History FanFic / ReturnOfThePrimarchs

** Alternatively he may have found a Maerorus Assassin pod left by the long dead Legienstrasse (the first and last member of the Maerorus, which are the 40K version of the original [[VideoGame/{{Prototype}}Mercer]]) and managed to turn himself into what he became.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Iyarsith and presumably Orafal as well don't understand why Jaghatai Khan don't [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness kill them]] after they get forced to help him take over a fortress.

* SpeechImpediment: Commander Boreale is alive in this timeline and his [[{{Narm}} narmtastic]] dialogue has been [[CharacterExaggeration exaggerated]] into a full Speech Impediment. He believes that he has a beautiful voice due to everyone constantly lying to him about it, [[{{Narcissist}} up to the point where he straps a loudspeaker and Astropath to his back so that everyone on the planet can hear him speak.]]

* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:O'Shovah during the Farsight Enclaves ten year long isolation in the Warp.]] Due to the nature of the place, he kept fighting Daemons for over nine hundred years. Thanks to this he became a even more fearsome warrior. Added that [[{{Nanomachines}} nanomachines]] were also involved with that, making him [[{{Really700YearsOld}} really old]]...with emphasis on old.

* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler: Kais]] is lying on his back, horrifically burned, trapped in his mangled battlesuit, and bleeding to death. A Lord of Change appears, and starts delivering a ReasonYouSuckSpeech about how fed up of him it is. [[spoiler: Kais]] ''spits in its face'' and tells it to go to hell.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Iyarsith and presumably Orafal as well don't understand why Jaghatai Khan don't [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefullness kill them]] after they get forced to help him take over a fortress.

** Captain Boreale's Cruiser is called the ''Words of Clear Understanding''. The man's accent is almost indecipherable.

* Took a Level in Kindness: Fulgrim is becoming this. He's still arrogant, but he became nicer.

** A more personal example is Captain Titus, who returns from a crusade alongside the Inquisitor from the end of ''Space Marine'' to find that his name and his entire history was erased and his position replaced.

** [[VideoGame/DawnOfWar Governor-General Vance Stubbs]], who spent his time after Soulstorm marrying a Cadian girl whose father is implied to be [[spoiler:General Sturnn]] and has two children who accidentally take out Trazyn the Infinite with a single EMP Grenade.

** Vance Stubbs employs elite troopers [[VideoGame/DukeNukem Duke]] and [[VideoGame/SeriousSam Stone]] to help Vulkan re-activate Trazyn and find the MacGuffin.

** The Sons of Thunder are something of an in-universe shout out to the Thunder Warriors, the FlawedPrototype to the Space Marines who were left for dead after their uses ran out.

* AnimatedArmor: The unfortunate fate of [[spoiler:Shas'O Kais.]] The Lord of Change that cursed him specifically mentions that his body and mind will wither, but he will never die, no matter how badly he wants it.
* {{Animorphism}}: [[spoiler:Shrike's special abilities involves transforming into a monstrous crow-like form. From what is known, it is implied that Shrike is possibly a Daemon of the Emperor, whose powers are derived from the Orks' fears of him.]]

* [[APirate400YearsTooLate A Pirate 40,000 Years Too Late]]: The II Legion, the Void Reavers and their Primarch, Captain Ironbeard. Not only was Ironbeard himself originally a pirate captain before the Emperor found him, but his Legion also has members that uphold this similar doctrine.

* NotBigEnoughForTheTwoOfUs: [[spoiler:Sanguinius and the Sanguinor, who is technically the original timeline's Sanguinius in Azakellon's body. The Sanguinor accepts this rather calmly though, knowing that in the Blood Angels will be safe in the Primarch's hands.]]

** TheBusCameBack: They're back, as is everyone else
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: The backstory to this setting explains that the return of the Primarchs was organized in part by the Cabal, who realized how badly they botched things by letting the Emperor nearly die.

** The Sons of Thunder are something of an in-universe shout out to the Thunder Warriors, the FlawedPrototype to the Space Marines who were left for dead.

* SpeechImpediment: Commander Boreale is alive in this timeline and his [[{{Narm}} narmtastic]] dialogue has been [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized]] into a full Speech Impediment. He believes that he has a beautiful voice due to everyone constantly lying to him about it, [[{{Narcissist}} up to the point where he straps a loudspeaker and Astropath to his back so that everyone on the planet can hear him speak.]]

* Irony: Firaeveus Caron, hater of [[MemeticMutation METAL BAWKSES]] [[spoiler:nearly died in Kaurava, getting shoved into a Contemptor Dreadnought chassis, which is in itself a metal box.]]

* BadassFamily: The Primarchs, or course. They tend to range between BashBrothers and FireForgedFriendship depending on their prior relations.

* NotBigEnoughForTheTwoOfUs: [[spoiler:Sanguinius and the Sanguinor, who is technically Sanguinius in Azakellon's body. The Sanguinor accepts this rather calmly though, knowing that in the Blood Angels will be safe in the Primarch's hands.]]

** [[VideoGame/DawnOfWar Governor-General Vance Stubbs]], who spent his time after Soulstorm marrying a Cadian girl whose father is implied to be [[spoiler:General Sturnn]] and has two children who take out Trazyn the Infinite with a single EMP Grenade.

* AnimatedArmor: The unfortunate fate of [[spoiler:Shas'O Kais]]
* [[APirate400YearsTooLate A Pirate 40,000 Years Too Late]]: The II Legion, the Void Reavers and their Primarch, Captain Ironbeard.
* BadassFamily: The Primarchs, or course.

* BlindSeer: [[spoiler:Magnus the Red and the Thousand Sons after their Soul-Binding]]

* MirrorMatch: One of the more popular ideas, each Primarch has to face their Daemonic double. The same with some of the main officers like Kharn and Abaddon.

* PutOnABus: The Second and Eleventh Legions and their Primarchs, though their banishment was somewhat of a blessing.

Imagine what would happen if the [[Warhammer40K Primarchs]], both those that stood loyal to the Emperor, as well as those who fell to Chaos, returned with the latter still being uncorrupted.

* AnimatedArmor: The unfortunate fate of [spoilers]Shas'O Kais[/spoilers]

** [[VideoGame/DawnOfWar Governor-General Vance Stubbs]], who spent his time after Soulstorm marrying a Cadian girl whose father is implied to be [spoilers]General Sturnn[/spoilers] and has two children who take out Trazyn the Infinite with a single EMP Grenade.
* BlindSeer: [spoilers]Magnus the Red and the Thousand Sons after their Soul-Binding[/spoilers]

* KleptomaniacHero: Trazyn the Infinite, who tried to loot the Baneblades from Kaurava I, only to be blown out by wooden decoys.

* TheManBehindTheMan: Inverted in a way, as Archon Lord Tengu [spoilers]who is actually Jaghatai Khan[/spoilers] has his press-ganged Dark Eldar minion Iyarsith act as his face, as he is too big to be identified as one.

Imagine what happened if the [[Warhammer40K Primarchs]], both those that stood loyal to the Emperor, as well as those who fell to Chaos, returned with the latter still being uncorrupted.

A [[WhatIf What If]] series of stories centered around the efforts of the Primarchs as they return thanks to the machinations of the Emperor and Cegorach. Filled with badassery and awesome that transcend space and time, these stories depict how the Primarchs see the 41st millenium, and how those Primarchs whose counterparts turned traitor take oaths to fix that what went wrong in the past, as well to [[TheAtoner atone]] [[HorusHeresy for what they did]].