Primarque
Modèle:Traduction Necessaire Les Primarques sont les 20 "fils" génétiquement créés de l'Empereur. Il utilisa son propre ADN durant leur création et ils furent créer pour être de loin supérieur à un être humain moyen: Immensément plus grand, plus fort, plus robuste, plus rapide et plus intelligent. Ils étaient également incroyablement charismatiques, car leur rôle principal était d'être les généraux et chefs des militaires impériaux.
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La création des Primarques
Ils furent créer dans un laboratoire sous-terrain secret basé sur Luna dans la plus haute sécurité. Cependant,d'une manière ou d'une autre les forces du Chaos réussirent à les envoyés loin par l'esprit juste avant leur maturation et il est même dit qu'ils auraient réussit à trifouiller l'esprit des bébés primarques. Ils furent dispérsés à travers la galaxie, loin de l'influence de l'Empereur et chacun atterit sur un monde différents. L'Empereur pouvait sentir qu'ils étaient encore vivant mais restait impuissant quand à leur sort. Il utilisa donc leurs ADN pour créer les Space Marine. La matériel de génétique de chaqu'un d'eux donna naissance à une seule Légion Space Marine, 20 au total furent ainsi créées.
Leurs mondes natals et leur enfance les influencèrent et les moulèrent en grande partie. Là, ils ont rapidement atteint l'âge adulte et se sont levés pour gouverner, ordonner, mener, et aider les habitants. Quand l'empereur les retrouva, Il fut généralement satisfait par leurs actions, et leur à rapidement donné la conduite de leur légion respective.
Le premier primarque que l'Empereur retrouva fut Horus qui devint son favoris. La plupart des primarques on tous reconnus d'une façon ou d'untre autre l'Empereur pour ce qu'il était dès qu'ils le virent et lui ont tous juré allégeance sur l'instant. Certains comme Leman Russ, Ferrus Manus ou encore Vulkain ne l'ont suivit qu'apres avoir été battus en duel . Seul Angron refusa et fut retiré de son monde de force. Une chose qu'il n'accepta jamais réèllement. Le dernier primarque à être retouvé fut Alpharius.
A la fin de le Grande Croisade, le Maite de Guerre Hotus succomba aux puissances de la Ruine et 8 de ses frères primarques le suivirent dans ce qui deviendra l'Hérésie d'Horus contre l'Empereur ce qui provoqua un guèrre civile à grande échelle. Chaque primarque choisit son camp, Loyalistes contre Traitres et dirigea sa legions contre leur anciens camarades.
Numero de Légion | Nom | Monde Natal | Nom de la Legion | Allegance | Status Actuel |
I | Lion El'Jonson | Caliban | Dark Angels | Loyal | Vivant, Endromis dans une chambre secrete au fin fond du Le Rock... |
II | Effacé des archives impériales. Niveau d'autorisation inconnu... | ||||
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III | Fulgrim | Chemos | Emperor's Children | Traitre | Prince Démon. |
IV | Perturabo | Olympia | Iron Warriors | Traitre | Prince Démon, Maitre de Medrengard. |
V | Jaghatai Khan | Mundus Planus | White Scars | Loyal | Inconnu. A Disparu dans le Webway. |
VI | Leman Russ | Fenris | Space Wolves | Loyal | Inconnu. A Disparu dans l'Oeil de la Terreur. |
VII | Rogal Dorn | Terra13 | Imperial Fists | Loyal | Présumé mort durant la 1ère Crusade Noire. |
VIII | Konrad Curze/Night Haunter | Nostramo | Night Lords | Traitre | Mort, tué par l'assassin Callidus M´Shen. |
IX | Sanguinius | Baal | Blood Angels | Loyal | Mort, tué par Horus. |
X | Ferrus Manus | Medusa | Iron Hands | Loyal | Mort, tué par Fulgrim et sa tête offerte à Horus. |
XI | Effacé des archives impériales. Niveau d'autorisation inconnu... | ||||
XII | Angron | unknown | World Eaters | Traitre | Prince Démon. |
XIII | Roboute Guilliman | Macragge | Ultramarines | Loyal | Mortellement blessé par Fulgrim, acutellement gardé en stase, Supposé guérrissant. |
XIV | Mortarion | Barbarus | Death Guard | Traitre | Prince Démon, maitre de la Planète de la Peste. |
XV | Magnus the Red | Prospero | Thousand Sons | Traitre | Prince Démon, Mairte de la Planète des Sorciers. |
XVI | Horus | Cthonia | Luna Wolves/Sons of Horus | Traitre | Dead, Tué par l'Empereur. |
XVII | Lorgar | Colchis | Word Bearers | Traitre | Prince Démon, Maitre de Sicarus. |
XVIII | Vulkan | Nocturne | Salamanders | Loyal | Inconnu. Disparu. |
XIX | Corax | Deliverance | Raven Guard | Loyal | Inconnnu, Vu pour la dernière fois en direction de l'Oeil de la terreur. |
XX | Alpharius Omegon | unknown | Alpha Legion | Traitre | Un probablement mort, tué par Roboute Guilliman. (On ne sait actuellement pas quel jumeaux fut tué. La fiabilité de cette information est contestée, il est ainsi possible que et Alpharius, et Omegon soient toujours en vie.) |
Fate of the Primarchs
Traitors
- Warmaster Horus was killed by the Emperor of Mankind, and his soul was obliterated. His corpse was completely destroyed by Abaddon the Despoiler, who also took over his place as overall leader of the Chaos Space Marines.
- Magnus the Red rose to the rank of Daemon Prince of Tzeentch.
- Angron rose to the rank of of Daemon prince of Khorne.
- Mortarion rose the rank of Daemon Prince of Nurgle.
- Fulgrim rose to the rank of Daemon Prince of Slaanesh.
- Lorgar rose to the rank of Daemon Prince of Chaos Undivided.
- Perturabo rose to the rank of Daemon Prince of Chaos Undivided.
- Konrad Curze, aka Night Haunter, was assassinated by Callidus assassin M'Shen. He allowed her infiltration, apparently wanting to die.
- Alpharius was killed by Roboute Guilliman, but the source which reported his death may have been manipulated. It is not known if Alpharius or Omegon is the primarch killed in the report. Due to the report's unreliability, neither may have been killed.8.
Loyalists
- Ferrus Manus was killed at the Drop Site massacre at the start of the Horus Heresy by Fulgrim who presented his head to Horus.
- Sanguinius was slain by Horus after refusing to join him.
- Lion El'Jonson returned to his homeworld of Caliban only to discover that his friend and second-in command Luther and the Dark Angel garrison had turned against him2. He led a strike force of his own loyal Dark Angels against the traitors. He disappeared amongst the inferno as the world was blasted apart by a Warp Storm and a bombardment from his ships in orbit. He sleeps deep within the Rock, the biggest piece of Caliban and current home base of the Dark Angels1,2. Only the Emperor and the Watchers of the Dark know of this secret.1-p14
- Jaghatai Khan disappeared as he was pursuing Dark Eldar into a webway portal after they had managed to raid Mundus Planus. There are rumors that he fights there still, lost in the twisting paths of the Webway. After nine thousand years it seems highly unlikely, but not impossible.
- Leman Russ disappeared in the Eye of Terror. The Space Wolves hold a legend that says Russ went on a quest to find a means to cure the Emperor. His final words before his disappearance is that he would return for the Wolftime (the final battle). It is also said that Leman Russ led the 13th Company into the Eye of Terror and ordered them to hunt down the Traitor Legions which had fled to the Eye of Terror, particularly the Thousand Sons.
- Rogal Dorn boarded a Chaos cruiser during a Black Crusade alongside a company of his sons and died fighting. He died after many of his loyal brother Primarchs. Today, his hand is housed in the holiest shrine of the Imperial Fists chapter, and his dead body encased in amber and put in Phalanx 11.
- Roboute Guilliman was struck down with an envenomed blade by his former brother Fulgrim. His body is perfectly preserved in a stasis field at the heart of the Temple of Correction3. It is rumoured that he is alive and that his wounds are slowly healing, something normally impossible in a stasis field. The truth of this rumour is unknown but this is seen by many (including the Ultramarine captain Uriel Ventris) as mere optimistic thinking.
- Vulkan disappeared. The position of Chapter Master, filled by the Captain of the First Company, is considered to be a regency as the Salamanders believe that Vulkan will one day return and lead them on a great crusade against Chaos.
- Corax was racked by guilt and shame. In order to rebuild quickly the strength of his legion from the dropsite massacre on Isstvan V, Corax accelerated the growth of the gene-seed organs, producing more Space Marines, but this process also deteriorated the Gene-seed, causing many to become hulking monsters. Riddled with guilt over what he had done, Corax administered euthanasia to all of them and then locked himself away within his sanctum, the Raven's Tower. Exactly one year later he left his tower, haggard and gaunt, and took a small shuttle craft with the words Never more. It was last monitored setting a course for the Eye of Terror.
Two unknown Primarchs
Almost nothing is known about the two unknown primarchs.
References to the second and eleventh Primarchs are made in the short story, The Lighting Tower12, in which Rogal Dorn describes the plinths on which their statues should be are vacant and says that 'no one ever spoke of those two absent brothers. Their separate tragedies had seemed like aberrations. Had they, in fact, been warnings that no one had heeded?'
The traitor Primarchs in this story are covered with a shroud, so the fate of the second and eleventh is undetermined. They may have been found and befell a tragedy as it implies they were spoken about previously.
Sources
- 1:Codex: Angels of Death (2nd Edition)
- 2:Angels of Darkness by Gav Thorpe
- 3:Nightbringer by Graham McNeill
- 4:Into the Maelstrom, short-story Hell in a bottle by Simon Jowet
- 5:Malleus by Dan Abnett, page 89 "...the Primarch of the White Counsuls..."
- 6:Codex Imperialis, section previewed in White Dwarf 166
- 7:Codex: Ultramarines (2nd Edition)
- 8:Index Astartes IV
- 9:False Gods by Graham McNeill
- 10:Renegades by Andy Chambers, Jervis Johnson & Rick Priestley
- 11:Space Marine
- 12:The Lightning Tower by Dan Abnett, page 9
- 13:Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition), Page 8
- 14:Ultramarine Omnibus by Graham McNeill