The Imperial Fists, Iron Hands, and Iron Warriors, for instance, each have their own niche - but if you’re interested in reading about the Aeldari or Necron, they all just look like Space Marine palette swaps. If you’re not deep on the lore of Space Marines and Primarchs, though, this nuance can easily be lost on the reader. Space Marines are the poster boys of the setting, and one of the most iconic parts of 40K, and each legion has their own role and function. Each Primarch also has their own supporting cast from their legion of Space Marines, transhuman biosoldiers built from the gene-seed of their Primarchs. Many of the Primarchs seem either ridiculous, or they just blend together into a smear of big men and space battles.
The various authors of the Black Library pull this off by writing the Horus Heresy series like a particularly nasty WWE-style feud, or a soap opera with constant gunfights and walking tanks. There are now dozens of books in the Horus Heresy series, detailing each Primarch’s exploits. That was before Black Library, the prolific book publishing arm of Games Workshop, started putting out books about these boys. These characters existed far back in history, and had no realistic bearing on contemporary gameplay - and their stories weren’t explicitly told. The Primarchs and their exploits started as vague myths and legends, half-remembered from a lost age. And it’s all because of his terrible sons - the Primarchs - and their nonsense. The God-Emperor sustained an ouchie 10,000 years ago that means he’s confined to the chair, a carrion lord who consumes a thousand souls a day. The God-Emperor of Mankind is the guy who set up the Imperium of Man, powers the lighthouse that all Imperium ships use to travel, and stops an endless horde of demons from breaking into Terra and exploding the planet. If you check out Warhammer 40K fan spaces and content channels, you’ll find that much of the conversation surrounds twenty terrible boys and all the bad decisions they make.
That’s without mentioning the various alien races, known as xenos - terrifying space bugs, ferocious orks, awe-inspiring space elves, and immortal robot skeletons.īut that’s not what fan conversation tends to center on. Billions of people are stacked in hive cities, trillions of people sign up for the Imperial Guard (and die horribly in the process), and quadrillions of humans are spread across the galaxy. Warhammer 40,000 stands apart largely because of its vast scale.
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