History Fanfic / CiaphasCainWarmasterOfChaos

* {{Panacea}}: An STC recovered by Protectorate forces aboard the 'Emeli's Gift' Space-Hulk is the Panacea

* GrandRomanticGesture: Emeli gifts her beloved Cain with a several thousand kilometres long collection of extremely valuable space junk known as a "Space Hulk", within which the actual [[Panacea Panacea]]
* Panacea: An STC recovered by Protectorate forces aboard the 'Emeli's Gift' Space-Hulk is the Panacea

* GrandRomanticGesture: Emeli gifts her beloved Cain with a several thousand kilometres long collection of extremely valuable space junk known as a "Space Hulk", within which the actual *Panacea

* YoungerThanTheyLook: [[spoiler: Cain's adopted daughter]] already looks likes she's in her late teens despite having not turned ten yet.

* SuccubusInLove: Make no mistake, despite being the newest daemon princess of Slaanesh, Emeli genuinely does love Cain to an obsessive degree to the point where her long term goal is the eventual ascendance of Cain. In fact, her love for him is the very reason for her ascension in the first place, as -in conjunction with the souls of many of Slaneesh's favorite meals -the strength of her obsession attracted the attention of the God of Excess, Slaanesh.

* SuccubusInLove: Make no mistake, despite being the newest daemon princess of Slaanesh, Emeli genuinely does love Cain to an obsessive degree to the point where her long term goal is the eventual ascendance of Cain.

* FascistButInefficient: The Imperium of Man, it is quite telling that many of Cain's unintentional successes come from telling the people of Slawkenberg to abandon things the Imperium trained him to believe were utterly required for human society to function.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Every plan Cain makes to subtly weaken the revolution makes Slawkenberg richer and more powerful. Choosing to train and equip his current army extremely well instead of focusing on expansion, banning the use of servitors and encouraging the Mechanicus to innovate, making Panacea available to the whole population, making education free and available to all... It really says something about how dysfunctional the Imperium is that doing the opposite of what it says is necessary turns out extremely well.

* GoodShepherd: Father Anthony is one of the priests of the God Emperor still practicing on Slawkenburg even after the Liberation. While most of the members of the Ecclesiarchy on the planet [[CorruptChurch were in it for the money and power]], Anthony actually wanted to help people, which pays off when his own followers kept him safe him during the tumult of the Liberation.
* InSpiteOfANail: Despite all the changes brought about by Cain's new situation in the galaxy and the fact that Emeli now has no interest in it all, Adumbria still finds itself suffering from a Chaos uprising.

* NobleDemon: Cain comes across as this to Imperials, which, as Amberly notes, means he is much more dangerous than the typical frothing Chaos worshiping madman. He doesn't perform human sacrifice or daemon summoning (of daemons that aren't Emeli), he treats the men under his command extremely well, and he seems to genuinely care about the people under his rule. He's still the leader of a bunch of Chaos-worshippers though, which still qualifies him as a "Demon" in the eyes of the Imperium.
* NotHelpingYourCase: The initial Imperial response consists of [[TautologicalTemplar Inquisitor]] [[BurnTheWitch Karamazov]] and [[GeneralRipper General]] [[WeHaveReserves Chenkov]]. Chenkov fails miserably at retaking Slawkenburg after sending a bunch of his men out to get mowed down by the United Slawkenburg Army and getting shot in the back shortly afterward by a sneak attack headed by Cain; Karamazov then proceeds to jump right to Exterminatus of the planet, spending hours and hours ranting to the populace, before getting killed by Cain and having his ship blown up shortly afterwards. This does not raise the populace's opinion of the Imperium's morality or competence.

* SpringtimeForHitler: The heart and soul of the fic, the more Cain tries to make Slawkenburg fail, the more it succeeds.
* SuccubusInLove: Make no mistake, despite being the newest daemon prince of Slaanesh, Emeli genuinely does love Cain to an obsessive degree to the point where her long term goal is the eventual ascendance of Cain.

* GoodRunningEvil: Cain thinks/hopes he's in this situation, being a secretly loyal Imperial leading a bunch of Chaos worshippers. The truth is more complicated than that, not the least because the Imperium is at its most incompetent here and Chaos is a bit LighterAndSofter than normal.

* TrappedInVillainy: Cain's caught between his Chaos worshiping followers, who he's convinced will kill him if they find him out, and the Imperial Inquisition who want him dead for leading said Chaos worshipping followers.

* NotHelpingYourCase: The initial Imperial response consists of Inquisitor Karamazov and General Chenkov. Chenkov fails miserably at retaking Slawkenburg after sending a bunch of his men out to get mowed down by the United Slawkenburg Army and getting shot in the back shortly afterward by a sneak attack headed by Cain; Karamazov then proceeds to jump right to Exterminatus of the planet, spending hours and hours ranting to the populace, before getting killed by Cain and having his ship blown up shortly afterwards. This does not raise the populace's opinion of the Imperium's morality or competence.

* GoodRunningEvil: Cain thinks/hopes he's in this situation, being a secretly loyal Imperial leading a bunch of Chaos worshippers. The truth is more complicated than that.

* MistakenForProfound: Everyone thinks Cain is a genius. He is making it up as he goes along (probably). People tend to take random decisions he made as having a deeper symbolic meaning, which usually ties back into convincing people that he's a genius. As an example, Cain chose a random room for the Liberation Council to meet in immediately after the revolution in order to prevent anyone from setting anything shady up beforehand, which he cleans out and sets up chairs and a flag in. General Mahlone notes that the room used to be full of statues of the planet's previous, much-despised leadership, and figures that Cain chose the room to make a statement about how they all had to work together to defeat them, but that he ultimately killed the previous governor himself; he also figures he's making a statement by not sitting on a throne, when it doesn't seem to have occurred to Cain to do anything other than set up some chairs.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Cain is a very good ruler and, mush as he may deny it, genuinely cares about his people.

* ButterflyOfDoom: Without Cain's canonical heroic acts, the situation in the sector is very poor for the Imperium, which means they're far too busy to deal with a "minor" rebellion. Problems he nipped in the bud turn into full-blown wars, uprisings, and exterminatuses.

* GoneHorriblyRight: Every plan Cain makes to subtly weaken the revolution makes Slawkenberg richer and more powerful. Choosing to train and equip his current army extremely well, banning the use of servitors and encouraging the Mechanicus to innovate, making Panacea available to the whole population, making education free and available to all... It really says something about how dysfunctional the Imperium is that doing the opposite of what it says is necessary turns out extremely well.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: Karamazov's response to Slawkenburg's rebellion. In his heavy prioritization of Chaos over all other threats and his absolute certainty that he's right and anyone who opposes him is an enemy, he purged the local sector's command of many competent officers and administrators who told him that they couldn't afford to move resources away from other fronts towards Slawkenburg, leaving the sector disorganized and in chaos (no pun intended). The only general who agreed to help him was Chenkov, who is incompetent and hated by his men. After his incompetence and wasteful human wave tactics lead to Slawkenburg winning handily against him and to almost all of the planetside soldiers defecting, Karamazov immediately turns to exterminatus of the planet, only to be killed by Cain and have his ship blown up. Karamazov's soul ends up in the clutches of Emeli, who plans to torture him for all eternity, and whose gratitude to Cain for giving her Karamazov's soul plays a part in Emeli arranging for the Space Hulk to arrive at Slawkenburg. Later, we see that Karamazov's purge of the local sector command led to the Imperium being in dire straits in the area, which means it can't spare resources to deal with Slawkenburg, and keeps having to pull resources away from areas to deal with more pressing threats, which provides an opportunity for Slawkenburg to sweep in and provide help, thereby gaining more allies. In summary, Karamazov's efforts to end a Chaos rebellion didn't hinder the rebellion, but instead massively helped it, ensured its ability to expand, and screwed over the Imperium.
* GoodRunningEvil: Cain thinks/hopes he's in this situation. The truth is more complicated than that.
* TheLeader: Charismatic, but mistaken for The Mastermind. He has the loyalty and love of seemingly the entire populace of Slawkenburg, he can convince everyone of anything he wants to, and his actions always appear heroic (or intelligent, depending on the person). Imperials who end up on Slawkenburg note that without Cain, the entire rebellion would likely fall apart.

* MistakenForProfound: Everyone thinks Cain is a genius. He is making it up as he goes along (probably).
* MysteriousPast: In canon, Cain's homeworld being unknown was a footnote. Here it's making the Inquisition very worried. The Inquisitor who launched the investigation into his background comes away assuming that he was corrupted before entering the Schola and is part of a massive conspiracy that worked to place him into a position of power at the head of the Slawkenburg rebellion (he wasn't).
* NobleDemon: Cain comes across as this to Imperials, which, as Amberly notes, means he is much more dangerous than the typical frothing Chaos worshiping madman. He doesn't perform human sacrifice or daemon summoning (of daemons that aren't Emeli), he treats the men under his command extremely well, he seems to genuinely care about the people under his rule.

* GoneHorriblyWrong:

* TheLeader: Charismatic, but mistaken for The Mastermind. He has the loyalty and love of seemingly the entire populace of Slawkenburg, he can convince everyone of anything he wants too, and his actions always appear heroic. Imperials who end up on Slawkenburg note that without Cain, the entire rebellion would likely fall apart.

* AscendedDemon: Emeli is a Daemon Princess of Slaanesh. She's also in love with Ciaphas.

* ButterflyOfDoom: Without Cain's canonical heroic acts, the situation in the sector is very poor for the Imperium, which means they're far too busy to deal with a "minor" rebellion.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Every plan Cain makes to subtlely weaken the revolution makes Slawkenberg richer and more powerful.

* TheLeader: Charismatic, but mistaken for The Mastermind.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It appears that someone or something is manipulating things to "help" Cain. It may be Tzeentch, Cegorach or the Emperor . . . or a combination of them.
* MistakenForProfound: Everyone thinks Cain is a genius. He is making it up as he goes along (probably).
* MysteriousPast: In canon, Cain's homeworld being unknown was a footnote. Here it's making the Inquisition very worried.
* NobleDemon: Cain comes across as this to Imperials, which, as Amberly notes, means he is much more dangerous than the typical frothing Chaos worshiping madman.
* NotHelpingYourCase: The initial Imperial response consists of Inquisitor Karamazov and General Chenkov.

* TrappedInVillainy: Cain's caught between his Chaos worshiping followers, who he's convinced will kill him if they find him out, and the Imperial Inquisition who want him dead.

* TrappedInVillainy: Cain's caught between his Chaos worshiping followers, who he's convinced will kill him if they find him out and the Imperial Inquisition who want him dead.

* TheLeader: Charismatic, but mistaken for TheMastermind.

* TrappedInVillany: Cain's caught between his Chaos worshiping followers, who he's convinced will kill him if they find him out and the Imperial Inquisition who want him dead.

* AscendedDemon:
* ButterflyOfDoom:
* GoneHorriblyRight:
* GoneHorriblyWrong:
* GoodRunningEvil:
* TheLeader:
* MistakenForProfound:
* NobleDemon:
* NotHelpingYourCase:
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure:
* TrappedInVillany: