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The Emperor and the Primarchs

In General

Big, Screwed-Up Family: As per canon, the relationship between the Emperor and the Primarchs are simply terrible. They spend a good part of the story at each others' necks, arguing with each other with near-fatal consequences at moments. It is also a critical part of the plot that they are also attempting to do better and improve their relationships with each other in order to prevent the Horus Heresy.
Heel Realization: Every member of the Imperial Family watching the vids from the future end and realizing how their actions led to the Horus Heresy.

The Emperor

The Emperor of Mankind / Adam

The Emperor of Mankind and father to the twenty Primarchs. Upon coming across a series of vid tapes on Ullanor, he makes his sons stay to watch them, learning of the future to come.

Abusive Parents: Although he eventually undergoes character development in the 30k timeline, by 40k he’s only gotten worse. Once it’s revealed the Emperor possessed Aegidius, he begins bullying the boy to get him to do what he wants.
The Atoner: After remerging with the Star Child, the aspect that represents his conscience and humanity, the Emperor realizes his many, many mistakes that committed when building up the Imperium and in his relationships with his sons.
Been There, Shaped History: As in canon, he has been active under several identities to influence historical events through mankind's history, including impersonating Julius Caesar once.
Doting Grandparent: He is this to Rosalina, Fulgrim's daughter, after he meets her on Salutis. Most notably, he does everything he can to take care of her after he witnesses just how toxic the relationship between Fulgrim and his wife, Rhea, is.
Shell-Shocked Veteran: The Emperor had to fight through the Age of Strife, Wars of Unification and the Great Crusade. Given that He is nearly 40 000 years old, the Emperor witnessed almost of all humanity's conflicts but the horrors of the Age of Strife and Wars of Unification scarred him the most. This led to him splitting his soul so that he could be more ruthless and efficient in winning his wars and saving Humanity. Alivia, his wife, is horrified when she uses her psychic powers to see the state of his soul and sees how it became akin to a cornered, paranoid animal.

Lion El’Jonson

Primarch of the Dark Angels.

Abusive Parents: He threw his toddler son into the forest to fend for himself. In the 40k timeline, it’s revealed he was particularly harsh on Gabriel and emotionally abusive, traumatizing him for years.
Awful Wedded Life: Treated his wife, Selena, like a breeding mare before locking her up in a tower and separating her from their newborn son. In the original timeline, this led to her suicide.
Broken Ace: He's an incredibly competent warrior and strategist, but his lack of social interaction in the past combined with being the closest to the Emperor personality-wise has left him unable to properly empathize with or understand normal people that are not as skilled as him. He also has trouble understanding his fellow Primarchs as well.
Freudian Excuse: Much of Lion's cold and aloof demeanor stem from the fact that his gestation pod landed in the daemon infested forests of Caliban, forcing him to develop a ruthlessly pragmatic, paranoid mindset to survive and robbing him of a true childhood. Luther and the order found him relatively early on, but by then the damage had already been done.
Like Father, Like Son: Like the Emperor before merging with the Star Child , the Lion places efficiency and pragmatism above all else and is extremely aloof. Many of his comments during the vids appall his fellow Primarchs because of this and his entire treatment of his wife Selena and son Gabriel are the result of his worldview.
My Greatest Failure: Treats Gabriel as this in the 42nd Millenium. Later revealed that the Lion blames himself for Selena's suicide and Gabriel's estrangement from him. Seeing Gabriel only reminds him of how he failed to understand his wife and son.
No Social Skills: Is extremely blunt, insensitive and aloof to those around him leading to many conflicts with his fellow brothers and a, politetly said, horrible relationship with his wife and son.
Wild Child: As in canon, the Lion grew up in the forests of Caliban before being found by Luther and the Knights of Caliban. Unfortunately, the Lion believed that such an experience would be beneficial to his son Gabriel and abandoned him in the forests of Caliban when he was 4 years old.

Fulgrim

Primarch of the Emperor’s Children.

Awful Wedded Life: His marriage to his second wife is incredibly toxic, to the point where the two of them can barely stay in the same room without fighting. Later on, both he and Rhea commit themselves to therapy which improves their marriage.
The Atoner: After his second wife, Rhea, nearly commits suicide after a very nasty and humiliating fight between them, Fulgrim does his best to become a better man for the sake of their marriage and their daughter.
My God, What Have I Done?: After a particularly nasty verbal fight with Rhea, that results in a thrown glass of wine that almost injures their daughter, both Fulgrim and Rhea have horrible remorse for what they did.

Perturabo

Primarch of the Iron Warriors.

Being Watched: As in canon, he can constantly see the Eye of Terror from anywhere in the galaxy, and feels as if it's watching him in return. It turns out there is a far more horrifying reason behind this...
Parasitic Horror: It is revealed that the reason Perturabo can see the Eye of Terror is because of a warp parasite that attached itself into his brain and slowly eroded his sanity, which is heavily implied to be a ploy by the Chaos Gods and contributed to his fall in the 40k timeline. Thankfully, the Emperor helps him and removes it in the present.

Jaghatai Khan

Primarch of the White Scars.

Awful Wedded Life: Claims that his love life is like this.
Deadpan Snarker: Just like in canon, the Khan doesn't hesitate to throw out verbal shivs to his fellow Primarchs when they misbehave. Unfortunately, this exacerbates the tension between the Primarchs.
Polyamory: Said to have many wives on Chogris, but none have been named yet.

Leman Russ

Primarch of the Space Wolves.

Funetik Aksent: Unlike his brothers, Leman’s accent is written out phonetically.
Heartfelt Apology: After watching a video in Extra 5 where he witnesses Magnus' family getting slaughtered and seeing his brother's distress, Leman apologizes to Magnus in Extra 6 for mistreating him because of their difference in opinion on psykers.
Obfuscating Stupidity:
Sibling Yin-Yang:

Rogal Dorn

Primarch of the Imperial Fists.

Good Parents: To Friedrich. When his son was born sick, Dorn did everything in his power to support him until Friedrich's condition was resolved. In the present, he is a good mentor to his son and gives him good counsel in addition of enjoying each's jokes.
Happily Married: To Signy.
Literal-Minded: Much like his TTS counterpart.

Konrad Curze

Primarch of the Night Lords.

The Atoner: In the 40k timeline, he's regained his sanity and joined his brothers in Imperium Secundus.
Faking the Dead: His canon death of allowing himself to be killed by an Imperial assassin is revealed to be this; what exactly happened that night and what he did in the ten millennia before his reappearance, however, has yet to be revealed.
Commonality Connection: Konrad Curze realizes in Extra pt.2 that some of his brothers, such as Ferrus Manus and Corvus Corax also grew up in squalor like him. which helps them bond with each other a bit.
Dreaming of Things to Come: as in canon, he has been tormented by visions of all possible futures of individual people and general events of the galaxy, including all the bad ones, all his life, courtesy of his uncontrollable psychic powers that slowly has eroded his sanity and morals.
Good Is Not Nice: In spite of being The Atoner, he's still not particularly friendly or approachable, though he's lost his sadism and Black-and-White Insanity. What's more, he's implied to still do Roboute's dirty work, he just doesn't take pleasure in it anymore.

Sanguinius

Primarch of the Blood Angels.

Ferrus Manus

Primarch of the Iron Hands

The Cavalry: Leads the Legion of the Damned in an attack on Nurgle's realm so Isha and Mortarion can escape.
Everyone Has Standards: Despite being the primarch closest to Fulgrim, he cannot accept Fulgrim's treatment of Rhea during the Royal Family's first meal with her and coldly rebukes his closest brother when Fulgrim tries to talk to him.
Out of Focus: Since the timeline more or less follows canon, a few changes notwithstanding, up until Roboute's resurrection, he's this as much as he is in canon; he still dies at Isstvan, and unlike Horus and Fulgrim, had no children prior to the Heresy, and so has the least impact of all the Primarchs. He's still present in the 30k timeline, of course, but is more of The Quiet One then his brothers even there.
Word of Gay: The author confirms Ferrus is gay, hence why he does not have a wife or children like the others.

Angron

Primarch of the World Eaters

Berserk Button: Does not tolerate abuse towards spouses and children at all. Comes close to successfully killing the Lion after the family finds out how he treated his wife and son.
My Greatest Failure: As in canon, he loathes himself for the failure of his slave rebellion but also for failing to save Falaere and his unborn child during said rebellion and unknowingly leaving Ragio behind to fend for himself until the Emperor and Primarchs return to purge Nuceria's leadership.
Mental World: After his brutal fight with Lion and being put in a coma, all his repressed grief over Falaere's death and the Butcher's Nails further damaging his mind and brain causes his subconscious to construct an ideal world in his mind where his rebellion was successful and he lives happily with his family and friends, and he violently rejects any attempt to drag him out of it and back to reality.
Put on a Bus: In the 30k timeline, he's put into what amounts to a medically induced coma in Act 2, due to his worsening mental state and the ongoing damage of the Butcher's Nails; the Emperor is working on a way to remove them, alongside Corvus and Mortarion, but until then he's simply too dangerous to be left awake.
Star-Crossed Lovers: With Falaere.

Roboute Guilliman

Primarch of the Ultramarines.

Boldly Coming: Married to Yvraine and had a child with her.
Happily Arranged Marriage: With Yvraine.

Mortarion

Primarch of the Death Guard

Boldly Coming: Marries Isha, Eldar Goddess of Love and Fertility.
Irony: A xenophobic, psyker hating, god hating Primarch who ends up saving, marrying and siring children with the Eldar Goddess of Life and Fertility, Isha in the 42nd Millenium.
Jerkass: At the beginning of the story, Mortarion takes every opportunity he can to humiliate and mock the others Primarchs. Only when he watches the video where he is freed from Nurgle's influence by Isha does he begin to improve.
Second love: To Isha after her family's demise at the hands of Slaanesh.

Magnus the Red

Primarch of the Thousand Sons

Boldly Coming: Magnus has six Eldar wives and many children.
Came Back Wrong: His daughter Mandisa attempts a ritual at the start of Act 2 to reforge his shattered soul and bring him back to her as he was before the Burning of Prospero. Said ritual goes wrong and instead puts a soul shard of Johannuss, the long dead IInd Primarch inside Magnus' body. This leaves him crippled and unable to function.
Heartfelt Apology
Heroic BSoD: Becomes extremely distraught when he learns from a future vid that his wives and children were slaughtered on Caldera by his own brothers, leaving only his daughter Mandisa alive.
Sibling Yin-Yang

Horus Lupercal

Warmaster and Primarch of the Luna Wolves.

The Casanova: It is discovered by the Emperor and the other Primarchs that Horus charmed many, many women throughout the galaxy during the Great Crusade.
Really Gets Around: Horus admits to sleeping with various women to ensure compliance. However, one video reveals that Horus might’ve skipped on contraception at one point, kicking off a paternity scare as marines are sent out to find his daughter.

Lorgar Aurelian

Primarch of the Word Bearers.

Break the Believer:
Broken Pedestal:
My God, What Have I Done?: He is utterly horrified at his future self's role in the Horus Heresy and afterwards. The realization of what happened to his sons, Kain and Abel and his role in those events appalls him.
Rapid Hair Growth: After spending time in the Emperor's mind library, Lorgar's hair grows out due to the library's time warping effect.
Seers:
Traumatic Superpower Awakening:

Vulkan

Primarch of the Salamanders

Archenemy: Utterly hates the Eldar for what the Dark Eldar did to his home planet of Nocturne as in canon. Because of this, he initially struggles with the notion of Roboute Guilliman getting married to Yvraine in the vids as well as the fact that Aegidius is a half-Primarch, half-Eldar child. He can cheerfully discuss the genocide of Eldar, much to Mandisa, Magnus's half-Eldar daughter's discomfort when they first talk.
Beware the Nice Ones: As per canon, he is one of the kindest and humane Primarchs yet is more than willing to crush the Imperium's enemies.As the Chaotic Four find out, Vulkan is unnervingly friendly while also able to successfully intimidate them in order to keep them from endangering the Imperium.
Fantastic Racism: Utterly hates any form of Eldar due to the Dark Eldar's attacks on Nocturne. That being said, he is becoming less and less racist towards them as time goes on.
Freudian Excuse:
Gentle Giant: Among one of the most massive Primarchs yet is one of the kindest to the point that it unnerves some of those who meet him.
Good Is Not Soft:
Reasonable Authority Figure: Proves to be one of these in Act 2 upon meeting the Chaotic Four after their capture on his home planet of Nocturne. He gives them a chance to explain themselves before using his authority to protect from further Imperial punishment while also warning them not to further act against the Imperium lest they invoke his wrath.
Resurrective Immortality: Is a Perpetual that can ressurrect at will like his mother.

Corvus Corax

Primarch of the Raven Guard

Supreme Chef: Much to the rest of the family and many others' surprise, Corvus Corax is an excellent chef. He bakes many excellents snacks, notably his famous spinach puffs over the course of the story and is the one that bakes Rosie's birthday cake.

Alpharius Omegon

Alpharius & Omegon

The Twin Primarchs of the Alpha Legion

Creepy Twins: They constantly disappear and reappear out of nowhere, sometimes leaving their armor suits without anyone noticing. They also speak with a snake like voice and have identical mannerisms.
Finishing Each Other's Sentences: Constantly do this and is commented on by Alivia when they are formally introduced to each other.
Hidden Depths: Despite their habit of getting under their brothers' skin, they are always there to help their brothers out. Many of their actions help, despite their trolling tendencies, the rest of the family get closer. One such example is when they help Alivia return to her husband, the Emperor.
The Men in Black: They and the Alpha Legion serves as this to the Astartes and in the field, dealing with various affairs behind the scenes when the situation requires it, a few examples being;
- Securing the STC for the Butcher's nails during the burning of Nuceria.
- Personally beating up Kairos Fateweaver and the army he had amassed before they could assault the Imperium
- Infiltrating the Night Lords legion and helping Konrad purge the truly iredeemable and malevolent Astartes in their ranks under the guise of a "live firing exercise".
Stealth Hi/Bye: Constantly disappear and reappear during their scenes.
Identical Twin Mistake: Being perfectly identical twins makes this a regular occurrence.
Troll: Their favorite past time.
Twin Switch: As part of their mischievous habits.

Children of the Primarchs

Gabriel El’Jonson

The son of Lion El’Jonson and Selena. He is found in the 30th Millenium in the wilderness on Caliban after the Emperor and the Primarchs discover the Lion's horrible treatment of his wife and son. In the 42nd Millenium, Gabriel is the leader of the Fallen Dark Angels.

Arch Nemesis Dad: In the 40k timeline, he's become the leader of the Fallen Angels, on a quest to kill his father.
Feral Child: Invoked by the Lion. In an attempt to "prepare" Gabriel to be his heir, he is thrown into the forests of Caliban when he is four years old. The Lion believes that this will harden Gabriel in the same way it did for him.
Inadequate Inheritor: 40kGabriel constantly feels that his father is disappointed in him for not being as a good as him. It isn't until when both father and son meet by chance at Selena's grave on the Rock that Lion tells him the truth. As it turns out, his father doesn't feel that Gabriel is a disappointment but instead blames himself for how things turned out between him and his immediate family. It begin mending the broken relationship between them.
The Unintelligible: Due to the Lion abandoning him in the forests of Caliban when he was four years old, Gabriel is only able to grunt, growl and snarl like an animal when he is found by the Emperor and the Primarchs in the 30th Millenium.

Rosalina

Fulgrim’s only daughter. In the 30th Millenium, she is still a toddler but in the the 42nd Millenium , she is a daemonhost of Slaneesh travelling with Mandisa, Kain and Ragio.

Conditioned to Accept Horror:
- In the 30k timeline, the toddler doesn't even blink at her parents having an absolutely vicious screaming match right in front of her, citing it as "normal" much to the Emperor's horror.
- In the 40k timeline, where she's become a Slaanesh worshipper, it's not so much "conditioned to accept" as "love to embrace.:
Demonic Possession: In the 40k timeline. She intially seems to just be a daemon, and even refers to herself as a "Daemon Princess of Slaanesh." It's later revealed that she's actually just, in her own words "very, very possessed." That said, it seems to be a similar case to Argel Tal in canon, where she's still largely in control of herself and seems to have a symbiotic relationship with the vast number of Slaasneshi daemons inhabiting her.
Honorary Uncle: In the 40k timeline, Daemon!Rosalina refers to Slaasnesh as "Auntie Slaanesh." Yeah...
Spoiled Sweet: In the 30k timeline, when she's still a toddler, she's this despite being basically the princess of Chemos. In the 40k timeline, however...

Jargal

The Khan's only daughter. In the 30th Millenium, she is with her father on Salutis.

Hidden in Plain Sight: No one besides the Khan and the White Scars are aware of her presence on Salutis. Ragio eventually finds out, much to his chagrin and Jargal's amusement.
Kissing Cousins: *Averted Trope. She leads on Ragio during their first meeting which leads him to flirting with her before he's shot down by her and gets a stern reprimand from the Khan.

Freya Russ

Leman’s future daughter with Hrist.

Animal Motifs: Like her father, canines.
Meaningful Name: Her name comes from the Norse goddess of Love and War. Ironically, Freya was also associated with cats.
Out of Focus: Despite living on Macragge with Aegidius and Damien, Freya is largely ignored and unimportant for most of Act 1 and Act 2
Tomboy: Very so. In her introduction chapter, she is a wild, uncontrollable child who the Space Wolves can barely control. She is also unable to take a bath and prefers playing in the mud and snow on Fenris.

Friedrich Dorn

Dorn’s future son.

Literal-Minded: Like Father, like son.
Sickly Child Grew Up Strong: was born a very sickly child with Dystrophia Myotonica. but is a fully-fledged Space Marine with a very strong physique that is maintained with a rigorous training regimen.

Damien Curze

Konrad’s future son.

Ascended Fanboy: When he is first introduced, Damien is an orphan living on the streets of Macragge whose hero is the Night Haunter but after breaking into the Fortress of Hera, he finds out that Konrad Curze/Night Haunter is his biological father.
Dark Is Not Evil: Despite being dressed in dark colors and having traits similar to his father, Damien is a well meaning, very friendly person who wants to do good for Imperium Secundus.
Like Father, Unlike Son: Curze is a dark, quiet, cynical man… But Damien is a friendly cheerful child who is happy to talk with anyone.
Motor Mouth: When excited, he tends to talk VERY fast and VERY much.

Ragio

Angron’s son, born from Falaere. He is found after the Emperor and the Primarchs watched the vid about Angron's life on Nuceria in the 30th Millenium. In the 42nd Millenium, Ragio is traveling with Mandisa, Kain and Rosalina so that he can eventually kill Angron.

Calling the Old Man Out: Does this to Angron when they first meet in the 30k timeline, as he, like most of Nuceria, believed that Angron had intentionally abandoned his gladiators and Ragio's mother to die. He's arguably angrier when he learns the truth, though at the Emperor instead.
The Older Immortal: Inverted. He's regularly referred to as "kid" by other long-lived beings like the Primarchs, the Emperor and the World Eaters, despite being nearly a hundred years old. This pisses him off.

Aegidius Guilliman

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The future son of Roboute Guilliman and future Emperor of Imperium Secundus.

Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: A kindhearted boy with blond hair who wants to do what is right and make Imperium Secundus a better place.
Half-Human Hybrid: He is half Human and half Aeldari.
The Klutz: He is extremely accident-prone in the early chapters much to Roboute Guilliman's horror.
Sharing a Body: Aegidius is eventually revealed to have been soul bonded to a Shard of the Emperor, Vindictus, from birth, eventually conversing with him and later the Star Child in his head.

Mandisa

Magnus’ half-eldar daughter.

Amazing Technicolor Population: She inherited her red complexion from Magnus.
Cosmic Plaything: Mandisa realizes that she is this by Act 2, Chapter 4. Her entire life is one series of misfortunes after the other caused by the greater powers of the setting who regularly use her to advance their plans without necessarily consulting her.
Shrinking Violet: In the 30k timeline, Mandisa is described as being extremely shy around strangers and has trouble speaking due to her anxiety.
Trauma Conga Line: Her life in the 40k timeline is marked by the fact that she was put in stasis shortly before the Horus Heresy kicked off when the Iron Hands and Salamanders purge Caldera. When she is awoken 10 000 years later, Magnus the Red and the Thousand Sons as she knew them are good as gone, her whole family is dead due to the manipulations of the Craftworld Eldar, her plans go regularly wrong and her attempt to restore her father go horribly wrong before getting captured by the Inquisition. In addition, she is regularly manipulated by others which puts her in terribly dangerous situations such as facing her uncle, Konrad Curze, head on.

Tyrion

Magnus’ rebellious, half-eldar son.

Like Father, Unlike Son: Unlike his father, Tyrion doesn't have much appreciation for the psychic arts, instead wishing to be a warrior.

Kain

Lorgar’s future son.

Janan

Vulkan's future youngest son

Ace Custom: To offset the mutations that plagued him, Janan builds himself a custom dreadnought that is significantly more advanced and massive than any other dreadnought in existence. Said dreadnought is such an amazing machine that it impressed Vulkan in both timelines as well as the rest of his uncles.
Body Horror: Janan is born with severe mutations that leave him disfigured, crippled and in constant pain.
Delicate and Sickly: Janan is born prematurely with significant, painful mutations that pain him until he creates and is interred in his custom built dreadnought.
Healing Factor: Can regenerate almost any injury like his father but this plays against Janan as any attempts at treating his mutations is nullified by his healing abilities.
Took a Level in Badass: Went from being a sickly, crippled mutant to being an almighty dreadnought capable of fighting on the battlefield.

Decius

Sairus

Primarch Spouses

Selena

The Lion’s wife who was a noblewoman and the last child of a noble house on Caliban. Originally, the Lion choose her to be the bearer of his heir, but Selena insisted on marrying him to ensure she wouldn’t be cast aside.

A Day in the Limelight: Gets a side story dedicated to her marriage with the Lion.
Be Careful What You Wish For: Selena demanded that Lion left her alone after the birth of Gabriel. He applies her exact words and locks her up in a tower at the Dark Angels' fortress on Caliban, not letting her see anyone.
Broken Bird: Following the Lion taking away Gabriel and throwing him into the forest, he locks Selena in a tower where she Goes Mad from the Isolation. It’s shown that, if this continued, she would have eventually committed suicide.
Go Mad from the Isolation: The Lion locks her in a tower after taking away their son Gabriel, leaving Selena to go insane. In the original timeline, this leads to her death but is averted thanks to the other Primarchs and the Emperor finding out about the Lion's treatment of his family. Despite their intervention saving her life, her mental health has suffered greatly.
Statuesque Stunner: Described a very beautiful woman that, according to Rhea, stands at roughly 6ft2/190-192 cm tall.
Shrinking Violet: Due to the Lion locking her up in a tower as mentioned before, she is traumatized, is constantly anxious, stammering and having trouble interacting with other people.

Rhea

Fulgrim’s second and current wife, as well as the mother of Fulgrim’s daughter Rosalina. She was an artist who dreamt of being a Remembrancer but after being thrust into an arranged marriage with Fulgrim, ended up being the very reluctant Planetery Governor of Chemos.

Always Someone Better: While Rhea is a talented artist, her family always compared her to Penelope, her dead sister and Fulgrim's first wife. Even Rhea describes her sister Penelope as being someone she couldn't never live up to.
Awful Wedded Life: Fulgrim neglects her and as a result, Rhea lashes out in anger whenever they’re alone.
Love at First Sight: Fell in love with Fulgrim when she first saw him when she was a teenager.
Uncertain Doom: It's not clear what became of her in the Bad Future, but given both her husband and daughter have become daemons of Slaanesh, Chemos' canon fate during the Scouring, the aforementioned Awful Wedded Life, and the fact her daughter never brings her up... a few assumptions can be made, none of them good.

Penelope

Fulgrim’s first wife and the late older sister of Rhea.

The Ace: Described as being perfect and extremely talented by Fulgrim and Rhea.
The Lost Lenore: To Fulgrim. He misses her deeply and speaks very highly of her whenever he remembers her.

Hrist

Leman’s future wife and Mother of Freya. A rowdy and bloodthirsty Valkyrie from Fenris.

Best Her to Bed Her: Leman and her get together after a series of fights between each other.
Boisterous Bruiser: She’s loud, brash, violent, and persistent.
Dumb Muscle: Physically very strong, even for a Fenrisian Valkyrie, yet dumb enough to fight Leman Russ, a Primarch, in a straight up fight.

Signy

Rogal Dorn’s future wife and the mother of his son, Friedrich. She was one of his concubines on the Phalanx before marrying him.

Happily Married: Her marriage to Rogal Dorn is described as being happy and passionate.
Obfuscating Stupidity: She acts like an airhead at her first meeting with Roboute Guilliman and Yvraine on Macragge and most of the time. However, it quickly turns out to be a front that she uses to analyze the people in front of her before providing insights and advice to her husband, son and Gabriel El'Jonson after a messy War Council.
Spoiled Sweet: Lives in luxury on the Phalanx yet is a loving wife to Rogal and a doting mother to Friedrich while also being a very wise advisor to her family.

Julia

The future mother of Damien who was an impoverished woman that Konrad Curze met some time before he arrived on Macragge. She is a noblewoman in 30k caught up in intrigues surrounding the Stadt system.

Good Parents: Damien speaks fondly of her after her death as his mother after he's taken in at the Fortress of Hera.
Impoverished Patrician: It’s revealed she’s a noblewoman in 30k, but Damien was raised in poverty. Whether this means she was thrown out or her family lost their standing is unknown.

Falaere

Angron’s lover on Nuceria who was a former slave that managed to escape, and the mother of their son, Ragio.

Because You Were Nice to Me: Fell in love with Angron because he protected her after she was thrown into the gladiators' pit.
I Die Free: Her final words; even though the rebellion failed, Angron disappeared, and she dies in childbirth, she doesn't regret anything, because she died as a free woman.
The Lost Lenore: To Angron. Once the nails were put into his brain he was unable to see her again, believing she died.
Rape as Backstory: Falaere was a sex slave on Nuceria, once known as Sleeve, given to the gladiators as a ‘reward’.

Yvraine

Leader of the Ynarri, Emissary of Ynnead, Lady Regent of the Imperium, Wife of Roboute Guilliman and mother of Aegidius.

Perfectly Arranged Marriage: Despite some initial difficulties, Yvraine and Roboute are in a loving marriage where they support each other emotionally against the bleakness of ruling Imperium Secundus.
Mama Bear: When she learns Aegidius sneaked out to the Battle of Bastonye, she dropped everything to go and get him.

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Isha

The Eldar Goddess of the harvest, fertility, life, healing and growth. She is married to Mortarion after they helped each other escape Nurgle's realm.

All-Loving Hero: As the goddess of life, she shows compassion to all living beings. In her own words to Mortarion; "No-one that is alive deserves to suffer".
Babies Ever After: She goes on to have two children with Mortarion after settling down on Vyn.
God Is Good: She is among the most compassionate and selfless beings in the galaxy, helping people because to her, it's the right thing to do. As such, she didn't hesitate to help Mortarion when the opportunity presented itself.
Good Is Not Soft: She may be kind and compassionate, but is more than capable of taking to the field, should the situation require it, and her compassion do not extend to the forces of Chaos-whom she hates for understandable reasons-and the Dark Eldar for their crimes against life, which is why she personally blesses Mortarions new legion- the Dusk Raiders- with the power to permanently kill them in body and soul, and sends them on a mission to kill every last one of them.
Healer God: As one of her domains is healing, she can cure even the most grievous of diseases and injuries, as seen when she saves Mortarion from wounds that would normally be all but fatal.
Hope Bringer: She brings back hope and motivation to the sane Eldar after escaping from Nurgle, reinvigorating their resolve to fight back against the forces of chaos.
Mother Nature: Because of her domains being over both life and nature, she can freely create and form all sorts of plants and animals, up to and including having them posses supernatural properties, as seen when she creates a heat generating plant to kickstart the reactor of the Endurance, and in mythology she is known as "the mother of all Aeldari".
Perfectly Arranged Marriage: As part of their escape from Nurgle, Isha had to elevate Mortarion's soul, making him her equal and her first consort. They prove to be loving partners.
Rescue Romance: Isha and Mortarion helped each other escape Nurgle's realm before they married each other.

Kai

Vulkan’s wife. She's the owner of the top restaurant on Nocturne.

Expy: A Passionate, professional cook with a short temper, colorful and low tolerance towards idiots. Is described as Female Space Gordon Ramsey by the Emperor.
Supreme Chef: Her skills as a chef led to the Salamanders seeking her out to make a banquet for Vulkan's return and leads to her meeting with their Primarch.
Tsundere: Initially very harsh and cold to Vulkan when they meet but after he fixes an accident he caused at her restaurant, she warms to him.

Imperium of Man

Malcador the Sigillite

A Perpetual, and one of the Emperor’s only remaining friends from before the Age of Strife.

He is the cofounder of the Imperium, and wields a tremendous amount of influence and power in it's various institutions.

Affectionate Nickname: The Emperor refers to him as "Mal".
Badass Bureaucrat: He is the one responsible for keeping the Imperium's government, the Administratum, running, and he can more than hold his own in a fight.
The Good Chancellor: He's wholly devoted to the Imperium, keeping it running by himself during the Emperor and Primarchs' initial weeks-long absence watching the vids, and does his best to mitigate the upheaval caused by the burning of Nuceria and resettlement of its people.
Honorary Uncle: As in canon, he is this to all the Primarchs, even being on a First-Name Basis with them. Extends to Tyrion, Magnus' eldest son later in the story.
Life of the Party: Used to be this a very long time ago according to Alivia but his extremely advanced age no longer allows him to do so.
Reasonable Authority Figure: All the Primarchs respect him, viewing him as the one person who could reign in their father, and he isn't above criticizing the Emperor when he makes mistakes.
Last of His Kind: He is the last known member of the Sigillite order, an organization dedicated to preserving mankind's history and knowledge through the millenia.
The Spymaster:

Constantin Valdor

The Captain-General of the Adeptus Custodes.

The Stoic: As a consequence of the Custodes conversion process, he doesn't show his emotions very much.

Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo

A pair of Perpetuals that have been around since the days of Rome, and who are constantly involved by accident in the events of both the 30th Millenium and the 42nd Millenium.

Born-Again Immortality: They have been constantly reincarnated over the millennia and retain their memories through every single life, though they can't remember everything perfectly.
Those Two Guys: They appear regularly in both the 30th Millenium and the 42nd Millenium, commenting on the events they are in before getting swept up in said events... much to their chagrin.
True Companions: Despite bickering and not always getting along, they are close friends who are always there for each other.

SPOILER CHARACTERS: BEWARE OF UNMARKED SPOILERS

The Guardian

Alivia Sureka

A Perpetual from Denmark that is also the Emperor's long lost wife and the Primarchs' biological mother. The Emperor used her DNA to create them.

The Determinator: After finding out that the Emperor had built the Imperium of Man behind her back, she stopped at nothing to reach him on Salutis.
- In the final days of the Emperor on Terra during the 41st Millenium, she did everything she could to reunite with him before his death and the destruction of Terra. This includes breaking into the Imperial Palace. Till death do us part indeed...
Eternal Love: The Emperor and Alivia have been in love with each other since some time after the First World War, and have been married for 27 000 years.
Fish out of Temporal Water: Due to the Emperor stranding her on Molech right before the Age of Strife started, Alivia is utterly horrified at how far Humanity fell and at the drastic measures that the Imperium of Man and the Emperor have resorted to in order to rebuild and survive. She brings this up regularly. According to Word of God, she is a 21st century liberal woman transported into the days of the Great Crusade.
- She is appalled at how the Space Marines are created and live and is simply speechless at the notion of a Space Marine being interred in a Dreadnought so he can continue fighting long after he should have been retired or have died.
- On a more humorous note, she is utterly appalled at the regression of social conventions and norms. In the lead up to her first ball on Salutis, she is flabbergasted at women's clothing reverting to old, uncomfortable designs reminiscent of the 1600's to 1800's and shocks everyone present at said ball by wearing clothing more reminiscent of the 20th-21st centuries.
Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Alivia is an incredibly kindhearted woman with blond hair. She rapidly warms up to the Primarchs, her sons she didn't know she had despite them being adult super humans and wants to rebuild her relationship with the Emperor.
The Idealist: In contrast to her very jaded and traumatized husband, Alivia holds high hopes for the future. This leads to conflict with the rest of the cast.
Photographic Memory: According to the Emperor, her memory is extraordinary and she perfectly remembers every moment that she shared with her husband. She often makes references to past events of her marriage even if they occurred millennia ago.
The Social Expert: Unlike many of the cast, Alivia is extremely skilled at rapidly understanding the people around her. She endears herself rapidly with the Primarchs and their families as well as members of the Imperium's elite.

The Lost Lord

Johanuss

The second Primarch, who tragically died before being reunited with the Emperor and his legion.

Came Back Wrong: Mandisa's attempts at repairing Magnus the Red's shattered soul instead merges a fragment of Johannus' soul inside of Magnus' body, leaving both of them catatonic.
Foil: Invoked by the Emperor to be one to Magnus.
He (Johanuss) was meant to be the one which would hold you back when you got too curious and you (Magnus) were meant to be the one which spurred him on when he would be too timid or paranoid.
My Greatest Failure: His death, mere hours before the Emperor could reach Johanuss, greatly affected his father to the point that the Emperor lost the last of his humanity before he ordered an Exterminatus on the remains of Johanuss' homeworld out of sheer fury and grief.
Our Ghosts Are Different: In the MFD timeline, Johanuss's soul is still around and in protecting Salutis, his former homeworld where he died and became the new home for the Emperor, the Primarchs and their families. His wraith also haunts Konrad Curze in the hopes of steering him onto the right path. In the 42nd millenium, he guides Mandisa in a ritual where she believed that she could reforge her father's shattered soul but instead put his soul inside of Magnus' body.
Posthumous Character: Is long dead and buried before the events of Messages for Dad take place.

The One of Silence

Izanagi

The eleventh Primarch, who due to unknown circumstances relinquished leadership of his legion and took a vow of silence, having lived as one of the Custodes for years.

Elective Mute: Is under a vow of silence that he only breaks once so far. The reasons why Izanagi has taken such a vow has yet been revealed.
Everyone Has Standards: After witnessing Fulgrim's verbal abuse towards Rhea during her first meal with the Royal Family, Izanagi is disgusted enough by the situation that he breaks his vow of silence to chastise Fulgrim.
Unused to speaking after so long, he cleared his throat, ready to break his vow of silence just to tell his older brother how much of a cunt he was. “I am disappointed in you, brother.” Spoke the XIth Primarch in his Custodes armor.
Faking the Dead: Almost all of the Primarchs believe him to be dead until he reveals himself to chastise Fulgrim.
Hidden in Plain Sight: Spends a good part of the story living as a Custodes with almost all of the other Primarchs not being aware of his presence.
Real Men Wear Pink: Leman Russ describes Izanagi as a pansy who wears too much pink, wants his brothers to talk more about their feelings and having too many pets.

Characters / Messages for Dad

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