Medhammer 40,000 Primarchs

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Alpharius-Omegon, Demon Prince of Tzeentch

Alpharius and Omegon have merged into a massive two headed peacock, with heads similar to the Hydra of their Pauldron. Each "Eye" of the Peacock's plumage is a functioning eye, through which Alpharius sees into the possible futures.

Corvus Corax

Once one of the Emperor's most noble sons, Corvus Corax disappeared into the Eye of Terror and came back a different being. In his vengeful hunt for Alpharius, The Ravenlord traveled deep into the eye of terror, using his powers of stealth to track the Servant of the Lord of Change. Bolstered by his faith in the Imperial Truth, he knew he could not waver in his duty to bring justice and vengence against these warp demons.

He and his Legion exists in hiding. Always tracking the movements of the Chaos gods. Never leaving the warp except occasionally to gather new recruits, but even then, they could instead raid the Planets of those serving the ruinous powers. Or perhaps even trade with them. After all Slaanesh, Nurgle, and Khorne each have a grudge with the Lord of Change, and if their goals aligned with Corax, then it is a necessary evil. He is safe because he knows that these beings of the warp won't exist because they shouldn't exist. He knows that he was made by the emperor to be a creature of the warp made to defeat it. To serve the Imperial Truth, to be a loyal son of the Emperor in this immaterial hellscape is to be a being of pure malice. And if those warp entities exist that can defeat the warp, then their embrace is to be welcomed.

There are reports in the warp of black ravens who stalk the Eye of Terror.

Jaghatai Khan

pronounced Chug-ga-Thai

" Always listen for the Rhythm of the Battlefield. All soldiers in a fight take their turns to play their peace. We Astartes are the masters of the instruments of war, and can adjust to the tempo of the battle while continuing to play our piece. When taking cover, or stop for any reason you may think you are adjusting the tempo. You are not, instead you are forfeiting your role, and allowing the opponent to play his part instead."

– Jaghatai Khan, Index Skythae

The Heraldry of Jaghatai Khan, Commander of the White Scars.

Jaghatai was still found on the Steppe world of Chorgoris, but given the sheer multitude of tribes that populate the region, and tribes being nations and cultures in of themselves, who found and raised the primarch might as well make him from a different country altogether. In this case he was found by one Zira Halime, wife of the Chieftan of the Qoqdunluk tribe. The Qoqdunluk were wealthy nomads, who owned numerous goats, sheep and horses, making their wealth salvaging the ruined citties of the old world and trading them with the other nomads and settlers. Jaghatai still conquered the world of Chorgoris, but the more scholarly and mercantile Jaghatai did so through diplomacy and more prudent tactics. Uniting the tribes under an intricate web of blood pacts, marriages, favors, and religious oaths, he brought The Palatine kingdom to its knees by cutting off its supplies to necessary goods, drawing the armies out in foolhardy salliies, and waiting for civil war and intrigue to open the doors of the city for him. Convinced the settlement weakened man to corruption, he dismantled Palatine into several tributary towns, and doing likewise for other metropolises.

During the great crusade Jaghatai Khan took to the Void like few others, seeing the Flotilla as the new caravan, where mankind could at last be free from the shackles of the settlement. He also fostered his own decentralized management style, encouraging the White scars to break apart and reform themselves under "tribes." The Khan developed a strong but strange friendship with Roboute Gulliman. The two statesmen primarchs developed a friendly rivalry and saw each as the best counter to their own prefered philosophy. The two regularly sparred over tactics and administration of planets, trying to settle the Settler vs Nomad debate through their own handiwork.

When the treachery of Lorgar swept through the Imperium, Jaghatai Khan was trapped in the network of lies and miscommunications of the Segmentum obscurus. In particular spent much of the treachery in void battles against Nagoya Khan and Luther. Seeing that two of his brothers: Magnus and Gulliman were trapped in seiges on their homeworlds he rescued magnus first Unfortunately by the time he was able to rescue magnus from The Wolf and Luther, it was already too late for Gulliman. Maccragge was destroyed, Ultramar enslaved by Chaos, and Roboute himself tortured and executed. The descision haunts the Khan to this day. Perhaps hoping to honor his memory, it was Jaghatai Khan who collected The Thirteenth Primarch's writings, notes, and his own memory of past debates. The result of his work was "The Codex Astartes" a guide that has just as much of The Khan's emphasis on Loose tribal federations, as it does Gulliman's rigorous demands on the astartes.

Under the regency government, Jaghatai serves as "Keeper of The Book" and with his legion inspects and resolves disputes among the Cultus Astartes (Those Space Marines who follow the codex as independent chapters). Jaghatai was also one of the most vocal proponents of revising the Imperial truth, many suspecting because of his own secretly held religious beliefs.

Magnus

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.

The Lion El'Johnson

Compared to some of his brothers, one might say that The Lion emerged from the Desolation of Lorgar relatively unscathed. He did not lose his life as Guilliman did, nor did he lose his legion as Russ, Magnus and Fulgrim did. But the damage Lorgar wrought upon The Lion's heart was deep, as the Heresy robbed The Lion of his faith in humanity, his brothers, and even in his own legion. Like Lupercal, the treachery and helplessness during the heresy, what drove him to ensure the Imperium was never caught backhanded again.

Alpharius knew that the Lion was an unparalleled Tactictian, and masterful warrior, and so rather than fight the Lion, he neutralized one of the Imperium's greatest assets. Using Luther, whose jealousy of his adoptive son had already corrupted him, and the warrior lodges of the First Legion, Erebus and Luther began secretly corrupting the rest of Calliban against the Lion. Rather than the hero who defeated the beasts and bringing Calliban to a glorious new future under the imperium, Propaganda began to be spread that The Lion was a stooge of a distant tyrant, placed on calliban by Terra to undermine Calliban's revered traditions. The Lion's bluster and rage towards these developments did not help matters, but The Lion was unaccostomed to treachery, backhandedness, and unchivalric behavior on display in Calliban. To make matters worse, the Beasts of Calliban had returned once more, in order to distract The Lion. The Lion, outraged at developments that the ancient beasts had returned to ravage his kingdom, took the bait, and brought his entire legion to calliban to handle Caliban personally. It was here that Luther, and his corrupted fallen abandoned El'Johnson on the Calliban, taking the entire First Legion's fleet with them along with a mysterious weapon hidden on the planet (a gift for perturabo). Trapped on a primitive planet infested with horrorific monsters, The Lion was caged, and while the Desolation ravaged the Imperium, the lion was unable to come to the aid his father and brothers. Meanwhile his Legion, under the command of Luther, was believed to have joined Gulliman, Magnus, and Khan in a revolt against the imperium. These lies and misinformation campaigns, led by Alpharius led to the Events of the Dropsite massacre that saw the fall of Horus Lupercal to his traitorus sons.

With the Destruction of Calliban, Lion El'Johnson is obsessed with Counter-intelligence, and information networks. Unlike Vanillahammer The Lion's Dark Angels have made the Existence of The Fallen well known, and alert other legions to its activities. They "stay in the Dark, to help others see the light." The Lion is now also very deliberate and slow moving in his actions. To the point where some have claimed he is "Sleeping" on the Rock. He is not. He is just paranoid about being manipulated again.