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The Imperial Maiden

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I had it all. Beauty, happiness, innocence, a loving husband, and seven good friends. I was nearly lost to them by the machinations of my stepmother. For years, I enjoyed a happy life surrounded by friends and joy, in the magnificent castle of my beloved Prince. All was perfect and beautiful.

But then, a great evil came and destroyed all I held dear. My eyes and my mind were exposed to horrors I could never imagine even in my darkest dreams. Capering, naked monsters with horrible decorations, crazed warriors who sought nothing more but my death, and a myriad of creatures the likes of which we had never seen. The worst was seeing giant people, people who were horrifically disfigured and seemed to be in extreme pleasure. All this was being led by my own stepmother, the Queen, somehow brought back from the dead through unknown means.

My Prince and the dwarfs, along with all my animal friends and the soldiers of our castle, fought hard against these abominations, but it was all for naught. I wept to see our kingdom and our paradise ravaged and mutilated beyond reason. But I still had my Prince and my dwarf friends; we could start over again, create another paradise.

I believed this to come true, that my happily ever after would be reborn. Until the monsters took away my most precious love.

I saw him, a capering monster, dressed in garishly decorated black and pink armor. He held a sword and whip in his hands, slaying with pleasure. My Prince and the dwarfs worked together to kill this creature. After it died, they stood triumphant over its corpse and cheered to us. I cheered along, but my cheers turned to shock when I saw their hair start to fall out and their faces being systematically scarred. Some foul magic joined them together and grotesquely fused their bodies into one, and in horror......I saw them turn into the very thing they had just killed. The creature was alive again, and in cried in terror as I saw the faces of my Prince and the dwarfs writhing in agony upon his chest, crying out to me for help. Then I heard his voice as spoke to me. He said, "I'm back, Princess. Know my name. I am the Soulthief. I am.........Lucius."

Heartbroken, I fled the destruction of my kingdom, crying out to the heavens as to why my happily ever after was forever gone. For days, I wandered in disbelief, knowing my innocence and gentleness was also lost along with my love and my friends.

Yet fortune smiled upon me. A great army of purple-armored warriors found me and cared for me. They explained their eternal purpose and I saw they were forever tasked to fighting the creatures that destroyed my home, my friends, and my love. They also gave me hope that I could rescue my Prince and the dwarfs from eternal damnation, but at the risk of my own soul. Nevertheless, I joined this band and learned their ways.

That day, I learned an important lesson. I learned that being too innocent, too complacent, too gentle, blinded me to the horrors of the universe. That day, I was changed. I am no longer the sweet, kind, innocent young girl of ages past. Now I am a mature woman, a responsible princess, and a powerful warrior. The Emperor's Children taught me how to fight, how to survive. One day I will kill this Lucius and free the souls of all he's taken, even if it means giving up my own. I am Snow White, wife of the Prince, friend to the Seven Dwarfs, the Fairest of them All.......and now the Imperial Maiden and the Lady of the Third Legion."-Princess Snow White, wife of the Prince, friend of the Seven Dwarfs, the Fairest of All, the Imperial Maiden, Lady of the Third Legion, the Eagle.

Snow White was one of the youngest Disney Princesses to have suffered the loss of her kingdom and her love at the hands of Chaos, but unlike another, she retained her sanity and her soul. Despite having lost her innocence and her naivete, along with all she held dear, she remained strong and moved on. She was still in shock and in grief, but it wasn't long before she was found by another Legion of Space Marines. She was discovered by one of the oldest Legiones Astartes and one of the most beautiful and somewhat arrogant, but also noble Legions. Clad in shining amethyst plate, lined with golden trim, their symbol was two-fold: they wore a golden eagle's wing upon their shoulders, and shining eagles across their chestplates.

The Legion that had found Snow White was the Third Legion.

The magnificent Emperor's Children.

They found Snow White barely clinging to life and took her aboard their flagship, the Pride of the Emperor. There they nurtured and healed her until she ready to learn of their purpose. Like all the other Legions, the Emperor's Children was part of many different human divisions that were united in a common purpose: to forever fight Chaos, the power that was responsible for the resurrection of her evil stepmother, the Queen, and for the destruction of her kingdom. They, and many others, formed the Imperium of Man, the sworn enemy of Chaos and whom Snow White sided with for the rest of her life.

She was initiated into the Legion and soon underwent training to become a warrior of the Legion, albeit not a superhuman one. She focused all her energy into the sword arts, marksmanship, martial arts, acrobatics, and tactical strategy, becoming a very incredible fighter and huntress. She learned from the oldest and most experienced warriors of the Legion and was placed under their tutelage. She learned under the great Ancient Rylanor, one of the oldest warriors of the Third Legion, the venerable Chaplain Charmosian, the Lord Commander Vespasian, the leader of the Emperor's Children, and the Triumvirate, or the three finest captains of the Legion, who were respectively, the commanders of the First, Second, and Third Companies. They were Julius Kaesoron, Solomon Demeter, and Marius Vairosean. She learned much from them. But the warrior who Snow White learned from the most and eventually befriended was a line captain. He was the commanding officer of the Tenth Company, one of its staunchest leaders.............and the hero of Istvaan III, the planet upon which his Legion and three more Legions were betrayed by those within their ranks and were nearly eradicated. His name was Saul Tarvitz, a name that was well-known throughout the Third Legion, for it was Tarvitz who rallied his brothers and his fellow survivors to fight against the traitors within their own ranks when they descended down to Istvaan III to destroy them personally after a planetary bombardment failed to do so.

Snow White discovered that Tarvitz was the only commanding officer present at this battle, and that he rallied the loyalists to hold until their Legions arrived, which had been waylaid by traitors within their ranks. One of these traitors was Tarvitz's longtime friend, but one who turned his back on his friend and whom, Snow White later discovered, was the one responsible for the death of her Prince and the Dwarfs. He was Lucius the Eternal, formerly known as Captain Lucius. He was a favored champion of Chaos, so favored in fact, that the Chaos god Slaanesh, his patron deity, gifted him with immortality, although it was a perverse form of it. Snow White discovered this horrible truth: whomever killed Lucius in battle and took even the smallest bit of pleasure or satisfaction from besting him, would begin to horrifically change into Lucius, while his or her soul would forever be damned to power Lucius's terrible armor, known as the Armor of Shrieking Souls. This was the fate that the Prince and the Dwarfs suffered when they killed Lucius; their souls are now forever trapped within his armor, never to be released. Snow White realized that in order to save their souls, she would have to risk the enslavement of her own soul for all eternity. If she even took one moment of satisfaction from killing Lucius, she would suffer the same fate as all his victims. But Snow White has hope and true love, as well as newfound brothers-in-arms of the Emperor's Children, at her side. She will never stop, and she will never cease to fight until her Prince and the Dwarfs are freed from their eternal prison. She is truly the progeny of the Phoenician, the great Fulgrim himself, who heroically fought to save his Legion from annihilation at Istvaan III and then arose from the ashes once more to lead his warriors in the dark days of the Great Heresy. She will find a way to save her love and her friends and vanquish the hated Lucius, for their fates are now intertwined..............


Snow White is the sixth Disney Princess I've transformed from an innocent, kind girl to a strong, honorable, and mature woman. I retained much of her attire but included Legion colors and iconography (purple armor plates and golden eagle's wing) as well as intricate details about her. My main goal here was to depict her as a mature, martial, honorable young woman, no longer just an innocent, kind, and naive Princess Hence, the saber and twin-linked bolter she's holding, the stern, patrician gaze, and her new long, wavy hair (I felt really sad bout having to remove her nice short hair, but I had no choice, sorry).

Just as with my previous Disney submissions, several images of the Legion she is now part of, the Emperor's Children:

The Legion colors and symbol, a great eagle's wing and talon and amethyst or purple colors
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A couple of Legion Terminators
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Part of the Legion standing at attention
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The Emperor's Children marching off to war
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Emperor's Children warriors
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Fulgrim, the Phoenician, alongside the great Horus Lupercal, commander of the Luna Wolves Legion and Warmaster of the Imperium, Princess Belle's patron warrior (she's also a member of his Legion [link])
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Drawing was done by me, followed by adding a light red background via SumoPaint.


The Emperor's Children and all subsequent information and symbols belong to Games Workshop.
(c) Games Workshop
Snow White and the Disney princesses belong to Disney.
(c) Disney
The artwork is mine. Enjoy.
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