First Founding

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After he conquered Terra, the Emperor of Mankind set out on a Great Crusade to re-unite the lost human colonies into a mighty Imperium. He soon realized that bog-standard humans wouldn't be enough; some situations called for a small number of devastatingly powerful warriors, a surgical strike force to smash enemy linchpins. To fill this role, he created his Primarchs, and from their genes, he created the Legiones Astartes, the twenty Space Marine Legions:

Legion Number Primarch Homeworld Name of the Legion Allegiance Tarot Character
I Lion El'Jonson Caliban Dark Angels Loyal
II +++Records expunged+++
III Fulgrim Chemos Emperor's Children Traitor
IV Perturabo Olympia Iron Warriors Traitor
V Jaghatai Khan Mundus Planus White Scars Loyal
VI Leman Russ Fenris Space Wolves Loyal
VII Rogal Dorn Terra Imperial Fists Loyal
VIII Konrad Curze Nostramo Night Lords Traitor
IX Sanguinius Baal Blood Angels Loyal
X Ferrus Manus Medusa Iron Hands Loyal
XI +++Records expunged+++
XII Angron Unknown World Eaters Traitor
XIII Roboute Guilliman Macragge Ultramarines Loyal
XIV Mortarion Barbarus Death Guard Traitor
XV Magnus the Red Prospero Thousand Sons Traitor
XVI Horus Cthonia Luna Wolves/Sons of Horus Traitor
XVII Lorgar Colchis Word Bearers Traitor
XVIII Vulkan Nocturne Salamanders Loyal
XIX Corax Deliverance Raven Guard Loyal
XX Alpharius Omegon Unknown Alpha Legion It's very complicated

Horus Heresy

For all their power, the Space Marines and Primarchs were not perfect; half of them were sufficiently flawed to be tempted by (or driven to) Chaos, led by Warmaster Horus. The traitors were defeated, but at a terrible cost, including the near-death of the God-Emperor of Mankind and trillions of deaths.

Roboute Guilliman decided that the so-called Horus Heresy was proof that one man could not be trusted with power over one-twentieth of the Imperial Armed Forces, so he enacted several reforms to divide the Imperial Army into the Imperial Guard and Navy, and split the remaining loyalist Legions into Chapters, in accordance with his Codex Astartes. This event was later known as the Second Founding.

<nowiki>Insert non-formatted text here</nowiki>==Two Unknown Legions==

In the First Edition of Warhammer 40,000, the twenty First Founding Chapters were all known. It seems that Games Workshop had more love for some than others; when they made fluff revisions in the transition to Second Edition, the Valedictors and Rainbow Warriors were demoted to one of the "Later Foundings."

Nowadays, nothing concrete is known about the Legions II and XI, and likewise their unknown Primarchs. It is suggested that the Space Wolves destroyed them for some reason, and in the Horus Heresy book The First Heretic, a daemon suggests to the Word Bearers that the eleventh Legion in particular did something really bad, and that the left-over Marines were folded into the Ultramarines.

From a pure Conjecture standpoint the Characters of the Tarot align well with the 20 Primarchs and this gives a good base to suppose the attributes of the two missing primarchs.

Legion Number Primarch Homeworld Name of the Legion Allegiance
I Lion El'Jonson Caliban Dark Angels Loyal
II +++Records expunged+++
III Fulgrim Chemos Emperor's Children Traitor
IV Perturabo Olympia Iron Warriors Traitor
V Jaghatai Khan Mundus Planus White Scars Loyal
VI Leman Russ Fenris Space Wolves Loyal
VII Rogal Dorn Terra Imperial Fists Loyal
VIII Konrad Curze Nostramo Night Lords Traitor
IX Sanguinius Baal Blood Angels Loyal
X Ferrus Manus Medusa Iron Hands Loyal
XI +++Records expunged+++
XII Angron Unknown World Eaters Traitor
XIII Roboute Guilliman Macragge Ultramarines Loyal
XIV Mortarion Barbarus Death Guard Traitor
XV Magnus the Red Prospero Thousand Sons Traitor
XVI Horus Cthonia Luna Wolves/Sons of Horus Traitor
XVII Lorgar Colchis Word Bearers Traitor
XVIII Vulkan Nocturne Salamanders Loyal
XIX Corax Deliverance Raven Guard Loyal
XX Alpharius Omegon Unknown Alpha Legion It's very complicated


I - The Magus = MAGNUS II - The High Priestess = ??? III - The Empress = FULGRIM IV - The Emperor = HORUS V - The Hierophant = LORGAR VI - The Lovers = ALPHARIUS / OMEGA VII - Chariot = GUILLIMAN VIII - Justice = FERRUS MANUS IX - The Hermit = LION'EL JOHNSON X - Fortune = ??? XI - Strength = VULKAN XII - The Hanged Man = SANGUINIUS XIII - Death = MORTARION XIV - Temperance = KHAN XV - The Devil = PERTURABO XVI - The Tower = ANGRON XVII - The Star = CORAX XVIII - The Moon = KONRAD CURZE XIX - The Sun = ROGAL DORN XX - The Last Judgement = LEMAN RUSS</nowiki>

http://menducia.atspace.com/primarchs/IV.html

This Gives a nice indication of a possible fit, for fan Primarchs or possible lost Legions.