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*{{Endn|41}}: [[Fulgrim: The Palatine Phoenix (Novel)]], Chapter 1
*{{Endn|42}}: [[Warhawk (Novel)]] - Chapter 13
*{{Endn|43}}: [https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/03/29/lion-eljonson-rules-revealed-10000-years-of-rest-havent-dulled-his-epic-combat-skills/ Warhammer Community: Lion El’Jonson Rules Revealed – 10,000 Years of Rest Haven’t Dulled His Epic Combat Skills (posted 29/3/2023)] (last accessed 25/4/2023)
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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}}
However, the [[Gods of Chaos]] somehow managed to spirit them away just prior to their maturation with a great [[Warp]] vortex{{Fn|9}} and it is speculated that they also managed to tamper with the infant Primarchs. The scattering of the Primarchs may have been the result of a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_loop Causal Loop] created when [[Argel Tal]] and his men were sent back in time inside the [[Eye of Terror]] to the Emperor's laboratory, as they were convinced by [[Ingethel the Ascended]] to destroy the [[Gellar Field]]s protecting the infants from the touch of the Chaos Gods. Almost immediately after the Gellar Field generators were disabled, the Primarchs were sucked into a Warp vortex.{{Fn|14}} Other sources state that the Perpetual [[Erda]] was involved in the theft of the Primarchs and created the Warp Vortex that scattered them due to her anger over the fate the Emperor planned for her "children".{{Fn|38a}}. According to [[Erebus]], Erda was unwittingly manipulated by the [[Chaos Gods]] into committing this act.{{Fn|426}} Several Primarchs, including [[Konrad Curze]], [[Roboute Guilliman]], and even [[Sanguinius]] all came to believe that the scattering of the Primarchs and their upbringing on distant worlds had all been engineered by the Emperor.{{Fn|23}}
Scattered across the galaxy, beyond the Emperor's reach, and all landed on different worlds vastly separated from their Father. The Emperor could sense that the infant Primarchs were alive, but was unable to reach them. Therefore he used their previously collected DNA samples to create the [[Space Marine]]s. The genetic material of each one of the Primarchs was used to found a single [[Space Marine Legion]], twenty in total. The new homeworlds of the infant Primarchs and subsequent experiences on those worlds would influence and mold them to a large extent. There they quickly grew to adulthood and often rose to power, ruling, leading, and helping the inhabitants. As the Emperor found them, he was generally pleased by their actions, and quickly gave them the leadership of their respective legion.
|[[Caliban]]
|Loyal
|Alive, active in [[Imperium Nihilus]]{{Fn|434}}
|846.M30 (11th)
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===Notes===
*{{Endn|Note 1}}: While the offiial Primarch rediscovery order does not distinguish between the Second and Eleventh Primarchs, the novel [[Fulgrim: The Palatine Phoenix (Novel)|Fulgrim: The Palatine Phoenix]] confirms that the Second was one of the first eight Primarchs rediscovered.{{Fn|417}}
*{{Endn|Note 2}}: Officially, Horus was the first Primarch rediscovered and Alpharius the last. According to Alpharius's own account, however, he was in fact the first Primarch recovered by the Emperor and Horus the second, with Alpharius's existence being kept secret until his twin Omegon - the last undiscovered Primarch - revealed himself (as 'Alpharius') to Horus and the Imperium.{{Fn|40}}
*{{Endn|2}}: [[Angels Of Darkness (Novel)]]{{CME}}
*{{Endn|3}}: [[Nightbringer (Novel)]]{{CME}}
*{{Endn|4}}: [https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/03/29/lion-eljonson-rules-revealed-10000-years-of-rest-havent-dulled-his-epic-combat-skills/ Warhammer Community: Lion El’Jonson Rules Revealed – 10,000 Years of Rest Haven’t Dulled His Epic Combat Skills (posted 29/3/2023)] (last accessed 25/4/2023)
*{{Endn|5}}: [[Malleus (Novel)]], Chapter Seven, pg. 89
*{{Endn|6}}: [[Warhawk (Novel)]] - Chapter 13*{{Endn|7}}: [[Fulgrim: The Palatine Phoenix (Novel)]], Chapter 1
*8: [[Index Astartes I]]:
**{{Endn|8a}}: ''Children of the Emperor''
**{{Endn|40a}}: ''Discovery''
**{{Endn|40b}}: ''Hydra Dominatus''
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