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Brothers Of The Snake is a Warhammer 40000 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.
- Angry Guard Dog: Priad has to calm one.
- Attack Pattern Alpha
"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: Khiron
- Dreaming of Things to Come: Petrok
- Ermine Cape Effect: Antoni inverts this, putting away her official portrait for being too good.
- The Evil Prince: Priad concludes this too quickly.
- Fearless Fool: Khiron observes that folly and courage are not always distinguishable.
- Fire Forged Friends: Antoni and Princeps
- First Name Basis: Petrok insists on this with Priad, who doesn't always obey,
- Flashed Badge Hijack: The inquistor does this on their behalf.
- Glamour Failure: Seeing the chaos beast with the naked eye among the cultists. Also, the one that inflitrated the Chapter.
- Heroic Bystander: Antoni
- Heroic Dog: Princeps;
- Human Sacrifice: Some cultists catch and try to sacrifice an Iron Snake.
- In Harms Way: Like all Space Marines
- Intro Only Point of View: The first story is from the POV of the human on the world he visits.
- Law of Inverse Fertility: Antoni never had children
- Manly Tears
- The Medic: Khiron.
- Mobile Maze: Under Chaos, a labyrinth can't be trusted
- The Mole: A Chaos thing
- Mortons Fork: An ordeal will prove Khiron's innonence if it kills him
- Nice to The 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.
- The Promise: Priad promises to protect some civilians
- 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 A 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.
- Weather Dissonance: At first rain on a desert world is taken as a good omen, but it soon becomes clear that something is wrong.
- We Do Not Know Each Other: An inquistor appears in two stories. In the second, he alerts Priad to his concealed identity.
- With Due Respect: Priad, arguing with Petrok.
- Would Not Shoot a Civilian: They try to protect the farmers.
- Youth Is Wasted On the Dumb: Diving for the trench.