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|align="center"|[[Garro: Oath of Moment (Audio Book)]],<br> Track 5: ''Flashback''
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|rowspan=5 7 align="center"|[[Ferrus Manus]],<br> [[Primarch]] of the [[Iron Hands]]
|align="center"|'''''They are not my hands.<br><br>This fact is forgotten by my brothers - inexplicably, it has always seemed to me. The hands are strong, to be sure, and have created great things for us all, but they are not mine. And that counts for something.They forget that the [[Living metal|silver]] on my arms comes from a [[Asirnoth|beast]] that I vanquished. It is the mark of a great evil that I ended, and yet it persists within me... I would struggle to remove it now... I will not remove the silver from my flesh because I have learned to depend on it. The fault is with my mind. I rely on the augmentation given to me by my metal gauntlets, so much so that the flesh beneath them is now little more than a distant memory... <br><br>A day will come when I will strip it from me, lest I lose the power to master myself forever. Already my Legion's warriors replace their shield hands with metal in my honour, and so they too are learning to doubt the natural strength of their bodies. They must be weaned off this practice before it becomes a mania for them. Hatred of what is natural, of what is human, is the first and greatest of the corruptions. So I record it here: when the time comes, I will strip my hands of their unnatural silver. I will instruct my Legion to recant their distrust of the flesh. I will turn then away from the gifts of the machine and bid them relearn the mysteries of flesh, bone and blood. When my father's Crusade is over, this shall be my sacred task. When the fighting is done, I shall cure my Legion and myself. For if fighting is all there is, if we may never pause to reflect on what such devotion to strength is doing to us, then our compulsion will only grow. Already I see the madness that path leads to, and so I shall excise the silver from my hands. In doing so I shall weaken myself and my sons, but nonetheless it must be done. The hands are strong, and have created great things, but they are not mine.'''''<br>- ''[[The Neimerel Scrolls]]'', attributed
|align=center|[[Wrath of Iron (Novel)]],<br> Preface, pgs. 7-8
|align=center|'''''A warrior’s heart should be as iron: Unforgiving, unyielding, and uncaring of all except duty. With such a heart, a warrior can stand against the terrors of the universe unbowed and unbroken.'''''<br>- Attributed to Ferrus Manus
|align="center"|[[Deathwatch Core Rulebook]],<br> pg. 328
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|align=center|'''''The molten heart of Medusa burns in my breast and sometimes it rises in my gullet before I can think.'''''
|align="center"|[[Fulgrim (Novel)]],<br> Chapter 6
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|align=center|'''''We cannot do this alone. We have struggled for months to accomplish this task on our own when it should have been clear that we could not. In all things we strive to eradicate weakness, but it is not weakness to ask for help, my brothers. It is weakness to deny that help is needed. To fight on without hope when there are those who would gladly lend a hand is foolish, and I have been as blind as any to this, but no more.'''''
|align="center"|[[Fulgrim (Novel)]],<br> Chapter 6
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|align=center|[[Surgeon-Commander]] [[Grigor Markhava]]
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