Editing Alternate Heresy (section)

==In-Universe Alternate Heresy==
In Lorgar's visions with the daemon Ingethel the Ascended he gets shown alternate futures in which he stabs Sanguinius and then gets executed by Horus "for his sins", and another one in which [[Awesome|he gets taken out by Curze and Russ working together]] "for defying the [[Emperor|Anathema]]." He also gets instructed by [[Kairos Fateweaver]] to avoid at any costs a duel to the death with Corax lest he get his shit pushed in. These are explained as "possible futures" which did not come to pass; in each case it would seem that Lorgar is still the First Heretic (at least in the versions shown to Lorgar himself), but the arrangement of loyal primarchs is different. Notably, in the actual events that ended up playing out, someone who is not Chaos switched the Khan and Fulgrim's fates.

There's also the consideration of the short story "The Board is Set", which details a massive game that the Emps and [[Malcador]] had been playing, revealing that the Heresy War was, to some extent, a calculated outcome. The problem was that the meddling of those four assholes had meant that His actions were reactionary, but far from the worst outcome given the circumstances. This was also where big E revealed his final gambit, one that would most certainly screw over the Sigilite.