The Primarch of the Iron Hands Legion was the first to die by violence as a casualty of the Horus Heresy; a loss made more tragic by the fact that it was the hand of a one-time brother and friend that dealt the blow. Since that dark day on Isstvan V, there have been a great many rumours and legends that have grown up around this fateful death, masked as it is by the anarchy and destruction loosed on the battlefield and by the lies of the enemy, whose murderous counter-assault enveloped the Primarch and his bodyguard at the end. As such, concrete facts about the Gorgon's death are difficult to sift from the half-truths, suppositions and outright falsehood that are the natural progeny of all truly great events. What truth can be threaded from this web of?fictions is thus: that Ferrus Manus fought relentlessly in the vanguard of the initial drop assault on Isstvan V against the Urgall fortress-line; that he and his Avernii Clan warriors bore the brunt of the Traitor counter-attack from the centre and did not waver, and that the godlike martial power of the Iron Hands Primarch himself was perhaps the greatest factor in this. The Gorgon was strength personified and his armour inviolable it seemed, moreover his fury was unmatched and terrible to behold. It is this last factor that is worthy of?particular note; long before Isstvan V ，the savage choler that lurked beneath the Primarch's clenched will was widely known, but before now his cold reason had proved its ultimate master. This was not so at the Dropsite Massacre, the betrayal of his friend and brother Fulgrim in retrospect can be seen to have clouded his judgement and drowned good sense in wrath. So it was that when all but overwhelmed by counter-assault and the betrayal of the Loyalist second wave, it seems to have been the direct appearance of?Fulgrim on the battlefield, goading the Iron Hands Primarch, that doomed Ferrus Manus, and those who stood with him, to their ends.

鋼鐵之手的原體死于暴力，他也是荷魯斯叛亂中的一名陣亡者。而某個事實則令他的死更為悲慘：他是被自己曾經(jīng)的兄弟和摯友親手所殺。從伊斯特萬五號上那黑暗的一日開始，就已經(jīng)有數(shù)量眾多的謠言和傳說圍繞這場宿命般的死亡展開，真相被戰(zhàn)場上放任的混亂無序與破壞和敵人的謊言所掩蓋，當終局到來時原體和他的衛(wèi)隊被敵人們的兇殘回擊所圍困著。所以，從這些半真半假的故事、假想和全然虛偽的編造謠言中篩選出關于戈耳工之死的確切事實是頗為困難的，畢竟它們都會所有真正重大的事件中自然而然地產(chǎn)生。我們能從這張?zhí)摌嫻适碌木W(wǎng)絡中串聯(lián)出的事實如是：在對于伊斯特萬五號世界上Urgall地區(qū)要塞防線最初的空降突襲中，費魯斯 馬努斯無情地沖鋒在前；原體和他的阿維尼氏族戰(zhàn)士們遭到了來自陣地中央叛軍反攻的正面沖擊，但他們毫不動搖，而鋼鐵之手原體那宛若神明的軍事才能可能是其中最為重要的因素。戈耳工本人即是力量的擬人化形象，他的甲胄也如同看上去那般堅不可摧，而且他的怒火也無可匹敵、難以壓抑。最后一項尤其值得我們進行記錄的要素是：早在伊斯特萬事件很久之前，潛藏在原體那緊繃的意志下的野蠻暴躁脾性便是廣為人知的，但在此之前終究還是他冷酷的理性掌握著一切。這這在登錄點大屠殺中不復存在，回顧弗格瑞姆——他的兄弟和摯友的叛變蒙蔽了他的判斷力，他敏銳的感知力也被盛怒所淹沒。所以，當忠誠派們被叛軍們的反擊和第二波攻勢中的背叛所壓倒時，弗格瑞姆就像在戰(zhàn)場上突然亮相一般，這刺激了鋼鐵之手的原體，也讓費魯斯和他身邊的衛(wèi)隊走向了毀滅的終點。

Though none that stood by the Gorgon in that bloody last stand survived, even the accounts that have surfaced from the lips of the enemy speak of the duel between the two Primarchs in hushed tones of fear and awe. By some accounts the lithe Fulgrim wielded the stolen hammer of Ferrus Manus, Forgebreaker, against him, and in others a hellish sword of strange aspect that laughed and howled as it cut the air, while Ferrus Manus fought with his own strange metal-impregnated hands whose grasp it was known could splinter armoured ceramite like thawing ice and against which the flesh and bone of even a superhuman Primarch could offer little defence. It is said that the duel between the two brothers was both bitter and bloody; the one lithe and lightning quick, striking with the murderous speed and precision of an attacking bird of prey while the other was an inhuman bulwark, a warrior of unbelievable physical strength—indefatigable, relentless and impervious to pain. The two traded blows like thunderbolts, the ground beneath them quaking, the air rent, while around them the warriors of their Legions bled and died. Each suffered wounds that would have killed the greatest of the Legiones Astartes a dozen times over before the end, and neither would yield though the world around them burned. In the end it was Fulgrim who dealt the death-blow to Ferrus Manus and laid the Primarch low. This much is known to history as certain as any other fact of that dreadful battle, but by some accounts this was only achieved by some perfidious trick, or —as many have since come to believe given what was to befall the accursed Primarch of the Emperor's Children later— by the intervention of the Ruinous Powers of the Warp.

雖然當時站在費魯斯身邊與他共同奮戰(zhàn)的戰(zhàn)士們無一從那場血戰(zhàn)中幸免，但即便是那些從敵人的口中拷問出的證詞，也都是輕聲用恐懼和敬畏的語調(diào)所講述的兩位原體之間對決的過程。根據(jù)某些證詞，矯若驚龍的弗格瑞姆是揮舞著從費魯斯那里偷盜來的戰(zhàn)錘——破鑄者與戈耳工決戰(zhàn)，在其他證詞中弗格瑞姆則是使用著一柄形狀詭異的可憎利刃，當?shù)度锌尺^空氣時會發(fā)出嘲諷和嚎叫；而費魯斯 馬努斯則是依靠自己金屬包裹的奇異雙手對戰(zhàn)自己的兄弟，據(jù)說費魯斯的雙手能像融化冰塊一樣捏碎裝甲陶鋼，即便是一位超人原體的骨骼血肉也幾乎不能抵擋它們的進攻。據(jù)說這對兄弟之間的決斗苦澀而血腥：一個是翩若驚鴻、疾如紫電，以猛禽般的謀殺速度和精確攻擊對方；另一個則是力拔山兮氣蓋世，擁有著超人的防御和令人難以置信的偉力——永不止息，不屈不撓，無謂痛苦。兩位原體如同雷霆般交手，他們腳下的大地都在震動著，周身的空氣都被撕裂開，他們身旁的軍團阿斯塔特戰(zhàn)士也在流血和死去。兩位原體都身受了能殺死最優(yōu)秀的阿斯塔特戰(zhàn)士十數(shù)次之多的傷，他們身旁的世界熊熊燃燒著，但在終局到來之前，哪一方都不會停手。最終，弗格瑞姆向費魯斯揮下了致命一擊，砍下了自己的兄弟的頭。就像這場可怕戰(zhàn)斗中的其他任何事實一樣，這在歷史上是眾所周知，但從某些證言來看，這一切是通過某些不正當?shù)氖侄螌崿F(xiàn)的，或者就像從那之后很多人所相信的那樣——是在亞空間毀滅大能的干預下實現(xiàn)的，而帝皇之子受詛咒的原體之后也將墮落。

Just as falsehoods and myths have grown up around the death of Ferrus Manus, so too have such myths persisted about the fate of his remains. While many believe that the head of the Primarch was presented to Horus by Fulgrim after he was slain, other tales claim that it and the rest of his remains were given as a gift to, or perhaps stolen by, agents of the Dark Mechanicum with the goal of?creating their own fearful Legion of twisted Legiones Astartes from his genetic makeup. Others believe that at some later date his body was recovered in whole or in part by his sons of Medusa, while some scions of the Iron Hands quest for it still.

就像虛言和荒誕故事圍繞著費魯斯 馬努斯的戰(zhàn)死而滋生那樣，與他的遺體有關的神話也同樣持續(xù)著。很多故事相信弗格瑞姆在殺死費魯斯之后將自己兄弟的首級呈獻給了荷魯斯，其他故事則聲稱這具遺體被贈予了黑暗機械神教的特工——或者被他們盜走了，他們的目的是要根據(jù)一位原體的基因藍圖打造出屬于他們自己的由扭曲的阿斯塔特戰(zhàn)士組成的恐怖軍團。其他的故事則相信美杜莎子嗣們奪回了父親全部或部分的遺體，而鋼鐵之手的某些后裔們?nèi)栽趯ふ宜?/p>