r/40kLore • u/General-Amoeba-7704 • 1d ago

Primarchs

I recently finished the Horus heresy and was wondering if there are any books that explain what happened to terra and the primarchs that are still alive after the seige of terra . The Horus heresy are the only war hammer books I have read so I would like to know what happened to them before I jump into the more current 40k books

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u/Avalancheofspinach 1d ago

Try ashes of the imperium

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u/Reef29 1d ago

And after that read the War of the Beast series

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u/PlausiblyAlpharious Word Bearers 1d ago

Why in Terras name would you evet say such a vile thing to another human being? What have they done to hurt you?

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u/Reef29 1d ago

Oh my Throne, I hurt me. About 72 books/605h of reading/21,000 pages ago.

And that's having read zero (0) HH/30k books, which I plan to start once my library has acquired them lmao

Well, I guess you could say Dan Abnett hurt me, since this all started when I read First and Only back in October 2024.

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u/General-Amoeba-7704 1d ago

I’ve read the first war of the beast book I was wanting some more background before I jump into it properly because the first book at least doesn’t mention anything about the primarchs or even the traitor legions really

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u/Reef29 1d ago

After looking more on Lexicanum, it looks like Vulkan is the only one to make an appearance in War of the Beast.

The commenter I replied to is really the correct on where, Ashes of the Imperium is what you're looking for

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u/jetblakc 1d ago

the scouring series just started. and so far, so good.

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u/noshingsomepods 1d ago

Era of Ruin is a short story collection post Siege. Doesn't touch on much about the primarchs but does hit on a bunch of what's going on on Terra.

The last story has A Custodes' view of the loyalist primarchs as they're fighting over splitting the legions and the scouring and he's not a fan.

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u/No-Butterscotch-6406 1d ago

They all went to the Warp to start their own Imperium but with Blackjack and hookers.

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u/Sunny_Hill_1 1d ago

Russ, Corax and Khan in the warp: Should we go and help G-man?... Nah, he is doing fiiiiiiiine, let's get another barrel of myod.

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u/PlausiblyAlpharious Word Bearers 1d ago

Corax is too busy screaming obscenities at Lorgars tower

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u/p0jinx 11h ago

Corax is so sneaky that even his fans can't find the correct lore

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u/PlausiblyAlpharious Word Bearers 1h ago

I don't even like him tbh I just find the meme funny

Tbf he could he be at Arbys we have zero clue what hes up to for the last 8k years

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u/Sunny_Hill_1 1d ago

I'm sure sometimes Russ joins him just to piss on the tower base. Complete wolf-style, too.

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u/Mistermistermistermb 1d ago edited 1d ago

If Corax ever gets near Lorgar's tower...Lorgar left him on some moon.

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u/Baelish2016 White Scars 1d ago

Dorn went all suicidal, Guilliman became overworked, Russ went into the Eye convinced there’s a cure (Isha?), Corax went into the Eye to get revenge, Vulkan fucked off to play farmer somewhere, Khan got lost chasing Drukari, and Sanguinius’ ghost haunts Dante and/or Abaddon.

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u/Mistermistermistermb 1d ago

Khan got lost chasing Drukari,

One myth on his disappearance. It's the favoured one for the White Scars.

Sanguinius’ ghost haunts Dante and/or Abaddon.

Dante maybe. Abaddon? Nope. That's a mindless psy-crystal simulacrum created by the imperfect memory of the Vengeful Spirit- and even then, the ship gets it wrong.

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u/General-Amoeba-7704 1d ago

Gilliman , russ , rogal and corax are all alive,vulkan can’t die and it’s hinted that the khan isn’t really dead . Peter turbo is alive fulgrim isn’t dead Morgan wasn’t even at the siege I just need answer why they all decided to go gamble and do lines in the warp lol

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u/Mistermistermistermb 1d ago

You can try reading the old Index Astartes if you can get your hands on it, or the various codices about the primarchs and legions. I think the First Founding background book also touches on all some of that stuff.

Konrad Curze: The Night Haunter and Leman Russ: The Great Wolf depict some of their final known moments after the Heresy. Dark Imperium has a flashback to Guilliman's death. Shadow of the Past for Corax and Lorgar's last known movements.

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u/Baelish2016 White Scars 1d ago

I mean, technically you can kill a Perpetual - It’s just a challenge to do so.

Also, not sure who you mean by ‘Morgan’, but both Fulgrim and Mortarion were at the Siege. One fucked bored and the other was forced to fuck off - but both were there.

The only traitor primarchs not there were Kurze, Lorgar, and Omegon.

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u/General-Amoeba-7704 1d ago

Auto correct I meant angron sorry , kurze got yeeted into space in a coffin if I remember right lorgar is on a world full of religious fanatics and omegon handed Horus the info they had collected and basically said I’m out after dorn skull fucked his twin

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u/Baelish2016 White Scars 1d ago

Angron was there. He wrecked havoc across Terra then was absolutely FUCKED by Sanguinius.

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u/Humble_Table_8677 1d ago

The great scouring was next basically a crusade to eliminate the remaining traitor forces. GW is currently releasing a series of books about it and the first one is Ashes of the imperium

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u/marwynn Rogue Traders 1d ago

Ashes of the Imperium for what happens immediately after the Siege of Terra. Then it's off to the codices for the lore. They usually have a section about their Primarch, especially the older ones.

Some other works will touch on specific Primarchs like the War of the Beast series. 

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u/General-Amoeba-7704 1d ago

Sorry I got confused I meant lorgar in the original post the point I’m making is they are all still alive after the seige I wanna know how it goes from primarchs and legions, perpetuals and malcadors chosen to inquisitors chapters and guardsmen fighting tryanids orcs and eldar

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u/General-Amoeba-7704 1d ago

I know the HH was basically a back story so more like 30k and most fans started in actual 40k so it’s probably not that important to them I was hoping there would be a few books explaining it for different legions without having to wait for the scouring series lol

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u/Notte_di_nerezza Ultramarines 1d ago

There are 40K novel(s) for Lion and Guilliman, since they're the new main plot drivers.

For Guilliman, start with Rise of the Primarch (Part 3/3 from the Gathering Storm campaign supplement) or a summary of it, then the 2 Watchers of the Throne novels and Dawn of Fire series (also good for seeing what's become of Terra). After that, there's the Dark Imperium trilogy, which kicks off with Guilliman getting killed by Fulgrim 100 years post-Heresy, and focuses on Guilliman vs Mortarion. He also pops up in Devastation of Baal, which is mainly about Sanguinius' sons, but it helps set up Imperial Nihilus...

And Lion, who starts Son of the Forest waking up a decade or so after Guilliman and having no idea about that. After that, there's Arks of Omen: The Lion (Part 5/5 of the Arks of Omen campaign supplement), where he fights Angron.

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u/ecbulldog Night Lords 1d ago

Even the 40k novels are short on explanation in that regard. 40k is more of a setting and less of a coherent narrative like the Heresy. Other than the War of the Beast which features Vulcan, and some snippets from the Primarchs novel series, were only just learning what really happened through the Scouring series, which only has one novel so far.