Return of the Primarchs

Here's a page for the ongoing Return of the Primarchs setting. At the moment, it is a storage place for ideas.

The Premise

What if, in a giant act of just as planned, Malal, Cegorrach, and The God Emperor, in concert with all of the other anti-big 4 chaos gods engineered the return of the Primarchs, in their early enough in the crusade not to hate each other forms, and a few other changes, notably the removal of Angron's Butcher's Nails and the curing of Kruze's madness. Oh, and they have at least some part of their legions and support staff, so Mechanicum, remembrancers, all that.

The result is a setting based on badassery and manly tears.

Personae Dramatis

Primarchs

Horus

Has a bit of a meltdown, runs off to be a lone wolf against chaos for a while, setting himself some yet to be decided task. Once he completes it, he can forgive himself.

Ferrus Manus

He has a good head on his shoulders. He remonstrates his legion for their obsessive perfectionism, which lets him help Fulgrim.

Fulgrim

Fulgrim freaks out. First he finds out about the Heresy, but its ok, he has his friend Ferrus. Then the two split up to tour the Imperium, Fulgrim ends up at Ultramar and collapses at the feet of Gorillaman's stasis coffin. Then he learns what he did to Manus. He runs off ala Rossiu, but Manus comes for him. See the story below, as it is awesome.

Magnus

Gets soul bound with the emperor. Also he gets decked out by the Grey Knights, with a holy lance tempered in the emperors blood and gets the 666 rites of detestation etch into his back. He is clad in trusilver armor,

Russ

Comes back for the wolftime. More than anything else, he feels guilty for what he did to Magnus-- in fact the reason he vanished into the warp was to go try to kill Magnus, as a way of atoning. Now that Magnus is back and badass, will everyone's favourite Space Viking Wolfman be able to face his estranged brother?

Lorgar

Surprisingly ok with things, viewing his earlier failing as a lack of faith on his part. If Magnus is the holy lance in the fight against the Daemonic, Lorgar is his shield bearer, swearing to protect his brothers from the horrors of the warp. Lorgar gets pimped out by the Ecclesiarchy, with a shrine to the god emperor built into his new holy armor and bolts for his bolter carved from the bones of saints. Depending on how far we go, he may also have had his bones inscribed with hymns to the emperor, like an emperor loving version of wolverine. When he finds out how things went down, he promplty crushes Kor Phaeron's head, with a 'YOU WERE LIKE A FATHER TO ME' speech.

Mortarion

THE EMPEROR'S UNBREAKABLE SCYTHE! Though the skies may rain blood and the mountains crumble to dust, the Death Guard will stand fast, advancing inch by inch, their marching cadence the thud of their artillery. Mortarion vows to exterminate Nurgle's influence with the same tenacity that makes their chaos counterparts so damned hard to beat.

Angron

Basically the Dornian Heresy version of Angron, so he's a super cool zen-berserker.

Chief Thunder

The Emperor's diplomat and beastmaster. Currently under development, but the basic gist is that the Big E wasn't always so Xenophobic, was willing to work with Xenos (ie, Craftworlders) as long as they obeyed/cooperated him, which, since he's the only guy who can fight chaos head on, makes some sense. To do this, the big E made Chief Thunder, but when the Primarchlings got swept off, Thunder ended up being found and raised by Xenos. Oops. This isn't so bad, but the Xenos in question had chaotic leanings, not that Thunder knew this. The big E finds Thunder and then has to figure out how to go about quietly exterminating everyone he loves. Nice... (which might explain why Emps let Angron's men die--if they were khorne bait with those nails.)

The other primarchs around at the time are a bit leary of this weird Xenos-raised guy, particularly Moritarion, for whom it hits too close to home, Gorillaman, Dorn, Lorgar, and a few others. The Emperor tells them to shove it, and they obey for the time. The Emperor then has Thunder go meet with the craftworlders, but things go poorly. Really poorly. All contact is lost, the last transmissions are of war with Thunder tearing the head off of the Warp Spiders Pheonix Lord. When next it is found, the craftworld is devoid of life and crawling with sinister warp signatures.

Emps knows this to be the work of Daemons but can't tell anyone. He wants to try again, but he can't tell anyone, so he ends up taking a more hardline stance against Xenos. He

Necrons

Trayzn the Infinite

Turns out he's been trying to rebuild Vulkan. Guess he wanted an autograph? He proves instrumental in bringing Necrons into an alliance with the Imperium.

Links

Archive of first thread: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/30718552/