History Fanfic / ReturnOfThePrimarchs

A collection of the Works, as well as links to the threads, can be found [[http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Return_of_the_Primarchs here]].

* KnifeNut: Shrike has a massive Bowie Knife, [[spoiler: which he reveals to be made from a piece of the ''Wailing Doom''.]]

* TheEmpath: Chief Taimak's main psychic power is empathy, meaning that he can see the pain that people have gone through and [[EmotionBomb make others feel the pain that others go through]]. It's one of the main reason he's able to make people get along - he shows them that everyone is NotSoDifferent.

'''Return of the Primarchs''' is a series of WhatIf stories (written by a small gang of writers on Website/FourChan's /tg/ board), centered around the efforts of the Primarchs as they return thanks to the machinations of the Emperor, Malal, and Cegorach. Filled with badassery and awesome that transcends 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]] [[Literature/HorusHeresy for what they did]].

A collection of the Works as well as links to the threads can be found [[http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Return_of_the_Primarchs here]].

** What's more, WordOfGod points out how, as [[spoiler: O'Kais' battlesuit]] lacks the autosenses of a Space Marine's armour, he cannot even feel the outside world anymore.

* BlindSeer: [[spoiler:Magnus the Red and the Thousand Sons after their Soul-Binding.]] However, their blindness is offset by their ability to sense things with their warp-powers.

** 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 a new Maerorus.

* 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.

* PutOnABus: The Second and Eleventh Legions and their Primarchs, though their banishment was somewhat of a blessing as they never got to see Horus' temper tantrum. In this story, however, [[TheBusCameBack]].

** Taimak, whose original beta name was actually ''[[VideoGeme/KillerInstinct Chief Thunder]]'', with his appearance very nearly mirroring the latter's redesigned appearance.

* [[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.
* ATasteOfDefeat: There is one tale where Shrike gets overconfident in his skill and tries to rescue a botched Ultramarine operation with only a small team. It fails, and one of his closest friends dies, shocking the Captain to the core.

* {{Animorphism}}: [[spoiler: One of Shrike's special abilities involves transforming into a monstrous crow-like form.]] From what is known, it is implied that this is due to the same psychic field that [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve allows much of the Orks' technology to function]], only working against them this time.

* DisappearedDad: Commander Blacksun never really knew his father, [[spoiler: (O'Kais, who vanished from history)]] and was instead raised by Commander Farsight.
** DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Blacksun also doesn't know his mother, [[spoiler: (Commander Shadowsun)]] but her fate is far more certainly confirmed as dead. [[spoiler:Then again, it wasn't like she had much choice...]] Despite this, Blacksun is raised to be a very honorable commander of the Tau with a very straight morality.
* EnemyMine: Asdrubael Vect forces a temporary alliance between all the various Dark Eldar kabal's, wych cults, and haemonculous covens (knowing the Dark Eldar, a bunch of which are at war with each other) because [[spoiler: the servants of Malal are trying to destroy the Webway.]]
** The temporary alliance with Malal was this since it is still a Chaos God and would've been an enemy at most other times. It's forces turned on everyone rather shortly after the Primarchs were returned.

* EvilMeScaresMe: When Fulgim sees his demonic future self, he's absolutely terrified and Ferrus has to "GetAHoldOfYourselfMan" him.

** Taimak, whose original beta name was actually ''[[VideogGeme/KillerInstinct Chief Thunder]]'', with his appearance very nearly mirroring the latter's redesigned appearance.

* {{Hypocrite}}: A one shot character, a [[StrawNihilist Necron Lord Destroyer]] claims that the decay of all into nothingness moves at it's own pace as an excuse for being late. The Inquisitor it's speaking to mutters that this doesn't stop it from helping it happen.
** The Blood Ravens also engage in this since they are trying to punish the Dark Angels for various acts of treason against the Imperium, yet are also thieves as Azrael points out. Though to be fair, stealing things from the Imperium is much different from openly firing on Imperial forces.

* {{Irony}}: Firaeveus Carron, hater of [[MemeticMutation METAL BAWKSES]] [[spoiler:nearly died in Kaurava, forcing him to get shoved into a Contemptor Dreadnought chassis, which is in itself a metal box.]] The irony is not lost on him.

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

** Subverted with Mortarion and Kharn who decide their counterparts are NotWorthKilling and [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere flee the field.]]
* [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice Job Breaking It, Heroes!]]: The return of the Primarchs required that Cadia be taken by Chaos. After that Abaddon had the Pylon network - which was keeping the Eye of Terror from expanding (no one except the Necrons knew that) - destroyed. In order to help amend this, Trazyn is sent to Kaurava in order to find a power core that was stored in the crypts of the Necrons of Kaurava III.

* PutOnABus: The Second and Eleventh Legions and their Primarchs, though their banishment was somewhat of a blessing as they never got to see Horus' temper tantrum.
** 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 up by letting the Emperor nearly die. There were other factors who planned this event as well, including Omegon, the Cryptek Orikan the Diviner, and Cegorach the Laughing God.

* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler: The Rak'gol]] have had most of the capabilities of their species locked away in a planet and a Chaos Sorcerer tries to release it. [[TheBadGuyWins He succeeds]], [[LaserGuidedKarma but is killed in the process.]]

* TheEmpath: Chief Taimak's main psychic power is empathy, meaning that he can see the pain that people have gone through and make others feel the pain that others go through. It's one of the main reason he's able to make people get along, he shows them that everyone is NotSoDifferent.
* TheManBehindTheMan: Inverted in a way, as Archon Lord Tengu [[spoiler:who is actually Jaghatai Khan]] has his press-ganged Dark Eldar minion Iyarsith act as his public face, as he is too big to be identified as a legitimate Dark Eldar.
* TokenEvilTeamMate: Malal had it's own motives for helping the others. [[spoiler:It siphoned a lot of Warp Energy for itself and is now strong enough to have just as big a role in the universe as the rest of the Chaos gods.]]

* {{Unperson}}: Obviously, the Two Missing Legions, who intentionally seceded from the Imperium for their own reasons. Any record of them was obliterated and any Astartes left in their Legions got mind-wiped and placed into another Legion, never to remember their true lineage.

'''Return of the Primarchs''' is a series of WhatIf stories (written by a small gang of writers on Website/FourChan's /tg/ board, centered around the efforts of the Primarchs as they return thanks to the machinations of the Emperor, Malal, and Cegorach. Filled with badassery and awesome that transcends 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]] [[Literature/HorusHeresy for what they did]].

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, the traitors being pulled from alternate timelines where they resisted the call of the Dark Gods? What if the missing Primarchs have been found?

'''Return of the Primarchs''' is a series of WhatIf stories (written by a small gang of writers on [[{{Imageboards}} 4Chan's /tg/ board]]), centered around the efforts of the Primarchs as they return thanks to the machinations of the Emperor, Malal, and Cegorach. Filled with badassery and awesome that transcends 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]] [[Literature/HorusHeresy for what they did]].

'''Return of the Primarchs''' is a series of WhatIf stories (written by a small gang of writers on [[{{Imageboards}} 4Chan's /tg/ board]]), centered around the efforts of the Primarchs as they return thanks to the machinations of the Emperor, Malal, and Cegorach. Filled with badassery and awesome that transcends 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]].

** [[spoiler:After the demise of both pre- and post-heresy versions of both Kor Phaeron and Erebus, [[{{DawnofWar}} Eliphas The Inheritor]], having become a Daemon Prince,]] takes over the Chaos worshipping Word Bearers as the Dark Council's new leader.

* Expy:

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, the traitors being pulled from alternate timelines where they resisted the call of the Dark Gods. Also, the missing Primarchs have been found.

'''Return of the Primarchs''' is a series of WhatIf stories (written by a small gang of writers on [[{{Imageboards}} 4Chan's /tg/ board]]), centered around the efforts of the Primarchs as they return thanks to the machinations of the Emperor, Malal, 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]].

* {{Animorphism}}: [[spoiler: One of Shrike's special abilities involves transforming into a monstrous crow-like form. From what is known, it is implied that this is due to the same psychic field that [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve allows much of the Orks' technology to function]], only working against them this time.]]

* EnemyMine: Asdrubael Vect forces a temporary alliance between all the various Dark Eldar kabal's, wych cults, and haemonculous covens (which knowing the Dark Eldar a bunch of them are at war with each other) because [[spoiler: the servants of Malal are trying to destroy the Webway.]]

* [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice Job Breaking It, Heroes!]]: The return of the Primarchs required that Cadia be taken by Chaos. After that Abaddon had the Pylon network destroyed which was keeping the Eye of Terror from expanding (no one except the Necrons knew that). In order to help amend this, Trazyn is sent to Kaurava in order to find a power core that was stored in the crypts of the Necrons of Kaurava III.

** 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.

* {{Irony}}: Firaeveus Carron, hater of [[MemeticMutation METAL BAWKSES]] [[spoiler:nearly died in Kaurava, forcing him to get shoved into a Contemptor Dreadnought chassis, which is in itself a metal box.]]

** The story ''Arise, Black Master, Arise!'' has a scene that pretty blatantly mirrors the introduction to the [[WesternAnimation/GIJoeTheMovie]], with Chaos Lord Serhius acting as Serpentor, while the Cobra King represented the Cobra Commander. [[spoiler:However, unlike the movie, the Cobra King gets killed fairly quickly after everyone agrees that he's a nuisance.]]

* [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice Job Breaking It, Heroes!]]: The return of the Primarchs required that the Eye of Terror swell and then cause Cadia and the pylon network to be destroyed by Abaddon. In order to help amend this, Trazyn is sent to Kaurava in order to find a power core that was stored in the crypts of the Necrons of Kaurava III.

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

* {{Hypocrite}}: A one shot character, a [[StrawNihilist Necron destroyer]] claims that the decay of all into nothingness moves at it's own pace as an excuse for being late. The Inquisitor it's speaking to mutters that this doesn't stop it from helping it happen.

* 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 safer in the Primarch's hands.]]

* 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 up by letting the Emperor nearly die. There were other factors who planned this factor as well, including Omegon, the Cryptek Orikan the Diviner, and Cegorach the Laughing God.

** The Void Reavers have members named after infamous pirates like Black Bartolomeo and Calico Jacques.

** The story ''Arise, Black Master, Arise!'' has a scene that pretty blatantly mirrors the introduction to the [[WesternAnimation/GIJoe GI Joe Movie]], with Chaos Lord Serhius acting as Serpentor, while the Cobra King represented the Cobra Commander. [[spoiler:However, unlike the movie, the Cobra King gets killed fairly quickly after everyone agrees that he's a nuisance.]]

** [[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.

* {{Unperson}}: Obviously, the Two Missing Legions, who have intentionally seceded from the Imperium for their own reasons. Any record of them was obliterated and any Astartes left in their Legions got mind-wiped and placed into another Legion, never to remember their true lineage.

** What's more, WordOfGod points out how, as [[spoiler: Kais' battlesuit]] lacks the autosenses of a Space Marine's armour, he cannot even feel the outside world anymore.

* BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins: The general theming of the XI Legion, the Sons of Thunder and their Primarch, Taimak. Considering he was inspired by [[VideoGame/KillerInstinct Chief Thunder]], it is pretty obvious.
* CanonWelding: One fo the lesser goals of this work was to tie together the plots of ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar'' and ''VideoGame/Warhammer40000SpaceMarine'' to the general Canon.
** Titus' Captaincy of the Second Company gets placed at least circa 500-600.M40 (So that Agemman could be the canonical Captain of the Second Company during the First Tyrannic War).

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

* {{Hypocrite}}: A one shot character, a [[StrawNihilist Necron destroyer]] claims that the decay of all into nothingness moves at it's own pace as an excuse for being late. The Inquisitor it's speaking to mutters that this doesn't stop it from helping it happen. It then engages in Hypocrisy again when it tries to force the Inquisitor to stay behind to witness the destruction he caused while fleeing the field to avoid the destruction it also had a hand in causing. Fortunately, the Lychguard [[LaserGuidedKarma chop it to pieces.]]

* GoneHorriblyRight: The Tau empire modified their Eugenics program after gathering more information about the Warp from the Imperium in order to increase the Tau's warp reflection. [[HistoryRepeats It caused most of the empire to fall to Chaos in a similar manner to the Horus Heresy.]]
* {{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.]]

** Averted in the case of Magnus and Ahriman, who both want to save their Legion above all else, and Lorgar, who debates with his duplicate.

* OmnicidalManiac: Malal the Chaos god of destruction.

* 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 up by letting the Emperor nearly die.

* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler: The Rak'gol]] have had most of the capabilities of their species locked away in a planet and a Chaos Sorcerer tries to release it. [[TheBadGuyWins He succeeds]] [[LaserGuidedKarma but is killed in the process.]]

** Fulgrim's first fight was against a [[VideoGame/{{Prototype}} heretek by the name of Mercer]].

** An Ultramarines story involves Robutte Guilliman and Marneus Calgar meeting a Captain Mathaius Ward and then having said captain pass out. Matthew Ward is a Codex Writer for the 40K universe who is universally known (and reviled) for his blatant fanboyism for the Ultramarines.

* TheEmpath: Chief Taimaks main psychic power is empathy, meaning that he can see the pain that people have gone through and make others feel the pain that others go through. It's one of the main reason he's able to make people get along, he shows them that everyone is NotSoDifferent.
* TheManBehindTheMan: Inverted in a way, as Archon Lord Tengu [[spoiler:who is actually Jaghatai Khan]] has his press-ganged Dark Eldar minion Iyarsith act as his face, as he is too big to be identified as one.

** To a lesser extent Tranzyn to [[spoiler:Vulkan]] due to his kleptomania.

** [[spoiler:After the demise of both pre and post heresy versions of both Kor Phaeron and Erebus, [[{{DawnofWar}} Eliphas The Inheritor]] as a Daemon Prince]] takes over the Chaos worshipping Word Bearers as the Dark Council's new leader.

* {{Hypocrite}}: A one shot character, a [[StrawNihilist Necron destroyer]] claims that the decay of all into nothingness moves at it's own pace as an excuse for being late. The Inquisitor it's speaking to mutters that this doesn't stop it from helping it happen.