Understands Eldar and Ork

‘You call yourself Karuchi Vohra?’ he said.

The eldar nodded and said, ‘It is more accurately a title than a name. I was a healer. In the Bielerai dialect it means–’

‘I know what it means,’ said Perturabo abruptly. ‘It means “the ender of suffering”.’

‘My lord understands the eldar tongue?’ asked Vohra.

‘One of many I speak,’ answered Perturabo in the alien’s own language.

Both Fulgrim and Vohra looked surprised, and Perturabo took a moment to enjoy that.

‘Or,’ he said, switching to a proto-speech of guttural barks and grunts, ‘we could speak in the language of the greenskins.’

Fulgrim laughed and said, ‘You are a wonder to me, brother. I had not known you possessed a talent for linguistics.’

‘I’ve spent my life at the business end of a siege, digging trenches and razing cities, so it’s easy for you to forget I have a mind as engineered as any of our brothers,’ said Perturabo, trying not to sound disappointed at such a failure of perception. ‘I may not have the warp-lore of Magnus or the war-craft of Horus, but being underestimated is one of my greatest weapons.’

Fulgrim smiled and said, ‘I shall never make that mistake.’

‘No, I think you will,’ said Perturabo, turning on his heel and folding his arms across his broad chest.

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