Editing Primarch (section)

==Creation of the Primarchs==
[[File:Warmaster's_Coronation.jpg|300px|left|thumb|Horus Lupercal being made Warmaster of the Imperium in Ullanor. From center counter-clockwise: Horus, the Emperor, Magnus, Mortarion, Lorgar, Angron, Jaghatai Khan, Rogal Dorn, Rogal Dorn's mustache, Fulgrim and Sanguinius.]]
The Primarchs began as a continuation of the Emperor’s [[Thunder Warriors|Thunder Warrior]] legions. Each of the 20 proto-legions were led by a general analogue called a Primarch. Unlike the later leaders of the Legiones Astartes, the thunder warrior Primarchs were the same as the troops they led and were hand picked by the Emperor for their skill and command ability. The instability (both physical, genetic, and mental) of the thunder warriors led the Emperor to try and find more stable and powerful generals to lead his armies. It can be safely assumed that the original Primarchs were killed in the line of duty or purged before history could record them thoroughly. The only one named thus far was Ushotan of the 4th Legio Cataegis - then known as the Iron Lords. Valdor considered him almost an equal in terms of his martial and command ability but was disturbed by his innate bloodlust and susceptibility to the then nascent effects of Chaos.

The modern Primarchs were created in a secret underground laboratory on what used to be the Himalayas, under the tightest security. All of them were derived from a subset of both the perpetual Erda and the Emperor's DNA that served as a template, which was altered differently for each of the Primarchs; it is also thought that he engineered them spiritually as well using long-forgotten psychic techniques. As the [[Raven Guard]] discovered after the Emperor granted them access to the original data from the Primarchs' creation, many of the Primarchs' gene-samples were wildly divergent from the original template- some had long gene sequences deleted, while others had non-human DNA spliced into them for reasons only known to the Emperor. (A particularly intriguing discovery was one sample labeled "[[Leman Russ|Subject VI]]", [[Furry| which had extensive amounts of canine DNA added to it]].) All of them were given names that probably will never be revealed.

A feature all the Primarchs shared was a special artificial organ called the '''Immortis Gland'''. Also known as the "God-Maker", this little thumbnail-sized beauty plugged into their brain cortex was what turned a bunch of unborn babies into near-deities. The organ was separated into two parts: the Dextrophic Lobe, which enhanced their strength, reflexes and size to extreme levels and the Sintarius Lobe, whose functions are mostly unknown, but seem to have controlled their growth speed and long lifespans, while also empowering the Dextrophic Lobe further. All information about the Sintarius Lobe was [DATA EXPUNGED] from the records for uncertain reasons after the Primarchs were scattered. Cawl would later recreate the Dextrophic half of the Immortis Gland as the Magnificat, the organ that makes the Primaris Marines bigger and stronger than their older bros.

The Primarchs also appear to have had some significant Warp phuckery go into their creation, as it is mentioned by several of them at different points during the HH series that they are obviously creatures of the Warp in some regard. Their physical and mental capabilities are all far beyond what even the Custodes are capable of, and all of them are theorized to have been latent psykers. Essentially, their true innate natures are probably fairly similar to those of the Daemon Primarchs, but for whatever reason their physical forms all appear to have curbed their psychic potential to a significant degree (except for Magnus). This can be most evidently seen by the transformation of Corvus Corax during his ten thousand year hunt in the Eye of Terror. He's gone from being a flesh and blood being to a shapeshifting shadow creature capable of roflstomping Daemon Lorgar as easily as he did when they were both material beings. It is also apparent by his various feats that Magnus did not appear to have become particularly more powerful upon his ascension to Daemonhood, while all of the other Daemon Primarchs did. This is likely because Magnus had already pretty thoroughly explored his own psychic potential, and so Tzeentch wouldn't have had much left to unlock. Mortarion, Fulgrim, Angron and Lorgar, on the other hand, all gained a significant amount of power, both physical and psychic, upon transforming. Even Angron, whose patron deity hates psykers, was still tremendously physically empowered by Khorne. Additionally, the Emperor seemingly was not able to either manufacture more Primarchs outside of his original 20 (21 if you count whatever created Omegon), and he appeared not to be capable of replacing or healing those who already existed. This could also be explained by the Emperor's extreme nonchalance when it came to more than a few of his Primarchs, but there are a fuckton of situations in which the ability to create either more Primarchs or replacement pieces for them would have come in quite handy. The two most obvious examples are the two Lost Primarchs; apparently the Emperor either decided not to replace them or was unable to do so, yet the loss of two Primarchs was undoubtedly nothing to sniff at. The same could be said of Angron, whose brain had been so badly mangled by the Butchers Nails when the Emperor found him that he was already a half rabid monster. However, the Emperor apparently was not able to help him.

[[File:BabyPrimarchs.jpg|300px|right|thumb|The Master of Mankind raises his eighteen babies as devoted father. The [[Grimdark|truth]] is less [[Anime|kawaii desu]].]]
The Emperor's original plan was to have His superhuman creations mature safely in His lab and guide them from 'birth' toward the role He'd foreseen for them. However, in a retcon, Erda did not want for her sons what the Emperor had planned for them and herself, and in spite of the safeguards the Emperor had set up, caused the scattering, an event in which the Ruinous Powers were able to spirit the Primarchs away from the laboratory right before they would emerge from their pods and scatter them across the universe (Conveniently, the canine sample was sent to a wolf-planet) [[Just as planned]]. The sheer levels of pants-on-head retardation at play in this decision are a genuine marvel of skubbery, but for that rant, feel free to check out [[Erda|Erda's own article]]. For whatever reason, the Emperor did not punish Erda and she was allowed to live out her immortal life in seclusion, in the remnants of Africa. Somehow, the Emperor knew his sons were still alive but had no clue to where they could be nor any immediate way to search for them. The ''Alpharius'' novel indicates that this realization that the Primarchs were still alive was not something the the Emperor came to immediately, as he was overjoyed at finding Alpharius very shortly after the Scattering, as he had previously believed the Primarchs to all have been killed. So after finding Alpharius he took the situation in stride, shrugged it off as a minor setback (unknowingly, this would come to bite him back in the ass nastily later on) and went ahead with the second part of his plan: his Space Marine project. Using DNA samples from each Primarch before they were abducted, the Emperor created twenty legions of [[Space Marines]], in what would later be called the [[First Founding]]. They would form the core of the armies He needed to conquer the galaxy, and the absence of the Primarchs leading those would only serve as a motivation for the warriors to search for them. And it was that Cegorach who switched Jaghatai and Fulgrim when they were scattering.

One consequence of the abduction, however was that each of the young Primarchs were forced to adapt to the lifestyle on their new homeworld, something which would influence and mold them throughout their lives. Some, like Guilliman or Dorn, would benefit greatly from their early experiences and be made far better men for having had them. Others, like Curze or Angron, would be irrevocably damaged by their own. The Primarchs rapidly grew to adulthood and quickly rose to power, nearly always becoming the leaders of their world. Some, like the Khan or Perturabo, conquered their worlds by force of arms. Others, like Magnus or Fulgrim, were so clearly just the best person for the job that they were made planetary rulers by popular demand. The only Primarchs who did not come to rule their respective worlds were Angron, who just straight up failed to conquer his, Horus, who was seemingly discovered by the Emperor only a few years after the Scattering and so did not have the time, and Alpharius, who as luck would have it was Scattered right back to Terra and recovered shortly thereafter. As the Emperor crusaded to unify the galaxy he would occasionally stumble upon another long-lost son. When this happened, the Emperor would hold a celebration in honor of this discovery, give the Primarch their Legion to command, then tell them to [[Angron|fuck]] [[Mortarion|off]] [[Lorgar|and start]] [[Alpharius|conquering]] [[Perturabo|worlds]] while he [[Horus|fapped]] [[Rogal Dorn|to]] [[Sanguinius|his]] [[Leman Russ|favoured]] [[Roboute Guilliman|offspring]]. The Emperor was a [[Eldrad|dick]] like that. It would seem that surrounding perceptions can shape baby Primarchs' appearances to fit their homeworld's community.