RUMORS: Lion El’Jonson or the Lost Space Marines Legions Returning…

By Travis Pasch | March 2nd, 2023 | Categories: 40k News & Articles, Space Marines, Tabletop Gaming News & Rumors

In a recent Arks of Omen trailer, Games dropped some hints that point at the Lion returning to 40k, or maybe even the lost and purged legions!

We’ve heard a lot about the Lion returning to 40k, but this could also be a first hint at the lost and purged Space Marines legions II or XI possibly returning to the game.

So, while nothing is confirmed, they are some pretty interesting tidbits of lore from GW, and you know GW doesn’t like to put out lore or art for miniatures they will not make!

Recently, in one of these videos, GW also dropped hints for a new Farsight model (or it sure looks like it), so we hope to keep seeing these little hints! Let’s take a closer look.

RUMORS: Lion El’Jonson or Lost Space Marines Legions Returning…

The images come from this Warhammer Community video.

Well, starting with the name of the video, The Lost Child. This could very quickly be based on either Lion or any of the two Lost Legions primarch. With the Lion having been missing for so long (not really missing, but from the eyes of non-Dark Angels), you could easily equate this to him.

However, Legions II and XI are called the lost and the purged; so, in theory, it could also be them as well. This would be a pretty wild shift in the lore of Warhammer 40k, as they have never been mentioned. Not even the Legions of Chaos talk about them!

So, this could, in theory, be a massive shift in the game.

Next, we get this, which means purge in some form. Guess who was purged from all Imperial records? Oh, that’s right, the II and XI legions! However… this could also be talking about Lion finally waking up to purge the Fallen and get the Dark Angels clean once again! Either could make sense, honestly…

Then, in the video, they mention a fatherless son alone in the endless night. This could mean a whole bunch of things, but with Lion sleeping for so long, that sounds like an endless night to us!

Big E is basically gone and has left his sons to fend for themselves. Then, Lion has blonde hair, and something about the color scheme of this card screams Dark Angels to us, with the powerful red and muted green. Again though, it’s not definitive, and this could easily be talking about the lost child of either the II or the XI, as both of them were abandoned by their father and have spent nearly endless time in the warp (which could easily be seen as an endless night).

We’ll have to see, but when you look at the card, it’s hard not to think of Lion…