History FanFic / TheAgeOfDusk

** Very often the case due to the lack of even remotely good factions.

* GondorCallsForAid: Subverted; Biel-Tan craftworld does not call for help from other Eldar - but they come nontheless.

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/{{Warhammer 40000}} fanfic TheShapeOfTheNightmareToCome, but covers the 51-61st millenia instead of the 42nd-51st millenia.

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

* TheAlliance - The Eastern Fringe Alliance. It is composed of the Tau Meta-Empire, the War of the Krork, Ultramar, the Realm of the Fathers and several factions of Vulkan's Imperium Pentum.

** Also [[spoiler: Revelation-- AKA, the Emperor's grandson AND a fragment of his kindness casted away into the Warp combined. Its... complicated.]].

** [[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.]]

** Also [[spoiler: Revelation-- AKA, the Emperor]].

* DisneyDeath: The Orks as a whole. Spores from Orks simply lay dominant in planetary ecosystems, which finally grew and became Orks in the 51st Millenium.

* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:Roboute Guilliman's]] last appearance.

** Goes with the territory, but the Tau Empire and the Nightbringer's Necrons have been in one for MILLENIA, with the Tau creating more and more advanced weaponry and AI to fight against the ancient and obscenely powerful Necrons. [[spoiler:And then the war ends with a final decisive assault by the Necrons on T'au itself... only for the Necron forces on it to teleport away at the hour of their victory, called away by something else.]]

* HesBack: The God-Emperor in the form of the Star Father, the nightmarish god of order. [[spoiler: However, the 'compassion' he threw away in order to kill Horus back during the original Heresy has apparently coalesced in the Webway.]]

* MoodWhiplash: Chapter 40, a long string of glorious battles-- Huron's siege of Biel-Tan, the liberation of Macharia, Khaine ambushing the Eastern Fringe Alliance-- ends with the somber account of the "Last Rites of Gheden", where [[spoiler:Szarekh realizes that most of the Necron race is far too gone to be saved and {{Mercy Kill}}s them all.]]

** 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.

** There are also Vulkan's Nava Astartes AKA the Astartes Mark II. They are stronger in combat than the originals but give up some of the abilities that improved the longitivity of the originals such as the ability to go into hibernation to heal.

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

* LighterAndSofter: Not the setting as a whole, but Vulkan's Imperium is a much better place to live in than the original Imperium-- never mind the rest of the hell the galaxy has become.

* GondorCallsForAid - Subverted; Biel-Tan craftworld does not call for help from other Eldar - but they come nontheless.
* GoneHorriblyRight: The resurrection of Khaine. The Dark Eldar seem to have ignored how close his ties to Khorne really were...
** Or this was their plan all along...
* GoneMadFromTheRevelation: Occurs to Menantus after he [[spoiler:lands on the Angyl world of Ophelia VII.]] He's later seen on Valhalla (somehow), "calmly carving his tale into the irradiated bedrock with a broken femur."

* ZombieApocalypse: Several forms: Nurgle releases a plague that keeps the souls of the dead inside their bodies, in order to prevent human souls from fueling the Star-Father. Ahriman is currently building up his force of mindless Rubric Marines by casting the Rubric on other Astartes, instantly turning them into slaves to his will.
** Typhus causes one to bolster his forces before the [[spoiler: assault on Biel-Tan]]

-->''It is the 61st Millennium, and the Age of Dusk is upon us. Let us hope dawn will break on a new universe. For hope is all we have, screaming against the storm.''

* 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 [[MacguffinGirl one woman]] from a necron Tombworld. It is lead by [[TheLastChancers Colonel Schaeffer]].

** 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: Five]] [[strike:[[CameBackWrong Six]]]] ''[[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence SEVEN]]'' of the biggest Big Bads in the galaxy are just parts of an even ''bigger one''.

** 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''.

** The Draziin-maton are partly inspired by the [[DoctorWho Could-Have-Been King and his army of Meanwhiles and Never-weres]].

* ALighterShadeOfGrey / OnlySaneMan: Compared to the rest of the galaxy, Vulkan and his restored Imperium [[spoiler:as well as the other Loyalist Primarchs]] have the best claim to being the good guys...relatively speaking.

* DemonicPossession: Fulgrim of course, but also the Draziin-maton which appear to be Pre-Fall Eldar war constructs possessed by.... something.

** Later, there are [[spoiler:Leman Russ, Corax, Jaghatai Khan and Lion El'Johnson!]] Also [[spoiler: those two lost Primarchs...they're back.]]

* BigBad: Abaddon, the Star Father (especially since now he has an actual, physical body in the Materium), the Deceiver, the Void Dragon, the Nex and the Draziin-maton.... the list goes on and on.

** There's a Cathedral of St. Ciaphas (yes, ''[[CiaphasCain that]]'' [[CiaphasCain Ciaphas]]) on Valhalla.

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]]) is the sequel to Lord Lucan's monumental TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} fanfic TheShapeOfTheNightmareToCome, but covers the 51-61st millenia instead of the 42nd-51st millenia.

* BigBadassWolf: The [[SpaceWolves Fenryka]], who manage to wreak havoc upon [[TheEmpire the Chaos Imperium]]. The Alpha Wulfen counts as well, but [[spoiler:he's actually a Raven Guard marine]].

** Cherubael has a single mortal, frozen, that he has displayed for all to see. He treats it as a work of art, and calls the piece [[{{Eisenhorn}} 'the presumption of mortals']].

* TheAlliance - Eastern Fringe Alliance, composed of Tau, Krork, Ultramar, Realm of Fathers and factions of Imperium Pentum.
* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: The Nex- and the Draziin-maton, the mere mention of which makes the walls bleed, overrun the entire Eye of Terror with the aid of [[spoiler:Erebus]] and take down most of the Daemon Primarchs in weeks.

* BigBad: Abaddon, the Star Father ([[OhCrap Especially since now he has an actual, physical body in the materium]]), the Deceiver, the Void Dragon, the Nex and the Draziin-maton.... the list goes on and on.
** Based on the latest revalations, the biggest bad of them all might just be Lorgar, the [[ReligionOfEvil Word Bearer]] Primarch and his patron, [[spoiler: [[UltimateEvil The Nex]]]].

** The Krork halt the advance of Nightbringer's necrons, even if they enslave some of the worlds they save.

** Vulkan's back, as revealed at the end of .

** Also [[spoiler: Revelation]].

* CameBackStrong: Khaine, raised by the Dark Eldar.

** Also the Antioch, the ship with the most [[WaveMotionGun powerful lance beam weapon]] ever built by the hand of man, and the Devil of Catachan, a carrier which can carry Battlecruisers, and the Goliath Engine.

* CurbStompBattle: The corrupt Ophelians start a war with Vulkan's Imperium. Despite the fact that Vulkan is fighting the invading Emperor's Children at the same time, once the Ophelians' fancy copied Tau ships are destroyed they're slaughtered.

* FiveManBand: The more prominent of Vulkan's Mk.2 Astartes Commanderies.

* PunctuatedForEmphasis: “I am master and king of all Space marines. Though you have cast aside your humanity, you are still Astartes, and you! Will! Kneel!"
** [[spoiler: Telling the Star Father's favorite Daemon Prince to kneel is a bad idea...]]

** Imogen's Brotherhood of the Willing, a pseudo-Inquisition that is much more effective than its Imperial predecessor. [[spoiler: The reborn Emperor is apparently putting one of these together in the webway, gathering the remannts of the Grey Knights and Custodes as well as Astartes, heroes and scientists from all of human history to his side in preperation for ... something.]]
** Temestor Braiva's force is another example, consisting of various minor factions of Imperium Pentum [[spoiler: and they're more than enough to wage war against Ahriman's Empire]]

** 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.

** The Draziin-Maton are partly inspired by the [[DoctorWho Could-Have-Been King and his army of Meanwhiles and Never-weres]].

* VillainousBSOD: [[spoiler: Abbadon of all people had one of these after fighting some time displaced Luna Wolves and unintentionally seeing memories of himself before he fell to Chaos. After that, he demanded to be known only as Destroyer, and it is stated that he's aligned to Malal.]]

** Iacob, the "Last Good Man in the Galaxy", investigates the DysonSphere that one of the C'tan are hiding in with his fleet of refugees, causing the refugees to go insane. [[spoiler: He gets killed when he actually walks on it, and [[NiceJobBreakingItHero setting loose what was inside it.]]]]

* BadassAbnormal: The afromentioned Ryzan-Catachan Plasma Commandoes are [[BadassNormal particularly strong and resilient Catachans (or equally strong humans from the Ryzan-Catachan sphere)]] who were [[ArtificialLimbs cybernetically]] [[ElectronicEyes augmented]] by Ryzan tech priests.

* VillainousBSOD: [[spoiler: Abbadon of all people had one of these after fighting some time displaced Luna Wolves. After that, he demanded to be known only as Destroyer]]

* NoNameGiven: Sort of. There is something lurking in the Deep Warp that is only known as the "Nex-" followed by the chronicler cutting the transmission before the full name can be given. [[spoiler: Subverted, it's [[NamestoRunAwayFromReallyFast Nexusofeverfatedrisingmadnesshopeofallturnedblackdoomtoallthebeligerentsandtheirgodsallhaildoomnightmares]]

* NoNameGiven: sort of the. There is something lurking in the Deep Warp that is only known as the "Nex-" followed by the chronicler cutting the transmission before the full name can be given. [[spoiler: But at one point, it's hinted that part of the name is "Next phase of."]]