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===[[Nobledark Imperium]]===
{{Main|Nobledark Imperium}}

Probably one of the more divergent Alternate Heresies out there. Like [[Warhammer High]] technically an Alternate Heresy despite there not being a heresy at all. Nobledark is as much a retelling of the 40k universe with intentional twists as it is a straight alternate timeline, sort of like [[Hektor Heresy]] or [[Imperium Asunder]], though in general all parties receive a buff to reason and common sense, as you would expect from a universe that is [[Noblebright|nobledark]] as opposed to [[grimdark]].

Instead of earning the ever-lasting hatred of the Chaos gods by doing {{[[Alpha Legion|REDACTED]]}} that led to the creation of the [[primarch]]s (who in this timeline are the Emperor's greatest, though otherwise similar to canon in name and deed), in this timeline the [[Emperor]] plotted with [[Eldrad]] and agreed to <s>[[Lord of the Rings|a last alliance of elves and men]]</s> a team-up between the nascent [[Imperium]] and the [[Craftworld Eldar|Eldar]] to free [[Isha]] from [[Nurgle]]’s garden to weaken the [[Chaos Gods]] in exchange for access to the [[Webway]] and anti-Chaos lore.

The Imperium and Eldar expect to go their separate ways after the Raid on Nurgle's Mansion, until Chaos decides to supercharge the [[War of the Beast]] in order to show those mortals what happens when you steal fire from the gods. The Chaos Gods don't manage to turn any primarch (though they get really close with Horus), the Emperor having told the primarchs what Chaos what it is and why it is important to ''not touch it'' beforehand. Humanity and Eldar are forced into an alliance once again, resulting in an Aesir-Vanir-esque political marriage between the Emperor and Isha. Although things are bad with the biggest green tide the Imperium has ever seen and [[Luther]] convincing the majority of [[Dark Angels]] to go traitor, they only gets worse when the true mortal catspaws are revealed.

Because that buff to competence and common sense? [[Chaos]] gets it too. And in a spectacular display of long-term planning, instead of consuming ALL of the pleasure cult-worshipping eldar in the Eye upon their birth, [[Slaanesh]] only consumed MOST of them. So now in addition to daemons, orks, and traitors, you have an entire army of insane, Chaos-worshipping fair folk who just declared holy war on the [[Imperium]] and their [[heresy|heretic]] [[Eldar|kin]].

And it all kind of spirals out from there.

Can also be found at [[Nobledark Imperium Drafts]], the other main page for the project.