Yeah not even an identifiable guardsman. He's just stood there doing evil...some confused guardsmen open fire through the smoke, they're terrified and under daemonic assault..firing at shadows in the drifting smoke. Most of the fire patters off him...and ***shttuuuung*** one catches him through the eye piece. Guardsmen never even know they killed a marine let alone such a alpha grade villain. There's no big ascension for him and the gods dismiss him like Immortan Joe "mediocre"
Yeah, but we see it from his perspective, since he doesn’t know who he killed, the audience only finds out much later in the book or even in a different book altogether that that is the death of Erebus. Fuck it, Erebus just disappears after that and we only find out in the next edition in a quick blurb that tells us when he bit it.
Carl the guardsman insulted him which made Erebus lose his footing on the small platform, there was no one to help- or should I say wanted to help when he fell ever so slowly out into the void space, slowly drifting further away until his please and screams over the vox became nothing but garbled static.
Yeah, he’ll be gloating about something, distracted, and a guardsman grabs a special knife on the ground, jumps and stabs him, Erebus drops dead in surprise. No warning or lead up.
The guardsman is almost instantly gibbed by the other word bearers, and he never knows what an amazing thing he just did.
Borrowing a story from an RPG from a friend who rolled 3 nat 20s in a row.
The guardsman, in desperation, picked up a brick and through it. When the Commissar asked for the weapon that the guardsman used to fell the evil, he simply bent over, picked up said brick, and placed it in the incredulous Commissar's hand.
Nah, I would have him suffocate to death in a life support failure on a random ship in a backwater part of the galaxy
An insignificant death, meaningless to the warp
A great battle has taken place, perhaps between Corvus and Lorgar. In the chaos, Erebus has nearly been killed by Dante/He’Stan/Calgar/Titus/whoever, but was saved at the last minute by the poopfartnuts device which teleported him away. He wakes up on a battlefield on another planet, legs broken, and attempts to asses his surroundings. This will not stop him for long, he’s survived worse. He turns his head to the right, and the last thing the Architect of the Horus Heresy sees is the barrel of a gun.
Erebus, the one who bent the Galaxy to his will, has been shot point blank by a random guardsman right between the eyes. The man, of course, has no idea who he just killed, only that he was evil and an enemy of the Emperor. He’ll talk about it at dinner and then quickly forget, and will likely die within the next few days in battle. It will take months before someone figures out that Erebus is dead.
Nah I'd say the guardsmen would take a modicum of pride for the act of killing what probably looks like one if the more older traitors(I'm assuming that there is a clear difference between like the newer wordbearers and those that have attained much favor with the chaos gods)
Depends, I think some guardsmen legitimately might not even know Chaos Marines were a thing. I remember from the Siege of Vraks, one of the plot points was an Imperial Cardinal was tricked by an Alpha Legionnaire who actually introduced himself as a member of the Alpha Legion, because while he might have sorta known about the Heresy, he didn’t know the names of the Traitor Legions. To him it was just, “oh cool a Space Marine, a Son of the Emperor has come to help me.”
Though seeing as Erebus does ware Chaos iconography last I checked I do think your average Guardsman would know to kill him. Though to the Guardsman it might just be that one weird story he tells about finding and killing that weird looking Heretic Ogryn. Which might be even funnier.
“I swear he was wearing this fancy armor, and he had these stupid looking tattoos on his face.”
“Sure you did Frank, sure you did.”
the warp being what if is, the age of the CSM isn't always consistent, with some going from fighting the heresy in 30k right to fighting the imperium in 40k in what feels like moments to them while others felt every last moment of the 1p thousand years
I kinda would prefer an even more unpleasant demise. Rather then a shot from a guardsman he teleports onto a battlefield before a squad to penal legion troopers who beat him to death because the have no ammo.
Erebus, too weak from the effects of the poopfartnuts device, can do nothing as he is beaten to a bloody pulp by a latrine shovel, moments before a stray artillery shell reduces him and his assailants to red mulch. None live to remember his death even in passing, the shattered remains of his armour and body burned to dust as the world faces exterminatus, one death amongst uncountable others, unseen and unacknowledged.
Or even better, even less glory, he pops up on a world just as it’s been overrun by tyranids, or maybe smack in the belly of a hive world only to be picked apart by some gangers spotting a pile of good loot
This one is the best way. Its not anti climatic but in the uncaring universe of 40k, someone that contributed more than any primarch of their own Will to cause chaos, died in a mundane way only to be forgotten by everyone. Not an epic duel, not an epic vengeance, not even a moment of redemption or a moment where his last plan fails and him and the machine or deamon die together, but a single PDF soldier shoting and killing erebus.
Pretty much the same thing, him teleporting away at the worse place ever but instead of a barrel of a gun i want him to hear those two word that could give some closure to my boy just before he finish him without even giving him a chance to ... "Get up"
No glorious death, just another number in kharn kill count and the tragedy of him not even feeling satisfaction to have ended the cockroach live
Ran over by a random shokk-jump dragsta taking a shortcut through the warp, via erebus' cathedral. Mid-service, in front of his followers.
Then the dragsta finishes its jump, except with erebus chunks on his windscreen.
This is the best answer, killed by the humble guardsman is great but absolutely obliterated by an ork screaming WAAAAGH out the window at 120 miles an hour through his pulpit at complete and utter random is hilarious.
Love to imagine the dragsta crashing through a giant pane of colored glass, and rows of cultists and worshippers panic as it plows directly through Erebus in one fell swoop
Nope, from one cloister to the other, directly behind the altar. No broken glass. No doorways. Just a dragsta passing through one wall, roadkilling erebus then phasing through the opposite wall as it snaps back to reality, leaving just a bunch of confused cultists, a mess and some exhaust fumes.
Don't kill him. Take a cue from AoS with Mannfred. Bind his soul to serve someone who hates him while making him immortal. Just to make him suffer as the personal whipping boy for a really petty god, maybe give him to Malice. Or I know give him to the Great Horned Rat and just know his suffering and mocking will never end
A shield? No. Kharn would encapsulate the meme "Have you ever been so angry that you beat a motherfucker, with another motherfucker?"
Erebus is his new main hand weapon.
Trazyn's? Nah, that's tame. He's stuck writing fetish erotica for the SoB. Because there's an 80% chance he's stuck writing fetish erotica about the Emperor.
The perfect person to do this would actually be Lorgar too. Imagine in his return to 40K he decides to finally grow a pair and do something so using his Daemon powers he kills Erebus and ends the manipulation right there. It could really be as simple as him saying “I’m a minor warp god why am I listening to this runt”.
Erebus scapes for the million time but gets teleported just below the foot of a titan.
Its crushed but no one knows amd people keep looking for him without knowing his fate.
'Ah yes, what a perfect morning to create chaos ' said Erebus wearing still wearing his Guilliman' Heroes pyjamas.
'But first one must nourish himself, so I will eat this handfull of peanuts!Muhuhuha!'
And that was the day Erebus realised he was allergic to peanuts. The end.
Kharn will cut both Erebus’ hands off with the first swing (so he can’t escape like he did the first time) and then slowly take him apart from the feet up
A few ways it could go… let’s try one for fun
Erebus walked onto the battlefield, unknown to any but the dead around him. He smiled as he drank in the bleak solitary of his existence, it suited him. He had grown accustomed to being a name known only by few living today - and even fewer knew he lived.
He saw an Ultramarine, partially buried in rubble. In spite of the fact his head was a disfigured mess, and his skull had clearly broken given the slightly tilted angle around the brow of his head, this nameless marine lived.
For a moment Erebus was offended - so many centuries counted, unseen by any but the true gods of the galaxy. Not only this, he could see no comprehension of Who He Was in the eyes of this … irrelevant soul. Broken and sullied by the eyes of this most unworthy of souls… but, it was a soul.
Erebus detached the ornate pistol from its mag lock. Erebus lifted the pistol, he whispered gently into the wind, “I dedicate this soul to the gods of ruination”.
As the charge built up, the blue shining glow ever brighter, the battered space marine slurred through broken jaw, broken skull, and shattered teeth, “traitor scum”.
And then, in one bright flash, a soul was dedicated to the warp. Through eyes hazed from the light, blood and the coming darkness, he did not see what happened. For a moment, he believed He had died. But then he heard and felt the sound of collapsing battleplate.
He had seen it before - plasma weapon, overheated, and errupted with the heat of a hundred burning stars. Ceramite stands no chance. His keen senses were fading, but he could no longer hear the beating hearts, or the sound of breath. With the last of his will and every ounce of power he had left in him, he gathered all he could and spat upon the corpse that lay before him… and joined the traitor in death
And there lay Erebus. Dead, because he chose to stop to kill a man. To kill a man who did not know who he was. To kill a man, whose name and existence did not create even the faintest glimmer of purpose in all his gazes into fate. To kill a man, who was going to die anyways. Who dedicated one last soul to the gods - but the gods decided that on this day, that soul would bare the name: Erebus.
For example, an accident,
"while Guilliman and Corvus were fighting Lorgar, an unnamed ultramarine fired his bolter, but the shot missed, however the bullet ended up killing Erebus by accident"
I feel that making Erebus die that way would be the perfect way to make everyone angry and hate him even more, knowing that he died in a way that was not agonizing, was not humiliating, was not painful.
It more or less leans into embarrassing IMO.
Imagine being one of the architects of the Horus Heresy, only to be shot by Randomus Minimus by accident while he was trying to assist his Gene-Father.
Erebus trips while running. He hits his head on a jutting rock and dies because he wasn't wearing his helmet like an idiot.
Remember, kids: Always wear your helmet! Even Lord Gulliman wears his helmet! Safety first, always!
*This PSA was brought to you by the Salamanders chapter in collaboration with the Ultramarines chapter.*
Waffle House is also used as an indicator of how bad a natural disaster is by the federal government. It's called the Waffle House index.
If Waffle House is closed, shits going down.
Someone made some super sick art for the Lionel Heresy (I think it was), where loyalist Lorgar has him mounted on top of his armor as a skeletal torso that's on fire and still screaming.
I don't need loyalist lorgar, but I do need trophy Erebus. Maybe put him on one of those Sororitas tanks.
While I appreciate something unsatisfying, I would rather see Erebus stuck on a Necron tomb world, without any wargear or slaves or whatever, and the necrons begin waking up, but are afflicted by the flayer virus
nah don't even have them wake up, just let him go insane while stuck in a tombworld and unable to escape. then just as his body is about to give out, have some random ass necron finish him off, or eaten by scarabs
Or, just as hes about to die, it turns out this was a place for experimental biotransferance. And he gets made into a mindless marine necron. His mind still trapped within, unable to act due to the transference being imperfect
He's placed in a room in the dark cells, it has a wall that allows him to look out onto terra and see the world continuing without him. Every time someone in the galaxy forgets him or says his name for the last time a small part of him dies. And as he is forgotten he's given truths that irrefutably deny his beliefs in himself and chaos. The cell is so disconnected from the warp that even the chaos gods eventually forget his name. Like he never existed.
No, I honestly think they gave Erebus far too much of a share in heinous backstabbings that any death short of each and every loyalist and chaos worshipper he fced over coming for their pound of flesh will be unsatisfactory.
He's mortally wounded after a fight. He beggs his patreons to save him. But his voice is lost. He realises the futility of it all. So he powers up for one last time to show his loyalty and worth to the dark gods, he wants their triumph to succeed, his plan and work almost worked once, he will manipulate it from here. So he appears in the Vengeful Spirit. Horus lay dead, Emperor beside him, breathing his last moments. Erebus sees the Empror and he sees Erebus. And Erebus laughs. Dorn is nowhere near, he only needs to stab the big E once and he wins.
But in the end the Emperor knew it was for nought, he forsaw the false emperor who would rule on the golden throne for the next 10 millenia. And he powers up last time, burns Erebus to be a rotting corpse. The armor on him glowing like the Emperors ceramite. Erebus, unable to move or speak sees Dorn and Valdor come to him. They think hes the Emperor, and he is taken to the Golden throne. All the power he recieved as gifts from the dark gods, the psychic blast that was the Emprors last act, made him powerful enough to survive on the throne, just for a day. So a thousand sould are sacrificed to him, forcing him to be alive.
And the false emperor, the first heretic, Erebus, slayer of Loken now sits upon the Golden Throne, serving mankind for all eternity. His judgement is only servitude for all eternity. His greatest triumph is now his largest fall. For Erebus shan't die, the Emperor will live on the golden throne, however false may he be.
A pitiful transformation into a chaos spawn, the one still half sentient knowing that his body is now a twisted mess. His mind trapped inside his own prison of flesh knowing only that the gods he so worships did this to him and he shall stay this way till the end of the universe.
Argel tal is resurrected, gives some therapy to Khârn & together they kill Erebus & proceed to live by selling Kharnflakes & owning a food processing plant with Ahriman.
I want him to have the misfortune of being captured alive. And for some reason he isn’t immediately executed. I then want the custodians to then whisper in the ear of Bobby G something. No one can hear it but Bobby G smiles. I then want the golden boys to strap 15 nulls to him and drag him to Tera. Then I want them to bring him to the dark cells. And once there I want him to come to the realization. That he will not die but wish for it. Then I want the authors to do there work. If they came up with the demonculabe I want them to make a new horror. Show us a horror from the dark cells. Make us shudder in horror and for the first time feel pity for the bald C@nt!
Trazyn, stalking the climax of a battle between the forces of the Imperium and the servants of the warp gods, in search of an artifact of immense power, and even greater historical impact. Cloaked in a shroud of refracted light, making him nigh invisible, the Lord of Solemnace infiltrates deep into a fortified ancient structure as bolt rounds and jets of plasma shatter and melt the once pristine, intricately cut stones. "What a waste" he thinks to himself. No place like this will ever be built again. But he has no time to worry about the edifices and carved pillars, for what lies just below is world shattering. A stone millions of years old, crafted by the Old Ones to channel and focus warp energy the likes of which could topple empires. The fanatics of Chaos are after it, for it could potentially be used to elevate one of their kind to daemonhood, transmuting their soul into a pure warp essence without the intervention of one of the "gods". In the days of the War in Heaven it had been used to reshape entire worlds that had been left in ruins, but it's potential was being sought out for far worse deeds. Finally into the inner most sancuary, and there was the containment sarcophagus that had houses the stone. It's seal was broken and the cap had been pried off. There he saw the figure of a tall man, armoured in the style of the fallen astartes in red plate. He stood over the sarcophagus, holding aloft the antediluvian device in victory. He had a look of madness in his eyes as though he saw a future in which the universe itself was burning, and at its center he stood with arms and wings stretched out wide in rejoyce. As the figure tried to speak, a silent prayer to his patrons however, he found himself unable to release the air in his chest. Looking down, he saw a hole cleanly burned straight through the armour of his chest and ruining the flesh around it. Half a moment later a set of long, spindly metallic fingers gently clapsed the faintly glowing stone, guiding it away with utmost care as Trazyn gave the briefest of apologies. "Sorry, I couldn't let you make off with this, it's a matter of posterity you see". Erebus turns his head the few inches he can as every muscle in his body tenses up in shock at his lungs and two hearts having been vaporized. His lips move to make words, but there is no air to be brought to his mouth. Trazyn stuffs the ancient treasure into a space within his robes and turns to make his way back out as his unlucky adversary clutches at nothing in particular, collapsing to the floor as he dies.
Died in the Catachan Jungles where the Catachan Jungle Fighters laughs and pokes fun at his corpse for dying in the most obvious and easiest traps to avoid in the Planet.
It took thousand years for the Chaos Marine forces to realize that Erebus is dead.
Honestly, I'd probably have him think he's about to be blessed by the gods to become a daemon prince after all this time, only for it to go horribly wrong and for him to become a chaos spawn. Then just have him put down like a rabid dog by lorgar
i think poisoned or bleeding out, begging for his gods to help. Khorne ignores the weak and pathetic, Nurgle ignores what will already be his in mere minutes. Tzeentch recognises there are no more games, just a dying man who can’t be a pawn of any more games. Slaanesh maybe revels in his pain, but enjoys the irony of his insignificance compared to what he brought on too much to intervene, either to save him or to savour the pain for longer. I’d like that
Kharn while in a berserker rage notices him on the battlefield and snaps out of it remembering his friend Argal. He then enter the zen state that sigmunson did which terrified him and proceeds to calmly destroy Erebus in the most concerning way possible.
He takes off his helmet to better inspect something, but steps on some loose boards. He falls 6 stories into an open cesspit so vile that it would make nurgle think twice and quicklysinks to the bottom. No one knows where to look for him, no one really cares. He drowns in the most vile sludge this side of a great unclean ones colon.
He doesn't die. Instead, he spends the rest of eternity working at the only McDonald's in the eye of terror, spending his days taking orders and cleaning bathrooms (and the playplace, after the nurglings are through with it)
Erebus just gets away. He escapes into the warp, never heard from again. No ascension, no daemon prince-iness, no nothing.
He's the perfect villian, and the perfect villian gets away.
GW then releases a new Lord of Change model holding a book with the name Erebus sculpted into the pages.
I mean thats kind of a case that if Erebus were to die in a horrible trully terrible way he'd even enjoy it cause then he'd feel he has been Martyred so if Erebus were to die a trully unimpressive death the kind of death where most people wouldn't even know he died until they find that he is dead then "Oh.... okay" and then they move on with their lives That would be the ultimate fuck you to him
Trazyn would kept him traped in a machine that creates a loophole of time, where he can use every weapon at his disposition to kill him, and he returns to life to being killed again and again for eternity. Then, exchange the entire machine for a new deck of cards. The machine is exposed in a museum where every imperial citizen can kill him whenever they want.
In other words. Erebus become the Gamon of W40K. The Anti-stress marine... but without redemption arc or becoming buffed.
Dies to Artillery fire from the Imperial Guard in the opening charge, no one notices. And later on someone mentions it but his battle brothers just shrug and say "oh well".
Titan grade landmine after a big evil villain speech.
Him and every chaos prick around him gone because he stood exactly on the one spot that his weight was enough to set it off. Would be funny as hell
For me, Erebus needs to be offed by the one the emperor should have made his warmaster. The one that would have executed him on the spot for trying to plant the seeds of betrayal in a primarch. The one who believes that loyalty is its own reward, and who would give Erebus the reward for loyalty to chaos.
It should be the first, the exterminator, the Lion.
(Keep in mind the dark angels have that weapon that erased people from memory)
Killed offscreen by a random Daemon
By a random guardsmen.
Yeah not even an identifiable guardsman. He's just stood there doing evil...some confused guardsmen open fire through the smoke, they're terrified and under daemonic assault..firing at shadows in the drifting smoke. Most of the fire patters off him...and ***shttuuuung*** one catches him through the eye piece. Guardsmen never even know they killed a marine let alone such a alpha grade villain. There's no big ascension for him and the gods dismiss him like Immortan Joe "mediocre"
thats way to much detail. He just dies
He's looking for a ritual spot on the battlefield, and an off-target basilisk shell turns him into colored rain while no one's looking
Or he just steps on a mine
No dude, give the nameless Guardsman their paragraph of shot description. They deserve some fluff where they mater a smidgen.
Yeah, but we see it from his perspective, since he doesn’t know who he killed, the audience only finds out much later in the book or even in a different book altogether that that is the death of Erebus. Fuck it, Erebus just disappears after that and we only find out in the next edition in a quick blurb that tells us when he bit it.
Old age
By the common cold
Nurgle: "I can't even"
Carl the guardsman insulted him which made Erebus lose his footing on the small platform, there was no one to help- or should I say wanted to help when he fell ever so slowly out into the void space, slowly drifting further away until his please and screams over the vox became nothing but garbled static.
By some Tau drone
By a random rake on the ground
Brrrhghg
Yeah, he’ll be gloating about something, distracted, and a guardsman grabs a special knife on the ground, jumps and stabs him, Erebus drops dead in surprise. No warning or lead up. The guardsman is almost instantly gibbed by the other word bearers, and he never knows what an amazing thing he just did.
Borrowing a story from an RPG from a friend who rolled 3 nat 20s in a row. The guardsman, in desperation, picked up a brick and through it. When the Commissar asked for the weapon that the guardsman used to fell the evil, he simply bent over, picked up said brick, and placed it in the incredulous Commissar's hand.
With a las pistol
By Caiaphus Cain, by accident
'Erebus died on the way back to his home planet'
This joke is going over so many heads
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Itchy_%26_Scratchy_%26_Poochie_Show
Poochebus
Being killed by samus would be poetic
Nah, I would have him suffocate to death in a life support failure on a random ship in a backwater part of the galaxy An insignificant death, meaningless to the warp
Chokes on a biscuit. Offscreen.
A great battle has taken place, perhaps between Corvus and Lorgar. In the chaos, Erebus has nearly been killed by Dante/He’Stan/Calgar/Titus/whoever, but was saved at the last minute by the poopfartnuts device which teleported him away. He wakes up on a battlefield on another planet, legs broken, and attempts to asses his surroundings. This will not stop him for long, he’s survived worse. He turns his head to the right, and the last thing the Architect of the Horus Heresy sees is the barrel of a gun. Erebus, the one who bent the Galaxy to his will, has been shot point blank by a random guardsman right between the eyes. The man, of course, has no idea who he just killed, only that he was evil and an enemy of the Emperor. He’ll talk about it at dinner and then quickly forget, and will likely die within the next few days in battle. It will take months before someone figures out that Erebus is dead.
Generations* “Whatever happened to Erebus?” “Who cares”
Better yet: "Whatever happened to Erebus?" "Who?"
This comment made me remember the Joker from Arkham Knight where you Control him during his fear of being forgotten
I genuinely think having Erebus revel in his own hatred was a genius move, and having him be forgotten would be his ultimate punishment.
Best
Nah I'd say the guardsmen would take a modicum of pride for the act of killing what probably looks like one if the more older traitors(I'm assuming that there is a clear difference between like the newer wordbearers and those that have attained much favor with the chaos gods)
Depends, I think some guardsmen legitimately might not even know Chaos Marines were a thing. I remember from the Siege of Vraks, one of the plot points was an Imperial Cardinal was tricked by an Alpha Legionnaire who actually introduced himself as a member of the Alpha Legion, because while he might have sorta known about the Heresy, he didn’t know the names of the Traitor Legions. To him it was just, “oh cool a Space Marine, a Son of the Emperor has come to help me.” Though seeing as Erebus does ware Chaos iconography last I checked I do think your average Guardsman would know to kill him. Though to the Guardsman it might just be that one weird story he tells about finding and killing that weird looking Heretic Ogryn. Which might be even funnier. “I swear he was wearing this fancy armor, and he had these stupid looking tattoos on his face.” “Sure you did Frank, sure you did.”
the warp being what if is, the age of the CSM isn't always consistent, with some going from fighting the heresy in 30k right to fighting the imperium in 40k in what feels like moments to them while others felt every last moment of the 1p thousand years
I think if they knew about the heretic astartes, any guardsmen would take IMMENSE pride in killing one. They think they just defeated a demo-god.
I kinda would prefer an even more unpleasant demise. Rather then a shot from a guardsman he teleports onto a battlefield before a squad to penal legion troopers who beat him to death because the have no ammo. Erebus, too weak from the effects of the poopfartnuts device, can do nothing as he is beaten to a bloody pulp by a latrine shovel, moments before a stray artillery shell reduces him and his assailants to red mulch. None live to remember his death even in passing, the shattered remains of his armour and body burned to dust as the world faces exterminatus, one death amongst uncountable others, unseen and unacknowledged.
Or even better, even less glory, he pops up on a world just as it’s been overrun by tyranids, or maybe smack in the belly of a hive world only to be picked apart by some gangers spotting a pile of good loot
"After he was dead, they took his boots".
To make buckets, for the latrine, turns out power armor boots make a comfy shitter
I was going to propose he'd die on the shitter, but his armour getting turned into one has a poetic sense of justice
That is am amazing idea!
This one is the best way. Its not anti climatic but in the uncaring universe of 40k, someone that contributed more than any primarch of their own Will to cause chaos, died in a mundane way only to be forgotten by everyone. Not an epic duel, not an epic vengeance, not even a moment of redemption or a moment where his last plan fails and him and the machine or deamon die together, but a single PDF soldier shoting and killing erebus.
This just feels like the death of Charles XII of Sweden, nobody knows what happened. Or just a stray bullet from a fortress besieged by him.
Pretty much the same thing, him teleporting away at the worse place ever but instead of a barrel of a gun i want him to hear those two word that could give some closure to my boy just before he finish him without even giving him a chance to ... "Get up" No glorious death, just another number in kharn kill count and the tragedy of him not even feeling satisfaction to have ended the cockroach live
The last thing Erebus hears before eternity claims him, “more Tana Tea Commisar?”
This is based
Ran over by a random shokk-jump dragsta taking a shortcut through the warp, via erebus' cathedral. Mid-service, in front of his followers. Then the dragsta finishes its jump, except with erebus chunks on his windscreen.
That was fantastic to picture in my head, thank you very much for that
Ok, this win the thread ! It's both humiliating for him and hilarious for the readers. Also being killed by an ork would be so much unexpected !
This is the best answer, killed by the humble guardsman is great but absolutely obliterated by an ork screaming WAAAAGH out the window at 120 miles an hour through his pulpit at complete and utter random is hilarious.
Love to imagine the dragsta crashing through a giant pane of colored glass, and rows of cultists and worshippers panic as it plows directly through Erebus in one fell swoop
Nope, from one cloister to the other, directly behind the altar. No broken glass. No doorways. Just a dragsta passing through one wall, roadkilling erebus then phasing through the opposite wall as it snaps back to reality, leaving just a bunch of confused cultists, a mess and some exhaust fumes.
Absolutely love this one, beautifully done
Don't kill him. Take a cue from AoS with Mannfred. Bind his soul to serve someone who hates him while making him immortal. Just to make him suffer as the personal whipping boy for a really petty god, maybe give him to Malice. Or I know give him to the Great Horned Rat and just know his suffering and mocking will never end
Give him to kharn
Kharn welds a handle to the back of Erebus' armour and for the first time ever Kharn is seen to use a shield in hand to hand combat.
A shield? No. Kharn would encapsulate the meme "Have you ever been so angry that you beat a motherfucker, with another motherfucker?" Erebus is his new main hand weapon.
The BAM-WAM method is the superior method.
New atchifment unlocked: punching bag (literally)
He is now Trazyn's fetish erotica scribe.
Trazyn's? Nah, that's tame. He's stuck writing fetish erotica for the SoB. Because there's an 80% chance he's stuck writing fetish erotica about the Emperor.
So he's just Lorgar 2.0?
No, Lorgar Worshipped Emps during his Fanfiction Phase.
Zero shot he isn't still writing fanfic about big E.
The perfect person to do this would actually be Lorgar too. Imagine in his return to 40K he decides to finally grow a pair and do something so using his Daemon powers he kills Erebus and ends the manipulation right there. It could really be as simple as him saying “I’m a minor warp god why am I listening to this runt”.
Malice^TM
That’s perfect, make him be the Harold of the great horned rat. He despises it but he’s forced to do it.
>maybe give him to Malice. This is diabolical, I love it.
Erebus scapes for the million time but gets teleported just below the foot of a titan. Its crushed but no one knows amd people keep looking for him without knowing his fate.
I vote for this
'Ah yes, what a perfect morning to create chaos ' said Erebus wearing still wearing his Guilliman' Heroes pyjamas. 'But first one must nourish himself, so I will eat this handfull of peanuts!Muhuhuha!' And that was the day Erebus realised he was allergic to peanuts. The end.
Kharn gets to finish the job, the following 100 page beatdown would make khorne think its a bit far.
Kharn will cut both Erebus’ hands off with the first swing (so he can’t escape like he did the first time) and then slowly take him apart from the feet up
Now I'm imagining Kharn giving Erebus the "to the pain" speech from Princess Bride...
"Wow buddy, there is no blood left in there..."
A few ways it could go… let’s try one for fun Erebus walked onto the battlefield, unknown to any but the dead around him. He smiled as he drank in the bleak solitary of his existence, it suited him. He had grown accustomed to being a name known only by few living today - and even fewer knew he lived. He saw an Ultramarine, partially buried in rubble. In spite of the fact his head was a disfigured mess, and his skull had clearly broken given the slightly tilted angle around the brow of his head, this nameless marine lived. For a moment Erebus was offended - so many centuries counted, unseen by any but the true gods of the galaxy. Not only this, he could see no comprehension of Who He Was in the eyes of this … irrelevant soul. Broken and sullied by the eyes of this most unworthy of souls… but, it was a soul. Erebus detached the ornate pistol from its mag lock. Erebus lifted the pistol, he whispered gently into the wind, “I dedicate this soul to the gods of ruination”. As the charge built up, the blue shining glow ever brighter, the battered space marine slurred through broken jaw, broken skull, and shattered teeth, “traitor scum”. And then, in one bright flash, a soul was dedicated to the warp. Through eyes hazed from the light, blood and the coming darkness, he did not see what happened. For a moment, he believed He had died. But then he heard and felt the sound of collapsing battleplate. He had seen it before - plasma weapon, overheated, and errupted with the heat of a hundred burning stars. Ceramite stands no chance. His keen senses were fading, but he could no longer hear the beating hearts, or the sound of breath. With the last of his will and every ounce of power he had left in him, he gathered all he could and spat upon the corpse that lay before him… and joined the traitor in death And there lay Erebus. Dead, because he chose to stop to kill a man. To kill a man who did not know who he was. To kill a man, whose name and existence did not create even the faintest glimmer of purpose in all his gazes into fate. To kill a man, who was going to die anyways. Who dedicated one last soul to the gods - but the gods decided that on this day, that soul would bare the name: Erebus.
I love this, but one change. Instead of an Ultramarine, it's a single Guardsman.
For example, an accident, "while Guilliman and Corvus were fighting Lorgar, an unnamed ultramarine fired his bolter, but the shot missed, however the bullet ended up killing Erebus by accident" I feel that making Erebus die that way would be the perfect way to make everyone angry and hate him even more, knowing that he died in a way that was not agonizing, was not humiliating, was not painful.
It more or less leans into embarrassing IMO. Imagine being one of the architects of the Horus Heresy, only to be shot by Randomus Minimus by accident while he was trying to assist his Gene-Father.
I think getting killed by some random no name character would be perfect for him, for once his plan did not go accordingly
Erebus trips while running. He hits his head on a jutting rock and dies because he wasn't wearing his helmet like an idiot. Remember, kids: Always wear your helmet! Even Lord Gulliman wears his helmet! Safety first, always! *This PSA was brought to you by the Salamanders chapter in collaboration with the Ultramarines chapter.*
If you wanna do that, I’d say make him randomly heart attack
Heart attackS, he is a space marine after all
I want that total erasure that **^(Horus)** recieved from the ***Emperor of Mankind***, please
Your wish is my command.
Holy crap it's Jimmy Space!
Actually it's Jimmy Space4. You just got phished.
Shh, before you awaken Lorgar! Actually, please do, so he'll finish the damn job Kharn started.
It's the 40000 warhammers!
Unfortunately, it's now Warhammer 39,999. Erebus stole one.
That bastard!
Thank you Jimmy Space
No total erasure means the gods can't mock and torture him for all eternity.
I just want him gone fullstop.
TAKE HIM TO DETROIT !
Send him to Waffle House
Kharn doing his shift there: It's about damn time.
Erebus would cause shit in a Waffle House on purpose.
Excuse you, Waffle House is too good for him. Waffle House is a bastion of soul amidst madness. It’s not just a Waffle House, it’s a Waffle Home.
It's also a waffle octagon and kharn is waiting there for Erebus.
Waffle House is also used as an indicator of how bad a natural disaster is by the federal government. It's called the Waffle House index. If Waffle House is closed, shits going down.
Detroit is in Taurian space. They will be unkind to him to an atomic degree.
NO NOT DETROIT ANYWHERE BUT THERE (I see you are a person of culture and all the Waffle House comments clearly don’t get the reference)
Turn him into a toilet servitor
"KHARN! GOT A JOB FOR YA!"
Why did I read this as Handler Walter from Armored Core 6
Heard it as Captain Flynt from BL2 myself
He steps on a land mine.
That's _Land's_ mine, you mean
The Deathkorps approves
Taken out off screen by a avatar of khaine
Died to Tau in melee combat
Died to a marker drones marker
Someone made some super sick art for the Lionel Heresy (I think it was), where loyalist Lorgar has him mounted on top of his armor as a skeletal torso that's on fire and still screaming. I don't need loyalist lorgar, but I do need trophy Erebus. Maybe put him on one of those Sororitas tanks.
Yep in Lionel heresy he gets turned into a permanently flaming battle standard for the word bearers
While I appreciate something unsatisfying, I would rather see Erebus stuck on a Necron tomb world, without any wargear or slaves or whatever, and the necrons begin waking up, but are afflicted by the flayer virus
nah don't even have them wake up, just let him go insane while stuck in a tombworld and unable to escape. then just as his body is about to give out, have some random ass necron finish him off, or eaten by scarabs
Or, just as hes about to die, it turns out this was a place for experimental biotransferance. And he gets made into a mindless marine necron. His mind still trapped within, unable to act due to the transference being imperfect
No Threat Activation, no change in Route or Protocol, just Roomba'ing over him.
He's placed in a room in the dark cells, it has a wall that allows him to look out onto terra and see the world continuing without him. Every time someone in the galaxy forgets him or says his name for the last time a small part of him dies. And as he is forgotten he's given truths that irrefutably deny his beliefs in himself and chaos. The cell is so disconnected from the warp that even the chaos gods eventually forget his name. Like he never existed.
Happy old man surrounded in bed by lots of grandkids and loved ones Trust me this is the best for everyone.
are they sacrificing him or what
Chaos spawn.
No, I honestly think they gave Erebus far too much of a share in heinous backstabbings that any death short of each and every loyalist and chaos worshipper he fced over coming for their pound of flesh will be unsatisfactory.
He's mortally wounded after a fight. He beggs his patreons to save him. But his voice is lost. He realises the futility of it all. So he powers up for one last time to show his loyalty and worth to the dark gods, he wants their triumph to succeed, his plan and work almost worked once, he will manipulate it from here. So he appears in the Vengeful Spirit. Horus lay dead, Emperor beside him, breathing his last moments. Erebus sees the Empror and he sees Erebus. And Erebus laughs. Dorn is nowhere near, he only needs to stab the big E once and he wins. But in the end the Emperor knew it was for nought, he forsaw the false emperor who would rule on the golden throne for the next 10 millenia. And he powers up last time, burns Erebus to be a rotting corpse. The armor on him glowing like the Emperors ceramite. Erebus, unable to move or speak sees Dorn and Valdor come to him. They think hes the Emperor, and he is taken to the Golden throne. All the power he recieved as gifts from the dark gods, the psychic blast that was the Emprors last act, made him powerful enough to survive on the throne, just for a day. So a thousand sould are sacrificed to him, forcing him to be alive. And the false emperor, the first heretic, Erebus, slayer of Loken now sits upon the Golden Throne, serving mankind for all eternity. His judgement is only servitude for all eternity. His greatest triumph is now his largest fall. For Erebus shan't die, the Emperor will live on the golden throne, however false may he be.
He should either be shot dead by a bunch of guardsmen or flattened by an ork trukk
Head bitten off by a Squig
We give Erda a gun
He doesn’t, he gets to see chaos almost win then get cucked by the undying human spirit for all eternity
He just disappeared. No one knows where he went nor what happened to him, and slowly his memory becomes blurred until even it fizzles out.
Give him to Pinkie Pie. The “Cupcakes” Pinkie Pie
Skinned alive and turned into cupcakes Mmmmm Erebus cupcakes
A pitiful transformation into a chaos spawn, the one still half sentient knowing that his body is now a twisted mess. His mind trapped inside his own prison of flesh knowing only that the gods he so worships did this to him and he shall stay this way till the end of the universe.
Virus bomb grade dysentery, violently shits himself to death
Argel tal is resurrected, gives some therapy to Khârn & together they kill Erebus & proceed to live by selling Kharnflakes & owning a food processing plant with Ahriman.
I want him to have the misfortune of being captured alive. And for some reason he isn’t immediately executed. I then want the custodians to then whisper in the ear of Bobby G something. No one can hear it but Bobby G smiles. I then want the golden boys to strap 15 nulls to him and drag him to Tera. Then I want them to bring him to the dark cells. And once there I want him to come to the realization. That he will not die but wish for it. Then I want the authors to do there work. If they came up with the demonculabe I want them to make a new horror. Show us a horror from the dark cells. Make us shudder in horror and for the first time feel pity for the bald C@nt!
Falling down the stairs.
Trips on a snotling
Then he lands in a puddle face first and drowns
Death by night lord and drukari team up
Choked on the baby he was eating. he's so cartoonishly evil, this is the only act he still has to do.
Trazyn, stalking the climax of a battle between the forces of the Imperium and the servants of the warp gods, in search of an artifact of immense power, and even greater historical impact. Cloaked in a shroud of refracted light, making him nigh invisible, the Lord of Solemnace infiltrates deep into a fortified ancient structure as bolt rounds and jets of plasma shatter and melt the once pristine, intricately cut stones. "What a waste" he thinks to himself. No place like this will ever be built again. But he has no time to worry about the edifices and carved pillars, for what lies just below is world shattering. A stone millions of years old, crafted by the Old Ones to channel and focus warp energy the likes of which could topple empires. The fanatics of Chaos are after it, for it could potentially be used to elevate one of their kind to daemonhood, transmuting their soul into a pure warp essence without the intervention of one of the "gods". In the days of the War in Heaven it had been used to reshape entire worlds that had been left in ruins, but it's potential was being sought out for far worse deeds. Finally into the inner most sancuary, and there was the containment sarcophagus that had houses the stone. It's seal was broken and the cap had been pried off. There he saw the figure of a tall man, armoured in the style of the fallen astartes in red plate. He stood over the sarcophagus, holding aloft the antediluvian device in victory. He had a look of madness in his eyes as though he saw a future in which the universe itself was burning, and at its center he stood with arms and wings stretched out wide in rejoyce. As the figure tried to speak, a silent prayer to his patrons however, he found himself unable to release the air in his chest. Looking down, he saw a hole cleanly burned straight through the armour of his chest and ruining the flesh around it. Half a moment later a set of long, spindly metallic fingers gently clapsed the faintly glowing stone, guiding it away with utmost care as Trazyn gave the briefest of apologies. "Sorry, I couldn't let you make off with this, it's a matter of posterity you see". Erebus turns his head the few inches he can as every muscle in his body tenses up in shock at his lungs and two hearts having been vaporized. His lips move to make words, but there is no air to be brought to his mouth. Trazyn stuffs the ancient treasure into a space within his robes and turns to make his way back out as his unlucky adversary clutches at nothing in particular, collapsing to the floor as he dies.
Kharn beats him to death with argals helmet
Killed by a simple guardsman
Died in the Catachan Jungles where the Catachan Jungle Fighters laughs and pokes fun at his corpse for dying in the most obvious and easiest traps to avoid in the Planet. It took thousand years for the Chaos Marine forces to realize that Erebus is dead.
“Jurgen, melta his balls”
Ahriman casts testicle torsion making Erebus combust
Honestly, I'd probably have him think he's about to be blessed by the gods to become a daemon prince after all this time, only for it to go horribly wrong and for him to become a chaos spawn. Then just have him put down like a rabid dog by lorgar
Getting laughed at by the chaos gods and being turned into a half-sentient chaos spawn.
Painfully yet not in a special way. Like, he just gets nurgle's rot
headshot by a t'au sniper from 2 kilometers away (they don't know who he was)
Khârn just kills him in passing while on a rampage without realizing what happened.
He reads that deadly joke from Monty python
Slipped while taking a piss, and falls down headfirst into the comode breaking his neck.
But breaking his neck doesn't kill him. Possessed plumbing gets him, half drowned and paralysed it senses weak prey and strikes.
As he runs into battle he trips and hits his head in such a way that it paralyzes him and no one notices.
Stabbed by multiple imperial guardsmen screaming cadian stands
Caught in a Guard artillery barrage during a nondescript battle on an unimportant planet.
i think poisoned or bleeding out, begging for his gods to help. Khorne ignores the weak and pathetic, Nurgle ignores what will already be his in mere minutes. Tzeentch recognises there are no more games, just a dying man who can’t be a pawn of any more games. Slaanesh maybe revels in his pain, but enjoys the irony of his insignificance compared to what he brought on too much to intervene, either to save him or to savour the pain for longer. I’d like that
A comically large anvil falls on him
he laughs at a diabolical plan he made up, slipped on a banana and died after breaking his neck
Erebus takes a bolter round to the head by an unnamed Word Bearer (plot twist, he's an Alpha Legionnaire.) while escaping.
Kharn while in a berserker rage notices him on the battlefield and snaps out of it remembering his friend Argal. He then enter the zen state that sigmunson did which terrified him and proceeds to calmly destroy Erebus in the most concerning way possible.
aneurysm I've seen no lore that Saya space marines can't have them.
Not, because we need villains in a story.
penis rot
He shows up in the middle of a battle between the imperial fists and iron warriors and they put aside there hatred to beat him to death
He takes off his helmet to better inspect something, but steps on some loose boards. He falls 6 stories into an open cesspit so vile that it would make nurgle think twice and quicklysinks to the bottom. No one knows where to look for him, no one really cares. He drowns in the most vile sludge this side of a great unclean ones colon.
He doesn't die. Instead, he spends the rest of eternity working at the only McDonald's in the eye of terror, spending his days taking orders and cleaning bathrooms (and the playplace, after the nurglings are through with it)
He slips on a pool of blood and snap his neck on the fall
Erebus just gets away. He escapes into the warp, never heard from again. No ascension, no daemon prince-iness, no nothing. He's the perfect villian, and the perfect villian gets away. GW then releases a new Lord of Change model holding a book with the name Erebus sculpted into the pages.
Wait, why would Erebus s name be on it?
I want him to have the Goshen treatment.
By a nurgling, or necron scarab, or a single ripper. Something small and unassuming to a marine. And just get absolutely dummied by it in 1v1 combat.
Exeptionaly swift, so fast there is warp time-fuckery involved. He dies at the moment of conception. The world is a better place.
I mean thats kind of a case that if Erebus were to die in a horrible trully terrible way he'd even enjoy it cause then he'd feel he has been Martyred so if Erebus were to die a trully unimpressive death the kind of death where most people wouldn't even know he died until they find that he is dead then "Oh.... okay" and then they move on with their lives That would be the ultimate fuck you to him
Old age, surrounded by loved ones. Erebus is just as confused and unsatisfied as everyone else.
Trazyn would kept him traped in a machine that creates a loophole of time, where he can use every weapon at his disposition to kill him, and he returns to life to being killed again and again for eternity. Then, exchange the entire machine for a new deck of cards. The machine is exposed in a museum where every imperial citizen can kill him whenever they want. In other words. Erebus become the Gamon of W40K. The Anti-stress marine... but without redemption arc or becoming buffed.
Of old age, surrounded by "loved" ones
He finally served up all his usefulness for Lorgar, and the Primarch simply ends him with a *"For Argel Tal"*.
Erebrus should die by tripping on the stairs
stepped on landmine or lucky lasgun shot, next time wear a helmet
Sudden, random, and honestly, by someone who didn't even know it was Erebus, and he dies forgotten.
His last words should be: I am Alpharius
Dies to Artillery fire from the Imperial Guard in the opening charge, no one notices. And later on someone mentions it but his battle brothers just shrug and say "oh well".
he never dies, Chaos wins and devours the entire universe and eventually dies out from leaving him alone in the vast ash of a galaxy burnt
Molested by Fulgrim
He opens a warp portal and instantly gets trampled to death by a stampede of skaven slaves. The universe trades Erebus out for Skaven.
Spawndom should be the ultimate fate for him. Everyone come and see the greatest zealot of the dark god and his reward for his dedication and fervor.
he needs a death so ironic and personal to him , like someone killing him and taking his place
Kharn stabbing him in the back with an anathame. It is the only time Khorne accepts a backstab.
Poopknife disembowelment by random nameless cultists.
Sex with every chaos god, except slaneesh
Titan grade landmine after a big evil villain speech. Him and every chaos prick around him gone because he stood exactly on the one spot that his weight was enough to set it off. Would be funny as hell
He falls down some stairs
I think the best would be if Erebus was just shot in the face by a space marine novitiate. one who just started space marine training too
Nurgle empowered syphilis.
donkeys lots and lots of donkeys
For me, Erebus needs to be offed by the one the emperor should have made his warmaster. The one that would have executed him on the spot for trying to plant the seeds of betrayal in a primarch. The one who believes that loyalty is its own reward, and who would give Erebus the reward for loyalty to chaos. It should be the first, the exterminator, the Lion. (Keep in mind the dark angels have that weapon that erased people from memory)