Line #22 Literature/TransformersTheCovenantOfPrimus


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3	''The Covenant of Primus'' is an in-story Bible for the Transformers Aligned universe.
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6	!! Tropes:
7	* CrystalDragonJesus: The Covenant really is a book containing Cybertron's mythology, a Transformer equivalent of the Bible.
8	* DecompositeCharacter: Taking a page from ''ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW'', Galavatron is a separate entity from Megatron.
9	* {{Expy}}: Liege Maximo is a dark TricksterArchetype and is even visually modeled after [[ComicBook/{{Loki}} Marvel's Loki]].
10	* FantasyPantheon: The Covenant tells the history of the Thirteen Primes, which are this:
11	** TopGod[=/=]GodOfGood: Primus, the creator of the Transformers who is Cybertron itself.
12	** SatanicArchetype[=/=]GodOfEvil: Unicron, the incarnation of destruction and chaos.
13	** TheLeader: Prima, the first transformer.
14	** WarGod: Megatronus, the fiercest warrior. [[spoiler: He later [[FallenHero got corrupted]] by Liege Maximo and became known as The Fallen.]]
15	** MessianicArchetype: The Thirteenth Prime[[spoiler:, Optimus]]. He had no special powers, but [[HopeBringer helped bring about hope, reason and vision to his brethren]]. He then [[spoiler: retreated to the Well of All Sparks to be reborn as [[AmnesiacGod an ordinary Cybertronian, Orion Pax]], to better guide his people.]]
16	** GodOfEvil: Liege Maximo is a lesser version among the Thirteen, starting at CreatingLifeIsBad[[spoiler: and then corrupting Megatronus and bringing the end of the age of Primes.]]
17	** TricksterArchetype: A lighter form than Liege Maximo, this is Amalgamous Prime, the original bearer of the transformation ability and the ancestor of [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shifters]].
18	** NatureSpirit: Alchemist Prime, the researcher, Quintus Prime who seeds planets with life, and Onyx Prime, the ancestor of the mechanical beasts known as Predacons.
19	** UltimateBlacksmith: [[TheSmurfettePrinciple Solus Prime]], the maker of technology.
20	** TheFairFolk: Micronus Prime, progenitor of the Minicons.
21	** TimeMaster: Vector Prime.
22	** {{Seers}}: Alpha Trion, the scribe who wrote the Covenant itself, including future events, though he barely understood the language of the future.
23	** ForScience: Nexus Prime, the original [[FusionDance combiner]], Alchemist Prime and Quintus Prime, the creator of life.
24	* HeadbuttingHeroes: Prima and Megatronus at the beginning, being alike in temperament to Primus and Unicron, respectively.
25	* LoveRuinsTheRealm: [[spoiler: Megatronus and Solus were in love, but he grew jealous of her relationship with Amalgamous (the two were JustFriends) and that caused him to grow resentful at her, ultimately blasting her through the chest when she came to talk him out of Liege Maximo's machinations.]]
26	* {{Retcon}}: Optimus Prime's backstory. [[spoiler: He was mentioned to have "Primian polarity", i.e. descended from Prima, but here he was stated to be the thirteenth of the original Primes.]] [[CosmicRetcon Previously]], each of the Thirteen was a multiversal singularity among all Transformers continuities. Due to some story differences, it's now stated that each of them can choose whether and not to split in any continuity or continuity family.
27	* TomesOfProphecyAndFate: The Covenant is written so that each chapter is in the language of the time it is detailing. Thus no one, including Alpha Trion whose {{Magitek}} quill wrote it, have a perfect understanding of it and the only thing they can glimpse from the future are vague prophecies.
28	* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: [[spoiler: Solus Prime who reached out to all others.]]
29	* TragicHero: Megatronus. [[spoiler: Since the beginning he was shunned until Solus got close to him, they fell in love but then he ended up killing her, shattering the unity of the Thirteen.]]
30	* WhenThePlanetsAlign: As detailed in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'', "when the forty-seven spheres align, a perpetual conflict will culminate upon a world forged from chaos. And the weak shall perish in the shadow of a rising darkness". [[spoiler: The rising darkness is Unicron who comprises the core of the "world forged from chaos" (Earth) and will awaken from the gravitational anomaly of the 47 celestial bodies with Cybertron on the other end.]]

Context Literature / TransformersTheCovenantOfPrimus