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You can run but you can't hide

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Nikaea jokes x2

so a year or two ago I decided to do my own set of designs for the Primarchs. I never finished it but, here are the unfinished designs I did do!

damn, I’m really bad at this. I’m so used to color scheme that it’s throwing me off. Particularly for fulgrim and Vulkan

So... uh... hoooooo boy... that's a big ask... What I have written below might be a bit inaccurate since I've read more warhammer 40k books than warhammer 30k/Horus Heresy books. Here's a link to a somewhat reliable wiki on the subject.

Basic Synopsis: Horus Heresy is a galactic civil war, taking place in the 31st millenia, named after the leader of the rebellion, Horus Luperchal. He was considered the best of the Emperor's 20 18 primarchs. There used to be 20 primarchs, each one an embodiment of an aspect of the Emperor. Most of them are now dead, corrupted, or missing. I mean they were, until recently when Games Workshop decided to start bringing back the missing and corrupted primarchs to battle each other. Anyways, this first rebellion is what caused the Human Imperium to become what it is in the 41st millennia, which is to say a fucking mess.

Side note: Space Marines were designed to be superior versions of the Emperor's first elite shock troopers, the Thunder Warriors. They helped the Emperor defeat a Khorne aligned antichrist and various other threats, and seize control of Terra and Sol system. The Warriors were a little too autonomous for Big E since they saw themselves as his allies and not disposable weapons . So he ordered his own (the Custodes) and first (Dark Angels) Legions of Astartes to wipe out the Thunder Warriors. Which they did.

The original plan by the Emperor and his inner circle: Create the primarchs and their associated legions together and simultaneously so that there would not be any division between them all. They would then set out from the Sol system and re-unite the scattered remnants of humanity under the Emperor's rational and atheistic regime. By making humanity Atheist, the chaos gods would lose power over reality. Thus the survival of humanity would be ensured. At the cost of the extinction of every other intelligent life-form that could challenge human supremacy.

Side note 2, the sequel: Some of the Primarchs, and their Legions, were designed to be redundant to the others. For example the Night Lords and Raven Guard were both masters of infiltration. The Blood Angels and Dark Angels or the Lunar Wolves and the Space Wolves having similar names. Mortarion and Vulkan both being extremely durable survivalists. The fact they were replaceable was in the back of each primarch's mind and they all acted out in different ways. The most mentally sane of them worked on legacies that would outlast themselves. The less confident ones worked on their own self-preservation by making themselves either unkillable or irreplaceable. The nihilistic ones just did whatever the fuck they wanted since they were going to figuratively die tomorrow.

How the four Chaos Gods (Tzeentch, Khorne, Slaanesh, Nurgle) fucked up the Emperor's plan: The Gods tore a rift in time and space which scattered the primarchs spawning-pods across the galaxy. The pods ended up on various human occupied worlds which had wildly different cultures. The Primarchs grew up into the super-hero/villain of their adopted worlds, rallying mortal followers to their side. When the Emperor and his forces made contact with these scattered Primarchs, the resulting encounters were varied. Most of the demi-gods were happy to be reunited with their father and their sons. But those who were unhappy with themselves became even worse by meeting the creator of their miserable existence, whom they could not kill or be killed by. On top of that, they were then surrounded by copies of themselves that, in their opinion, were either inferior or should have never been made. The Legions (who had been operating on their own for centuries) were not entirely happy either, since their new dads were allowed to do whatever they wanted to them. Typically this meant inducting men from the primarchs adopted homeworld into positions of authority within the legion. This worried the terran-born marines who saw that this practice could lead to prioritizing those worlds over the whole imperium. Given all these factors, it's no surprise that when all 18 sons of the emperor were finally reunited, things were a bit too hectic for those trying to maintain order, exactly as the gods intended.

Side note 3, hope you're starting to see a pattern: At some point before the Heresy, two of the 20 primarchs were erased from existence by the Emperor and his closest friend Malcador the Sigilite. My personal theory is that the lost primarchs were the first to war against each other. I imagine that the Marines under their commands were either executed or mind-wiped and discretely placed in the other legions. It's entirely possible that both primarchs were the token girls in a male dominated family. We don't know anything about the lost ones and so we can imagine anything we want...

Fall of the Warmaster: Horus was made warmaster of the entire galactic crusade by the Emperor. But he wasn't told why the Emperor was no longer leading the crusade. Then Horus had to kill a man claiming to be the real emperor and that The Emperor was an imposter. And then Horus was poisoned, isolated, and exposed to the warp by chaos cultists. This exposure revealed terrifying alternate pasts, presents, futures that were previously unthinkable to him. These events, plus everything I mentioned in the side-notes, made him determined to kill his dad-boss and destroy the family business. When reunited with his Legion and the Imperium, Horus acted patiently with a mind towards politics and logistics. He tried to recruit his competent brothers while pushing the fucked-up ones to act as distractions. He shored up his power base and silenced dissenters within his legion. His last act of preparation before declaring outright war was luring the bulk of loyalist forces into a trap where he slaughtered them. This left Terra vulnerable to his own counter-crusade to take down the emperor and his imperium. The Siege of Terra resulted in the death of Horus (and some other primarchs) and the near-death of the Emperor.

Final Side Note: The only winners of the Horus Heresy was the Word Bearer Legion and their dad, Lorgar Aurelia. They all believed the Emperor was a god even though they were punished by Him for trying to spread that belief. That's because faith in anything, even in the Emperor, could be hijacked by the chaos gods and give them power. Amidst the shattered remains of the Imperium, there was no one to stop traumatized humanity from seeking solace in prayer to the God-Emperor...

Based on something @relax-and-read-on reblogged!

I'm really enjoying reading The Flight of the Eisenstein!

Seen some people online draw fem primarch designs. So here’s my take on a fem Horus

The Coronation of The Warmaster by LJ Koh

Big D/E

Blue-Winged Angel

old piece i did based off the concept of Magnus becoming a savior for Psykers throughout the galaxy, taking them away before they can be broken and molded and killed by the Imperium

tales of a blue-winged angel saving psykers from Black Ships spread throughout parts of the galaxy, giving children a semblance of hope that one day they might be taken from their oppressors and treated with kindness

assorted cary doodles