THE PRIMARCHS: Where Are They All NOW? | Warhammer 40k Lore

Who will return next? The Primarchs in 40k are a mixed bunch - some are pretty active, some are pretty lazy, and some got lost a long time ago. So where are they all now?

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[unnamed]

The first drafts of 40k lore were wild. The Space Marines used to be a kind of penalty legion made from hardened criminals forever welded into their armour until they either die or served their sentence. If this sounds familiar, the concept was discarded by GW and soon reused by Starcraft after a GW storywriter went to work for Blizzard.

[emzetkin]

It's worth noting that the "Omegon" Guilliman killed was likely not the real Primarch Omegon, since Guilliman noted doing so with extreme ease. I think it's both a more interesting narrative and way funnier for one of the twins to still be alive.

[metaltriops]

21:22 “Horus led the Horus Heresy”

Damn I wouldn’t have known I thought it was John Warhammer who collected all 40, 000 warhammers

[stephenkellett]

I like the idea that Omegon is waiting to show up on the Loyalist side as a renegade to tip the scales

[DaniMol]

A small bit of clarification, the primarchs were not "sworn to secrecy" about the two missing primarchs, Guilliman and Dorn, in a rare moment in which they agreed on something, had Malcador psychically scour their minds of the names of their brothers, and made them physically unable to speak of them, that's why the traitors also don't speak of them beyond vague mentions, anything else they simply cannot do.
Malcador briefly returns Dorn's memory, and once Dorn remember, he has Malcador scour his mind again, convinced he and Bobby made the right choice.

[vonrichthofen]

I would consider Corax to be active since we do for certain he’s active in the warp hunting his traitorous brethren. For all we know, Lorgar isn’t doing much because he’s terrified of mobilizing only to be ambushed by angry shadows.

I think it is possible that Sanguinius could make a return one day since we now know his body is in stasis.

[filipnassen]

I’m still waiting for the real Alpharius to show after 11K year and be like: ”Hey guys! Sorry I’m late, I’ve been busy with some stuff Father told me to do. So… What’s going on?”

[at]

I have always considered Horus the only truly dead primarc as his was the only one who’s soul was obliterated

[neelwoodall]

I very much appreciate your treatment of Lorgar in this video. He has become such a meme character that sometimes trying to have a serious discussion about the character is hard. IMO one of the pivotal characters of the universe playing the power behind the chaos throne before overstepping and trying to take the reigns of the Heresy himself. He is chaos Guiliman, the organizer, not the war leader. The long range planner, not the "in the breach" leader. A role that will never be filled because chaos is going to chaos.

[Tomoyuki_Tanaka]

I believe Rogal Dorn is still alive, but...disarmed at the moment. He probably needs a hand.

[fujoyoshi]

Alpharius should have been in every category given their dubious loyalist/heretic allegiances

[tomnope]

It gets even messier when you consider that Sanguinius' body vanished from its tomb, and M''Shen's log of her confrontation with Curze is missing the actual killing and HIS body's whereabouts are unknown. The only one I think is for sure dead is Ferrus and still waiting for some way for that to be reversed.

[lunarendaro]

Bile: hey guys i cloned Sanguinious!
Literally all of chaos: why the fuck would you do that?
Bile: *shrugs* kinda just my thing.

[jkee]

Corvus is just vibing in the Eye spooking heretics. I have a small feeling he may come back for the loyalists next due to the updated models for the Ravenguard

[priest]

It's ok I've found one of the lost Primarchs...he was behind the sofa cushions with some loose change and stale cashews.

[CocoHutzpah]

Who will return next? My money is on Fulgrim, complete with a contentious 10th edition codex for the Emperor's Children.

[Cordovan]

In "The Devastation of Baal" I think a telling amount of attention and focus is placed on explaining and then repeatedly bringing up the fact that the Blood Angels have a pure drop of blood of Sanguinius held in stasis from the moment of his death.

It could be a red herring, but I think it's a Chekhov's Gun, holding open the door for Cawl to maybe work some more of his genecrafting magic 👀

[Draidis]

It's important to note that Vulcan is a perpetual, meaning unless killed by special means, he doesn't really stay dead forever. I believe Sanguinious was also supposed to be a perpetual but I'm not certain about that. But at the least, Vulcan belongs in the lost/lazy middle ground area.

[sovviedan]

I know it's unlikely for a good while but I really want Lorgar to come back so 40k-onlys get a more nuanced view than "whingy cult leader who got bitched on and left" like all the memes reduce him down to. The Guilliman/Corax vs. Lorgar beef would be legendary. He really has a ton of depth with the emperor betraying him and pushing him directly into Erebus' arms, his relationships with the other primarchs whose legionaries turned traitor due to the lodges being filled with Lorgar's priests, and the chaos infighting there would be with Angron since Lorgar was the one who turned him into a demon when he tried to save him from the nails.

[Spartan-]

I love that at some point during the siege of Terra, Perturabo just looked around, sighed and said "F**k this" and left 😂