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=='''Bound Fate'''==


===Acknowledgments & Dedication===



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''Thanks to Ahriman's Aide and Someone else. for advice on lore, characters and just writing.''
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::::''Kudos to DarkMage for first portraying Furia as more than just anger.''
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::::::::''This book is dedicated to Brett. ''
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:::::::: ''Hope you found your peace.''
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===Preface===
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::::::::::::::::::::::::''It is a time of peace.''

:The Great Crusade is long over, the epic battles and mythic triumphs of a galaxy-spanning effort to bring Mankind together once more are but echoes in the minds of Imperial citizens.

:::::::::::But the Primarchs live on, united as they ever were, the memories of war still fresh in their aeonian minds.

:In another time, perhaps, this would not be so; but here the Emperor, the Master of Mankind, knew humility and tolerance, here He listened to Eldrad Ulthan, Farseer of Craftworld Ulthwé.

:In the 34th millennium Terra is whole, the Imperium united; the harbingers of Chaos were cast down from among the ranks of the Word Bearers, and so the Great Heresy never came to pass.

:The Eldar Empire is reborn on the eastern fringes of the galaxy, the Pact of Brotherhood between Man and Eldar symbolized by a Golden Orb which links the seats of their two great realms 
::::::::::::::::::::::through the Warp.

::::::::::But the Primarchs are exemplars of war, and a time of peace causes them to chafe, to scrape at the boundaries of life.

:The Emperor foresaw this after the Farseer's premonition, even before He gathered His lost sons, and at Ullanor, when He made great Horus the Warmaster, the Emperor put His plan into 
::::::::::::::::::::::::::motion.

::::::::When the Primarchs returned from the Great Crusade, called suddenly, an unexpected gift awaited them.

::::::::::::::::::::::::::A family.

:::::::For while they toiled at the outer reaches of the galaxy, the Emperor had toiled yet more fervently that they may have a legacy beyond bloodshed.

:That gift was imparted seventeen Terran years ago and now those Daughters, those Lady Primarchs stand on the cusp of their young lives, only a year yet remaining before they begin the 
:::::::::::::::::march to their own fates.

::::::But dangers as never before face the Daughters, and all that stand between them are children, their lives abandoned for the Daughters' dream of a normal life.

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''“The first years of the Great Crusade, the wars of man against man... they were an undesirable circumstance gone too far; only the wisdom of the Emperor, and the foresight of one even farther seeing than he, prevented them from going any further.”''

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::– Primarch Magnus the Red, at the signing of the Treaty of Material Sodality


''“You raise children, you take care of them, shelter them, feed them, put your hopes and dreams in them. You make them feel special. It's what parents do. I think... I think we [the Imperium] treat the Daughters the same way, like celebrities. Like they're our children.”''

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::– Dova Viriato, Holo Performer


''“Greatness is not measured by birth or blood, wealth or power, or even accomplishments, but by the adversity faced to achieve one's ambitions.”''

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::– Tal Urtė, ''Honour to All: A Call for Equality''