The Barbarian and the Knight

The Battle of Dulan and the infamous feud between the Dark Angels and the Space Wolves is a tale told many times and with no need for a detailed repetition in this record. In essence it is a simple tale, yet one that has seen a number of tellings each of which has had its own agenda, and rarely has that agenda been the simple truth. The details of the battle are well known, Leman Russ and the Lion were both assigned to the conquest of Dulan and, while the Space Wolves waited and lay siege, the Dark Angels staged a sudden assault that allowed them to claim the honour of the final victory; On hearing of this it is most often claimed that Leman Russ flew into a rage and assaulted his brother, leading to the legendary duel between them that their Legions are rumoured to reenact whenever they meet. This has led to the popular assumption of?a bitter grudge between the Space Wolves and the Dark Angels, a sense of lasting ill will brought about by this single isolated incident that has been accepted by history as fact. Yet, those two Legions have fought together on a number of?occasions, both before and after the Battle of Dulan, without rancour and in many cases with a noted sense of?shared camaraderie. Indeed, it has often been noted that the two Primarchs, Lion El'jonson and Leman Russ, were of much the same character, though they often expressed it differently. Both were practical to their core, with little time for frivolity or the excesses of civilisation. Both valued plain speaking over political necessity and judged men by the actions they took rather than the words they spoke. But above all, the two Primarchs placed the utmost value on loyalty, holding their oaths as iron bonds and reserving the deepest hate for those who would forsake a vow.?

杜蘭之戰(zhàn)和黑暗天使與太空野狼之間著名的世仇是個被講述了很多次的故事，在這份記錄中我們也就無需詳細贅述了。本質(zhì)上而言這是個簡單的故事，不過這個故事現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)有了很多講法，每種都有自己的故事流程，而這些故事流程幾乎都不是簡單的真相。這場戰(zhàn)斗的細節(jié)廣為人知：黎曼 魯斯和萊昂都被指派去征服杜蘭世界，在太空野狼等待（時機）并進行圍攻的同時，黑暗天使發(fā)動了一次突襲，以此奪取了最終勝利的榮耀；大多數(shù)版本的故事中通常都聲稱：魯斯聽到這一消息后大發(fā)雷霆并攻擊了他的兄弟，這導(dǎo)致了他們之間那場傳奇般的決斗——據(jù)說無論何時相遇，他們的軍團都會重演這場對決。這導(dǎo)致人們普遍推測太空野狼和黑暗天使之間存在宿怨，而歷史也已經(jīng)這種由孤立事件造成的持久惡意接受為了事實。但無論是在杜蘭戰(zhàn)役之前還是之后，兩個軍團都曾在許多場合中并肩作戰(zhàn)過，他們之間并無嫌隙，而且在很多情況中都分享著明顯的兄弟情義。事實上，黎曼 魯斯和萊昂 艾爾莊森這兩位原體經(jīng)常被指出有許多相同的性格，盡管他們的表達方式不同。兩人本質(zhì)上都是實用主義者，幾乎沒有時間做出輕浮愚行或過于文明的行為。他們都重視直白坦誠的實言勝過政治必要的說辭；在判斷一個人時，他們也是無聞其言，但觀其行。但最重要的是，這兩位原體都最看重忠誠，他們堅守自己的誓言，而且對背信棄誓之人懷有最深刻的仇恨。

This being true, it throws the events on Dulan, and the grudge they are to have given birth to, into a strange light. That the two fought is not in doubt, for too many sources agree on it; that either came to hold a grudge is implausible. If anything, the record of the two Primarchs suggests a deep bond of?trust and mutual respect. Together they had seen the end of?the Rangdan empire, had conquered a thousand worlds and vanquished some of?the most terrible foes to stand against the Imperium. Dulan would seem to have represented one of many tests; a test that allowed the two to take a measure of each other and a test often?repeated when they or their warriors met - but one repeated without the rancour often attributed to it. There exists no greater symbol of the loyalty held between the two Legions, the Wolves of Fenrris and the Knights of Caliban, than in the final days of the rebellion against the Emperor, when the great Horus himself trembled as the two Legions re-united as brothers-in-arms, ready to test themselves against the forces that lay siege to Terra.

話雖如此，但這卻讓發(fā)生在杜蘭世界上的事件與他們之間將要產(chǎn)生的怨恨成為了一種奇特的景象。兩位原體之間發(fā)生了爭斗，這是毫無疑問的，因為有非常多的資料證明了這一點；但說兩者產(chǎn)生了嫌隙似乎也是不可信的。如果有的話，兩位原體的記錄資料所表明的也是一種深厚的信任和相互尊重。他們共同見證了冉丹異形帝國的覆滅，一起征服了一千個世界并攜手根除了帝國遭遇過的某些最為恐怖的敵人。杜蘭事件似乎是代表了眾多測試中的某一個：一個允許兩人相互切磋衡量的測試，而且兩個軍團的戰(zhàn)士們相遇時經(jīng)常會重復(fù)進行這次測試——但他們這樣做并非是因為存在嫌隙。芬里斯野狼和卡利班騎士共同度過了大叛亂的最后歲月，這是兩個軍團之間最重要的忠誠象征，當(dāng)兩個軍團作為戰(zhàn)友再次團結(jié)起來，準(zhǔn)備好與圍攻泰拉的叛軍部隊決一死戰(zhàn)時，連偉大的荷魯斯本人都打了寒顫。