History FanFic / TheAgeOfDusk

As far as can be seen at present, the project is unfortunately [[DeadFic dead for some time, and the forum it was posted to is malfunctioning.]] For now, it would be best to use the [[https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Story:Warhammer_60K:_The_Age_of_Dusk 1d4chan]] [[https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Warhammer_60K:_Age_of_Dusk_(Continued) links.]]

** The Eldar race as a whole, now 'revived' as the Ynneed, crystal-like spirit beings.

** The Eldars (good ones), reincarnated as the Ynneed.

** [[spoiler: And then the Necrons got revived as Necrotyrs by fusing them with Human Pariahs, creating hybrids. Wait... there isn't enough male Pariahs and many had to fuse with female pariahs??? Urrhhhh... On the other hand, the Eldar's extinction. Then their reincarnation as the Ynneed-lings.]]

** There is a mention of a Baalite Blood Knight named [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Cullan]], who apparently carries with him the long-dead husk of a human woman. Whom he killed in his Red Thirst.

The ''[[http://www.thebolthole.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=231 Age of Dusk]]'' (originally found [[http://s6.invisionfree.com/bljunkies/index.php?showtopic=1111 here]], parts 2-5 [[http://www.thebolthole.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=2890 here]]) is the sequel to Lord Lucan's monumental ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheShapeOfTheNightmareToCome'', but covers the 51-61st millenia instead of the 42nd-51st millenia.

* TheHeartless: The Star-Father and his Angyls embody this. The Draziin-maton, servants of [[UltimateEvil the Nex]] may be even worse.

* UltimateEvil: The Nex of course, but also, the Old Ones, whom the narrator has been reprimanded for and has several times hesitated to mention them directly. [[WildMassGuessing One wonders if the two groups are conected.]]
** Recent WordOfGod implies that the Chaos Gods are not so much independent [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]] in their own right so much as 'aspects' of the Nex. That's right. [[strike:Four]] [[strike:[[CameBackWrong Five]]]] ''[[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence SIX]]'' of the biggest Big Bads in the galaxy are just parts of an even ''bigger one''.

* FiveManBand: The more prominent of Vulkan's Mk 2 Astartes Commanderies.
** TheHero: The Salamanders, anti-insurgency specialists named after and partly made up of the original Salamanders Chapter.
** TheLancer: The Iron Hands/Dorn Revenants, specializing in boarding actions or siegecraft.
** TheBigGuy: The Fire Beasts, one half TheUnfettered, one half UndyingLoyalty.
** TheSmartGuy: The stealthy Sons of Corax.
** SixthRanger: The Scions of Polyphemus, with their superheavy tanks and Knight mini-mecha.

** Based on later revalations, the biggest bad of them all might just be Lorgar, the [[ReligionOfEvil Word Bearers]] Primarch and his patron, [[spoiler: [[UltimateEvil the Nex]]]].

* TheCameo: See Word of God.

* HeelFaceTurn: In a sense. [[spoiler:In the 40k era, Genestealer Hybrids were a BreedingCult designed to infiltrate a planet and soften them up for Tyranid invasion. In the 60k era, there are no more Tyranids to prepare for, so the Genestealers eventually develop into a MarySuetopia which acts as the cornerstone of the Vulkan Imperium's industry.]]

* AwesomeMcCoolname: The Ryzan-Catachan Plasma Commandoes.

** Apparently [[spoiler: Cegorach to almost entire Dark Eldar race]]

** A minor detail in the account of the Necron invasion contains a reference to a possible [[FanficRecs/{{Warhammer40000}} "Rise of the Tau"]].

As a sequel, please consult [[Fanfic/TheShapeOfTheNightmareToCome this]] article for tropes for the predecessor and as a ''Warhammer 40,000'' fanfic please check [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} its]] trope page for tropes relating to its parent universe.

* [[TownWithADarkSecret Empire With A Dark Secret]]: The Realm of Fathers [[spoiler:is in fact a gigantic genestealer cult, which grew and flourished in the absence of Tyranids.]]

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* EvilVersusEvil: Kaldor Draigo, favored Angyl Prince of the Star Father, versus the corrupt rulers of Grand Sicarium.

* FutureImperfect: Probably done intentionally with Grand Sicarium's myth about the creation of the Space Marines:
-->''He was supposedly the Father of all Astartes, tasked by his own father, Guilliman, to create a race of warrior giants to watch over humanity. According to his propaganda, he cut the flesh from his left hand, and used powerful magicks to summon the Astartes into being, born of his own flesh. First he created his council of Elders, then they in turn brought forth their own Astartes, who then flourished and drove back the darkness that had fallen over creation.''

-->''We can see that this is at least partially a corruption of the concept of geneseed transference, and the process of Astartes creation, but to the ignorant inhabitants of Grand Sicarium, they believed this tale wholeheartedly.''

* WordOfGod: After reviewing the story, [=LordLucan=] has said that the nameless Word Eater that [[spoiler: rescues Crolmere, the Grey Sensei, from the Necron Flayers]] is the [[http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Son_of_a_woodsman Son of a Woodsman]].

** There is a mention of a Baalite Blood Knight named [[{{Twilight}} Cullan]], who apparently carries with him the long-dead husk of a human woman. Whom he killed in his Red Thirst.

* UltimateEvil: The Nex of course, but also, the Old Ones, whom the narrorator has been reprimanded for and has several times hesitated to mention them directly. [[WildMassGuessing One wonders if the two groups are conected.]]

* LegionOfLostSouls: A new one consisting of non-essential soldiers (read: thugs and mercenaries who wanted to prove themselves and people from penal colonies and criminal worlds) and equipment (obsolete hulls of old Imperial vessels) was created to recover one woman from a necron Tombworld. It is lead by [[TheLastChancers Colonel Schaeffer]].

The ''[[http://s6.invisionfree.com/bljunkies/index.php?showtopic=1111 Age of Dusk]]'' (updates [[http://www.thebolthole.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=231 here]], parts 2-5 [[http://www.thebolthole.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=2890 here]]) is the sequel to Lord Lucan's monumental ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheShapeOfTheNightmareToCome'', but covers the 51-61st millenia instead of the 42nd-51st millenia.

* ShoutOut: To WarhammerFantasy: a [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame Demiurg brotherhood]] mentioned is called the [[http://whfb.lexicanum.com/wiki/Chaos_Dwarfs Collective of Hashut.]]

** The entire reincarnated Eldar race vs a Grand Daemon of Ne$//#;!"&#-