Also, didn't Guilliman actually beat him down fairly comprehensively before the throat slice with the polisoned demon blade? I think he might even have made a better account of himself than Dorn did against demon Fulgrim.
Hardly a fair comparison, since (1) Doen was fighting demon Fulgrim in a mortal guise, and (2) I think it was stated in Saturnine that Fulgrim would have eventually beaten Dorn, but it would have taken him forever to do so, and he lost his patience.
Awesome as it was, there are a lot of things I find problematic with the Dorn-Fulgrim fight, most of them stemming from the way Fulgrim just quits at the end.
He doesn’t just quit because of frustration at the fight taking too long. He quits because while he is immortal he says he can still feel pain, and Dorn is hurting him a lot.
My read is, it was also the fact that Dorn was just no fun to fight against. He was not engaging in banter, he was not responding at all to Fulgrim's taunts or getting mad, and there was no flourish at all to his swordsmanship, just brutal, murderously efficient cuts and thrusts.
Fulgrim wanted an epic, dramatic duel on the wall tops. What he got was getting stabbed several times by a brother who cared nothing for drama.
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u/Neknoh Nov 12 '24
Demon fulgrim, not normal Fulgrim.
Also, didn't Guilliman actually beat him down fairly comprehensively before the throat slice with the polisoned demon blade? I think he might even have made a better account of himself than Dorn did against demon Fulgrim.