Subject: That ending. Yiiiikes.
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Posted on: 2022-07-08 10:50:12 UTC
I love it. ^_^
I think the #1 best moment in the entire thing is the Atonement of Horus. The idea of the Warmaster off by himself, endlessly trying to atone for being a little slow for ten thousand years, is really wonderful for some reason.
Thinking about the Chapters again: I think you're wrong to pin it on the Primarchs this time round. Several of the Legions - at least the Blood Angels and the Alpha Legion (which really is a Traitor Legion, whatever Alpharius thinks) - fell not because their Primarchs did, but because they acted together. The corruption spreads, even up to a Primarch, whether it's plague or sourcery.
So how do you stop that spread? Quarantine. You separate pieces of the Legions from each other, so that if one Marine falls, he can only spread the infection to one Chapter, not an entire Legion.
I don't think you gave a concise list of Primarchs, so for my own benefit:
- The Lion - Daemon-Prince of Khorne, at least briefly; dead?
- deleted from Imperial records
- Fulgrim - ??? presumed dead at the hands of Ferrus Manus
- Perturabo - rebuilding the Imperium, resting on Olympia. Hexarch.
- The Khan - Traitor, specific fate not noted
- Leman Russ - The Wolf King, Daemon-Prince of Tzeentch, and now very dead.
- Rogal Dorn - Daemon-Prince of Khorne
- Night Haunter - Wandering the Warp. Hexarch.
- Sanguinius - Mindless zombie of Nurgle. I don't think he even qualifies for Daemon-Prince status.
- Ferrus Manus - Daemon-Prince of Slaanesh
- deleted from Imperial records
- Angron - slain by the Lion, Siege of Terra
- Roboute Guilliman - Daemon-Prince of Ultramar, heir to the Wolf King
- Mortarion - fort-builder, rests in Perturabia on Barbarus. Hexarch.
- Magnus the Red - in a coma, then Hexarch.
- Horus - Lone warrior on the fringes of the galaxy. Hexarch.
- Lorgar - slain by Russ over Terra
- Vulkan - Daemon-Prince of Chaos Undivided
- Corax - Daemon-Prince of shadow
- Alpharius - meddling. Hexarch.
- Omegon - Daemon-Prince (presumably).
That is a lot of surviving Primarchs. And unlike the canon setting, there's a lot of relatively sane Daemon-Princes. The Khan, Dorn, Guilliman, and Omegon all seem to come through relatively intact, whereas in canon they're pretty much all off their heads crazy. I guess that's why you have multiple active and available Primarch left in the Imperium - to balance them out, because otherwise they wouldn't need anywhere near thirteen Blue Crusades!
hS