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What was great love?
Aaron finally gave his own answer.
Killing Dorn with Drach'nyen was great love!
When the Original Daemon's primal shriek spread throughout the realm of Chaos, when Drach'nyen's weeping rang through the Chaos army, when Dorn's agonized howls and bewildered questions reached Aaron's ears, when Eleanor looked at Aaron as though he were a stranger, great love lay within it all.
In truth, Aaron had long since fulfilled every condition for advancing to Legendary. His personal strength had made no particularly noticeable progress since he shared Salian's Nine Books during Salian's grand celebration and dealt Cyric a vicious blow. At the pinnacle of Master rank, Aaron had hit a bottleneck in Nurgle's power, which he had never managed to unlock.
Was it because Aaron had failed to truly understand Nurgle's so-called "great love"?
Not at all. Aaron had been a Warhammer fan in his previous life. How could he possibly fail to understand Nurgle's core doctrine, knowing what sort of creature he was?
Nurgle's core doctrine was this: all things rot, all life endures. Every living being should receive equal treatment, regardless of race or nationality. Nurgle's understanding of equality was that, since everyone craved blessings, rot and curses should replace those blessings and be regarded as blessings themselves. As long as all living beings struggled amid rot and curses, true great love and equality lay within that struggle.
Aaron actually understood this principle.
But why had he never managed to gain Nurgle's approval?
The reason was simple-deep down, Aaron instinctively rejected Nurgle's doctrine because it was compulsory. The kindly, fat grandfather did not care whether you were willing or whether you desired it. To him, as long as everything was defiled and rotted, and rot and disease were considered part of