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“He was surely a great man then, to have earned your respect.” TalOS told his brother, making sure that a good amount of heart traveled in his words.
“Patriarch Eadred Dorn was a powerful man that I learned much from. He was greater to me than my adoptive Father who died fighting a war he started.” Dorn gave it, as always, both straight and with as much context as one could ask of him.
“Such are the troubles of war. My family is not one built on war or rulership but knowledge. I believe my station to be influenced by both my genetics and divine connections to the Imperator Titan, Particep Semper.” TalOS decided he was going to join his brother in giving as much details as he could, “All of this to say, my parents are both currently alive and will be unless Lucius was to fall.”
Dorn took up a slight furrowness of the brows as he questioned, “I have read information on Mars about Titans. I understand why you would want to become a Princeps, but I do not understand why you let the Machine influence you.”
“Because that is the natural order of things and I know that Particep Semper was something I was meant to have. Such is the divine will of the Machine God to have introduced me and the Titan together at such an early age.” TalOS answered his brother’s question with what he thought to be enough detail, “Was there anything that your Grandfather taught you that you are still doing today?”
It looked for a moment that Dorn was wanting to say something about their previous conversation but went with TalOS’s instead, “Scrimshawing. My Grandfather used it as practice to steady his hands and to settle his mind when outside forces seeked to undermine it.”
TalOS did not need even a second to search the Mechanicum’s database to learn exactly what his brother was talking about. Records were that on Inwit, the carving of bone was one of the few forms of art that the planet produced. Even then few practiced it though instead taking part in societal dealings as no person could make a living from art. Those who did it were those who either had a religious leaning or did so because it was a hobby.
“Do you have some projects you could show me?” TalOS asked with a hint of desire.
He watched his brother weigh the options behind his eyes. TalOS wondered what could prevent him from giving instant access to those items, likely the fact they were private to the man and his family. Pressure would not work here, TalOS knew, he needed Dorn to open himself to his brother.
“Yes, follow.” Answered the Primarch before rising and moving out of the room with TalOS in toe.
