Editing MidHammer 40,000 (section)

===Magnus===
Title: Magnus The Wise.

Magnus The Red has overseen the training and study of many Imperial psykers, making him a sort of father to many of them, as he has by and large been the only individual within the Imperial hierarchy to treat them as anything more than tools. Due to this Magnus has taken it upon himself to try and train all of them to the best of his ability, but due to the high death count and low survival rate of psykers living to become old, Magnus has become somewhat cold and distant towards his Primarch brothers, dedicating his time to trying to save as many of his “children” as he can with little time set aside for anything else.  In these duties include him and his legion launching campaigns to teach the common Imperial citizen about the psykers, and the running of the black ships(need a new name for it)(the gray vessels, the gray havens, silver sanctuaries something like that sound good?).  Along with Magnus' duty of keeping the Golden Throne running when the Emperor needs to go and do something (like use the bathroom) Magnus has very little time to do much else.

He could also have become the administrator and leader of the Ordo Malleus of the Inquisition, being the most senior living authority on the subject of the Warp and how it works, being very sobered to the deviousness of it and the true threats it poses to those who dive too deep into it without looking first after seeing the Daemonic tide on Istvaan V and the corruption, both physiological and mental, that occurred with both his traitor brothers and some of his own Thousand Sons Astartes as the Letdown went down. With having helped prevent Horus' fall (which he and Father kept on the down-low) and being entrusted by the Emperor with his new duties, Magnus' sense of duty and his appreciation for caution have earned him the name Magnus The Wise.

Another idea [Furious Finch] had was that Magnus is very specifically targeted by Lorgar, who has been shown the "truth" of the universe which some of the Eldar are desperate to cover up. Specifically, the Chaos Gods showed Lorgar... ''the OriginalHammer setting's universe.'' The extremely grimdark one. Lorgar wants to expose Magnus to the same brain-shattering psychic visions that he was shown by Chaos in order to corrupt him and turn him away from Big E and the Imperium. Through trickery and a trap (Perturabo, smug prick, was involved), Lorgar and his cohorts were successful in exposing Magnus to the psychic visions of the "true universe" where everything went so, so wrong, and in doing so expose Magnus to Warp energies straight out from between Tzeentch's perfect teeth which agonizingly transform Magnus' Primarch body into a mutant visage extremely reminiscent of his Daemon Prince appearance in OriginalHammer, to sow dissent and mistrust among him and his loyalist brothers to better drive him from them. Magnus survives this attack, both on his body and his mind, though he is taxed heavily by the experience and the terrible awful things he saw, and is only saved at all with the intervention of several of the loyalist Primarchs, including ye boi Leman Russ, and the loyal brothers reap a mean toll on the traitorous Astartes and give the traitor Primarchs a pretty solid thrashing to send them on their way as well, but are unable to prevent the physical corruption of Magnus' body from a beautiful, pure (if half-blind) Human into a red-skinned freak. Dissention indeed is sown as Corvus wants to put Magnus down then and there, expecting him a lost cause, but Leman Russ puts him in his place and refuses to allow Magnus to be field-executed, returning to Terra in person for the first time in many centuries to personally escort Magnus to safety. Debate and argument rages between the loyalist Primarchs over what should be done about Magnus. Vulkan, Leman Russ, Ferrus and oddly Fulgrim think Magnus should be monitored but isn't a threat. Guilliman, Jaghatai Khan, the Warmaster Horus, Corvus Corax and Lion el'Johnson are concerned that Magnus is now possessed in some capacity and should be destroyed before he can spread corruption further. Rogal Dorn is of course not available for comment.

The God-Emperor Himself admits to not being certain Himself of the extent of the damage to Magnus, and Sanguinius refuses to take either side, trusting in Father's eventual judgement.