The Lost Primarchs - Ultimate Blanks

What if some of them are? Two in particular.

What if two of the Emperor's sons were the pinnacle of the aspects of the Emperor's blank aspect, so hideously anathema that not only are mortals and astartes and their own brother primarchs repulsed by their existence, but blanks of such intensity that it hurts to even remember them? Where whenever one who knew of them tries to recall of them, they can only remember pain and horror and revulsion, as we see in the Horus Heresy? That no one can correct the historical record of them, or even want to if they knew? Who are such anathema that the thought of them causes pain in others who are not also, similarly blank? A face only a mother could love one could say. Or in this case, a father.

What if it is these unknown and reviled primarchs, sequestered away even during the Great Crusade, records of whom areexpunged so thoroughly that no record thus exists beyond legend, myth or rumour, were simply waiting? What if they recruited for their legions only those of similar standing. Blanks who were anathema to Chaos. So that the Emperor had two secret legions of Adeptus Astartes who's very presence would warp the forces of chaos into nonexistence with every footfall? Two legions designed specifically to act as the spear tip, to cut their way into the Eye of Terror itself at the culmination of the Great Crusade, and close that great wound in the universe once and for all, but who never received the call?

What if, because of their nature, the Emperor could only trust one man to oversee their needs and requisition, one man, asides from himself, whose orders and actions would never be questioned, not even by the Emperor's sons, the one man closer to the Emperor than anyone else?

The one man whose actions created the Inquisition in the first instance.

The one man whose influence created a secretive order of Space Marines we all already know about, consisting purely or psykers known as the Grey Templars.

What if Malcador the Sigilite was left in charge of this, the Emperor's one last desperate gambit against chaos should all else fail, whose machinations ensured their longevity through this long dark night of the Imperium's slow decline and during the most desperate hours of the Horus Heresy, created the terminus decree for which to summon forth these Ghost Legions. Whose unique power is so dangerous that if they were to approach the Emperor in his weakened state, may indeed kill him at last through no fault of their own.

These Ghost Legions who by their nature are unknown or reviled by the forces of chaos, whose primarchs could not be corrupted for the simple reason they lacked the capacity to be corrupted. Who are to be summoned at Humanity's most desperate hour as one final gambit to save the species should the various gambit pileups of the Imperium's history disfavour the Emperor's long game ambitions.

Perhaps this is the secret of the Terminus decree, perhaps this is the secret trump card up the Emperor's sleeve, perhaps this is why no one could ever know of the lost primarchs or what became of them.

Because they are waiting, watching, biding their time for when the call is given, and the end has come.

Well it'd be pretty neat

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>>49985344
I like the thought you've put into this, and it's an interesting theory. But I feel compelled to say
Desert Scorpions from Lost Primarch Quest did it.

>>49985674
Gonna sound like a retard but:

The hell is that and where can I find it?

>>49985692
It's in the /tg/ archives. It was a quest where they ran as one of the Lost Primarchs, he was a Blank and leader of the Desert Scorpions.
It was intended to be a more "realistic" and "less silly" origin of the Angry Marines.

>>49985718
>It was intended to be a more "realistic" and "less silly" origin of the Angry Marines
I was never a fan of the Angry Marines, but doesn't that kind of miss the point of them?

>>49985749
Arguably, it's a legitimately fun quest to read through though.

the Emp is the human with the strongest warp presence, the very end of the scale with how powerful a warp influence a human can have, with on the other end being the Blanks that have no presence at all in the spiritual world of souls; warp. He is anything but a blank.
And since psykers are one in a million and blanks one in a billion, it would be extremely unlikely that 2 of the 20 primarchs would be blanks, just as it is unlikely that one of them was. He created the primarchs with the help of warp, so it is only reasonable that all of them had a soul like 99,9999999% of humans have.

Most likely one of the sons inherited his daddys trust issues, which resulted in early trust establishing issues and rebellion and the result was Ultrasmurfs annexing more soldiers. The other probably inherited Emprahs warp contact list and ability to make deals with xenos, and resulted in early inquisitorial purge.

>>49985883
I actually think its more of a horseshoe effect, and those with the strongest Blankness are those most in tune with the Materium. The Emperor being the only real physical god of his kind with absurd Warp presence yet wholly physical and material it is not beyond the realm of possibility he is also has blank capabilities, in fact it is FAR more likely he has blank capabilities than it is for him to be a Perpetual.

And as we already know, the Emperor is definitely a Perpetual, as John Grammaticus found out. So no, I don't see your logic here.

>>49986437
Blanks have no soul presence, their souls cannot be touched as they lack the connection to the realm of souls; there is no "horseshoe" in this case, they just lack the warp presence. Big E has the mightiest warppresence a man can have.

John Grammaticus is a mystery man, not sure what he has to do with being a blank. He is a psyker, not a blank.

>>49986517
That is debateable, we're not actually sure if it is that the Blanks are 'soulless' that cause their effects on the warp. We have contradictory theories regarding what blanks are, it could very well be they simply have a different and adversarial effect on the warp than what the rest of humanity does.

John Grammaticus is relevant because he was actively repulsed as a psyker by what he saw when he pierced the Emperor's psychic veil to see what lay beneath. John Grammaticus is not a blank in this theory, read my posts again.

>>49985883
I agree with most of what you say, except for the one-in-one billion Blanks rule. We know that the Pariah Gene is a quantifiable biological phenomenon and can, with the right methods, be cultivated within individual beings. Added to the fact that the Primarchs probably didn't develop Psyker-powers from mutation, but were instead designed for it (virtually all the Primarchs have shown off some ability or another that suggests a strong psychic presence, if not full-blown psykery.)

>>49986648
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>>49986437
It's highly suggested and pretty likely that being soulless does not cause the negation effect of the Warp, as this 'void' that's explained is notably more tangible as a force than, for example, the complete lack of presence a rock has. Considering the Necrontyr have been shown to reproduce the same effects of a Blank on a mechanical medium, and they may have invented the Pariah Gene, it's more than likely that 'Blanks' just possess biological null-field generators.

>>49986648
>>49986648
neither of them is blank, maybe JG just saw what heinous things Big E had done for the "greater good of mankind" (such as dealing with Chaos gods and killing his own sons and slaughtering loyal soldiers)
for such a perfect creature, he sure was ready to throw some mud around to achieve his goals. even the entire Horus Heresy only started bothering him when Horus started knocking on his homedoor, before that it was like "meh", "who cares" attitude to his sons killing one another
Big E has a large soul, that is capable of both good and evil; maybe the large amount of evil emotions repulsed JG, not some kind of "blankness".

>>49986689
Not all primarchs can use psychic powers, Emperor gave them different purposes and only 3-5 of them might have the gift (Magnus, Lorgar and Mortarion for sure)

>>49986782
Not all of them are Psykers but many of them have occasionally shown suggestions of psychic sensitivity, such as Russ's interactions with the Thousand Sons psykery and the like during the Burning of Prospero.

Sanguinius, Lorgar, Mortarion and Magnus were the only four that really showed cases of true Psykery, though.