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''Brothers Of The Snake'' is a [[Warhammer 4000040,000]] novel by [[Dan Abnett]], the adventures of Priad, a brother and then sergeant of the Iron Snakes [[Space Marine]] chapter.
 
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* [[After Action Patchup]]: Priad explains something to Petrok while being patched up after a battle.
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* [[After -Action Patchup]]: Priad explains something to Petrok while being patched up after a battle.
* [[Angry Guard Dog]]: Priad has to calm one.
* [[Attack Pattern Alpha]]
{{quote| ''"Damocles, form and cover, Hades spread!"''}}
* [[Because Destiny Says So]]: Why Petrok insists on bringing the squad to battle
* [[Blood From the Mouth]]: As always a sign of chaos
* [[Booby Trap]]: Some dark eldar mine a location before withdrawing.
* [[Come to Gawk]]: Khiron objects.
* [[Distressed Dude in Distress]]: Khiron
* [[Dreaming of Things to Come]]: Petrok
* [[Ermine Cape Effect]]: Antoni inverts this, putting away her official portrait for being too good.
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* [[Law of Inverse Fertility]]: Antoni never had children
* [[Manly Tears]]
{{quote| ''Salt-water ran from his eye corners. The Rite had begun. Removing his glove, Priad wiped the tears from his eye and marked the emblem of the Iron Snakes on the bulkhead. His men watched him do it.<br />
Sometimes the Rite was special. Sometimes, you didn't need the flask.'' }}
* [[The Medic]]: Khiron.
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* [[The Mole]]: A Chaos thing
* [[Morton's Fork]]: An ordeal will prove Khiron's innonence if it kills him
* [[Nice to Thethe Waiter]]: A princess who tries to order the Space Marines around also strikes her guard for disagreeing with her.
* [[Our Mermaids Are Different]]: Aekon hallucinates, briefly of one, before realizing it's Khiron.
* [[The Power of Friendship]]: Petrok urges Priad to consider this in his squad's wrong doing.
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* [[Reality Ensues]]: Even though they have good reasons to fight with their faceplates up in one fight, it still kills one of them.
* [[Royal Brat]]: One princess at the coronation, who tries to shoot the Sergeant with a lasgun built into her ring when he refuses to cowtow to her. The marine's response can be summed up as "Did you ''really'' just do that?"
* [[Sealed Evil in Aa Can]]: The regalia was meant to contain this; they managed to seal it up before it escaped.
* [[Staff of Authority]]: One of the coronation regalia
* [[Take Up My Sword]]: Priad's becoming sergeant.
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* [[With Due Respect]]: Priad, arguing with Petrok.
* [[Would Not Shoot a Civilian]]: They try to protect the farmers.
* [[Youth Is Wasted Onon the Dumb]]: Diving for the trench.
 
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