History FanFic / TheMortalSon

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13914439/1/The-Mortal-Son The Mortal Son]]''[[note]]Also found [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/39843495/chapters/99756702 here]][[/note]] by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/5671642/FreedomOfThinking FreedomOfThinking]] is a ''very'' expansive (over 300,000 words to date) ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' fanfic.

* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: [[spoiler:In Chapter 28, [[TheGlovesComeOff Lucian finally unleashes his full powers]]. The result? A WorldWreckingWave that ''atomizes'' every last ork attacking Balor, [[MySignificantSenseIsTingling immediately drawing the attention of psychically-sensitive beings across the galaxy]] -- for the only possible explanation for a display of such raw power is that '''''the Emperor is back'''''. And he technically is.]]

* TheCavalry: [[spoiler:{{Subverted|Trope}}. In Chapter 27, just as all hope on Balor seems lost and the Governor is killed, the Crimson Fists show up to take on the Orks. Then, shortly after as they make landfall, [[PersonOfMassDestruction Lucian vaporises every last one of the Greenskins]].]]

* AdaptationalHeroism:[[spoiler:{{Downplayed|Trope}}, as it's [[WildCard not at all clear what he's really up to]], but it's apparent, especially following Chapter 28, that Magnus the Red is reasonably clearly on Lucian's side and isn't interested in helping Chaos]].

** The aftermath of Lucian's psychic [[WorldWreckingWave Ork-Killing Wave]] is described as "Dust and echoes", a reference to one of Cortana's final lines in ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved''.

* WhatTheHellHero: When the Ork WAAAGH! starts bearing down on Balor, Vownus starts preparing to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere get the hell out of Dodge]], because Lucian and his prophecies are too important to risk getting krumped by dirty Greenskins... Lucian himself then publicly calls him out for being a DirtyCoward, claiming he's ready to fight and die for the Imperium. Vownus concedes he has a point (and/or doesn't want to seem weak in comparison to a ''child''), and decides to stay and fight.

** The aftermath of Lucian's psychic [[WorkWreckingWave Ork-Killing Wave]] is described as "Dust and echoes", a reference to one of Cortana's final lines in ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved''.

* TheCavalry: [[spoiler:In Chapter 27, just as all hope on Balor seems lost and the Governor is killed, the Crimson Fists show up to take on the Orks]].

* AmazonChaser: Vownus really has a thing for [[IronLady tough-as-nails women]]. He constantly flirts with his ship's captain, finds several members of his ship's Guard complement rather attractive, and becomes smitten with the Governor of Belor, with her [[MilitaryBrat proud military heritage]].

* TheCavalry: [[spoiler:In Chapter 27, just as all hope on Belor seems lost and the Governor is killed, the Crimson Fists show up to take on the Orks]].

* AdaptationalHeroism:[[spoiler:{{Downplayed|Trope}}, as it's [[WildCard not at all clear what he's really up to]], but especially following Chapter 28 that Magnus the Red is reasonably clearly on Lucian's side and isn't interested in helping Chaos]].

* PersonOfMassDestruction: Lucian -- as the son of the Emperor, he's quite probably the most powerful psyker in the entire galaxy. In the opening chapters, after the Arbites manage to untie him from the Chaos altar, he turns 600 cultists into PinkMist in the blink of an eye. The problem is, being an immature child, he doesn't have very much ''control'' over this staggering amount of power -- he accidentally pulps a very unlucky Tempestus Scion who tried to grab him after the aforementioned incident, and when he finally starts practical training, an attempt to produce a simple lighting bolt leads to a [[FantasticNuke blast of energy more powerful than a nuclear bomb]].

* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: [[spoiler:In Chapter 28, [[TheGlovesComeOff Lucian finally unleashes his full powers]]. The result? A WorldWreckingWave that ''atomizes'' every last ork attacking Balor, [[MySignificantSenseIsTingling immediately drawing the attention of psychically-sensitive beings across the galaxy]] -- for the only possible explanation for a display of such raw power is that '''the Emperor's back'''. And he technically is.]]

* DoomedHometown: {{Downplayed|Trope}} with Helios. The combined forces of the PDF, Ahmazzi and Vownus manage to crush the Chaos cult, but as a result of the cult's very existence, the entire planet becomes [[TheParanoiac absolutely rife with paranoia]], both of friends of family being heretics, or of the Inquisition thinking ''you'' are a heretic. Things get even worse when [[KnightTemplar Rykehuss]] shows up and establishes his public KangarooCourt.

* DoomedHometown: {{Downplayed|Trope}} with Helios. The combined forces of the PDF, Ahmazzi and Vownus manage to crush the Chaos cult, but as a result of the cult's very existence, entire planet becomes [[TheParanoiac absolutely rife with paranoia]], both of friends of family being heretics, or of the Inquisition thinking ''you'' are a heretic. Things get even worse when [[KnightTemplar Rykehuss]] shows up and establishes his public KangarooCourt.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: Romosein Welis, Planetary Governor of Helios, is only mentioned in a brief passage in Chapter 1, but his [[ ReasonableAuthorityFigure genuine commitment to protecting his people]] leads to him calling in favours to summon the Inquisitor after Lynwood and Caius discover evidence of a Chaos cult, which means he's probably responsible for Lucian not being sacrificed in the Chaos ritual, and at the very least for Vownus finding him before someone far less sympathetic to Psykers did.