[X] Free Tchar
Stabbing an ally in the back for the betrayal of not having a relationship with us we turned down in the first place really doesn't sit well with me. It's deciding suspicion of motives frees you of all obligations, and fundamentally makes Angron untrustworthy in the worst, literal sense; of him not being worthy of trust.
Our relationship with Tchar is purely transactional. He made it very clear at the start that he was using us for his own ends, just as we are using him for our own ends.
He kept his bargains. We kept our bargains. At no point did we ever offer him a promise of protection. There are no obligations between us. Tchar is not our ally or our friend or our brother; he is a ruthless, scheming warp being, and we are a brutal posthuman warlord.
Angron has no cause to be particularly angry. There was no trust betrayed here, as neither of us ever trusted the other in the first place. Tchar saw a chance, he made a bargain, and he saved many of our little brothers. But we don't want him to have his hooks in our Legion Master, and we are heavily invested in our alliance with Lorgar.
His death is not justice or vengeance; it is merely convenient.
[X]
Slay Tchar
Because Lorgar thinks this way is best, and we trust Lorgar. It's nothing personal.
Freeing Tchar is just enabling in a way that makes no sense for Angron.
"Why yes I have no issues with your backstabbing and active attempts at corruption at my expense and the expense of my allies, and will send you on your merry way when you are gift wrapped for me, for some reason"
This isn't sparing Gollum, it's sparing Sauron for no apparent reason other than the manipulator baiting the hook a little before the painful if failed attempt to reel us in.
Angron takes heads and doesn't suffer those that would cage him. Take the daemon's head. We've just had it explained to us that it literally is a creature of manipulation that we know has been playing us, that's continuing to do harm and just set him up in one of the most painful ways possible, and which Angron himself hasn't killed because he didn't realize there was a way for it to stick.
He has that way now. Axe it so we can move on and do something more constructive than keep shooting ourselves in the foot over it with hilarious amounts of undesirable collateral. Ghreer and his sons matter far more than a creature that fucked around and should be about to find out- and which will continue to be a pain in the ass if bound, "spared" etc etc.
But Tchar didn't backstab us?
Backstabbing requires trust, and we've never trusted him. We knew that he made deals that advanced his interests, and we agreed to those deals when they were in our interest. He certainly withheld information from us, but he didn't owe us any information. He didn't owe us anything that we didn't pay for.
Tchar never promised not to make deals with the Chainbreakers. He saw an opportunity, he made a deal, and many of our "little brothers" are alive as a result. We have no reason to be angry.
However, we do have an excellent reason to kill him. If his death will free Ghreer from the bargain, then it's good for us. He's offered to release Ghreer, and under other circumstances I might vote to accept that deal. But Lorgar thinks this way is best, and we trust Lorgar.
We made bargains with a dangerous being who had powerful allies. Tchar
also made bargains with a dangerous being who had powerful allies. I see no reason to engage in pretensions of moral superiority; we had a relationship of mutual convenience, and in the end it was convenient for us to kill him.
