HH8节译：以太之力，贪餍无足

Aetheric Ambitions

Among the Primarchs of the Traitor Legions, attitudes to their allies within the Ruinstorm appear to have been conflicting and wide-ranging. Perturabo looked upon the beings of the Warp with indifference, while Mortarion and Angron spurned them with spiteful disdain. Fulgrim, it is thought, came to embrace the powers of the Warp, finding in them something beatific, rapturous and all-consuming. It is Lorgar Aurelians relationship with the Warp and the force which he describes as the Primordial Truth however, which is most pertinent to any account of the role of the Daemon within Horus' rebellion.

对于他们身处毁灭风暴之中的盟友，叛徒军团的原体们似乎抱有矛盾且广泛的态度。佩图拉博对这些亚空间生物漠不关心，而莫塔里安和安格隆则恶意地鄙视着它们。福格瑞姆则被认为开始拥抱亚空间之力，他在其中找到了一些幸福美妙、令人欣喜若狂且着迷的事物。不过，从所有描述恶魔在荷鲁斯叛乱中所担任角色的报告来看，珞珈 奥雷利安与亚空间，以及被他描述为原初真理的势力之间的关系最为密切。

Inferred from letters exchanged with his mentor Kor Phaeron and his seminal written work, the Book of Lorgar, some decades prior to the events on Isstvan, Lorgar Aurelian undertook a pilgrimage which led him to the distant and dark corners of the galaxy. His Father the Emperor, whom Lorgar venerated, had denied His own godhood, and in doing so humbled Lorgar and his Legion. From that day on Monarchia, it became the Primarch of the XVIIth Legion's singular, bitter ambition to redeem his belief that the deities he learned of during his upbringing on Colchis truly existed, and in doing so to demonstrate the Emperor as being a hypocrite. To prove the Emperor's Imperial Truth as a falsehood, Lorgar sought to discover beings which exhibited true divinity. Lorgar was indeed proven right in this journey, and though he may not have been the first of the Primarchs to learn of the Great Lie of his own volition during this decades-long quest, his discovery can be considered the most formative.

根据他与导师科尔法伦往来的信件，以及他开创性的著作《珞珈之书》，我们推断出：大约在在伊斯特万事件数十年前，珞珈 奥雷利安进行了一次朝圣，这次旅行将他带到银河系遥远而黑暗的角落。珞珈的父亲——受他崇敬的帝皇否认了自己的神性，而且以这种做法贬低了珞珈和他的军团。从完美之城事件开始，第十七军团的原体便有了一项独特且苦涩的宏愿：他要救赎自己的信仰。在珞珈于科尔奇斯上的成长过程中，他了解到了神明们，（现在）他要证明这些神祇是真实存在的，以此来证实帝皇是个伪君子。为了证明帝皇的帝国真理的虚伪性，珞珈试图探索到能展现出真正神性的存在。珞珈也确实在这趟朝圣之旅中证明了自己的正确性，尽管在长达几十年的探索中，他可能并不是第一批自愿得知这个弥天大谎的原体，但他的发现被认为是最具启发性的。

Given what we now know of Lorgar's corruption and insanity, it can be assumed that the day he discovered the Truth he try to fervently sought, as the result of some psychically induced trauma, his mind racked. After this fateful encounter, revisions to the Book of Lorgar --often identified by the change from the use of ink to blood in examples recovered from XVIIth Legion casualties - are openly written in insane ritualistic verse. The tone of Kor Phaeron's letters also was much changed after this time, referring openly to the spiritual in the language of worship. From them we learn that Lorgar, far from resting on the laurels of vindication of his discovery of gods within the Warp, turned from the Emperor and became a vile prophet of the new, dark powers he found. His ambitions grew with his Legion from the humble to the grandiose and, in the final years of the Great Crusade, from the merely instructive to the paradigm altering. Lorgar, by the time of the Horus Heresy, desired nothing less than to achieve harmony between Mankind and the Primordial Annihilator, creating a symbiotic ascendance for both resulting in a galactic consonance. He saw to this calling with serious-minded thoughtfulness, seeking to build a grand vision of dimensional unity with considered and prudent steps, first by spreading the religion of Colchis, that of the True Gods, and then through selective compacts with those powers within the Warp most amiable to his purpose.

鉴于我们现在所知晓的珞珈的腐化和疯狂举动，我们可以推断出：当他发现了自己所热切追求的真理时，由于某种精神上的创伤，他的思想受到了折磨。在这次宿命般的相遇之后，经过修订的《珞珈之书》被公开地写作成了疯狂的仪式韵诗——在帝国从第十七军团伤亡者手中回收到的书里，书写媒介已经从墨水转变为了血液，我们通常以此来辨别此书的版本。从那以后，科尔法伦书信的语气也发生了很大的变化，公开使用祈祷性的语言谈论宗教内容。从这些信件中我们了解到，珞珈远不是仅仅满足于证明他在亚空间中发现众神的荣誉，他背弃了皇帝，成为了他所发现的全新黑暗力量的邪恶先知。珞珈的野心也随着怀言者军团（的规模）一并增长扩张，两者都从卑微变得宏伟堂皇，等到了大远征的末期，怀言者军团从仅有教育意义的反例变为了成功转型的典范。在荷鲁斯叛乱时期，珞珈最渴望的事情就是实现人类与原初毁灭者之间的和谐，他要创造出两者共生的优势状态，从而形成银河系规模的和谐环境。珞珈认真且深思熟虑地来看待这项使命，他许下宏愿，寻求以深思熟虑且谨慎的步骤来构建起维度统一的文明。这一过程的第一步就是传播信仰真神的科尔奇斯宗教，之后则是要选择性地与亚空间中最适合他目的的力量达成协议。

Horus learned of these deeper mysteries of the Warp from his conferences with his brother Lorgar. To Horus, the blandishments of worship and the spreading of the Primordial Truth were at best irrelevances and at worst a repetition of the failings of the Great Crusade and the spreading of the Imperial Truth. Horus had no desire to retread this bellicose past, but looked instead to a glorious future in which he would crown himself master of the galaxy. To Horus, the Warp and the benighted sentiences within were little more than additional pawns he could add to his regicide board; an additional resource with which to confound and disrupt the Emperor's plans. Horus saw only the cold and logical calculations involved in drawing forth aid from beyond: men were exchanged for Daemons; worlds and words were exchanged for power and all balances ultimately fell in his favour. He was blind to the true risks and sacrifices undertaken in the name of attaining conquest, and the toll such would take on his soul. Any means to victory were justifiable in his eyes, for he believed that when he obtained galactic domination, he would command the right to renegotiate the terms of any obligation. Obtaining immediate power to ensure victory was Warmaster Horus' only concern.

荷鲁斯在与他的兄弟珞珈的会谈中了解到了这些关于亚空间的深奥迷秘。对荷鲁斯而言，这些关于信仰崇拜和传播原初真理的花言巧语所产生的最好影响（也只）是无关紧要的，最坏影响（也不过）是重复了大远征和传播帝国真理的失败。荷鲁斯无意重提这好战的过去，而是把目光投向了辉煌的未来——彼时，他将加冕为银河系的共主。对他来说，亚空间和其中那些愚昧无知的言论不过是他可以添加到弑君棋盘上的棋子而已，是用来扰乱和破坏皇帝计划的额外资源。荷鲁斯只看到了冰冷而合乎逻辑的计算，内容是关于他从外部界域中获得的援助:用人祭来换取恶魔（的协助）；用（祭品）世界和诺言来换取力量，让所有的天平都向自己倾斜。他看不到为了进行征服而承担的真正的风险和牺牲，以及这些做法将让他的灵魂所承受的代价。在荷鲁斯看来，用任何手段夺取胜利都是正当的，因为他相信：当自己统治了银河系时，他就有权重新协商任何关于责任义务的条款。战帅荷鲁斯唯一关心的就是立即获得力量以确保胜利。

In the bargain, Horus relinquished his very humanity and more. Lorgar is known from letters to Kor Phaeron to have admonished Horus for drawing too quickly and too greedily from the well of power he had introduced his brother to within the Warp, for it risked the ruin of the Aurelian's own designs. Horus' hubris was accelerating to the brink of peril Lorgar's grand vision, what the Book of Lorgar describes as 'the melodic cadence of a song of worship writ large across the stars'. For Horus' part, he ignored the mewling pleas from his brother to slow down, eventually casting off his counsel entire, seeing in him not wisdom but only the weaknesses of zealotry and demagoguery. Uncaring of the Warp's prevailing role in Mankind's future, The Warmaster's divergence of philosophy would foster rivalry between the two, straining one of the few lasting bonds of respect and friendship Horus held with his brother Primarchs.

作为交换，荷鲁斯放弃了他的人性和其他更多的事物。从他写给科尔法伦的信中我们得知：珞珈告诫荷鲁斯不到过于急迫和过于贪婪地从亚空间中的力量之井内抽取力量——这份力量之源正是由他介绍给自己兄弟的，因为这有毁灭掉珞珈自己计划的风险。荷鲁斯的傲慢正在让珞珈的宏愿加速走向危险的边缘——《珞珈之书》将尤里曾的愿望描述为“敬拜之歌的旋律抑扬顿挫，响彻夜空”。珞珈诚恳地啜泣着请求荷鲁斯减缓对于亚空间力量的抽取，但荷鲁斯对此置若罔闻，他最后完全抛弃了兄弟的忠告，因为他在珞珈身上看到的不是智慧，而是关于狂热和蛊惑人心的脆弱。战帅无视了亚空间在人类未来中的主导作用，他和珞珈在哲学理念上的分歧加剧了两者之间的竞争，这破坏了荷鲁斯与他的原体兄弟之间仅有的几条持续性尊重和友谊纽带中的一条。