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===Creation of the Primarchs===
[[Image:The_primarchs_wall.jpg|thumb|right|500px|An assembly of the Primarchs during the great Triumph after the [[Ullanor Crusade]]. Left to right: [[Sanguinius]], [[Mortarion]], [[Magnus the Red]], [[Angron]], [[Jaghatai Khan]], [[Lorgar Aurelian]], [[Rogal Dorn]], [[Horus Lupercal]], and [[Fulgrim]].]]
The Primarchs were created in a secret underground laboratory on [[Terra]]{{Fn|14}} under the tightest security. According to [[Ingethel|Ingethel the Ascended]], the Primarchs were created by the Emperor with the aid of forbidden sciences and arcane lore derived from the [[Warp]].{{Fn|14}} [[Eldrad Ulthran]] also states that the Emperor utilized dark powers to construct the Primarchs.{{Fn|19}} It is speculated the Primarchs were imbued with energies and knowledge that the Emperor gained in a Warp Portal on [[Molech]].{{Fn|20}} The genetic material of the powerful [[Perpetual]] [[Erda]] were used in the creation of the Primarchs and she viewed them as her "sons".{{Fn|38a}} [[Perturabo]] would later estimate his own birth to be 792.[[M30]], perhaps giving a date for the Primarch's creation.{{Fn|26}}
==List of Primarchs==
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|- style="color:#dddddd;background-color: #555555;"
!colspan=2 scope=colgroup |Legion
!rowspan=2 scope=col | Fate
!rowspan=2 scope=col width="5%"| Date of Discovery {{Fn|17}}
|-!width="5%" style="color:#dddddd;background-color: #555555 ;"! scope=col | NĀ°!width="15%" stylescope="color:#dddddd;background-color: #555555col | Name
|- style="font-size:80%;"
! scope=row data-sort-value=1 style="font-size:125%;" |I
|-
! scope=row data-sort-value=2 |II
| colspan=5 | '''[[Lost Primarch|Deleted from Imperial records, authorisation unknown.''']]
| style="font-size:80%;" | 821.M30 (3rd){{Fn|Note 1}}
|- style="font-size:80%;"
|[[Fenris]]
|Loyal
| [[Leman Russ (Primarch)#Post-Heresy|Alive, disappearedin the Eye of Terror]]
|819.M30 (2nd)
|- style="font-size:80%;"
|-
! scope=row data-sort-value=11 |XI
| colspan=5 | '''[[Lost Primarch|Deleted from Imperial records, authorisation unknown.''']]
| style="font-size:80%;" |927.M30 (19th){{Fn|Note 1}}
|- style="font-size:80%;"
Little is known about the [[Two unknown legions|two unknown primarchs]], the [[Primarch II|II<sup>nd</sup>]] and [[Primarch XI|XI<sup>th</sup>]].
References to the second and eleventh Primarchs are made in the short story ''The Lightning Tower''{{Fn|12}}, in which Rogal Dorn describes the plinths on which their statues stand should be 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?' Also in [[The First Heretic (Novel)|''The First Heretic'']], [[Lorgar]] makes several references, saying that the Emperor ordered that they be forgotten. During the time five Word Bearer captains spent being shown secrets of the galaxy by the daemon Ingethel, they are shown the Emperor's gene-labs where he is creating the Primarchs and the moment that they were scattered by Chaos. During their time wandering the labs as insubstantial ghosts, undetectable as long as they didn't touch anything, they speak of the two lost legions, mentioning how they were erased from Imperial records and how Roboute Guilliman's Ultramarines legion mysteriously swelled in numbers each time one of the two legions was "erased." The implication seems clear that at least part of the fighting force of the "lost" legions was entrusted to Roboute Guilliman and incorporated into the Ultramarines.{{Fn|14}}
Note: if this is true, then perhaps entire chapters descended from the original Ultramarines legion are in fact part of the gene-seed of the two lost legions. At the time of the Heresy remarks made by the five Word Bearers captains Argel Tal, Xaphen, Torgal, Malnor, and Dagotal suggest that the fate of the lost legions is relatively common knowledge though kept hushed up. In the intervening ten millennia between the Heresy and the current age of the 41st millennium it is likely this information was forgotten. It is a coincidental side-note that the lost legions were numbers two and eleven. Two plus eleven equals thirteen - the number of the Ultramarines legion.{{Fn|14}}
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.
In the novel ''[[Prospero Burns]] '' by Dan Abnett, it is suggested that [[Leman Russ (Primarch)|Leman Russ]] and his [[Space Wolves]] legion had been used by the [[Emperor]] in the past to cull/pacify the two legions and that the Emperor had created the Wolves for just such an event, utilizing their barbaric, untamed nature as a sort of insurance policy for use against other Space Marine Legions. This is further demonstrated by the unleashing of the Wolves on the [[Thousand Sons]] Legion in the same novel.{{Fn|18}}
==Clones==
Perhaps the most notable example of a cloned Primarch was after the [[Horus Heresy]], where Fabius Bile again cloned a son of the Emperor, this time [[Horus]] from DNA provided by the [[Warmaster]]'s corpse. Confused and senile, this clone of Horus didn't initially recognize many of his closest comrades such as [[Ezekyle Abaddon]] and proved a poor imitation of the real Lupercal. Abaddon [[Battle of Harmony|killed the clone]], and in its dying moments it recognized who the First Captain was. During the same period, Bile attempted to clone all twenty Primarchs from gathered samples, the result being a hall of pods with monstrosities and deformed adolescent creatures. All of these abominations were killed by Abaddon and his forces.{{Fn|22}}
Sometime after [[The Shattering]], Bile discovered one of his clones of Fulgrim managed to survive underneath the rubble of [[Harmony]]. Under Bile's care the clone rapidly matured and was "pure", retaining none of Fulgrim's corruption. However , when Bile believed came to believe that the clone still retained all of Fulgrim's arrogance and was doomed to go down the same path as the original, he traded him to [[Trazyn the Infinite]] in exchange for a lost [[Emperor's Children]] [[Genegene-Seedseed]] stock.{{Fn|39}} ==Related Videos=={{#evt:service=youtube|id=https://youtu.be/r-8qjAnppx0|alignment=center|container=frame}} ==Related Articles==*[[Primarch Project]]*[[Abrasax Ghent]]
==Portraits==
Mortarion.png|[[Mortarion]]
Magnus.jpg|[[Magnus]]
Horus.png|[[HorusLupercal]]LorgarPortrait.jpg|[[LorgarAurelian]]AlphariusArt.jpg|[[AlphariusOmegon]]
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===Notes===
*{{Endn|Note 1}}: While the offiial Primarch official primarch rediscovery order does not distinguish between the Second second and Eleventh Primarchseleventh, the novel [[Fulgrim: The Palatine Phoenix (Novel)|Fulgrim: The Palatine Phoenix]] confirms that the Second second was one of the first eight Primarchs primarchs rediscovered.{{Fn|7}}*{{Endn|Note 2}}: Officially, Horus was the first Primarch primarch rediscovered and Alpharius the last. According to Alpharius's own account, however, he was in fact the first Primarch primarch recovered by the Emperor and Horus the second, with Alpharius's existence being kept secret until his twin Omegon - the last undiscovered Primarch primarch - revealed himself (as 'Alpharius') to Horus and the Imperium.{{Fn|40}}
===Canon ConflictsConflicting sources===[[Gregor Eisenhorn]] refers to the "Primarchprimarch" of the [[White Consuls]] [[Space Marine Chapter]], when stating that he made it a point to commend a heroic [[Space Marine Sergeant|Sergeantsergeant]] who saved his life, at the cost of the Sergeantsergeant's own, on [[Thracian Primaris]]. Since the White Consuls are a [[Successor Chaptersuccessor chapter]], and because there were no living or active primarchs within the Imperium at the time of these events, he seems seemed to be using the term "Primarchprimarch" interchangeably with that of [[Chapter Masterchapter master]].{{Fn|5}}
===Similar Entites===
**[[Arik Taranis]], one of the first and last [[Thunder Warrior]]s.
**[[Constantin Valdor]], the first [[Custodian]].
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==See also==
*[[Primarch Project]]
*[[Abrasax Ghent]]
==Sources==