hh9节译：蛮夫与骑士

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. 

杜兰之战和黑暗天使与太空野狼之间著名的世仇是个被讲述了很多次的故事，在这份记录中我们也就无需详细赘述了。本质上而言这是个简单的故事，不过这个故事现在已经有了很多讲法，每种都有自己的故事流程，而这些故事流程几乎都不是简单的真相。这场战斗的细节广为人知：黎曼 鲁斯和莱昂都被指派去征服杜兰世界，在太空野狼等待（时机）并进行围攻的同时，黑暗天使发动了一次突袭，以此夺取了最终胜利的荣耀；大多数版本的故事中通常都声称：鲁斯听到这一消息后大发雷霆并攻击了他的兄弟，这导致了他们之间那场传奇般的决斗——据说无论何时相遇，他们的军团都会重演这场对决。这导致人们普遍推测太空野狼和黑暗天使之间存在宿怨，而历史也已经这种由孤立事件造成的持久恶意接受为了事实。但无论是在杜兰战役之前还是之后，两个军团都曾在许多场合中并肩作战过，他们之间并无嫌隙，而且在很多情况中都分享着明显的兄弟情义。事实上，黎曼 鲁斯和莱昂 艾尔庄森这两位原体经常被指出有许多相同的性格，尽管他们的表达方式不同。两人本质上都是实用主义者，几乎没有时间做出轻浮愚行或过于文明的行为。他们都重视直白坦诚的实言胜过政治必要的说辞；在判断一个人时，他们也是无闻其言，但观其行。但最重要的是，这两位原体都最看重忠诚，他们坚守自己的誓言，而且对背信弃誓之人怀有最深刻的仇恨。

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.

话虽如此，但这却让发生在杜兰世界上的事件与他们之间将要产生的怨恨成为了一种奇特的景象。两位原体之间发生了争斗，这是毫无疑问的，因为有非常多的资料证明了这一点；但说两者产生了嫌隙似乎也是不可信的。如果有的话，两位原体的记录资料所表明的也是一种深厚的信任和相互尊重。他们共同见证了冉丹异形帝国的覆灭，一起征服了一千个世界并携手根除了帝国遭遇过的某些最为恐怖的敌人。杜兰事件似乎是代表了众多测试中的某一个：一个允许两人相互切磋衡量的测试，而且两个军团的战士们相遇时经常会重复进行这次测试——但他们这样做并非是因为存在嫌隙。芬里斯野狼和卡利班骑士共同度过了大叛乱的最后岁月，这是两个军团之间最重要的忠诚象征，当两个军团作为战友再次团结起来，准备好与围攻泰拉的叛军部队决一死战时，连伟大的荷鲁斯本人都打了寒颤。