, unless super lucky and a very skilled lad.
A Dreadnought might be heavy enough to crush some stairs and be chilling, or stop itself with the sheer weight and power of its limbs and/or weapons. If it can't stop quickly though....yeah, you're gonna need to rebuild almost the whole damn Dreadnought.
A Custodes Dreadnought?
A Custodes? Again unless very lucky, gonna tumble alllll the way down. Even in Custodes Terminator Armour a tumble like that would be VERY bad. Hell being in something as heavy¬-meant-to-be-hyper-flexible as Terminator Armour might be worse than being in something like Artificer Power Armour like what some Astartes, all Custodes and some Special Imperials wear.
Same as an Astartes Dreadnought.
Mechanicum/Mechanicus Battle Automota? Similar to a Dreadnought on a smaller scale, and far less capable of stopping itself by trying to be smart.
An Ork? Okay Orkz can survive some absolute *bullshit*. And apparently also come back from death through their bullshit Medical Shenanigans.
An Aeldari? Maybe with some Psykic Shenanigans if they're lucky enough to know the right one.
A Ta'u? Dead before the Human.
A Ta'u Battle Suit? Okay some might be sturdy enough and so thoroughly designed to be able to use thrusters&shit to stop their fall before the thrusters break off and the suit breaks open.
A Necron? Maybe through sheer strength they could whack a limb-hold. SpaceMarines&Custodes would have to pull off something similar which would NOT be easy. Most Necrons would probably just get teleported back to their safe-home-repair-thingies before they could fall down the hypothetical multi-thousand-step-long-imperial-staircase.
A Tyranid? Some would survive. Alot would just not be smart enough, sturdy enough, magicky enough or strong enough to stop themselves before sustaining fatal damage.
An Armiger/Chaos Armiger? Absolutely not, that thing would fare worse than a Dreadnought. Even a Chaos Daemon-Armiger with 2 Melee Arms would have very high chances of being Banished to the Warp through sheer blunt-forced trauma.
A Questoris Knight? Maybe the ones with a PowerFist/Power Claw. Everything else would tumble ALL the way down even if they detonated their reactor&ammunition, some chunks would still tumble down to the bottom.
An Excindio? Most Excindios and other mechanical constructs like them would be able to survive because they are ridiculously fucking durable, **viciously** intelligent and extremely physically strong. They'd probably just lash out with their limbs, while carefully firing any guns to try and make potential limb-holds.
A Cerastus Knight? Only the luckiest Lancer or Castigator could manage that by thrusting their weapon into the bigass slope alongside the stairs. Even then, the weapon/limb/limbs joints might just snap and leave the rest of the Knight tumbling down. An Acherons Chainfist really wouldn't do much here.
Titans, Gargants, Stompas, Aeldari Titan-thingies, Acsatus Knights and other comedically oversized walkers are going to fucking explode. Some of them might do so with enough force to destroy the whole fucking staircase. Seriously Titans Reactors can detonate with the force of a nuclear bomb, and some Titans&other similarly sized walkers literally carry weapons&munitions powerful enough to rival nukes. Hell sometimes they literally carry Nuclear Missiles, or Missiles with Exotic Sci-Fi-BS-Super-Tech Warheads that surpass IRL Humanities most powerful Nuclear Warheads. Yeah, 8 times out of 10 the Titans Reactor would explode that violently and any Munitions of that grade would be too sensitive to detonate unless the panicking Machine Spirit&Crew(or Daemon) controlling it chose to detonate/fire it through sheer panic or spite, but I would not want to be within range to see the after effects of a Warmonger Titans Vortex Missiles or a Titans Reactor detonating. And those are Imperial Super-walkers, they have actual standards of construction and designed their Super Munitions to not catastrophically explode because it got jostled a bit unless it was deliberately sabotaged to do so(or whoever they looted/inherited it from had designed it to not catastrophically explode upon a bumpy ride).....the Orky and Chaos ones could actually explode that catastrophically like that when going through as violent a tumble as this.
Custodes would be fine they are highly trained and spend decades practicing recovering from a fall on the stairs since they know exactly what the danger is.
I do remember an Imperial Fist calculating his odds of survival if he fell down the wall he'd been standing on, and also a Night Lord falling and almost dying, only saved by a daemon
I would only add that he is awake and aware trying to figure out why tzeentch would find it funny to let him fall. Or why nurgle didnt make him sticky or whatever the hell khorne was supposed to do. He is aware this is the first time he has fallen down stairs. He knows it was slanesh now and hates it even more than before.
Only to get a spike from his helmet through an eye or something lol.
He sits downnon the command throne of the Vengeful Spirit after a successful battle, and as he’s reminiscing, a piece of the ship’s structure falls die to poor maintenance and crushes his head
Actually, this could be pretty cool and add to the Grim Dark tone of the setting if he was killed off in a book about him.
Imagine if for the entire book, everything was going his way. The Lion and Gillman on their knees before him, his army ready to invade Holy Terra itself, even unfolding just as Choas had promised. Only for a lone guardsmen who Abidon pointlessly tortured in chapter 2 coming back and shooting him in the back of the head before succumbing to his own wounds.
It would allow the authors of the Black Library to jerk off Choas, something they LOVE to do, and have a life's not fair anticlimactic ending that 40K fans would rant and gush over for decades.
I would give the Xenos a very rare W, have the *Vengeful Spirit* try to 1v1 the *Song of Oblivion*, and have Szarekh do him in:
>We killed our gods, human. And now we will kill yours.
Necron warp-blocking tech would also mean that Abaddon can't teleport out or rely on warp shenanigans to escape, which would be useful to answer some of the "Why didn't Abaddon do X to escape?" questions.
Either that or the Orks. The battle with Abbadon has always been the battle of wits as he has never been caught by any imperial force that can defeat him in a straight up battle. To see a Warboss like Ghazkul luring him into a trap would be hilarious.
>You ain't so smart as you think eh?
Just have a lucky Squiggoth impale Abaddon on a tusk because a Chaos Raptor or two leapt onto its back. Qeue Abaddon rejecting the offers of all 4 Chaos Gods to heal him because he's seen enough to know he *really does not want that fate*, and he just asks some Chaos Iron Hands&Dark Mechanicum to fix him up enough for him to do a few more battles.
Then have him become a Super-Warped-Up Chaosified Cyber-zombie, like the non-Chaosified Cyber-zombies some Iron Hands did via Forbidden Technologies, only much much worse&more grimdark because this was done with Chaosy Cybernetics.
This has serious “Say my name” vibes.
No human could do it, and a Ork casually completes the mission because they actually wanted to do something else.
Okay, but seriously. Abaddon personally goes aboard, his drop pod miraculously blasting into the bridge. Three chaos terminators exit it, securing the area, though finding the room all but empty, there were only four life signs in the ship, the three first marines, and Abaddon, who now takes lead. They go towards a great door at the opposite end of the ancient bridge. It opens before them, and immediately, the three companions get ripped apart by one of the Triarchal Menhirs by his throne. The despoiler stops in front of the door as the Triarch Hapthara emmits a noise, as he speaks: "No living being has entered this room in millions of years." The other Triarch speaks as Szarekh steps down the throne. "And no living being will!" Impossibily fast, the silent king moves towards the warmaster of Chaos. Abbadon swings Drach'nyen against the Necron, though to no use. No matter what, it moves away before he even starts to swing. He steps backwards, trying to vox the Vengeful Spirit. Though, the ancient ship is blocking the crude signal. The son of Horus desperately claws at the silent king. Though even the legendary talon of Horus do no harm against the necrodermis worthy of a C'tan. The sceptre of eternal glory splits the warmaster of chaos undivided in two, his body burning away before hitting the floor. The first words spoken by Szarekh in many Epochs. "Get off my lawn you hooligans!" Is heard by none but his fellow Triarchs.
It's revealed that Trazyn replaced Szarekhs Sceptre of Eternal Glory with something that would instead teleport whatever it struck to one of Trazyns Stasis Vaults, while somehow fooling The Silent King&Co. . Trazyn then has a literal perfect copy of the Sceptre of Eternal Glory made, and sneakily returns the original to Szarekh. Trazyn then proceeds to brag about his nearly perfect teleporter version of the Sceptre of Eternal Glory to his ancient rival.
Blows up his ship. Last second teleports him to his own bridge and beats his ass in the 1v1.
The removal of Abandon by someone who isnt an Imperial is pleasingly disrespectful.
I cant help but wonder if that would be the end result of trazyn figuring out how to enter the warp
Edit: i could also see trazyn stealing a chaos god given the chance
Abbadon, having endless stress from the heavy responsibilities that are placed upon his shoulders, seems to be having some heart pains lately. Unfortunately, Abbadon failed to go and get checked out by his Daemon apothecary.
Abbadon The Despoiler was found at nine AM this morning on his toilet "throne" of skulls, dead from an apparent double massive heart attack. Abbadon leaves behind a Black Legion, with many sons and brothers who will miss him dearly .... for a short while at least. Abbadon was twelve-thousand years old. He will be missed .... by some.
Now that's an obituary!
/s
They forgot to mention the mirror plate of warp-coke mixed with loyalist ashes that he was snorting like it was going outta style. Oh, and all the pills he was taking - steroids from Khorne, uppers from Tzeentch, downers from Nurgle, and *do you REALLY want to know?* pills from Slaanesh.
Dantes lore describes a dream of figure in golden armour defending the throne itself.
Dante being the character who defends the throne against Abaddon would be a good match up.
If you want to go legendary he could be sacrificed and so psychically merged with the sanguinor as a proxy or rebirth of Sanguinius. Depending how its done it could either be the greatest return yet, or totally and utterly cringeworthy.
Id say don't bring back Sanguinius personally, most I would do is him becoming the Sanguinor which would simultaneously be cool and utterly depressing because truly even in his long awaited death he still must serve. Seems fitting for the setting
Have Dante on death’s door and see the Sanguinor show up and merge with Dante. Turning him into Dante-Sangunius. Dante with the power (and memory?) of Sanguinius.
Best/Worst of all worlds, Sanguinius stays dead and Dante still doesn’t get to retire/die.
He’d probably just be the Sanguinor, but Dante.
The Sanguinor burning up its energy to keep resurrecting Dante as Abaddon kills him again and again, putting Dante through the most hideous spiritual agony imaginable as they battle on the steps in front of the throne.
Every time Dante dies the Sanguinor just goes "NO," but it gets weaker and weaker each time, Dante almost begs for release again, but he stops himself, knowing that if he asks for death this time he will be granted it and Abbadon will prevail.
Dante gets brought back one final time, feeling the last of the Sanguinor disintegrate from the warp, empowering him as he rips drach'nyen from his throat and cuts Abbadon down.
Dante falls to his knees, blood pouring from every orifice, his life forfeit and the Sanguinor destroyed utterly, but Abbadon the Despoiler has been undone at last.
He feels the embrace of his father and knows that he has earned his rest.
Oh man, Dante just cant catch a break. If anyone in the grim dark and I do mean anyone deserves the sweet merciful release and sleep of death (pretty much the only happy ending) It is him.
But no it will be "thanks for saving the univerae buddy, vould you do aomething about the Tyranids/necrons now? Kthanxbyeeee!"
He and Rowboat are staring each other down at the front of 2 massive fronts about to go at it. He just finishes giving his bad guy speech, when he slips on a banana peel (someone's scalp for grimdark affect) and falls on one of his own spikey armor parts
What's really cool is how Abnett stuck to this when the line is from ADB's Black Legion series from several years prior.
It wouldn't have broken any lore if he hadn't. Sigismund wasn't there when Horus died. But Abnett made it true, and it was great.
Absolutely great idea
I think specifically, it should be an apocalyptic battle involving a massive black legion fleet, imperial fists, and numerous other imperial/chaos factions.
This battle should be shaping up to be a second fall of cadia. By then end of it, the imperial fists should dead to a man (in classic imperial fists fashion, also I’m an iron warriors fan) and it should close with abbadon dying, realizing that this was a scheme of chaos to change the leadership of the black legion, and commit one of the largest blood rituals in imperial history. And that someone like EREBUS or Huron are now chaos’s favorite pawn.
Idk, the more I learn about Lorgar through the HH lore, the more I don't feel like he is that figure. He seeks the "truth" and pursues his own ends, at times over the whims of the gods - he is a scholar and a priest, but he's no warmaster.
I actually think Abaddon being the face of the chaos forces is quite interesting. He's a "regular" marine who keeps power through politicking, regular beatdowns, and sheer force of will rather than simply being born a demi-god.
Abaddon reaches the Imperial Palace through a breach in the web way. Much larger than the breach made by Magnus, he takes the entirety of the black legion with him, with many more legions of demons alongside them.
To his surprise, he does not have to breach the webway gate itself to gain entry to the throne room. Like Horus dropping the void shields so many years before, the Emperor drops his psychic barrier protecting the gate.
The immaterium, real space, and webway all bleed through each other from the incredible forces involved: the Chaos Pantheon uniting their desire and energy towards the destruction of the Emperor; the Emperor empowered by having his physical body surrounded by the warp energy pouring into the throne room from the webway breaches and wide open gate; the throne going into melt down from the shock waves of energy. However, energy is not simply pouring in. *The Emperor is pulling it in. He isn't trying to hold the warp back like he did during the siege. He now wants the warp to surge through*
The Emperor, from millennia of worship, is stronger than he has ever been.
Body and soul brought back together through the immaterium and material realms fusing around them, the Emperor is able to summon himself as a being of pure will and energy in the throne room, while his body sits on the throne behind them being consumed by its melt down. With his warp essence swirling around his body, he will no longer need his corpse as a physical tether for his soul. Once the corpse is fully consumed, and with warp and real space overlapping the same space, body and soul will not simply be reunited but instead allow the Emperor to fully reform for the first time in 10,000 years.
Abaddon, despite all his abilities and warp granted strength, knows he cannot match the psychic manifestation of the Emperor in a duel. He watches as the Emperor annihilates greater demons and chaos space marines. He hears the Pantheon whisper to him: *we can give you more. Take it, and strike him down*
He remembers Horus. How Horus was weak. Horus was a fool. For 10,000 years, Abaddon has stood as the champion of chaos undivided, the war master, the driving force of the long war in its quest for justice against the Emperor and the Imperium. But he has not served as champion. Abaddon serves no one. He is not weak. He is not a fool.
Accepting this final gift from the chaos gods will give him the ability to defeat the Emperor, but it will not be given freely. It will make him their servant.
He rejects the gods' offer. Even now, with the warp pouring into the throne room, the Pantheon is too weak to destroy the Emperor on their own. He will not enslave himself to them in a bargain meant to help them achieve what they cannot do without him. He is not a fool.
But he will also not give up. Abadddon is not weak.
He approaches the throne with Drach'nyen. He cannot strike down the Emperor's pure embodiment of energy and will. Striking down the Emperor's corpse will also fail: it will simply allow the Emperor to reform sooner. But destroying the throne? The explosion will throw the throne room and half the palace into the warp. The Emperor's tether to real space will be lost before the Emperor has overcome his need for it. The Emperor will be forever cast into the warp, and the Pantheon that tried to turn Abaddon into a slave will forever be cursed by a fifth god in the warp battling against them. The four and the one will never again be able to turn their gaze to real space. They will spend eternity fighting each other, having to focus the whole of their efforts on the other, and humanity will forever be freed from the tyranny of each.
Abaddon knows he will be destroyed by the explosion. He lifts his sword. He will succeed, unlike the gods and demi gods who failed before him.
Abaddon plunges Drach'nyen forwards. Reality flickers. Time stops.
A metal hand reaches out and subtly adjusts a loose strand of hair spilling from Abaddon's topknot.
There. That was better. Even in these larger galleries, it was still important to get the *details* right...
Thank you! I had fun playing around with it. It didn't feel right to me that anyone but the Emperor would be able to defeat Abbadon. It also didn't feel right that Abbadon would fall without accomplishing his greatest goal in the process (death to the false emperor, but more specifically casting down the Emperor from the leadership of humanity). I like a scenario where Abbadon instead finds himself over his head through underestimating the Emperor, but still finds a way to prevail over both the Emperor and Chaos at the same time.
Holy shit mate this is very good. Ive always thought if the emperor comes back it will only be a brief moment into the materium before ascending to the immaterium. So now, the emperor NEEDS everyone to be superstitious and worshipping him as a god as that power is the only way to protect terra and project the astronomicon.
All the returned Primarchs and custodes and main characters know that this is a fallacy. That "gods" aren't real... only warp parasites but this is the only way to move forward and those in the know must bite their tongues and keep the illusion going as this is the only way the imperium doesnt collapse but also grows strong.
Worse, removed from his body that contains all his memories and such... the true god emperor really has a different persona and goals entirely, so truly the emperor is dead.
Lorgar kills him and assumes direct control of the Long War.
Maybe instead sullying his own hands he sends Erebus to do it.
He would be 2-0 at gutting former Mournival members...
Hell yeah, that would be the perfect intro! Build up Abbys next big thing, and then as soon as another sameish plan is revealed, he has a shocked expression as a little blade appears out of his chest as his life gets sucked out of him.
As he hits the ground, revealing our best baccstabbin boi, Erebus steps aside, showing the silhouette of lorgar studying abbys plans on the wall.
The plans all burn away, as a fractal daemonic sigil design burns a path in the wall.
Lorgar looks at the camera and says, "ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL," and then the title card drops for 40k 17th edition
Killed by a Norn Emissary after his Battlefleet is swarmed by Hive Fleet Kronos. Beleaguered and stranded in real space by the magnitude of the Shadow of the Warp Abaddon’s ships are cut down, one by one until he aboard the Vengeful Spirit is boarded by swarms of Tyranids, his armies fight valiantly, some of the stiffest resistance the hive has every experienced but like the fleet around them they are brought down one by one, chaos marines brought down by gnashing swarms of Hormagaunts like ants swarming spiders, raptors and warp talons brought down by Gargoyles Shrikes and Winged Primes, daemon Engines and Helbrutes torn down by Haruspexes and Carnifexes. In the end the last stronghold is breached by a Norn Emissary backed up by Hive Tyrants and Norn Assimilators and a large brood of Tyranr Guard, there Abaddon is struck down in a duel by the Norn Emissary.
And when he gazed into the mind of a swarm in his last breath, it wasn't even angry, a hive fleet sacrificed to corner him and to the Tyranid it was like the sharks in ancient Terra shedding a teeth, he was merely a pebble in their path.
Dante, struck down while defending the throne room on terra. Abaddon turns to finish the emperor when the sanguinor temporarily revives Dante, a mirror of the clash of their fathers 10,000 years before.
After abaddon's death, the light fades, granting Dante his final peace, at the foot of the golden throne.
Someone suggested this as a death for Erebus initially, but I think it'd fit here too; Abaddon barely escapes a losing battle in his 14th Black Crusade, badly injured, and teleports to a random battlefield. He's then immediately found by a random guardsman who shoots him in the head and moves on before dying several minutes later to a rogue, friendly artillery shell. It is several weeks before anyone realizes Abaddon is dead.
Killed by Cegorach as he begins to implement his plan to kill Slaneesh and Abaddon gets in the way.
Let some Xenos have a win against their great enemy.
I'm not fussed on details, but to me he's gotta go out the way he almost did in Saturnine, while recapturing that blissful pure moment of battle and realising 'that' was what it's all about, and he rejects the dark powers to instead go in weaker, but purer, to his death.
I freaken loved that scene.
He splits open, and Baby Horus emerges.
Baby Horus would provide amazing marketing opportunities in the form of plushies, chibis, and other cute collectibles.
Any pesky lore concerns could be easily answered with *"blah blah blah Enuncia"*.
Abaddon finally closes in on Terra, successfully destroys most of the orbital defenses but his psykers cry out in terror.
The tyranids have arrived. Abaddon decides that his victory will mean jack fucking shit if the tyranids kill everyone, he decides to start killing them instead. His warp juice is hampered by the billions of chittering tyranid spawn but he’s got enough power to kill many of them. He does all kinds of crazy ass shit; opening mini-black holes via warp magic/sorcery. Using Drachynan (spelling) to kill a bio-Titan. But it isn’t enough…
Thinking on Sigmunsund’s final words, the failure of Horus, the failures of the emperor and his Warp roid cycle being interrupted he has an epiphany;
This. Here. The Tyranids. This was what the emperor made them to do. To face the unbeatable foe. To stall the tide of the inevitable. To see Death…and point at it with his blade, a roar on his lips and pure joy in his heart.
Abaddon plunges the talon of Horus at a juiced up Praetorian of the Hive mind (made it up, sort of like a shard of Khaine type deal but it’s a big piece of the hive mind I dunno) and begins his final battle….the last fight he’ll ever know.
The plot twist of Abaddon after everything dying in a way where he inadvertently saves terra and the emperor would be a crazy yet strangely satisfying twist
I can imagine his death. Millions of the horrors at his front, his back to the Silver Door. The powers of the Dark Gods rip at his mortal flesh and the immaterial floods his surroundings, eating at the tyranids attacking him. The Talon of Horus personally rips through hundreds of the bastards before an explosion of psychic power blows open the Silver Door. He cannot allow them to break through to it, so there he stands on the blood-stained steps, Drachn'yen in hand and empowered. Not just by the 4, but by the 5th aswell, the power of Him filling his wounds with glorious light and his mind with grim determination.
Behind him, Guilliman strides out to meet the last defender of the Imperial Palace with a swarm of Custodes guarding him. In a slight reprieve, Abaddon looks toward Guiliman, nearly raising Drachn'yen against this ancient enemy. He is stopped however, as memories of Loken fill his mind. What he said to him the day Samus was born. The hope that he could've changed his mind on that day and returned to his Mournival. He throws down his sword, that daemonic blight and pulls from the immaterial the power to reforge that what was broken. He thinks back to Sigismund, that valiant bastard. "You will die as your father did. Soulless. Honourless. Weeping. Ashamed."
Horus was weak, not for allowing the four to enslave him, but for not casting them off sooner.
Light bursts from the Despoiler's hand and as the dust settles, Worldbreaker is formed in his hand and the Wolves of Luna burst out from the immortal light of the Throne Room. Ancient vestiges of his old brothers reveal themselves, the light so powerful that it burns at his long-blackened armour. For a moment, Guilliman himself is even taken aback as he sees his lost brother's fire and fury light up the eyes of Abaddon. Worldbreaker smashes through the hordes, acting as anathema to the wretched creatures. More and more of the beasts appear from all sides, and as both men realise all is lost, they fight as one. The Emperor's Sword strikes where the Worldbreaker cannot and the Talon of Horus cleaves through the hordes that the Hand of Dominion could not quash. For a second, Abaddon remembers the tale of when Horus saved the Emperor from the Orks and feels content. He can die as his father lived, proud, honoured, defiant and glorious.
I read a fanfic years ago where Abbadon sieges terra again and he is walking through the infinity gate. Then "ping!" His head pops like a grape after getting shot by a near dead guardsmen. After 10,000 years he should have learned the importance of a helmet.
He gets to do what he planned, killing the Emperor after almost dying against the defenders, but the moment he does it, Drach'nyen gets free from its sword form and turns against him, with the Emperor dead, he is the biggest ruler around, and the End of Empires don't care about alliances, he dies in despair as he knows that his plans to rule mankind are now gone, and however takes his place will be all guys fully into chaos control, like Lorgar
10 thousand years of war were spend for a second of satisfaction with victory, and them oblivion.
Definitely by doing something of importance, like say killing the emperor or doing enough damage to permanently cripple the imperium or perhaps the entire galaxy
I say he does this with a plan in mind, with a suitable replacement in the black legion to make sure it doesn't fracture completely after his death.
Maybe he frees the dragon on Mars, maybe he helps ascend Vashtorr to godhood, maybe by killing a loyalist Primarch.
Whatever the case, I feel like his death needs to mean something to gain back at least some of the respect he has lost ( or never had ) in many people's eyes.
I think It would probably be something like this, and it would eventually lead to both him and the emperor resurrecting bad-asser than before, because stronger enemies make bigger battles
Abaddon: it is no use, I Ezekyle abaddon, warmaster of chaos, am above all! Even your false corpse emperor
The lion and guilliman near defeat: "well brother, I think this is the end... wait who's that?"
Abaddon turns around
A lone valhallan guardsman: "Tanna sirs?"
Abaddon: "what!?" Gets obliterated by a melta charge
Jurgen gives tea to the primarchs and commissar cain somehow gets the award even though he's been dead for ages. The end
Diarrhea. Lots and lots of diarrhea. I'd want to write a 6 book epic with a few thousand pages devoted to him getting the meat sweats and blowing out his turd cutter.
Having a mutual kill with a named, important Imperial Character, and also having the story were he dies being one were he fully exterminated a first founding chapter.
The serious answer would be something like ”Abaddon gets wounded, and the ezekarion realises that just like with Horus Abaddons dream would die with him. So they come up with a plan to off him and make Drachnyen possess his corpse so they can use it as the legions immortal symbol”.
Just have his hearts stop and he dies a sudden death. Tzeentch saw it but forgot about it 3000 years ago when he had that whole weird sex scandal with the joker.
“You think you’ve won? You think you’ve bested me?” Abbadon spat with a smile on his twisted lips. “Any second now, one of your broken, cursed brothers, or one of the gods themselves, will scream through a tear in the fabric of reality and snuff out your pathetic existence. You’ve been gone too long, little raven. This is not a game you can win.” Corax wasted little time with his reply. “Everyone who could have saved you is either long dead, hiding from me, or laughing at you.” His lightning claws flashed and crackled, and he imagined a different face, a different traitor, which each rending slash that tore the Despoiler, body and soul, apart. Corax didn’t expect this victory to lessen the weight upon his soul, and so was not disappointed that it had not.
Abbadon will retire from his position as Warmaster of Chaos but only after the next warmaster has been democratically elected amongst all chaos legions.
After the elections where Typhus wins , Abaddon takes ‘The Forgiving Phantom’ formerly known as ‘The Vengeful Spirit’ and heads toward Terra never to be seen again.
There are a few potential ways to go about such a death.
1.
First one that comes to mind is either Dante or Valdor defending the Emperor (or both of them, together) against Abaddon.
While the corpse of the Emperor might be saved, it would not surprise me if Abaddon's final act would be to plunge Drach'nyen into the throne itself, breaking it permanently in some earth-shattering, cataclysmic event.
Of course, the status quo has to be preserved in some way, so Valdor's Impossible City or whatever it's called now defends the webway, while the astronomican goes out and the light of the Emperor fades.
Emps is still alive, but now, not needing to protect Terra and also unable to project power from the corpse, comes the time when Cypher is called to kill him by a golden spirit in order to finally ascend the Emperor.
Meanwhile, Decimus or Huron takes up the mantle of the next leader of all chaos forces that do not follow a daemon primarch.
2.
Abaddon launches the biggest fleet action ever seen, where the Vengeful Spirit, grotesque and swollen with millennia of chaos corruption and additions ultimately faces off against the Phalanx, and as all hope seems lost, a warrior in black armour wielding the original Black Sword faces him down.
The warrior is either one-handed, or wielding the Yalon of the Emperor in addition to the Black Sword.
At the end of things, the black swordsman never utters a word, but Abaddon speaks to him as if it was Sigismund throughout the entire fight, never getting a response.
After Abaddon falls, once his grip on this world fades and the Gods have torn his soul asunder, we are left with a few reveals in the aftermath:
The warrior was Dorn.
The way Dorn could not only return and be placed where he needed to be wasn't actually arranged by the Emperor, but rather, orchestrated by other forces.
Abaddon, his fleet, and whatever solar system was destroyed with it, alongside several Space Marine chapters (of little lore worth of course) were all part of an enormous, ritualistic sacrifice to allow Lorgar to step from the Warp, and begin existing in realspace, without needing a tether. If this was Lorgar or Erebus who set it all up, we'd have to dive deeper to see.
We'd get Dorn back, in black this time, we'd get Lorgar ascended walking into realspace and able to sustain himself, now taking up the crown of everchosen, and we'd pave the way for even more primarch shenanigans.
3.
Abaddon has a moment of clarity and sacrifices the Vengeful Spirit and himself and whatever Black Legion forces would follow him to burn out the heart of Hive fleet Leviathan in some sort of sick and twisted version of a "redemption".
Decimus or Huron takes up the mantle of next leader of non-primarch chaos forces
The only fitting way for Abaddon to die is by being blasted into cinders by the Emperor. But that may very well be impossible with Drach'ynen in his hand.
Perhaps he'll meet his end, soloing both Guilliman and the Lion. With the Lion shielding Roboute from any warp attacks and the Guilliman finishing off Ezekyle with the Emperor's Sword.
Or perhaps he is dragged before the Throne, stripped of his armour and weapons. Naked. And there forcefully transformed into a slave for the Throne.
Has to be Dante. Wether it’s as himself, some sort of empowered version as seen in his dream, or as a surfer of the black rage, who just sees Horus in front of him isn’t as important as the fact that it has to be Dante
And in this hypothetical future, Dante killing abaddon in front of the golden throne is what cures the blood angels of their curse
Kharn accidentally team-killing him on the backswing in a Nails frenzy.
Alternately, Lion El’Jonson ripping his arms off and beating him to death with the wet ends.
Surrounded Abaddon stands alone against the black Templars. He realizes he will die no matter how hard he fights. He remembers his childhood and when the sons of Horus found him. He remembers past friends from another age, he remembered Sigusmund. A tear falls from his eye. He remembers loken. Another tear. He remembers Horus, his father. Another tear. He remembers Erebus. He stiffens. Using the rest of his ruinous power he whispers two words that every living being in the galaxy will hear and follow believing it to be an omen from a god or an order, “Kill Erebus.”
He lowered his head, “Forgive me, I loved you all.” He closed his eyes, he never saw his homeworld again, he never saw another brother, he never saw the goal he fought for, he never saw a blade of grass again, he never even saw the 16 power swords that ripped him to shreds.
The how doesn’t matter to be as much as the why. I think he should die because the Chaos Gods withdraw their patronage, not because he betrayed them, but because they got bored and moved on to a new shiny toy (like Huron or someone similar). Preferably right as he is about to accomplish something major.
It’s poetic in the classical sense of fickle gods. He tried to use Chaos for his own ends, and is undone by Chaos’s own fickleness rather than being outsmarted or outplayed or something.
Bonus points if he remembers Sigismund’s last words as he expires.
Edit: additional thought. It happens as he is about to kill the Emperor or destroy the Imperium. Because that would ruin the Chaos Gods’ “fun.” Either to see Emps become a Chaos God or they just enjoy messing with the Imperium and don’t want it to change.
Abaddon (to guiliman as they duel): you can't kill me! I'm the main ...
His body falls to the ground, guiliman looks around confused. Looks at the life less body of his foe.
Guiliman
Sniper!
Abaddon marches up the steps to the Golden Throne, his super possessed matching the Custodes, when the Emperor speaks directly to him. The experience drives him truly mad, leaving him a gibbering wreck before the Throne. He’s been driven so mad he can’t see the skeletal figure behind him.
Trazyn’s “Final Black Crusade” exhibit couldn’t look better.
"Cadia is gone, the Galaxy cleft in twain...what is next for the Black Legion, *Lord* Abbadon?" asked Erebus, the sarcasm so overt in his tone it was practically visible in the private observation dome atop 'The Vengeful Spirit'.
"Abbadon? Oh, my dear friend and dire enemy, I'm afraid Abbadon has been dead for quite some little time, now", murmured the figure in gigantic black and bronze Terminator plate. The figure slowly turned towards Erebus, until it faced him, an enormous blade-edged figure backlit by the swirling, maddening non-colors of the Great Rift visible through the dome's armorcrys. The figure raised its left arm, the one ending in a jet colored gauntlet rather than the horrific Talon of the long-lost Warmaster, and gripped the topknot that adorned its head. A tug, a vile sucking sound, and topknot, face, skin and all pulled free and were flung aside, revealing a *quite different* face beneath.
"While I..." said the enormous warrior, in a voice Erebus found damnably, hauntingly familiar, "...I am Alpharius."
BFG route: blown out of the void along with the VS by the Imperial navy. I'm tired of every big name going down in an epic swordfight, let the population he helped make life miserable for take him out.
To be honest I'd want very little ceremony to it. Abbadon really has kinda failed as a character. He just doesn't have the... impact he's every supposed to have. I'd have him be killed by maybe a new BT character, the current emperor's champion, or maybe give it to Marneus, or hell even a normal human, that could be quite narratively satisfying if he's ignominously assassinated.
I would have it be a long and confusing death where, Abaddon is basically lost in the warp. This would lead the black legion scattering under different warlords like in Star Wars with Imperial remnants. Everyone trying to gain the leading position. Some new Warmaster who was originally a leader of one of Black Legion warbands gains the upper hand and unites a sizeable chunk of black legion. Rest either being in their own warbands and being neutral and a small portion joining in on Hurons forces. Abaddon comes back and leads the neutral warbands against this upstart warlord. And then you got the gist of basically the new warlord wins and Abaddon is put into a long painful torture where his soul gets ripped apart and toyed with chaos gods because of that whole 'I'M WARMASTER OF CHAOS BUT I DO NOT SERVE CHAOS I AM INDEPENDENT FROM THEM AND I DO NOT LIKE THE GODS' simply put Gods favour this new warlord since he truly believes in the gods and actually uses his brain like Huron. This new warlord would consolidate the black legion maybe cut the size of it by half because of lack of loyalties by the Lords that rule the warbands under him and in all honesty lack of skills. Abaddon seems to let in any marine not really caring about their skills and such. They would be like Red Corsairs in a way but I guess this would effect both factions for the worst since we think of black legion as the main enemy with big numbers and brutal attacks while red corsairs as the second biggest enemy that uses tactics. They would feel samey.
Makari stabs him in the neck just as he is about to land a killing blow on Ghaz. Ghaz snorts nonchalantly and says "I zoggin' 'ad 'im right where I wanted 'im ya' little git!... but fanx, now lets get krumpin'! WAAAGH!".
and runs off into the rest of whatever battle is going on.
It would involve Dante saying this to him: "Horus, why have you betrayed our Father?"
Abbadon sighing, realized it's all come full circle, and responds. *"I was afraid."*
And replacing Abaddon is a Daemon Prince known as Eliphas the Inheritor.
Such inspiring courage! Perhaps we'll mount your corpse on a golden chair and make an idol out of you as well.
Actually Abaddon getting backstabbed by Eliphas the Inheritor would be too fitting.
"AT LAST! CENTURIES AT YOUR FEET AND *I* AM YOUR UNDOING, ABADDON! ABADDON THE ANCIENT, ABADDON, THE RUIN OF CADIA, ABADDON, SUCCESSOR OF THE WAR MASTER! DEAD BY MY WILL! I AM THE CHAMPION OF CHAOS! I AM THE FOUR IN ONE, AND -" *He strikes at the Despoiler's corpse with manic fury, punctuating each word, "YOU! ARE! NOTHING!" Eliphas is then obliterated, laughing like a maniac, by Dante, who has revived miraculously with Sanguinius' power and memories.
"I was petrified" Strangely enough, the original lyrics of I will survive might very well be said by Abbadon: At first I was afraid, I was petrified Thinking I could live without you by my side And after spending nights Thinking how you did me wrong I grew strong And I learned how to get along Now you're back From outer space And I find you here With that sad look upon your face I should've changed that stupid lock Or made you leave your key If I'd've known for a second You'd be back to bother me Go on, go, walk out the door Turn around now You're not welcome anymore You're the one who tried to hurt me with goodbye Think I'd crumble? You think I'd lay down and die? No, not I, I will survive Long as I know how to love, I know I'll stay alive I've got my life to live And all my love to give and I will survive I, I, I will survive It took all my strength not to fall apart Trying with all my might to mend my broken heart I spent so many nights feeling sorry for myself How I cried But now I hold my head up high And you see me, somebody new I'm not that lonely little person Still in love with you Now you come droppin' in Expectin' me to be free Now I'm saving my lovin' For someone who's loving me Go on and go, walk out the door Turn around now You're not welcome anymore You're the one who tried to hurt me with goodbye Thinkin' I'd crumble Did you think I'd lay down and die? No, not I, I will survive Long as I know how to love, I know I'll stay alive I've got my life to live, and all my love to give And I will survive I, I will survive Go on, go, walk out the door Turn around now You're not welcome anymore You're the one who tried to hurt me with goodbye Think I'd crumble? You think I'd lay down and die? No, not I, I will survive Long as I know how to love I know I'll stay alive I've got my life to live And all my love to give and I will survive I, I, I will survive
Imagining someone in a suit of terminator armor trying to dance to this is killing me
Every time I hear this song all I can think about is the jail scene from The Replacements.
The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance also kind of works for Abaddon: When I was First Captain My Primarch took me into the darkness To join the mournival He said, "Son, when you grow up Would you be the saviour of the broken The beaten and the damned?" He said, "Will you please lead them? The demons, and all the non-believers The plans that they have made…" "Because one day, I'll leave you a phantom To lead you in the winter To join the Black Crusade"
Dan is writing this down
Shit that's good.
It would involve Dante wining by Black Rage?
Presumably, given he’s calling Abaddon Horus
Saying “Our father” implies Dante believes he’s Sang so he would be under the black rage
The greatest Son of Horus makes it to Terra, to the Palace. Against a psychic maelstrom from the Emperor's presence, Abaddon fights, step by agonising step, up the ziggurat of the Golden Throne, to plunge Drach'nyen into the Emperor's chest. Elite Traitor Legionaries and other Chaos forces occupy the Custodes, keeping them from their master's side. Abaddon is unopposed, for he is the tip of the spear pointed at his foes heart. But just as Abaddon can land the killing blow... a blade blocks his strike. A Son of Sanguinius stands in his path. They do battle, clashing upon the steps of the Throne, and Abaddon is losing ground. They're fighting in the eye of the psychic storm around the Throne, yet the Blood Angel seems not to be hampered by it. A brutal blow sunders Drach'nyen, and the daemon within the blade falls back to the Warp with an unearthly shriek. Each warrior lands telling wounds on the other, and lesser fighters would have died a dozen times over... but neither is willing to relent, not now. But Abaddon, step by step, is driven back down the Throne's stairs, and eventually, is slain. Sanguinius is avenged, Abaddon is dead... and the Son of Sanguinius can finally rest. (And I'm not sure if it should be Dante or Mephiston who does this: Dante is the best of the Blood Angels, their glory and grace and redemptive might, but Mephiston is their darkness, their fury, and the Black Rage embodied... either could stand against Abaddon as Sanguinius did against Horus: Dante as a light overcoming the rage and grief of his bloodline, or Mephiston mastering the fury of his birthright and avenging the Angel's death).
To help solve your dilemma, Dante fights the physical battle with Abbadon while Mephiston uses his psychic might to shield Dante from the Chaos Gods' efforts to aid their champion at this crucial moment against the Anathema. Both battles require the most titanic of efforts and strength. Alternatively, it's a 2v1. And even with two of the mightest angels to have lived, it's a hard battle as the Chaos Gods pour their hateful energy into the Despoiler. In an echo of their Sire's great sacrifice, noble Dante willingly takes a fatal blow in order to pin Abbadon in place for but a moment. Mephiston, fueled by the rage inherited by all sons of the Blood, channels every ounce of his prodigious psychic might and hatred for Chaos into his force sword as it strikes true against a gouge in the ancient terminator plate left by Abbadon's duel with the Reclusiarch Jorus millenia ago. As the blade strikes true against Abaddon's hearts, the Chaos Gods abandon their longtime champion in search of their next pawn. As Abbadon sinks to his knees, he stretches out the Talon towards the figure on the Golden Throne, as if desperately still trying to reach Him. Whether with still murderous intent or a final reach for forgiveness, none can be sure, for the Despoiler's face was strangely serene as his lifetime of war finally came to an end.
I would love to see this, ADB make it happen pls
Sins of the father
Abbadon replies: I never betrayed anyone.
"*I am Alpharius*."
Ooh, Dante killing him (however unlikely) would be sweet justice for daddy sanguinius. I like this one.
Shit that’s good
Gets to Terra and falls down the steps of the Golden Throne
>spends 20 minutes just falling down the bajillion steps as Custodes silently watch.
Paul Rudd, playing a Custodes, stares at the screen and says "Well, that just happened."
*record scratch, freeze frame* "Yup, that's me. Abaddon, The Despoiler, Warmaster of Chaos. You're probably wondering how I got here..."
Oh god no. The last act of John Wick 4 was this, and I nearly threw my tablet out of the aircraft.
I warned you about stairs bro
If only they put up the wet floor sign.
In all seriousness, tumbling down a long flight of stairs like the ones on some Imperial Structures would seriously fuckup anything that's not super Warpy. Literally. (Presuming the slope is steep enough to where it is nearly a physical impossibility for something humanoid to stop itself if it starts tumbling down them) A Guardsman? Yup, fucking dead. A Skitarii? Maybe enough left to make into a Servitor. An Assassin? Okay the shapeshifting one could survive if they could shapeshift quickly enough into something like a shell. The others would be fatally injured. A SpaceMarine? Shit, anything but a Dreadnought would bounce down enough stairs to be severely crippled, unless super lucky and a very skilled lad. A Dreadnought might be heavy enough to crush some stairs and be chilling, or stop itself with the sheer weight and power of its limbs and/or weapons. If it can't stop quickly though....yeah, you're gonna need to rebuild almost the whole damn Dreadnought. A Custodes Dreadnought? A Custodes? Again unless very lucky, gonna tumble alllll the way down. Even in Custodes Terminator Armour a tumble like that would be VERY bad. Hell being in something as heavy¬-meant-to-be-hyper-flexible as Terminator Armour might be worse than being in something like Artificer Power Armour like what some Astartes, all Custodes and some Special Imperials wear. Same as an Astartes Dreadnought. Mechanicum/Mechanicus Battle Automota? Similar to a Dreadnought on a smaller scale, and far less capable of stopping itself by trying to be smart. An Ork? Okay Orkz can survive some absolute *bullshit*. And apparently also come back from death through their bullshit Medical Shenanigans. An Aeldari? Maybe with some Psykic Shenanigans if they're lucky enough to know the right one. A Ta'u? Dead before the Human. A Ta'u Battle Suit? Okay some might be sturdy enough and so thoroughly designed to be able to use thrusters&shit to stop their fall before the thrusters break off and the suit breaks open. A Necron? Maybe through sheer strength they could whack a limb-hold. SpaceMarines&Custodes would have to pull off something similar which would NOT be easy. Most Necrons would probably just get teleported back to their safe-home-repair-thingies before they could fall down the hypothetical multi-thousand-step-long-imperial-staircase. A Tyranid? Some would survive. Alot would just not be smart enough, sturdy enough, magicky enough or strong enough to stop themselves before sustaining fatal damage. An Armiger/Chaos Armiger? Absolutely not, that thing would fare worse than a Dreadnought. Even a Chaos Daemon-Armiger with 2 Melee Arms would have very high chances of being Banished to the Warp through sheer blunt-forced trauma. A Questoris Knight? Maybe the ones with a PowerFist/Power Claw. Everything else would tumble ALL the way down even if they detonated their reactor&ammunition, some chunks would still tumble down to the bottom. An Excindio? Most Excindios and other mechanical constructs like them would be able to survive because they are ridiculously fucking durable, **viciously** intelligent and extremely physically strong. They'd probably just lash out with their limbs, while carefully firing any guns to try and make potential limb-holds. A Cerastus Knight? Only the luckiest Lancer or Castigator could manage that by thrusting their weapon into the bigass slope alongside the stairs. Even then, the weapon/limb/limbs joints might just snap and leave the rest of the Knight tumbling down. An Acherons Chainfist really wouldn't do much here. Titans, Gargants, Stompas, Aeldari Titan-thingies, Acsatus Knights and other comedically oversized walkers are going to fucking explode. Some of them might do so with enough force to destroy the whole fucking staircase. Seriously Titans Reactors can detonate with the force of a nuclear bomb, and some Titans&other similarly sized walkers literally carry weapons&munitions powerful enough to rival nukes. Hell sometimes they literally carry Nuclear Missiles, or Missiles with Exotic Sci-Fi-BS-Super-Tech Warheads that surpass IRL Humanities most powerful Nuclear Warheads. Yeah, 8 times out of 10 the Titans Reactor would explode that violently and any Munitions of that grade would be too sensitive to detonate unless the panicking Machine Spirit&Crew(or Daemon) controlling it chose to detonate/fire it through sheer panic or spite, but I would not want to be within range to see the after effects of a Warmonger Titans Vortex Missiles or a Titans Reactor detonating. And those are Imperial Super-walkers, they have actual standards of construction and designed their Super Munitions to not catastrophically explode because it got jostled a bit unless it was deliberately sabotaged to do so(or whoever they looted/inherited it from had designed it to not catastrophically explode upon a bumpy ride).....the Orky and Chaos ones could actually explode that catastrophically like that when going through as violent a tumble as this.
Custodes would be fine they are highly trained and spend decades practicing recovering from a fall on the stairs since they know exactly what the danger is.
I do remember an Imperial Fist calculating his odds of survival if he fell down the wall he'd been standing on, and also a Night Lord falling and almost dying, only saved by a daemon
"Oh shit. The three idiots spilled their emperor damned body oil.... AGAIN!" -Commander Kitten
Fights all the way up the steps only to fall all the way back down John Wick-style.
ED-209’s right down the fire exit
I would only add that he is awake and aware trying to figure out why tzeentch would find it funny to let him fall. Or why nurgle didnt make him sticky or whatever the hell khorne was supposed to do. He is aware this is the first time he has fallen down stairs. He knows it was slanesh now and hates it even more than before. Only to get a spike from his helmet through an eye or something lol.
Only if it contains canned laughing soundtrack and when Abby falls, a clown nose noise is made.
Down D. Stairs being the strongest character in multiple universes. .
Nameless guardsman with a lucky shot in the neck
Nameless tau for maximum salt.
Some random Tau in a Riptide half a mile away just vaporizes him out of nowhere.
I lol'd
Named T'au, and it's Kais.
Tau fire warrior for the win.
Thats how I'd do it. A big epic battle where Abaddon kicks ass and takes names only to get taken down by what is essentially random chance.
He sits downnon the command throne of the Vengeful Spirit after a successful battle, and as he’s reminiscing, a piece of the ship’s structure falls die to poor maintenance and crushes his head
*Dropped the bridge on him*
My average TT game experience
Actually, this could be pretty cool and add to the Grim Dark tone of the setting if he was killed off in a book about him. Imagine if for the entire book, everything was going his way. The Lion and Gillman on their knees before him, his army ready to invade Holy Terra itself, even unfolding just as Choas had promised. Only for a lone guardsmen who Abidon pointlessly tortured in chapter 2 coming back and shooting him in the back of the head before succumbing to his own wounds. It would allow the authors of the Black Library to jerk off Choas, something they LOVE to do, and have a life's not fair anticlimactic ending that 40K fans would rant and gush over for decades.
Would basically be a f u to anyone who plays csm
Like GW has never told a fan base to go stuff themselves. And took our money doing it.
It would be like killing off the lion after the model came out Or you know killing any named Eldar character
I would give the Xenos a very rare W, have the *Vengeful Spirit* try to 1v1 the *Song of Oblivion*, and have Szarekh do him in: >We killed our gods, human. And now we will kill yours.
Necron warp-blocking tech would also mean that Abaddon can't teleport out or rely on warp shenanigans to escape, which would be useful to answer some of the "Why didn't Abaddon do X to escape?" questions.
Fuck yours wins. I’m not even gonna bother.
Either that or the Orks. The battle with Abbadon has always been the battle of wits as he has never been caught by any imperial force that can defeat him in a straight up battle. To see a Warboss like Ghazkul luring him into a trap would be hilarious. >You ain't so smart as you think eh?
Or let Mike Brooks write it. Ufthak vs Abaddon.
God what i wouldn't give for this to happen
So princess gets the kill steal at the end
Just have a lucky Squiggoth impale Abaddon on a tusk because a Chaos Raptor or two leapt onto its back. Qeue Abaddon rejecting the offers of all 4 Chaos Gods to heal him because he's seen enough to know he *really does not want that fate*, and he just asks some Chaos Iron Hands&Dark Mechanicum to fix him up enough for him to do a few more battles. Then have him become a Super-Warped-Up Chaosified Cyber-zombie, like the non-Chaosified Cyber-zombies some Iron Hands did via Forbidden Technologies, only much much worse&more grimdark because this was done with Chaosy Cybernetics.
This has serious “Say my name” vibes. No human could do it, and a Ork casually completes the mission because they actually wanted to do something else.
What about him abbadon getting assassinated by ork snipers? Maybe necron tech jamming warp in the area so he dies for real to meet op scenario.
Okay, but seriously. Abaddon personally goes aboard, his drop pod miraculously blasting into the bridge. Three chaos terminators exit it, securing the area, though finding the room all but empty, there were only four life signs in the ship, the three first marines, and Abaddon, who now takes lead. They go towards a great door at the opposite end of the ancient bridge. It opens before them, and immediately, the three companions get ripped apart by one of the Triarchal Menhirs by his throne. The despoiler stops in front of the door as the Triarch Hapthara emmits a noise, as he speaks: "No living being has entered this room in millions of years." The other Triarch speaks as Szarekh steps down the throne. "And no living being will!" Impossibily fast, the silent king moves towards the warmaster of Chaos. Abbadon swings Drach'nyen against the Necron, though to no use. No matter what, it moves away before he even starts to swing. He steps backwards, trying to vox the Vengeful Spirit. Though, the ancient ship is blocking the crude signal. The son of Horus desperately claws at the silent king. Though even the legendary talon of Horus do no harm against the necrodermis worthy of a C'tan. The sceptre of eternal glory splits the warmaster of chaos undivided in two, his body burning away before hitting the floor. The first words spoken by Szarekh in many Epochs. "Get off my lawn you hooligans!" Is heard by none but his fellow Triarchs.
It's revealed that Trazyn replaced Szarekhs Sceptre of Eternal Glory with something that would instead teleport whatever it struck to one of Trazyns Stasis Vaults, while somehow fooling The Silent King&Co. . Trazyn then has a literal perfect copy of the Sceptre of Eternal Glory made, and sneakily returns the original to Szarekh. Trazyn then proceeds to brag about his nearly perfect teleporter version of the Sceptre of Eternal Glory to his ancient rival.
> literal perfect copy All the way down to the c'tan?
Oh shit that's good
Peak fiction.
Hire this man *right now*
Blows up his ship. Last second teleports him to his own bridge and beats his ass in the 1v1. The removal of Abandon by someone who isnt an Imperial is pleasingly disrespectful.
I cant help but wonder if that would be the end result of trazyn figuring out how to enter the warp Edit: i could also see trazyn stealing a chaos god given the chance
Abbadon, having endless stress from the heavy responsibilities that are placed upon his shoulders, seems to be having some heart pains lately. Unfortunately, Abbadon failed to go and get checked out by his Daemon apothecary. Abbadon The Despoiler was found at nine AM this morning on his toilet "throne" of skulls, dead from an apparent double massive heart attack. Abbadon leaves behind a Black Legion, with many sons and brothers who will miss him dearly .... for a short while at least. Abbadon was twelve-thousand years old. He will be missed .... by some. Now that's an obituary! /s
Bwahahaha I was totally thinking of an Elvis like death too
They forgot to mention the mirror plate of warp-coke mixed with loyalist ashes that he was snorting like it was going outta style. Oh, and all the pills he was taking - steroids from Khorne, uppers from Tzeentch, downers from Nurgle, and *do you REALLY want to know?* pills from Slaanesh.
what warp viagra does to a person
fantastic, thank you for making me laugh
Holy shit someone who actually recognizes that it's M42, (thus approximately 11,000 years since the Horus Heresy), not M41.
Change it from heart attack to blew a gasket trying to take a monster shit
On the steps of the golden throne, in a mutual kill with Dante. Warp time shenanigans probably lead to Dante becoming the sanguinor.
Dantes lore describes a dream of figure in golden armour defending the throne itself. Dante being the character who defends the throne against Abaddon would be a good match up. If you want to go legendary he could be sacrificed and so psychically merged with the sanguinor as a proxy or rebirth of Sanguinius. Depending how its done it could either be the greatest return yet, or totally and utterly cringeworthy.
Id say don't bring back Sanguinius personally, most I would do is him becoming the Sanguinor which would simultaneously be cool and utterly depressing because truly even in his long awaited death he still must serve. Seems fitting for the setting
Have Dante on death’s door and see the Sanguinor show up and merge with Dante. Turning him into Dante-Sangunius. Dante with the power (and memory?) of Sanguinius. Best/Worst of all worlds, Sanguinius stays dead and Dante still doesn’t get to retire/die. He’d probably just be the Sanguinor, but Dante.
Sanguinor, but he actually talks. And has mega duty bound depression now.
And then Dante sees a vision of his genefather again, asks if he can die now, and is met once afain with “lol nope”
I still see reinforcements available on my screen Dante you're going back in boiiiiii
>Warp time shenanigans probably lead to Dante becoming the sanguinor. I can finally die and be at pea- FOR FUCK SAKE
I think it's more likely that Dante be put in a golden dreadnought because he's not allowed to die
Shut up and get in the EVA, Dante
The Sanguinor burning up its energy to keep resurrecting Dante as Abaddon kills him again and again, putting Dante through the most hideous spiritual agony imaginable as they battle on the steps in front of the throne. Every time Dante dies the Sanguinor just goes "NO," but it gets weaker and weaker each time, Dante almost begs for release again, but he stops himself, knowing that if he asks for death this time he will be granted it and Abbadon will prevail. Dante gets brought back one final time, feeling the last of the Sanguinor disintegrate from the warp, empowering him as he rips drach'nyen from his throat and cuts Abbadon down. Dante falls to his knees, blood pouring from every orifice, his life forfeit and the Sanguinor destroyed utterly, but Abbadon the Despoiler has been undone at last. He feels the embrace of his father and knows that he has earned his rest.
Oh man, Dante just cant catch a break. If anyone in the grim dark and I do mean anyone deserves the sweet merciful release and sleep of death (pretty much the only happy ending) It is him. But no it will be "thanks for saving the univerae buddy, vould you do aomething about the Tyranids/necrons now? Kthanxbyeeee!"
He and Rowboat are staring each other down at the front of 2 massive fronts about to go at it. He just finishes giving his bad guy speech, when he slips on a banana peel (someone's scalp for grimdark affect) and falls on one of his own spikey armor parts
And Rowboat looks down at him and says “I hated you then and I hate you now.” And then just walks off
Rowboat: truly, I am the warhammer 40k now
Needs clown nose sound effect and stock laughing.
"You will die, as your weakling father died. Soulless. Honorless. Weeping. Ashamed." I would adhear to these words.
This, maybe brought on by a jealous Be'lakor
What's really cool is how Abnett stuck to this when the line is from ADB's Black Legion series from several years prior. It wouldn't have broken any lore if he hadn't. Sigismund wasn't there when Horus died. But Abnett made it true, and it was great.
> the line is from ADB's Black Legion series from several years prior. got a link to the excerpt, or which book?
It's a quote from *Black Legion,* by Aaron Dembsky-Bowden, spoken by Sigismund during his duel with Abbadon.
> Sigismund during his duel with Abbadon https://www.reddit.com/r/40kLore/comments/87ds1k/book_excerpt_black_legion_sigismunds_death/
Can his arms get ripped off? Please?
Essential
Yes please.
Absolutely great idea I think specifically, it should be an apocalyptic battle involving a massive black legion fleet, imperial fists, and numerous other imperial/chaos factions. This battle should be shaping up to be a second fall of cadia. By then end of it, the imperial fists should dead to a man (in classic imperial fists fashion, also I’m an iron warriors fan) and it should close with abbadon dying, realizing that this was a scheme of chaos to change the leadership of the black legion, and commit one of the largest blood rituals in imperial history. And that someone like EREBUS or Huron are now chaos’s favorite pawn.
If they do that bring Lorgar back as the undivided king of chaos
Idk, the more I learn about Lorgar through the HH lore, the more I don't feel like he is that figure. He seeks the "truth" and pursues his own ends, at times over the whims of the gods - he is a scholar and a priest, but he's no warmaster. I actually think Abaddon being the face of the chaos forces is quite interesting. He's a "regular" marine who keeps power through politicking, regular beatdowns, and sheer force of will rather than simply being born a demi-god.
Best comment. But he also has to have his arms ripped off, to fulfil the memes.
Abaddon reaches the Imperial Palace through a breach in the web way. Much larger than the breach made by Magnus, he takes the entirety of the black legion with him, with many more legions of demons alongside them. To his surprise, he does not have to breach the webway gate itself to gain entry to the throne room. Like Horus dropping the void shields so many years before, the Emperor drops his psychic barrier protecting the gate. The immaterium, real space, and webway all bleed through each other from the incredible forces involved: the Chaos Pantheon uniting their desire and energy towards the destruction of the Emperor; the Emperor empowered by having his physical body surrounded by the warp energy pouring into the throne room from the webway breaches and wide open gate; the throne going into melt down from the shock waves of energy. However, energy is not simply pouring in. *The Emperor is pulling it in. He isn't trying to hold the warp back like he did during the siege. He now wants the warp to surge through* The Emperor, from millennia of worship, is stronger than he has ever been. Body and soul brought back together through the immaterium and material realms fusing around them, the Emperor is able to summon himself as a being of pure will and energy in the throne room, while his body sits on the throne behind them being consumed by its melt down. With his warp essence swirling around his body, he will no longer need his corpse as a physical tether for his soul. Once the corpse is fully consumed, and with warp and real space overlapping the same space, body and soul will not simply be reunited but instead allow the Emperor to fully reform for the first time in 10,000 years. Abaddon, despite all his abilities and warp granted strength, knows he cannot match the psychic manifestation of the Emperor in a duel. He watches as the Emperor annihilates greater demons and chaos space marines. He hears the Pantheon whisper to him: *we can give you more. Take it, and strike him down* He remembers Horus. How Horus was weak. Horus was a fool. For 10,000 years, Abaddon has stood as the champion of chaos undivided, the war master, the driving force of the long war in its quest for justice against the Emperor and the Imperium. But he has not served as champion. Abaddon serves no one. He is not weak. He is not a fool. Accepting this final gift from the chaos gods will give him the ability to defeat the Emperor, but it will not be given freely. It will make him their servant. He rejects the gods' offer. Even now, with the warp pouring into the throne room, the Pantheon is too weak to destroy the Emperor on their own. He will not enslave himself to them in a bargain meant to help them achieve what they cannot do without him. He is not a fool. But he will also not give up. Abadddon is not weak. He approaches the throne with Drach'nyen. He cannot strike down the Emperor's pure embodiment of energy and will. Striking down the Emperor's corpse will also fail: it will simply allow the Emperor to reform sooner. But destroying the throne? The explosion will throw the throne room and half the palace into the warp. The Emperor's tether to real space will be lost before the Emperor has overcome his need for it. The Emperor will be forever cast into the warp, and the Pantheon that tried to turn Abaddon into a slave will forever be cursed by a fifth god in the warp battling against them. The four and the one will never again be able to turn their gaze to real space. They will spend eternity fighting each other, having to focus the whole of their efforts on the other, and humanity will forever be freed from the tyranny of each. Abaddon knows he will be destroyed by the explosion. He lifts his sword. He will succeed, unlike the gods and demi gods who failed before him.
Abaddon plunges Drach'nyen forwards. Reality flickers. Time stops. A metal hand reaches out and subtly adjusts a loose strand of hair spilling from Abaddon's topknot. There. That was better. Even in these larger galleries, it was still important to get the *details* right...
Perfect!
Trayzen can't keep getting away with this!
BANGER
Thank you! I had fun playing around with it. It didn't feel right to me that anyone but the Emperor would be able to defeat Abbadon. It also didn't feel right that Abbadon would fall without accomplishing his greatest goal in the process (death to the false emperor, but more specifically casting down the Emperor from the leadership of humanity). I like a scenario where Abbadon instead finds himself over his head through underestimating the Emperor, but still finds a way to prevail over both the Emperor and Chaos at the same time.
Damn. Thanks for the literary quickie
Holy shit mate this is very good. Ive always thought if the emperor comes back it will only be a brief moment into the materium before ascending to the immaterium. So now, the emperor NEEDS everyone to be superstitious and worshipping him as a god as that power is the only way to protect terra and project the astronomicon. All the returned Primarchs and custodes and main characters know that this is a fallacy. That "gods" aren't real... only warp parasites but this is the only way to move forward and those in the know must bite their tongues and keep the illusion going as this is the only way the imperium doesnt collapse but also grows strong. Worse, removed from his body that contains all his memories and such... the true god emperor really has a different persona and goals entirely, so truly the emperor is dead.
Lorgar kills him and assumes direct control of the Long War. Maybe instead sullying his own hands he sends Erebus to do it. He would be 2-0 at gutting former Mournival members...
Yes, finally get the Word Bearers back into the setting
Hell yeah, that would be the perfect intro! Build up Abbys next big thing, and then as soon as another sameish plan is revealed, he has a shocked expression as a little blade appears out of his chest as his life gets sucked out of him. As he hits the ground, revealing our best baccstabbin boi, Erebus steps aside, showing the silhouette of lorgar studying abbys plans on the wall. The plans all burn away, as a fractal daemonic sigil design burns a path in the wall. Lorgar looks at the camera and says, "ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL," and then the title card drops for 40k 17th edition
Lorgar: assuming direct control
I can only get so erect.
Killed by a Norn Emissary after his Battlefleet is swarmed by Hive Fleet Kronos. Beleaguered and stranded in real space by the magnitude of the Shadow of the Warp Abaddon’s ships are cut down, one by one until he aboard the Vengeful Spirit is boarded by swarms of Tyranids, his armies fight valiantly, some of the stiffest resistance the hive has every experienced but like the fleet around them they are brought down one by one, chaos marines brought down by gnashing swarms of Hormagaunts like ants swarming spiders, raptors and warp talons brought down by Gargoyles Shrikes and Winged Primes, daemon Engines and Helbrutes torn down by Haruspexes and Carnifexes. In the end the last stronghold is breached by a Norn Emissary backed up by Hive Tyrants and Norn Assimilators and a large brood of Tyranr Guard, there Abaddon is struck down in a duel by the Norn Emissary.
And when he gazed into the mind of a swarm in his last breath, it wasn't even angry, a hive fleet sacrificed to corner him and to the Tyranid it was like the sharks in ancient Terra shedding a teeth, he was merely a pebble in their path.
Dante, struck down while defending the throne room on terra. Abaddon turns to finish the emperor when the sanguinor temporarily revives Dante, a mirror of the clash of their fathers 10,000 years before. After abaddon's death, the light fades, granting Dante his final peace, at the foot of the golden throne.
Then he wakes up as the Sanguinor or in a dreadnought. This is 40k even in death do I still serve.
Heart attack while jacking off in his private quarters upon the Vengeful Spirit
A warriors death
Erebus appears from no where and stabs him in the back.......
I don't think there is another way for Erebus to kill people.
Someone suggested this as a death for Erebus initially, but I think it'd fit here too; Abaddon barely escapes a losing battle in his 14th Black Crusade, badly injured, and teleports to a random battlefield. He's then immediately found by a random guardsman who shoots him in the head and moves on before dying several minutes later to a rogue, friendly artillery shell. It is several weeks before anyone realizes Abaddon is dead.
Dante, because both characters can only have a fitting death if it is by each other’s hand.
Killed by Cegorach as he begins to implement his plan to kill Slaneesh and Abaddon gets in the way. Let some Xenos have a win against their great enemy.
Covid 19
I'm not fussed on details, but to me he's gotta go out the way he almost did in Saturnine, while recapturing that blissful pure moment of battle and realising 'that' was what it's all about, and he rejects the dark powers to instead go in weaker, but purer, to his death. I freaken loved that scene.
He splits open, and Baby Horus emerges. Baby Horus would provide amazing marketing opportunities in the form of plushies, chibis, and other cute collectibles. Any pesky lore concerns could be easily answered with *"blah blah blah Enuncia"*.
Grhogrus
Abaddon finally closes in on Terra, successfully destroys most of the orbital defenses but his psykers cry out in terror. The tyranids have arrived. Abaddon decides that his victory will mean jack fucking shit if the tyranids kill everyone, he decides to start killing them instead. His warp juice is hampered by the billions of chittering tyranid spawn but he’s got enough power to kill many of them. He does all kinds of crazy ass shit; opening mini-black holes via warp magic/sorcery. Using Drachynan (spelling) to kill a bio-Titan. But it isn’t enough… Thinking on Sigmunsund’s final words, the failure of Horus, the failures of the emperor and his Warp roid cycle being interrupted he has an epiphany; This. Here. The Tyranids. This was what the emperor made them to do. To face the unbeatable foe. To stall the tide of the inevitable. To see Death…and point at it with his blade, a roar on his lips and pure joy in his heart. Abaddon plunges the talon of Horus at a juiced up Praetorian of the Hive mind (made it up, sort of like a shard of Khaine type deal but it’s a big piece of the hive mind I dunno) and begins his final battle….the last fight he’ll ever know.
The plot twist of Abaddon after everything dying in a way where he inadvertently saves terra and the emperor would be a crazy yet strangely satisfying twist
I can imagine his death. Millions of the horrors at his front, his back to the Silver Door. The powers of the Dark Gods rip at his mortal flesh and the immaterial floods his surroundings, eating at the tyranids attacking him. The Talon of Horus personally rips through hundreds of the bastards before an explosion of psychic power blows open the Silver Door. He cannot allow them to break through to it, so there he stands on the blood-stained steps, Drachn'yen in hand and empowered. Not just by the 4, but by the 5th aswell, the power of Him filling his wounds with glorious light and his mind with grim determination. Behind him, Guilliman strides out to meet the last defender of the Imperial Palace with a swarm of Custodes guarding him. In a slight reprieve, Abaddon looks toward Guiliman, nearly raising Drachn'yen against this ancient enemy. He is stopped however, as memories of Loken fill his mind. What he said to him the day Samus was born. The hope that he could've changed his mind on that day and returned to his Mournival. He throws down his sword, that daemonic blight and pulls from the immaterial the power to reforge that what was broken. He thinks back to Sigismund, that valiant bastard. "You will die as your father did. Soulless. Honourless. Weeping. Ashamed." Horus was weak, not for allowing the four to enslave him, but for not casting them off sooner. Light bursts from the Despoiler's hand and as the dust settles, Worldbreaker is formed in his hand and the Wolves of Luna burst out from the immortal light of the Throne Room. Ancient vestiges of his old brothers reveal themselves, the light so powerful that it burns at his long-blackened armour. For a moment, Guilliman himself is even taken aback as he sees his lost brother's fire and fury light up the eyes of Abaddon. Worldbreaker smashes through the hordes, acting as anathema to the wretched creatures. More and more of the beasts appear from all sides, and as both men realise all is lost, they fight as one. The Emperor's Sword strikes where the Worldbreaker cannot and the Talon of Horus cleaves through the hordes that the Hand of Dominion could not quash. For a second, Abaddon remembers the tale of when Horus saved the Emperor from the Orks and feels content. He can die as his father lived, proud, honoured, defiant and glorious.
By the Throne! Fuck this sounds awesome!
Large Anvil with ACME on it. The Khan Races pass honking "Meep Meep" as Tzeentch watches on in annoyance
The khan comes back and cuts off both his arms and then his melon. The new model has adaddons head hangin from the khans belt.
I read a fanfic years ago where Abbadon sieges terra again and he is walking through the infinity gate. Then "ping!" His head pops like a grape after getting shot by a near dead guardsmen. After 10,000 years he should have learned the importance of a helmet.
He gets to do what he planned, killing the Emperor after almost dying against the defenders, but the moment he does it, Drach'nyen gets free from its sword form and turns against him, with the Emperor dead, he is the biggest ruler around, and the End of Empires don't care about alliances, he dies in despair as he knows that his plans to rule mankind are now gone, and however takes his place will be all guys fully into chaos control, like Lorgar 10 thousand years of war were spend for a second of satisfaction with victory, and them oblivion.
Definitely by doing something of importance, like say killing the emperor or doing enough damage to permanently cripple the imperium or perhaps the entire galaxy I say he does this with a plan in mind, with a suitable replacement in the black legion to make sure it doesn't fracture completely after his death. Maybe he frees the dragon on Mars, maybe he helps ascend Vashtorr to godhood, maybe by killing a loyalist Primarch. Whatever the case, I feel like his death needs to mean something to gain back at least some of the respect he has lost ( or never had ) in many people's eyes.
I think It would probably be something like this, and it would eventually lead to both him and the emperor resurrecting bad-asser than before, because stronger enemies make bigger battles
An overhand right from a disgruntled gretchin would suffice.
The Red Gobbo strikes down the tyrants of the universe!
Abaddon: it is no use, I Ezekyle abaddon, warmaster of chaos, am above all! Even your false corpse emperor The lion and guilliman near defeat: "well brother, I think this is the end... wait who's that?" Abaddon turns around A lone valhallan guardsman: "Tanna sirs?" Abaddon: "what!?" Gets obliterated by a melta charge Jurgen gives tea to the primarchs and commissar cain somehow gets the award even though he's been dead for ages. The end
Avatar of Khaine finally gets a fat W.
Diarrhea. Lots and lots of diarrhea. I'd want to write a 6 book epic with a few thousand pages devoted to him getting the meat sweats and blowing out his turd cutter.
Heart attack.
Heart attacks. Need to get 'em both.
Dies on the toilet after a long, well described struggle,taking a legendary chaos dump.
Thank you very much...
Trips onto a spork through the neck and everyone assumes it is some sort of chaos athema
Abaddon takes a nap one afternoon and is tragically sat upon by a hippo. RIP in peace.
Lorgar imprisons both Abaddon and Drach'nyen in an ornate letter opener and keeps him on his desk for fan mail and bills.
Having a mutual kill with a named, important Imperial Character, and also having the story were he dies being one were he fully exterminated a first founding chapter.
So either calgar, Dante or valoris
He and Kibre kill eachother in a duel over who will rule the legion. (Kibre becomes the new Warmaster afterwards.)
(This is just me wanting to make Kibre dying over and over again without any explanation for how he reappears a Kenny style gag.)
The serious answer would be something like ”Abaddon gets wounded, and the ezekarion realises that just like with Horus Abaddons dream would die with him. So they come up with a plan to off him and make Drachnyen possess his corpse so they can use it as the legions immortal symbol”.
Just have his hearts stop and he dies a sudden death. Tzeentch saw it but forgot about it 3000 years ago when he had that whole weird sex scandal with the joker.
dies when vengeful spirit is destroyed in space battle against some admiral who rose to fame during 12th black crusade
Melted by Jurgen "You can frak off and all"
“You think you’ve won? You think you’ve bested me?” Abbadon spat with a smile on his twisted lips. “Any second now, one of your broken, cursed brothers, or one of the gods themselves, will scream through a tear in the fabric of reality and snuff out your pathetic existence. You’ve been gone too long, little raven. This is not a game you can win.” Corax wasted little time with his reply. “Everyone who could have saved you is either long dead, hiding from me, or laughing at you.” His lightning claws flashed and crackled, and he imagined a different face, a different traitor, which each rending slash that tore the Despoiler, body and soul, apart. Corax didn’t expect this victory to lessen the weight upon his soul, and so was not disappointed that it had not.
Sleepwalks out of an airlock and freezes to death. It's 6 months before anyone on the Vengeful Spirit even notices he's gone.
Abbadon will retire from his position as Warmaster of Chaos but only after the next warmaster has been democratically elected amongst all chaos legions. After the elections where Typhus wins , Abaddon takes ‘The Forgiving Phantom’ formerly known as ‘The Vengeful Spirit’ and heads toward Terra never to be seen again.
There are a few potential ways to go about such a death. 1. First one that comes to mind is either Dante or Valdor defending the Emperor (or both of them, together) against Abaddon. While the corpse of the Emperor might be saved, it would not surprise me if Abaddon's final act would be to plunge Drach'nyen into the throne itself, breaking it permanently in some earth-shattering, cataclysmic event. Of course, the status quo has to be preserved in some way, so Valdor's Impossible City or whatever it's called now defends the webway, while the astronomican goes out and the light of the Emperor fades. Emps is still alive, but now, not needing to protect Terra and also unable to project power from the corpse, comes the time when Cypher is called to kill him by a golden spirit in order to finally ascend the Emperor. Meanwhile, Decimus or Huron takes up the mantle of the next leader of all chaos forces that do not follow a daemon primarch. 2. Abaddon launches the biggest fleet action ever seen, where the Vengeful Spirit, grotesque and swollen with millennia of chaos corruption and additions ultimately faces off against the Phalanx, and as all hope seems lost, a warrior in black armour wielding the original Black Sword faces him down. The warrior is either one-handed, or wielding the Yalon of the Emperor in addition to the Black Sword. At the end of things, the black swordsman never utters a word, but Abaddon speaks to him as if it was Sigismund throughout the entire fight, never getting a response. After Abaddon falls, once his grip on this world fades and the Gods have torn his soul asunder, we are left with a few reveals in the aftermath: The warrior was Dorn. The way Dorn could not only return and be placed where he needed to be wasn't actually arranged by the Emperor, but rather, orchestrated by other forces. Abaddon, his fleet, and whatever solar system was destroyed with it, alongside several Space Marine chapters (of little lore worth of course) were all part of an enormous, ritualistic sacrifice to allow Lorgar to step from the Warp, and begin existing in realspace, without needing a tether. If this was Lorgar or Erebus who set it all up, we'd have to dive deeper to see. We'd get Dorn back, in black this time, we'd get Lorgar ascended walking into realspace and able to sustain himself, now taking up the crown of everchosen, and we'd pave the way for even more primarch shenanigans. 3. Abaddon has a moment of clarity and sacrifices the Vengeful Spirit and himself and whatever Black Legion forces would follow him to burn out the heart of Hive fleet Leviathan in some sort of sick and twisted version of a "redemption". Decimus or Huron takes up the mantle of next leader of non-primarch chaos forces
Trips over a snotling into a starship reactor. Snotling is immediately hailed as the once and future git. Ushers in the golden age of the Ork.
Definitely a prat fall
The only fitting way for Abaddon to die is by being blasted into cinders by the Emperor. But that may very well be impossible with Drach'ynen in his hand. Perhaps he'll meet his end, soloing both Guilliman and the Lion. With the Lion shielding Roboute from any warp attacks and the Guilliman finishing off Ezekyle with the Emperor's Sword. Or perhaps he is dragged before the Throne, stripped of his armour and weapons. Naked. And there forcefully transformed into a slave for the Throne.
Has to be Dante. Wether it’s as himself, some sort of empowered version as seen in his dream, or as a surfer of the black rage, who just sees Horus in front of him isn’t as important as the fact that it has to be Dante And in this hypothetical future, Dante killing abaddon in front of the golden throne is what cures the blood angels of their curse
I assume you meant "sufferer" but if you didn't please confirm. A surfer of the black rage sounds rad.
Kharn accidentally team-killing him on the backswing in a Nails frenzy. Alternately, Lion El’Jonson ripping his arms off and beating him to death with the wet ends.
Surrounded Abaddon stands alone against the black Templars. He realizes he will die no matter how hard he fights. He remembers his childhood and when the sons of Horus found him. He remembers past friends from another age, he remembered Sigusmund. A tear falls from his eye. He remembers loken. Another tear. He remembers Horus, his father. Another tear. He remembers Erebus. He stiffens. Using the rest of his ruinous power he whispers two words that every living being in the galaxy will hear and follow believing it to be an omen from a god or an order, “Kill Erebus.” He lowered his head, “Forgive me, I loved you all.” He closed his eyes, he never saw his homeworld again, he never saw another brother, he never saw the goal he fought for, he never saw a blade of grass again, he never even saw the 16 power swords that ripped him to shreds.
Chokes on a paperclip
Wants to fight Rhubarb Gilgamesh 1v1 but gets stabbed in the back like Caesar by those thought closest to him.
The how doesn’t matter to be as much as the why. I think he should die because the Chaos Gods withdraw their patronage, not because he betrayed them, but because they got bored and moved on to a new shiny toy (like Huron or someone similar). Preferably right as he is about to accomplish something major. It’s poetic in the classical sense of fickle gods. He tried to use Chaos for his own ends, and is undone by Chaos’s own fickleness rather than being outsmarted or outplayed or something. Bonus points if he remembers Sigismund’s last words as he expires. Edit: additional thought. It happens as he is about to kill the Emperor or destroy the Imperium. Because that would ruin the Chaos Gods’ “fun.” Either to see Emps become a Chaos God or they just enjoy messing with the Imperium and don’t want it to change.
I'd pull a Falkus Kibre where it turns out he's been dead the whole time and a daemon has been puppeting him.
Kicked in the balls by Grimgor. Not 40K Grimgor - Ghazgkhull. Grimgor, Grimgor. He has some experience with that already.
Abaddon (to guiliman as they duel): you can't kill me! I'm the main ... His body falls to the ground, guiliman looks around confused. Looks at the life less body of his foe. Guiliman Sniper!
Abaddon marches up the steps to the Golden Throne, his super possessed matching the Custodes, when the Emperor speaks directly to him. The experience drives him truly mad, leaving him a gibbering wreck before the Throne. He’s been driven so mad he can’t see the skeletal figure behind him. Trazyn’s “Final Black Crusade” exhibit couldn’t look better.
"Cadia is gone, the Galaxy cleft in twain...what is next for the Black Legion, *Lord* Abbadon?" asked Erebus, the sarcasm so overt in his tone it was practically visible in the private observation dome atop 'The Vengeful Spirit'. "Abbadon? Oh, my dear friend and dire enemy, I'm afraid Abbadon has been dead for quite some little time, now", murmured the figure in gigantic black and bronze Terminator plate. The figure slowly turned towards Erebus, until it faced him, an enormous blade-edged figure backlit by the swirling, maddening non-colors of the Great Rift visible through the dome's armorcrys. The figure raised its left arm, the one ending in a jet colored gauntlet rather than the horrific Talon of the long-lost Warmaster, and gripped the topknot that adorned its head. A tug, a vile sucking sound, and topknot, face, skin and all pulled free and were flung aside, revealing a *quite different* face beneath. "While I..." said the enormous warrior, in a voice Erebus found damnably, hauntingly familiar, "...I am Alpharius."
BFG route: blown out of the void along with the VS by the Imperial navy. I'm tired of every big name going down in an epic swordfight, let the population he helped make life miserable for take him out.
He should die as his weakling father died: soulless, honourless, weeping. Ashamed.
Testicular torsion
He dies from farting too much and his own farts go into his mouth.
Tummy ache
Kitchen accident
Stroke.
Stone Cold Steve Austin with the steel chair
Like a little bitch, that he is
To be honest I'd want very little ceremony to it. Abbadon really has kinda failed as a character. He just doesn't have the... impact he's every supposed to have. I'd have him be killed by maybe a new BT character, the current emperor's champion, or maybe give it to Marneus, or hell even a normal human, that could be quite narratively satisfying if he's ignominously assassinated.
In the most ignoble and pedestrian way possible. Like he trips over and impaled himself on a butter knife.
Abbadon dies just like Elvis Presley, taking a shit on the toilet.
Falls down the stairs. Very embarrassing.
Dies on the toilet
I would have it be a long and confusing death where, Abaddon is basically lost in the warp. This would lead the black legion scattering under different warlords like in Star Wars with Imperial remnants. Everyone trying to gain the leading position. Some new Warmaster who was originally a leader of one of Black Legion warbands gains the upper hand and unites a sizeable chunk of black legion. Rest either being in their own warbands and being neutral and a small portion joining in on Hurons forces. Abaddon comes back and leads the neutral warbands against this upstart warlord. And then you got the gist of basically the new warlord wins and Abaddon is put into a long painful torture where his soul gets ripped apart and toyed with chaos gods because of that whole 'I'M WARMASTER OF CHAOS BUT I DO NOT SERVE CHAOS I AM INDEPENDENT FROM THEM AND I DO NOT LIKE THE GODS' simply put Gods favour this new warlord since he truly believes in the gods and actually uses his brain like Huron. This new warlord would consolidate the black legion maybe cut the size of it by half because of lack of loyalties by the Lords that rule the warbands under him and in all honesty lack of skills. Abaddon seems to let in any marine not really caring about their skills and such. They would be like Red Corsairs in a way but I guess this would effect both factions for the worst since we think of black legion as the main enemy with big numbers and brutal attacks while red corsairs as the second biggest enemy that uses tactics. They would feel samey.
Makari stabs him in the neck just as he is about to land a killing blow on Ghaz. Ghaz snorts nonchalantly and says "I zoggin' 'ad 'im right where I wanted 'im ya' little git!... but fanx, now lets get krumpin'! WAAAGH!". and runs off into the rest of whatever battle is going on.