History WMG / Warhammer40000

They're failures because they couldn't survive. Whether it was wild animals, paranoid natives, hostile environment, or general bad luck, they died before they were fully grown. That's why knowledge of their existence could destabilize the Imperium: pre-Heresy, the Primarchs were the pinnacle of mankind, and the idea that they could fall to anything short of a whole army would shatter morale. Their Legions in particular would be devastated knowing that their gene-father was lost forever. The Primarchs' mortality became a moot point post Horus Heresy, but by then the survivors had better things to do than remind the Imperium of two dead dudes.

That's why they were considered failures, and why knowledge of them would destabilize the entire Imperium. Whether by wild animals, overzealous natives, or a harsh environment, the Primarchs died in childhood. Their demise was covered up because it would be a huge blow to morale if the supposed pinnacles of humanity were discovered to be vulnerable.

In the ''The Imperial Infantryman's Uplifting Primer'', they have reference to the II and XI Legions. While the name is covered up by the page they taped over it, between the 'the' and the end of the page, the text can fit "m none less than" plus some white space. That's a name with at least 16 characters with no spaces or dashes.

...it was the fault of [[TheInternetIsForPorn the Internet]]. The seeds of Slaanesh's gestation were sealed the moment those pornographers at 4chan declared that "[[RuleThirtyFour If it exists, there is porn of it]]". When humanity expanded, so did the Internet and of course, more and more debaucherous examples of {{Hentai}}, furry porn, BDSM etc. The Eldar used to be [[IncorruptiblePurePureness puritans]] who dedicated their lives to harmony with their own gods, until the Dark Age of Technology where trade with Humanity introduced them to sick porno, which drove a lot of them severely addicted and insane. Humanity planted the seeds of hedonism, but the Eldar due to their psychic powers and mass addiction provided immense power to birth the Porn God. Of course, the Craftworld Eldar tried to return to their traditional puritan ways by censoring all contacts with humanity, while on the other hand the Dark Eldar still weren't able to quit their addiction to sick porn and hence why they are urged to capture as much humans as possible to re-enact all the porn they found. That's why Slaanesh, instead of being a distinctly Eldar god, was a Chaos God instead: Chaos Gods being formed from the emotions of all human life, while the Eldar were just collateral.

The first Custodes are described as the first genetically and psychologically altered warriors created by the Emperor during the Terran Unification Wars, a descrption which obviouslly fits Thunder Warriors more, unless the first Custodes actually '''were''' Thunder Warrriors. Emperor could take those rare of the Thunder Warriors who weren't suffering from [[AxCrazy violent insanity]] and/or [[TheSociopath psychpathy]], and fix their genetic flaws for them to become Custodes. While the hidden dark truth is that the Emperor ordered execution of all Thunder Warriors, this could be in part a lie, for the Emperor [[JerkassFacade to seem more ruthless than he really was]] to his close underlings. This would line up with the historical [[UsefulNotes/{{Augustus}} Emperor Augustus]] playing up his ruthlessness, as seen with Augustus' FamousLastWords : ''"Have I played my part well in the comedy of life? Then applaud!''.

The ultimate goal, if Chaos had not interfered, was to repeat the process of creating the Necrons. Some of the traitor primarchs may well have realised the truth, and decided that the Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend.

Half of the Dark Angels fell to Chaos and the other half remained loyal. The loyalists got most of the traitors, but missed one or two. The Inquisition already knows about this, but since the Chapter has taken steps to redeem itself, is loyal to the Imperium, and is properly repentant, they are simply allowed to continue as they are.

The Emperor was dead. When Guilliman emerged from the Sanctum imperialis, he knew the Truth, but because Mankind is in a horribly desparate state, he said that the Emperor was alive. The Astronomican wasn't the Emperor himself, but the souls of psykers being sacrificed daily. He had to lie so that Humanity will still have the willpower to fight Chaos. As for the information revealed to him that the Emperor only saw the Primarchs as generals and not sons, that was information Guilliman always knew. He was a pragmatic politician, and did not see the Emperor in an intimate relationshipo, and his agenda was always statesmanship and creating a new Imperium besides that of the Emperor (''Imperium Secundus'', aka Ultramar) The End Times, his sponsorship of the Primaris Marines project, and the alliance with the Eldar Ynnari provided the ultimate opportunity for Guilliman to consolidate himself as the Heir to the title of Emperor of Mankind.

* May I ask, why that specific year? Is there something in the lore that states 14,000 years? If they want to make a sequel series (set thousands of years after to [[CrackIsCheaper get more money]]) why not Warhammer 50,000? 55 is just an odd number to use.

Basically imagine if our current Warhammer game had lines like "Kill the Ni**er, Purge the Chink! Creator/GamesWorkshop would have [[UnderStatement a far smaller fanbase]]. GW must have realized that either by intention or accident they had made KluKluxKlan 40k and promptly never made another version of the game. Although oddly enough both miniatures and original rule books are still sold on a seperate website.

I'm basing this WMG on fluff from the earliest concept version of the WH40K canon known as LaserBurn it was a basic ruleset for playing with 15mm miniatures. Basically it states that while there was an Imperium which was ruled by the High Lords of Terra, the Emperor himself isn't mentioned ''not even ONCE''.

There's a reason why the Eldar consider summoning the Avatar to be such a grave, weighty matter only to be done when the GodzillaThreshold has been crossed. It's the Eldar god of war and murder given physical form, and it not only will not but ''cannot'' give up fighting until it is killed. Even if the original conflict it was summoned for is long over, it will just keep on the warpath, leading a substantial proportion of the DyingRace that summoned it into one horrific meat grinder war after another until something ''finally'' manages to kill it. Some Farseers may consider the death (and return to dormancy) of their Avatar to be an acceptable loss after a while, and maneuver it into battles with foes that have a good chance of killing it just to get it over with.

To boot the Imperial Council of Terra is portrayed as [[UnfortunateImplications horrifically racist]], openly planning the genoside of most of Earths racial minorities (predominatly Blacks, Asians, and those of middle eastern decent). The near overwhelming majority of seemingly exiled minorities live on off world colonies termed by the game itself as "Dark Worlds".

Their first mass use of full-scale Warp engines led to the survivors acting rather oddly. It's a short step from there to embracing the Ruinous Powers.

[[WMG: The the missing Primarchs are missing due to the Thunder Warriors.]]

The reason why the Tau get so many lucky breaks is because in the ancient past, their shamans realized the dangers of the galaxy and proceeded to sacrifice themselves into making a collective super-entity. This super-entity has been secretly shaping Tau society and subtly breeding them into a state of low psychic potential because either it fears being overthrown or considers the benefits of psykers to be too dangerous at this point in time and if it thinks psychic powers are beneficial in the long term, will reintroduce it at a time when being able to reshape reality using the Immaterium doesn't come with a decent chance of your brain becoming a literal door to hell. In any case, this Tau super-entity is guiding Tau history, occasionally intervening like introducing the Ethereals and causing a massive Warp Storm to not get purged to make way for Imperial colonists. The Tau super-entity does things a fair bit differently than the Emperor, possibly out of desperation because it doesn't have the same amount of time to do things like the Emperor did, has a different outlook, and may consider revealing itself at this time not beneficial to its plans.

This theory opens up the possibility of other races creating their own [[GodEmperor God Emperors]]. The Necrons are out of the question because they have no Warp presence, and the Tyranid Hive Mind is already essentially a Warp deity, so if any demigod appeared in their species, it would be either absorbed or become subordinate to it. That leaves the Tau, which, who ''do'' have a weak Warp presence and are rather populous. Could a GodEmperor appear among their kind?

Seriously, the Hand of Dominion is understandable in light of the twin gauntlets that Marneus Calgar inherited from Guilliman to begin with, but the Aggressors and the Gravis-armored Captain ALSO having them make it look like he's got some kind of weird thing for it.

In a few of the RPGs, Halo Artifacts are mentioned as strange devices that grant immortality to their wearers, with the caveat of warping their minds, bodies, and souls. Humans who use them at first are restored to their prime and enhanced, but slowly become inhuman creatures with alien minds and memories of strange civilizations, and an early side effect is occasional dreams of alien ruins under dead stars. These artifacts were forged by some strange civilization in the Halo Stars long before man walked the stars or perhaps even existed. Like most beings, these strange xenos likely feared death and went to great measures to avoid it. My theory is that select members created the Halo Devices to warp the body and mind of a victim until they were very similar to the creator of the device, using the restoration of the victim as a lure for the desperate and/or foolhardy. To make it work on most life however, they had to compromise on the exact effects, leading to the variations on the affected. The majority do not work on pyskers or those tainted by Chaos as the Warp has unpredictable effects and hosts alien intelligences of its own.

Who are all alive at the same time, and are all capable if independent action. His backstory suggests that he was both Abraham Lincoln and Napoleon Bonaparte. This would normally be impossible-they where alive concurrently, and someone would have noticed a double-life scenario. This must mean that he can become more than one person at once. Its possible that part of him still exists, either actively shaping the galaxy or biding his time.

In a few of the RPGs, Halo Artifacts are mentioned as strange devices that grant immortality to their wearers, with the caveat of warping their minds, bodies, and souls. Humans who use them at first are restored to their prime and enhanced, but slowly become inhuman creatures with alien minds and memories of strange civilizations, and an early side effect is occasional dreams of alien ruins under dead stars. These artifacts were forged by some strange civilization in the Halo Stars long before man walked the stars or perhaps even existed. Like most beings, these strange xenos likely feared death and went to great measures to avoid it. My theory is that select members created the Halo Devices to warp the body and mind of a victim until they were very similar to the creator of the device, using the restoration of the victim as a lure for the desperate and/or foolhardy. To make it work on most life however, they had to compromise on the exact effects, leading to the variations on the affected. The majority do not work on pyskers or those tainted by Chaos as the Warp has unpredictable effects and hosts alien intelligences of its own.

* Alpharius Omegon received the Emperor’s mind, which made them scheming bastards par excellence, but also [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex made them think that they were right all the time and that they were better than everybody else.]]

Because it's too perfect and too ''Tzeentch'' to not be the case. War Zone Fenris appears fairly pointedly to ''not'' be related to Abaddon's current Black Crusade; methinks that the possible destruction of Fenris - or at least sending the Wolves packing - will place them in line to help hold off the Crusade from the greater Imperium. After all, a world where Chaos wins is one Tzeentch is likely to consider stagnant and dull, and that doesn't tie with how he likes to play his games. And it would be be so very like him to even screw over the Legion that are begrudgingly in his service.

He creates 20 genetically modified near clones of himself whom he calls his "sons" and for paranoid reasons that his "enemies" were out to get him scatters them across across the galaxy. Meanwhile the "Emperor" goes about creating a NorthKorea like Orwellian society along with a religious cult of personality with his most fanatical followers declaring him "God Emperor".