Editing Medhammer 40,000 Primarchs (section)

==Magnus==
[[File:MH40k Magnus.png|200px|thumb|left|Broken and alone, Magnus the Elder is left to hold the Golden Throne so that his father may recover (yes i know this picture, sucks it was one of my first ones, ill make better ones eventually i swear!).]]

All of the Loyal Primarchs are officially in charge of the Imperium, but all save a few keep a hands off approach to its governance. Being content to observe and pursue their own interests should The Imperium seem to be handling itself. Magnus is no such primarch, and he has without fail, maintained his role as protector of the imperium from the unknown and unknowable. The calm and somber Magnus, oversees nearly all aspects of Psyker and warp related activity in the Imperium. He is headmaster of the Psyker colleges, including The Regula Prosperae and Tempestus compliant chapters (those Librarius heavy chapters that fight against the warp), the Vlka Fenrika (a College of Magic rooted in the Rune Priests of Fenris), and keeper of the Black Ships, who supply both students for Terra's sanctioned psyker colleges, and fuel for the golden throne.

Many, Magnus and Russ included, would have been surprised by the idea that Magnus the Red, would be the head of creating rules and rituals for practitioners for psykers. Let alone for his rival, Leman Russ and the Superstition-addled Rune Priests he so despised. However, like Russ and Lupercal, Magnus the Red emerged from the crucible of The Great Treachery a very different man than the one he had entered. Magnus, a man who prized knowledge and unimpeded learning above all things was forced to confront just what unbridled warp use could lead to. There was a time before the Council of Nikea that Khan and Sanguinius had pleaded with Magnus to write a set of rules and limitations for psykers, and he laughed at them. He is no longer laughing, and the destruction of Prospero, fall of the space wolves, Desolation of Ultramar, and injuries inflicted on his father by an entity he naively swore a pact with has soured his enthusiasm for unbridled knowledge. But as Russ has moved closer to Magnus' understanding of knowledge as a weapon of the unknown, Magnus has moved to a greater appreciation of Leman Russ. Before he thought of him as just a superstitious barbarian, but Magnus has since come to a greater appreciation of his Khan and Russ's concerns towards "Maleficarum" having seen what horrors it can produce, and what it has cost them both. The shared experience of Russ and Magnus during the fall of Prospero has brought the two brothers closer, blaming themselves for the fall of prospero and the destruction of their legions. During the Council of Terra, Leman Russ advocated for a retraction of the Council of Nikea, for a vindication of Magnus, and for his own remaining sons to be placed under Magnus' care. Magnus, meanwhile echoed many of Russ' concerns at the Council of Nikea, and agreed to create a system of rules and regulations to protect the Imperium's Psykers and Librarius chapters from the "Maleficari" who were no longer a superstition but five beings whose terror can not be fathomed.

In addition to his work with maintaining the psyker colleges, and researching what greater threats await the Imperium, Magnus is part of the Triumvirate. Along with Fulgrim and the Captain-General of The Adeptus Custodes, Magnus helps to protect the Emperor from any and all threats that could prevent the emperor's recovery. Magnus, in particular focuses on The Emperor's psychic and spiritual health, and has worked to prevent many attacks that Tzeentch can inflict on his father. In addition to serving as a "spiritual doctor" to The Emperor, Magnus has taken his Father's place upon the Golden Throne when he is too weak to do so (which is often). For 10,000 Years, Magnus has protected Terra and The Emperor from those beasts and demons that Threaten Terra. The strain of his many duties has taken its toll on magnus, both emotionally and physically. Of all the primarchs, only Magnus has shown signs of aging over the past 10,000 years. The Golden throne aging the Sorceror Prince to that of a wizened and weathered with age. His Red hair now Bone White, and his skin loosening on his aenemic bones.